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To celebrate Independent Venues Week, Lizzie Esau and Dirty Blonde teamed up for a co-headline tour, culminating at Nottingham’s dive bar extraordinaire, Billy Bootleggers…

Gig review: Du Blonde at The Bodega, with bigfatbig

Mon 03 Feb 2025

A decade since their last visit to The Bodega, an awful lot has changed for Beth Jeans Houghton (Du Blonde). With the multi-talented Geordie artist now managing and releasing music under their own label Daemon TV, it was this DIY spirit that drove well-received fourth album, Sniff More Gritty, released in November last year. Returning to Nottingham with that album in tow, we went along to check out Beth’s sold-out show and their first one in the city since 2015…

Gig Review: Blondes at Rough Trade

Tue 03 Oct 2023

On this particular evening in September, the spotlight was firmly on University of Nottingham alumni and indie four-piece Blondes, who graced the stage at Rough Trade Nottingham...

Blondes Chat Ant & Dec, Going Viral and Their Time at the University of Nottingham

Mon 12 Sept 2022

Following in the footsteps of London Grammar and Amber Run by forming at the University of Nottingham, Blondes have big shoes to fill. Yet with the immense success of their song Coming of Age on TikTok resulting in them signing to American label C3 Records, we reckon they don’t have anything to worry about. Here, Alex Davison and Daniel Stroud reminisce about their UoN days...