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Live Music Review: Michael Rother and Kogumaza at the Rescue Rooms

The legendary former member of Neu! and Harmonia performs selected highlights from his influential back catalogue...

Live Music Review: Rag'n'Bone Man at Rock City

Human singer wows the Nottingham massive...

Every Notts Act Playing This Year's Dot To Dot Festival

The definitive rundown of every local artist performing. Clue: It's long...

Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...

Find Out What's Happening In Nottingham For Record Store Day 2017

Marking ten years of celebrating independent record stores, there's plenty going on this Saturday...

10 Events to get to for Nottingham Poetry Festival

After wiggling their toes in the water back in 2015, Nottingham Poetry Festival is back. Mixing it up with over fifty events, there are local poets of all genres, backgrounds and disciplines, as well as workshops to get wordy in, and plenty of chances for you to get on the mic and give it a go yersen. Plus they’ve got some national treasures popping down – in the form of Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the inimitable John Cooper Clarke, and the lyrical John Hegley. If you don’t think poetry is your thing, think again. If you’re already a fan... well, as you were.

Nottingham Poetry Festival: Wendy Cope

Known for her dry wit and keen eye for parody, Wendy Cope has been a staple of British poetry since her debut in the eighties. We caught up with Wendy ready for her appearance at this year’s poetry festival.

Pint of Science: The Plague, Teaching the Brain to Hear, and Survival of the Sexiest...

Last year, Nottingham was one of the host cities for the international science festival Pint of Science. This year, it’s back, and the launch night at The Canalhouse saw four speakers give us a taste of what’s to come…

Live Music Review: The Big Moon live at Rough Trade

The hotly tipped band made an in-store appearance at the Nottingham record store to promote the release of their debut album...

Live Music Review: Nathan Fake at Nottingham Contemporary

The electronic musician was touring in support of his latest album...

16 Bars to Slurp at for Nottingham Loves Cocktails Festival

Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer

After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...

Manchester Band The Slow Readers Club Play The Bodega and Dot To Dot Festival

The Manchester band have just been announced for this year's Dot To Dot Festival and play The Bodega this Thursday...

Live Music Review: Jurassic 5's Chali 2na and Krafty Kuts at Southbank City

There aren’t many places you can go for an old-fashioned dinner and dance these days, but Notts-based label / promoter / caterer Gangsta Wraps are putting that right with their Rhyme and Dine evenings...

Live Music Review: High Tides at Rock City

The release show for new record I'm Not Giving Up, I'm Just Starting Over was a success...

Live Music Review: Brad Dear EP Launch at The Bodega

The singer-songwriter celebrated the release of his The Only Road I Know EP...

8 Alternative Days Out in Nottingham

If another Netflix binge just isn’t gonna cut it, and the thought of one more pub crawl is enough to turn your stomach, step this way...

Live Music Review: Pet Crow Album Launch at Rough Trade

Celebrating the release of their debut album A Simple Guide To Small And Medium Pond Life, with support from Liines and Jitterz...

Live Music Review: Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation at Nottingham Contemporary

With the ‘hypnotica’ film screenings taking over the Contemporary, it was no surprise that the Swedish group took over The Space. Full of hazy trance like sounds, the band created a hallucinogenic experience...

Live Music Review: Julia Jacklin and Keto at The Bodega

The Australian singer-songwriter returned to Nottingham as part of her sold-out UK tour, with local favourite supporting...

10 Notts Hip Hop Artists to Watch Out For

The UK hip hop scene is having somewhat of a resurgence these days. There’s a big light shining on London, but Nottingham has always been a birthplace of premium hip hop talent, from Out da Ville rapping circles around the rest of the country, to Pariz-1 proving that she can go bar to bar with any MC. The Nottingham pool of talent has always remained full, so we’ve collated a list of current hip hop artists to get to know this year.

It’s worth noting that without a few Nottingham rap legends laying down the groundwork beforehand, we may not have many of the artists on this list. So before we start, we give a big shout out to Scorzayzee, Wariko, Pariz-1, Out da Ville, Stan Crook Ed, J Gold, Fif Nova, 1st Blood, Cappo, Land Lordz, Fort Nottz, Smokes and Bluntz.

Live Music Review: Harry & Chris + Gecko at The Maze

We went to The Maze to check out some musical comedy from a bunch of wordy chaps…

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at the Angel Microbrewery

I'm Not From London presented three bands playing garage rock, psychobilly and surf...

Live Music Review: Amber Run at Rock City

The Notts rock band are sky-rocketing to success all over the country with popular tunes such as I Found, 5AM and No Answers. Now they’ve come back to their roots for a massive show that marks the release of their second album, For a Moment I Was Lost...

The Festival of Science and Curiosity: Worms, Lava Lamps and Mixed-Reality Storytelling

In its third year, the Festival of Science and Curiosity is bigger and better than ever. Like all festivals, you had to pick and choose a bit in terms of what to see and what to do but here's what Gav Squires checked out over the weekend...