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LeftLion Magazine Issue 13 First off, a welcome to all the students October-November 2006 4. Notts The Nine O’Clock News arriving into Nottingham. This city is geared towards going out and when the universities close over summer everything Editor 5. Go Out To Play goes quiet. Club nights shut, pubs are Jared Wilson ([email protected]) 6. Totally Orson, Dude empty, shops close early and all the eye Deputy Editors candy goes south. So we’re glad you’re Al Needham ([email protected]) back and hope you enjoy the place like we Nathan Miller ([email protected]) 7. Divine Inspiration do! We’ve even put together a Nottingham Zoo centrespread, to guide you around Technical Director 8. LeftLion Extravaganza some of the species you may find in town. Alan Gilby ([email protected])

Artistic Director 10. Sounds of the Streets Preparing this issue has been full of David Blenkey ([email protected]) ups and downs. Ghostface Killah of the 13. The Hooded Man Wu Tang was going to be in here, but Listings Editors unfortunately we found out too late that Florence Gohard ([email protected]) his watch operates on ‘hiphop time’. Tim Bates ([email protected]) 16. Bruce Almighty/Cool for Cats Instead you’ll probably see that interview on LeftLion.co.uk soon (he plays Rock City Music Editor Sadie Rees-Hales ([email protected]) 17. Charitable Boy on 3 October). Jonas Armstrong (the new BBC Robin Hood) was also going to chat Proofreaders 18. John McGregor to us, but then someone nicked the master Charlotte Kingsbury ([email protected]) tapes of the new series and he had to go Natasha Chowdhury 19. Prepare for Lif Off and refilm. Grrr!

Photography Editor But this is still our biggest issue ever! Dom Henry ([email protected]) 20. Spaced Out Inside these 48 pages you’ll find Photographers interviews with Badly Drawn Boy, The Kevin Lake ([email protected]) 21. Buzz Lightyears Divine Comedy, Mr Lif, Sparklehorse and Matt Dalton Orson, as well as some proper skill acts Jon Rouston 23. Nottingham Zoo from the neighbourhood. It was nice to get Rapunzel Map in here. She’s one Illustrators of the most underrated artists in Notts Rob White ([email protected]) 27. Artists Profiles Rikki Marr ([email protected]) and a good friend of the LeftLion crew. Likewise with the bands on the October Contributors 28. Nottingham Zoo continued Extravaganza line-up, we’ve chosen them Amanda Young all because we really liked them when they Andy Clydesdale 31. NOW that’s what I call Art last played in front of our sticky banner. Dannii Leivers So, come along and catch five of the best James Walker bands in Notts for a fiver at the Rescue Jennie Syson 32. Nottingham Events Listings Jenny Hill Rooms! Jesse Keene 43. Transatlantic Operation Michelle Bayton Jon McGregor also features in here. He’s Paul Klotschkow one of the most respected young authors Roger Mean 44. Cheese Lovers in Bohemia... Beware! in the country at the moment and has been Simon Hodge seen repping a Three LeftLion’s World Cup Tom Hathaway Nottsword/Quiz T-shirt at some of our events. Big up! 45. Magician In Residence Jack Curtis 46. Rocky Horrorscopes/Notts Trumps We relaunched LeftLion.co.uk in September and we’ll be adding more new Marketing and Sales Manager features over the coming months. Whether Ben Hacking ([email protected]) you want to find out what’s going on in town, natter with the forum crew or listen to Nish and the K play some sweet “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson local vocals via mp3, there’s something ‘onlion’ for everyone. We’re always looking LeftLion for fresh talent too, so if you want to 349a Mansfield Road contribute get in touch. Nottingham NG5 2DA 0115 9123782

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www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 3 nOTTsnOTTs TTHEHE NNINEINE O’CLOCK NEWS with Nottingham’s ‘Mr. Sex’ Al Needham BBC Radio Nottingham

I listen to Karl Cooper’s show sometimes when I’m getting ready for work. It’s fairly inoffensive stuff. Occasionally amusing, but in the sort of way that your nana would laugh at it too. Jared 1 August 3 September The Post throws up its hand in horror at the news that an Arnold A new community sentencing project where people in St Anns If you were driving past Nottingham and bloke with an ASBO for kerb-crawling is still nobbing prostitutes. and Aspley get to decide how criminals are to be dealt with is Note to police; think about putting the tag somewhere else next announced. The council had better think about getting some your radio locked on to any of the local time… gallows fitted in the new Square, then. Personally, I’d like to see the stations, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d Burberry Ape and his minging missus who nicked my phone in the leaped back twenty years. Nottingham is 2 August Social the other week be made to pick up broken glass with their changing beyond all recognition but local Hero of the bi-month: Arnold shopkeeper Kuldeep Lalli responded to arse cheeks. Live on East Midlands Today. radio hasn’t kept up at all. a chav twat robbing his store by tracking him down to his flat and Lord of the Nish pinning him down until the police arrived. Hopefully getting a few 5 September knees to the head in while he waited. Hardy and Hanson, the last Notts-owned brewery in the county, The Beat is a good show during the last is sold off to some yokels in Suffolk, ending hundreds of years of hour and a half, they play a lot of local 3 August tradition. Bah. bands. They also have a live session and Another crushing blow for the Off-Your-Face Market, as cocaine they’ve had some crackers on there as well. (which as we all know is God’s way of letting men know how it 7 September Not just your usual NME shite. feels to queue up for a nightclub toilet) worth a hundred grand is ‘Lifestyle club brand’ (retch) Gatecrasher buys Media, with… and richardsnow recovered by police on a train to Nottingham. please excuse me while I vomit on my keyboard… ‘an accent on elegant clubbing’. On the upside, they intend to restore the Grade II Since the Sunday show with Dennis 5 August listed building to its former glory. On the downside, they’ve not said A Skysurfer (whatever the fuck that is) is removed from a park in owt about changing the crap name. McCarthy I ain’t tuned in....Code 5 Dennis! Bridgford because adults are coming out the pub and quite rightly Barnze fancying a go on it. As someone who believes that the Council 8 September should pull down the current Castle and replace it with a bouncy The Post go right into one at the news that Notts County Council I like the afternoon phone-in show: one, I weep at the backwardness of this move. are ‘cancelling Christmas’ by imposing new Health and Safety “Afternoon Doris from Bulwell. How can we laws on outside decorations. About time…I’m sick of my estate help?” “Alright duck, I’ve been looking for 8 August looking like a North Korean shopping centre for three months. a bowl to keep my fruit in, it’s got to be big Rock City dishes out their most expensive ticket ever, a whopping enough for my apples and preferably made £33, for the arrival of eighties hair-and-bulge act Whitesnake. Those 9 September of glass…” Excellent stuff. armadillos down the trousers don’t come cheap, y’know. The Bar Humbug lapdancing saga drags on like a wounded MegamanX hedgehog, as the Council slap down a bid to keep it open until 10 August 4am. The owners’ plans to ensure an upmarket audience include Didn’t Radio Nottingham do a big special Nottingham East Midlands Airport reacts to recently-uncovered charging six quid a pint, proving that they’re the biggest tits before Drop In The Ocean? Gotta give them terrorist plot by going on severe lockdown, banning hand luggage, anyone has ever seen in that dump. repect for that, I guess. Also, their folk liquids and…oh, sorry about that. I stopped writing this half an music programme makes me think of my hour ago to see if there were any crumbs of weed on the carpet 13 September somewhere and now I’ve lost me thread. The Great Nottingham weed famine is in full effect. dad’s cooking. The NJM 3000 12 August 17 September Notts get skanked by Leicestershire in the final of the Twenty20 Bouncers from Templars come to the aid of another stabbing victim Cup at Trent Bridge when the umpires fail to call an obvious no-ball in town, administering first aid and alerting the authorities. Then in the final over. Grr! they told the poor sod he couldn’t come in because there was all What Have You blood on his trainers. Alright, I made that last bit up. 13 August Learned Today? A 66 year-old former rowing club president from Chilwell gets four 18 September months in the Naughty Room for lumping a woman on the head The police announce that an officer has lost fifteen rounds of If you drop a penny off the empire state with a wine bottle on a flight, after his defence that he knows ammunition somewhere in town, so do ‘em a favour and have a building it will not take a chunk out the a former Tory MP falls flat. “If it happened on a bus or train an look down the back of your sofa. Oh, and if there’s any spare buds concrete at the bottom or slice anyone’s apology would have sufficed. But it happened on a plane and in down there… head off who has the misfortune of standing these days of zero tolerance, situations escalate out of proportion” underneath. says his missus. Political Correctness, eh? 19 September jackcurtis Notts County beat Middlesbrough in the second round of the 16 August League Cup. Crikey! I learned how to properly use ‘affect’ An epochal day in Nottingham history, as Primark opens. Offices and ‘effect’. Also the warning signs of all over the city centre are full of women gassing on about how 20 September Alzheimer’s. they bought an entire outfit for 75p and pulling out bits of cloth and Lower division footballers are seen weeping openly over the LadyBee clucking at each other. selling-off of Geisha, one of those places where bell-ends go when they get promoted up to Cheese Manager at Asda. The downside I do like Indian food, after all. I also learnt 18 August is when they have to shoulder-barge the front door of their ponce- what the best and worst things ever to At long last. Broadway gets its drinks license back and the boxes down in order to get past the mound of final demand notices city breathes a sigh of relief. All summer, film buffs have been from Capital One... and then have a good roar about their utterly happen to my best friends are. st rampaging through the city, getting into fights over whether Ingmar vacuous life. Family 1 Bergman was a better auteur than Yukio Mishima and ramming copies of Halliwell’s into each other’s faces. 21 September I learned that if it takes you two hours to A thong-eating dog from Stapleford needs an operation to have put your driving playlist together, you won’t 21 August a pink g-string removed from his intestines, after eating ten over even be past the A’s before you arrive in The Broad Marsh Centre, the red-headed stepchild of Nottingham the course of a year. “We have to make sure that nobody leaves any Manchester. retail, reports a flasher on the premises. People are warned not to pants on the bathroom floor,” said his owner. “We put them in the Nuclear Sis approach him, mainly because you’d have to go in the Broado to do basket straight away otherwise he will surely have a pair.” Fact: my that and its rubbish, isn’t it? Mam once pulled a bra out of a dog’s arse. I learned you can leave the coffee machine on all night and it won’t necessarily burn 22 August 22 September down the whole office, which was a bit of a Accrington Stanley knock Forest out of the League Cup, or A bogus doctor is discovered prowling around the QMC. Here’s an relief to be honest. whatever it’s called this year, sparking bad Scouse accents in the idea... why not get him to work in the A&E at weekends and deal Pan Troglodytes black and white half of town. Meanwhile, Notts County beat Crystal with pissheads who have had a fight with their own reflection in Palace. bus shelters?

Today and last night I’ve learned that the 23 August 23 September future looks bright. And that my Dad is the The Turf Tavern, home of the most wonderfully chelpy landlady Notts CCC, who were champions last season, get relegated from bargain hunter king of second-hand shop in town, shuts down. Expect another faceless ponce bar to take its the top flight of county cricket. heaven! place because, as you know, we really need another one of those Sara kind of bars. 26 September The season for thick twats letting off fireworks, even in the day 27 August when you can’t see anything and it’s nowhere near bonfire night, Official ‘If you’ve still got England flags on your house it means officially begins. It is scheduled to end on 13 March 13 2007. you’re a racist’ Day passes without incident.

4 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 words: Billy Hatcher

Computer gaming is officially the new rock and roll! As particularly appropriate that the event should be happening sold over five million games and gained worldwide sales of video games now outsell music CDs, characters in the East Midlands, one of the regions most noted for its recognition for his work in the video games industry, some like Super Mario and Lara Croft are as recognisable among extraordinary successes in game development.’ could argue that what Lorne Lanning doesn’t know about the kids as the Beatles and David Bowie were to previous movies and interactive entertainment isn’t worth knowing. generations. Indeed, the region is on the up in terms of video game In an exclusive keynote speech supported by BAFTA, creation. With the likes of Rockstar (creators of the Grand videogames visionary Lanning will be sharing his The popularity of gaming as a whole, has been increasing Theft Auto series), Core (creators of Tomb Raider Lara unique perspective on the future of videogames. He will steadily ever since the mid 1980s and looks set to continue. Croft), Free Radical Design, Circle, Eurocom, Monumental discuss the inspiration for his career in the industry and But the average age of the video UK game player is now and Strawdog making a national impact, we have some of the realities that inspired him to create the stories and thirty, belying the long held myth that gaming is largely a the brightest sparks in the UK industry on our doorstep. characters that ultimately became the multi-platinum diversion for teenagers. Alongside these the festival will bring together some of the selling and critically acclaimed Oddworld series of games. old guard of gaming such as Sony and Electronic Arts, who When? Saturday 28 October at the Broadway Cinema, New Video games have in fact, become the major cultural will be unveiling their latest creations to the Nottingham College Nottingham and the Djanogly City Academy. phenomenon of the last generation… so it’s only right that public. they should have their own festival to rival the likes of High Score Woodstock and Glastonbury, right? Acclaimed director, Jeremy Mack will be screening the Events planned at the festival include: European premiere of his new documentary High Score. The GameCity is a new festival of interactive entertainment film follows die-hard gamer Bill Carlton as he attempts to The Arcade Trail : Play the Past which takes place in Nottingham city centre at the end of break the record for playing Atari classic Missile Command Fifteen shops and venues around the city will form a October. Organisers describe it as a ‘street-level cultural over two days without sleep. heritage tour of arcade game history, each hosting a celebration of videogames and interactive entertainment’ When? 6pm on Friday 27 October at the Broadway Cinema. different classic arcade game. You don’t even have to and it’s open to everyone to come along and play. remember to bring change! Music at Kudos When? 25-29 October all day The festival will be officially unveiled by Lord David Narco and Idiot Joy are two Nottingham exponents of punk Puttnam of Queensgate on Wednesday 25 October, in a funk (the latter featured on Bilboard posters in versions Into The Pixel special event in the Council House. Puttnam produced of Grand Theft Auto for those who look carefully). They An exhibition exploring and celebrating video game classic movies like Bugsy Malone (1976), Midnight Express have both joined forces with Free Radical’s Gong of Terror, artwork. Curated by industry veterans and experts from (1978) and Chariots of Fire (1981) and in the eighties to give you your chance to deliver a two minute pitch for the art world, this will be the first ever showing outside of became the first ever European-born boss of the Hollywood an exclusive two-week internship with one of Europe’s LA and is presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles Studio in Columbia. He commented; greatest videogame developers. So, loud music and the County Museum of Art. possibility of a job at the end of it… When? At the Council House from 25-29 October and then ’I’m delighted to be able to open this first GameCity festival When? From 8pm on Friday 27 October at Kudos. moves on to A View From The Top (the gallery above the in Nottingham. Videogames are at the cutting edge of the Waterstones) until 5 November. future of the creative industries in the UK and it’s an index of the success of their journey into mainstream culture or more details about Game City call BAFTA and Lorne Lanning that something like GameCity is able to happen at all. It’s 0871 220 0260 or visit www.gamecity.org With a background in Hollywood visual effects and having

