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LeftLion Magazine Issue 3 Nottingham has always been a city with a February 2005 04 Local News For Local People thriving underground culture. In terms of Art there are many reasons to believe we are on the 05 Nottingham Set For New Arts Centre up. Plans for a brand new gallery in the Lace Editor Market have whet the appetite of many and the Jared Wilson 06 Popx interview number of arts students in residence here will always encourage a natural progression for the Sub Editors 07 Dilk interview local scene. Alan Gilby Timmy Bates 08 Toby Kebbell interview In this issue we look at the plans for a new city Nathan Miller gallery (to be opened in 2008) and speak to artists 09 Lo-Ego interview Dilk and Popx, two veterans of Nottingham’s Distribution thriving underground graffiti art scene. We’d also Breakin’ Media 10 Scorzayzee interview like to say thanks to Coverage and Small Kid for organizing this month’s cover. Design 12 Miles Hunt [email protected] Jump Nottingham In terms of film, the city has excelled itself 14 in recent years, with Shane Meadows and Photographers Chris Cooke, both succeeding whilst refusing Ben Cipher 16-24 Events listings to compromise their style. There are some Cat Edgar Crossword interesting products from this approach, as David Bowen 25 Nottingham actors with whom they work flourish Dom Henry 26 RockyRocky HorHorrorscopesrorscopes and Bones’ FFunun Cave on an internationalinternational stage. In this issue we speak Joe Ryder to TTobyoby KebbellKebbell about his next steps afafterter Dead Mans Shoes, working with WWoodyoody Allen and Contributors Oliver Stone. Al Needham Bones Just afafterter this issue is released,released, the DropDrop In The Claire Foss Ocean music festival will be taking place (Sunday Dan Gardner 30th January),January), featuring hundrhundredseds of the cities Guy Gooberman musicians uniting to raise funds for the TsunamiTsunami Jennie Syson appeal. It promisespromises to be a showcase of local Jem Shaw musical talent and a greatgreat rreasoneason for people to Miles Hunt work together for a good cause! Get yourself Roger Mean down therethere and check out the coverage of it Tom Cowdrey afterwardsafterwards on the LeftLionLeftLion website.

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8,000 copies distributed in the city of Nottingham 4 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 Nottingham Voices things people have said local news for on the leftlion forum local people Bad Television Adverts with Guy Gooberman our correspondent in London

“The best thing about the Ocean Finance ad is when one Please note that Guy Gooberman is a fictional character of the vegetables they interview mentions the fact that and therefore only as real as the news he writes they use ‘normal people’ in their ads as a reason to buy for more painful laughs visit www.lunch-break.co.uk the financial shit they sell.” Fossy

“Every second ad on any of the music channels is a ringtone ad and they play a sample of them… all sodding ten. You know what the really scary thing is? These ads cost a lot to put on telly, so there must be millions of The Carlton Martyrs people wasting their money on this.” st El Chupacabra 21 February will mark an emotional time for one group of Carlton residents who, back in 1954, fought a pitched battle with the Gedling “Anything with Jamie Oliver. Walking into supermarkets militia in an effort to get the local language, Carltonian, recognised and snapping leeks in half. Who the hell does he think as a vernacular of business and local government. They lost the war he is? And that one where the pockets talk to each other. and many lost their lives in the massacre that followed to show how Might be the phones talking to each other, not sure but lexicon uprisings are dealt with. Since then the surviving linguistic it’s crap.” warriors have been known as the Carlton Martyrs, think of them this st Theonelikethe February 21 and weep.

“Nope, it really is pockets talking to each other. I can’t believe someone’s getting paid actual money to design that.” El Chupacabra Progressive Mentalism Nottingham is famous for being a place where no good bands ever “What about the adverts with the windows for sale come from but that’s all about to end when the record buying public where it’s either Cannon and Ball or him out of Corro or hear the latest sensation straight out of Beeston Rylands called ‘Das that fat man that looks like the love child of meatloaf and Ass’. Lead singer and sheet metal banger Postmodern Frank explained a pirate?” their style thus: “It’s hardcore straight-edge jazz integrated with Pan- Harwill Tuesday American spoken word mayhem, plus a dollop of Ethnic drum blues, some Maths Rock and a nod towards Jefferson Starship.” New single

‘This is a Middle Eight’ will be out this month followed swiftly by their New Arts Centre debut album ‘I Am War’.

Oh my god I can’t believe it, this is brilliant news. I don’t much care where they put it as long as we get one. Having spent a lot of time in the West Midlands I can’t tell you how inferior the East Midlands’ cities are in this respect. Fossy Care In The Community As an actor I second the need for a small scale theatre space in Notts. West Bridgford residents are Gooberman up in arms about the increase in people with severe mental I’m all for this thing anyway, it’s about time we got health issues roaming their something like this, it’ll certainly increase my interest in pristine, bourgeois boulevards. arts and crafts. I might even take up knitting you never Local Daily Mail reader Ginger know. Stack had this to say through Alan a megaphone made out of the I Love You, stem cells of crows: “These kind of people belong in the Meadows The best Evening Post News story ever… and are not welcome here. What do you expect us to do? Not judge Old Withered Hag “Sherwood housewives pretend to be Filipina mail order them and offer them support, bride sex phoneline harlots. Why wasn’t I told about this? care and understanding and I can think of no better way to spend £1 than to hear some perhaps a few hours of our time woman say “Sookeh-Fookeh twenteh paand” or “Me love by volunteering? Outrageos!” yo’ long fookin’ tahm, me duck” down the phone.” Guy Gooberman expects the rich Lord of the Nish people to get their way.

“Haven’t bought the post for a couple of days and was on this like a shot. Asda hardly had any left! The best front page headline ever. ‘Ey Up Mi Duck...This Is A Filipina Sex Line. Beats the one the other day ‘Police Raid Wrong House’. Gotta love the Post...” Pancake Consumes Child With the card buying consumerist Fossy façade for love declarations No you idiots! Not a mixture approaching like an unavoidable car of flour and egg and whatnot “I loved this bit: “The staff also had crib sheets of crash, one local man has made his eaten by us with a squeeze of information about the Philippines.” Because you never feelings clear for the last remaining lemon and a light sprinkling of know when some sad bastard on the phone is going to witch in Nottinghamshire. Mr You Will sugar (or syrup and chocolate stop mashing his genitals for a bit and suddenly say “Hey! Know Us By The Trail Of Dead has spread if you’re a suet ridden What’s the average rainfall in the Zamboanga peninsula?” fallen head over heels in love with lard arse), how an earth could Lord of the Nish the old withered hag that lives in the that gobble a juvenile? No, bushes behind the football pitch that Pancake is the pseudo-cute belongs to FC Dynamo Stapleford name of a mysterious urban and she just happens to be the last wolf that prowls the streets of Old Basford praying on innocent lady who practices black magic in the make your voice heard children and ripping them to pieces with its massive fangs. county. The lovely pair hope to marry Rumours of it being Kenneth Clarke in a lion suit have been denied in the summer. www.leftlion.co.uk/forum by everyone involved but you make up your own mind… www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 5

Nottingham Set For New Arts Centre There has been much speculation about plans for a new contemporary art centre and performance space in Nottingham’s fastest growing cultural quarter, The Lace Market. words: Jennie Syson Expanding upon the successful exhibition which will take place conversion of the old factory in venues throughout the city. buildings on Stoney Street, which have in recent years This central space will provide become a base for art and a hub for contemporary art design students at New in the city. It is, in some College, the new art centre respects, a pity some spaces looks set to become a will close, but if the City suitable near-neighbour to Council and Arts Council organisations such as Preset England are to back the Studios (home of Dance4) as project fully (and financially) well as The Broadway cinema it is necessary that some and media centre. With this sacrifices have to be made. in mind, many people are asking, do we really need If one takes a look around the more arty spaces in the city country there are galleries centre, especially when it being erected left right will take away one of the last and centre, each of them green areas in the cities urban being hailed as the answer landscape? to presenting art in ‘the provinces’. (I really hate that Nottingham has a long term.) Some might argue that standing reputation of there isn’t always enough excellence when it comes to local interest in the arts to visual and live art. Nottingham merit such high-falutin’ lottery Trent University has, in the grants. In some respects this past, spawned great artists is true. For example, The such as Mat Collishaw and New Art Gallery in Walsall David Batchelor. In recent has not had the attendance years, they have been forging it hoped for and is still the way with its (now sadly lumbered with a permanent missed) Contemporary Art BA. collection (the Garman Ryan Collection) as a hangover The city is home to the Now from the organisations’ days and You Are Here festivals, as residing in a local library. well as two major galleries: The collection itself is a great Angel Row and Bonington. one, but the Jacob Epstein Both venues are respected heads sit uneasily with the nationally and internationally, bin-bags cast in lead by Gavin the former presenting a Turk. Nottingham already high profile programme of has an adequate space for exhibitions including artists historical art works, in the such as Christian Marclay form of The Castle Museum and Jessica Voorsanger and Art Gallery. This will not (Air Guitar). The latter also be amalgamated into the new be complementary to the £13m is indeed a lot of money, in Lincoln and perhaps S1 provides the essential role of building, but provide a more surroundings. but I sincerely believe it will Artspace in Sheffield. There fostering new ‘home grown’ traditional alternative. be worth it. Plans for this art are also plans afoot to create talent in the form of the Peter St John says ‘We have centre are a long time coming, an art centre in Derby called Forward Thinking Fellows: The gallery in Walsall (pictured sought to reinforce the whispers were heard about it ‘Quad’. Sam Rose, Annette Foster and above right) is, however, buildings on the cliff. The as long ago as 1995. Kerryn Wise. an iconic one. Designed by proposal uses the full extent Building in the Lace Market is award winning Caruso St of the site with one major I think if Nottingham wants to set to start in summer 2006, Soon, Nottingham will host John, the gallery is laid out floor at the level of High hold its head up and present with the centre opening its the British Art Show 6, an intelligently. The Nottingham Pavement and the other at its ‘legendary style’ to the doors to an expected half a internationally acclaimed venue on Garners Hill is the level of the old railway world, then it has to take million visitors a year from touring exhibition, which also being designed by this viaduct. By developing the site its cultural venues seriously. early 2008. The organisation has previously saluted the cutting edge architectural horizontally, the line of the cliff It is a little bit like keeping will employ around 200 staff. work of Tracey Emin, Liam practice. It will take the is reinforced and the main, up with the Jones’s, who All things considered, a bonus Gillick and Michael Landy. I form of a ‘slice’ into the low slung body of the building in this instance might take for the city. have also heard of plans to cliffs opposite the Weekday provides a foreground for the form of the Ikon Gallery host a comprehensive fringe Cross. It’s encouraging to the higher buildings at High in Birmingham, the ‘new, more on Nottingham arts... to accompany the main hear that the plans are to Pavement and beyond.’ improved’ Usher Gallery www.leftlion.co.uk/galleries 6 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3

Popx words: jared wilson photos: dom henry

gifts out of thin air. I believe why the person chose that, talk about the possibility of it’s based on ‘whatever you rather than anything else. Of life throughout the universe get in life, you earn it’. You all the various forms in the because to me everything is reap what you sow. I believe universe, someone has chosen alive. Everything is vibrating through hard work in past to look at that and put it energy. This talk of life on lives I gained the skill to be forward to be viewed. I always mars… to me mars is life.” able to copy a picture of what find it interesting. In that I see onto a page or whatever sense I’m always interested So you believe in life on and to do it well.” to see what kind of graffiti other planets..? develops and what messages ”Then there’s genetics. I they bring forward.” “I truly believe that there are inherited my Dads artistic humans throughout space. I genes. He’s quite a good artist ”There was a time when I don’t believe that earth is the as well. He used to sketch and didn’t even want to know only place with humanoids, paint. The other thing is the anyone if they weren’t a you know, two legs, two arms, environment. In this life there graffiti artist…unless they were upright head, you know what are things that influence me. a girl. I’m not proud of my I mean? From my own studies When I was fifteen I got into mentality when I was a graffiti I’ve come to believe that they graffiti. I saw the documentary writer, I’ve moved on so much live on higher frequencies ‘Style wars’ and that same since then. I can understand usually. So we can’t see them, night I designed my first New it, because I experienced but if they want to be seen, as York style piece. After that it. I’m still interested in my they often do, like thousands I became a graffiti artist for old heroes, like ‘Seen’ and of people have reported seeing seven years. My first piece ‘Artful Dodger’. He was a big UFO’s, they just slow their was a ‘Richie’ piece, then I did influence for me in Nottingham vibration down to our vibration an ‘Outlaw’ piece, then I did because I remember just and become visible to us. a ‘Popsi’ piece. From that I before I started doing graf he They can then speed it back Popx pictured next to Stop Wars; and MAturing friendliness piece. became known as Popx.” had his ‘Weetabix’ billboards up again and become invisible up and then he had his tag on and that’s how they do it. If you wander through The piece was by Nottingham’s “Before that I was a mod. the bus that I was sitting on Apparently some ‘crop circles’ Hockley on a Saturday own Popx (pronounced I was only about 14 but I and it just blew my mind. He are made by them, although afternoon there are many Pops), aka 34 year old used to follow the big mods was definitely the first major some are obviously faked.” wonderful sights to make Richard Baker. He first grew around and look for fights and local influence.” you stop and think. Funky to prominence as one of an that. That was our culture “Because of that I paint shops, cool cafes and emerging group of Nottingham at the time. We just wanted stars a lot, because of the interesting people surround graffiti writers in the late to be like the people in Tell us about another inspiration to share that the area making it one of eighties. These days he’s an Quadrophenia or something.” piece of yours, Maturing possibility or idea, which to the essential places to hang exhibitor at Pete Spowage’s Friendliness… me is a definite because I’ve out in hood town. Gallery on Bridlesmithgate in really looked into it. While I Nottingham. I caught up with What do you think to ”I meditated on all the things was in New Zealand I checked As you walk up Pelham Street, him for a chat about street art the current Notts graffiti I could have called it, out of out www.ufoevidence.org from Sneinton, there is a and UFO’s… scene..? all the things you can name it’s got loads of photos of a particularly unmissable piece anything, you know, ‘what variety of types of UFO’s in the of street art that shouts out How did you first start out ”I don’t pay it very much is the most useful thing I sky… and I’ve seen one myself at you, making you stop and as an artist? attention at all these days. I can call this’. It’s a scene as well.” think for a moment. Fusing know some of the guys who of an actual star system the sci-fi legacy of George ”There are three ways that still do it. I’m only interested nicknamed the seven sisters, Lucas with the modern day I look into ‘how I got into it’. in graf as part of art in called the Pleiades. The face Read more from Popx about culture of terror, its message One is past lives. I believe general. I’ll look at a piece of is a woman that represents energy, aliens and stopping is simple. It says ‘Stop Wars’. that you don’t get given these art, whatever it is and wonder mankind really. I’m trying to wars at www.leftlion.co.uk www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 7

