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Join us for a jam-packed evening of live music from Bag of Cans, plus a Q&A with Simon Williams (Fierce Panda Records) about his new book Up The Packet (One Man’s Crisp Odyssey).Bag of Cans
Bag of Cans are a quintet weaving through the musical ranks on a sound described as “a gloriously surreal mix of old school indie, Weimar Berlin cabaret and Kinks circa Village Green Preservation Society”. Birthed from the effervescent swamp that is Norwich's music scene in 2017, the band have garnered a reputation as one of the must-see bands in East Anglia with invariably hectic live shows. Sinewy guitar lines glide between a relentless rhythm section and a penchant for indie-pop vocal-harmonies.
'Up The Packet'
On May 14th 2026 a literary opus called ‘Up The Packet’ hits the nation’s shelves via Damaged Goods Books. It’s from the foison pen of Simon Williams, record company boss and crisp packet collector. Since 1977 this collector has amassed more than 8,000 crisp packets. They are all empty, they all live in shoeboxes, and they are all different. Apart from the swapsies.‘Up The Packet’ is a tale about those crisp bags and their amazingly zinging innards: from the Tayto potato to the Spudos spud; from the wartime birth of Golden Wonder to the 1990s stock & awe of Walkers; from the ‘70s kid-friendly frenzy to the growth in grown-up snacks and into the indie credibility revolution. It takes the reader on a crunchy cultural journey through the entire history of the potato crisp, packed with solid packet factettes and frankly wild snacking theories. Oh, and it delivers some fabulous new full colour pictures of crisp bags through the past 50 years in the ‘Don’t Look Bag In Anger’ pull-out photo spread.But that isn’t all, because ‘Up The Packet’ packs in a heap of music references, as you may or many not expect from a book title which riffs on the Libertines’ debut album. Who is a Soho Salad? Why is Motörhead’s Backstage Buffet? What is Kid Jensen? Where is the actual epicentre of the actual crispy rock’n’roll universe? Is there parking?? Will there be snacks??? The fashions, the fads, the songs, the TV ads, the crazy flavourings and the hazy lost favourites and - of course - the long and fact-finding road from Smiths Salt’n’Shake to Splodgenessabounds, ‘Up The Packet’ is a crisp-lover’s paradise in rock’n’rolling form.
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Voodoo Daddy's, Voodoo Daddy's, Norwich, EN, United Kingdom
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