I’m absolutely dire at games that involve driving a car, Oh my god, James Pond was Amaaaaziiiiiing!!! Wow, up with, only the graphics are way ahead of anything we shooting something, playing sports (except maybe pong) playing that game was one of the most sublime aspects of could have imagined back then. so things like old Lucasarts games have always been my childhood/teendom! I loved bouncing on the jelly in the Alan favourites of mine. Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle and sweety land. I’ve gotta play that again! Monkey Island(s!) are all so much fun. Nuclear Sis The way the music was used in old computer games was Kayonbee brilliant, I’d find myself writing lyrics for the tunes in Sensible Soccer. I used to work for a MegaDrive mag my head as I played, avoiding ‘dying’ as much to stop Jet Set Willy on the Amstrad CPC6128 (my first ever in the early 90s and had access to every game on the the music changing to the customary funereal dirge as to computer, a proper icon of the 80’s!), quite possibly the Drive and the SNES months before they came out, continue the game. most surreal and fantastic game ever, they don’t make ‘em and we always spent the last two hours of the day Family 1st like that any more! Did anyone ever actually complete it? I around an Amiga. Even though we had a SFII cabinet never came close and not without trying either. in the office As far as multiplayer games go, the best shoot ‘em ups Evilthumbs Lord of the Nish by far are Halo 2 and Goldeneye. These two games stand out for the sheer quality of the gameplay. No matches ever James Pond = Mario/Sonic for kids whose parents In modern times San Andreas is about as good as it gets. seemed the same with all the options you could set. wanted them to have a proper computer. I remember as a kid talking about what the best computer Johnnybulldog Snooo game ever would be and that’s pretty much what we came

www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 5 Totally Orson, Dude words: Michelle Bayton

Orson have quickly become the recognised face of You had to reschedule your June gig at Rock city. What collectively we all get motivation from playing live and it’s Californian bubble gum pop. Alongside shining happened? the only reward we get from all the hard work. We certainly recommendations and a glistening debut single, their Ah man… we were crushed! Jason basically broke down for aren’t rewarded by the money… we’re not making any yet! Bright Idea album has seen them described as the missing a week. We have been travelling around loads and sleeping link between The Rolling Stones and The Scissor Sisters. very little. Our days off would be spent doing promo work, So everyone who thinks that your life is full of glamour Not bad for a band who have been supporting the likes of so we never really had a break from it. Our management and coin is wrong? Robbie Williams and Duran Duran on tour! truly work us to the bone and none of us ever realised it Yep. We’re certainly not living any life of glamour yet, just a The men who paid their own way from Hollywood to would be this hard. It’s definitely not all the glamour and life of sleep deprivation and exhaustion! But the feeling of England to get a record deal are Jason Pebworth (vocals richness you expect it to be. We were all basically burnt playing our stuff live makes it all worth it! and piano), George Astasio (rhythm guitar), Kevin out in June, especially Jason. We see our live play as our Roentgen (guitar), Johnny Lonely (bass guitar) and Chris release and reward for all this work and so to cancel our Is there anything aside from the exhaustion that really Cano (drums). We hooked up for a chat with bass player Nottingham gig was really gutting. We were all really irritates you in the music industry? Johnny, who let us into the world of rock’s new wave mortified about cancelling and it took Jason about ten days Well I’m a Californian so I’m a real easy going character soldiers. to feel better again. but if I had to say one thing I don’t like it’s working with liars. I can’t stand people who are so obviously full of shit So what’s behind the name Orson? Have you been to Nottingham before? and make promises they can’t keep. Luckily we haven’t Most bands find it hard to find a name. Like all of them No, never. We’re looking forward to discovering it though. experienced too much of that but it’s still an irritation. we kicked around with a couple of possibilities until one sprung to us in a Hollywood café when we were all having Do you know anything about the city? What are you listening to at the moment? lunch. This cafe gave great historical names to sandwiches Just that there was some kind of Sheriff who chased a crazy My album of the year so far is We are Scientists’ With Love and dishes like the Greta Garbo or the Clark Gable. We all guy in tights with bow and arrow or something like that. Is and Squalor. It’s amazing and every song is brilliant! You picked up on the Orson Wells sandwich and as we started that right…? know when you listen to a record and you fall in love with to think about who he was, we realised he was someone every song? Well that happened with this and I really love who always went against the grain and not always to his Well that’ll do …his name was Robin Hood what they do. My favourite band though has to be the own benefit. We all felt we could relate to that because Ahh yeah I know it… a good name for a band maybe? Flaming Lips. Those guys are genius! we’re not about the jangly pop or the rock’n’roll scene of the Strokes. In fact we’re more like Hall and Oates than the Maybe. So what’s the inspiration behind Orson’s tunes? You’re probably best known for your chart-topping single Strokes… we just play what we want to play. We’re inspired by life… our music is more like a political Bright Idea. So what is Orson’s bright idea?

experience. We’re inspired by each other and each others Our bright idea is to get out there and play our music to as Just out of interest what was in the Orson Wells lives. Orson is about experience and happenings. It’s all many people as possible! That’s our mission. Sandwich? reality. It was some kind of cheese and bacon with pickles Have you got anything else you’d like to say to combination. None of us really fancied the actual sandwich Deep…. isn’t that what all bands say? LeftLion readers? though. Only the good ones... haha. No, seriously there’s no point To all LeftLion readers in Nottingham and beyond. Give writing about anything else. We want people to relate to it. Orson a chance and you won’t be disappointed! How did you all meet and form as a band? Well… originally Jason and George were together as a You seem to be quite a spiritual person so do you carry a band and were looking for a drummer. We were in a band philosophy for life? Orson play at Rock City on Monday 16 October 2006. Their called Co and both Jason and George regularly came to see Most definitely. Keep it simple and live one day at a time. debut album Bright Idea is available in shops now. us and became big fans. When Co eventually disbanded It’s short and sweet but also very true. we got together with Jason and George and after a few sessions and gigs Orson was born. Is this what motivates you? www.orsonband.com Yeah. That and playing live with the band. Personally and

6 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 Divine Inspiration…

Where have The Divine Comedy been over the last few years? Ten years ago their Casanova album catapulted them into the mainstream with hits like Frog Princess and Something For The Weekend. At the time it served as the perfect antidote to a Britpop scene dominated by the likes of Blur and Oasis. Their next three albums, however, didn’t quite bring the same level of success. Now, with an impressive nine albums under their belt they return with brand new album Victory for the Comic Muse. Lead man (and sole full-time member) Neil Hannon fills us in on what’s been keeping him ticking over. words: Michelle Bayton

What you been up to since releasing Absent Friends in 2004? I’ve been doing lots of stuff for other people, writing and composing for everyone and anyone. My song Home for Jane Birkin’s album Fiction is the only one that’s been given the light of day as yet though.

Do you prefer writing for yourself or others? Well… writing for yourself is more satisfying yet more terrifying. When I’m writing for others it’s almost a challenge, trying to impose my own style on them, but I feel that if people ask me to write for them they must want that anyway. I think it’s probably easier to write for others but you don’t get the same thrill or adrenaline rush as writing and performing something for yourself. But it’s cool to be in the background once in a while…

How do you feel that your Songs of Love theme for the Father Ted TV Series has helped your career? People see or hear your work and if they like it they’ll want to use you I suppose. Father Ted was such a great sitcom that anyone who worked with it would have boosted their career in the way of becoming a recognised name, so of course it’s helped. I composed the music for The IT Crowd too, another sitcom for Graham Linehan. It’s something I enjoy doing. Like I said, if people like what they hear then it works in my favour.

Do you feel that your music has improved and evolved as a result of working for others? Yeah. I think I’m just a lot better at it and not just from doing it for other people. You think differently and write differently as you get older. I wouldn’t be able to write as I did when I was 21 and I wouldn’t want to. I never want Square where we played with the great and long-lasting Are you going to heaven, hell or purgatory? to stay in the same place for too long and I think I have pop band Let Loose. Remember them? I’d like to think I’m going to heaven. achieved that through the years. I try not to….. Anything else you want to say to LeftLion readers? Is this shown in the new album? Well that was cool, but I also remember our first show at Actually yeah … I want to say ta to you for being nice and Well yeah. I’m still writing with the same aim, to try and Rock City supporting Supergrass in 1995. It was a great secondly don’t read the Portsmouth news. amuse, move, or do something vaguely interesting. But like show, but I’ll always remember this one very aggressive with anything, the more you do it the closer you get to your girl sticking her finger up at us all through the gig. She Why? aim. With age comes wisdom. really didn’t want to see us play. Because I’ve just had an interview with a woman from a Portsmouth paper who kept trying to get me to diss other Your first album was called Fanfare for the Comic Muse It didn’t put you off then? bands and the music business in general and I’m just not and your new (now ninth) album Victory For The Comic God no, it just made us more determined. Not everyone’s into it. I asked her if she was gonna ask me about the new Muse. What’s with the titles? going to like what you play, but it’s not nice if they make it record and she said “No its not really my cup of tea.” I just Well I love the names and they’re perfect to confuse so blatantly obvious. put the phone down on her. It proper pissed me off! I don’t journalists as much as they confuse me. Fanfare for the care if people don’t like my music… just don’t tell me you Comic Muse was about starting out with a request and What are you listening to at the moment? don’t! Victory for the Comic Muse is a way of saying “Hooray The Arctic Monkeys album… and I’m not just saying that I’m still here!” The title is also an original quote from EM to be cool, I do really like them. Also I love the Flaming Lips Feel better now? Forsters Room With A View. and Belle and Sebastian… the list could go on. Yeah. Thanks for allowing me the rant …and by the way My favourite album so far this year is probably St this interview has been a lot better, so thankyou. So does this suggest you’re surprised to still be here with Elsewhere. I do really love Gnarls Barkley. I think their stuff a ninth album? is mad! I love it and I don’t care if it’s overplayed on the I’m just glad … very glad. radio… you’ve just got to think past that! The Divine Comedy play at Nottingham Trent University Students Union on Sunday 5 November 2006. The new You’re playing in Nottingham in November. Is music a source of motivation for you? album Victory for the Comic Muse is out now. What do you think of the city? That and being alive generally. I don’t know why I’m here It’s a beautiful place. I really love Nottingham. but whilst I am I may as well do something good with my time. That’s my motivation! www.thedivinecomedy.com Any interesting stories from past gigs here? I remember a Radio One Roadshow we did in the Market

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The Atoms are a local pop-punk band along. That really made my night. who seriously rock! Imagine a band Joe: We played with Copter. I’d never heard that combine elements of Green Day, of them but they were fucking grand and The Pixies and the Beach Boys with two they have their own comic too! I have no guys on guitars going for it alongside the recollection of playing that night but Jess sweetest, most serene lady drummer in told me we did. Notts. We like them so much we invited them to open our Extravaganza… Did you make it to any festivals this summer? What have you all been up to since Jess: I went to Ponce in The Park in Derby. LeftLion last spoke to you? Tom: I went to Pentrich rock and blues Tom: Releasing an album, doing some gigs, festival with Whitesnake, Hanoi Rocks and buying a new bass guitar, having our photo The Damned. Mmmm… classic rock! taken in a toilet. The usual stuff famous rock Joe: I had a ticket to see Super Charger’s stars get up to… reunion show in Rotterdam but couldn’t Jess: It’s been a pretty busy year for afford the travel expenses, so I stayed at Who are your favourite Notts bands apart Who is your favourite superhero? me…I’m currently finishing my degree and home kicking walls. I did make it to Ponce from yourselves? Jess: Benny Ramone. working full time in between playing gigs in the Park but I remember nothing apart Jess: My favourite Notts band was Chip Tom: Tim Hen Man. and general other stuff… from my ugly mug ending up in the local Johnson and The Unforgiven, but they’re Joe: George Bush cos he punishes Terror. Joe: Getting our album out on Stressed Telegraph. not together anymore. I also really like I’ve never been a fan of Terror. Records, playing shows, getting into Clambake, TV-OD and The Spazmatics. trouble and getting drunk... the last two are What’s the best album you’ve bought Tom: Alice Rock Anything else to declare..? possibly linked. this year? Joe: Alice Rock or Clam Bake. Can I have two? Joe: We have an album out so please go buy Jess: I haven’t bought it yet. it and make your CD collection much better. What’s the best gig you’ve played in Tom: Teravolts’ Endless Summer. It didn’t Are you Forest or County fans? Also, Derby is Surf City number one and Nottingham in 2006? come out this year though. Tom: Neither. I’m from Derbyshire anyway don’t stare into the sun. Jess: For me it was when we played with Joe: Lillingtons’ Death by Television. It’s but football’s not my thing. Tom: Lets all learn to surf! Dragonflies Draw Flame for LeftLion a re-mastered version recorded by Mass Joe: I grew up next to the Forest Ground Presents at the Orange Tree. A bunch Georgini. They sing about Aliens and that’s before Stan the man beat his missus up. of middle-aged lecturers turned up and good enough for me. Then I got disillusioned and now I like the started dancing on the tables and singing Nottingham Panthers instead. www.myspace.com/theatomsuk

Lo-Ego are growing up. Two of the members will be married by the time you read this article and straight after they play for LeftLion at the Rescue Rooms they head off to Europe on tour with melancholic Swedish band Paatos. We put a few questions to them before they go…

What have you all been up to since LeftLion last spoke to you? Mark: Writing, rehearsing, recording, getting married, organising a European tour, the usual. Simon: I’ve managed to knit an entire jersey out of my Paul: Looking into my crystal ball I can see that the Rescue belly-button fluff. Rooms on 22 October is going to be the best! Martin: I have been setting up as many myspace sites for myself as I possibly can. Don’t you just hate it when people Who are your favourite Notts bands apart from do that? yourselves? Mark: The Dead City Presidents!! Love Ends Disaster, What’s the best gig you’ve seen in Nottingham in 2006? Hellset Orchestra and Amusement Parks. lions and replacing them with ten ants on either side of the Mark: The Deftones were pretty good at Rock City. Simon: Love Ends Disaster and Black Vinyl Heart council house. That would then mean this mag would have Simon: Laura Viers. Paul: Amusement Parks, The Union Station Massacre and to be called left ten ants. Paul: Went to see a friend’s band called Hopewood from Love Ends Disaster Ste: I heard they are going to use real lions and feed them a Sheffield...they always deliver! Ste: Love Ends Disaster and O Lovely Lie. chav a day. Ste: The open mic night at Pit and Pendulum. I never Mark: I hate it! I have to walk about five minutes out of thought acoustic versions of Cradle of Filth could be so Are you Forest or County fans? my way just to get to the other side and it has couped all poignant. Mark: Me and Simon are really the only ones who follow the goths in my way more than usual. I come out of there Paul: The last amazing gig I can remember was Mastodon football. He supports Queen of The South and I support stinking of Teenage Angst! at All Tomorrows Parties last December and then two days Newcastle United. I go to a few Forest games with mates later at Rock City... though. Anything else to declare..? Simon: Queen of the South, through and through. I’m not Paul: Give things a go...you don’t know where they What’s the best gig you’ve played in Nottingham in 2006? from round these parts, sorry. might lead. Martin: We try not to play Nottingham too often nowadays. Ste: Don’t listen to Paul... you don’t know where it may lead. Trying to spread our wings and fly a bit. In fact Drop In The It doesn’t look like the Market Square is going to be Ocean would have been our last gig. finished in time for New Year. Any thoughts...? Ste: I’ve played some amazing shows in my bedroom on Simon: Yes. All of them rude... webcast. Martin: I heard a rumour that they are getting rid of the www.myspace.com/loeg

8 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 Grain are Rich (guitar and banjo), Dan (bass), James (drums), Loz (Percussion) and Ben (vocals, harmonica and guitar). Their self styled brand of hillbilly kung-fu funk rock has been attracting national attention, with plays on XFM. They stormed a LeftLion Unplugged set earlier in the year, so we’re bringing them back for the Extravaganza…

What have you been up to since LeftLion last spoke to you? Loz: Writing new material mostly. We also the Green Man festival in Wales but it was got played on XFM London last month and pretty rubbish… there’s only so much folk we’ve had lots of gig offers rolling in from music you can take. around the country. What’s the best album you’ve bought this What’s the best gig you’ve seen in year? Nottingham in 2006? Rich: Dan’s copied me a load of Brian Rich: I really enjoyed The Dirty Backbeats Jonestown Massacre. at the Maze. Ben: I honestly haven’t bought an album Loz: I second the DBBs and also The this year! Legendary Shack Shakers at Rescue Rooms Who are your favourite Notts bands apart What’s the best gig you’ve played in from yourselves? Loz: Wholesome Fish and Old Basford. Nottingham in 2006? It doesn’t look like the Market Square is Who is your favourite superhero? Ben: Global Village Peace Gathering and Drop Rich: Trickster. Ben: Moon Buggy, Old Basford and Trickster. going to be finished in time for New Year. Loz: Scuzzlebutt, a monster with a hand of in the Ocean at Dogma. Playing naked with Any thoughts…? celery, leg of Patrick Duffy and a penchant just an apron on is highly recommended. What recording studio do you use? Rich: Bit of a waste, I reckon. for weaving wicker baskets. Loz: The Boiler Room is good, we did our Loz: I think it was better how it was Rich: Gotta be Batman for me. Did you make it to any festivals this thousands of years ago, mud huts, witches, Ben: I don’t do favouritism with superheros. summer? last demo there. Lovely big men, fair price... and a nice cup of tea and scones. trees and ogres. Their egos are big enough. Rich: Didn’t make it to any biggies. Global Dan: Yes, ogres. Village Peace Gathering was fantastic Are you Forest or County fans? Ben: I think there should put a big bronze Anything else to declare..? though. Would have loved to have seen statue of a groupgroup of hoodies put up. Ben: I’m hungrhungryy and I need a cuddle. Beck and RadioheadRadiohead at V festival. Gutted! Rich: NeitherNeither.. Ben: Again Global Village.Village. I also went to Loz: Eh? Ben: Bollocks. wwwwww.myspace.com/grainu.myspace.com/grainuk

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ThenThen wewe WaitsWaits phasephase earlierearlier thisthis year.year. the way, but now they’ve got the fine art of making Who is your favourite supersuperhero?hero? planplan toto dodo a fewfew moremore gigs.gigs. music totally sorted. Mad Max. Who are your favourite Notts bands What’s the best gig you’ve seen in aparapartt frfromom yourselves? Is there a serious side to Weeble? Or are you just in this Anything else to declare..? Nottingham in 2006? I likelike thethe soon-to-be-no-moresoon-to-be-no-more LegionLegion ofof for the fun you have on stage? YYes.es. I meant everyevery single word.word. Nick Cave at the ConcerConcertt Hall. I think DDoomoom andand LordsLords areare alwaysalways toptop notch.notch. Matt: Being in Weeble is serious fun! that was this yearyear.. Eels, also at the Benjuth: We have to be organised because we are such a wwwwww.thehellsetorchestra.co.u.thehellsetorchestra.co.uk ConcertConcert Hall, werewere great.great. What recorrecordingding studio do you use? large band. We have to remember to let everyone know what’s going on and where we need to be. Big Dave: It’s like having a second job. That’s why I’m not Do you ever feel like you would want to cover other There is no clear thought really as we all have input. at work right now. genres of music? Or is that why you’re in other bands Jody: The basis of the music is me and Ryan, but everyone Jody: Though the songs might sound really happy and like Fat Lady Singh and Jimmy the Squirrel? does help. Stef has started doing more writing too. People bouncy, some of the lyrics aren’t. We’ve written about some Jody: I think Weeble has its style, it’ll change and evolve bring in solid ideas and I’ve never done a song that hasn’t very serious stuff. but it will always stay Weeble. But, yeah I mean if we did been changed by the band. The input is so important, any of our solo stuff in Weeble it’d be pretty mad! There’d because we want the songs to sound like they’ve been You’ve released a couple of albums together. How do they be guys doing acoustic stuff, electronica stuff, political created by us all. compare? stuff... We’d sound like a right odd bag of bits n bobs Ribsy: The addition of the brass section has really changed Stef: They’ve been Weeble-ised. how we sound. Do Weeble wobble but don’t fall down? Which local bands do you recommend? Stef: They resemble how we are live and our current line up. Jody: We rock and we do occasionally fall over. I almost fell Matt: Grain, Stupid Stupid and Steve. Jody: It shows how our time and use of facilities has over last night, I tripped over a monitor, but I didn’t fall. So I Stef: Breakneck, Mr. Wolf. changed as well. guess the answer could be yes. Ribsy: Winning By Default. Do you work together when writing music and lyrics or Big Dave: Metallica, Def Leppard!! do you sometimes feel like pulling each others’ hair out? Jody: We want to mention 7 Seconds of Love, even though theythey’re’re not local. Ribsy: YYeses to both. WeWe write stuff in many differentdifferent ways wwwwww.myspace.com/weebl.myspace.com/weeble because therethere araree so many of us in the band.

. LeftLionLeftLion E Extravaganzaxtravaganza tak takeses plac placee at th eat R ethescu Rescuee Rooms Rooms on Sund onay 2Sunday2 Octobe 22r 2 0October06 2006. Tickets are£ 5 and available from www.LeftLion.co.uk/tickets as well as the usual outlets. www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 9 If you like to go out for a few shandies on the weekend in town, you will probably have heard Rapunzel Map busking around the left lion in the Market Square. Whether you’ve just staggered out of a club or are waiting for the chatty night bus, you can guarantee that somewhere along the way her soulful late-night sounds will have featured in your Saturday soundtrack. She’s busked at Glastonbury, turned down DJ Sammy remixing one of her songs and gets given blokes pants when playing at night. You go girl… words: Sadie Rees Hales

For those who’ve never heard you before, can you There’ve been quite a few characters busking around but because they’re abroad it makes it very difficult… the describe your music? Notts over the years. Ever felt any rivalry from others, setbacks can be very frustrating. I think my subject matter is very individual. In Ultraviolet such as the Xylophone Man (R.I.P.)? Eyes, it’s about a beautiful female alien. It also is about my No! Most good buskers or just generally good people Would you still be called Rapunzel if you decided to get a interest in science and the ultraviolet spectrum. But I find it have an awareness of each other. The buskers are almost skinhead? easier to write my songs than trying to describe them. That like a little club! You can’t be territorial and have to be Yes because the story of me being called that is still there. is hard! considerate of others. I’ve got the name but I’ve put my own stamp on it. When I make music, the only thing that limits me is what instruments are available. However, I hope that people You set your own record label Liquid Dust Records. Was Instead of selling your soul on Pop Idol, what advice can hear other sounds in the music. I guess my songs are that to put out your own stuff or do you have any interest would you give to people wanting to get into music? melodic pop, but it’s not genre specific. I don’t feel I’m in representing other artists? The internet has made this so much easier. Find out about a good guitarist but I’m confident in my songs, they are I set it up with the help of the Prince’s Trust. What I like music conferences and get involved in the local music different and interesting. about the label is that I have total control over my music scene. Don’t just stay in your bedroom making music, put and it’s production. If money was no option, I would sign it out there or you won’t be discovered. Be organised and How long have you been creating music as loads of other bands like 1st Blood and Stuck In The Pie to ready for when opportunities arise. Don’t dwell on lost Rapunzel Map? allow them to make music exactly how they want to, giving chances and realise that you need stamina… be prepared Rapunzel Map became my acoustic name in 1999. It them 100% creative control. However, business always for that! separated me from the music, a certain element of takes you away from the creative side. I’ve never done a anonymity. I didn’t want a twee name, however, it’s relative proper release as I’ve not had the financial resources, but I Other than music what are you passionate about? and also it’s connected visually. do sell my own CDs on my website and at the shows. There’s not a lot that I’m not passionate about. That can be your downfall though. I love new physics and spirituality, Do you come from a musical background? What local artists do you have most respect for? people, psychology. It might be easier to tell you what I don’t My Dad is very musical. He doesn’t write songs but he 1st Blood are phenomenal. Three years ago I was given their like… such as football. Although I did go to the World Cup! has such great taste in music and is a very charismatic first CD and every song is catchy, well produced and has I’m into visual arts and want to write and direct videos for performer. People have even booked him for their birthday great lyrics. The fact that they want to work with me too is my music as I always have a concept for the video when parties! To call him a pub singer would be almost insulting a real compliment. David Gow also makes beautiful stuff. I write a song. I love studying life and then expressing it. to him. I was always tripping over guitars at my dad’s It’s rare that I actually like acoustic music but he’s magical. Also I love reading books and I spend way too much time house when I was younger. I’m self taught but I never Also Ben EG from Derby and then my brother. He’s not local online. I’m a proper info junkie! played in front of anyone until after university. My dad but he has gone out busking with me in Nottingham! introduced me to some great music. My brother is also an While the Market Square is being redone, where can we amazing electric guitar player and is in a band called Stuck Do you prefer playing indoors or outdoors? find you? In The Pie. They write fun songs with great melodies, but It really depends as the atmosphere is made by the people I’m going to be doing more gigs in venues or at my new don’t take themselves too seriously. who are there. I love having a diverse crowd when I’m spot by the Yorkshire Bank, by Pelham Street and Clumber busking, they’re honest and less inhibited. Some people Street. I also live in cyberspace and can always be found Got any amusing stories from late night busking sessions have stayed watching me busk till 4am! online. by the left lion? Every time I busk, something funny happens. A normal gig You’d had previous interest from DJ Sammy which can be a bit boring in comparison. I wish I’d kept a diary or you, perhaps wisely, turned down. Had any commercial Rapunzel MAP is playing LeftLion Unplugged at the filmed it to see people’s reactions. Generally drunk people interest since? Malt Cross on Tuesday 21 November 2006. are amusing. There are so many funny stories that I can’t I’ve not put myself out there as much as I could. I’ve been think of one in particular. People have put pants in my offered management deals but it’s not felt right as it’s such www.rapunzelmap.com guitar case though! Busking is always fun and different. a big decision. I had interest from American music lawyers www.myspace.com/rapunzelmap

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The Hooded Man The BBC is set to launch a new series of Robin Hood onto the Saturday night schedule this Autumn. We take a look at those who have played the hooded man on the small screen… words: Al Needham

JASON CONNERY MARTIN POTTER (ROBIN OF SHERWOOD, 1986) (THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD, 1975)

IN A NOTTSHELL: The less brooding, less IN A NOTTSHELL: The forgotten Robin, with a 70’s spiritual, more blonde Robin. basin-cut-and’tache look reminiscent of an English teacher Which is a shame, as some people would tell THE SHOW: Instead of a Dr Who-style you this is the best version of the story ever made. transmogrification, Robin of Loxley was killed off and Sean was drafted in as another servant THE SHOW: A bit gritty and dry, but a cult classic only to that horned Irish thing, Robin of Huntington. recently released on DVD. Quality cast with Diane Keen There was a bit of a plot about being the half (before doing the masturbatory hand-gesture Nescafe brother of nemesis Guy of Gisburne, but it was adverts) did the Maid Marian thing, Paul Darrow played business as usual. the Sheriff (before playing Avon in Blakes 7), but the real shocker is an early role for Ford Prefect himself, David HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? If you squinted Dixon, who was born in Derby but lived in Notts as a kid. your eyes, he looked like a younger Stuart Pearce. HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? Seeing as Potter was actually born in Nottingham, very.

MICHAEL PRAED ROCKET ROBIN HOOD (ROBIN OF SHERWOOD, 1984-1985) (1966-1969, CANADA)

IN A NOTTSHELL: Raaaaabin! The Hooded Man! The IN A NOTTSHELL: The brooding, spiritual, sexy Robin, the only man in the mid-80s futuristic, psychedelic one, to be able to carry off a mullet with any dignity and panache robbing the cyber-rich and whatsoever and the benchmark of modern-day Hoodiness. giving to the astro-poor.

THE SHOW: A radical shake-up of the format saw the THE SHOW: Moderately introduction of paganism, sympathetic Islamic characters successful Canadian cartoon and Clannad, which only served to make Robin Of Sherwood series, although it was never more realistic than its predecessors. Robin was the servant screened in the UK (as far as of Herne the Hunter, a Celtic horned God and it became one we know). Set in the year 3000, of the most successful ITV programmes of the decade. even though he had an electro- quarterstaff and zoomed about under jet propulsion, he still kept it real HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? Filmed in Bristol, with an and dressed in green. Irish theme tune, a lead actor from Gloucestershire and Ray Winstone as Will Scarlet? What do you think? HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? Well, he lived on Sherwood Asteroid in the galaxy of N.O.T.T. (National Outer-space Terrestrial Territories)…

RICHARD GREENE WAYNE MORRIS (ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, 1955-1960) (1989-1994)

IN A NOTTSHELL: The classic IN A NOTTSHELL: The shit-thick, yuppified, cowardly Robin in fatherly middle-class Robin, but the extremely right-on and too-good-for-kids programme Maid not exempt from the traditional Marian and Her Merry Men. jumping-on-logs-and-laughing-for- no-particular-reason palaver. Film THE SHOW: Created by Tony Robinson (who also played the historian Jeffrey Richards called him Sheriff), Marian was the brains behind the outfit and Robin was ‘Everyone’s favourite Uncle’ and even a right ponce. It even featured a Rasta Merry ‘Mon’ in the form of compared him to a WW2 officer… Danny John-Jules, who also played Cat in Red Dwarf. THE SHOW: Probably the most popular TV Robin ever. One of the HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? Not only was it set in Worksop first shows to be screened on the (even though it was filmed in Somerset), but there was a brand-new ITV (and the first show character called Clough. commissioned by the mighty Lew Grade), it was a massive hit all over the world and rammed to the gills with future stars. Paul Eddington JONAS ARMSTRONG (The Good Life, Yes Prime Minister) (ROBIN HOOD, 2006 - ?) played Will Scarlet, Donald Pleasence IN A NOTTSHELL: The latest in the line. was Prince John to a tee, and there was even room for Macca’s future girlfriend Jane Asher and 70s sitcom king Richard O’Sullivan. The theme tune (yeah, that one) was the one THE SHOW: Written by Dominic Minghella, starring Keith Allen as the Forest ran out to for decades. Sheriff of Nottingham and Lucy Griffiths as Maid Marian. The master tapes got stolen, so much of it was filmed again over September in HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? Not very. Aimed directly at the time for the October premiere. American market (with a scriptwriting team who worked under pseudonyms, due to them being blacklisted by Hollywood for their left- HOW NOTTINGHAM IS IT? It was filmed in Budapest, the launch wing sympathies). It’s your bog-standard English countryside and RP was in Lincoln and Jonas Armstrong looks about as ‘Nottingham’ as vocalisation here. jellied eels.

PATRICK TROUGHTON ROBIN HOOD NO DAIBOKEN (1990-1992, JAPAN) (ROBIN HOOD, 1953) IN A NOTTSHELL: The weird Anime one. Infiltration In Nottingham Castle, Sherwood Massive eyes, badly animated mouths, that On Fire, Thunderstorm In Nottingham, An IN A NOTTSHELL: Robin the obscure. Only backdrop of Sherwood Forest that was sort of thing. Unexpected Arrival, Witchcraft In Sherwood one episode of this show still exists. inserted the wrong way, meaning the trees and our personal fave A Mad Run Towards stuck out horizontally. THE SHOW: Never screened in the UK (to our Nottingham! THE SHOW: The first stab at Robin from knowledge), it was the usual Robin story… the BBC, it went out live as filmed, meaning HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? just, you know, more Manga-y. The episode HOW NOTTINGHAM WAS IT? that all cock-ups stayed in. Including the Probably not at all. titles are skill; A Great Disguise For An Come on now.

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So, tell us about Bruce Myers… What’s in your CD player right now? faces. I know it sounds biased but I think its one of the best What do you want to know? Tom McRae. A couple of demos are lying around like The pubs in Nottingham. Stoatz. I listen to a lot of stuff on myspace and the internet Well, where are you at musically right now? generally. It’s a good way to check things out. You run what is regarded by many as the best open mic I’m essentially a solo artist. Usually written up as a singer/ in town. Who’s been your favourite act? songwriter but I’m more of a song writer than a singer, in What age where you when you wrote a song that you There’s so many. Before Nick Armstrong went off to support the sense that that’s my biggest strength. My songs are the where proud of? Paul Weller he’d pop in and do a set. Beck Goldsmith, Jezz most important thing. Twenty four. I moved from Bristol to Skegness and jammed Hall and David Blazye are all very good. with a friend of mine called Andy who encouraged me to Will you play the Malt Cross solo, or is anyone going to write my own songs. What can we expect from your appearance at the join you? Maltcross? Well depending on commitments I’m hoping to have Those involved with the open mic circuit consider you Mostly miserable songs but I’ll try and keep it upbeat, with Paul Quadros from Fat Digester and Trickster on double part of the furniture at The Golden Fleece. What do you a hippy vibe. bass, Hattie on Flute and Richard from Trickster on banjo think to the place since it changed hands? and guitar. I should really get Nick from Trickster in to Initially everyone was thinking ‘what’s going to happen?’ play some fiddle as he seems to have played every other particularly with the live music side to it, knowing that the Bruce Myers plays LeftLion Unplugged at LeftLionLeftLion unplugged night in various bands! new owners came fromfrom a dance music background.background. They’veThey’ve the Malt Cross on TuesdayTuesday 17 October.October. imprimprovedoved it vastly,vastly, kept the charmcharm but smartenedsmartened the place up a bit, keeping the old crowdcrowd but also bringing in freshfresh www.myspace.com/brucemyerwww.myspace.com/brucemyers

Cool For Catswords: Glen Parver

Clarky Cat are a relatively new What are your favourite venues to play in and out What was the last album that you bought? of Notts? Clarky Cat cannot remember. Probably a good electro-esque (and young) band who have earned In Nottingham Clarky Cat has liked playing Stealth and The one. themselves something of a cult Rescue Rooms best so far. Outside of the city, Clarky Cat has liked playing in gay clubs and warehouses best so far. What was the last book you read? following in the city. When separate Clarky Cat does not read. Clarky Cat listens to the audio- they are Mark, Jack, Arne and Gemma, If you could get anyone in to play with you, who biography of Cilla Black over and over again. would you choose? but when they come together they Clarky Cat would choose The Kooks so that Clarky Cat What was the last thing that made you laugh? form a strange musical beast that could beat them to death with cat faeces whilst they play. The audio-biography of Cilla Black. They are bad men! answers only to a name inspired by a What was the last thing that made you cry? Chris Morris sketch. Read on suckers… Who are the best upcoming bands in Notts we Clarky Cat does not remember having ever cried. Clarky should check out? Cat is a hard ass cat who does not succumb to primitive Clarky Cat thinks Late of the Pier are the best band in emotions like you humans. Where did you all meet? Nottingham. At a fancy dress party we coincidentally went as the four What is coming up for you over the next year? different corresponding parts of an immense cat which What can people expect from the show for LeftLion More gigs, more songs and a music video. happened to fit together perfectly. at the Orange Tree? A pulsating mess, resulting from Clarky Cat attempting to Anything else you want to say to LeftLion readers? What inspired the name Clarky Cat? make beautiful music with itself. No. If they have read this far they are already bored by now. Chris Morris and his seminal television programme As is Clarky Cat. End of communication. Brasseye. What do you listen to on the stereo at home? Whatever is on the radio at the time. Unless Clarky Cat What’s your favourite of your own tracks? does not like what is on at the time, then the stereo gets Clarky Cat does not have favourites. Clarky Cat argues turned off and spat at. with itself regularly about which tracks to use. Clarky Cat play LeftLion Presents at the Orange Tree What are your favourite hangouts in Nottingham? with Electric Mouth on Saturday 4 November 2006. What’s your favourite track of all time? The ones that play good music and have a dancefloor large Anything by Prince. enough to contain the cat. Clarky Cat can regularly be viewed from afar in the Rescue Rooms, Stealth and The Social. www.myspace.com/clarkycat

16 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 Charitable Boy

This September, Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough) played a gig at the Rescue Rooms in support of Oxjam. This is a month-long series of gigs and club nights that will be rocking Nottingham venues throughout October (as well as the rest of the country) all in aid of charity. We managed to grab a few words with Damon, in between soundchecks and phone calls from the States… words: Paul Klotschkow

At the gig you were donating a pound from every ticket When you go to write a song, do you have a particular what everyone means by that but it’s not fair. I think what sold to Oxfam. How important do you think it is for subject in mind that you want to write about or do you the Mercury’s try to do is to genuinely try to pick out the people to get involved in Oxjam? just see what comes to you? album that stood out that year. The Arctic Monkeys album I think what Oxfam has done over the years is excellent. On this album, I spent three months before Christmas in did because they did something different on their own People have always got a bit of disposable cash and a studio in Stockport just making up ideas. So most of the terms. I think it was a fair result. they don’t always know where to put it, or whether it’s songs were written in less than a day, apart from finishing trustworthy to give it to someone in the street shaking the lyrics, which I’m always slow at. I set myself the task Are you reading any good books at the moment? a box. At least Oxfam historically has always been a of writing a song in the morning, going into the studio I’m three quarters through about four or five books. I always trustworthy charity that sets its goals and achieves them. to record it and then having something to take home at get to a certain point then get interrupted and struggle to It’s all a very simple, basic premise, but it keeps people the end of the night, so they were always pretty quick to pick it up again, like with Bob Dylan’s, Chronicles. alive. I think for at least that reason everyone can afford write musically. The lyrics took months to finish but that is to give a pound at a gig I put on, because they are always always the case. I just sit playing guitar all of the time and I read that last year. going to spend twenty quid on beer. If people can be made record stuff into my Dictaphone, but if we are in the studio I got about three quarters in then I started a different book more aware of it being as simple and effective as that, that then I record decent demos. I started recording this album by Bernard Shlick called The Reader, but yet again I only is the reason why I’ve always been involved. properly in January with Nick Franglen from Lemon Jelly. got three quarters of the way through it. I like reading a lot So we spent January to July recording and we recorded of factual stuff to be honest, rather then fiction. I get more Your new album, Born In The UK, is out in mid-October. about three times more stuff than we needed, but I always inspired reading them. I have various Springsteen books Describe it to me in five words? tend to do that. that fans have given me, I like reading that kind of thing, as Hardest thing I’ve ever done! it inspires me to believe in what I am doing. Do you have a favourite place to write songs? What are your favourite songs off the new album? It tends to be mainly my back yard or the kitchen, where Do you still uncover new things about The Boss? The favourites keep fluctuating really, especially as you I like to watch TV at night. I sit at the kitchen table with There’s not much left for me to uncover about him. But I’m start playing the songs live. You can never predict which my guitar or have a fag in the back yard and just play my just constantly inspired. Everyone seems so focused on songs are going to feel good or sound good live, or what guitar, so that tends to be my favourite spot. age in this industry, like you’ve got to be a young band to the audience will react to, so that is when you start testing get on. But all these old acts that are established have kept them out. The first real single off the album, Nothing’s How did winning The Mercury Music Prize in 2000 their audiences interested. Going To Change Your Mind, was always my favourite song affect you? I wrote within this period of time. It was a pivotal song I don’t know… I think it gave The Hour of Bewilderbeast When was the last time you went dancing? in the making of the record, it just made me feel like we a certain kudos from people that may not have wanted to I didn’t! were getting somewhere when we wrote it, it was a bit embrace it at the time. The album was already doing quite of a breakthrough. I wrote so many songs for this album, well because it came out in the summer, so had already and the twelve that made the album I think make it a more been around a few months. The Mercury just kind of concise and rounded piece of work than I’ve done before. vindicated the interest that it had already created. It didn’t Oxjam festival is a series of gigs taking place across It’s slightly more commercial in a sense that I think a feel like a massive ‘whoosh’, or that things changed over Nottingham venues in October. See the listings section wider audience might understand it and enjoy it, without night. I think times have changed in the last three or four for more details. alienating the people that already like what I do. years, so that winning the Mercury Music Prize now does potentially make a difference. Everybody has their opinion www.myspace.com/oxjamnottingham about why give it to the Arctic Monkeys because they don’t www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam really need the leg up, so give it to someone else. I know

www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 17 “These things, the way they happen. These things, the way they begin”

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (2002) earned Jon McGregor numerous awards as well as a Booker Prize nomination… quite an achievement for a debut novelist based in Nottingham! Through a poetic and absorbing prose the novel magically transforms the ordinary everyday lives of its characters into something quite beautiful. His second novel, So Many Ways To Begin, examines what happens when our lives fail to take the turns we expect through the eyes of David, a museum curator, who finds out his whole life has been constructed around a lie. Like it’s predecessor it also made the longlist for the Booker, putting McGregor at the forefront of a new crop of British writers. We put some questions to him about his new book and the city he has adopted… words: James Walker

What brought you to Nottingham? I first came to Nottingham because I was following a girl. She came here to do a post-grad diploma and I just tagged along. Obviously it was the right thing to do because we’re married now.

How have you found living in the city? There’s not that moany old London thing of expecting life to be served up on a plate, which is refreshing. The pleasures are harder to find than in some cities, but if you look closer they’re there and I have to say LeftLion are doing a lot to bring some of the more underground stuff to the surface.

Are you still living on a boat and what attracted you to this particular abode? I myself once lived in a converted garage for three years... No, the boat thing was short-term. I was only ever planning on passing through Nottingham but once it became clear we were staying put it seemed daft to live in what was essentially a very small and wobbly caravan. What was the garage like?

Like a very small but static caravan… Your first novel was a tremendous success and certainly my book of the year. How did you find the added attention? The attention was fun and mercifully short-lived. You could win the Nobel Prize for literature and still not get recognised on the bus. Obviously it changed my life in that I was able to quit the day-job, write full-time and develop a massively over-inflated sense of my abilities.

I found If Nobody similar to Amélie. Both treat Princess Diana’s death as peripheral within the narrative and in doing so inverse societal norms by championing the where life clicks into place, like sunrise, your first beer the industrial economy. So yes, that kind of environment ‘ordinary’ over celebrity. What are your feelings on this garden pint of the year, cycling downhill or watching Peter interests me. comparison? Crouch and his robot dance, then how can you be anything Hey that’s funny. I never really thought of that, but it’s a but positive about the world? Mind you, when I’m not Truth is very important to David in the novel. How neat (and flattering) comparison. I guess me and Jean- being such a sunny optimist I’m usually engulfed by fury important are your roots? Pierre Jeunet had the same kind of idea; didn’t any other and despair about the avoidable environmental catastrophe I left Bermuda at the heady age of five months. I did go sad stuff happen that day? But yes, I love that film and which everyone seems to be doing their best not to avoid... back there once, when I was nineteen and was surprised anyone who accuses it of being over-sentimental has by my emotional reaction. I felt it might have just been a rusting tin can for a heart. Thinking about it actually, If Nobody… is set nowhere in particular whilst So Many… projection though, it’s kind of cool to go and find your roots I probably found that intricate attention to detail, the is set across numerous cities. Was this change of setting somewhere, isn’t it? following through of unforeseen consequences and difficult to make? coincidences, the tiny moments which turn a life round It was difficult in that it forced me to make some fact or The use of artefacts was a novel way of introducing quite an inspiration on my own work. fiction decisions I’d not had to make before, like just how chapters. When did this idea come about? Very early on. true to life should a fictional location be? If I’m inventing It seemed like a convenient way to structure the book and What are your thoughts on celebrity culture? characters who live in a real city, am I allowed to invent the obviously it fitted with the main character being a museum There’s nothing much left to say is there? Other than that name of the street they live on? It was tricky to know when curator; it also gave me a direction for the story, that he was the rotting decadence of late-stage capitalism is laid bare to let the research stop and the creativity begin. assembling this collection in order to take it to someone. every time some talentless nark steps out on a red carpet or grimaces for the camera. Two of the cities used in So Many… were Aberdeen If you were to take an artefact to represent Nottingham, and Coventry which through their industrial and what would you choose and why? Given the themes in your books, can human beings ever manufacturing roots are quite similar. Does this Hey, good question. Actually, I went to meet my Japanese really fully connect? particular environment interest you? translator a couple of years ago, and since the Japanese Yes, but it’s hard though don’t you think? Sometimes it feels I was definitely interested in their parallels (ship-building, are big on gifts I thought I should take him something to like people aren’t trying so much to make those connections or car-building and oil). I think a British novel set in the mid to represent Nottingham. Rather pathetically the best I could they can’t imagine how much sweeter life might be if they did. late twentieth century would find it hard to avoid at least come up with was a lace placemat. Right now I think the an allusion to industry and manufacturing. Britain was built best thing would be a copy of LeftLion. Both books, despite the events that go on, seem to foster hope. on industry and manufacturing, its urban culture developed Would you describe yourself as a positive thirty-year-old? as a result and the painful social upheavals of the last thirty www.jameskwalker.co.uk I’ve always felt that when you’re in one of those moments years have been a direct consequence of the collapse of www.bloomsbury.com/jonmcgregor

18 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 How does it feel to be back in the UK? It’s so amazing to be back here, I mentioned it a couple of times at the show last night but I was really worried that there weren’t going to be many people there. So I was relieved when I got to the club and saw the energy when Cool Calm Pete was on. I was like “wow I can’t wait to get a record and how heart wrenching that can be and also the government. They do not work for the people in any on stage.” an introspective view of how my career has gone. Then way. In fact the people are the last thing that they’re

it branches out into this political bloodbath, like dealing thinking about, outside of getting the money that we owe So have you been busy since you crossed the water? with the hollowness of going to a big shopping centre and them for taxes. That’s why the record is abrasive and very Since I have been here it really has been just constant walking out with something or nothing. I think the result is angry until the points where it gets happy. interviews, It’s like I got here, took a nap, then went up pretty similar in both cases. to XFM to meet with Dan Greenpeace and that was great. You put a lot of time and effort into your gigs. How Me and Cool Calm Pete did an interview with him and Politics plays a big part in your music… important is live performance to you? we did a live performance up in the studio of a couple of Yes it does. The track Brothaz deals with the lower value To me it’s like the bread and butter of the whole thing. the exclusive tracks from the album. The next day was all placed on people of colour by our governments worldwide As an artist it’s your way of maintaining an existence interviews until show time and today it’s more interviews and how that affected the situation down in New Orleans financially, but as an emcee you spend all this time writing again. Tonight I’m meeting with my booking agent so that I and Darfur (over two and a half million people driven from tracks, then time in the studio recording them. You get the can tell him that I want to focus on the UK. Then after that their homes now face death from starvation and disease opportunity at a show to go out there and see how the I’m off to record a track with Morcheeba! as their Government and militias attempt to prevent music affects people. For me this time round it has been humanitarian aid from reaching them). Then it moves on to interesting because the album is not out yet, so it was So you’re over here to promote the new album. Enlighten tracks like The Fries using wild conspiracies theories about interesting to see the crowd’s reaction to songs that were us a bit on the content of Mo Mega? food poisoning and McDonald’s, to the point of population new to them. I feel that the interaction at a show should I really wanted to come back and go for what I know. I felt I control. Then I flip the whole album on its head with Murs be a celebration of music. People have got a lot of other had done some deviations from what people expected from Iz My Manager and changing the whole tone of the record things that they could be doing with their money, they don’t me. It’s not that I want to always give people what they by having two humorous tracks together, as it’s back to have to spend it on watching me hop around the stage. I expect, but I just wanted to go back to my foothold and back with Washitup. I just thought that really what we’re appreciate that they do and I try to give them my all… come with some of the rawest, hardest possible shit that I shooting for is to capture how the times sound and the could. I wanted to include some of the hardcore politics and reality is. There are lots of people dancing and smiling if make some songs that are insightful, you know. you look at entertainment, especially in rap videos. A lot At the same time I put a few tracks into the mix, which people are saying nothing and looking shiny, but under the Mr Lif plays Camouflage at the Rescue Rooms with expand on what people think of me and let them know that surface the world is spinning out of control. Sway, Braintax and more on Friday 20 October. I can make more than just political songs. The first five songs are real rugged. It starts off with Collapse which is a You’re not a fan of the Bush Administration… real personal song to me. It’s about the process of making For us in America we’ve realised we have no control over www.mrlif.com

www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 19 Spaced Out

UrbanSpaceLab are a dub- funk-triphop band who have been swinging their sounds around Nottingham bars for the last three years. Their debut album Bossanova UK is a rare treat which has led to an appearance on a Chillout compilation, as well as a shortlisting for the Channel 4 Digital Music Unsigned Award. They play LeftLion Presents at the Orange Tree in early October, so we caught up with three of the four members for a chinwag…. words: Amanda Young photos: Dom Henry

How would you define the music you make? Michael: Some of our stuff is drum and bass to dance to and some of it is more sit down on a Sunday afternoon in the sunshine and chill to. We occupy that middle ground. Charlie: What we do is different. People say that’s a bit like dub or reggae. George: We’ll often write tunes through improvising. Michael: Often a tune comes out in one hit. Some of the most cohesive tunes are made out like that. Quite often a tune takes five minutes to write and two years to perfect.

Who plays what in the band? Charlie: I’m the singer, George is bassist, Michael drums and John Paul (JP), who isn’t here, plays keys. He did the studio mixing too. What is your favourite venue to play in Nottingham? What can people expect from your live performances? Tell me how Urbanspacelab came together… Michael: Rock City, but it’s not a regular venue for us. Michael: It is shaped by the energy of the audience - the Charlie: I put an advert up in Screaming Carrot looking for a Nottingham struggles for venues. It is loaded with pubs nuance is dependent upon how people take it bassist and drummer. Michael got in touch. but we’re not a pub band. There are big places but were Michael: George and I also met through an advert on a wall. probably not high profile enough to be playing at the What has been your most memorable musical I knew John Paul from a long time back. Rescue Rooms. experience? Charlie: We played at the Golden Fleece a couple of weeks Michael: We got to play at Glastonbury Jazz lounge in 2004. Who is your biggest influence? ago and every one seemed to love it… I had a wonderful Charlie: Being in this band. I’ve grown a huge amount. Charlie: Nina Simone, Portishead and Bjork. All powerful time! women, who have been through a lot of grief and are What have you been listening to at home recently? having a good shout about it. Where else in the world would you like to play? Charlie: Amy Winehouse’s album Frank. She is right sassy! George: Herbie Hancock. Charlie: Somewhere in Spain at some festival. Michael: I’ve been listening to The Roots and Photek’s ‘98 Michael: Sly and Robbie are my number one. I’ve been to The Michael: Yeah, outdoor stages. There is a lot of dub in our Drum n Bass stuff. Gambia in West Africa and spent a lot of time drumming which music and you need that enormous bass sound which George: The Cappo and Rukus CD. has shaped me. I’m just texting JP for his response to that… is clear in an outdoor space. We are a bit trapped in JP (via text): Velvet Underground and Can. Nottingham but that is just where we are at. What tea do you drink? George: Somewhere warmer. Charlie: Earl Grey and Chamomile. What’s your favourite track on Bossanova UK? Charlie: Somewhere in Japan if there is a link out there…?! George: I don’t like tea it tastes like leaves. Charlie: Picture Perfect, it’s got a lot of high energy and is Michael: We have a link in Hawaii! Michael: I’m not a big tea drinker I like coffee. really cheerful. George: I really like Bossanova. If you could get anyone to play with you, who would you What is coming up for you for the rest of the year? Michael: I’m with George on that. It contains the high choose? Charlie: We are out playing new tunes on 21 October at the energy that people get down and dance to which for me Charlie: Maybe a male rapper. Malt Cross. as a drummer is what it is all about, but it also goes right George: JS Bach. Michael: We’ve got a second album pretty much there out down low to jazz. It has proper highs and lows. Michael: I don’t think I have a specific artist in mind. next year. Hopefully we’ll be on the telly if we win the It is important that there is a lot of space in the music Digital Music Award so get online and vote for us. On your website I read that your music ‘creates its own that allows for people to go inside it. I could hear some space and you are transported somewhere else.’ Where is trumpets. this somewhere else to you? Michael: A reviewer wrote this. The gig he was reviewing What makes you different from other bands? was in Bluu, which is sometimes quite towny. He was George: We don’t have guitars, a stylist or choreographer. Vote for UrbanSpaceLab on Channel 4 Unsigned at: suggesting that theplace was fundamentally shit, but the Michael: What we make is totally live sound in a genre that www.channel4.com/music/mymusic/D/dmaunsigned.html music was really good. The music frees you from the chavs is normally computer controlled. We use drum and bass www.myspace.com/urbanspacelab around you. rhythms and actually play it.

20 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 Buzz Lightyears

Mark Linkous is Sparklehorse, the melancholic, thought- provoking and sometimes just plain weird American purveyor of lo-fi spookiness. He might not be the most recognisable name in the music industry, but he’s been honoured by working with some of the best such as Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, PJ Harvey, The Flaming Lips, Dangermouse and Tom Waits. He hooked up with LeftLion for an oddly serious conversation about bears, near-death experiences and depression to promote his new album Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain and tour, which parks at the Rescue Rooms in early October. words: Dannii Levers

You’ve been quiet recently. What have you been up to? That’s a true fact. That part of the ocean is called Horse What was it like working with Thom Yorke to cover Pink For three years I think I just lost interest in recording. I like Latitude because of that. Floyd’s Wish You Were Here? singing, I like coming up with songs, playing and singing Some ideas come from nature and where I lived. I walked I thought Thom would just know that song, by heart. I them and having that just be the end of it. I don’t know why out my front door one day and was trapped because there always loved it, it’s my favourite Pink Floyd song. It was a but I lost interest in the actual recording of the songs. was a bear in my truck going through the trash. Knowing rock-radio staple here in the United States for a while. He’d there’s a seven foot creature outside that could rip my head heard of it but he didn’t know it, or the lyrics. That was What got you back in the swing of things? off is exciting. I killed a rattlesnake the other day. I don’t kinda strange. I was honoured to have Thom appear on I think not being able to pay my rent was the first thing. like rattlesnakes. I was going to get revenge and make a anything that I did. I had to get a record out. But really I think people around belt out of it…. me were trying to help me by sending me music that they What about PJ Harvey? thought I might find inspirational or from people I might So what actually happened on the Radiohead tour I opened up for her and we became friends. I asked her if she’d want to collaborate with. Someone sent me the Grey Album (reports are that he passed out in a London hotel room appear on my next album and she said yeah. I booked some from Dangermouse. I really liked that I’d been listening to for fourteen hours with his legs pinned under his body, time in Spain, in Barcelona and we did a recording session there some later period Beatles stuff anyway and I liked some nearly crippling himself)? with Polly (PJ) and Adrian from Portishead. I had this fantastic of the slower sparser hip hop stuff so I got in touch and he I don’t remember it. It just ended up being a three-month band, me, my drummer, Polly, Adrian and John Parish, ended up being a Sparklehorse fan. He came to my studio stay in a London hospital. I was in a wheelchair for about and we worked for a couple of weeks and I really liked six months after that and I had to wear braces on my legs …and Tom Waits. He doesn’t usually work with anyone. what came from that. I think when you dig yourself in a hole because they had to operate on them so many times. I’ll How did you manage that? mentally a little confidence can really go a long way. The always have to wear the braces now because the muscles I have no idea! Apparently he had my first album at his music that came out of the sessions is what brought me in my legs have gone… they had to take them out. house and his kids stole it. I never knew whether they back. Just believing that I could make what I considered liked it or hated it but I sent him another copy and wrote interesting music again. You worked with the Flaming Lips on a track called Go. him a little note. Then the time came for me to call him on What was that like? the telephone and I was so nervous…. But thankfully he Will you be guesting with Gnarls Barkley, then? I had toured with them as a duo, with the drummer I used wanted to do it. Maybe if I’m asked. I’m definitely going to work more to play with. We shared the same bus and played a little with Dangermouse. We’re going to start in a few months. mini set. They came up to where I was putting a record Have you ever been to Nottingham before? More of a collaboration, probably called DangerHorse or together of Daniel Johnston songs. I was trying to get Yeah, I can’t remember a lot about it, but I’ll probably something. bands to cover his songs for this album. Go has always recognise the venue. been one of my favourite Daniel Johnston songs and that Some of your lyrics are strange. Where do you get these second verse I just imagined Wayne singing, because the Did you get on the drink while you were here? ideas from? Are you a mentalist? lyrics seemed like something he might like. Erm… no. I’ll make sure I do this time though. It’s easier for me to communicate metaphorically than to have a dialogue. It also leaves it open for people to interpret Kurt Cobain used to wear a T-shirt designed by you… You’d better. Have you heard of Robin Hood? the lyrics themselves and apply them to themselves. Yeah. I think it was the cover of Hi How Are You. Sure have. Is Sherwood Forest a real place? Kevin Costner? Through the years, people tell me that my records have I haven’t seen his version but I love Errol Flynn. helped them through some bad times. So what is a Sparklehorse then? Some of them are influenced by dreams, some by facts that It came from not being able to think of a band name and I’ve read. For instance there’s a line in Babies on the Sun writing names on scraps of paper, putting them together Sparklehorse play The Rescue Rooms on Tuesday 3 October. which says ‘a ship full of horses was going down at sea.’ and trying to find something that you don’t hate. Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain is out now. That line relates to a part of the ocean where captains of ships had to throw horses overboard to lighten their load. www.sparklehorse.com

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Welcome to Nottingham. Or, as we say round here, “What the fuck you looking at? Poncing around as if you think you’re summat!”

words: Al Needham illustrations: Rikki Marr

Whatever the reason for choosing to come here: grades not good enough for Oxbridge, your crappy office job relocating, it’s not safe for you to be seen in Mansfield anymore, etc - you’ll find very quickly that Nottingham is just like everywhere else in the country. Some parts are dead nice, while others are rougher than East German toilet paper. Some of our bars will make your wallet feel that you’re in the most exclusive parts of London, while others may lack ambience, but more than make up for it in ambulance...

NOTTINGHAM A BRIEF HISTORY THE BARS Anglo-Saxon invaders move into caves and then some shops and pubs Whether you like chopping a line on a black marble toilet or having a got built. fight with broken glass over who played Benny in Crossroads, there’s a bar to suit you. From the violence-holes of Upper Parliament Street to the NOTTINGHAM A LESS BRIEF HISTORY wanker-boxes of the Lace Market, Nottingham is encrusted with pubs. To Anglo-Saxon invaders move into caves. Robin Hood pisses about in check which ones are right for you, have a flick through this mag and see Sherwood. Forest win the European Cup. Then some shops and pubs got who’s advertised with us this month. built. THE PEOPLE THE SHOPS Don’t panic; we’re all very friendly here, with our cheeky, salt-of-the- Oh, how we love our shops in Nottingham, so much so that our children earth provincial ways and incomprehensible accent. Just remembarr that are only educated to the point where they can operate a till. Shops in evreh wod endin’ in ‘y’ is pranaanced ‘eh’, consnunts that end a wod are Nottingham include; all the chains you get everywhere else, with a dragged aht, (az arr vaaals in the middle), while consnunts in middle of a handful of interesting independents here and there. Obligatory ‘Paul wod are took owt. Smith’ mention here.

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LeftLion whips out the credit card and wallows in the retail wonderland that is Nottingham. OUT&ABOUT Our correspondents this time around were BARS/GYMS/RESTAURANTS/SHOPS Jenny Hill, Davina Daniels and Malcolm Mclaren

Muse Nottingham Trent Students Union

Of all the side streets in Back in the day the Nottingham Hockley, Broad Street has Trent Student Union was a hive over time taken on a life of its of activity for music. In the late own and become one of the eighties and early nineties the place nicest places to drink in the rocked to bands like Radiohead, city centre. The new kid on The Verve, Suede, PJ Harvey, The the strip is Muse, a welcome Fall, Manic Street Preachers, The addition to the proceedings Pretenders, The Smiths, Spaceman and a massive improvement 3 and many more. on its rather lacklustre Then it all went quiet for way too predecessor Synergy. long. Over the past year, however, The vibe is cool and cosy, with the SU has been putting on gigs low leather sofas and sharp at it’s popular night The Tone design adorning the walls Club (first and third Friday of each (we like the man with speaker month) featuring The Editors, head throughout). Muse is the kind of place that puts you at ease when you walk through iForward Russia!, Dogs, Howling the door without feeling pretentious, like some of the bars just around the corner may do. Bells, Ladyfuzz and The Research There are always quality sounds drifting through the speakers which suit the space well as well as the cream of Nottingham’s local talent. and if you don’t like the music you can change it yourself during the daytime. By night the Building on the success of this and with a new public license under its belt, NTSU are venue opens up its funky upstairs space to feature a host of audio delights. embarking on a series of big gigs over the coming months at it’s venue on Shakespeare Street. We particularly likes the sound of their free Thursday night hiphop sessions Word of Mouth These include Detonate (featuring Pendulum), The Jim Beam Music Tour (with Little Man featuring a selection of local crews such as Dealmaker records, Son records and Cappo. Tate and The Battle), The NME Rock ‘n’ Roll Riot Tour (with The Fratellis, The Maccabees, The Friday night opens up the genres with a selection of live acts spanning funk/electro/ Horrors and The Dykeenies), The Automatic, Seth Lakeman, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, rock, whilst Saturday sees DJ Priceless working the decks. The Opus night on the third The Divine Comedy (interviewed on page 7) and singer songwriter Ben Kweller. Wednesday of each month is also a rare treat and a great chance for artists and musicians The collective capacity is 2000 over three rooms, with the main arena open to 1000. All the live to combine work. gigs are open to the public as are the Tone Club nights and the fortnightly rock night Assault. Throw in a new range of over fifty cocktails (get ‘em cheap with the after work social deal Also look out for the monthly hiphop night Heavyweight, brought to you by 1Xtra DJ MistaJam, from 5-8pm daily), friendly table service and free internet/ wi-fi and you can definitely see which launches in November. If you’re a NUS card holder there’s also a range of events that are why Muse is becoming a firm favourite on the Notts drinking scene. only open to students. So if you fancy supping bargain booze and watching a decent band at a venue that isn’t one of your usual haunts then check it out and see what you’ve been missing. Open 3pm-late (closed Sundays) 9 Broad Street, Hockley, Nottingham,NG1. Nottingham Trent Student Union, Byron House, Shakespeare Street, NG1 0115 9241555 www.myspace.com/thetoneclub www.myspace.com/musenottingham www.trentstudents.org

The Golden Fleece

What do you get when you cross a traditional watering hole with a drum and bass crew? The answer is the Golden Fleece, a pub taken over by the people that run Detonate and given a tasty makeover in 2005. The result is a place that stands out from the crowd for these exact reasons, as the venue strikes a discreet contrast between the old and new school and gets it absolutely spot on!

The place has earned a good reputation since its reopening, due to its friendly service and laid back clientele. It’s usually busy on the weekends and well worth a visit midweek. Not just because of the LeftLion pub quiz (Wednesdays), but also for their live bands (Thursdays) and open mic nights (Mondays) which are run by local musician Bruce Myers, interviewed on page 16 of this issue.