How would you describe You must have some good You must come across you style? they stories… different new and talented were doing. artists every day… “It changes a lot from week I just got hooked on “I’ve had some experiences, to week. One week I’m into it really. It’s just another especially in New York, but “There’s quite a few lads that this style or I’m infl uenced art form, it’s no real big deal, not necessarily all things I come into the shop that work by this or like this colour or it’s just about being creative. want to say in print! One for the Council and they’re even brand of paint, the next To me it doesn’t seem that cool story was when I got doing a lot of good work. go week it’s different. I paint radical or crazy, it’s just invited to paint at this contest They are very active, working to quite freely, technically I’m adding colour.” in Tijuana. There were 157 with young people, running a Japan, quite tight. I’ve been doing people painting on wasteland. lot of workshops and actually back to it for a long time so I know Tell us a bit about your It was amazing to be involved making a living from it. I tend Brazil and to how to use paint, but now I shop Coverage… in something like that. I to look further afi eld than Auckland.” let it be a bit more free and was the only English artist just Nottingham for artists paint with a lot drips but also “We’ve been going for 3 and everyone who painted though, not that I’m turning When you go away do you within the letters. I allow years. We sell paint, ink, had to give the Mexican my back on the city, but a lot hook up with other graffi ti some neatness to show the and general art supplies and government $5. This all went of my inspiration and contacts crews? technique, instead of letting it specialist t-shirts that you towards cleaning off tags, so are from all over Europe, all be messy.” can’t get everywhere, I only the Mexican government did especially Holland.” “I’ve got a lot of friends in order a few of each design so something good that day for Europe so I hook up with How did you originally get not everyone has one.” the name of graffi ti.” Are you feeling any more friends there but when I into graffi ti? traditional art? go further afi eld it’s more a You’ve done a lot of painting Tell us about some of the case of going into art shops, “I’ve always been creative and around Nottingham, but also workshops you run… “I’ve visited a lot of galleries talking to people and asking enjoyed drawing. I was into abroad as well. What other and I appreciate that kind of who’s painting and where the breakdancing and Beat Street countries have you painted in? “I’ve done a lot of work art but it doesn’t really give spots are. I generally make and Wild Style and at school in schools and with young me the buzz of say, going to friends like that. I’ve been there were a lot of older kids “Brazil, New Zealand, offenders. I’ve taken GCSE Art Paris and fi nding the “Hall of painting for a lot of years and painting. With me being into Australia, Thailand, all over classes on graffi ti which have Fame”, a legal painting site, my portfolio is pretty on top art anyway, I was fascinated the US, Mexico and all over always been really positive. and being breathtaken by of the game, so it’s quite easy with that side of art and what Europe. I’ve got plans for The kids are really interested the masterpieces you see. to hook up with people.” later this year too, I want to in it. They’ve loved it, turning Or going to Brazil where up early for lessons, staying it’s a lot more relaxed and afterwards and really working they’re free to paint and just hard. For the teachers this walking around and seeing has sometimes been a shock amazing artwork everywhere. because it can be quite I can’t get that from classical diffi cult to get these kids paintings in galleries, I can interested in things! I also did walk around thinking “that’s something for the Big Wheel, ok” but for me it just doesn’t Nottingham City Transport; do it in quite the same way.” I painted a car for them live in the Market Square on a Saturday. It was based on Read our interview with the theme of cars causing another local artist, Smallkid, at Detail of one of Dilk’s works plus Coverage shop interior pollution.” www.leftlion.co.uk/smallkid 8 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 Dead Man Walking Nottingham actor Toby Kebbell has got a lot to be proud of. His first major part, as Anthony in Shane Meadow’s influential Dead Man’s Shoes earned him a Most Promising Newcomer nomination in the British Independent Film Awards. Since then he’s landed parts in Oliver Stone’s Alexander and Woody Allen’s latest project. He writes books and plays and on the side is studying plumbing. And ladies and gentlemen, he’s still just 22 years young. words: Claire Foss

You’re in Alexander and you money and to keep writing. I get to kill Val Kilmer. That write all sorts. You can’t just must have been great fun… draw one string on your bow, you’ve got to have shit to fall “Yeah I murder him. If you back on. I don’t know where were to meet Val I’m sure you’d acting’s going to take me. I enjoy beating him up too. He’s spend a lot of my time doing got a massive façade of who voiceovers too. I just had a he is. Well… he’s a lovely guy. a low-budget American film Originally it started out as this offered to me but the funding big elaborate role where he and fell out of it.” I had big speeches just before I kill him, but they cut my lines Do you think Nottingham is and so I went in there and just lacking anything in terms of stabbed him to death and spat drama? in his face.” I don’t think it’s lacking too I hear you’re doing a film much. I think if your passion’s with Woody Allen, how’s there you’ll do what you want that going? to do anyway. People need to look around, and instead “Yes, I’ve already done that. At of moaning that you can’t the moment it’s called Match get cameras, just borrow a Point. It’s about a tennis player. handicam or whatever. I think I’m a policeman involved in a what people of our generation murder inquiry but you’ll have have got to understand is that to double-check your sources as it’s alright to make a couple of I may have just been sued for mistakes because you’ll learn a billion pounds. It’s not a key from them. It’s about growing role and it might even be cut. as a person rather than just But you know, to be 22 years having everything you need old and to have my first three straight away. If you’ve got directors be Shane Meadows, fuck all to do, educate yourself. Oliver Stone and Woody Allen I think Nottingham’s got plenty is not bad.” to offer, you’ve just got to go and look. I think I could do the You got your part in Dead acting side of my job 100% Man’s Shoes just a week from my home in Nottingham. before filming. What’s the The reason I had to move to story behind that? London was the voiceovers, because I’m on call at an “Shane had an actor already hour’s notice. I don’t want to, for the part of Anthony who, for it’s stupidly expensive here! his own reasons, couldn’t do it. So his missus Louise called me, Have you ever met anyone I popped down to their cottage at the left lion? in Matlock and he gave me the script. I thought it was brilliant! “Of course I have met someone Also, it was a Shane Meadows at the left lion! That’s where film and I’d fallen in love with you always link up! Do you A Room for Romeo Brass which know what I’ve been out of had Paddy (Considine) in it, Nottingham two years and who I knew would be playing I’ve already forgotten about my brother, so I thought it was the left lion! Have I ever met a great opportunity.” anybody there? Have I ever man, I don’t think I’ve got think that whatever you get award went to Ashley Walters, not met anybody at the left the face of a leading man and you want to make the best aka Asher D, for Bullet Boy). “It was two days later that we I don’t think ever in my life, of, that’s the way I’ve been lion is a better question! Did I started filming and I was on just sound cheesy saying that? someone will cast me in the brought up.” What are your plans for this standby until the last four days Well fuck it, it’s true, if I sound role of a leading man.” year? when I did all my work. In the The film got you a Best cheesy then I am, that’s life. end, Shane put in every scene I Everyone you link up with on You might be eating those Newcomer nomination in “I’m getting into plumbing. did and it ended up being a lead a Saturday night, you meet at words one day. the British Independent You’re at the mercy of role. Thankfully for me, people the left lion.” Film Awards… tradesmen unless you have have been impressed. Which is “You can never say never some basic knowledge. So I nice, especially alongside such but it’s something I don’t see “That’s right yeah. I lost out to want to educate myself in the good actors. I’m not a leading happening for me. I always one of the So Solid Crew.” (The little things that will save me www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 9

Lo-Ego have created quite a buzz recently. Considered to be one of the best and most exciting live acts to come out of Nottingham in recent years, they’ve been highly praised for their captivating, epic indie-prog- rock sound. Could they signify the end of the city’s prolonged period of musical (commercial) underachievement? I met front man Martin Collins for a pint and a chat about tunes, tastes and LeftLion presents… Words: Jem Shaw Photos: Cat Edgar

2004 was a busy year for Nine tracks in a week, and we Razorlight or Slush Patrol. You don’t plan to Shortly after this goes you. Your new material messed them about so much, We won’t make middle of the compromise your sound in to print you’re playing at was very well received but ‘cause we’re never satisfi ed! road music. Music has always order to sell records, then? Rock City for the Drop in the gigging ceased around interested us and we want our the Ocean festival. This September. What’s the I saw a lot of copies sold music to be interesting. We When you look at bands that must be your biggest gig to band been up to? at your gig at the Rescue know this may mean we’re have succeeded and sold date? rooms a few weeks not everyone’s cup of tea but, records, the crap bands have Well, we stopped gigging to back, so your live show’s well, we’re genuine, basically. to defend themselves for Yeah, defi nitely. We’re record an album, I mean a grabbing people’s attention being bland, whereas the good playing upstairs, which is just mini album, I mean, well, EP and generating interest. Are you a musical snob? ones don’t have to defend amazing, alongside some isn’t fair. Its an ‘alb’, really! If You were a well-liked band Would you describe themselves to anyone, even if fantastic bands. It’s just it was a very long album we’d with your old material, but yourself, or your music, as they only sell a tenth of what going to be an amazing day in call it an albumen… you decided to get rid of it anti-pop? the crap bands do. We’ll be Nottingham, really, its such a all. That’s pretty brave isn’t a good band. And that’s my big event and we’re honoured You’re not signed yet. Is it? Absolutely not! What I don’t excuse for crap record sales to be part of it. this ‘alb’ a step toward that like is music written as if made well in advance! elusive deal? That’s why we had to record it were done so according Then, let’s not forget, something in a studio and to a simple formula, which Whether you manage LeftLion Presents at the We had to do it because of have it mixed and mastered maximises potential record to sell tons of albums in Malt Cross on Friday 25th the music we’re playing, I as a complete album, to show sales, with no real feeling or the future or not, there’s February. Lo-Ego and think. We really want people how serious and passionate genuine message attached no denying you’ve got friends are taking over for to listen to it. If they only we are about this music. to it. I love music and I don’t quite a following here in the evening, I understand? here it once, live, it might Our old stuff was really just limit my listening to certain Nottingham. sound a little spasmodic, but music written to play live, so genres. I guess when I say Oh, It’s going to be great fun! if you listen again and kind if people took it home and certain bands are dull, fans Yeah, there’s a great bunch There’ll be live DJ sets from of ‘get’ the changes it starts played it they’d just kind of of those bands would tell me of people who seem to keep us, Amusement Parks on Fire to make more sense. So we say “yeah, that’s alright”, that the bands I listen to are coming to see us again and a couple of other guests, went to Pristine Studios, met but its magnolia music. The boring or depressing. There’s and again. It’s nice when then we’ll be playing live later Paul Yeadon (ex Bivouac) and songs Ste’s written now are no snobbery, its just taste. Or people see that you’re doing on in the evening. It’ll be cool! Johnny Carter (ex Pitchshifter) so much better, so much more good taste! something a bit different and and they produced the CD for interesting. You know, we show they appreciate it. us. They did a fantastic job. don’t want to be like Keane, www.lo-ego.com 10 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3

Over the last year Nottingham rapper Scorzayzee (aka 24 year old Dean Palinczuk) has become one of the most talked about lyricists in the UK. He started out as a member of Big Trev’s Nottingham hiphop supergroup Outdaville. Since then he has made tunes with the likes of Cappo, Styly Cee and Joe Buddha as well as national heads like Estelle and Skinnyman. words: Jared Wilson photos: Joe Ryder

Last year he recorded what You’ve retired from ”I’m not really a believer o’clock. I finished writing it at Tell us about the old days many believe to be his rapping. What were your in evolution and the theory about 7.30am and it was fresh in OutDaVille when you masterpiece ‘Great Britain’. reasons for doing this? that we evolved from cells in my head. I spent the whole were rapping alongside Lee This was an anti-establishment and cell multiplication. We night on it and laid it down the Ramsay, Cmone, Tempa rant against the Queen, Tony ”It’s lots of different reasons are intelligent beings and next morning in two takes. and the rest… what are Blair, the BNP, Freemasons and really. One of the reasons we have the skills to speak That’s the version that’s out your favourite memories? a few other people he threw is that I came to Islam and and communicate with each there!” into the equation. It gained became a Muslim. Now when I other and build and invent ”I’ve had some of the him plenty of attention, being rap I sometimes feel that I’m things. These are things that I’m a big fan of ‘Heroes wickedest laughs and some picked up by Radio 1, 1xtra speaking loud in front of god. I other animals haven’t got. Die’. How did that tune of the best times of my life. and even more hysterically the figured if I stopped rapping I’d So I figured that humans are come together? Going on gigs with them and Daily Telegraph. be happier within myself.” just another creation of god. chilling in the space cruiser. That’s why I came to Islam, ”I wanted to do a tune that We just used to chill in there The lyrics to ‘Great Britain’ ”Another reason is because I because for me it felt like the mentioned all of my heroes and talk about the facts of life seem particularly poignant don’t really get the same buzz right religion, to me it was the in it. I called it ‘Heroes Die’ like evolution and Trev was in this age of war and from rapping as I did when I truth.” because I realised that most of making up some funny stories. terror. It was a rally cry, a was a kid. I remember when I the heroes that I was thinking Just performing with them on call to arms from a voice of used to rap, before I used to Tell us a bit about Great of had passed away. I missed stage was when I felt really at dissatisfied British youth. The go onstage I used to go and Britain… out other people’s favourites home.” song ultimately questions be sick outside. Three minutes though. Everybody should do how a country’s system of before I was supposed to ”I wrote that tune after the their own version of heroes ”When everyone went off government can act so directly be on stage I’d just get this first attack on Iraq started. die. That was just my heroes.” to do different stuff on their in opposition to the wishes of feeling in my stomach and I wanted to do something own and it all finished, I lost so may of those it represents. puke up. Then all of a sudden about the corruption that What are your other a lot of love for it. It was like I’d just grab the mike and Great Britain is involved in. favourite tunes among the seeing your family split up or It was something of a surprise start freestyling my arse off.” We spend so many billions on music you’ve made? something, but people have therefore, when following war weapons and war, yet we got to go their own way and his greatest success yet, When did you convert to only initially gave £20m to the ”I think one of my favourite do their own thing. We did Scorzayzee decided to call it become a Muslim? What Tsunami disaster. I think these tunes has got to be Crepes. push the boundaries though.” a day and retire from rapping inspired you to do this? are blatant facts that need It was a tune about trainers after this song. Rumours to be brought out in public and Nike and how they make What are the highlights of about his conversion to Islam, ”I converted about five years because you don’t really get money. It was produced by your career knocks on the door from ago. At the time I was really the chance to see them on TV. Nick Stez who is a great federal officers and plenty questioning existence and why We don’t see people speak producer. Archery is another ”One of the biggest gigs I more hype did nothing to calm I was here. I’d never read about the truth, we see people tune that I still like, it’s got did was as a support act for the storm. We got in touch a book on Islam before, but hovering around situations, one of my favourite beats on it Redman. That was at the end with Scorz and asked him to then I read this book called beating around the bush!” and was produced by DJ Fever. of 2003 and was my last gig. set the record straight once the Fundamentals of Tao He’s one of the best producers The crowd was massive. There and for all… Heed. It told me the fact that ”I actually wrote the song in the country. He’s heavy!” was at least 3000 people there there is one god and that Allah at 5 o’clock in the morning. and I went on and did a couple created us in the beginning. The studio was booked at 10 of raps and the response that www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 11

Yo. The BNP still exists in Great Britain Police brutality exists in Great Britain Slavery made the riches of Great Britain The Queen wears stolen diamonds, Great Britain Her husband’s a freemason, Great Britain They killed Lady Di, Great Britain Do I have to go into why, Great Britain?

Your politicians are corrupt, Great Britain Your prison’s full of crooks, Great Britain Your education system is corrupt, Great Britain Your laws are played out and fucked up, Great Britain The IRA used to bomb your streets, Great Britain Then you’re shaking hands in a deal, Great Britain Thought you never negotiate with terrorists, Great Britain Are Muslims your only nemesis, Great Britain? The FBI’s paedophile list, Great Britain But keep it on a hush-hush-hush, Great Britain

Yo if I had an army, I would fight ya If I had the police, I’d arrest ya If I had my own court, my own judge and jury I’d sit back and let history tell the story

If I had an army, I would fight ya If I had the police, I’d arrest ya If I had my own court, my own judge and jury I’d sit back and let history tell the story

You sold weapons to Iraq, Great Britain You sold your soul to America the Devil, Great Britain You haven’t got no religion, Great Britain Do you really believe in Jesus, Great Britain? Thou shall not kill, Great Britain Thou shall not steal, Great Britain The homeless roam your streets, Great Britain It’s all about your stocks and shares, Great Britain A mortgage wrapped round your neck for years, Great Britain The bank manager borrows you money, Great Britain Now you’re in a whole heap of debt, Great Britain Poverty is on your doorstep, Great Britain Sit back and watch TV, Great Britain Watch the adverts and buy shit, Great Britain Everything on finance for you, Great Britain A slave to the system every day, Great Britain While the rich take over your brain, Great Britain

I got was one of the best I’ve to the fans. I do owe it to the ”It’s about three guys who are Repeat Chorus ever had. I also battled Jehst fans to give them at least one wandering around trying to catch before he was famous. I was release of my tunes. Even if it’s a fox. I play the guy with the Don’t believe what you read in the news, Great Britain onstage in London and he got up just the six main tunes that I’ve gun! It was really fun working on You gave Palestine to the Jews, Great Britain and tried to take me on. He was done. There’s a lot of money it and I’d really like to do more Stick your nose in people’s affairs, Great Britain good, but I was ready for him. involved though. If someone acting in future if possible.” Overall, there are loads of good wants to put it out I’d have to Councillors on sixty grand a year, Great Britain memories though…” pay the producers and pay the So can we ever expect More than the soldiers in Iraq, Great Britain studio costs of recording and a comeback for you as a Then you have to pay your council tax, Great Britain You’ve put out quite a lot everything.” rapper? The queen lives in a house like Saddam Hussein of material, but it’s mostly They’re both rich, So I guess they’re both one and the same on other people records. I understand that you’ve ”If I hear a beat and I get an idea (Ho!) Do you ever plan to release recently been making a fi lm… again I’ll write another tune and a solo album, even as a put it out. But at the moment Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves retrospective? ”That’s right! The director is my I’ve just got nothing that I want Pirates on the ships, still they’re searching for the slaves friend Sammad Masud. We call to say. I don’t want to talk for ”I’ve never done an album, him Big Man Sam. He makes the sake of it. I don’t want to just Control the world, in this New World Order but I’ve defi nitely got enough fi lms and writes scripts. He had a make tunes for the sake of it, I Could of spent the war money on homes, food and water material. It’s hard to fi nd some of part for me in a new ten minute want to do something special. it though. I’d love it if someone short fi lm. Hopefully it will be All I know is that if I do anything I was born and raised in Great Britain just got all my material and put shown at the Bang Festival at the else, it’s got to be worth coming Brainwashed and put in a daze by Great Britain it on one album to just give it Broadway cinema.” back from retirement to say it.” I learnt how to wrap (rap?) myself in Great Britain Yo, there’s nuttin’ better than livin’ in Great Britain check out more interviews with Nottinghamhiphop artists at www.leftlion.co.uk 12 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 The Donkey Jackets A story from ‘Before I Learned To Cook’

”Stand still!” ordered scarves and Wrangler jeans. Billy. I couldn’t decide They were sturdier than the whether to offer him my catalogue jeans other kids wore and Grandmother. But the only family shoulder or my took the pellets better. member, albeit adoptive family, that backside. could stand him in her home. There “If you don’t keep still I There were four of us. Billy, the was a constant air of sadness about can’t shoot, I’m not undisputed Leader of the Pack, aged Delmonte, born out of a life of wasting any more 16. Delmonte, aged 18, the occasional dejection I suppose. I’d always pellets...” member of the gang. Hammond, the considered him thick until I discovered largest of the ensemble was also 16 that he was rolling a little something Billy was shooting and joined Billy in nearly all lessons at extra into his Golden Virginia. He Hammond and I again. It school, with the exception of Billy’s worked in a dye casting factory in the wasn’t so bad, the bruises remedial reading class. I was a full city centre. His £45 a week seemed were gone in a few days school year younger than the both of like an inheritance to us. and really, being shot them, a good foot shorter than through denim or the Hammond and a good kicking less Gran Bay, as we referred to his tough, almost moleskin hard than Billy. Grandmother, was almost blind, most like fabric of my certainly working on less than 20% of Donkey Jacket, wasn’t Billy was ‘our leader’ more than her hearing and the witness to some what one would probably because his elder brother, of our most unruly behaviour. She had imagine being shot, in a Strangler, was without doubt the no idea we were drinking alcohol and traditional sense, was coolest person that had, at this point smoking pot in her house and it like at all. in our young lives, entered our tiny mattered not at all how loud we had world. He went to gigs in Birmingham the stereo. She thought me The £7.99 that my and was rumoured to have seen The ‘trustworthy’, Billy was ‘as sly as a Donkey Jacket cost was Clash! Like his younger sibling, Billy, fox’, Hammond was a ‘giant fool’ and easily the best I’d ever he had the perfect hair for ‘spiking’. her Grandson? Who knew what she spent. The Army and Unlike my unruly thatch. Strangler made of him as he gyrated in front of Navy store in Dale End, was softly spoken and carried himself her to another of the Gibson Brothers Birmingham had shit piles with the air of a man that always had hits, tripping on acid and making all of them and whilst fi nishing somewhere better to be… and a Ford the moves of a present day lap the last two years at my school, Capri Mk II to get there in. dancer. Whenever Billy attempted it was the item to be seen in. It such behaviour in front of Gran Bay was basically a Navvy coat. The Hammond liked to think he was the Delmonte would plead; kind of thing a railway worker would personifi cation of Punk. I quietly wear while repairing tracks, or disagreed. GBH and Crass were crap ”C’mon Bill, leave her alone you cunt, whatever it is they do out there. in my young opinion and Siouxsie, or she’s nearly a fuckin’ hundred! How Only ours didn’t have the orange ‘Souxie’ as his home made bum fl ap would you like to have survived two fl uorescent piece around the screamed out in white emulsion, was world wars to have the piss took out shoulders associated with said turning into something I didn’t of you?” labourers. Ours were plain black all understand or agree with. Hammond over and always worn with the bottom was massive though, no doubt about How indeed..... Winter nights of rain of the four buttons undone. it. The opponents who faced him on and wind were spent indoors at 100 Underneath, we wore sweatshirts Sunday afternoon rugby matches Elforth Lane, Gran Bay’s house. Billy’s (with the exception of must’ve wished they were home divorced mother wouldn’t have any of Hammond who undoubtedly helping their mothers peel potatoes. us at her house. In turn, Hammond was wearing a t-shirt from Even though it took fi ve or six alarm and I didn’t want, or more to the his extensive Punk Rock clocks to wake him each morning, all point, didn’t trust Billy in either of our collection), second- carefully timed to go off a minute or homes. So Gran Bay’s it was. Not that hand stripped two apart, he was, at the soul of the there was an open invite to college boy, a sweetheart. Picture Shrek as a Delmonte’s, far from it. The Kid could teenager. whine like no other.... Delmonte lived with his 80 odd ”Fuck off you lot. It’s always Gran year old Grandmother. Bays with you. What about your shit She wasn’t really holes? I don’t want you around there. his Yer all cunts. I’m staying in.”

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topped Donkey Jacket from exactly the same things on The abandoned section of the under the grip of Billy’s Saturday mornings as we did golf course that the developers Monkey boots. Jeez... it’s been during the week day evenings, hadn’t required was now our a while since I thought about it was as if whatever happened domain. We could write ‘Fuck Monkey boots. Cheaper than on those mornings were being Off’ in 20 foot high letters in Doc Martin’s and maybe just carved into time. Events that the snow during the winter, that bit cooler, depending on took place on those mornings for all the departing airline which side of the tracks you would become legend. passengers to see. Set fi re to were from. anything that took our fancy. I say ‘what used to be the Smoke pot, drop our dung On our side of the tracks at golf course’ because where from bridges and of course, this particular moment in time we hung about was a hilly be shot at by our dear friend Ginge was no better off for his fi eld that ran along side the Billy. choice in footwear. However, new runway extension at Billy had reached the Birmingham airport. The Seems odd thinking of all this, inevitable moment of the re- developers had dug out the over 20 years later. It’s a place that matter. All I know is that Donkey Jackets with the load, having emptied the gun sand pits and lush greens and I don’t go anymore. With Strangler gave Billy an old fl uorescent strip were now the into Ginge’s considerable girth. replaced them with tarmac, I the exception of Hammond, pellet gun he no longer had a cool item and Ginge was way As Billy went for the box of suppose, or whatever those they are people I don’t see use for. We all unanimously ahead of us. Poor kid. Billy pellets in his Donkey pocket great big fucking things anymore. I heard Billy married agreed it was probably began asking Ginge, with Ginge made a grab for the needed to drop out of the a policewoman and moved to because he’d moved up to a absurd enthusiasm, where he now shit sodden apparel under sky onto. We’d never actually Oslo. Strangler hung himself, sawn-off shotgun. Billy loved got his jacket from. foot. Even in the moment I seen exactly what it was the a Father of three, on his that pellet gun. The windows pondered to myself why stick golf course had made way 40th Birthday. Delmonte also at the old farm felt his love for ”It’s fucking brilliant! You look around to rescue the jacket? for, because high fences and perished at his own hands, it, as did any passing freight ace! Gi’sa try...” To take all the cruelty that unnatural landscape changes although not in quite so trains, especially the ones Billy was so keen to hand out kept us out. Those pits and intended circumstances. And carrying shiny new cars. Billy was smaller in every way in order to rescue the very greens had been ours. To lie Ginge? Who knows. I’ll wager Eventually so did mine and than any of us, but made from garment that had caused the on our backs at night on those you one thing though. I think Hammond’s legs, arses, backs, the kind of material they made punishing in the fi rst place? soft carpets that were the it’d be a safe bet to assume shoulders, arms, shins, calves, truck tyres out of, Ginge was With hindsight, the humiliation putting greens and gaze up at he never wore another orange knees and very occasionally, the couldn’t be cool in a of being repeatedly shot by a clear sky... magical. Only the garment from that day to this. the backs of our heads. Crack! million fuckin’ years fat kid of Billy was nothing in Ginge’s stars, or the back of his Dad’s the piece, no two ways about world compared to the beating hand, seemed to hahaveve Even though Hammond and I it. The very idea of Billy that he would receivreceivee from his the power to soften were never allowed to touch wanting to try on any of Dad had he dared go home Billy’Billy’ss cruel the gun, let alone fi re the Ginge’s wardrobe, let alone without the new coat that he streak. nasty little bastard, we were this beacon, was ridiculous. had made such a fuss of always glad to know it was Still, beaming like the idiot he owning. with us. We were shot at the was, Ginge removed his golf course, on top of the train Donkey and handed it to Billy. It trtranspired,anspired, some weeks bridges, in the rotting hay Billy grinned his terrible grin. laterlater,, that Ginge’Ginge’ss family stack at the Old Farm, on the Dropping the garment to the hadn’hadn’tt been able to afford the Green outside the Free sodden fi eld below our boots, £7.99 that BillyBilly,, Hammond Church, in the Gardens of he raised the barrel of the Remembrance, outside the pellet gun and shot Ginge’s chip shop, anywhere Billy ample midriff at point blank thought he could get a clear range repeatedly. shot at one of us. Simultaneously grinding the Donkey Jacket under foot. ”Right, both of you cunts.... lift up the bottom of yer ”Billy.... pleeaasse...... don’t. and I Donkeys and let me shoot you Fuck! Don’t, please, Ow! had to in the arses.” C’mon...” obtain our DonkDonkeyey Jackets.Jackets. A pale, red headed, plump kid Ginge made no attempt to Instead, Ginge’Ginge’ss that lived with his family down escape the gunfi re and it was Dad knew a man the hill from our village, his arms that caught the worst that workworkeded on Ginge, who desperately of it. The day was cold, sunny the rrailwaysailways and wanted to be accepted into but cold, and underneath the had managed to Billy’s clique made the Donkey all he, or his mom, get his son the harrowing mistake of obtaining had chosen for him to wear jackjacketet free of ananyy his Donkey Jacket resplendent was a fl imsy out of shape charge, aboaboveve a pint with the fl uorescent shoulders. orange t-shirt that looked like for the rrailwayailway man He turned up at the golf it had more than likely next time they sasaww each course one Saturday morning, belonged to his even larger other in the pubpub.. Ginge approaching us with a great elder brother, Big Ginge. Each wore that DonkDonkeyey JackJacket,et, big grin on his milky freckled crack of the pellet gun was making no attempt to face, fl uorescent shoulders echoed by the tiny smack of remoremoveve the ororangeange plastic, screaming out ’shoot me’. the pellet itself making contact until the time he left school Hammond and I were pissing with Ginge’s smarting arms. almost a full yyearear from the dayday ourselves. Billy came on all The fl abby tops of which his Dad had bargained it for serious, told us to stop rippled with each hit. Billy was him. laughing, from the side of his loving it. Ginge probably mouth, as Ginge approached wasn’t. Why he didn’t make SaturdaSaturdayy mornings, at what us. For a minute Billy could good his escape I don’t know. used to be the golf course, have you fooled. Like all of a He held his ground struggling were great. SomehowSomehow,, sudden he’d decided that to get a hold of his orange evevenen though we did

