Tom Lincoln

He enters the stage through the crowd carrying his tuba and proceeds to, almost exclusively, let the instrument do the talking. It’s a bold but excellent choice.

PREVIEW: ZERO BPM drone music festival, Church Piano Bar, Norwich, 25/5/26 At the end of the interview are links to tickets/further information about the festival - hopefully see you there!

The combination of personal anecdotes and irate bafflement at our current cultural, social and political mess works well

Five short films dealing - in wildly different contexts - with the tensions between autonomy and connection.

An evening of extraordinary, compelling music at the Arts Centre.

Stunning semi-improvised sections made for a compelling listening experience, enhanced by some stunning solo singing.

The six-piece band are completely captivating.

An engrossing, excellently programmed, performed and contextualised, selection.

There is something so utterly compelling about his stage presence and his connection to the present moment, that the idea that there might be something anachronistic about his music seems absurd

I was frequently amused, and remained engaged throughout, but I don’t think that I was able to indicate my appreciation in a particularly audible way. Hopefully this message will go some way to redressing this, as I am confident that I will remember last night for far longer than the other meetings I attended this week.

Prophet’s onstage persona is entirely consistent with the combination of rage and hard-won jubilation that typifies his music.

Thoughts of beauty, fragility and hard-won calm and gratitude emerge from this music

I am glad that I spent eight hours of my Saturday sitting in the Octagon Chapel while two musicians (James McVinnie and Eliza McCarthy) took turns to maintain a bizarrely engaging continuous drone on the pipe organ. This was the world premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s (Radiohead, The Smile) composition and, as far as I was concerned, by far the most intriguing event of this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival.