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Nottingham Music Venue Accessibility For People In Wheelchairs
Wed 03 Sept 2014Rob Maddison leads Spaceships Are Cool, drums for electro-funksters Yunioshi, and has a new musical project in the shape of Revenge of Calculon. A longtime performer and gig goer, he’s also been in a wheelchair since 2007. With Nottingham often being touted as having one of the UK’s best live music scenes, and with over eleven million registered disabled people in the country, we spoke to him about the accessibility of local venues and if there’s anything else that can be done to improve them...
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Music Reviews: June - July 2014
Tue 24 Jun 2014With Bru-C, Michael A Grammar, Ryan Thomas, Garton, Opie Deino, Simon Waldram, Grey Hairs, Privateers and more
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Musicwood
Sun 01 Jun 2014The UK Green Film Festival is touring the country. The first film to be shown at Broadway Cinema is about the Alaskan Tongass National Forest and the guitars made out of its wood...
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Neat14 Music: Joy Mumford
Wed 28 May 2014The soulful songbird answers some questions ahead of her performance at CAST on Thursday 29 May
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Neat14 Music: Haiku Salut
Tue 27 May 2014Accordion, glockenspiel and electronics at CAST as part of Neat14 on Wednesday 28 May
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Neat14 Music: MuHa
Fri 23 May 2014Eastern European folk at CAST as part of Neat14 on Saturday 24 May
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Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra
Fri 23 May 2014The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…
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Neat14 Music: Manière des Bohémiens
Thu 22 May 2014The gypsy jazz outfit are performing at CAST as part of Neat14 on Friday 23 May
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Ray Gosling: Sum Total BBC documentary
Tue 06 May 2014"Ray reminded me of Columbo. He'd fool you that he hadn't much clue but, really, he'd worked it all out the minute he'd walked into the room"
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Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014
Tue 17 Dec 2013Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more
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Mayhem Film Festival 2013 Preview
Wed 30 Oct 2013Mayhem Film Festival has been striking fear, and laughter, into the hearts of cinema goers for over eight years with line-ups rammed to the bloody hilt with exclusive screenings and cult classics. We spoke to directors Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil, the men who control an audience’s heart rate for four full days...
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Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend
Sun 06 Oct 2013He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.
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Interview: JT Soar
Mon 15 Jul 2013Using a DIY ethos, Joe, Phil and Nick from Nottingham punk band Plaids have turned an old fruit and veg warehouse at the back of Sneinton Market into a music and arts space. Run as a co-operative, together they’ve created a one-of-a-kind venue that’s already hosted bands from all over Europe and the US of A.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical
Fri 11 May 2012Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...
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Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical
Wed 09 May 2012This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…
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The Music Exchange
Sat 21 Apr 2012Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...
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Interview: Fists
Fri 20 Apr 2012The on-their-own-terms, no-compromise, if-you-want-something-done-properly-do-it-yourself attitude of Fists has made them one of the most respected bands in town. We asked James Findlay and Angi Fletcher why it took ‘em so long to play a gig, and in which decade we could expect an LP...
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LeftLion Music Exchange Takeover in photos
Sun 01 Apr 2012LeftLion took over a record shop in town for a day and put on some of the best bands and acts from our local scene
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Final Cut Pros: Music Video Director Round Table Discussion
Thu 08 Mar 2012When the cream of Nottingham’s music scene need their work immortalised on video, they talk to Tom Walsh, Michael Holyk and Junglewire. But only when we’ve finished talking to them for this special round table interview...
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The Maze's Gaz Peacham on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sun 22 Jan 2012"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"
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Nick Turner from The Chameleon on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sat 21 Jan 2012"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"
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Women in Nottingham Music
Sun 11 Dec 2011Lou Barnell from Royal Gala takes us through some of the female musical talent in Nottingham...
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SOLD OUT: The Notts Music Photo
Fri 09 Dec 2011Your chance to buy a 16 x 12 inch high-quality copy of the LeftLion Notts Music Photo that adorns the cover of Issue 44
Interview: The Nusic Team
Thu 16 Jun 2011Mark Del used to fly the flag for the Nottingham music scene with Trent FM, but now him and his team - including Arielle Bosworth and Liz Riordan - have linked up with LeftLion to drop Nusic, help take the local scene to the next level and - maybe, just maybe - get your band on the main stage at Splendour...
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