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”The style of our game has been influenced by the style of architecture around this country. We’ve got big precision jumps and gap jumps and loads of technical stuff because everything is built big and we jump from block to block.” words: Jared Wilson photos: David Bowen

Anyone who watched Channel Four’s Jump Britain last month he was too old and it led to this. Blue these guys and it was mental! I went What are the best places in ”I was doing a wall flip. I landed and can’t fail to have been impressed by the spectacle they saw. has always been into skating and to train with Sebastian in France in his Nottingham to bust moves? bent all my fingers back and broke It featured urban athletes, gracefully moving through the air, stuff like that, but he was searching hometown, where the sport began. I them. It could have been any move, taking advantage of the local architecture to bust moves on for something different. I’ve played always go to London and Birmingham ”Beeston is pretty good because so it was just the landing of it that was everyday objects and obstacles. basketball rugby and swimming at because that’s where the rest of my much has been crammed into such wrong.” county level. But they didn’t quite crew are. a small place. There are a lot of The sport of parkour originates from the southern suburbs of fulfil my sporting passion. We’re just a places in town too, around certain Tell us about Seidojn… France. The beauty of the sport, however is that anyone can bunch of guys who enjoy sharing the ”The style of our game has been educational buildings. You make do it wherever they live and because of their environment each sport together. It helps you to be free influenced by the style of architecture up your own moves around the ”It’s my crew. Seidojn. It means person will create new styles and moves, based around the and there’s always a crazy vibe when around this country. We’ve got big architecture in your area. For training, men of the way of silence. As part of place that they live. we’re all training together. precision jumps and gap jumps and I managed to jumped a car sideways. being fluid We work on not creating loads of technical stuff because My mate parked his Volkswagon Golf much sound when we land...silence.. Sticky (real name Johnny Budden) has been practicing parkour What’s it like working with everything is built big and we outside and I managed to make it over this also helps with us knowing our around Nottingham for several years and around the UK as Sebastian? jump from block to block. In other completely horizontal.” body well and being in control off part of the Urban freeflow crew. He was one of the stars of countries there are different types of everything. We want to be able to do Jump Britain, yet hails from Beeston and unbelievably is still ”You can’t get any better than training architecture and you have to learn to If you were allowed anywhere in what we do as quietly and gracefully only seventeen! We got together with him for a chat and to with him. Once you’ve been taught the adapt to them and stuff. Nottingham where would you go? as possible.” experience him busting some moves… way, how to look at the obstacles and be free. To open your mind to the way What are your personal favourite ”I’d like to try doing it on some of the What advice would you give to and all of this business, you find in moves? high shopping centres.” amateurs? When did you first start doing this? yourself your own way, you find how to feel the rhythm and flow through a ”I’d say precisions, because it takes What is the most random thing ”I would encourage anyone to learn ”Just under three years ago when I saw David Bell on the city. Sebastian has taught us the way a lot of dedication and practice. that has happened to you while the basics before they try anything. BBC advert. I started with some really basic stuff, basic from the beginning and has given us a When people start out They’ll try doing this..? Everything is achievable if you’re vaults and tic tacs (where you plant your foot on the wall and really good start. It’s now up to us to flips because thy think it’s parkour, dedicated and practice. I skip every grab to another one. I aimed to do lots of things that were pass our knowledge on to people who they’ll try big moves because they ”I was chased by security guards morning, I used to swim before/after aesthetically pleasing, doing big jumps and things like that. are new to the sport. think its parkour, and miss out Lots at the QMC security guards. I was school and I train for hours and hours I’ve learnt though that it’s not all about big jumps, it’s about of technical stuff like moving between balancing on this rail and I think they after college. I also have to eat the flow and movement. After three years my game is getting rails and walls and stuff like that. I’ve thought I was going to commit suicide. right things and diet. People don’t really good and fluid.” What places have you travelled got to admit that I do like high stuff They started shouting at me, but have to be that serious about it, but to since this started? It must be as well, I can’t say that I hate doing because I was running I didn’t hear there is no reason why anyone can’t Tell us about the Jump Britain crew. There must have great travelling around the world big moves, but they don’t seem that them. I got all the way to the bottom get really good at it. All you need is a been a good rapport between you guys! doing something you love!! big when you’ve trained for them. and then they pushed me up against pair of trainers…” I’ve conditioned my body so that they the wall.” ”We’ve all got weird backgrounds. We’ve all been brought up ”Before being in the crew I’d never don’t hurt. on the street pretty much. Kirby has not many facilities around been on a plane before and I went What’s the worst injury you’ve his area. He got chucked off skateparks and playparks because on a plane for the first time with all ever sustained whilst doing this? www.urbanfreeflow.com listings... clubs/theatre/live music/comedy/exhibitions Nottingham Voices Things People have said Eleven acts you must see... words: Al Needham on the leftlion forum The Magic Heroes Old Basford Joe Budda (5pm, Rock City, (9.45, Old Angel) (The Edge, late) Clothing Labels 10.30pm, Junktion 7) If you ever wondered why the Sod it, every act at The Edge A Bridgford power trio of no little front door of the Old Angel had a deserves a mention, simply be- “Labels don’t bother me so much, but I’ve fi nally realised repute, the Magic Heroes harness massive hole in it until recently, cause there hasn’t been a Reggae that spending £15 on a skirt from New Look will only ever the majesty of straight-up, no- one listen to the bands on offer all-dayer in town since Musical look like a £15 skirt from New Look. And unless you are nancying RRRRAAWK to create a on the 30th will tell you why. Old Youth played Rock City. Most of very thin, a £20 pair of jeans will not do your arse any massively plump arse, which they Basford are topping the bill, and you weren’t even born then. Joe favours.” then kick from one end of the rightly so. This is what proper Budda is a hiphop producer, play- Fossy stage to the other. Their fi rst CD Punk Rock sounds like when it ing an alternative selection for “I like labels with the words “Bon” and “Marche” in that is about to be released, they’re gets tired of falling off skate- the night. Mash down Parliament order. No, I’m not a dinner lady but a 22 year old male. playing Rock City and headlining boards in Slab Square and opens Street, me duck! Does that make me odd?” Junktion 7, and they take their its mind to new infl uences. Harwill Tuesday shirts off. If you’re a fan of blis- Cappo tering melodies and male nipples, Elementz (10.40, The Social) “I can’t fi nd any decent shoes in Notts sales. Or any decent you will not be disappointed. (3.30pm - 4.30pm 7-8.30 Trying to pick out an act in the clothes for that matter. Most of the ‘fashionable’ clothes The Social) Social’s Notts-Hop all-dayer is shops in Nottingham are rubbish unless you aspire to look like a Hollyoaks reject.” Mood Indigo Liati and Zoutr have been hon- like deciding which ride you want Mr Reason (10.30pm, Dogma) ing their art as hiphop deejays to go on fi rst at Goose Fair, but If you’ve spent all day with your like Samurai soldiers over the Cappo gets the nod because he “I was once accused in Stealth by a completely random bird head in a speaker while as- past year. They’ve also been busy encapsulates everything that of “dressing like a footballer”. How rude. I was so thrown sorted rappers and Rockular doing production for wordsmith’s makes our local hip-hop scene the and confused at the time that I didn’t even come up with a types make a concerted effort to such as MC NME and Karizma (not best in the country. Unapologeti- witty response” turn your brain into the consist- to mention that track with Skin- cally non-Yankeefi ed lyrical rough- 2b ency of mushy peas, there’s no nyman). There are two chances to ness. Get there early. The place is “As for the people who dismiss “label wearing”, I think you better way to wind down than catch them on the decks at going to be rammed. just don’t get it. Most of the labels I’m into I wear for their with a cocktail or twelve as the the Social… design element, not the fact it has a name written all smoother-than-smooth vibes of Hexadecimal over it.” Nottingham’s toppermost Lounge Richie Muir (Spectrum room, Stealth, early Bobthewelder act wash over you. Also see that (1pm, Dogma, 8.00, Walton’s evening) guitarist? He’s one of the chaps Hotel, 11pm, South Bank) Stealth have come through big “Style has more to do with the individual rather than the who put the day together… At Live Aid, Phil Collins fl ew on time, as is their wont, and if price of the clothes tag or the label they wear. Compare Concorde from Wembley Stadium you’ve never been there before, the gorgeous Kate Moss to Posh Spice. Both wear designer labels yet one looks unique and stunning and the other Rapunzel M.A.P. to Philadelphia. At A Drop In The you’ve got no excuse this time. looks like a dirty ho.” (7pm, Wax) Ocean, Richie Muir, one of the Don’t give us that ‘Eeh, they only Skinny Tinni If you’ve walked past the Coun- fi nest acoustic artists this fair play records and it’s not proper cil House steps at midnight on a city has to offer will leg it from music’ cobblers – Hexadecimal weekend and been enchanted by the centre of town to The Park, are a live band, with real instru- On Violence in Nottingham the magnifi cently-maned stylings and then drag his gee-tar to West ments and all sorts. When they of Ms M.A.P, here’s your chance Bridgford. For this creative at- played Stealth the other week, we “I’ve just returned from a night out with three mates. Some to see her as nature intended. As tempt at getting the most out of a stood there at the front all glassy- cunt throws a large pillow at us for NO fucking reason. I ask for an apology. Get none. Ends up with a smack to the ring an awesomely talented singer and City Rider ticket (and not getting eyed with a can of Red Stripe try- leader.... and then three of the fuckers setting on me. First guitarist. Wax have promised us Noel Edmonds involved), we ap- ing to work out how they do it. time I’ve lost a fi st fi ght. Grrrrr.” that all attendees will not have plaud him. Contractor to avoid stepping over someone else’s regurgitated tea, there’ll be The Hellset Orchestra “I have to say that town is far safer than it used to be. no naked blokes on stag nights (4pm, Rock City) Vaccine Licensed bouncers have made pubs and clubs more walking across the stage, and no- Longtime LL faves, The Hellsets (11.15, Market Bar) accountable, and mean that you really have to put some one will be shouting “Traceh! Get fi nally make the step up to the When Daz Drum, after having had serious work in to be dragged round the back and kicked to fuck. As long as you have a cursory knowledge of town and yer keks back on, I’ve just gorrus big stage, and we have a feeling one too many at Yates, calls Barry keep your wits about you, you can easily stay away from a taxeh” at any time during the this isn’t the last time they tread Bass’ Mam a slag and asks what meatheaded grief.” performance. the boards of the beloved Citeh. If he’s going to do about it, the Lord of the Nish Jack The Ripper and Burke & Hare resultant scrap outside is what had met up in a Spitalfi elds pub Vaccine sound like. We’re talking “My face hurts. Went out on NYE and witnessed once again and said “You know what? Killing heavier than heavy, live-as-can- a very violent Nottingham. The night pretty much ended people and digging up bodies is be D&B, people, with a drummer when I received a round house kick to the face. A guy boring, let’s get a time machine, who goes at it like, well, a mad dressed in a straw bowler hat and a dickie bow took offence to my friend’s rendition of Mr Sandman. I didn’t even nick some electric guitars and an bastard, to be honest. realise I’d been kicked until my mate pointed out the black organ from the future, tack on footprint on my face.” a string quartet, and kick some Baron of Carlton Neo-Goth shiz in a Penny Dreadful style”, they would have sounded “No sign of violence in my house new years eve. Although like this. Mrs Barnze did bung a cushion at me for farting in a most amusing way!” Barnze

“Although there is a perception that it’s the chavs causing all the trouble, it actually isn’t. It’s the nobheads in their Ben Sherman shirts who think they’re better than everyone else who do the rounds of the bars in Hockley that invariably give the most shit...” Cash Mark

