Rock+pop

Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now

+ The Lovely Eggs + Grenouilles

Thursday 11 February : 8pm
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door
 

Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now are comprised of Eddie Argos from Art Brut and Dyan Valdés from The Blood Arm. The band (also a couple) formed on a car journey home from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

NROne Records 5th Birthday Party

The Kabeedies + The Brownies + Violet Violet + The Barlights

Friday 12 February : 8pm
£5.00 adv : £7.00 door
 

NR ONE isn’t notorious for its birthday parties but as this is our 5th we thought we would make an effort. The celebration is bitter-sweet with so much suffering in the world at the moment so the bands and label have decided to donate all profit from the gig to the Haiti appeal as a small gesture of our support.

Play The Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 13 February : 1pm - 4pm (cafe bar)
FREE

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene in the Café Bar. Featuring KTP + Garry Jackson + Black Water Slide + Brian Korteling + Tim Eveleigh.

Twisted Folk presents

Stornoway + Beth Jeans Houghton

Saturday 13 February : 8pm
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door
 

This year, Stornoway have headlined the BBC Introducing Stage at Radio One's Big Weekend. They won a place for Glastonbury Festival 09 via an Emerging Bands competition and were subsequently been booked to play an unprecedented four different stages at the event.

Marina & The Diamonds  

SOLD OUT

+ special guests

Sunday 14 February : 8pm
£8.50 adv : £9.50 door
 

“Hailed as the new Kate Bush and certain to be one of 2010’s most ubiquitous tips, her debut album proves she’s got the depth of tunes and ideas to match the hype.”- The Guardian 

Cherry Poppin Daddies

CANCELLED

Tuesday 16 February : 7.30pm
£11.00 adv : £13.00 door

Unfortunately the Cherry Poppin Daddies tour has been cancelled due to illness. For a refund please contact the NAC box office on 0160 660352 (booking fees are non refundable). Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

"New Music Showcase" (In An Emergency Dial)

Darwin & The Dinosaur + Science vs Romance + Four Days In May + Fiorentina

Friday 19 February : 8pm
£4.00 adv : £5.00 door
 

IN AN EMERGENCY DIAL: New Music Showcase of mammouth proportions. All 4 artists are currently excelling in the Music Scene. A plethora of new albums/singles, 4 x huge fanbases and plenty of extra special treats in store for those who attend! One - Big - Party! Live Music & Freebies!

New Blue Sun Acoustic Sessions

Acts TBA

Saturday 20 February : 1pm - 4pm (Café Bar)
FREE

Great acoustic music for your listening pleasure. Acts to be announced.

All Sorted!?! presents The Lines

+ Club Smith + The Vegas Fame Index

Saturday 20 February : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £8.00 door

Influences range from the Verve through to Radiohead and the Rapture, but the music these boys make is truly their own. Catch one of their explosive live shows soon and make it yours too.

Lisa Mitchell CANCELLED

+ The Boy Who Trapped The Sun

Sunday 21 February : 8pm
£7.00
 

Unfortunately this gig has been cancelled by the agents. Please contact the NAC box office for a refund (booking fees are non refundable). Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Los Campesinos!

+ Swanton Bombs + Islet

Monday 22 February : 8pm
£9.00 adv : £10.00 door
 

Los Campesinos! are proud to announce a mammoth UK tour in February 2010. The dates will coincide with the release of the bands new album ‘Romance Is Boring” released on the 1st February 2010 through Wichita Recordings. The tour includes the bands biggest London show to date at Camden’s Koko on the 25th February. 

Howlback Hum feat. Cakes and Ale

Tuesday 23 February : 8pm
£3.00 : Cafe bar
 

Plus Olinski and others to be announced.

Fionn Regan

+ Danny and the Champions Of The World

Thursday 25 February : 8pm
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door
 

Mercury Music 2007 nominee Fionn Regan will be performing tracks from his new album 'The Shadow Of An Empire'.

wombatwombat featuring MEN

+ William + Lady Panther

Friday 26 February : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £7.00 door
 

wombatwombat cordially invites you to its first gig of the new decade: a blistering bill starring some of our top tips for 2010 which, somewhat spookily, is a trio of all-boy trios.

Max Raptor CANCELLED

+ Kunk + The Legomen

Saturday 27 February : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £8.00 door
 

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled as Max Raptor are no longer able to perform. For refunds please contact the NAC box office (booking fees are non refundable). Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Joe Carnell & The Book Club

+ Kunk + The Legomen

Saturday 27 February : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £8.00 door
 

Keen Kid Promotions Presents Joe Carnell & The Book Club (formerly Milburn).

Live Nation Presents: Local Natives

+ special guests tbc

Sunday 28 February : 8pm
£9.00 adv : £tbc door
 
Los Angeles five-piece, Local Natives, have the rhythmic lightness of Vampire Weekend, the hippie-barbershop harmonies of Fleet Foxes and the sense of the stately and dramatic, elegiac and epic that you get from the music of Arcade Fire.

