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Review: JT Soar Fest 2025
Sat 08 Nov 2025This time last week, one of Nottingham's most intriguing music and arts spaces, JT Soar, played host to an ultra-eclectic festival packed with intriguing names and tunes. Here's what happened over the weekend at JT Soar Fest 2025...
Gig review: Volbeat at Motorpoint Arena
Sat 08 Nov 2025Stadium Rock is one of those things which exists but is hard to identify or classify. , who on their recordings echo hard rock, even bordering on metal, sure do put on one hell of a show, oozing positivity and performativity while also being ridiculously talented and making such a powerful sound. We caught them on the first night of the UK leg of their The Greatest of All Tours Worldwide tour, joined by the fantastic Bush and Witch Fever...
Women in Horror Weekend at Waterstones
Sat 08 Nov 2025Autumn is well upon us, with its burnt orange leaves, chilly evenings and the promise of pumpkin-spiced lattes offering a warm hug as the nights draw in. But it’s also the season of the spooky, where shadows stretch a little longer, fog lingers, and curling up with a horror novel feels less like a pastime and more like a ritual, getting you into the mood for Halloween...
This land is ours: a ramble through our relationship with the north Notts countryside
Sat 08 Nov 2025In a twist on our regular love letter to local areas ‘These Streets Are Ours’, this month we turn to the forests and country estates of the north. Caradoc Gayer looks at how our common land has been lost, the modern regulations that confine our rambling, how Ducal estates and boundaries have transformed the landscape, and how we can remind ourselves of our lasting, and strong connection to the natural world.
Left Magpie: November 2025 - All Good. Until it Wasn’t
Fri 07 Nov 2025Our Notts County columnist Julian McDougall, is back with a report of the last month of action at Notts County FC...
Gig review: Halina Rice at Rescue Rooms
Fri 07 Nov 2025As electronic music matures further past the clubs, the desire of artists to deconstruct and subvert the norms that have developed over the decades grows. As sub-genres and tropes spawn like branches on an ever growing tree, musicians stand ready to atomise and rearrange those new conventions, manipulating them, pushing them toward the furthest boundaries, seeing how far those rules will stretch into the left field. Halina Rice is one such musician...
Nouvelle Vague's Marc Collins and Mélanie Pain talk about the band's beginnings ahead of the Metronome show
Fri 07 Nov 2025With twenty years of covering some of the most seminal post-punk and new wave tracks of all time, French band Nouvelle Vague bring their elegant live performance to Metronome next Wednesday. We sat down to speak to producer Marc Collins and singer Mélanie Pain to discover how the band began and what inspired their sound...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #35: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 07 Nov 2025In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Kai-Otee, LYVIA, Bored Marsh, Fools & Sages, Willow Bay and Revenge of Calculon...
Hart of the Wood: the film installations at Newstead Abbey inspired by forest folklore
Fri 07 Nov 2025With its elegant ruins, serene rolling gardens and rich literary history, Newstead Abbey already makes for an atmospheric autumnal wander, but currently, another escape awaits within its historic landscape. Dotted within the grounds, the Hart of the Wood project shares a series of intriguing 16mm films exploring the seasons, our relationship with folklore and the land. We spoke to Notts filmmaker Benjamin Wigley to hear about the artistry and story behind these curious hand-powered moving pictures…
Theatre review: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Nottingham's Theatre Royal
Thu 06 Nov 2025The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe came to Nottingham's Theatre Royal this week, bringing dazzling theatrics, humour and heart...
Gig review: The Lovely Eggs at Metronome
Wed 05 Nov 2025We sent one of our writers to reunite with lo-fi psych-rock duo The Lovely Eggs as they visited Nottingham's Metronome - on Halloween night - as part of a UK tour. He came away impressed, entertained and thoroughly reassured about the future of rock...
Nottingham’s universities invite local residents with life and skills experiences to apply for community-focused research PhD projects
Wed 05 Nov 2025Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and the University of Nottingham (UoN) are inviting people from the local community to apply for paid, full-time PhD, and part-time Placement research projects that aim to improve the lives of communities across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire...
Artist and actor Heather Agyepong on her latest exhibition at New Art Exchange
Wed 05 Nov 2025Heather Agyepong is a British-Ghanaian photographer, visual artist and actor based in London. In 2024 she entered her work into the New Art Exchange Open and won one of the awards. This led to her current solo exhibition From Sunrise to Sunset, She Worked to Reform Herself: Part 1 which is on show in the city until January. She told us more about her intriguing art practice, finding space for rest and life as an actor…