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Live Music Review: Sundara Karma at Rock City

Last week saw ambitious indie quartet Sundara Karma in town for a Rock City double bill…

Live Music Review: The Zutons at Rock City

I’ma goin’ out, sick of stayin’ in, off to see The Zutons at Rock City. Go ’ed don’t be a divvy it’ll be a sound gig. And don’t swerve the support acts either soft lad.

Splendour 2019: Ones to Watch

03 April 19

Last week the brilliant boggers behind Splendour announced the full-line up for this year’s Wollo Park summer festival. Here are the acts our Music Editors will be jostling their way to the front to see…

Live Music Review: The Last Poets at Peggy's Skylight

02 April 19

Silent listening mixed with reverence. A collective performance between audience and performers; The Last Poets enchanted the crowd at Peggy's Skylight recently...

Live Music Review: Group Listening at Metronome

27 March 19

Group Listening, the collaborative name of Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) and experimental musician Paul Jones, have produced an album of ambient classics, reworked and reinterpreted for clarinet and piano. They stopped off at Metronome on their latest tour to give this Notts crowd quite a treat…

Live Music Review: Red Rum Club at Rough Trade

24 March 19

Red Rum Club blew our Tina Sherwood’s socks off at their sell-out Rough Trade gig…

Live Music Review: Soft Girls & Boys Club at The Bodega

24 March 19

Local lads Soft Girls & Boys Club launched their EP in epic fashion at The Bodega this weekend...

Soundin' Off: The Last Poets come to Peggy's Skylight

24 March 19

The Last Poets were the first wordsmiths that preceded hip-hop. Our Will had a fascinating chat with original Poets member Abiodun Oyewole ahead of their performance at Peggy's Skylight on 27 March.

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

23 March 19

Featuring The Five Hundred, Shxdow, Dog Explosion, Garry Perkins and Pete Beardsworth...

Live Music Review: dodie at Rock City

22 March 19

Singer-songwriter dodie brought smiles, tears and excitement to Rock City this week...

Live Music Review: Deaf Havana at Rock City

21 March 19

Taking to the Rock City, four-piece Deaf Havana further established their place in mainstream music with an impressive performance...

Live Music Review: Blue Planet II Live in Concert at Motorpoint Arena

20 March 19

Blue Planet II Live in Concert offered the opportunity for viewers to see some spectacular scenes from the show accompanied by a full orchestra and choir...

Live Music Review: Self Esteem at The Bodega

16 March 19

The people flocked down to The Bodega last week for Self Esteem's inaugural tour. Here's what our Emily reckoned..

Live Music Review: James at Royal Concert Hall

13 March 19

We got our glad rags on and hot footed down to the Concert Hall for Manchester alt rock icons James…

Perennial Punks The Stranglers return to Notts

10 March 19

Since their early days as seventies punk rock rabble-rousers, The Stranglers have been mainstays of the British music scene. Now over 45 years on, the lads are still finding the time to hit the road and make music. Back in Nottingham for their latest UK tour this month, we sent our man LP Mills for a chat with guitarist and frontman Baz Warne, to find out what these perennial punks have been up to.

Live Music Photos: BBC Introducing at Metronome

09 March 19

Live Music Review: LANY at Rock City

07 March 19

Our Sam got down to Rock City for a night of serious dream pop from LANY. We hear there were even rose petals...

Don Letts at Metronome: “We need punk ethics now more than ever”

04 March 19

If you’ve never had the good fortune of spending an hour or two in the company of filmmaker, DJ and all-round legend Don Letts, listen up: it’s serious medicine. We caught him at Metronome this weekend for a screening of his latest film and a Q&A with Ali Emm…

Live Music Review: Queen Zee at The Bodega

27 February 19

Friday nights were made for dancing, so we got down to The Bodega for genre-defying powerhouse Queen Zee...

Self Esteem is bursting onto the scene with personal songwriting and a big live show

25 February 19

Relatability is having a moment. But artist and musician Rebecca Taylor doesn’t even need to try. Going under the name of Self Esteem and with her debut album Compliments Please out on in March, we caught up with Rebecca to talk touring, Instagram and Kanye…