BBC's Steve Lamacq broadcasts live from Norwich Arts Centre

Steve Lamacq presented his BBC 6 Music show live from Norwich Arts Centre yesterday (February 1) as part of a tour for Independent Venue Week.

As part of the show Mercury Prize winners, Young Fathers, played their first gig in four years at the venue which sold out in three minutes and was recorded to be played on tonight's show.

The BBC coach pulled up outside the Halls in Princes Street at about 9am and when introducing the show, Lamacq said he visited the Forum for a Look East segment on the show, strolled around Norwich Market and Lanes.

During the afternoon, the radio team based themselves in the Ten Bells pub opposite the venue.

While presenting the programme Lamacq played Norwich artists from 1980s indie band the Farmer's Boys to current post-punk duo Sink Ya Teeth and also told some of his stories of the city.

Including one tale which saw him attract the attention of the law while working for the NME in the 1980s.

He said: "I came to the Norwich Arts Centre to see the Mega City Four back in 1989 when I was working for the New Musical Express.

"I didn't have a lot of money at the time so I couldn't afford a hotel room and I didn't have somewhere to crash so I slept in my car in the car park.

"Then sometime in the early hours of the morning I was woken by a rat-a-tat on the window.

"And I, rather bleary-eyed, was ordered out of the vehicle by two policemen who looked me up and down and decided I was a vagrant who had broken into the car.

"I can tell you that took a bit of sorting out."

Lamacq was joined by Watton town crier Mike Wabe, BBC Radio Norfolk Introducing presenter Kitty Perrin and Norwich electronic duo Let's Eat Grandma.

The pair, made up of Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth, took listeners on a tour of Norwich.

They visited Access to Music, where they studied music production and wrote early songs and the Birdcage (now the Drawing Rooms) where they played early gigs, before finishing at the Arts Centre.