Detonate are one of the most established club nights on the Notts scene and their experience of booking the cream of hiphop of drum and bass is evident in their ability to secure some top names behind the decks at their pub. Friday is a warm up night for both Detonate and Spectrum whilst Saturday sees the likes of Highness Sounds (roots reggae) and Basement Boogaloo (soul, funk and disco) take over.

If you fancy a bite to eat, the food is excellent, with everything from Thai red curries to a hearty Sunday lunch. The new head chef trained at World Service, which is evident in the traditional, yet experimental menu. The drink selection is also top notch with some great beers on tap and a wide selection of spirits and occasional offers. All in all, the Fleece is a well loved member of the Mansfield road drinking renaissance.

The Golden Fleece, 105 Mansfield Road, NG1 0115 9472843.

28 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 The Corner House The magnificent glass building that is The Corner House has some excellent bars and restaurants, not forgetting the cinema of course. Most of these are chains you see in every city but there are a few distinctive venues amongst the norm too. Saltwater for example is truly luxurious and, as well as having a fine range of food and drinks, houses probably the best roof garden view in the city centre. Sausage is less swish and trendier, providing comfortable hot dog shaped seating booths and a wide range of beverages. It looks like a chain, but it’s actually independent. On the right hand side of the main entrance to The Corner House is Forman Street, which heaves with temptations for your taste buds. You know what you are getting with Slug and Lettuce and their tasty sandwiches. The décor is elegant but hardly original. Lazy punters should be aware that the toilets are a bit of a trek. The building next-door to Slug and Lettuce now houses Nottingham’s newest Revolution vodka bar, so fruit flavoured spirits are ahoy! Ride bar, which is not really in the Corner House complex, but is near enough, is a bit more hip with a dress code that discriminates against certain types of Nike Air. Look out for the Corner House card, which offers bargain deals on food and drink for those who hold it. More details can be found inside.

Saltwater, The Corner House, NG1, 0115 9242664 www.saltwater-restaurant.com Sausage, The Corner House, NG1, 0115 9476200 www.sausagebar.com Slug and Lettuce, The Corner House, NG1, 0115 9474260 www.slugandlettuce.co.uk Revolution, The Corner House, NG1, 0115 9598072 www.revolution-bar.co.uk Ride bar, 11 Forman Street, NG1 0115 9504789

illustrations: Rikki Marr

Victoria Centre Broadmarsh Centre Victoria Centre is Broadmarsh’s slightly more upmarket Broadmarsh Centre may be devoid of high quality shops but it is a counterpart. It offers the usual high street chain stores. The great place to find a bargain. If you can cope with trawling through fountain as you enter the Centre is a valuable rendezvous spot piles of rubble to find your hidden gem, TK Maxx is good for fashion, while the Market Square is being redeveloped. Unfortunately the accessories, home wear and just about anything else. At the other in-centre pub that adorned the place over a decade ago (and was end of the Centre is Wilkinson, whose pick and mix of toiletries a favourite among weary husbands) has gone! and household stuff is legendary to anyone who grew up in Notts. The recently renovated Topshop and Topman still lead the way Wilkos is also useful for more grown up items and has many a cheap for both trendy and staple items. The only problem is someone you deal on everyday products. To hide those legs for winter cover up know will always be sporting the same top as you. Viccy centre with something from the impressive selection at Silkys on the upper also contains the biggest Boots in Nottingham, combining your mall. There are also a decent variety of cheap bookshops to keep you cosmetic needs with the pharmacy and good old meal deal. For entertained. something a bit different try The Natural World. It has unusual TK Maxx, Broadmarsh Centre NG1, 0115 9412317 www.tkmaxx.com gifts for all price ranges. Wilkinson, Broadmarsh Centre NG1, 0115 9502288 www.wilko.co.uwww.wilko.co.uk Topshop, Victoria Centre, NG1, 0115 9483026 www.topshop.co.uk Silky, Broadmarsh Centre NG1, www.silky.co.uk Boots, Victoria Centre, NG1, 0845 1231000 www.boots.co.uk The Natural World, Victoria Centre, NG1, 0115 9417569 www.thenaturalworld.com

www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 29 Mansfield Road The experience of a drinking session on Mansfield Road can be enlightening for anyone who is usually dubious of straying past the city centre. Most pubs offer an impressive selection of beverages and are frequented by anyone from excitable students to ale-loving old men. The Golden Fleece gets this mix almost perfect. Owned by the Detonate crew, it is the home of the Wednesday Leftlion pub quiz as well as a variety of other music nights. Around the corner from Mansfield Road brings you to another of our favourite haunts. The Orange Tree is an immensely popular pub, which offers a varied menu of food and drink to a crowd of mainly students and young professionals. The strip is also a haven for real ale drinkers. If you want a night of tasty bitters try The Lincolnshire Poacher which gives you several tasty pint sized options and a beer garden for when the sun’s has got its hat on. Or if you fancy some live music and decent snap with your beer, try The Forest Tavern and it’s sister nightclub The Maze. This recently got taken over by new management and hasn’t looked back since. Another great choice in this area is Fade: The Hard To Find Cafe. It serves unusual spirits as well as paint stripper style vodka to cater your every mood. A non-smoking sofa lounge and faux jungle foliage create a great interior. The Loft has a similar vibe but serves cocktails too, though we’re not exactly sure if and when it will re-open.

The Golden Fleece, 105 Mansfield Road NG1, 0115 9472843 The Orange Tree, 38 Shakespeare Street NG1, 0115 9473239 www.orangetree.co.uk The Lincolnshire Poacher, 161-163 Mansfield Road, NG1 0115 9411584 Fade, 171 Mansfield Road, NG1 0115 9104025 The Loft Bar, 217 Mansfield Road, NG1 0115 9240213 The Maze and Forest Tavern, 270 North Sherwood Street, NG1 0115 9475650

The Lace Market and Hockley The Lace Market and Hockley are fantastic areas to spend an evening drinking. The labyrinth of roads can make it difficult for sloshed newcomers to find their way but walking in circles a few times is worth it to get to the right bar. Bluu is a valid hunt. Choose from an array of gorgeous cocktails then sip and relax upstairs or groove in the basement. The nearby Pitcher and Piano may seem blasphemous but this heavenly bar’s church setting has class and ambiance. There is plenty of room in there for large groups too. What Bar de Nada lacks in size it makes up in style. Tapas, around the world beers and modern art all ensure you get some free culture with your tipple. On a parallel street lies the Coco Lounge. The roaring fire makes this the cosiest place to be as the nights get colder. The coolest new bar on the block is Muse. Situated exactly opposite the Broadway cinema, this place is a haven for the late night drinker. Regular events there include Opus, an art-music crossover event that takes place every third Wednesday of the month. Their selection of beers and spirits is more than adequate for most tastes. On the main road through Hockley are drinking havens for those who refuse to stray from the beaten track. Listen to rock and indie or succumb to cheesy Guilty Pleasures at The Social. Look out for up and coming bands making an appearance. Also, love it or hate it, Lloyds is cheap as chips and useful for when the overdraft is straining but your thirst is quenching.

Bluu, 5 Broadway, Lace Market NG1, 0115 9505359 www.bluu.co.uk The Unitarian Church, High Pavement NG1, 0115 9598046 www.pitcherandpiano.com Bar de Nada, 43 Broad Street NG1, 0115 9881199 www.bardenada.co.uk The Coco Lounge, 3 George Street, Hockley NG1, 0115 9418555 www. cocolongue.co.uk The Social, 23 Pelham Street NG1, 0115 9505078, www.thesocial.com Lloyds, 1 Carlton Street, Hockley NG1, 0115 9881660 www.lloydsno1.co.uk

30 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 Off the beaten track

The Alley Café is based in the city centre, but is not that easy to find for people who haven’t visited regularly. It’s tucked away up Cannon Court, just off the Market Square and serves a great range of vegetarian food as well as some nice foreign beers. Moog is a funky little bar based near Canning Circus in Radford. Recently taken over by new management, the music quality has increased, but the range of food and beer on offer is as good as ever. The Loggerheads is a nice little pub and live music venue, which also has a cave attached to it so you can proper medieval with your raving. The atmosphere is good and the service is always friendly.

The Alley Café, 1a Cannon Court, Long Row, NG1 www.alleycafe.co.uk Moog, Newdigate Street, NG7 0115 9784500 Loggerheads, 59 Cliff Road, NG1 www.theloggerheads.co.uk 0115 9500086

Nottingham Gay Scene According to a survey done by the University of Sussex, Nottingham has the seventh highest gay population for cities in England and Wales. So what is there for LGBT people in Nottingham? It’s not all about pubs and clubs, but here are some good ones:

@D2 is a mostly male, mostly young bar, with stylish interior and shared loos. It can get loud, hot and sassy, if that’s your thing. Late night DJs and drag nights form part of the entertainment. Round the corner The Central may have signage that looks like its come straight from the London Underground, but the bar has lovely new shiny deco and three rooms with a pool table and music. The Lord Roberts on Broad Street, has a more traditional look to it. It’s gay friendly and you won’t get deafened by the music. The Newmarket Inn on the corner of Broad Street and Lower Parliament Street, is not necessarily a ‘gay pub’, but it is definitely friendly. It has a time-honoured interior and a lovely little beer garden to hide in. The New Foresters is very friendly and very comfy. It used to be mainly ladies, but it now gets the boys in too. With a nice beer garden, regular barbecues and drag entertainment. The men-only night includes a stripper!

As for clubs, there’s no shortage here and hopefully a little something for everyone. NG1 on Lower Parliament Street is the big established gay club in the city. It has two dance Bars floors of cheesy pop and dancy trance and the tranquil Soba If you want extra support, the Lesbian and Gay Helpline @D2, 72 Lower Parliament Street, NG1 01159502727 bar attached. It’s open until 5am, with still a mainly boys has a wealth of info (evenings 0115 9348484) and produces The Central, Huntingdon Street, NG1 0115 9585883 www. crowd. Oceana is a massive cheesy club in the city centre the free Queer Bulletin newsletter. The Gai Project (Broad central-online.co.uk that has a regular gay night called Location on the first Street 0115 9476868) provides condoms, lube, sexual The Lord Roberts, Broad Street, NG1 0115 9414886 Thursday of each month. The Maze is a funky live music health advice, counselling and the all important Gai Guide. The Newmarket Inn, club, which was known in the scene for the girls, but is Outburst (07940 761160) is a youth service offering LGBT The New Foresters St Anns Street, NG1 0115 9580432 now a bit of everyone. Live music, safe venue and good provision for up to 25year olds, with weekly meetings and Broadway cinema, Broad Street, NG1 beer… what more could you ask? Pelhams on Pelham Road, one-to-one support. has a girls-only night every other Sunday. Boys are only allowed in as guests! The café in the the Broadway Cinema Clubs NG1 76-80 Lower Parliament Street, NG1 0115 958 8440 is not strictly speaking a gay location, but you will find an Students The Maze, 270 North Sherwood Street, NG1, a lot of gay and friendly people taking advantage of their NTU - www.ntupride.org.uk and 0115 8226164. Pelhams, 9 Pelham Street, NG1 very wide selection of great food, excellent beers and cute Nottingham University - www.uonlgbt.org and 0115 Oceana, Lower Parliament Street, NG1 07956 357644 bar staff. Nottingham now also has Reflections, a gay-only 8468800. health spa and sauna on Crocus Street. The Rocky Horror Show is on at the Theatre Royal in January, so don’t forget www.gaynottingham.com your feather boa!

www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 31 Disco: Love It or Hate It?

For me it’s the soundtrack to a hedonistic cultural revolution that defined the way we party today. The disco challenge is on. Cast your votes! FaceTheMusic

Disco sucks. It was just house music waiting for the drum machine to be invented. Supine

Disco’s all good for me, baby. It’s probably one form of music in today’s colourful spectrum of genres that I think gets a bad press, mainly due to cheese that got commercial success years ago. Scratch beneath the surface and there’s exciting music out there: I’m still finding stuff in dusty second-hand record shops that blows me away. Beane

I think a lot of people across the UK play a tame, safe retrospective of the tame, safe stuff from yesteryear. Where’s the electro stuff, the sleaze? It’s boring. Leave the smooth shit at home please - get some crunchy stuff coming out the speakers. Red Rackem

I love disco but for me it isn’t about Studio 54 NOW and the Bee Gees, Its roots were from Motown and funk but house in its outlook and feel, with a mainly gay, black, Hispanic crowd, untouched by the mainstream. The music and parties like the Paradise Garage and the Loft that’s are still inspirational. Larry the Lamb So what if someone plays I Want Your Love? what It’s a great tune. DJing isn’t about playing the most edgy, obscure records possible, it’s about playing to and for a crowd. Just because a lot of people like a record, it doesn’t make it bad. peej I call art! words: Amanda Young Nottingham’s Shoe Monster

It is me, or has anyone else noticed lots of Performance, VJing, film and music bless our souls in Addictive TV Visual Disk Jockeys are up again this year pairs of trainers dangling from overhead cables an array of kooky venues as Nottingham’s celebration too. This crew have performed their audio/visual shows around Nottingham? Could it be the Tripods? of cutting-edge art presents its fine exponents of internationally, criss-crossing the art and club worlds in Mrs Hood creativity this autumn. Now and then a little pursuit London, Paris and Bangkok. The eye of the pilot performance consists of a visual archive of a 1950’s French pilot on his of hedonism should be indulged and so a mash-up of travels around San Francisco, Saigon and beyond. Scratched I think it’s the way it’s always been, and art seems fine and dandy. So, get ya socks on and hit is definitely a fitting end for a good pair of up with the original soundtrack and audio of a fretless guitar, town for some creative spice and tripe that is NOW trainers. Before telephone wires I think they we are offered a rare glimpse where a personal camera and used dinosaurs... festival! international travel are constant bedfellows. David In a fast car (Subaru Impreza WRX Sti) cruising around Brought up above a Donor Kebab shop ran by his folks, Turkish It’s what you call ‘smelly trainer syndrome’. In Broxtowe estate artist Simon Poulter shot the documentary Cypriot artist Mem Morrison invites you to Leftovers based in some hostels for example, you often have the This is England, in the height of the World Cup fever. a city centre café. As the audience you can mingle with staff aesthetic beauty of seeing trainers hanging Interviews range from a Local MP, the head of the Child Poverty and regulars and enjoy a full English breakfast before sitting out of windows. Action Group, to academics and residents. Apparently, “this down to the performance. Drawing on his personal history Sara film shows respect, community and aspiration in a supposedly and environment he brings up the complex issues of cultural deprived area.” No supposing about it in my humble differences and culinary mix. In a city rich in diversity this not The rumour I’ve heard is that it was originally experience. Go see for yourself at 25b Broad Street Hockley to be missed show is thought provoking as we naturally find done in the USA to mark territory/drug 3pm-7.15pm (half hour slots) and make your own mind up. roots in borrowed culture. availability or loss of a gang member. But on Haydn Road Sherwood? It’s just kids pissing On the bill also is J Spaceman performing an acoustic set with We should also mention Konk Pack who are Tim Hodgkinson about, probably because they’ve seen it in a a string quartet and gospel choir on 26 October. St Mary’s on the lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinet; Thomas Lehn on hip hop video. church hosts this rare gig where the frontman of Spiritualized analogue synthesizer and Roger Turner playing drum sets Ash D will present tracks from the forthcoming album, as well as and percussion. Playing on 18 October you can expect to covers and back catalogue favorites from Spaceman 3. The new have a bit of awkward ear exploration of the avant-garde sort On Sneinton boulevard there used to be a pair - album, due for release in early 2007, is described by Spaceman in an amazing Improv style. Delivering three albums on the but now there is a computer mouse! Maybe the as being “the work of the devil with a little guidance from me.” Grob record label and a European and American tour lead on drug dealers have set up an online business. to a live broadcast for BBC Mixing It. This English-German LadyBee From the comfort of your homely hole you can experience the trio treats us to a one-off performance of their ingenious and digital realm of creativity as NOW have commissioned Sims startling musical inventions at the Canalhouse bar. Described Sweatshop created by Johnny Norridge. It’s a game built as ‘one of the most exciting Improv groups in the world’ their around the ideas and issues surrounding slave labor. Fitting combination of acoustic and electronic sounds is a must for really as the retail outlets lining our streets namely Topshop adventurous music fans. and Primark have been exposed as supporting such atrocities. Visit beherenow.org.uk to play that or follow Shop Talk an exploration of shops and people in Nottingham’s colorful and diverse Hyson Green. www.beherenow.org.uk