“I’ve seen two fi ghts in Nottingham, both on the same night. The question is when do you get involved in a fi ght? Some of my mates in Stockport went to protect a girl who was unconscious and being kicked by ten scallies (male and female). One of them ended up in hospital.” Denz

make your voice heard www.leftlion.co.uk/forum www.adropintheocean2005.com Sunday 30th January listings... live music/clubs/comedy/exhibitions/theatre fri 04/02 mon 07/02 thu 10/02 Period of February / March Half Man Half Biscuit Inthesameboat Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £12.50 adv Live Music Price: £4 / £2.50 John Peel favourites still rocking out... Times: 9pm - 1am NUS Discount tue 01/02 Hooker are a power trio hailing from The Hurt Process Manchester. They are supported for this Venue: Rock City gig by your favourite local poet collective Times: 7.30pm the DIY Poets, who will be performing live at the event. Also on the bill are The Metal Hammer Removals, Dr Ben Way and compere Dr Venue: Rock City CocaColaMcDonalds. DJs Jaz (deephouse Price: £7 adv and oldskool) and Deepjoy provide the Rammstein Times: 7pm soundtrack in between the bands. Venue: Nottingham Arena The Hurt Process, Underoath, Silverstein, Price: £22.50 Roses are Red Yeti Times: 7.30pm Venue: The Social Price: £5 adv Big Trak Times: 7pm - 10pm Venue: The Social wed 02/02 With Support from 747’s, Mother and the Price: £1 Addicts The Strand Arcade, Hobo Exile Hotel, Liars Club Death From Above 1979 Trailer Venue: The Social Venue: The Rescue Rooms American Music Club Price: £3 adv £4 otd Price: £6 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 9pm - 2am Price: £12 tue 08/02 DJs Riotous Rockers (Bugged Out, Club 7pm - 10.15 NME), Ricky Haley, Cerys. Live Bands tbc Hanoi Rocks & Adler’s Appitite Times: Broxtowe College Presents Venue: Rock City Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £16.50 adv Price: £3 / £2.50 Times: 7pm fri 11/02 sat 05/02 Times: 8.30pm - 12am NUS Discount Arkangel + Standaside The Dead Pets Junktion 7 Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Thin Lizzy The Kills Price: £5 (NUS Discount) Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £4 / £3.50 Venue: Rock City 9pm - 1am £8 adv Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: Price: £17.50 Price: The Dead Pets, Two Day Rule, 3 Gun Pete NUS Discount Times: 7.30pm Arkangel, Standaside, Support The Ghost Of Lemora Allegri String Quartet Venue: Junktion 7 Damn You! presents... Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre wed 09/02 Price: £6 / £5 NUS Venue: Maze Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 9pm - 1am Price: £5 (£4 adv) Times: 7.30pm Warsaw Village band The Ghost Of Lemora, Screaming Times: 10pm - 2am This concert gives you the opportunity to Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Banshee Aircrew, Abigail’s Mercy The sound of Boston band Victory at hear Puccini’s Crisantem. Written in one Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Sea is characterised by an elusive and evening, this amazing work distils the Times: 8pm Crackerjack attention-demanding irony, a startling most poignant, haunting material from Winner of the Best Newcomer Europe Venue: The Social intimacy, and a reassuring lullaby quality. Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut, into a category at this year’s BBC Radio 3 World Price: £5 Singer Mona Elliot’s cool, spectral voice short elegiac work for string quartet. Music awards, this ‘hardcore folk’ group Times: 7pm-10pm is a ghostly cousin to Kristin Hersh, was formed in ‘97 by musicians wanting Headway + Support providing a fi tting mouthpiece for the to preserve traditional Polish music, to band’s dark, fragmented little fairy tales. create a living link to an oral tradition Saint Joan support with warm, delicate quashed by 50 years of communism. sat 12/02 indie-folk from Nottingham. The Duke Spirit ThisIsTheWayTheWorldEnds Enjoy The Ride Venue: The Social Venue: Bunkers Hill Inn Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: £6 adv Price: £3/ £4 Price: £3 With support from Dogs Times: 8pm thu 03/02 Times: 8.30pm - 11pm ThisIsTheWayTheWorldEnds, Legion Of 65daysofstatic If you haven’t made it down yet. ETR thu 10/02 Doom, Sons of Merrick and Chickenhawk Venue: Rock City is an audio-visual delight of live music, Downset Price: £3.50, £2.50 (NUS) short fi lms, art, poetry and whatever Venue: Rock City Psycho-Path (Slovenia) Sounds like a long night... they can fi t in from Nottingham’s thriving Price: £10 adv Venue: Junktion 7 artistic community, hosted by the now Times: From 7.30pm Price: £5 Supernight Presents... legendary Pete Finch. Times: 9pm - 1am They come around The Others Psycho-Path (Slovenia), The Smears, Venue: Junktion 7 Megadeath Venue: The Rig TEAM, Dragster Price: £2 (NUS Discount) Venue: Rock City Price: £7 adv Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £16.50 Times: 7.30pm Fist of the Champions, Dave Blayze, Times: 7.00pm With resident Supernight DJ’s Extreme rock! Stan Tracey and Steve Melling Mr Fahrenknight and King Louie. Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre sun 06/02 Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Club NME Times: 8pm Venue: Stealth The Dears A leading jazz composer and Price: £2 - £4 Venue: The Rescue Rooms accomplished arranger, Stan Tracey’s Times: 10pm - 2.30am Price: £8 adv suite ‘Under Milk Wood’, single-handedly Tom Vek, The Mystery Jets With support from Ambulance Ltd and defi ned British jazz on the international Pure Reason Revolution scene. Throughout the 1980s and Allegri String Quartet 90s, his triumphant career as an Snoop Dogg Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre KT Tunstall interpreter, arranger and composer Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Venue: The Social earned him the affectionate title of The Price: £23.50 + bf Times: 7.30pm Price: £6 English Ellington. A major inspiration Tha Doggfather is in the hood! This rare The ever popular Allegri String Quartet Times: 8pm - 11pm to current generations of British jazz UK show will feature performances from return with a programme featuring Female singer and Jools Holland cohort. musicians, witnessed here in his dynamic albums such as ‘Doggystyle’, ‘Paid tha Haydn, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. partnership with Steve Melling. Cost to be da Bo$$’ and ‘Tha Last Meal’. We’ll be there to check it out fo shizzle my nizzle.

Notts’ 10’s Daniel Donnachie February ‘05 3. Arbeitsratfurkunst, Das Etwas 6. You Can’t Hide (From Your Love), Young lads from San Francisco debut 1. Self Abuse, Funky Transport meets (Cynic003) London based German Psydo- David Joseph (Mango/Island) Larry Levan single. Will be put out again by RIP Jonee Q (Flygaric Tracks). This absolute neums, very effective for a dancefl oor. production from 1983 repressed for records later on this year with a Soul went off last week at The Bomb. I think your pleasure. This is the birth of house Mekanik remix. I will keep on this one for a bit. Dirty 4. Odyssey, Johnny Harris (OST) music. House Music. The production is amazing. Includes a Zongamin Re-Edit and the 9. Alien in my Pocket, Lindbaek & Original 12 from the 80’s. Electronic 7. Heavy Vibes LP, Vincent Montana Lindstrom. Modal Funky dubbed out deep 2. Africa/Brasil Unreleased Isolee Kosmiche Disco Musique. JR - Highlights include Goody Goody - It house from our Norwegian magicians. Remix (Louie Vega) - Vega Records Looks Like Love along with Esto Parese These guys make Awesome record. Isolee is the master of 5. Real, L.H.A.S. Inc (Cynic002) Larry Amor and the massive Heavy Vibes, the best music for me right now. production and this is another example Heard Appreciation Society. 4 tracks of championed by all the B-Boy DJ’s from of where his head is at. My last record superbly made electronic deep house. the early 80’s. 10. Dialect Swag Remix - Instant recently for being so good. This label must be heard. Noodles aka Quizz & Terry - on this 12 8. Dirty Bumf, Kerowack (RIP Records) makes a nice treat to play out but don’t Been hammering this for all of 2004. forget about the original mix on the fl ip. listings... live music/clubs/comedy/exhibitions/theatre thu 17/02 sat 19/02 thuthu 24/0224/02 Period of February / March The A.K.A.s and Lola Ray Suits You X Factor Venue: Rock City Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Venue: Nottingham Arena Live Music Price: £3.50 or £2.50 (NUS) Price: Free Price: £23.50 + BF Times: 9pm onwards Times: 8pm - 11pm Simon Cowell’s legacy of pain on popular Made to measure beats, breaks, chunks, music continues... sat 12/02 Vogler String Quartet bumps and off the peg visual treats Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre seamlessly put together by invisible Jim Martini Henry Rifl es Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards Price: £12 (£9 concessions) and friends. Venue: The Social Venue: Rock City Times: 7.30pm Price: £3 adv Price: £10 adv Hal & The Magic Numbers Times: 7.30pm The Concretes Venue: The Social With support from Roger Miret and The Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £7 LeftLion Presents... fri 25/02 Disasters. Price: £8adv Times: 7pm-10pm Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Times: tbc Price: Free University Choir & Philharmonia All Nighter Times: 8pm - 11pm Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre fri 18/02 Venue: Rock City It’s your regular monthly night of Price: £7 (£3 concessions) Price: £6 local culture, this time featuring live Times: 7.30pm Times: 9pm - 6am performances and DJ sets from Lo Ego Featuring Colin Touchin conducting and Capdown, Steriogram, Fightstar, and Amusement Parks on Fire. Katy Hamilton and Kate Green on pianos. Towers Of London Skinny Sumo Music Room sun 20/02 Venue: Maze The Bravery Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: £3.50 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: Free Times: 10pm - 2am Price: £8.50 adv Times: 8pm-11pm Live Nottingham hiphop band kicking out Soul to folk, jazz to rock, blues to the beats and rhymes. reggae, latin to chanson, african to disco, mon 21/02 funk to fl amenco and beyond... Face Tomorrow Big Trak Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: The Social Price: TBC sun 13/02 Price: £1 Quiet Riot One.Two.HQ Times: 9pm - 1am The Fever, Lee Rickers, 3 Ring Circus Venue: Rock City Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar and Crash Convention. Price: £15 adv Price: £tbc sat 26/02 Times: 7.30pm Times: 8pm Calafornian rock and roll quartet Featuring the excellent Notts accoustic tue 22/02 responsible for 1983 hit Mental Health. band Left Of The Dealer and local live The Mad 3 (Japan) Music Room hiphop crew First Blood as well as one. Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Hood + Support two.hq DJ’s. Hosted by Rico. Price: TBC Price: Free Venue: The Social Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: 8pm-11pm Price: £6 Soulwax The Mad 3 (Japan), Six Killer Soul to folk, jazz to rock, blues to Times: 8pm-11pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms reggae, latin to chanson, african to disco, Price: £13 adv The Soundtrack of Our Lives funk to fl amenco and beyond... mon 14/02 Times: Early start as club night follows. Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £11 adv The Clashed Big Trak The Heartthrob Tour 2005 Swedish rock band whose third album Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: The Social Venue: Junktion 7 ‘Behind The Music’ won them rave Price: TBC Price: £1 Price: £6, £5 NUS reviews from the critics Times: 9pm - 1am Times: tbc The Renegade Playboys (London), The Clashed and Support “Transit Night” featuring Philistine, Deadtime Stories (Dudley) and New The Dirty BackBeats, Strange Kid Generation Superstars (Leicester) have wed 23/02 Stephen Fretwell + Support booked a national tour and hired a 16 Venue: The Social berth bus to take their tour on the road. Price: £6 tue 15/02 Nine Black Alps Times: 7pm - 10pm Saturday Looks Good To Me Venue: The Social Price: £5 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms Ill Disposed Price: £4 adv sat 19/02 Venue: Rock City The Go! Team Price: £6.50 Venue: The Rescue Rooms wed 16/02 Price: £7 adv Mark Kozelek Times: 7pm - 10.15 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £11 adv The Brook Street Band Times: Early Show - 10.15 fi nish as The Quire Boys Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre clubnight follows Venue: Rock City Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Colin Carr Thomas Sauer 80’s soft rock throwbacks, still ploughing The Brook Street Band present a cross- Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre on two decades later. section of multi-cultural music uniting Price: £12 (£9 concessions) composers from all across Europe. Times: 7.30pm Hitechjet and Driving On The Right New Found Glory Colin Carr and Thomas Sauer bring their Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Rock City The Concretes respective talents on cello and piano to Price: TBC Price: £14 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms Lakeside with a rich programme including Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: 7.30pm Price: £8 adv Beethoven’s lyrical and contemplative Hitechjet, Driving On The Right, Chalk 4, cello sonata and Barber’s fl owing, + Support Zero Cipher Ed Tudor-Pole romantic Sonata. Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Junktion 7 Liars Club thu 24/02 Price: £4 / £3.50 / £3 NUS Price: £5adv Venue: The Social Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: 9pm - 1am Price: £3 adv £4 otd Zero Cipher, I-DEF-I, Legion Of Doom, Ed Tudor Pole is best known for Times: 9pm - 2am Coriolus Effect (TBC) presenting TV’s ‘The Crystal Maze’. He’s Martini Henry Rifl es, sun 27/02 also appeared in fi lms including The Paul Weller The Blood Arm Willy Mason Rocky Horror Show, The Great Rock and Venue: Nottingham Arena DJ’s, Riotous Rockers Venue: The Social Roll Swindle and most recently as Mr. Price: £28.50 + BF (Bugged Out, Club NME), Price: £6 adv Borgin in Harry Potter II. He brings his The Modfather and former lead singer of Ricky Haley, Cerys acoustic show to Junktion 7. The Jam and the Style Council returns to rock Nottingham with his solo show.

