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Gig review: American Football at Rock City
Fri 13 Sept 202425 years ago, four friends from Champaign, Illinois formed a band, made a record together and then headed off to college - not once thinking of the potential impact of their music. Little did they know that album would go on to become a seminal masterpiece, one that would inspire a whole genre, as well as a new generation of artists and legions of fans all around the globe. Now travelling the world in 2024 celebrating that album’s quarter century, American Football stopped by Rock City to play their iconic LP1 in full…
Gig review: Rockabilly Americana Show at Binks Yard
Sun 18 Aug 2024The Binks Yard outdoor terrace was recently transformed into an Americana extravaganza, coming alive with all things Rockabilly, including four of the UK's top bands of the genre, along with dancing, costumes and vintage American cars. Andrew McCartney was there...
American Poets In Britain, a Reading by Jason Schneiderman, Kathryn Maris and Dante Micheaux
Tue 16 Jan 2024Preview: American Poets at Five Leaves Bookshop
Sat 13 Jan 2024As some of the USA's best poetic minds come to perform in Notts, we learn about what we can look forward to...
University of Nottingham Graduate Ayo Oyelola Chats American Football, Chasing Crazy Dreams and Joining the Jacksonville Jaguars
Mon 15 Aug 2022Nottingham and the NFL have hardly gone hand-in-hand over the years - but with the University of Nottingham graduate Ayo Oyelola recently joining the Jacksonville Jaguars, they do now. We catch up with the defensive back ahead of the 2022/23 season…
We Took a Trip to the Nottingham Caesars to Learn More about American Football, the History of The Club and Making International News
Fri 06 May 2022It’s fair to say that the rise of American Football in the UK has been meteoric. From the NFL regularly playing games at Wembley Stadium, to viewing figures and Google searches rising year after year, the sport now has an estimated 27,000 active players in the country. And Nottingham is no exception. Established in 1984, the Nottingham Caesars are one of the oldest American Football clubs in the UK, playing in the BAFA National League NFC South. We caught up with Caesars’ defensive linesman and Gameday Co-Manager Jamie Gatley to talk about the past, present and future of the club, and how a group of hungry mice recently helped the club gain international press…
Art Works: Naa Ahinee Mensah
Tue 21 Jul 2020Artist Naa Ahinee Mensah tells us about her George Floyd triptych...
Film Review: The Last Days of American Crime
Tue 09 Jun 2020Netflix’s new dystopian caper is another flop amidst a slew of hit-or-miss original films...
20 Years Later: American Psycho
Tue 21 Apr 2020As director Mary Harron’s controversial film turns twenty, we take a retrospective look at one of the most elegantly constructed and brutal portrayals of the insidious side of the human mind...
The United States of Nottingham: How Much Do You Know About the American Towns Named After Notts?
Sat 28 Dec 2019Two intrepid reporters. Five stateside locations. One giant waste of time. This is the whirlwind story of our investigation into how the name of our great city made its way across the New World. This is the United States of Notts…
The Waco Siege: How a Man from Nottingham Became Part of an American Tragedy
Wed 24 Jul 201926 years ago, a religious centre in Texas was home to one of the most brutal massacres in US history. Among the survivors was Livingstone Fagan, a young man from Nottingham – but how did he get there, and what part did he have to play in the infamous and calamitous Waco siege?
The Americans at Rock City in Photos
Fri 23 Nov 2018We got down to Rock City to check out The Americans...
Cosmic American Are Celebrating Their Twentieth Birthday
Wed 31 Oct 2018Cosmic American are some of Nottingham’s finest promoters, bringing folk, rock, blues, country, and the rest, to humble Notts. Since their twentieth-anniversary celebrations have just gone, we thought it was only right to have a good natter with head honchos Glenn Sayward and James Windsor about the last twenty years of bringing quality local and international musicians to our city’s stages...
Film Review: American Animals
Thu 13 Sept 2018We took a peek at Bart Layton's American Animals, which blurs the lines between documentary and fiction in its portrayal of the real-life story of one of the most audacious heists in US history...
Music Video: Haggard Cat - American Graffiti
Sun 21 Jan 2018After making their names in their previous act, the acclaimed UK hardcore band Heck, vocalist/guitarist Matt Reynolds and drummer Tom Marsh aim to carry that same attitude and fire over to Haggard Cat...
Interview with American Punk Band Priests Ahead of their Show at The Maze
Sun 15 Oct 2017Touring in support of their latest album, Nothing Feels Natural, the Washington, DC-based band return to Nottingham for the first time since 2015 and have plenty of love for Babe Punch and Sleaford Mods...
Preview: The Screen at Contemporary: American Rebel Season
Sat 16 Sept 2017The Screen at Contemporary, the cinema programme bringing curated seasons of classic, cult and art house films to the art centre is back with the American Rebel season, celebrating "the other, the outsider, the misfit and the loner of American cinema."
American Poet, Rapper and Political Activist Akua Naru is Coming to Nottingham
Tue 16 May 2017Following on from her appearance at The Bodega last year, the internationally renowned hip hop artist, poet and political campaigner Akua Naru is set to land in Nottingham once more, this Sunday. Ahead of the gig at Saltbox Bar, as part of Acoustickle, Vince Wilson talks wanderlust, and how it relates to the star who’s about to grace our humble Notts stage…