Event Compass
Houghton Festival 2023
Houghton Festival 2023. A celebration of art & music in the Norfolk countryside.
GASTRONOMIC
Our friends' curious directive, one of our Compendia arts companies (and running Botanical Garden Bar & Kitchen), has given us 100 golden tickets with 10% off their smash-hit Gastronomic, which is coming back this summer. The show has already sold 80% off all 35 shows this summer, so these will go quickly - and the code is only on for a limited time.
10% Discount Code: COMPENDIA10
About the Event
Gastronomic is a seven-course tasting menu prepared by three sky chefs on board an Airbus A380 heading for London. Ingredients mix, tastes cross-pollinate, and strangers break bread together as the chefs guide you through a British-inspired culinary journey. On the ground at Heathrow, border control is on high alert.
Aldous Harding at The Waterfront
Aldous Harding has confirmed a run of UK and European tour dates for 2022 and the release of 'Old Peel'.
Known and loved by fans as the set-closer at her most recent live shows, Aldous Harding finally releases ‘Old Peel’ ,digitally, on 15th June 2021. Recorded with producer John Parish (who also worked on her last two albums Designer (2019) and Party (2017)) at the end of her 2019 European tour, ‘Old Peel’ will also be released as a limited 7” on 9th July 2021.
Sean Scully: Smaller Than The Sky
Sean Scully: Smaller Than The Sky
The exhibition Smaller Than The Sky will showcase Scully’s outdoor sculptures alongside works in other media. Scully's powerful paintings will be displayed among the ornate interiors of the house, with a selection of work on paper and key works that reference earlier stages in his career, hung in the North Colonade and Contemporary Gallery.
Sculptures include monumental, open structures in steel, such as Crate of Air, and a new work: Wall of Light, constructed from locally sourced limestone that sit purposefully within the English landscape. The new work encompassed by the exhibition include stacks made of sandstone, wood, glass and marble. There will also be small-scale maquettes showing the artist's development process.
Crate of Air, 2018. ©Sean-Scully. Courtesy the artist and YSP / (Yorkshire Sculpture Park). Photo © Jonty-Wilde
Phoebe Troup Album Launch
Phoebe Troup Album Launch + Brown Horse + Pop Miri
Moving deftly between magic and mundanity, Middlenite is the debut album from Phoebe Troup, a British-American songwriter currently based in Norwich.
Phoebe and her 4-piece band explore the crossover between folk, rock and electronic music, bringing together textures of crunchy guitar, eerie synth and sampled sound. Album tracks such as ‘Says the Thought to the Feeling’ and ‘Jonny Midnite’ have been played on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio Norfolk and Soho Radio London.
LTJ Bukem Gonzo's Tea Room
LTJ Bukem
We couldn't resist when we heard that LTJ Bukem wanted to get back in the booth and tear up the place again! Our party in 2022 was one of the highlights of the year and we're expecting this one to be the same!
LTJ Bukem
When the man behind those wire rimmed glasses and that disarming smile writes his job description just what does he put? The man who took the drum and bass concept from a small venue off London's Charing Cross Road to the nation's superclubs and then onto the international stage?
The geezer whose records launched breakbeat into a brand new galaxy of sound? Or maybe he just writes 'Renaissance man for a digital age'. In truth LTJ Bukem is all of the above. Although he wouldn't like to admit it, LTJ Bukem is the living embodiment of the post-acid house entrepreneurial creative spirit. He is a mild mannered energy flash whose panoramic musical vision has found success in every area he has explored.
Support - TYPO & Compound
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Coops
Coops + Lieu & Sleep’s Cousin + DJ Sure D (Bar)
In collaboration with Wordplay
Approx running times:
Venue doors 7pm
Lieu & Sleep’s Cousin 8pm – 8:30pm
Coops 9pm – end (approx 60 mins)
Not many rappers can boast that their first ever live performance was at London’s O2 Arena, supporting hip hop legend, Nas. Such was the talent of Coops, who at 23-years-old won Choice FM’s Breakthrough Competition, and the chance to perform alongside one of his formative influences. “I want to be inspired by the greats, rather than what’s current,” the North Londoner explains, citing Jay Z, A Tribe Called Quest and Eminem as other major inspirations.
Throughout his late teens Coops was making music with his friends, but it wasn’t until he looked at himself and the world around him that he changed his writing approach and decided to go it alone. “I’ve always had the mind-set that if I’m true to myself and where I am, as a social commentator or looking inside myself documenting that stage of my life, then I’ll have endless material.”
Having already built a strong momentum for himself with several releases under his belt ( ‘What Do You See’ in 2011, ‘Lost Soul’ in 2014 & ‘God Complex’ in 2016), Coops signed to High Focus Records in 2017 and quickly released two critically acclaimed projects in just a year – the introductory ‘No Brainer’ and the full length opus ‘Life In The Flesh’. Returning in 2020 with the existential masterpiece ‘Crimes Against Creation’, Coops questions the current state of hip hop, politics, and the world.
With a truly original and versatile approach to spreading messages in his music, Coops is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Haseeb Iqbal at The Last Pub Standing, Norwich
DJ, Broadcaster & writer Haseeb Iqbal will be kicking off a series of spring/summer parties The Last Pub Standing in the garden on Friday 17th March.
From Worldwide FM to independent radio, from Chessidency to the dance floors and now the last pub standing garden, trust that he will bring his infamous selections of Dub, Jazz, Lovers Rock and everything in between.
Free, no tickets needed, arrive early
Poster by Ed Lemay