Baby Dee

+ THE CAIRO GANG

Monday 1 March : 8pm
£10.00 adv : £11.00 door

Dee is part of cult group Current 93, a founder member of Antony and the Johnsons, and solo artist in her own right. She sings beautiful, haunting and timeless songs from another age, on piano and harp, that leaves audiences spellbound.

First Aid Kit

+ Jess Morgan + Adelaide's Cape

The Invisible

+ support tbc

Tuesday 9 March : 8.30pm 
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door

Glamour Of The Kill

+ special guests Yashin + Atlas & I

Wednesday 10 March : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £7.00 door

York based post-hardcore band, Glamour Of The Kill, formed in 2006.  The band incorporates elements of powerpop, 80’s metal, and of course modern metalcore breakdowns to produce a well thought out, catchy sound.

Lisa Redford

+ Andrew Taylor

Thursday 11 March : 8pm
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door : seated
 

Described by BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris as ‘one of our finest singer/songwriters’, Lisa Redford returns for a special homecoming concert after relocating to New York City. With brand new songs and material from her three acclaimed albums, including the latest ‘Clouds with Silver’ this is not to be missed.

Twee Off! presents Errors

+ Ice, Sea, Dead People + Sukoshi

Friday 12 March : 8pm
£7.00 adv : £8.00 door
 

Four Piece 'post electro' band from Glasgow. Errors are signed to Rock Action label alongside the likes of Part Chimp and James Orr Complex.

Play The Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 13 March : 1pm - 4pm (cafe bar)
FREE

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene in the Café Bar. Featuring Juliana Meyer + Daniel James Shore + Hey! Duende + Richard Staines.

Frightened Rabbit

+ supports tbc

Sunday 14 March : 8pm
£10.00 adv : £11.00 door
 

Frightened Rabbit are a four-piece band from Selkirk, Scotland, now based in Glasgow. Essentially the work of songwriter/frontman Scott Hutchison, Frightened Rabbit play intense, emotional guitar-rock, categorized by Hutchison's raw vocals, and predilection for writing songs about heartbreak.

Howlback Hum feat. Sam James Hill

Tuesday 16 March : 8pm
£3.00 : Cafe bar
 

Plus Master Solo, Milly, eLsuB, Kayleigh Read tbc.

The Tilting Sky presents The Kabeedies

+ We Can't Dance + Vagabond Trills + Calum Duncan

Wednesday 17 March : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £8.00 door
 

The Kabeedies return to the Arts Centre to celebrate the release of their latest single.

Emma Pollock + Josh Pyke

Thursday 18 March : 8pm
£10.00 adv : £11.00 door
 

One of Australia’s most talented artists, Josh Pyke, joins former Delgados member Emma Pollock for this special show.

New Blue Sun Acoustic Sessions

Acts TBA

Saturday 20 March : 1pm - 4pm (Café Bar)
FREE

Great acoustic music for your listening pleasure. Acts to be announced.

The Automatic

+ White Belt Yellow Tag + Console Wars

Monday 22 March : 8pm
£9.00 adv : £10.00 door

Single ‘Monster’ crashed into the top ten and rapidly became a hit sung from the terraces to the playground, even soundtracking Panorama (!) and making The Automatic one of the must see acts.

Jim Jones Revue

+ support tbc

Wednesday 24 March : 8pm
£7.00 adv : £8.00 door
 

In addition to getting a personal invitation from Jack White to support The Dead Weather in London, the band will also support Chuck Berry this November. “The Jim Jones Revue are dedicated to the tradition and continuation of fine booty-shaking, mind-shimmering rhythm and blues"- Jon Spencer.

Poisoned Bat presents EastStrikeWest

+ The Vegas Fame Index + Bear + Jenny didn’t like to be photographed
 

Saturday 3 April : 8pm
£6.00 adv : £7.00 door
 

When veteran Radio One broadcaster Steve Lamacq chose eaststrikewest as his band to look out for in 2009, on the back of their debut EP Rosa, it is unclear if he could have predicted the ripples debut full length w o l v v e s would create.

Howlback Hum feat. Ben Grizzly

Saturday 3 April : 12- 4pm
FREE : Cafe bar
 

Plus Sebastiana, Olinski, Lilith, The Winter Visitors, The Dim Goddess, Tereli, Milly tbc and The Raw & The Cooked tbc.

New Blue Sun Acoustic Sessions

Acts TBA

Saturday 10 April : 1pm - 4pm (Café Bar)
FREE

Great acoustic music for your listening pleasure. Acts to be announced.

Twee Off! presents Royal Bangs

+ support tbc

Albert Lee & Hogans Heroes

Friday 16 April 2010 : 8.30pm
£15.00 : £12.50 concessions

Albert Lee, by common consent one of the world's finest guitar-players, needs no introduction to Country Music & Rock fans. Albert fronts his own band Hogan's Heroes, some of the best known and most respected Rock'n' Roll and Country musicians in Great Britain. 

