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Notts-based Metal Band The Five Hundred on Personal Demons, Moscow and Their Debut Album
Wed 27 Feb 2019Since forming in 2014, devastatingly heavy Notts-based metal outfit The Five Hundred are making their mark on the UK scene, with their unholy blend of crushing eight-string guitar breakdowns, soaring yet haunting vocal melodies and pummelling drums. Following the release of their EP, Mirrors, in 2015 and their debut album, Bleed Red, last year, the band have been picking up some serious momentum. We spoke to bassist Andy Crawford discuss their bleak lyrics, the current Nottingham metal scene and their plans for the future….
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City Stylin #10
Fri 22 Feb 2019We searched high and low for the most stylish of Notts heads with summat to say...
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Workshops Extend Wigflex City Festival to Entire Bank Holiday Weekend
Thu 21 Feb 2019With headliners such as Honey Dijon, Midland, DJ Stingray and Call Super, there’s no doubt that there’s going to be a lot of sweating taking place at stalwart Nottingham promoter Wigflex’s debut festival. However, the recent announcements outlining panel discussions, workshops and art installations hint that there’s much, much more than just sore feet to be gained from the most exciting community gathering to hit Notts this year.
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Live Music Photos: The Struts at Rock City
Tue 19 Feb 2019With roots in the East Midlands, glam rockers The Struts are renowned for impassioned glitter-drenched shows. So we had to hotfoot down to Rock City to snap them...
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Live Music Review: The Dead South at Rock City
Fri 15 Feb 2019The Dead South popped into town on Friday 8 February...
UK Young Artist City Takeover in Photos
Fri 15 Feb 2019The UK Young Artist City Takeover took place around Hoodtown from Thursday 7 to Wednesday 13 February. We got down to as many events as we could to take some snaps...
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Live Music Review: White Lies at Rock City
Tue 12 Feb 2019We got down to Rock City for a night of big tunes from established trio White Lies on this, their tenth anniversary…
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Save Stonebridge City Farm from Closure
Mon 11 Feb 2019Started by local residents four decades ago, Stonebridge City Farm in St Ann’s is a well-loved part of Nottingham life. But with their future in doubt, this community charity has launched an urgent fundraising appeal...
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Rapper and Busker TrueMendous is Coming to Notts for UKYA City Takeover
Wed 23 Jan 2019A master of the multisyllabic rhyme scheme, TrueMendous is a rapper and busker from Birmingham who recently upped sticks to the big smoke. In February, she's back in the Midlands as part of the UKYA City Takeover in Nottingham. A residential artist at The Roundhouse, she's been kicking out multi-genre, story-focused music with a mad work rate, and is currently putting together a new EP and book of lyrics. We caught up with the rising star ahead of her visit…
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Snap Notts: Nottingham City Centre on a Saturday Night
Thu 06 Dec 2018This month we showcase the dutty charm of Nottingham City Centre on a Saturday night...
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Live Music Review: Pitchshifter at Rock City
Tue 27 Nov 2018Celebrating twenty years since the release of their seminal album www.pitchshifter.com, the almighty Pitchshifter reunited to play their first shows in over a decade. The six-date tour saw the band supported by an all-Notts lineup, with post-hardcore band The Blueprint and alt-metallers Earthtone9 warming the crowd up nicely, all culminating with an intimate show in the Mecca that is Rock City...
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The Americans at Rock City in Photos
Fri 23 Nov 2018We got down to Rock City to check out The Americans...
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Pitchshifter Are Reuniting for a Gig at Rock City
Tue 20 Nov 2018Pitchshifter’s last shows together were over ten years ago. The band went through some stylistic changes in the nineties; moving from a heavy, industrial sound to summat more d’n’b influenced by the end of the decade. After many rumoured reunions and new albums, the band are finally touring again, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their classic www.pitchshifter.com album, wrapping up with a show at Rock City this month. We put a few questions to lead vocalist JS Clayden ahead of the gig...
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Live Music Review: The Decemberists at Rock City
Mon 19 Nov 2018Bearded men, giant inflatable whales and accordion solos are just some of the highlights from US Indie-rockers The Decemberists gig at Rock City. As it's been over a decade since they last performed in Notts, we thought we'd pop over to see how they fared...
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Theatre Review: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Wed 24 Oct 2018Ballet comedy gold from the all male drag troupe
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Lagan's Indian Tapas Is Worth A Trip Out of the City Centre
Fri 05 Oct 2018Their food seriously packs a punch...
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Live Music Review: The Magic Gang + The Orielles + Sports Team at Rock City
Wed 03 Oct 2018The Magic Gang assert themselves as one of the most exciting indie bands around...
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Spandex Ballet: A Work, of Art?
Thu 13 Sept 2018High-brow pursuits met high-flying pugilists as independent Wrestling show Spandex Ballet dropkicked into the Nottingham contemporary art gallery last weekend. The debut Nottingham show from the unusual Wrestling Resurgence promotion played in front of a packed house in the art gallery’s exhibition space. Pitching their tent firmly at the tongue-in-cheek, theatrical end of the spectrum, Resurgence nonetheless shoehorned in enough bone crunching spots and proper old fashioned wrastlin’ to entertain fans of all tastes.
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School of Hard Notts: Wrestling Resurgence Present Spandex Ballet
Fri 31 Aug 2018On Saturday 8 September, three of Nottingham’s ‘ardest men will wrestle for supremacy in an inter-generational battle of wills to crown the Sheriff of the Nottingham grappling scene. Wrestling fans are used to seeing their larger-than-life heroes getting down to business in sports halls or nightclubs, but in a world first the “Battle of Nottingham” will be contested in the renowned Nottingham Contemporary art gallery - a venue more accustomed to chin-stroking than chin-music. Chaz Wright talks to Sam West, producer of the exciting new promotion Wrestling Resurgence, to find out more about Spandex Ballet...
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