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Gig Review: The Amity Affliction at Rock City

Mon 11 Dec 2023

This 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...

Gig Review: DMA'S at Rock City

Fri 08 Dec 2023

There is quite simply nothing better than a packed Rock City crowd, singing together at the top of their lungs. It doesn’t always happen but when it does, you’ll find yourself at a mighty special gig. Having already caught Australian indie heroes DMA’S a few times previously, including one time on their home turf in Australia, our Karl Blakesley had good inkling this could have been one of those magical nights. So, we headed down to Rock City to see if our assumptions were correct…

Gig Review: Against The Current at Rock City

Wed 06 Dec 2023

Returning to Nottingham for their first headline show here since 2016, Against the Current brought their Nightmares & Daydreams tour to Rock City…

Gig Review: Billy Bragg at Rock City

Tue 05 Dec 2023

Billy Bragg is perhaps Britain’s most intelligent and well-loved protest singer. He’s been unapologetically mixing pop and politics since 1983. He’s currently on his Roaring Forty tour across the UK and just in case we were feeling lonely in Nottingham the Milkman of Human Kindness makes a stop at Rock City to offer up his poetry...

Comedy Review: Club Wormhole - ‘A Very 1984 Christmas’

Tue 05 Dec 2023

Becki Crossley falls down the wormhole at a new venue for alternative comedy...

We Chat to Fabio & Grooverider Ahead of Their Rock City Show in January With the Outlook Orchestra

Mon 04 Dec 2023

Fabio & Grooverider - godfathers of drum and bass - are bringing their live show with The Outlook Orchestra to Rock City in the New Year. Phil Taylor caught up with Fabio, aka Fitzroy Heslop, to discuss the changes he has witnessed on the scene, what Nottingham means to them, and what audiences can expect at their show...

In Photos: Sundara Karma at Rock City

Sat 02 Dec 2023

Sundara Karma continue to captivate listeners and carve out their unique space in the indie rock landscape with their latest album Better Luck Next Time, which they bring to a crowded Rock City a mere few days after its release...

We Catch Up With Against the Current as They Headline Rock City on Their Nightmares & Daydreams Tour

Thu 30 Nov 2023

Our Assistant Editor and Music Co-Editor Gemma Cockrell headed backstage at Rock City to chat to Against the Current on the first night of the UK leg of their Nightmares & Daydreams tour…

Gig Review: BC Camplight at Rock City

Tue 28 Nov 2023

Rock City was the last stop for The Last Rotation of the Earth tour – BC Camplight’s incredibly well received album from earlier this year. The American-Mancunian singer-songwriter treated Nottingham to an evening that was both cohesive and filled with charisma, joined also by Dutch indie-rock band Personal Trainer. Izzy Morris reviews…

Gig Review: McFly at Rock City

Mon 27 Nov 2023

Walking through Nottingham on a chilly November night, it could’ve been any other unremarkable evening. That is, until turning onto Talbot Street to see the massive queue at Rock City, a throng of people all clamouring to see the brilliant McFly on tour supporting the release of their excellent new album Power To Play. Bringing with them the brilliant LostAlone, the atmosphere was electric even at the back of the queue, and a second sold out night at Nottingham’s most revered live music venue looked all set to go...

Gig Review: Bob Vylan at Rock City

Sun 26 Nov 2023

Bob Vylan are a punk rap duo from London who ripped onto the music scene in 2017, and have been making waves at gigs and festivals ever since. You might not hear them on the radio much, because there’s still some music that upsets advertisers, but that doesn’t make them not one of the most important bands to form in the last decade. And when the drizzle and drain of a Monday night does not deter a gig from being utterly electric, you know it’s been a good one...

Gig Review: The Lottery Winners at Rock City

Wed 22 Nov 2023

Daisy shaped earrings and colourful glasses adorned the many faces flooding Talbot Street, all eagerly waiting for the doors of Rock City to open, letting the thrill of the night ahead ensue...

Gig Review: FIDLAR at Rock City

Tue 21 Nov 2023

If there’s one word for FIDLAR, it’s fun. I mean, with song titles like Max Can’t Surf, Wake Bake Skate and Stoked and Broke, it’s only natural to expect that you’re going to presented with tongue-in-cheek sardonism and whimsy...

Nottingham Launches Its Unicef Child Friendly City Programme

Mon 20 Nov 2023

Nottingham is launching its Child Friendly City programme at the Nottingham Council House for World Children's Day...

In Photos: Weyes Blood at Rock City

Sun 19 Nov 2023

Natalie Mering, AKA Weyes Blood, is known for her psychedelic folk and soft rock sound as a singer and songwriter. While touring her hauntingly beautiful new album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, which is her fifth record, she stopped off at Rock City...

In Photos: Atreyu at Rock City

Sun 19 Nov 2023

Emerging from Southern California originally operating as a punk band under the moniker Retribution, the band eventually changed their name in 1999 to Atreyu. After a change in vocalists, the band reintroduced themselves with 2021’s Baptize and since then have released a string of EPs, which they brought to Rock City on their world tour...

Gig Review: Cian Ducrot at Rock City

Thu 16 Nov 2023

Cian Ducrot is an Irish singer-songwriter, raised in Cork, currently on the road with his Victory tour, named after his first studio album. The last time Cian played Nottingham he was performing at Rescue Rooms, but his growing success has seen him step up to Rock City, where the venue was packed full with adoring fans of all ages...

Gig Review: Death Cult at Rock City

Wed 15 Nov 2023

Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy returned to a jam-packed Rock City to celebrate forty years of The Cult's predecessor, Death Cult, reliving deep cuts that spawned one of the most successful bands to come from the UK's illustrious eighties gothic and Hard Rock scene…

Gig Review: ALT BLK ERA at Rock City Beta

Mon 13 Nov 2023

Considering all the incredible acts emerging out of the Nottingham music scene right now, you could argue that none have bigger momentum than alternative sister duo, ALT BLK ERA...

Gig Review: Wargasm UK at Rock City

Mon 13 Nov 2023

After making waves at Rescue Rooms when they last visited Nottingham, Wargasm UK have now graduated to Rock City level audiences. Naturally, Izzy Morris was curious to see what all of the buzz was about...

In Photos: Poets of the Fall at Rock City

Sat 11 Nov 2023

Finnish rockers Poets of the Fall — singer Marko, guitarist Olli and keyboardist Captain – started out their musical adventure from scratch in 2003, later joined by guitarist Jaska, bassist Jani and drummer Jari. Twenty years since first forming, they headline Rock City...

Gig Review: Creeper at Rock City

Fri 10 Nov 2023

Nottingham may have been overtaken with the festive spirit this past week with the opening of Winter Wonderland, but in a dark room over on Talbot Street the ghost of Halloween was still found lingering. This is because Southampton-hailing goth-rockers Creeper had crawled their way to the hallowed halls of Rock City, bringing with them their uniquely theatrical live show. Performing fresh off the release of their critically-acclaimed vampire rock opera Sanguivore in October, the show promised to be a spectre-cle (sorry, not sorry) – full of high expectations and a little smidgen of dread, we went along to investigate…

Gig Review: Terrorvision at Rock City

Fri 03 Nov 2023

Terrorvision originally formed in Bradford in 1987 as The Spoilt Bratz – thankfully they changed their name to Terrorvision in 1991. A few years later they released back-to-back albums Formaldehyde and How to Make Friends and Influence People, leading to their critical and commercial success. The nineties rock legends take to the stage at Rock City...