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Review: 28 Years Later

Mon 23 Jun 2025

We review the sequel to Danny Boyle's classic, 28 Weeks Later. We ask ourselves, 'What if zombies, but pretentious..?'

Music Review: The Sound of Springsteen at the Nottingam Playhouse

Sun 22 Jun 2025

If any further evidence was required to confirm the sheer commitment to worshipping at the church of The Boss, then look no further than the Playhouse on Saturday night...

Theatre Review: The Nottingham Drag Pageant at The Nottingham Arts Theatre

Sun 22 Jun 2025

It’s official- Nottingham cannot get enough of drag- and it knows how to do it better than most cities!...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #24: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 20 Jun 2025

In the latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Cappo, Dorothy Ella. GIRLBAND!, The Doctor's Orders Collective and We Are Sovereign...

Gig review: Tim Minchin at the Royal Concert Hall

Thu 19 Jun 2025

There are few plaudits that haven’t been thrown Tim Minchin’s way. The wizard of wordsmithery has found his way into every corner of live performance, whether that be composing and writing for award winning musicals, taking to the stage and screen as an actor or touring his own extensive back catalogue of music. Simply put, within the performing arts bubble he’s done it all. And now he's graced the stage of our city's own Royal Concert Hall...

Gig review: Shonen Knife at Rescue Rooms

Thu 19 Jun 2025

It was a welcome return to Nottingham for Shonen Knife and their brand of punk rock / rock- and-roll rockabilly, with a coordinated cosmos of colour as always...

Concert Review: MIRABILÉ at St Peter’s Church, Ruddington

Tue 17 Jun 2025

Mirabilé, a Nottingham based all-female vocal ensemble, perform at Ruddington.

Exhibition Review: Country Lives at Lakeside Arts

Tue 17 Jun 2025

Over at Lakeside Arts, the current exhibition ‘Country Lives’ explores the use and depiction of the English countryside over the last 200 years. We went down to check it out…

Film Review: The Phoenician Scheme

Mon 16 Jun 2025

We review The Phoenician Scheme, an offbeat infrastructural binge across the desert in Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded satire of empire, excess, and (possibly) redemption...

Theatre Review: Hamlet - The Rest is Silence

Mon 16 Jun 2025

A unique Notts community rework of the classic tragedy

Gig review: Jadu Heart at Rescue Rooms

Sun 15 Jun 2025

It’s been a busy year for Jadu Heart. Hot on the heels of the release of their fourth record, and following an extended jaunt across the US with recent Nottingham Arena fillers - and one of the biggest bands in the world right now - Fontaines DC, they find themselves packing out Rescue Rooms as part of their own headline UK tour...

Gig review: BBC Introducing East Midlands Showcase at Metronome

Sun 15 Jun 2025

BBC Introducing returned to Nottingham's Metronome with a fresh showcase of local talent, expertly curated by East Midlands legend Dean Jackson. This edition featured SPLIT, Manye Fi, Harry Lyon and Drew Thomas...

Gig review: Foxing at Rescue Rooms

Fri 13 Jun 2025

Hot off the tails of their fifth self-titled album, which was released late last year, Foxing, the quartet skirting from Missouri, bring their cult-cuts to the East Midlands. They were ably supported by local alt-rock group, Fallowed...

Comedy Review: Scummy Mummies – Hot Mess at the Nottingham Playhouse

Thu 12 Jun 2025

The Scummy Mummies, Helen and Ellie, are back in town with their take on life for the 21st century mum. And it's a lot saucier than you might think...

Comedy Review: XL Comedy Club at the Nottingham Playhouse

Tue 10 Jun 2025

Nottingham XL Comedy Club boasts some of the hottest names on the circuit. And here are four of them at Nottingham's Playhouse. So, are they as funny as billed....

Gig review: AC/DC UK at Rescue Rooms

Mon 09 Jun 2025

AC/DC UK kept a packed Rescue Rooms rocking all night long with a thoroughly convincing set featuring many of AC/DC’s greatest anthems, complete with a spectacular exploding cannons finale...

Gig review: The Get Up Kids at Rescue Rooms

Sat 07 Jun 2025

The Get Up Kids graced Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms in a flurry of guitars and emotions on Wednesday evening. The room was full to the brim with long term fans, and the air buzzed with excitement...

Comedy Review: Matt Forde's End of an Era Tour at the Nottingham Playhouse

Sat 07 Jun 2025

Another local lad done well, Matt Forde hits a packed out Playhouse on his End of an Era tour...

Words to live by: marking one decade of the Nottingham Poetry Festival with poet Ben Macpherson

Sat 07 Jun 2025

This month marks the tenth anniversary of Nottingham Poetry Festival - a kaleidoscopic set of events that sees poetry collide with activities like musical open mics, meditation and arts and crafts, all the while celebrating the art form, and its age-old centrality to the city of Nottingham. To mark the occasion, festival producer and local poet Ben Macpherson told us about the festival’s importance to Nottingham, and what people can expect from this year.