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Gig review: Nouvelle Vague bring bossa nova new wave suave to Metronome Nottingham

Tue 18 Nov 2025

French bossa nova collective Nouvelle Vague came to Notts last week to bring sumptuous spectacle and sophistication to Metronome with their new-wave covers...

Gig review: English Teacher at Rock City

Tue 18 Nov 2025

Just over a year from winning the Mercury Prize, Leeds indie-art-rock quartet English Teacher headline Rock City for a show packed full of top class musicianship and immersive soundscapes...

Gig review: CMAT at Rock City

Mon 17 Nov 2025

Wisdom tooth removal may have delayed CMAT’s UK tour, but it would never stop her from eventually putting on the show of her life…

Gig review: Dea Matrona at Rescue Rooms

Mon 17 Nov 2025

In a big week for overseas acts playing in Britain, with Lorde, Mac Demarco and Alex G making stops across the country, Nottingham closed out the week with a band from slightly closer to home. Belfast’s blues-rock duo Dea Matrona played to a packed audience at Rescue Rooms, marking their first headline stop in the city. After opening for Swedish band Royal Republic at Rock City last year, the band are back and ready to run their own show, delivering a confident set that could sway even the toughest of crowds...

Theatre Review: Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak at Lakeside Arts

Sat 15 Nov 2025

Using a combination of comedy, storytelling and knitted vegetables, Victoria Melody treated us to a tale of resistance that was both tender and galvanising...

Gig review: SPRINTS at Rock City, with Dog Race

Sat 15 Nov 2025

With the memory of their standout Bodega show still fresh in our minds, there was no way we were going to miss SPRINTS' return to Nottingham. This time, Rock City was the venue for a milestone performance which defined the absolute best of the outspoken, anarchic, post-punk spirit...

Exhibition review: Quiver at Lakeside Arts

Fri 14 Nov 2025

Kate MccGwire's latest solo exhibition, Quiver, is a powerful overview of 25 years' worth of work. Typically, it does not shy away from the uncomfortable. Bulging, writhing and rippling through more than three rooms at the Lakeside Arts Centre, Quiver is a body of sculptural work made alive through the dualities MccGwire is fascinated with: the potent beauty of the natural world, and its powerful, sometimes grotesque underbelly…

Gig review: Echobelly at The Level

Thu 13 Nov 2025

Summer is over, Halloween and Bonfire Night gone. It'll soon be Christmas. In the meantime there are lots of gigs. Fitting into this build up to Christmas were Echobelly on the final date of their tour, celebrating 30 years of their album, On. Returning to Nottingham again, the band saw their venue moved up from Metronome to the larger space of The Level. Expectations were high...

Gig review: Bastille at Motorpoint Arena

Thu 13 Nov 2025

Bastille returned to Nottingham for the first time in three years on their From All Sides tour, celebrating 15 years as a band…

Gig review: TRANKS at Mist Rolling Inn

Thu 13 Nov 2025

Nottingham techno-trio TRANKS played a long-awaited first headline gig at Mist Rolling Inn on Derby Road, supported by DJ Big Vern and Tval...

Gig review: Dekker at Rough Trade

Wed 12 Nov 2025

Dekker is a Chicago born artist now settled in Nottingham where he is setting the local scene alight with his folky, indie vibe. At first listen Dekker is a throwback to the best of Jack Johnson with a laid back performance style but closer inspection of his lyrics reveal great introspection and vulnerability. Rough Trade proved the perfect setting for an intimate local show...

Gig review: Billie Marten at Rescue Rooms

Wed 12 Nov 2025

Still only 26, Billie Marten finds herself a relative veteran despite her youth. Now on her fifth album, she has followed fellow folk heroine Laura Marling on a journey from prodigiously gifted teenager to assured songwriting talent and a beacon of her genre. She returned to Rescue Rooms in support of that new LP, the excellent Dog Eared, at the tail-end of a winding European tour and ahead of a jaunt to North America and beyond...

Theatre Review: Steps Here and Now at the Theatre Royal

Wed 12 Nov 2025

Dazzling homage to the 90s pop powerhouse...

Exhibition review: Fabricated? - an exhibition by Caren Garfen at the National Holocaust Museum

Wed 12 Nov 2025

Celebrating thirty years of the National Holocaust Museum, a recent exhibition by award-winning artist Caren Garfen explores Holocaust misinformation and anti-Jewish racism.

Gig review: Bow Wow Wow at Metronome

Tue 11 Nov 2025

Annabella’s Bow Wow Wow returned this year for their first UK headline tour in a decade, stopping off at Metronome to bring cheerful intimacy on a dark autumn night...

Gig review: Maruja at Rescue Rooms

Tue 11 Nov 2025

After the long-awaited release of their debut album Pain to Power, Mancunian post-punk jazz four-piece Maruja swung by Rescue Rooms to celebrate a huge new chapter for the band, who’ve been generating buzz in Nottingham for quite some time. We headed down to see what all the fuss is about…

Gig review: JayaHadADream at Metronome

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Performing tracks from her debut album, Happiness from Agony, breakout star JayaHadADream is back in Nottingham. Filing the floor at Metronome, she brought her message of honesty, pushing back against pressure and anxiety, and breaking down stereotypes...

Gig review: The Smyths at The Level

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Top tribute band The Smyths packed in fans young and old into The Level for an electrifying and believable rendition of The Smiths’ legendary album, Meat Is Murder, as well as a selection of the 80s band's best-loved songs...

Gig review: The Enemy at Rock City

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Nine years is a long time to be gone, but The Enemy's return to Rock City was pure adrenaline: a sweat-soaked celebration that turned Nottingham into one giant sing-a-long. The crowd, a mix of longtime loyalists and fresh faces, erupted as the Coventry trio took to the stage, immediately proving that their hiatus hadn’t dulled their fire one bit...

Classical Music Review: The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with guest conductor Elena Schwartz at the Royal Concert Hall

Sun 09 Nov 2025

Turmoil, transcendence and orchestral grandeur are the order of the day in the BBC Philharmonic’s latest Nottingham appearance...

Gig review: Celeste at The Level

Sun 09 Nov 2025

At a Rough Trade outstore gig hosted by The Level, Celeste delivered an unforgettable stripped-back performance, letting her souful vocals do the talking, and putting to rest any doubts about her place in the musical pantheon...

Review: JT Soar Fest 2025

Sat 08 Nov 2025

This 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 2025

Stadium 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...

Gig review: Halina Rice at Rescue Rooms

Fri 07 Nov 2025

As 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...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #35: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 07 Nov 2025

In 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...

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