32 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 listings... exhibitions / theatre / comedy / weeklies / music

Sunday 1/10 Theatre Tuesday 17/10 Tuesday 31/10 Wednesday 15/11

Wednesday 4/10

Angel Arts Bistro launch The Cathy Marston Project There’s No Place Like A Home Magdala Opera Gala The Dumb Waiter Venue: Angel Arts Bistro Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Playhouse Venue: Playhouse Price: Free entry Price: £12 Price: £8 - £19.50 Price: £12 / £15 Price: £5 / £8 Times: 2pm - late Times: 8pm They do what any self-respecting Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm All day launch party. Ten plus local A classical and contemporary company of once-were household- An operatic and musical theatre The Dumb Waiter is classic artists exhibiting in six galleries. dance combining music, literature, name entertainers do… devise a repertoire from Nottingham’s very Pinter – sparse, claustrophobic, All day bar and tapas menu visual art and fashion. plan, to kidnap a celebrity and own Magdala Chorus. Professional simultaneously menacing and (complimentary canapes), live demand a ransom, that’s so guest soloists join the chorus. hilarious. With echoes of current music from Will Jeffery and guests. Inspired by a trip to Cuba, the theatrical and entertaining that world events, the play raises Runs Until: 15/10 World Premiere of Marston’s Arcana they might just pull it off! questions about power, politics, draws on Afro-Cuban folklore Runs Until: 04/11 Friday 17/11 class, friendship and betrayal. music. An upbeat and sensual Runs Until: 07/10 Dance The Show - Storybook Monday 9/10 play on rhythm and movement. Friday 3/11 Venue: Notts Arts Theatre Price: £8.50 / £9 Nottingham Inspired Deadeye Times: 7.30pm, Sun 4pm Wednesday 18/10 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Saturday 7/10 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre A showcase of young dancers who

Price: Free Price: £12 attend Summers In Time dance Times: 11am - 5pm Times: 8pm classes. A number of City schools have Deema’s got a choice to make. Runs Until: 19/11 been involved in projects Take a job and leave home or stick exploring the built environment of around and save what’s left of her Stan Won’t Dance Nottingham. They have produced troubled family? Venue: Playhouse large scale artworks representing Runs Until: 04/11 Price: £12.50 / £16 buildings in the city. Times: 7.45pm Virgins Runs Until: 5/11 How far would you go for the one Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Monday 6/11 you love? In a secret world of Price: £12 The Three Musketeers lust, lies and loss, text, dance, Times: 8pm The Lion, The Witch and The Venue: Royal Centre visually stunning design and Virgins explores the minefield of Wardrobe Thursday 12/10 Price: £12 - £29 daredevil aerial choreography are sexuality, both for teenagers and Venue: Notts Arts Theatre An ambitious young swordsman, combined as performers risk life, Addictive TV - Now Festival their co-habitees - their parents! Price: £7.50 / £9 a corrupt and powerful Cardinal, limb and soul to demonstrate the Venue: Cineworld Family Ticket - £30 a beautiful but deadly spy. Kings, consequences of revealing their Price: Free Dance Express 2006 Times: 7.30pm, Wed & Sat Queens, adventure, friendship, darkest desires. Times: 7pm Venue: Royal Centre Matinee at 2.30pm romance, intrigue and heroes. The Eye of the Pilot. Price: £10 ‘Once there were four children Runs Until: 21/10 To book phone 0115 9158626 Entertainment from the Tracy whose names were Peter, Susan, Tuesday 21/11 Quaife Theatre School. Edmund and Lucy...’ This adaptation of C.S. Lewis classic Follies Monday 23/10 Wednesday 18/10 story is seen through the eyes of Venue: Royal Centre

Me and My Girl the four siblings who stumble into Price: £7.50 - £15 Konk Pack - Now Festival Monday 9/10 Venue: Royal Centre a magical land of good and evil. A large cast, dazzling costumes Venue: Canalhouse bar Price: £10 - £26.50 Runs Until: 11/11 and full orchestra. Price: Free Times: 2.30pm, 7.30pm Runs Until: 25/11 Times: 8pm A Murder Is Announced Runs Until: 28/10 Arsenic & Old Lace Venue: Notts Arts Theatre Venue: Royal Centre Price: £7.50 Price: £8 - £19.50 Friday 24/11 Friday 20/10 Times: 7.30pm - 2.30pm Starring Louise Jameson, Wayne Runs Until: 14/10 This is England - Now Festival Sleep & Sherrie Hewson. In Venue: Screen Room a quaint Brooklyn house two Price: Free sisters have been perfecting their Times: 3pm - 7.15pm Tuesday 10/10 Roadmetal Sweetbread - Now elderberry wine. Little do their Ten people, one very fast car and Festival ‘gentlemen callers’ suspect that the Broxtowe estate. A film by Venue: Notts Arts Theatre they will soon be heading off to Simon Poulter. Price: £6 / £4 more exotic climes. Runs Until: 22/10 Times: 7.30pm start Runs Until: 11/11 Occupying an alternative world which bears an uncanny Friday 27/10 resemblance to reality, a man and Cinderella Abba Mania a woman compete with their own Tuesday 7/11 Seeking Tacit Utopias Venue: Playhouse Venue: Royal Centre life-size video images for survival. Venue: Surface Gallery Hard Times Price: Various Price: £12 - £22.50 Every performance is unique, each Price: free Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Times: Various Celebrating Abba’s music and style. space viewed in a new light. Times: 11am - 5pm Price: £12 Doomed to drudgery by her Runs Until: 14/10 Runs Until: 24/10 A survey of contemporary painting Times: 7pm vicious stepsisters, Cinderella curated by Thomas M Wright. At the heart of Dickens’ vision of can only dream of escape and Marjorie’s World Unhinged Artists exhibiting are Andrew Victorian England is the polluted romance. Jeffrey Longmore and Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Thursday 26/10 Bracey, Matthew Brown, Ross and poverty-ridden Coketown. John Elkington are ugly sister Price: £12 Chisholm, Katarina Forss, Andy The Two Faces of Here callous businessmen Thomas act Bella and Donna, in Kenneth Times: 8pm Jackson, Elena Kopenkova, Ryan Mitchell and Webb Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby Alan Taylor’s 23rd Playhouse A new dance theatre work by Mosley, Benet Spencer, Julian Venue: Royal Centre have created a logical, heartless pantomime. Prepare for upbeat award winning choreographer Hughes Watts, Ian Whitfield and Price: £19.50 world full of ‘facts’ and devoid of songs, high energy dancing, Maresa von Stockert. A world of James Wright. Times: 8pm ‘fancy’. outrageous costumes and glitter rivalry, blood, sweat and tears. Runs Until: 24/10 Runs Until: 8/11 aplenty. Is it really that time of The Caretaker year already? Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads Venue: Playhouse Runs Until: 20/01 Venue: Playhouse Price: £7.50 plus Thursday 9/11 Price: £7.50 plus Saturday 28/10 Times: 7.45pm Times: 7.45pm The Gruffalo Davies is down and on his heels Monday 27/11 The King George’s regulars meet Venue: Royal Centre From Victorian To Modern until he’s taken in for the night by to watch the World Cup qualifying Price: £6.50 - £9 The Pirates of Penzance Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre the seemingly eccentric Aston. Lost game. As the match is played out Join Mouse on an adventurous Venue: Royal Centre Times: Various in a world of homelessness, his on the big screen, other rivalries journey through the deep, dark Price: £11 - £23 The last generation of Victorians identity papers in Sidcup, he soon come to the fore. Barry, the pub wood in this magical, musical Lock up your daughters, the had to face the emergence of outstays his welcome until Aston’s team’s black star striker, may have adaptation of the Blue Peter pirates are coming to town! Off the modern when they were just younger brother Mick shows up... a Union Jack tattooed on his bum award-winning picture book. the rocky shores of Cornwall, a getting into their stride. The Runs Until: 11/11 question of modernity is seen as and chant “Inger-land” along with Runs Until: 12/11 band of orphaned pirates spy ‘men’s business’, even though the rest but we soon realise that the Major General’s daughters as some of the women who belonged he is a barely tolerated outsider. they paddle in the sea. Smitten Tuesday 31/10 to that generation are now Runs Until: 14/10 Friday 10/11 by these bathing beauties, amongst the best-known female the rebellious but soft-centred WWE Raw artists. shipmates whip up a storm with Venue: Nottingham Arena their brave advances. Love-struck Price: £20 / £45 Lectures: Admission £6 / £4. Monday 16/10 sweethearts and battles with

Friday 27 October 6.30pm with bungling policemen meet with Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Tuesday 5 Monday 13/11 miraculous twists of fate in this December 6.30pm with Neil Walker Life Of A B’Boy tale of love and camaraderie. giving a talk on the work of Laura Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Griot Speak Runs Until: 02/12 Knight. Price: £12 Venue: Playhouse Runs Until: 19/12 Times: 8pm Price: £7 / £5

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Nine Years - Now Festival hop theatre that features three A night of spoken word St Petersburg Ballet Theatre - Venue: Sandfield Theatre of the best b’boys in the UK. performance poetry hosted by Lord of the Dance Swan Lake and The Nutcracker Price: £6 / £3 Mouse, Steady and Chimp Chilla. OneNess of the Best Kept Secret Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Royal Centre Times: 8pm Combining narrative, physical spoken word collective. Price: £25 - £32.50 Price: £12 - £29.50 By Lone Twins. theatre and dance alongside a live Runs Until: 15/01 Runs Until: 02/12 score by DJ G Kut.

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The Caper Club Grumpy Old Women Live Should I Stay or Should I Go? Rise and Shine / Funk U Crash Venue: Bunkers Hill Inn Venue: Playhouse Venue: Maze Style: Indie, Alternative, Style: Indie, Alternative Price: £5 / £7 adv (NUS) Price: £21.50 Price: £4/£3 NUS Nineties Venue: Rock City Venue: The Cookie Club Times: 8pm start Are you a little bit hot and a Times: 8pm start Price: £3 (NUS) Price: £5 (NUS) Pete Firman, Dominic Woodward little bit hairy? Times: 9.30pm - 2am and MC Anthony J Brown. Runs Until: 21/10 Times: 10.30pm - 3am Crash is Nottingham’s longest Sunday 12/11 running indie night. Uberism

Saturday 21/10 Aan Carr Venue: Media Tuesdays

Thursday 05/10 Venue: Playhouse Price: £8 - £10 Style: Disco, RnB Robin Ince Isn’t Waving Price: £15 Times: 10pm - 2am Venue: The Market Bar Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Jongleurs Times: 7.30pm Price: £4 (NUS) Price: £15 Venue: Jongleurs Co-star of Channel 4’s Friday Night Stylus Times: 9pm - 2.30am Times: 8pm Price: £8 - £15 Project. Venue: Snug With Matt Tolfrey and DJ Ellis Robin Ince previews his brand Mike Milligan, John Fothergill Price: £6 (NUS) and Paul Zerdin. new show - all about loving music, Times: 10pm - 4am cluttered minds, modern malaise, Runs Until: 07/10 Saturday 18/11 Wednesdays fake scicnce, otters, The Daily Mail Stealth V Rescued and not being Hunter S Thompson Marcus Brigstocke Style: House, Breaks, Indie WigFlex Friday 06/10 … oh and poo. Venue: Playhouse Venue: Stealth Style: Hiphop, DnB, Dubstep Price: £12.50 Price: £5 Venue: Stone Gina Yashere Times: 8pm Times: 5pm - 4am Price: Free Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Monday 23/10 Time Out comedy award winner 2 Clubs, 3 Bars, 2 Patios, 1 Cinema Times: 9pm - late Price: £15 and star of BBC’s The Late Edition Howard Marks - 1 Price! Bonza. Spam chop playing beats, breaks, She’s back with a brand new show and The Now Show. Venue: Arriba Club hiphop, tekee house and all sorts packed with jokes, wit and razor-sharp observations. Price: £13.50 Essence else. With live breakdancers, free Times: 7.30pm Thursday 23/11 Style: House, RnB N64 and visuals by Synoptics. Venue: Mode Tuesday 10/10 Jongleurs Price: £5 Electric Banana Tuesday 24/10 Venue: Jongleurs Times: 10pm - late Venue: The Social Should I Stay or Should I Go? Price: £20 - £36 Price: £2 Puppetry of the Penis Venue: Maze Times: 7pm Distortion Times: 10.30pm - 3am Venue: Jongleurs Price: £3 / £4 (NUS) Runs Until: 25/11 Style: Rock, Indie, Times: 8pm / 8.30pm start Price: £14 Alternative The Big Wednesday Times: 7pm Venue: Rock City Style: Alternative, Rock, Pop Thursday 12/10 Runs Until: 27/10 Weeklies Price: £5 (NUS) Venue: The Cookie Club Fridays Times: 9pm - 2.30am Price: £2.50 (NUS) Jongleurs Thursday 26/10 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Venue: Jongleurs Nuts Sundays Price: £8 - £15 Jongleurs Style: Indie, House Thursdays Sean Percival, Susan Murray, Tony Venue: Jongleurs Venue: Media Jazz at the Bell Hendriks and Mark Walker. Price: £8 - £15 Times: 10pm - 2am Style: Jazz Noodle Runs Until: 14/10 Times: 7pm Venue: Bell Inn Venue: The Spot Quincy, Curtis Walker, Smug Love Shack Price: Free Price: Free Roberts and Markus Birdman. Style: Eighties, Nineties Times: 12.30pm - 3pm

Saturday 14/10 Runs Until: 28/10 Venue: Rock City Music Saves The Day Price: £4 / £5 The Underground Sessions Edinburgh & Beyond Venue: Bluu Times: 9.30pm - 2am Venue: Snug Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Friday 27/10 Times: 9pm - late Price: Free Price: £15 Fridays Times: 9pm - 4am Times: 7.30pm Joe Pasquale Tuned Style: Breaks, House Chris Addison, Russell Howard, Venue: Royal Centre Style: Indie, Alternative, Pop Venue: The Market Bar Out To Lunch Marek Larwood and Steve Hall. Price: £14 - £16.50 Venue: Rock City Price: £4 (NUS) Style: Jazz Price: £3.50 - £4 (NUS) Times: 9pm - 3am Venue: Dogma Times: 8.30pm - 2am Sunday 15/10 Thursday 02/11 With Resident DJ Santero Price: Free Times: Afternoon Mirrorball Jeremy Hardy Audio Jongleurs Venue: Snug Venue: Playhouse Venue: Snug Moog is Sunday Venue: Jongleurs Price: £4 (NUS) Price: £13 / £15 Price: £5 (NUS) Style: Film Price: £8 - £15 Times: 10pm - 4am Times: 7.30pm Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: Moog Times: 7pm Price: Free Miles Crawford, Phil Walker, Steve Club NME Atomic Times: 12pm - 12am Style: Rock, Indie Gribbin and Mandy Knight. Monday 16/10 Style: Eighties, Nineties Venue: Stealth Runs Until: 04/11 Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £2 - £4 (NUS) Mark Thomas Price: £4 (NUS) Mondays Times: 10pm - 2am Venue: Playhouse Times: 10.30pm - 3am Price: £10 / £14 Sunday 05/11 Open Mic Night Live Thursdays Times: 7.30pm Style: Acoustic Salt Venue: Golden Fleece Edutainers of Comedy Venue: Golden Fleece Style: Hiphop, House, Breaks Price: Free Venue: Playhouse Price: Free Venue: Dogma Times: 8.30pm - 12am Wednesday 18/10 Price: £10 - £15 Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: Free Times: 7.30pm Come down at 8pm to secure a Times: 7pm - 2am Vice Jeff Green After last March’s UK sell out 15min slot. Style: Pop, House, RnB Venue: Playhouse Queens of Comedy, BBC’s Curtis Pop.Your_Funk Venue: Media Price: £10 / £12 Walker headlines. Motherfunker Venue: Bluu Times: 10pm - 2am Times: 8pm Venue: The Cookie Club Price: Free Price: £1 before 11pm Times: 9pm - late Singer / Songwriters Night Monday 06/11 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Thursday 19/10 Style: Acoustic

