Pete Lee
I know what you did last Friday: you went to the Black Horse pub on Earlham Road for March Madness. What’s March Madness? It’s not really that mad, it’s actually just live music every Friday. This past Friday, my flatmates and I attended this ‘live music’ that we saw advertised in the Outline Magazine. What went wrong?
To start with, there was no band. Instead, there was some guy’s 40-something birthday party. Then, there was his drunk friend who happened to know how to play acoustic guitar. That was this past Friday’s live music. After waiting for about an hour for the ‘performance’ to start, the birthday boy finally mounted ‘the stage’ to announce that his friends, Pete Lee, would be performing The La’s self titled album in its entirety. This wouldn’t have been so bad, since the album is a classic by the band which formed in 1983. However, good ol’ Pete sang too close to the microphone, blasting scratchy loud music across the otherwise calm atmosphere of the non-student pub. He also temporarily forgot how to play the most famous song, There She Goes. After watching him struggle with the opening chords of this song a few times, he finally got it right. The crowd clapped, sang, and drank along with Pete, raising the general mood. Even my flatmates and I, save the one who doesn’t sing along with other people’s songs, were able to enjoy this song.
Overall, I am sure that on other Fridays, when it is not a birthday gathering, the live music must be quite nice, since the Black Horse atmosphere suits an acoustic performance. It is littered with comfy chairs with a bookshelf (complete with old-looking books) lining one wall. Seems I just picked the wrong day to go!
Hours: 2
Total: 10
3 responses so far ↓
russella // Mar 15th 2010 at 10:57
I’d be curious to check this out, are you going this Friday as well?
mliberty // Mar 15th 2010 at 11:11
Sorry Russell, I won’t be around this Friday. But here is a link to a google map of how to get there, the music starts sometime after 8:30.
Here’s the map, it’s the first one on the list:
http://maps.google.com/maps?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=the+black+hourse+norwich&fb=1&hq=the+black+hourse&hnear=norwich&ei=pU2eS-mMDZH40wTb4czCCg&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&resnum=3&ved=0CBoQtgMwAg
Karl // Mar 15th 2010 at 15:54
There is a lot of music on in Norwich. In addition to the magazine, it would be worth 50p to get the Thursday edition of the Eastern Daily Press (EDP, the local paper), which has the arts and entertainment for the next 8 days.
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