Notts’ 10’s Hexadecimal Chart February ‘05 1. Hexadecimal - Cold Rock (Ya original. Search hard for it, as the tune is 6. D. Ramirez - Slave (Lot 49) into a full onslaught at the break down. Breaks) Our next single and probably rewarding. More slick 44 from another local lad. one of our best production works to date. Slave rolls along nicely, breaks heads like 9. Soho Jo - I Like To Dance (FAT) Soul Of Man are one of the artists to take 4. Soul Of Man - Shake Em Down Meat Katie have been loving this one. Soho Jo clearly stamping his mark on the a liking to this funk fi lled workout! (Dylan Ryhmes mix) An excellent FAT label with his latest creation. I like remix which seems to have it all, quality 7. Future Funk Squad - Sorcerary to dance is a sordid concoction of driving 2. Sound Alliance - Instead Of bass line and killer licks, best we have (Island) Killer business by FFS. Tech- beats and tasteful synths. (Renassiance Recordings) A global seen from Dylan yet. funk at its fi nest. Includes Merka remix, anthem from the Notts boys, currently Techfunk dub and Thomilla’s x-work 10. Nubreed and Luck Chable - One being cained by the likes of Sasha and 5. Sound Alliance - Instead Of (Hexa- remix. Day (Mob Records). This is the second Zabiela. Out in the shops in February. decimal Mix) With a solid structure to part to an awesome double pack, con- start from we have produced one of our 8. Hexadecimal - The Hexed Level / taining Luke Chable extension mix and 3. Alter Ego - Rocker (Christian J best remixes to date. This is a monster Hexadecimal Theme (Heavy Disco) dirty fours remix. Mix) Rmx track which really does the that can certainly groove, should be out Our next single on heavy disco is a business. I like this as much as the around march time. journey with a funky groove that turns www.hexadecimalbreaks.com listings... live music/clubs/comedy/exhibitions/theatre sun 27/02 sat 05/03 sat 12/03 wed 23/03 The Bees Music Room Good Charlotte Venue: Rock City Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Venue: Rock City Price: £10 adv Price: Free Price: £15 adv Times: 7.30pm Times: 8pm-11pm Times: 7.30pm Soul to folk, jazz to rock, blues to mon 28/02 Enjoy The Ride reggae, latin to chanson, african to disco, Stuck Mojo Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar funk to fl amenco and beyond... fri 25/03 Venue: Rock City Price: £3 Price: £7 Times: 8.30pm - 11pm Times: 7.30pm If you haven’t made it down yet. ETR sun 13/03 is an audio, visual delight of live music, Art Brut Big Trak short fi lms, art, poetry and whatever else Venue: The Social Venue: The Social they can fi t in from Nottingham’s thriving Price: £5 adv Price: £1 artistic community, hosted by the now Callaghan, Kid Captain, Call Me Jack legendary Pete Finch. Boogie Wonderland Venue: Royal Centre Price: £16.50 - £18.50 Engineers sun 06/03 tue 01/03 Venue: The Social Wilco The Ordinary Boys Price: £6 adv Venue: Rock City Venue: Rock City LeftLion Presents... Price: £11.50 adv Price: £15 adv Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Spin Doctors Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: Free Price: £14 Times: 8pm - 11pm Hem The group that brought you the nineties tue 15/03 Bringing you the best live music that Venue: The Social pop hit that was Two Princes play Notts. Nottingham has to offer. (But then we Price: £8 Hopefully they still have the beards... would say that...) Times: 7pm - 10pm Plus Support Drop Kick Murphys sat 26/03 Venue: Rock City wed 02/03 Price: £12.50 Music Room Times: 7.30pm Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: Free Times: 8pm-11pm Athlete wed 09/03 Soul to folk, jazz to rock, blues to Venue: Rock City reggae, latin to chanson, african to disco, Price: £14 Asia funk to fl amenco and beyond... Times: 7.30pm Venue: Rock City Price: £16.50 Adv tue 29/03 The Jim Beam Tour Times: 7pm Doors The Doves Venue: The Rescue Rooms Asia, Barclay, James Harvest (Featuring Venue: Rock City Price: £8.50 adv Les Holroyd), Dare Price: £16.50 Times: tbc Times: 7.30pm The Raveonettes, Dogs, The Boxer The Doves, are an epic pop trio featuring Coachwhips + Guests wed 16/03 Rebellion twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams and Venue: The Social Songs Of Nick Drake Jimi Goodwin. Formerly known as Sub Price: £4 adv £5 otd Venue: The Rescue Rooms Sub, their Lost Souls album bought them Times: 9pm - late thu 10/03 Price: £8 adv to national attention. Coachwhips, Snow White, Comanechi Posthumous performance of the tragic guitarists music by Keith James Chris Difford + Guests wed 30/03 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Robin Trower The Rescue Rooms Price: £10 adv fri 18/03 Venue: ... And You Will Know Price: £15 adv Us By The Trail Of Dead thu 03/03 Venue: The Rescue Rooms thu 31/03 Ray Lamontagne Price: £11 adv Butterfl y Effect Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: Rock City Price: £8.50 adv sat 19/03 Price: Normal admission prices The Haunted Suits You Porcupine Tree Venue: Rock City Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £9 adv Price: Free Price: £14 adv Times: 7.30pm The Fall Times: 8pm - 11pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms Made to measure beats, breaks, chunks, Price: £14 adv bumps and off the peg visual treats sat 05/03 Times: tbc seamlessly put together by Invisible Jim Expect on stage fi ghting from Mark E and friends. Thirteen Senses Smith and his gang. With Support from Venue: The Rescue Rooms John Cooper Clarke Price: £9 adv tue 22/03 To get your events Times: Early show with 10.15pm fi nish The Ga’ Ga’s Saxon as club night follows Venue: Rock City Venue: Rock City listed in this magazine, Price: £5 Price: £15 adv get them listed on Ted Leo / The Pharmacists Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Venue: Maze Engelbert Humperdinck the website! Price: £6 (£5 adv) Westlife Venue: Royal Centre Times: 10pm - 2am Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: £25.50 - £29.50 Ted Leo is a Washington DC native Price: £27.50 Times: 7.30pm and long-time hero of the US indie / Times: 7.30pm www.LeftLion.co.uk hardcore set. Together with his band The For the last two years Westlife have been [email protected] Pharmacists he fuses Washington DC fri 11/03 the biggest selling arena act in Europe. punk and the Celtic soul of Thin Lizzy and How scary is that? If you are planning to Blue Dexy’s Midnight Runners. go to this gig then you should probably Venue: Nottingham Arena put this magazine down straight away Price: £25 and instead head to WH Smiths to pick Nooooooooo..... up your copy of Smash Hits.

Notts’ 10’s Reference Chart February ‘05 1. Break - Z-Groove (Quarantine) Stepping drum patterns and serious bass 5. Breakage - Staggered Dub 8. D.Kay & DJ Lee - Rain (Timeless) from a leader of the nu skool (Critical) Reggae dub monster from king Music in the minor key straight out of of the amens Vienna 2. Calyx - Tearing Us Apart (Moving Shadow) Bass so heavy it vomits all 6. DJ Pan - Next 2 U (dub) 9. Cyantifi c - La Riviera (Hospital) over you. Nasty Detroit techno in a d&b framework, Electro funk from Hospital’s highly under- coming straight out of Eindhoven rated duo 3. D.Kay & Kasra - Babylon (dub) Pure liquid smoothness from D.Kay and 7. Calibre - Can’t Stop This Fire 10. Nu Yorican Soul - Black Gold of Kasra (Bassbin) Deep, musical grooves that the Sun (Talkin Loud) Downtempo could convert even the most ardent anti- beats to lush d&b over a 10 minute 4. Commix - Turn It Around (Liquid d&b head journey V) Deep rollidge forthcoming on Bryan G’s Liquid V label www.HeavyRepercussion.co.uk

listings... live music/clubs/comedy/exhibitions/theatre thu 10/02 fri 18/02 fri 25/02 Period Of February / March Dogmatic Simply the Bomb Home Tape is Killing Music Drum and Bass House, Tech House, Breaks Style: Style: Style: Punk, Indy Dogma The Bomb Venue: Venue: Venue: The Social £2 £5 Club Nights Price: Price: Price: Free 10pm - 2am 10pm - 4am Times: Times: Times: 10.30pm - 2am Daniel Donnachie wed 02/02 Soul:ution feat: DJ’s C60 & F.ck Marcus Intalex, Catalyst, MC DRS Repercussion Simply the Bomb Style: Drum and Bass Style: House, Tech House, Breaks Venue: Snug fri 11/02 Venue: The Bomb Price: £5 Simply the Bomb Price: £5 Times: 10pm - 2am Style: House, Tech House, Breaks Times: 10pm - 4am DJ Lee, Cyantifi c, MC Q-Dini, Venue: The Bomb Neon Heights Album Launch Party Trouble, Repercussion DJs, Price: £5 MC Manikular, Reason Soundsystem Times: 10pm - 4am Demo sat 26/02 Inland Knights Kombination Funk Venue: BluePrint thu 03/03 Style: Drum and Bass, Techno Price: £1.50 Union City Blue Camoufl age Venue: BluePrint Times: 9pm - 3am Venue: The Bomb 1st Birthday Party Part One Price: £5 Price: £4 (NUS Discount) Style: HipHop, Breaks Times: 10.30pm - late Simply the Bomb Times: 10pm - late Venue: Stealth Brutal Recordings Launch Party! Style: House, Tech House, Breaks Price: Adv £7 NUS/B4 11 £8 /£9 Drum and Bass room featuring Exile - Venue: The Bomb Speakers Push The Air Times: 10pm-3.30am Live! (Beta), Lynkx b2b Awax (Brutal), Price: £5 Venue: The Social 808 State, Bonobo, Kids in Tracksuits, Dyazide (Brutal), Lowkey (KF, Brutal) and Times: 10pm - 4am Price: Free Aled Jones, TToo-B,oo-B, T-Cutt,T-Cutt, Swiz,Swiz, Dubfella, MCs Ninety, Menace, Dreama. Techno Shrewd Sound System Times: 10.30pm - 2am Windows78 room featuring Mr Seavers, Minging Live DJ’s from the Speakers crew... Mossop (Pure Filth), Mark Jacobs, Macp Remote Control Venue: Stealth fri 04/02 Sunglasses At Night Price: £10 adv £12 otd Venue: The Social Times: 10pm - 4am Simply the Bomb Price: Free Damian Lazarus (Crosstown Rebels), Style: House, Tech House, Breaks sat 12/02 Times: 9pm - 2am Luke Vibert (Wagon Christ), Demi Venue: The Bomb Psycle Sunglasses At Night’s 3rd Birthday! (Deeper Substance), Dave Congreve, Price: £5 Style: Psy-Trance With special guest tbc Matt Tolfrey Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: BluePrint Bent, Percussion, With Koolkat Classics Price: £5 Chibuku Shake Shake Phazed Out presents Visions Joe Shotter and Cozzie Times: 10.30pm - late Venue: Stealth Style: Hard Dance, Trance Full On Psychedelic Fun with Psycho Price: £10 adv £12 otd Venue: The Edge Stink Sonic (Tribe Of Frog), Caveman, Seuss, Times: 10pm - 3.30 am Price: £7 Style: Drum and Bass Dark Angel. Chilled Rhythms: Mike Wild, 2 Many DJs, Luke Carr, Times: 10pm - late Venue: The Edge Torreador, Petran. A Melting Pot Of Music: Lewis RV, JS & Fever Jon Daniels, Benz, Sean Demaine, Price: £5 b4 12am £6 after Freebass In Dub, Mr Smith And J Miss XS, Keir, Andy King, Jamesy Times: 10pm - 4am Live drum n bass, breakbeat and funky Bugged Out sat 19/02 wed 02/03 hiphop rock sets by Nottingham’s Finest. Style: House, Breaks Pure Filth N.Y.F.T.S. Koda Vaccine DJ Sets By Strike, Venue: Stealth Style: Techno, Drum and Bass Smithy, Deep Joy, Plus Guests MC’s Price: £10 adv £12 otd Venue: BluePrint Ninja, Ninety, NME, Plus Guests Times: 10pm - 4am Price: £5 Ivan Smagghe, Erol Alkan, Kings Have Times: 10pm - late Basement Boogaloo Long Arms (live), Rob Bright, Riotous DJ Bam Bam, Small Paul, Filth Residents Style: Soul, Funk, Jazz Rockers DJ Smith & Planar, Paul Murphy & Ed Venue: Bar None Cotton Price: Free Superfl y Times: 10pm - 2am Venue: The Social Spam Residents Nick Shaw, Ed Cotton Price: Free Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 10.30pm - 2am Price: £5 (£4 adv) Spectrum Birthday Part 1 Pete Jordan & Friends Times: 10.15pm - 2am Style: Breaks Vinyl Jacks plays 60’s Soul, pop, psyche Venue: Stealth Firefl y vs Atomic-Jam and mod. BBC 1Xtra presents Repercussion’s Price: £8 adv £10 otd Style: Techno 2nd Birthday Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: The Ballroom Simply the Bomb Style: Drum and Bass, Soul, Funk Evil 9 (Marine Parade),Parade), Propellerheads Price: £13 adv motd Style: House, Tech House, Breaks Venue: Snug (Will White DJ Set), Drummatic TwinsTwins Times: 10pm - 6am Venue: The Bomb Price: £5 all night (Finger Lickin), Deadly Avenger, Phantom Dave Clarke, Medicine8, Ade Fenton + Price: £5 Times: 10pm - 3am Beats, Pete Jordan, B Boy J, All Torque Chris Finke B2B, Urban Gorilla DJ’s, Jeet Times: 10pm - 4am Bad Company UK (D-Bridge), DJ Flight, Breakers Sound Alliance DJ’s Sappo, MC Rage, Repercussion DJs, Bomb Babes MC Manikular, Reason Soundsystem, sat 05/02 Venue: The Bomb Spectrum Birthday Part 2 Reference Pure Filth Price: £5 Style: Breaks Style: Techno Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: Stealth As well as being Repercussion’s 2nd Venue: BluePrint AKA Rita (Pushka), Deckjerks, Tantrum Price: £10 adv £12 otd Birthday, this event will be broadcast live Price: £5 Times: 10pm - 4am on BBC 1Xtra from 12-2am on Digital Times: 10.30pm - late wed 16/02 Plump DJ’DJ’ss (fi nger lickin), PetePete Jordan, Radio and the Internet, plus DJ Flight’s Aaron Liberator, Filth Residents, DJ Smith Camoufl age Clive Morley (platform 12), Dave show broadcast 10pm-12am from a & Planar, Paul Murphy & Ed Cotton First Birthday Part Two Boultbee secret Nottingham location! Style: HipHop Simply the Bomb Venue: The Rescue Rooms Style: House, Tech House, Breaks Price: £8.50adv fri 25/02 Venue: The Bomb Times: 8pm - Midnight Noodles Price: £5 The Beatnuts, Karizma & Foz, C.O.L.D, Style: Funk, Soul, Breaks thu 03/03 Times: 10pm - 4am T-Cutt, Swiz Venue: Bar None Speakers Push The Air Michael Morph, with Back to Barrios Price: Free Venue: The Social upstairs and Dave Smith (Funky Monkey) thu 17/02 Times: 9pm - 2am Price: Free Union City Blue With Resident DJ Beane Times: 10.30pm - 2am Renaissance Venue: The Bomb Style: House Price: £4 Bladerunner - The Cult Venue: Stealth Times: 10pm - late Style: Hiphop Price: £10 adv Kev La Voi Venue: The Castle Times: 10pm - 4am Price: Free Lottie, Desyn Masiello, Aldrin (Zouk, HSC Homosapian Club One Two HQ DJ’s, Warpsound, Teka, Singapore), Marcus James, Sonny Wharton Style: HipHop, Breaks Detonate Mister Shifter, Ligre Venue: The Social Style: Drum and Bass, HipHop, Breaks Soulsavers Price: Free Venue: Stealth Sondre Lerche fri 04/03 Venue: The Social Times: 9pm- 2am Price: £10 Venue: The Social Price: Free DJ Element & Dan Rattomatic Times: 10pm - 4am Price: £7adv Times: 10.30pm - 2am Drum and Bass room featuring Adam Times: 7pm-10pm Scarface - The Cult F, Bailey, Transit Mafi a, Steppa, SP MC tue 10/02 Style: Hiphop and MC Biggie. Hip Hop room featuring Basement Boogaloo Fat Jam Venue: Alley Cafe Rodney P with a live band, Santero and Style: Soul, Funk, Jazz Style: House, Deep House Price: Free Detail. Beats and Breaks room with DJ Venue: Bar None Venue: The Bomb Theologic (Prescription), Cam, Fluff and Problem Child Price: Free Price: £4 (NUS Discount) Dubfella (Camoufl age), Times: 10pm - 2am Times: 10pm - late S1 (Prescription) Residents Nick Shaw, Ed Cotton Nico D, Mennis listings... live music/clubs/comedy/exhibitions/theatre fri 04/03 fri 18/03 sundays Soulsavers Kombination Funk Weekly Club Nights Sunday Bounce Venue: The Social Style: Drum and Bass, Techno Style: RnB, Bashment Price: Free Venue: BluePrint fridays Venue: The Edge Times: 10.30pm - 2am Price: £8 Fridays Price: £3 DJ’s Rich Machin & Friends Times: 10.30pm - late Audio Times: 10pm - 1am Room 1: Renegade Hardware Tour Style: Funk, Soul, Disco Loxy & Ink with MC 2Shy (Renegade Venue: Snug Out To Lunch sat 05/03 Hardware), Repercussion DJs (Reference Price: £5 (£3 b4 10.30pm) Style: Jazz Renaissance & Ollie K), Lowkey (KF, Brutal), Times: 10pm - 3am Venue: Dogma Style: House MCs 2Shy, Menace & Ninety Price: Free Venue: Stealth Room 2: Techno Booty Bassline House Times: Afternoon Price: £10 adv Macp, Mark Jacobs, & more Style: House, Deep House Less of a club night and more of an Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: The Edge experience, featuring Sunday jazz and Cosmos aka Tom Middleton (DJ Set), Sunglasses At Night Price: £7 beats to ease away the night before. Infusion Live, Mark Knight, Marcus Venue: The Social Times: 10pm - late James, Can’t Mix Wont Mix Allstars Price: Free Room 1 featuring Get Niche’d Residents Times: 9pm - 2am DJ SLK, Mr Spock, Nico D and special mondays Pure Filth Machines Live guests. Room 2 House Anthems, Club Recover! Style: Techno, Drum and Bass Classics and Old Skool Rave with Venue: BluePrint sat 19/03 Universal Groove Radio Price: £8 Spam Dusk tuesdays Times: 10.30pm - late Venue: The Rescue Rooms Atomic Style: HipHop, Soul British Murder Boys Price: £5 (£4 adv) Style: Eighties, Nineties Venue: Snug Times: 10.15pm - 2am Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £4 Liars Club 2nd Birthday VinylJacks plays 6Ts - soul pop psyche Price: £4 Times: 10pm - 3am Style: Indy and mod Times: 10.30pm - 2am Venue: The Social Retro night featuring 2 decades of music Crash Price: £3 adv £4 otd Firefl y Style: Indy, Alternative Times: 9pm - 2am Style: Techno Love Shack Venue: The Rig Punish The Atom live and DJ’s Erol Alkan, Venue: The Ballroom Style: Eighties Price: £2 / £3 Riotous Rockers (Bugged Out, Club Times: 10pm - 6am Venue: Rock City Times: 9.30pm - 2am NME), Ricky Haley and Cerys Jeff Mills + More tbc. Price: £4 adv £5 otd Times: 9.30pm - 2am wednesdays fri 11/03 The Big Wednesday Camoufl age Tiger Style Style: Alternative, Rock, Pop Style: HipHop, Breaks Style: Breaks Venue: The Cookie Club Venue: Stealth Venue: Stone Price: £2.50 Times: 10pm - 4am Price: Free Times: 10.30 - 2am Featuring Massive Attack veteran Daddy Demo Times: 9pm - 1am G and The Bays live. Venue: BluePrint Pete Jordan, Future Proof Dogmatic thursdays Price: £1.50 Style: Varies Times: 9pm - 3am Salt Venue: Dogma sat 12/03 Style: HipHop, House, Breaks Price: £2 Venue: Dogma Times: 10pm - 2am Detonation vs Kombination Funk thu 24/03 Price: Free Style: Drum and Bass Industry Productions Times: Until 2am Mirrorball Venue: The Ballroom Venue: Snug Style: RnB, Disco, Funk Price: £15 adv Times: 10pm - 3am Venue: Snug Times: 10pm - 6am Las Vegas Style!!! saturdays Price: £4 Swift & MC IC3, Hype & MC Fats, ED Rescued Times: 10pm - 3am Rush & MC GQ, Bassline Smith & MC Liars Club Style: Indy, Alternative Spyda, Dom & Roland & SP MC, Transit Style: Indy Venue: The Rescue Rooms Up the Junction Mafi a & MC E-LL, Lowkey & MC Menace Venue: The Social Times: 10pm - 2am Style: Sixties Price: £3 adv £4 otd Venue: The Cookie Club Bugged Out Times: 9pm - 2am Rise and Shine / Funk You Price: £2.50 Style: House, Breaks DJ’s Riotous Rockers (Bugged Out, Club Style: Indy, Alternative, Funk Disco Times: 10.30pm - 2am Venue: Stealth NME), Ricky Haley Cerys. Live Bands tbc Venue: The Cookie Club An evening of tunes ranging from Price: £10 adv £12 otd Price: £5 Beatlemania, Mod, beatpop, Soul, Times: 10pm - 4am Times: 10.30pm - 2am Motown and psychedelia. fri 25/03 Noodles Stylus Tuned Style: Funk, Soul, Breaks Style: HipHop, RnB, Soul Style: Indy, Alternative, Pop Venue: Bar None Venue: Snug Venue: Rock City Price: Free Price: Free Price: £4/£3.50 Times: 9pm - 2am Times: til 2am Times: 8.30pm - 2am With Resident DJ Beane Expect an eclectic mix spanning soulful Psycle house, hip hop, RnB, soul/funk, Drum & Ish Style: Trance, Drum and Bass Elation Bass, peppered with old school and party Style: HipHop Venue: BluePrint Venue: BluePrint classics. Venue: BluePrint Price: £5 Price: £tbc Price: £2.50 Times: 10.30pm - late Times: 10pm - late Platinum Times: 10pm - late Style: House, Breaks Residents Dirty Joe and Furious P host Phased Out Presents - Visions Venue: The Edge with guest DJ’s and an Open Mic. Style: Hard Dance, Trance Price: £5 Venue: The Edge Times: 10pm - late Funk’d Up Price: £7 Resident DJ’s: Mattski, The Alchemist, Style: Funky House, Deep House Times: 10pm - late Maxi, Deano, Slippy Ian, Stef, Morph Venue: The Edge Jon Daniels, Benz, Sean Demaine, Miss Room 1: House, Trance, and Hard Dance Price: £4 Pulp Fiction - The Cult XS, Keir, Andy King, Jamesy Room 2: Funky Beats, Deep Bass House Times: 10pm - 2.30am Style: Drum and Bass and Electro Breaks Venue: Cafe El Gordos Liars Club sat 26/03 Club NME Price: Free Style: Indy Distortion Style: Rock, Indy, Alternative Times: 8pm - 12am Venue: The Social Style: Rock, Indy, Alternative Venue: Stealth DJ’s Mouse (Cult), Ollie K (Repercussion), Price: £tbc Venue: Rock City Price: £2 - £4 Reference (Repercussion) and Timmy Times: 8pm - 12am Price: £5 Times: 10pm - 2am (LeftLion) Patrick Wolf and Guests Times: 9pm - 2.30am Various Bands - Check LeftLion.co.uk

