\n Mike Baxter, the owner of Gonzo\u2019s Tea Room, is looking to shine a spotlight on more local artists this year at Gonzo’s Two Room, a music venue in the building’s basement.\n<\/p>\n
\n It’s stage has hosted musicians such as SHERELLE and Craig Richards and has been nominated again for Grassroots Venue of the Year, a BBC Radio One Dance Award.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Baxter hopes that his small but well-known venue will help to put more musicians on the map.\n<\/p>\n
\n Inside Gonzo’s Two Room (Image: Emily-Rose Thompson)\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cWe’re so excited to have been nominated once again.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur goal is to continue to launch local artists to the national stage while also hosting some of the best and biggest touring talent in the world.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAfter our huge, surprise win last year, we’re still the massive underdogs in this race.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mike Baxter, the owner of Gonzo’s Tea Room (Image: Ash Chaudri)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cGonzo\u2019s Two Room has a 200-person capacity.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cOnce again, we’re up against some venues that have capacities in the thousands.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Other nominees include Amber’s in Manchester, the Warehouse in Leeds and Corsica Studios in London.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last year, Gonzo’s Two Room won Radio One’s Best Venue in Europe award.\n<\/p>\n
\n The site in London Street (Image: Emily-Rose Thompson)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Baxter said: \u201cTo be back here again is an absolute dream.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis was a crazy\u00a0year.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe moved the venue to a new space downstairs just months after winning the\u00a0award, which was terrifying.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cGrassroots venues like us need your help.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s not just Gonzo’s and our staff that earn the nomination, it’s Norwich.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We hear all the time from artists that the crowd here is amazing.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Voting for the award closes on February 13 at 7pm and the winners will be announced on Radio One Dance from 8pm on February 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Baxter, the owner of Gonzo\u2019s Tea Room, is looking to shine a spotlight on more local artists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-281937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}