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Comedy Review: Jenny Éclair at the Nottingham Playhouse

Thu 24 Apr 2025

Famed comedian Jenny Éclair is on a national tour to celebrate her career and new autobiography. So did she get Nottingham's audiences laughing...

Theatre Review: ...Earnest?

Wed 23 Apr 2025

Slapstick comedy chaos reigns when the lead is a no show, any volunteers?

Theatre Review: Only Fools and Horses: The Musical

Wed 23 Apr 2025

Why do only fools and horses work? Well, perhaps Del Boy and Rodney can answer that as Britain's most beloved market traders ride again...

Film Review: The Penguin Lessons

Mon 21 Apr 2025

The Penguin Lessons is the latest in that oh so recognisable cinema sub-trope, British people doing slightly quirky things in the face of adversity...

Film Review: The Return

Mon 21 Apr 2025

We review The Return, a stripped back take on Homer’s classic The Odyssey…

Gig review: Cliffords at The Bodega

Sat 19 Apr 2025

A double bill from Ireland - Cliffords and Bold Love - took to The Bodega on Wednesday night. The next two great bands to emerge from the country? We certainly think so…

LeftLion's Latest Listens #20: Notts music we're currently spinning

Sat 19 Apr 2025

In this Easter weekend edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews recent releases from Katie Keddie, Joey Collins, Blu Syrup, Lace Thief and Karen Macleod...

Gig review: The essence of "____" at The Bodega

Fri 18 Apr 2025

When Corder, co-founder of local promoters Nottalott, set up his first event in March of last year entitled 'The Essence of Punk', the feedback and support for the event was overwhelmingly positive. It was only honourable that 12 months later he would put on a second - more enigmatically titled - event, not only to mark the anniversary, but to celebrate what the first event achieved: a platform to champion local talent, as well as to support local causes...

Review: Record Store Day 2025

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Last weekend, Rough Trade Nottingham hosted the 18th consecutive Record Store Day, with local bands and international acts hitting the stage for a series of exciting live performances from the likes of Bored Marsh, Chloe Rodgers, Sancho Panza, Airport Dad and more...

Book Review: 'Manfishing' by Peter Pheasant

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Callum Minford reviews a journalistic thriller nearly fifty years in the making.

Gig review: Panchiko at Rough Trade Nottingham

Wed 16 Apr 2025

Going from an internet mystery that looked like it was never going to be solved to a well-known cult classic band across the UK, there isn’t any other Nottingham outfit that has been on as much of a journey as Panchiko…

Gig review: Primal Scream at Rock City

Tue 15 Apr 2025

Primal Scream are stone-cold legends of British music. From fusing rock-and-roll with the burgeoning acid-house scene to delirious effect on 1991’s masterpiece Screamadelica, through the brash vitriol and anger of 2000’s XTRMNTR and the pop-flecked Chaosmosis, their restlessness and ability to wrap disparate genres around their inimitable core of emotionally weighty songwriting has secured their position as one of the most vital bands of their generation...

Gig review: Lambrini Girls bring riotous energy to Rescue Rooms

Tue 15 Apr 2025

Brighton punk trio The Lambrini Girls played the Rescue Rooms on Friday night with fierce energy and a lot of things to say...

Stage Review: Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds at Motorpoint Arena

Sun 13 Apr 2025

"The chances of anything coming from Mars, was a million to one they said!"

Despite that fact, H.G. Wells’ classic work of science fiction, The War of the Worlds, continues to resonate 130 years later, seeing multiple adaptations over the last century. Today, it lives on through Jeff Wayne’s iconic musical and rock opera, which itself has been around since 1978 and touring the world in various forms since 2006. With this year’s The Spirit of Man tour boasting an intriguing cast with some familiar faces from the worlds of pop and rock, we went along to check out the show at the Motorpoint Arena and learn more about this story’s enduring appeal…

Exhibition review: The Lovers at New Art Exchange chronicles LGBTQI+ couples over the years

Fri 11 Apr 2025

New Art Exchange presents The Lovers, an exhibition of photographic works by Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh. Bringing together two collections of photographs taken forty years apart, the exhibition depicts LGBTQIA+ couples alongside a slideshow of images and a vitrine of publications featuring Gupta’s work.

Gig review: Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls at Rock City

Thu 10 Apr 2025

From the moment our writer Bassey joined the large queues to get into Rock City, he knew this was going to be a special night. When Frank Turner's playing it always is. The hard-working troubadour was in town with his band The Sleeping Souls to promote the aptly-named album Undefeated, and the atmosphere was electric with eager anticipation...

Gig review and interview: Pale Blue Eyes at The Bodega

Thu 10 Apr 2025

Following the release of their third album New Place, Pale Blue Eyes have been bringing their new record, carefree charm and hypnotic energy to the stage. The innovative Totnes-Sheffield shoegaze trio have travelled far and wide, and we were lucky to be graced with their surreal presence yet again at The Bodega in Nottingham, and have the chance to chat to the band, too...

Dance Review: Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre

Thu 10 Apr 2025

A passionate and powerful depiction of the classic novel.

Book Review: Freewheeling - Essays on Cycling

Wed 09 Apr 2025

Why wouldn't you just drive there? A new collection from Daunt Books finds the reason to invest in Lycra.

Theatre Review: Animal Farm at the Nottingham Playhouse

Wed 09 Apr 2025

George Orwell's literary classic undergoes a searing adaptation with a powerful message as relevant now as it ever was...

Theatre review: Chicago razzle dazzles at the Royal Concert Hall

Tue 08 Apr 2025

Time reveals two types of art: that which dates and that which seems timeless. One year shy of a century since it was written, and fifty years since its musical stage debut, Chicago is firmly in the second category. This week, the Royal Concert Hall plays host to the antics of Roxie, Velma and the other ‘Merry Murderesses’ of the Cook County Jail, in a show so full of pizazz it may have even invented the concept.

Gig review: Skunk Anansie at Rock City

Tue 08 Apr 2025

The force of nature that is Skunk Anansie are on tour promoting their new album The Painful Truth. Three decades since he first witnessed Skin and the rest of the band in action, Mike Hazeldine went down to their sell out gig at what must be one of the best live music venues in the country, Rock City...