Notts’ 10’s Lowkey Chart February ‘05 1) Sadistic - Fatal (unsigned) 4) We Are Still Here - Fatal & Raw Wicked new tune from KF’s new resident, (Blade) Another stormer from Fatal, this 7) Off The Rails - Dkay & Verse 9) One Cut (Technical Itch Remix) Fatal. Tough synth riff with heavy rolling ones seen some serious rotation from the (Crunch Recordings). This is the 1st - Skitty (Wildstyle). Some serious nas- beats. There’s been some interest from big guns like ‘Rider, and Dylan. Expect release on Verse’s new Crunch label. tiness from Tech Itch on the remix tip. some very big labels on this one! this one in the middle of the year. Hopefully the shape of things to come for The original is one of Skitty’s best tunes this label; more tribal breaks and heavy to date and this is a top quality remix. 2) Infusion - Dataset (Brutal 5) The Dark Inside Me (Mumblz & b-lines, this one tears dancefl oors apart. Recordings) Two-step amens and a Matt6 Remix) - Physe (LA Abstract) 10) Defcom 69 - Total Science tearing lead-line make this one a dance- One for the dark headz. Proper amen 8) Disco Beat - Dataset (Brutal (MetalHeadz). Massive tune from Total fl oor smasher for the labels 1st release. rinse-out, cut up breaks with some Recordings). The AA side for Brutal’s Science, old skool stabs and some LFO brilliant samples. 1st release, stomping amen breaks with bass make this one a favourite in clubs

3) Staggered Dub - Breakage 6) Martians Pt 2 - Dkay (Brigand) heavy switches every 16 bars and a across the country. (Critical) Superb amen workout from Austria’s Dkay is on fi re at the moment, great sample before the drop. Breakage with a lovely ‘Dubby’ vocal and this one’s got a heavy tribal beat with www.brutal-recordings.co.uk some seriously heavy sub bass. excellent bassline switches. listings... live music/clubs/comedy/exhibitions/theatre

sun 13/02 sun 06/03 Exhibitions Period of February - March Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £7 / £4 Pass the Time of Day sat 26/01 Comedy Times: 7pm Venue: Angel Row Gallery Jason Byrne on tour 2005 Price: Free Times: 10am - 5pm tue 01/02 Just the Tonic Just the Tonic Pass the Time of Day is curated by artist Cabaret Venue: Venue: Cabaret Paul Rooney and draws on his interest £10 / £8 tue 15/02 Price: Lee Mack Price: £10 / £8 in the social and personal aspects of 7pm Times: Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Times: 7pm popular entertainment, such as music, Daniel Kitson is back in town, shuffling Price: £14 (£12 concessions) Ed Byrne. Irish comedy and storytelling. The exhibition about and being funny. Times: 8pm funnyman on tour. explores the potential of sound and

music to transform the commonplace and

Get A Grip communicate the strangeness of routine, The Social Jongleurs thu 17/02 thu 10/03 Venue: Jongleurs daily existence. Price: Free / £2 Venue: Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Runs Until: 12/3 Bill Bruce, Iszi Lawrence, Janice Phayre, Price: From £8 Price: From £8 Adam Howe and compere Spiky Mike. Bennett Arron, R David, Rudi Lickwood, Gavin Webster, Stephen Ricky Grover, Andy Askins Grant, Dave Williams Runs Until: 19/2 tue 15/02 wed 02/02 Runs Until: 12/3 Print Open 2005 Just the Tonic Venue: Surface Gallery Venue: Cabaret sun 20/02 Price: Free £1.50 Price: Just the Tonic sun 13/03 Together with 3D/installation, Lens Based 7pm Times: Venue: Cabaret Just the Tonic and 2D shows this show will present a See six comedians for only £1.50! Price: £7adv Venue: Cabaret selected survey of the visual arts in the

Times: 7pm Price: £7adv UK to the City of Nottingham.

thu 03/02 Stewart Lee and Josie Long Times: 7pm Runs Until: 21/2

Jongleurs Alun Cochrun, Izy Suttie, Act TBC, Venue: Jongleurs Darrell Martin Price: From £8 tue 22/02 sat 19/02 Carey Marx, Alex Boardman, Addy Borgh, Get A Grip Pommy Johnson tue 15/03 Venue: The Social Get A Grip Sea Change - Anthony Hopewell Runs Til: 6/2 Price: £5 / £3 NUS Venue: The Social Venue: Lakeside

Michael Fabbri. Inkey Jones Matt Green Price: £5 / £3 NUS Price: Free sun 06/02 Off The Cuff Improv and compere Spiky Times: All Day Mike. thu 17/03 Using the forensic aesthetic of large Jongleurs format photography, Anthony Hopewell Venue: Jongleurs explores the fugitive geography of the thu 24/02 Price: From £8 tidal reaches of the Thames estuary from Jongleurs Addy Borgh, Colin Cole Southend to Ramsgate. Single images Venue: Jongleurs Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolf III concentrate on the notion of usage, Price: From £8 Runs Until: 19/3 focussing on the various demands of

Just the Tonic Ronnie Edwards, Mike Milligan, leisure, housing, industry and transport. Cabaret Venue: Mark Hurst, Dave Johns The intention of these photographs is £9 / £6 sun 20/03 Price: Runs Til: 26/2 Just the Tonic to arouse curiosity about areas of the 7pm Times: Venue: Cabaret coastline which are not considered Rich Hall, Alan Carr and Darrell Martin Price: £7 / £4 “beautiful” in the traditional sense, but sun 27/02 Times: 7pm where the interaction of the man-made Andre Vincent, Steve Day, Act TBC with the natural environment creates its Darrell Martin own aesthetic. Runs Until: 27/3 tue 22/03 Get A Grip Venue: The Social sat 26/02 Price: Free / £2 Echoes, Memories, Dreams Chris Roche, Dave Longley, Rob Riley, Venue: Lakeside Jim Shields, Jared Goodhead, Richard Price: Free Holmes, Andy Watson. Compere Spiky Times: Mon - Sat 11am-5pm Mike. Sun/Bank Hols 12pm - 5pm Michael Dan Archer’s sculptures evoke historic structures, archaeology and an Jongleurs thu 24/03 enigmatic atmosphere of the remote

