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In Photos: The Charlatans at Rock City
Wed 13 Dec 2023The Charlatans – Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, Martin Blunt and Tony Rogers – remain one of the most brilliant live acts around, a finely honed musical powerhouse the world adores. Their back catalogue is a non-stop jukebox of indie rock’s greatest hits including the instantly recognisable The Only One I Know, Weirdo, Just When You’re Thinkin’ Things Over, One to Another, How High, North Country Boy and Come Home Baby. They brought all of these and more to Rock City, with support from Seb Lowe...
We Chat to Author Nick Emm About His Neurodiverse New Book
Tue 12 Dec 2023Like fingerprints, no two brains are exactly the same. Nottingham author Nick Emm's new book for young readers, Jude and the First of the Nine, is a fantastically realised tale that celebrates all the different ways in which we think. We sat down with the man himself to hear about his journey...
We Review Nottingham Contemporary’s Latest Exhibition 'Ridykeulous'
Tue 12 Dec 2023Nottingham Contemporary’s latest interactive art installation Ridykeulous is host to over thirty intergenerational queer artists all of whom utilise the distinct lens of the queer experience to satirise culturally conditioned forms of self-expression and modernise out-dated stratifications of gender identity…
Theatre Review: Dick Whittington at Theatre Royal
Tue 12 Dec 2023Get yer big boots on for some spectacular, energetic, high-end panto sparkle...
Theatre Review: Once Upon a Crime at Nottingham New Theatre
Tue 12 Dec 2023Our Amelia Brookes reviews Once Upon a Crime at Nottingham New Theatre...
We Catch Up With the Cheese Shop to Discover the Best Cheeses to Indulge in This Christmas
Mon 11 Dec 2023A staple of every Brie-tish Christmas is, undoubtedly, the cheese board. However you choose to spend your holidays, nothing could be feta at warding off the winter bleus than treating yourself to some cheese by the fire. But with so many types to choose from, what could be gouda enough to be yours on the big day? We spoke to Webb Freckingham, one of the owners of The Cheese Shop on Flying Horse Walk, to cheddar light on the grate-st cheese this festive cheese-on…
Manchester Wins Slamovision 2023
Mon 11 Dec 2023Manchester’s Esther Koch is the winner of Slamovision 2023, against the finest spoken word artists across the UNESCO Cities of Literature network...
Selectors: John Holmes
Mon 11 Dec 2023In this video interview series, Nick Strang (Spore Print Productions and Plates) speaks to Nottingham-based DJs. Up this time it's John Holmes. John Holmes is a music-loving ex-BBC Radio Nottingham DJ with a record collection full of gems, rarities and all manner of stories.
Left Magpie: December 2023
Mon 11 Dec 2023Ever since Notts returned to the Football League, there has been the determination to make an impact. Of “putting on a show” as the terrace favourite goes. And, as anyone reflecting on the previous month at Meadow Lane will testify, it’s certainly lived up to that billing…
Gig Review: The Silver Lines at The Chameleon
Mon 11 Dec 2023On a wet and windy Thursday evening there was no better place to retreat to than The Chameleon, to see exactly what a line-up of new and local artists had to offer...
Gig Review: James Yorkston & Nina Persson at The Bodega
Mon 11 Dec 2023A Swedish pop star and a Scottish folk singer were an unlikely pair to find in The Bodega. Differing from the usual punk and rock music, Nina Persson and James Yorkston created a beautiful atmosphere with their folk performance...
Gig Review: Gogol Bordello at Rock City
Mon 11 Dec 2023Formed in New York in 1999 from an eclectic collection of musicians from all over the world, this was Gogol Bordello's first show in Nottingham in five years, yet they have lost none of their anarchic fervour, dynamism and sweaty energy in the intervening period...
Gig Review: The Amity Affliction at Rock City
Mon 11 Dec 2023This Australian Metalcore outfit showed that their twenty years of experience was not to be messed with. Rock City and its crowd moshed and crowd-surfed their hearts out...
In Photos: Apollo Junction at The Bodega
Mon 11 Dec 2023Born in the eighties, inspired by the nineties, moulded by the noughties. Hailing from Leeds, Apollo Junction are a five-piece that have been described as a modern day Britpop band. They were joined by Bee-Sides and Shadows of A Silhouette at The Bodega last week...
Gig Review: Cucamaras at The Carousel
Mon 11 Dec 2023Nottingham’s very own Cucamaras return home for two intimate, back-to-back shows at The Carousel…
We Chat to Divorce About Their New EP 'Heady Metal’ and Sold Out Rescue Rooms Show
Sun 10 Dec 2023Whether you’ve heard them at one of Nottingham’s music festivals such as Dot to Dot or Hockley Hustle, or more recently on Radio 1, Divorce are poised for huge success in 2024, following the release of their Heady Metal EP last month and a sold-out headline tour that they are in the midst of. While they were in Brighton supporting Willie J Healey, we caught up with vocalist and bassist Tiger Cohen-Towell, vocalist and guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow, and guitarist Adam Peter Smith…
Festive Musicals, Big Stars, Film Quizzes and Enchanting Children's Animation: Here’s What’s on in Nottingham This Week 11 - 17 December
Sun 10 Dec 2023December is the month for going out to see a fabulous show, or cosying down with a pub quiz or a library day. This week in Notts you can do either, plus lots more...
We Round up the Best Experiences to Gift Your Loved Ones So You Can Have a Minimal but Memorable Christmas
Sat 09 Dec 2023Christmas is touted as the most wonderful time of the year - full of sweet treats, endless gifts and dazzling decorations - and in the deep of December, we really do need a few lovely things to cheer us up. But pull back the curtain and it is also statistically the most wasteful time of year, too...