TAKEDA

ON TOUR A night of music upstairs at the Bowling House in Norwich, a beautiful space with a special atmosphere and some of the city's most exciting bands. Takeda: From a dead end town in East Anglia, UK. Takeda first existed in 2010 as a freak-folk/raga-rock trio led by then 17 year old Josh Harrison. Their first album Hufsa made a few ripples in the burgeoning indie-folk scene in the UK at the time. Then a 12 year sleep fell over the band as they disbanded and distracted themselves with the banalities of modern life. In June 2022, after a crisis of faith and broken relationship, Josh reformed Takeda, recruiting childhood bandmate David Woodgett on bass and Charlie Wilson on drums. After a year of reimagining Josh's old songs and writing new ones, rehearsing every week without fail, performing wherever they could and honing their sound into a muscular yet delicate, powerful and intricate thing, they are ready to begin releasing their new material in the summer of 2023. Takeda are on tour in the UK in June and July. https://linktr.ee/takeda_band Santa Rita: Santa Rita is the project of Norwich-based songwriter Monica Guarnieri, the 4-piece bringing her songs to life in all of their light and shade. Poignant lyrics and notable vocal harmonies pierce through Santa Rita's atmospheric alternative country-rock https://www.instagram.com/santaritaband/ Ben Auld: Ben Auld’s comfy songwriting crackles and pops somewhere between Roger McGuinn and Gram Parsons. A self-taught musician and producer, Auld’s debut record ‘Lemongrass’ brims with homespun charm, dazzling melodies, and lyrics that burrow deep into the heart. https://www.instagram.com/bwauld/ Ben Lock: Caught between the folk, rock and singer-songwriter genres. Ben Lock blends ethereal melodies and nostalgic lyrics that go beyond the boundaries of the genres and speaks to the heart and mind of the listener. Norwich-based, Lock has spent the past two years writing, only recently beginning to play those songs publicly.