Venue: Jongleurs past. The core of this exhibition is

Tony Robinson’s Cunning Night Out Price: From £8 formed by a new cycle of work strongly Playhouse Venue: Sean Collins, Geoff Boyz, Tony Burgess, influenced by the artist’s travels and £15 Price: Miles Crawford contact with different cultures across the Times: 8pm Runs Until: 26/3 world. Runs Until: 10/4 “Tony Robinson’s autobiographical tale is told at breakneck speed as, with help Just the Tonic from the audience, he cunningly weaves Venue: Cabaret Just the Tonic sun 27/03 together the disparate strands of his life Price: £7 / £4 Venue: Cabaret To get your events and career into an evening of madcap Times: 7pm Price: £8 / £5 entertainment.” Mike Wilmot, Josh Howie, Act TBC, Times: 7pm listed in this magazine, Darrell Martin Bank Holiday Special, Jason Rouse, thu 10/02 Alistair Barry, Eddy Brimson, Andy get them listed on thu 03/03 Robinson the LeftLion website! Jongleurs Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Price: From £8 Price: From £8 Jongleurs thu 31/03 Mickey Hutton, Rex Boyd, Marty Wilson, Nick Wilty, Curtis Walker, Venue: Jongleurs www.LeftLion.co.uk Michael McIntyre Otiz Cannelloni, Drew Barr Price: From £8 Runs Until: 12/2 Runs Until: 5/3 John Mann, Richard Morton, Tom Stade, [email protected] Andrew Murrell

Notts’ 10’s Reason Sound System Chart Feb ‘05 compiled by Michael Greenwell 1) Roy Ayres, Running Away (Ubiquity) 4) The Last Poets, Niggers Are Scared from Georgey boy and inevitably has James bitch! (R.I.P 2004) A great one for negotiating woman Of Revolution (??? - 1970) Heard this been sampled more recently, though in trouble. Timeless soul. poem done by someone else on a techno. 9) Amp Fiddler - Love and War (Live Moodymann mix, tracked down the in Paris) Amazing deep soul from the 2) Theo Parish, Sawala Sawale (Sound original. Gil Scott Heron style stuff with 7) 10,000 Things, Damaged Goods Detroit boy, great version of this even Signature) No idea where the Detroit more balls and blackness. (Warner Chappel) Great Gang of Four improvising into Edwin Star. Loads man has his head here. Dance music cover for the lads new single, paying better live than the album. for in 20 years time, when we all live in 5) Coach House Rhythm Section, homage to fellow this Leeds band who pods. Timewarp (Strut) Instrumental of Eddie have just reformed and have been 10) Arthur Russell, In the Cornbelt Grant’s original. Freaky electro-disco amazing. 10,000 Things will be in Notts (Souljazz) Freaky as, with Arthur’s 3) Dalindeo, Solifer-Lento (Ricky Tick that does not stop. in February. vocals, mad synths and all the rest. Records) Amazing new single from the 5 Don’t know what this guy was on, but Corners Quintet label. Deep nu-jazz in a 6) P-Funk Allstars, Hydraulic Pump 8) Rick James, Superfreak (???) this is mesmerising. Brazilian folk fashion. (???) Downloaded after seeing it appear Got into this again recently, famously in Greg Wilson’s chart. Relentless funk sampled by MC Hammer. He’s Rick www.wearethecult.co.uk listings... clubs/live music/comedy/exhibitions/theatre

Period of February / March mon 07/02 fri 25/02 thu 17/03 Pygmalion Venue: Lace Market Theatre Theatre The George Bernard Shaw play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady. When phoneticist Henry Higgings takes up the tue 01/02 challenge to transform a cockney fl ower girl into a duchess he fails to consider Playboy of the West Indies that his creation may have a mind of her Venue: Playhouse own. Directed by Geoff Longbottom Price: £6 - £20 Runs Until: 12/2 Times: 7.45pm J. M. Synge’s ironic comedy Playboy Of The Western World caused a public Chicago mon 14/02 scandal when it was fi rst performed at Venue: Royal Centre Ireland’s Abbey Theatre in 1907. This Price: £10 - £29.50 Riverdance seminal work has been relocated to The razmatazz Broadway musical comes Venue: Nottingham Arena Trinidad in Mustapha. It doesn’t take to the Royal Centre for a stint featuring Price: £32 much to become a hero in the sleepy Wet Wet Wet singer Marti Pellow. Times: Various village of Mayaro, Trinidad. So when a Runs Until: 26/2 Of all the performances to emerge from stranger runs into Peggy’s rum shop Satin n Steel Ireland in the past decade, nothing has announcing he has killed his father, he tue 15/02 Venue: Playhouse quite caught the imagination quite as becomes the envy of the men and an Price: £6 - £20 much as Micheal Flatley’s leg shakingly object of desire for the women. Directed Times: 7.45pm crazy Riverdance. It is a celebration of by Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of The Nottingham writer Amanda Whittington Irish dance and culture, featuring people Tricycle. takes her inspiration from the showbiz doing dances that look to the untrained Runs Until: 12/2 world of the club circuit, cruise ship and eye a bit like a Monty Python sketch. holiday camp for the heart-warming Enjoy! comedy Satin ‘N’ Steel. Satin ‘N’ Steel Runs Until: 20/3 was developed into a full script from a 10 tue 01/02 minute short which was performed at the Get Shortie festival in 2002. The Vince Moscow City Ballet Present Steel Experience needs a shake-up. A mon 21/03 The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and The karaoke competition at the Rainworth Nutcracker Miners Welfare Club brings Vince Steel Venue: Royal Centre and Teena White together in an explosion Price: £10.50 - £28.50 of talent and creativity. As the all-singing Times: 7.30pm + matinees and all-dancing Satin ‘n’ Steel duo, they set their hearts on making the big time. The acclaim of Moscow City Ballet’s As love blossoms between the pair, it frequent international tours has long seems nothing could go wrong, but a established their reputation as one guilty secret threatens to jeopardise their of Russia’s leading ballet companies. designs for super-stardom. Every year they gain new audiences Little Sweet Thing Runs Until: 12/3 Love Shack countrywide whilst thrilling existing loyal Venue: Playhouse Venue: Royal Centre fans and selling out theatre after theatre. Price: £6 - £20 Price: £12 - £25 This outstanding Company of over Times: 7.45pm Times: 7.30pm 70, plus full orchestra, is returning to Kev is just out of the Young Offenders New pop musical, starring former pop Nottingham with three productions Institute and is determined to keep his stars Jon Lee (S Club) and Faye Tozer Sleeping Beauty nose clean, but back on the streets the thu 09/03 (Steps). One for the kids perhaps... Monday 31st & Tuesday 1st pressure is mounting as his mate Ryan Grimm Tales Runs Until: 26/3 Giselle begs Kev to help him deal again. Kev’s Venue: Lace Market Theatre sister Tash is also in trouble she’s tough Based on the fairy tales of the Grimm Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd Stepping Out tue 29/03 when she’s fi ghting at school, but she’d brothers, such as Rapunzel and Hansel Nutcracker Venue: Royal Centre really rather hang out with soft Zoe and and Gretal, these familiar short plays will Friday 4th & Saturday 5th Price: £tbc be played as an ensemble by members of Runs Until: 5/2 shy Nathan. Gang warfare, violence and Richard Harris’ award winning comedy the Nottingham Youth Theatre. Directed young love are all ingredients of this about the lives, loves and laughs of a explosive cocktail looking at life in multi- by Sarah Kerry weekly tap dancing class cultural Britain for two black teenagers. 12/3 tue 01/02 Runs Until: Runs Until: 2/4 Runs Until: 19/2

Dracula tue 15/02 Venue: Royal Centre Price: £tbc The classic tale of undying love and bloodsucking. Jonathon Harker gets it in the neck from the count... Runs Until: 19/2

fri 25/02 Thick as Thieves Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Scooby Doo in Stage Fright Price: £10 /£7 concessions Venue: Royal Centre Times: 8pm Price: £15 - £19.50 Barry Ireland and Steph Aston, are two The nations favourite funky cartoon dog hapless burglars, whose life of crime graduates to the stage in this production takes an unexpected turn for the worse. of the 70’s whodunnit cartoon. Watch out “Our hero’s are a classic double act... for the man in the mask... reminiscent of a decent John Godber.” Runs Until: 5/2 Time Out Runs Until: 26/2

Notts’ 10’s Windows 78 Chart February ‘05 1. Dave Clarke and Mr Lif, Blue On Recordings) Follow up to the still massive 6. Kyza, Real Rap / Devil In A Dress 8. Dead Prez, Its Bigger Than Hip Hop Blue (Skint) Hip Hop banga from the ‘Rugged Wid It’ DJ Mentat hooks up with (Kemet) Now as Klash-Nek Off is blowing (Relativity) Heavy, Heavy, Heavy Track.... techno DJ and Def Jux MC. Skinnyman for this heavy weight track... up (and signed apparently) it’s the turn say no more! of the next in line in the Terra Firma crew 2. Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, 5. Evil Ed, The Enthusiast (Janomi) Long to break on his own. Two Joe Buhdah 9. Nostalgia 77 : Seven Nation Army EP My World Premier (Stones Throw) All awaited debut album from UK super productions on this 12 - one funky horn (Tru Thoughts) 77 takes on the White time classic single - The fi rst Stones producer with the cream of the UK’s stabbed number and a deeper string Stripes and wins out with the excellent Throw release! fi nest MCs. The beats are smoke-fuelled swept fl avour on the fl ip. vocals of Alice Russell. but well crafted and the album hangs 3. The Beatnuts, Off The Books (Rela- together better than a lot of these multi 7. Roots Manuva, Colossal Insight (Big 10. Any Thing from Dealmaker tivity) Stone Cold Nuts classic that never MC affairs. Vocals come from Jehst, Yun- Dada) Awesome return from the don of Records!!! Check out www.dealmaker- fails to rock a party - essential.... gun, Ricochet, Kyza, The Colony, Tommy UK hip hop! The fi rst track sees old Rod- records.com - “Departure Lounge” - Out Evans, Jibbarish, Doc Brown, Lost Souls, ney pushing his sound forward with some Soon. 4. DJ Mentat and Skinnyman, When Junior Disprol, Asaviour and the Micro- fucked up sonics and heavy lyrics. I Give My Heart To You (Beat Asylum disiacs. www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 25

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All the answers in this crossword are the names of bands, DJ’s, 1 2 musicians and artists with a link to the city of Nottingham. 3

2 across 4 2 across & 1 down: long haired singer who will tell you where to go (8,3) 3 3 across: Cruella is out for the old crew (3,2,5) 4 across: She sounds angry, putting a European representative in the territorial 5 army. (5) 4 5 6 5&6 across: Sell the chest or ear for this band of singers (7,9) 7 across: A penchant for curves (4) 7 11 across: Underground rapper with a trademark in twisted pain (6) 6 12 across: Colourful ape with a trappist in the shade (9) 14 across: The Muppet bear, why not? (4) 7

8 down 8 9 2 down & 1 across: They come from two positions, making moss erect! (6,3) 10 10 3 down & 10 across: Mob dancing In van (7,5) 4 down & 6 down: Do their suits help these children make ‘in’ tracks? (4,10) 11 7 down & 13 across: Love found in a toy, but without confidence (2,3) 12 13 5 down: Would she con me? I don’t see why, as she is true to the streets (5) 8 down & 9 across: Mad member of the club! (5,5) 9 down & 8 across: Group mixed up in a peal caper (5,4) 14 10 down: Raps with a lid at the post office (5)

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Roger Mean’s Rocky Horrorscopes Aries (March 20 - April 20) Libra (September 23 - October 23) The alignment of the stars will make you go a bit wild this winter. Avoid full Dagenham Dave will come through with the shipment on the 21st, as planned. moons and old men with walking sticks. If they try to talk to you then don’t But this is not a month to rest on your laurels! The police know where the feel rude ignoring them or even going so far as to shout in their face. It’s all bodies are buried, and Venus suggests travel in your future. Remember, you they know and they will respect you for it… can run, but you can’t hide! Go down with all guns blazing.

Taurus (April 20 - May 21) Scorpio (October 23 - November 23) Make sure you are out of the house on the 8th, defi nitely between 7-10. I and No-one likes you. Sorry, I meant to say “no-one likes you more than me”. And my associates will enter through the upstairs bathroom window and ensure it’s true. I think you’re a lovely little ray of golden sunshine, a real credit to all evidence is removed. Leave the useful fee under seat D13 at the theatre your species. But even I think you need a haircut. Really! You’re starting to during the performance which I gave you tickets for. Keep your mouth shut look like the back end of a sheep. thereafter. Sagittarius (22 - December 22) Gemini (May 21 - June 21) This month, your partner will leave you, you will be sacked from your job, Despite your conviction that you really know what’s best for everyone, you’re your house will burn down and you can also expect death in the family. actually full of shit! Lead by example instead of lecturing. Give up your job There’s nothing you or anyone else can do. It’s written in the stars, and the at the university and join a traveling circus. It’s the only way to fulfi ll your stars don’t lie, you snivelling little bitch. But let’s face it, you can’t say you destiny… don’t deserve it.

Cancer (June 21 - July 23) Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) Some of those items that you bought in the January sales will come back to Expect embarrassment on the 16th when the photos come back from Boots haunt you! That pink lycra all in one suit is unlikely to ever make it out of your and the girl on the counter tuts right in your face. Don’t be disheartened wardrobe. Also what were you thinking with that bag of dogs? though – your internet pornography venture is about to bear fruit. That’s right, www.fruitybears.com is go! Leo (July 23 - August 23) Your artistic streak will come to the fore this month as the ideas in your head Aquarius (January 20 - February 19) begin to form on a page or a canvas. You should attempt to revisit a night Do you wonder why things keep catching fi re whenever you’re around? of laughter you attended late last year. Get back in touch with a bearded Newspapers, shops, cattle, things like that? Puzzled by the empty matchboxes stranger if you think you may have been too hasty… you keep fi nding in your jacket pockets? Confused by the wary and suspicious looks you keep receiving from friends, family and colleagues? It could be time Virgo (August 23 - September 23) to quit drinking… You are not getting any younger and you can’t turn back the clock. Unfortunately the device that will do this is not due to be invented until 2077 Pisces (February 19 - March 20) (by which time you will be dead). The only way to preserve yourself until Strange things are afoot at the Circle K! Don’t fear the reaper. If the Melvin then, is to either make a lot of money quickly or stealthily hide out in Iceland doesn’t work on him, then challenge him to a game of battleships or twister. (supermarket). Give your respects to Rufus, who will be hiding out, watching your back (dressed as Pam Grier). Be excellent to one another.

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