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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...

Run raves, poetry celebrations, the return of some loved Notts musicians and a soulful Sunday: Here's what's on in Notts this week 17 - 23 November 2025

Sun 16 Nov 2025

This week, kill two birds with one stone and rave whilst you run, head to the return of Notts bands Unknown Era and Captain Dangerous, delve into some poetry, or enjoy a soulful Sunday. Here's our top picks...

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...

Night Creatures Podcast #3: Killer Jim from Out To Lunch on 25 years of Northern soul, jazz funk and jazz dance events in Nottingham

Fri 14 Nov 2025

Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city.

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...

Nottingham celebrates ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature with a spectacular gala on 1 December

Wed 12 Nov 2025

In 2025, Nottingham turns the page on a remarkable chapter; ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature and the charity is throwing a party worthy of Nottingham’s words!

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...

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...

Competition: Win a Sauna and Plunge experience for up to 8 People at Saunahood in the National Watersports Centre

Mon 10 Nov 2025

Saunahood offers wood-fired sauna and contrast therapy from a quiet corner in the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham's Holme Pierrepont Country Park. You can win a Sauna and Plunge experience for up to 8 People to be taken sometime between January and March next year by entering our totally free competition below…

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...

French post-punk, brew festivals, Disney on Ice and festive ballet: here's what's on in Notts this week 10-15 November 2025

Sun 09 Nov 2025

This week, get yourself down to the Craft Brew Festival, enjoy some elegant post-punk covers, welcome Christmas in early with a ballet of A Christmas Carol, or skate down to Disney on Ice. Here are our top picks of the week....

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...

Women in Horror Weekend at Waterstones

Sat 08 Nov 2025

Autumn 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...

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...

Theatre review: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Nottingham's Theatre Royal

Thu 06 Nov 2025

The 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 2025

We 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 2025

Nottingham 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...

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