Mama Afrika, and Richard Hawley at the UEA, Norwich - 16th June 2024

We're at the Cornhall in Diss for a rousing and thoughtful one-woman performance about the life of activist and singer Miriam Makeba. Then, we're at the village hall to play some table tennis, and finally we're off to the Lower Common Room at the University of East Anglia for a Richard Hawley gig, which Isobel gets tickets for on a whim a few days before as a Fathers' Day thing. As we get there early, there's time to have a quick look around at some of the UEA's famous 1960s modernist concrete architecture, including the listed "Ziggurat" student accomodation, before a quick drink in the students' union bar. We then wander round to the LCR to watch a good performance by Richard Hawley and his twenty guitars - seemingly one for each number.

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A beacon is constructed in Diss Park

A beacon is constructed in Diss Park

It's a full house in the Cornhall in Diss

Anna Mudeka at the end of Mama Afrika

Anna Mudeka sings as Miriam Makeba

Mick the Brick at the airfield gate in Eye

Mick pauses before we head across the airfield

Dog Daisies near Gislingham

The Cornhall on St. Nicholas Street in Diss

Baby Lukáš really wants to play pool

Isobel and Sue play table tennis

The boys find an amusing balloon dog

It briefly lashes it down outside Browne's

Isobel and the boys hang around

The UEA and the Students' Union

Stark modernist architecture at the UEA

Part of the UEA's famous Ziggurat

Isobel checks her phone in the UEASU

Stick game in the students' union bar

The stage is set in the LCR

James Bagshaw is the support act

Our view from behind the light and sound desk

Richard Hawley in a sea of green

Another guitarist and the keyboard player

Richard Hawley's got another guitar out

Richard Hawley and the band

More guitar action

The big red Gibson comes out again

The mostly-middle-aged crowd streams out