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surprise people to know that Coldplay, Kasabian, Manic Street, Peaches have all played here. What’s been your favourite gig? I first paid Coldplay 50 quid back in the day. I did Coldplay before I came here on that same tour. What’s been my favorite band here? I suppose; Young Fathers... Rosie introduced me to them via her PONY UP work. I fell in love with them, immediately... Another big was Nic Hopkins, folk singer... I don’t come to all the shows. I get excited putting the shows on, I don’t need to be here every night... I didn’t come and see Baxter Drury, which is just crazy, because I love his music and chased that gig hard... but I get the special bit, I get the bit during the sound check; -that can oſten be just one of the most fun experiences... I get the chance to talk and find out more about the artists. You mentioned PONY UP, also considering the work that you do with Sonic Youths , you very much provide a stage for local bands Why do you think that’s important for The Arts Centre? We need to be inspiring new people to come forward .. Sonic Youths was an original idea by Annie Catwoman and a woman called Lydia... to give young people the first gig, in front of a paying public is awesome... I’m aware of Norwich Arts Centre’s heritage; that’s the venue they’re going to want to play at... PONY UP’s kind of a development from the Sonic Youths stuff where we were getting bands on national stage. We will oſten put bands that have come through the Sonic Youths scheme in as


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support… some of the PONY UP... may then be supporting a big headline band Recently you hosted the Southbank Women of the World weekend, one of the few venues trusted with this; why do you think that was? Quick background... I’d seen it being advertised… they wanted a Creative Programmer to take care of Woman of the World in Norwich, it was going to be based at OPEN. My immediate thinking was, “Why didn’t they come and talk to us first, we could’ve hosted it.” But of course we couldn’t have hosted it; it’s a big ambitious program, OPEN’s the perfect space to do it... I’m sitting there with Rosie and chatting away and I’m saying we should ask Southbank if they’d consider letting us program it ….before you know it Rosie is having a Skype interview with Jude Kelly (Southbank) ... we just met and talked about what the vision would be for it, and... Southbank bought into that, I think Rosie and the crew kicked that one out the park; that was a brilliant festival. How do you see the health of arts at present at present? Public funds not going up, I’m funded now by the Arts Council until 2022 and


that would have been at standstill from 2012. City Council money is not going up so... whilst there are teachers andnurses losing their jobs, I’m not going to cry about it So, selling tickets is it, that’s a good bench mark of where the health of an Art Organization... where do I see the health of the arts at the moment? It’s fragile, but it’s always been fragile. The Arts are something that people don’t miss until they haven’t got it; people take it for granted... but the Arts do something, I think that no other human activity can do. It kind of reminds you of your place in the world at any given time.. I think the arts definitely have a fantastic role to play in health and well-being. What gigs have you got in the next six months, you would say not to be missed ? I’ll tell you what I’m working on at the moment, a festival with electronic music. I’m working with a couple of partners on that. So, I’m excited to see where that might go. I’m also working on a live art weeklong series of events, that’s going to be working with some artists from around the region... Well one last question then Pasco; is where do you think Norwich sits within the Arts world? I’m very pleased that you asked me that. Norwich being where it is has got a strong independent sense of itself; it’s unlike any other place that I’ve ever lived... I’ve seen growth and ambition from the artistic community... We have one of the largest Arts Festivals in England at the moment. With a new director in the post... We have Stephen Crocker heading up the Theatre Royal...


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