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Review: Detonate Festival 2022
Sat 11 Jun 2022Nottingham’s outdoor electronic music festival Detonate returned last weekend to the grounds of Colwick Park bringing some of the biggest names in electronic music right now…
7 Fun Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: Meadowlands, Detonate, Wrestling and More
Mon 30 May 2022Live music, live wrestling and a live Q&A with two of the UK's best crime writers - all coming up this week in Notts...
We Chat to Bru-C and Crazy P Ahead of Detonate Festival
Wed 27 Apr 2022Ahead of Detonate Festival on Saturday 4 June, we talk to the two biggest Notts-grown acts on the bill - Bru-C and Crazy P's Danielle Moore - about their weirdest festival experiences, dream collaborations and must-pack items...
Detonate's James Busby on their Landmark Halloween Arena Rave
Wed 20 Oct 2021From humble beginnings as a small club night in the late nineties to getting ready to put on their biggest indoor event to date at the Motorpoint Arena this month, Detonate has gone from strength to strength, firmly establishing itself as a bedrock of the Notts live music scene. On the back of the first post-COVID festival and just ahead of their landmark Halloween Arena Rave, we speak to creator James Busby about how it all happened...
Review: Detonate Festival 2021
Fri 01 Oct 2021Nottingham’s biggest outdoor electronic music event - Detonate Festival - has just passed, and it felt so good to be back...
Review: A DnB Newbie Goes to Detonate Festival 2019
Sun 16 Jun 2019Our music editor went to one of the city's biggest festivals, for the very first time...
Detonate Festival 2017 in Words and Photos
Wed 14 Jun 2017Our Lucy and Tom got down to Colwick Park to skank out to some right good tunes, write a few words, and take a few snaps...
James Busby on All Things Detonate
Thu 01 Jun 2017Detonate has been championing bass music in this city for yonks. We grabbed the founder of the organisation, James Busby, to talk plans for this year’s Detonate Festival, two decades of promoting drum ‘n’ bass, as well as the highs and lows of running an event for thousands of punters...
5 Acts to Catch at Detonate Halloween
Sat 15 Oct 2016"If you've been lucky enough to bag yourself some tickets, here's some critical, bass-laced listening when you get down to Nottingham Racecourse"
Detonate Festival 2016
Mon 09 May 2016Chase & Status, Craig David's TS5, Stormzy, Friction, Redlight, DJ Koze, Mala (DMZ), Kahn & Neek, Big Narstie, The Elementz, and loads more
Live: Detonate Festival 2015
Mon 01 Jun 2015With Nas, Congo Natty, Kano, Youngsta, Shy FX, Skepta, Cause and Affect, many happy ravers, and more
Live: Detonate Festival 2015
Mon 01 Jun 2015With Nas, Congo Natty, Kano, Youngsta, Shy FX, Skepta, Cause and Affect, many happy ravers, and more
Arthur Century Later
Sun 25 Apr 2010ITV were supposed to remake Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 2008, but they chickened out. So what would a modern Arthur Seaton be like? We have a stab at it…
Detonate 26th June 2009
Wed 08 Jul 2009Goldie, Calibre, Sigma and Plastician all played epic sets at Detonate in June. Plastician for around 3hrs! Check the pics...
May Contain Notts: Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
Sun 01 Feb 2009Forest appoint a former Derby manager, Christmas school plays ge cancelled, Carl Froch wins the WBC belt and a guy from The Spectator gets the arse with Notts
LIVE: Detonate
Sat 31 Jan 2009Expensive drinks, messy people, Dubstep, drum and bass, drum and bass and yet more drum and bass
Crappest Jobs in Nottingham
Wed 31 Dec 2008Crap jobs in the City of Nottingham, 600AD - 2008AD: A Retrospective
May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2008
Mon 01 Dec 2008Clough statue unveiled, Vienna closes, Slanty N banished, police write to hooligans and the Dalai Lama pays Notts a visit
Hockley Hustle 2008
Tue 07 Oct 2008Photos from the 2008 Hockley Hustle festival, photos by Matt Dalton, Dom Henry and Tom Quigley (c).
May Contain Notts: Aug-Sept 2008
Wed 01 Oct 2008Robin Hood quits, Council buy Jaguars, Adlington wins gold medal, DG installs CCTV, 73-year-old jailed for concrete attack and Forest fans banned
Preview: Hockley Hustle 2008
Sun 28 Sept 2008LeftLion's top ten recommendations of bands and artists you should check out at Hockley Hustle 2008 (apart from those at our gig of course)...
May Contain Notts: June-July 2008
Sun 03 Aug 2008Kris Commons and Robert Earnshaw swap clubs, NTU unveil Parky as new Chancellor, Steve Green retires