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Gig review: Badly Drawn Boy in conversation and song at Metronome

Bama Lama Sing Song

Notts folk rockers Connexion Man talk songwriting and shared history

Connexion Man are a relatively fresh name on the Nottingham circuit, but their roots in the city still run deep. Built on long standing friendships, shared history and a renewed love for their home’s music community, the group are reconnecting with the scene that first shaped them. Ahead of a debut record and gig at The Grove, the band talk about returning to Notts and their evolving sound. 

Black Spiders Sons Of The North Anniversary Shows

Gig review: Mumford and Sons at Rock City

Downsizing from their usual arena shows, Mumford and Sons treated an afternoon crowd at Rock City to a snapshot insight into their new album, Prize Fighter...

Ben Martin Quartet Presents Full Gas [ the Great American Songbook]

Bama Lama Sing Song

Queer East: a Sword, a Spectre, a Song

Jim Jefferies: Son of a Carpenter

Michael Brunström Sings Ten Songs About Moths @ Wormhole Weekend

Bastille | Songs From the First 15 Years

Songbird: a Celebration Of Eva Cassidy

Ben Martin Quartet Presents Full Gas [the Great American Songbook]

Spanish Love Songs

Steptoe & Son - Live!

We chat to Sonya Madan of Echobelly about touring, enduring friendships and the state of the nation

Bama Lama Sing Song

Feeling supersonic: how Sonic Boom Festival is boosting the arts in Burton-on-Trent

Sonic Boom Festival might only be in its second year, but it’s already made a mighty bang in the nearby Burton-on-Trent — and if founders and organisers Chris Baldwin and Andi Jepson have anything to do with it, the aftershocks are just getting started.

Theatre Interview: Dan Lewis

Steptoe and Son ride again at the Nottingham Arts Theatre. Actor Dan Lewis shares his trip on the rag and bone cart as the curmudgeonly Albert... 

Nature's song: artist and academic Caroline Locke on her work with Sherwood Forest's Major Oak

Artist and Derby Uni’s Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, Caroline Locke is known throughout the country for her imaginative work with sculpture, light, and sound. Six of her creations are currently featured in FOREST: an ongoing exhibition at Nottingham Castle - in light of that she told us more about how forests ( particularly Sherwood Forest and the Major Oak) have become a central part of her art practice in recent years. 

Free Teacher Cpd Session - Sonic Memories: Exploring Sound and Ways Of Listening

Qawwal Najmuddin Saifuddin & Brothers Songs Of the Mystics Traditional Sufi Qawwali

Gig Review: George Murphy & The Rising Sons at Greyfriars Club

The Craic was good in Thorneywood on Saturday evening as George Murphy and the Rising Sons made a return visit to Nottingham's ever popular Irish club on Gordon Road...

Sorry I Hurt Your Son (said My Ex to My Mum)

We speak to Alabama 3 about nicknames, The Sopranos theme song, and keeping it very real

Our writer Ria was thrilled - and a little nervous - to speak with Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg following the band's triumphant Rescue Rooms show. But nerves were quickly put aside as the conversation turned to nicknames, storytelling and The Sopranos...