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Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations @ Nottingham Glee Club 25/1/12

Nottingham Glee Club is an odd venue for music. The venue is clearly more intended for comedy than it is for live music: the audience shuffles in very early due to the unreserved seating to be greeted by food menus and is usually shrouded in darkness for the…

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Sunday 15th January 2012

Album Review: The Maccabees – ‘Given to the Wild’

The album art inside ‘Given to the Wild’ shows a cairn, first surrounded by fire, then by scorched earth, and ultimately, by new growth. Whether it’s intended as a metaphor or not, the imagery is apt for the boys’ third album, which in itself seems to be a…

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Thursday 5th January 2012

Live Review: Ben Howard @ The Rescue Rooms 06/12/2011

There’s something deliciously charming about an artist who managed to chart at seven on the release of his debut album, ‘Every Kingdom’, remaining in awe of a crowd of three hundred people. The cheeky smile on Ben Howard’s face and his constant thanking of the audience for coming…

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Thursday 15th December 2011

Live Review: Ben Howard @ Rescue Rooms 6/12/11

Having already cancelled on Nottingham last year, when he was set to appear at the Dot to Dot festival, I was pretty disappointed when Ben Howard postponed his show at Bodega in October. It was rescheduled for 6th December with a venue change to the larger Rescue Rooms, again a bit…

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Thursday 15th December 2011

Def Leppard / Mötley Crüe (with Steel Panther) @ Capital FM Arena 8/12/11

Def Leppard are no strangers to joint-headline tours, working alongside Heart in their US summer tour, and Whitesnake in their 2008 UK tour, however this tour held particular appeal, as they joined up with their contemporary, US outfit, Mötley Crüe. This show was not for the faint-hearted as…

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Saturday 10th December 2011

Impact Introduces: You Cry Wolf & RedKites

You Cry Wolf After playing popular venues such as Rescue Rooms and Spanky van Dykes, You Cry Wolf are beginning to establish themselves as the ones to watch on the Nottingham music scene. The unsigned, Brighton-based 4 piece draws influences from all manner of the arts to create…

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Thursday 8th December 2011

Festivals Are Over.

You heard me right.  They’re over. No longer will we have that one time in the year where the sound of live music sends everyone nearby into a responsibility-free frenzy of moshing, mud, beer and really bad food. That is, according to the legendary creator of Glastonbury Michael…

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Wednesday 7th December 2011

University Sinfonia Orchestra @ The Great Hall 4/12/11

The evening began impressively with Brahms’s Tragic Overture, conducted by third year music student, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin. The orchestra played responsively to the energetic conducting (well, who wouldn’t when the conductor is standing on the podium impressively conducting 10 minutes of music from memory!) as Goodwin’s charismatic direction showed…

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Tuesday 6th December 2011

Re-Vinylised

“The music industry is dead!”, “Mp3’s have bled record labels dry!” and “record sales are at an all-time low!” are the outcries of cynics when talking about the music industry. The rise of the Internet, file-sharing and the iPod led many to believe that the music industry is…

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Monday 5th December 2011

Bryan Adams @ Capital FM Arena 29/11/11

The early evening of the 29th November could be considered a time when Nottingham decided to go a little bit berserk. I had been in the centre of the city for most of the afternoon trying to do a bit of my Christmas shopping. As I set about…

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