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Theatre Review: Cinderella at the Theatre Royal
Tue 02 Dec 2025It's the latest festive romp from Nottingham's Theatre Royal, starring Craig Revel Horwood as the Wicked Stepmother...
Gig review: Gary Numan at Rock City, with Raven Numan
Mon 01 Dec 2025Gary Numan was an experimental electronic music and gothic pioneer back in the 80s. He arrived like a pitch-black meteor onto the UK music scene, bringing with him a wave of influence and playful, performative darkness, and became one of the most influential and entirely unique acts this country has produced. Recently, Numan released the 45th Anniversary Expanded Edition of his 1980 album Telekon, and embarked on a huge anniversary tour, bringing along his daughter Raven Numan and her band to support. We joined the tour at the legendary Rock City...
Gig review: Warmduscher at Rescue Rooms
Mon 01 Dec 2025For the third time in as many years, Warmduscher, the epitome of the phrase “chaos but good chaos”, paid Nottingham a visit. And, of course, LeftLion got in on the action...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #36: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 28 Nov 2025In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Marseille, Kelsey and The Embers, Richard Snow and ALT BLK ERA...
Classical Music Review: The Aurora Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall
Wed 26 Nov 2025The Aurora Orchestra returned to Nottingham with four outstanding but contrasting classics. They also gave a demonstration of their unique performance style...
Exhibition review: Ukranian Social Club at Backlit Gallery
Tue 25 Nov 2025Ukrainian Social Club is a collaboration between Backlit and the Nottingham Ukrainian Cultural Centre based in Carrington, Sherwood, focusing on Ciaran Spencer’s photography alongside artefacts representing Nottingham’s Ukrainian community across 75 years. It is an intimate, emotionally layered exhibition merging portraiture, film, textiles and tradition to tell a story of resilience across generations in the face of war and displacement.
Gig review: Inspiral Carpets at Rock City
Sun 23 Nov 2025Following the hammer blow which was the news of the sudden passing of The Stone Roses’ ebullient and much -loved bassist Mani the day before, it felt strangely apt to spend the next night in the company of some of their Mancunian peers: Inspiral Carpets
Gig review: Baxter Dury at Rock City
Sat 22 Nov 2025Baxter Dury returns to the East Midlands just as sharp, as he enters his dance-pop era. The last time we saw him in Nottingham was hitting supporting duties for Primal Scream back in April. Now, with his ninth studio album in tow, Dury gets to do it all again. But this time as the leading man...
Gig review: Wet Leg at Rock City
Sat 22 Nov 2025Wet Leg were back in Nottingham for an eagerly anticipated performance at Rock City, with support from Faux Real. It's the first time since 2022 that Wet Leg have performed at the venue, and since then, word has spread about the award-winning indie-rockers. They've gained some new band members too...
Gig review: JERUB at Rescue Rooms
Sat 22 Nov 2025JERUB - born in Nigeria and raised in Nottingham - already has north of 3 million plays on his latest record The Wonder Years. It was only out a week when he returned to Notts on his UK tour to play a well-received homecoming gig...
Comedy Review: Suzi Ruffell's The Juggle at Nottingham Playhouse
Sat 22 Nov 2025Multi-award winning comedian Suzi Ruffell brings her brand new tour to Nottingham. Described as part confessional, did any of her secrets shock the audience...
Film review: GAME
Fri 21 Nov 2025The debut film for INVADA Films, a new Bristol-based project fronted by Portishead co-founder Geoff Barrows, GAME stars Marc Bessant and Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods)...
Theatre Review: Ordinary Decent Criminal at Lakeside Arts
Fri 21 Nov 2025Mark Thomas returns to Lakeside in a one-man play by Fringe First winner Ed Edwards. Telling the tale of Frankie, a writer and drug dealer with a history in political activism, who is serving his first prison sentence. A terrifying prospect, considering his ‘lack of a right hook’...
Gig review: Hard Life at Rock City
Thu 20 Nov 2025In a room packed-out with loyal East Midlands fans, the newly formed and renamed Hard Life marked their humble but powerful new beginnings. The sold-out Rock City show was the final night of their Onion tour, and the band went out with an absolute bang, proving their fierce return with passion and a palpable vengeance to be heard...
Comedy Review: Babatunde Aléshé's High Expectations at Nottingham Playhouse
Thu 20 Nov 2025Multi-award-winning comedian, Babatunde Aléshé', brings his new stand-up show to our city. Family life, fame and Costco are among his topics, but will these make the Nottingham audience laugh?
Gig review: BC Camplight at Rock City
Thu 20 Nov 2025Tonight starts with a goodbye and not a hello. Brian Christinzio is blowing out his Camplight in the UK for one last time, not forever, but for this leg of the tour at least. But, as he says in a sorrowful post on Instagram, “this will be the last time… for a very long time." We dropped in to Rock City to say goodbye, for now, to BC Camplight...
Gig review: Sunday (1994) at Rescue Rooms
Tue 18 Nov 2025Nottingham loves a band with a bit of myth around them, and as their dreamy, cinematic sound is woven together with lyrics sung like secrets, Sunday (1994) seem determined to give us one. We caught up with them at Rescue Rooms...
Gig review: Nouvelle Vague bring bossa nova new wave suave to Metronome Nottingham
Tue 18 Nov 2025French 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 2025Just 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 2025Wisdom 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 2025In 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 2025Using 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 2025With 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 2025Kate 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 2025Summer 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...
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