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Music Reviews: February 2016

With Wigflex, Albosel, Cici Lara, DH Lawrence & The Vaudeville Skiffle Show, Fonsze, Prime, Ropewalk, Ryan Farmer, and I Believe in Miracles

Interview: Ben Bloore of B Squared Productions

Live Music Review: NME Awards Tour 2016 at Rock City

With Bloc Party, Drenge, Rat Boy, and Bugzy Malone

Stags Do Cape Town

"It is always nice to bump into friendly faces abroad and a host of Notts CCC players were in South Africa representing the national team"

Film Review: Trumbo

A film about the Hollywood screenwriter blacklisted for his Communist leanings

Pick of the Week: 8 -14 February

Third wheels, it's your time to shine this week. Plus, Any Means Necessary debuts at Nottingham Playhouse

Zaimal Azad's Redevelopment of Nottingham Women's Centre Library

"When you think of a librarian, many, including me, conjure an image of a cardigan-clad older lady, peering at you over her spectacles while she stamps your book... librarians are so much more. They are powerful. They are the true custodians of knowledge"

Left Panther: February

"the nature of some of the recent performances has left fans walking out of the arena feeling like a win has been a loss"

Merrick Badger Talks Undercover Police Officer Betrayal and Any Means Necessary

"Kefi was asking me about the archetypes and patterns. [The play] is based on Mark Kennedy... He has stabbed every back he could, except for his mum, dad and brother"

The Music Exchange Is Closing Down

The pioneering record shop that supported homeless and vulnerable people to turn their lives around is to close...

Film Review: Youth

We review Paolo Sorrentino’s follow up to his Oscar winner The Great Beauty

What Notts: Mad, Bad Nottingham News

There is some absolutely batshit barmy stuff going on in Notts. And we've ripped 'em open for your reading pleasure

Playwright Kefi Chadwick on Any Means Necessary at Nottingham Playhouse

"It draws from stories about undercover police officers who had relationships with women while in their undercover personas... living with them for seven years, having children"

8 Nottingham Restaurants to Take Your Main Squeeze on Valentine's Day

We've broken down some of the best places in Notts to grab a bite with your loved one this Valentine's Day...

Oaks Nottingham - A Family Restaurant

Film Review: Spotlight

"They knew and they let it happen... it could have been any of us", shouted by Mark Ruffalo's hot-tempered character, Michael Rezendes

Live Music Review: Crosa Rosa Single Launch at The Bodega

Celebrating the release of Simper Smiler at The Bodega alongside fellow Notts noise-makers Mannequin and Babe Punch

LeftLion Stereo

With Field Studies, Nacht und Nebel, Tom McCartney, VVV, Snowy, Eyre Llew, Shelter Point, and D.I.D

Nottingham Drag Queen Kitty Tray is Bringing RuPaul's Morgan and Detox to Spanky's

"Kitty has never been married but always says she has a husband. She actually lives in a caravan and her manager sacked her years ago"

9 Things To Do on Light Night 2016

With City of Football, Physics Buskers, Mouthy Poets, Five Leaves Bookshop and Black Balloon writers, Ezekiel Bone, and loads more...

The Thompson Brothers: Notts' Most Opinionated Greengrocers

This month, the duo talk about the fact that all the legends have popped their clogs recently

The Extraordinary Life of William Gunn

"Billy Gunn put together an impressive CV for a man forced to practice his batting in the middle of the night because that was his only spare time from his job working in a shop"

Rum House

ZAAP Thai Nottingham

Calcutta Club