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Gig Guide: September

Each month we will bring you an extensive look at whats happening in Nottingham. We start with September’s list of gigs, click on the artist name to go to their gigantic profile, and you can buy tickets by going to ‘Book Tickets’.

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Warehouse Project 2009

On the 25th September the Warehouse Project will return to its now (in)famous Store Street location in Manchester to bring you 14 weeks of what can only be described as one of the most superb showcase’s of electronic music imaginable.
Having quite rightfully being awarded best club of the year for two years running (Mixmag 2007, [...]

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Gig Preview: Twin Atlantic @ The Bodega Social Club, 20th September

A young four-piece whose ambitious debut mini-album, Vivarium, is packed with enormous sweeping riffs, moods that flit from light to shade, and impassioned vocals dripping with gorgeous Scottish vowels, Twin Atlantic are the latest sensation to emerge from one of the UK’s most happening places, Glasgow.
Billed by the likes of the Sun Newspaper as Scotland’s [...]

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Festival Preview: The Alternatives

Indie Tracks 24th – 26th July, Derbyshire.
Adult: £55
Combines heritage trains and indie pop music. Guests are free to enjoy steam train rides, farm and museum, and enjoy a range of new and established indie pop bands.
The Headliners: Teenage Fanclub, Camera Obscura, Art Brut, Au Revoise Simone, Emmy The Great
The Alternatives: The Manhatten Love Suicides, Alaska, [...]

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Festival Preview: The Big Events

This is a little guide to what bands are playing over the summer months split into The Headliners, Ones to Watch and the Best Alternative bands to go and see.
Leeds and Reading Fri 28th-Sun 30th August, Leeds and Reading.

Weekend Ticket + Camping: £175, Day Ticket: £70
The Big Names: Artic Monkeys, Radiohead, Kings Of Leon, Prodidgy, [...]

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Live Review: The Melvins @ Rescue Rooms, 2nd October 2009

Grunge (for want of a better label) pioneers the Melvins are raucous, but they have a wry twist to their anger - witness, tonight, the smile on King Buzzo’s face as they crack through most of latest two albums Nude With Boots and (A) Senile Animal, plus the obligatory career highlights of songs like ‘Boris’ [...]

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Health @ Chameleon Cafe

The Chameleon Cafe has recently played host to a number of alternative bands, ranging from the DIYness of Wavves to the revivalism of Crystal Stilts and the sheer craziness of Pulled Apart by Horses. Now it’s LA noise group HEALTH’s turn to plug in their amps. Before the set I cornered the guys from the [...]

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Interview: Animal Collective

Animal Collective’s sound floats around, from folky dream soundtracks to acid washed landscapes. After seven albums of the sounds of a myriad festivalgoers playing guitars, pots and pans under some distant sunset in perfect campfire harmony they’ve now unleashed Merriweather Post Pavilion upon our senses. We caught up with vocalist/instrumentalist Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) before [...]

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Introducing Ellen Mary McGee

Nottingham’s answer to Vashti Bunyan and Linda Peracs, Ellen Mary Mcgee is the fair maiden behind the hauntingly seductive debut album The Crescent Sun. Drawing on influences from traditional folk music and the kitchen sink realism of Alan Silitoe, Ellen Mary would often escape as a child from the council state she grew up on, [...]

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This Summer’s Best Festivals

Secret Garden Party
23rd-26th July, UK
It began in 2004 with a mere 1000 people in attendance and its organisers either naked or splashing about with the best of ‘em in the lake at daybreak. Since then the festival’s numbers have steadily increased and received the accolades by Radio 1, being named ‘Best British Festival’ in 2007. [...]