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Brews, hairdos and tunes: Trekkah Benjamin reflects on the 10th anniversary of Phlexx Records

Currently celebrating its 10th birthday, Phlexx Records has made its name as one of Notts’ most successful labels, since its founding in 2013 by local names Trekkah Benjamin and Bru-C. With the recent set-up of their new record store, adjoining coffee shop, and barber shop on Weekday Cross, we caught up with Trekkah to reminisce on the history of Phlexx and their ambitions to move ever up and onwards.

A vegan market, coffee club, opera and a fair dedicated to records and a love of music: Here’s what’s on in Nottingham this week: 6 May – 12 May 2024

This week in Nottingham! Get yourself down to a market selling only vegan produce, a vinyl record fair, some opera and a friendly coffee club

Live Records Presents Dnb All Nighter With T-lex & Anton

Listening Session: a Conversation Between Carved Records by Masimba Hwati and Paul Stan Nataraj

Selectors: Rob's Records

In this video interview series, Nick Strang (Spore Print Productions and Plates) speaks to Nottingham-based DJs. Up this time it's Rob, founder of Rob's Records Mart, a national (arguably, global) institution, and for good reason. Places like this cease to exist and with the rapid demise of physical high street shops, Rob's really is an anomaly that should be embraced and loved by all...

Live Records Presents Welcome to the Jungle

Oscuridad X Rogue Puppet Records

"People in record stores didn’t think I was cool enough. So I opened up my own - Take Away Jazz Records

Machine Woman moved from releasing records to selling them via her pop-up shop at Nottingham’s The Carousel this spring. As she closes the door for now and considers the next move, she reflects on the experience, explaining it was always about much more than simply having music for sale… 

Plates Records: Coming Full Circle

Eileen Pegg chats with Nick Strang as Plates goes from selling records to putting out its own this year…

Phlexx Records: "Music and creativity should be used to enrich the community; that's what they're there for."

Since 2013, Trekkah Benjamin has been at the helm of Notts music label Phlexx Records. A&R Manager Maddy Chamberlain and Marketing and PR Coordinator Cate Grundy complete the Phlexx family, joining Recording Director Trekkah in 2017. Between them, they’ve got the industry nailed – but they aren’t stopping yet. We grabbed the trio for a chat ahead of our joint stage stint at the Hockley Hustle...

Hello Thor’s Top 10 Moments of the Decade

The local label is shutting up shop after 10 years in business, but it's not going quietly. We run through its top 10 moments ahead of the two closing gigs this May. 

Review: Fortune & Glory Film Club Presents Empire Records

We headed down to the latest screening hosted by the brilliant Fortune & Glory Film Club: Empire Records...

Watercolour Records: Harnessing The Art of Sound

Ahead of their launch night, we find out more about Nottingham's newest record label that promises 'electronic music with a deeper edge'...

Music Video: Haggard Cat - American Graffiti

After 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...

Rock Duo Haggard Cat Sign Deal with Earache Records

Big news for metal heads...

Live Music Review: Next Door Records at JamCafe

Twin Kidd and Prime appear at a new live music night for your musical calendars on the last Friday of every month at Jamcafe...

Earache Records Bring the Heavies to Glastonbury

When Earache Records founder, Digby Pearson, put out Anglican Scrape Attic – a compilation of hardcore and thrash metal – in 1985, even he would have failed to predict the impact the DIY flexi disc would have on the British metal scene over the next three decades. Pearson followed it up in 1986 with a split 7” between Heresy and Concrete Sox, and then shortly after, in 1987, an album by The Accused became the first release to officially carry the Earache name.

Georgie Talks Columbia Records, Touring with Jake Bugg and Her Debut Single

Mansfield-born singer-songwriter Georgie played a triumphant show at Rock City last Friday, supporting Jake Bugg on a night when fans celebrated two of the brightest talents to have emerged from Nottingham’s music industry in recent years. Alex Thorp spoke with her before the Leeds leg of the tour to talk about signing with Columbia Records, inspiring the next generation of musicians, and being able to give up her job at a Chinese takeaway…

Hockley Hustle in Pictures - Forever Records, The Angel, Bunkers Hill, Bad JuJu and Hockley Arts Club

With Hallouminati, I Am Starz, Minatore, No Drone, Deadbeat At Dawn, Juneau, Rattle, 94 Gunships, and loads more

Plates Records Now Trading at Malt Cross

"We want to build and maintain a music community, because that's what's important. It motivates and inspires people"

Forever Records: A New Record Store is Opening in Nottingham

It was a big loss to the city when The Music Exchange closed, but luckily for us the store's former manager has decided to go it alone and open his own shop

Rage Against The Machine Bassist's Band Signs To Earache Records

"Our mission is to attack modern music and smash the grid. Unapologetic, unrelenting, unbridled and uncensored. Understood?"

Mansfield Singer-Songwriter Georgie Signs Deal With Columbia Records

"They wanted me to play another set and I was like, 'I've got a history exam, but you know what? I'm going to play it.'"

Phlexx Records Took Over Nottingham Contemporary with The Afterdark Movement

The hip hop/reggae/ska band sent Notts residents round the bend, with help from Another Poet, The GOA Choir and Yazmin Lacey

Leftback Records

We find out more about the Nottingham-based label currently putting out some of the UK's finest house and techno records