Play The Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 17 April : 1pm - 4pm (cafe bar)
FREE

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene in the Café Bar.

SPC Live presents Joshua Radin

+ supports

Sunday 18 April : 8pm
All tickets £10.00
 

Radin songs have been used in TV shows such as "Grey's Anatomy," "Brothers and Sisters," "American Idol," "One Tree Hill," and "So You Think You Can Dance," among others, as well as movies including The Nanny Diaries, The Last Kiss, Catch and Release.

Good Shoes

+ Is Tropical

Monday 19 April : 8pm
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door
 

Good Shoes have always been an intriguing and contrary force. When their debut ‘Think Before You Speak’ was released in 2007, it was heralded as one of the years indie successes, with its fashionable jangly-guitar and pop-perfect tunes.

The Duke and The King

+ supports

Saturday 24 April : 8pm
£8.00 adv : £9.00 door
 

In just a short time since the release of their debut album The Duke & The King have garnered a barrage of international acclaim, earning comparisons to some of pop history's most hallowed acts, from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to Smokey Robinson, Fleetwood Mac, Sly & the Family Stone, and Simon & Garfunkel.

Twee Off! presents Times New Viking

+ support tbc

Tuesday 27 April : 8pm
£7.00 adv : £8.00 door
 

The purest pop through the roughest filter, Times New Viking's material is the sound of senses overloading. There's angry punk chanting (“I Smell Bubblegum”), clanky call and response repetition (“Born Again Revisited”), even whimsical storytelling (“Those Days”), all delivered with typical don't-give-a-damn swagger and abandon.

New Blue Sun Acoustic Sessions

Acts TBA

Saturday 1 May : 1pm - 4pm (Café Bar)
FREE

Great acoustic music for your listening pleasure. Acts to be announced.

Escalator Music Showcase feat.

Sargasso Trio

+ supports

Sunday 9 May : 8pm
£7.00 adv : £TBC door
 

Expect an eclectic night of amazing music as Sargasso Trio mix world, latin, folk, alt country and 80s electro, as they share duties on guitar, keyboards, a large collection of percussion instruments, harmonies and lead vocals.

Shake-up! The Norwich Pride Warm-up

Saturday 15 May : 8pm
£5.00 : £3.00 concessions
 

SHAKE-UP is the Warm-up event for Norwich LGBT Pride (which is on Saturday 31st July 2010) Our hosts Pequila Bigtopp and Julie Bremner will introduce a diverse range of acts including Hannah Brackenbury, Glory Glory, Sean Seraphim, Vince Laws and Maddi Cassell. Laugh, dance, cheer, drink, be proud!

Play The Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 22 May : 1pm - 4pm (cafe bar)
FREE

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene in the Café Bar.

Disability Pride Launch Party

featuring Johnny Crescendo

Friday 4 June : 8pm
£8.00 : £6.00 concessions
 

Join us at our launch event for Disability Pride, 2010. The evening will be full of fun, laughter and some really good gigs, including Johnny Crescendo’s ‘Songs of Freedom Tour’. Proceeds are in aid of our main Disability Pride Event on Saturday, 5th June, 2010 at the Forum in Norwich.

New Blue Sun Acoustic Sessions

Acts TBA

Saturday 12 June : 1pm - 4pm (Café Bar)
FREE

Great acoustic music for your listening pleasure. Acts to be announced.

Ana Silvera

Wednesday 16 June : 8pm (seated)
£5.00 adv : £7.00 door
 

2010 is set to be a seminal year for this highly original singer, songwriter and musician. Having just recorded her first studio album in NYC and London, Ana’s ability to weave intense, poetical story-telling into hauntingly tender melodies creates a musical journey that is widely tipped to go mainstream this year.

Tweet Woof Tweet presents Howl Project

+ Death of Death of Disco + Glory Glory

Thursday 17 June : 8pm
£4.50 adv : £5.00 door
 

Local label tweet WOOF tweet’s first release by Norwich’s Howl Project is celebrated at NAC with a nautical theme (think Navy Lark rather than Titanic).

Play The Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 19 June : 1pm - 4pm (cafe bar)
FREE

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene in the Café Bar.

New Blue Sun Acoustic Sessions

Acts TBA

Saturday 10 July : 1pm - 4pm (Café Bar)
FREE

Great acoustic music for your listening pleasure. Acts to be announced.

Play The Music Acoustic Showcase

Saturday 17 July : 1pm - 4pm (cafe bar)
FREE

Highlighting the best of the local acoustic music scene in the Café Bar.

Reepham Festival '10

In and around Reepham, Norfolk

Saturday 14 August : 1pm - 10pm
£12.00

‘The’ Summer Festival is back with an outstanding musical experience held in and around the picturesque market town of Reepham, situated in the beautiful north Norfolk countryside.