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Review: Easy Life’s Lunchtime Session and Signing at Rough Trade

Following their newest 'Junk Food' mixtape release, the Midlands group paid a visit to Notts one lazy Sunday afternoon for a...

Live Music Review: The Big Moon at Rough Trade

19 January 20

London’s kick-ass indie rockers The Big Moon were back in Nottingham to debut their sleeker, stripped back second album Walking Like We Do at an exclusive in-store gig at Rough Trade...

Interview: Bobby. on Diving in Deep and Learning to Swim

04 November 19

He might be a London lad but he’s got a lot of love for our city. We chat with Fabric resident and Pleasure Club head honcho Bobby. before The Waves bring him to Notts this November…

Review: DirtyFilthySexy Present 'Trick or Treat, Freak'

31 October 19

Our Caroline had such a good night she ended up going home half naked. Read on if you prefer to embrace yer freaky side on Halloween…

Live Music Review: Kinkajous at Rough Trade

26 June 19

Local label Running Circle have just released a mega new album, so invited the band who made it to play in Notts...

Soul Buggin’ is Throwing A Family Bash To Help Stonebridge City Farm

22 June 19

Bring yer kids and yer grans and groove for a good cause….

14 Unmissable Acts at This Year's Dot To Dot Festival

19 May 19

With almost 30 venues and over 100 acts set to grace stages across Notts at this year's Dot To Dot Festival, we’re here to help you avoid the inevitable set-clash heartache and venue-hopping sweat. Here’s who we’re champing at the bit to see...

Live Music Review: Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes at Rough Trade

06 May 19

We got down to Rough Trade to experience the frenzy that has made in-store sets by punk powerhouse Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes infamous...

4 Ways To Spend Record Store Day in Nottingham

13 April 19

Get your nimble fingers at the ready...

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…

Rock With a Western Twist: Red Rum Club

17 March 19

Our Tina Sherwood spoke with the band before they take over Rough Trade this March.

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…

Live Music Review: TOY at Rough Trade Nottingham

03 February 19

We love a Rough Trade live + signing gig, so we got down there for TOY...

Live Review: Black Honey at Rough Trade

29 September 18

To celebrate the release of their eponymous debut album Black Honey are at Rough Trade. What else were we going to be doing on a Thursday night?

Record Store Day 2018 at Rough Trade

22 April 18

Following the scrum for all of the limited edition Record Store Day vinyl, it was time for some free music upstairs at Rough Trade. We popped down to hear what they had on offer.

Nottingham Record Stores are Celebrating Record Store Day 2018

19 April 18

Forever Records, Rough Trade and Plates Records are all taking part this year...

Live Music Review: Cabbage at Rough Trade

13 April 18

On Easter Sunday most people are hunting for eggs. We went hunting for Cabbage instead

Live Music Review: Sounds Against Slavery 2 at Rough Trade

19 March 18

Rough Trade was humming for a night of live music in aid of Anti-Slavery International, organised by the University of Nottingham’s Anti-Slavery Society in partnership with Impact Magazine...

Live Music Review: Scarlet at Rough Trade

24 February 18

Local duo You Want Fox organised a free gig at Rough Trade featuring Queen Mantis and Scarlet. We headed down to check it out...

Live Music Review: The Orielles at Rough Trade

23 February 18

The Orielles appeared at Rough Trade in Nottingham in front of a select audience on the day that their debut album, Silver Dollar Moment, comes out...

Live Music Review: Blast Off! Festival Day One at Rough Trade

10 November 17

The four day Blast Off Festival started on Thursday at Rough Trade, bringing garage-rock bands from all over the world. Our Gav went to check out Leadfoot Tea, Kings Of Hong Kong and The Hipshakes...

The Raincoats 33 1/3 Book Launch at Rough Trade

25 October 17

Rough Trade hosts the launch of the 33 1/3 book on the eponymous debut album by The Raincoats. Author Jenn Pelly was joined by band members Ana da Silva and Gina Birch and friend of the band Shirley O'Loughlin who was at Rough Trade when they released the album...

Live Music Review: Diet Cig at Rough Trade

23 October 17

Fanclub present another of their excellent nights at Rough Trade as they stage a gig featuring Diet Cig and Spook School...

Live Music Review: Public Service Broadcasting at Rough Trade

12 July 17

Where do you go after an album about the space race? If you're Public Service Broadcasting, the obvious answer is recording an album about the coal mining in the Welsh valleys. The band come to Rough Trade to host an album launch party for new LP Every Valley.

We headed down to Rough Trade for Record Store Day 2017

06 May 17

Started as a way of revitalising the sales of independent record shops, as it celebrates its tenth anniversary some people think it's kind of lost its way. We checked out this year's festivities...

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