Roger McGough Sabotage Venue: Raffles Art Cafe Overdrive Jongleurs Venue: Playhouse Style: Eighties, Nineties Times: 8pm - 12am Style: Rock Venue: Jongleurs Poetry Please presenter Roger Venue: The Cookie Club Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £8 - £15 McGough, ‘a trickster you can Price: £4 (NUS) Style: Funk, Hiphop Price: £2 Runs Until: 21/10 trust’. Times: 10.30pm - 3am Venue: The Market Bar Times: 8pm - 2am Price: £4 Times: 9pm - 2am

listings... exhibitions /theatre / comedy / weeklies / music Sunday 1/10 Thursday 05/10 Saturday 7/10 Tuesday 10/10 Thursday 12/10

Tina Dico Highness Sound System YandT Afi Ambush Launch Night Venue: The Social Style: Reggae, Roots Venue: Rock City Venue: Rock City Venue: The Social Price: £8 adv Venue: BluePrint Price: £16 Price: £13.50 Price: Free (NUS) Times: 8pm - 11pm Price: £5 Times: 6.30pm doors Times: 7.30pm Times: 9pm-3am Times: 10pm - late With support from GPS. Vinyl [abort] - Live AV, JoolsMF, Melody Market Acoustic Tuesdays open mic Stinkin’ Rich, Kid Chameleon, Cut Venue: Angel Arts Bistro Word Of Mouth The Boy Least Likely To with Nell Bryden Freqz, Casual Breakin, Chris CF Will Jeffery and Venue: Muse Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar and Mister Benn. Curtis Whitefinger. Price: £2 Price: £8 adv Price: Free Times: 8pm - 4am Times: 7pm - 10pm Times: 8.30pm Weeble Primal Scream DJ Set Lowstar Presents: Lee Ramsay, Venue: Junktion 7 Style: Nineties, Indie Instinct and Karizma. Basement Boogaloo Melody Market Price: £3 Venue: The Ballroom Venue: Maze Venue: Angel Arts Bistro Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £7 (NUS) Ladyfuzz Price: £5 Price: Free Weeble, Milk 2 Sugars, A is for Times: 8.30pm - 2am Venue: The Social Times: 10pm Times: 8pm - late Ape and Failure by Design. Mani, Goodshoes and Pigeon Price: £6 adv Moonboots Andy Whittle, Ed Bannard Detectives. Times: 8pm doors and Will Jeffery. Maresienne Consort Kingsize Operator Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Live Jazz and Latin Funk St Petersburg Symphony Venue: Old Angel (The) The View Price: £12 Venue: Golden Fleece Orchestra Times: 8pm onwards Venue: The Social Times: 7.30pm Price: Free Venue: Royal Centre Price: £6 Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £8 - £29 Pure Filth Times: 7pm - 10pm Style: Techno, DnB Friday 13/10

Dexter (The Avalanches) Venue: BluePrint Power Up Hot Chip Monday 2/10 Venue: Dogma Price: £6 Venue: The Social Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: Free Times: 10pm - late Times: 10.30pm - 3am Juliette and The Licks Price: £10 adv Times: 10pm - 2am Chris Liberator, Filth Residents, DJ Venue: The Rescue Rooms With support from the Junior Boys. Smith, Suspect-One, Mr Fijjitt BBC Radio Nottingham Price: £10adv Fat Lady Singh and Paul Murphy. Venue: Royal Centre The Tone Club Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £13 Swound! Venue: NTU Union Times: 8.30pm - 12am Bullets and Octain Venue: The Social Price: £7 Venue: Rock City Price: £8 Times: 9pm - 2am Air Traffic Price: £6 Wednesday 11/10 Times: 8pm - 12am The Jim Beam Music tour with Venue: Rock City Times: 7.30pm doors Swound!, The Kull and Trailer. Lacuna Coil Little Man Tate. Price: £4 adv Venue: Rock City Times: 7.30pm Soul:ution Pilgrim Fathers and Price: £15 Ed Harcourt Style: DnB The Hellset Orchestra Times: 7.30pm Venue: The Social Venue: The Social Venue: Malt Cross Price: £12.50 adv Friday 6/10 Price: £5 on the door Times: 7.30 Times: 11pm - 3.30am Beyond the Barricade Style: DnB, Hiphop The Rubber Room DJ’s Marcus Intalex and MC DRS, Venue: Royal Centre Venue: NTU Union Venue: The Social Transit Mafia, Ruthless and VTek Tuesday 3/10 Price: £11 - £16.50 Price: £7 adv Times: 10.30pm - 3am

Times: 7.30pm Times: 9pm - 2am Journey South C/O/R/D DnB: Pendulum, TC, Transit Mafia, Audio Massage Venue: Royal Centre Venue: The Social The Arena Tour 2006 DJ Strike, Chow, MC’s Verse, Venue: Maze Price: £20 Price: £5 Venue: Nottingham Arena Biggie, P-Fine. Hiphop: DJ Woody, Price: 8pm Times: 8pm - 10.30pm Price: £37.50 adv Santero and Detail. Times: £3 - £4 Sparklehorse Eternal, Boyz II Men, Tunde (the Beyond This Point Are Monsters, Venue: The Rescue Rooms Audio Massage - Acoustic voice of the Lighthouse Family), Trick and The Heartstrings The Wow Scenario!, Marks Brother Price: £13.50 adv Spectacular Dina Carroll, Mark Morrison, Venue: The Social and Wayne Zenith. Venue: Loggerheads En Vogue... amazing?! Price: £5 Ghostface Killah Times: music from 8pm Times: 7pm - 10pm The Go-Go Venue: Rock City Red Rack’em Venue: Loggerheads Price: £14 adv LeftLion Presents... Venue: Moog The Smugglers Inn Price: Free Times: 9pm - 1am Venue: The Orange Tree Price: Free Venue: Saltwater Times: 8pm - 1.30am Ghostface Killah and Theodore Price: Free Times: 8pm - 12am Price: Free King Kahlua, Daddy Bones plus Unit, Rodney P and Skitz, The Times: 8.30pm Times: 8pm - 1am special guests. Elementz, Karizma, 45, Ninety, Urbanspacelab and DJ. Urbanspacelab DMC Finalist Furious P Venue: Maze Slaid Cleaves Heavyweight Rocksteady 3 and Squigley. Wildside Price: £4 Venue: Maze Style Dubstep Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 9pm doors Price: £12 adv Venue: Maze Pull Tiger Tail Price: £5 A hybrid of dnb, jazz and dub Times: 7.30pm doors Price: £5 Venue: The Social Times: 9pm - 2am Times: 9pm - 4am Times: 8pm - late Imperial Vipers, Silverjet and Guilty Pleasures The Gipsy Kings Runs Until: 13/9 Pull Tiger Tail, Blah Blah Blah Ten Foot Dolls. Venue: The Social Venue: Royal Centre Horspower Productions (Benny and Kill Quicks. Price: £3 - £5 Price: £36.50 Ill), Geiom, Dj Klassic and Bobo Stenson Trio Times: 10.30pm - 2am Aled Jones. Acoustic Tuesdays Present Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre DJ Sean Rowley and Friends. Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: £12 Thursday 12/10 Drowned in Sound Clubnight Price: Free Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 8pm - 11pm Susperia Price: £5 adv £6 otd Sunday 8/10 Venue: Rock City Times: 9pm - 2am Tall Poppies Price: £8.50 adv The Rapture Sennen, The Telescopes, Televise Venue: Maze Times: 7pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms and Dan Cutts (ex-Lyca Sleep). Susperia, Red Harvest and Grimfist. Spectrum Price: £11 adv

Style: Breaks, Electronica Lobotomy Word Of Mouth Venue: Stealth Inauguration Subordination Venue: BluePrint Wednesday 4/10 Venue: Muse Price: £12 (NUS) Venue: The Social Price: £7 Price: £2 Disturbed Times: 10pm - 5am Price: £6 adv Times: 9pm - late Deal Maker Presents: Full Fat. Venue: Rock City Plump DJs, Vandal, Pete Jordan, Times: 8pm - 3am Bong RA, Ebola, Floorclearer,

Price: £17.25 Hexadecimal, HooknSling, Tayo, Vincent Vincent and The Villains. Shitmat, B, Dilk, Howl and Spectrum/Dogma present Times: 10pm doors DJ Hal and Joe B, Rogue Element, Partydress. Venue: Dogma Mike Hogan, DJ Yoda, Kids in NME Freshers Tour Price: Free Kevin Montgomery Trio Tracksuits, Joe B (Rebel Crew Venue: Stealth Halle Times: 10pm - 2am Venue: Maze USA), B Boy J, The Ground Hogs Price: £7 adv Venue: Royal Centre DJ MK and Jehst plus support. Price: £12 adv and Frakah. Times: 7.30pm doors Price: £8 - £29

Times: 7.30pm doors Klaxons, Shit disco, Data rock. The Green Bus Presents... Guest Support Andrea Zonn City Of Dog With DJs Simian and mobile disco. Keep On Magazine Venue: Old Angel (The) (James Taylor, Vince Gill) Venue: Loggerheads Venue: Golden Fleece Price: £3 Times: 8pm - 1.30am Times: 8.30 - 12am Times: 8pm Cerys Matthews Brazilian grooves and more from Monday 09/10 Carpet, Llamedos and Venue: The Rescue Rooms Juliet and friends. Sandi Thom Monkeys Of The High Seas. Price: £9 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms Demob Saturday 14/10 Price: £10 adv Le Chunk Great Escape Presents Venue: Junktion 7 Style: Breaks, Electronica Fightstar Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £6 Goo Goo Dolls Venue: Pelhams Venue: Rock City Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: 8.30pm - 12am Venue: Rock City Price: £2.50 (NUS) Price: £12 Price: £17.50 Times: 10pm - late Times: 7pm doors Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Monks Tokyo Deep Times: 7.30pm doors Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: The Market Bar Dan Sartain My Milkman has AIDS Price: £12 Price: £5 before 11 £6 after IV Thieves Venue: The Social Style: Pop, Hiphop, Cheese Times: 7.30pm Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: The Social Price: £7 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Mr C, James Alexander, Casiogrand Price: £6.50 Times: 8pm - 11pm Price: £5 (NUS) and Solbank. Times: 8pm - 12am Times: 10pm - 3am

listings... exhibitions /theatre / comedy / weeklies / music Saturday 14/10 Monday 16/10 Thursday 19/10 Friday 20/10 Sunday 22/10

The Broken Family Band Orson Word Of Mouth Damn You! Presents LeftLion Extravaganza Venue: The Social Venue: Rock City Venue: Muse Venue: Maze Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £7 adv Price: £15 Price: £2 Price: £6 adv £7 otd Price: £5 Times: 7pm - 10pm Times: 7.30pm Camouflage Large opening Times: 8.30pm Times: 7pm party. Dealmaker / Buttercuts Carla Bozulich, Hrsta and Felix. The Hellset Orchestra, Grain, Howling Bells The Cooper Temple Clause Records Presents: Illa man, Lo-Ego, Weeble, The Atoms. Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: The Rescue Rooms WyldeyeandOscar and Blumonkey. Hot Renault Traffic Club Price: £7 Adv Price: £11.50 adv Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 7pm doors Times: 7.30pm doors Supernight Times: 9pm - 2am Monday 23/10

Venue: Loggerheads Jamie T Something Different.... Dirt Club Price: £3 Cult Propaganda... Venue: The Rescue Rooms Style: Breaks, Electronica Venue: The Social Plan and Apologies Venue: Golden Fleece Price: £7.50 adv Venue: The Social Price: £2 and Simon Haiku. Price: Free Times: 7.30pm doors Price: £5 (NUS) Times: 8pm - 12am Times: 8pm - 12am

Times: 11pm - 4am Spotlight Kid, Black Vinyl Heart, Futureproof DnB classics and old skool special The Raconteurs Dumb Blonde, Freeman and Andy Elff and DJ’s. Venue: BluePrint with Mouse, Houghmeister and Venue: Rock City McAllister. Price: £4 Timmy Hands. Price: £17.50 adv Nick Harper Times: 9m - 2am Times: 7.30pm The Mighty Funk Junction Venue: Maze Dubstep: Geiom, Jon Rust, Bracky Kombination Funk

Style: Funk, World Music Price: £10 adv Fudge and Thomloo J. Electronica / Style: DnB, Techno John Mayall / Chicken Shack Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 7.30pm doors electro / techno: Line, The Crane, Venue: BluePrint Venue: Royal Centre Price: Free Stone 3 and Aled Jones. Price: £5 Price: £22.50 - £26.50 Times: 9pm - 2am Long Blondes Times: 10pm - late

Hexford and Louie the Leg. Venue: The Rescue Rooms Flipron Room 1 DnB: Silent Witness, Price: £7 Venue: Maze Ben Force, Mugga, Lowkey, MC’s Tuesday 24/10 Times: 7.30pm Price: £5 Menace and Anger. Room 2 - Times: 8pm Techno: Mark Jacobs, John Gilbert, Razorlight With support from Magic Car Ed George and Robin Marsden. Venue: Nottingham Arena Tuesday 17/10 Room 3 - Electronica: Missaw, Price: £21

Hyper Newtek and Dazzle. LeftLion Unplugged Psycle Venue: Dogma Hundred Reasons Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Venue: The Ballroom Times: 10pm - 2am Alex Wilson Venue: Rock City Price: Free Price: £10 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £11 Times: 8.30pm Times: 10pm - 6am Censored Price: £12 Bruce Myers Band. See www.Psycle.info for details Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 8pm Acoustic Tuesdays open mic

Price: £4 with Poppy Seed Saggy-pants Presents: Road Block Times: 8.30pm - 12am Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Venue: Maze Venue: Loggerheads Censored, The Fakers, The Saturday 21/10 Price: Free New Generation Superstars and Price: Free Southern Electrics and The Rise. Times: 8.30pm Deny the Charge. Pama International Times: 8pm - 1.30am Venue: Maze DJ’s Daddio and Beane. Soundz Global Melody Market Guillemots Price: £9 adv Venue: Golden Fleece Venue: Angel Arts Bistro Venue: Rock City Times: 9pm Serieux. (Oxjam) Price: Free Price: Free Price: £10.50 adv Moon Buggy and Dub Masters. Style: Tech House, Techno Times: 8pm - 12am Times: 8pm - late Times: 7.30pm Venue: Muse Shearwater Price: £3 Liars Club Ruby Turner Friday 20/10 Venue: The Social Times: 9pm - 3am Venue: The Social Venue: Playhouse Price: £7 adv OrtzRoka (DSR/Turnmills) and Price: £5 Price: £15 The Bronx Times: 7pm - 10pm Residents: T.Driver and L.Court. Times: 9pm - 3am Times: 8pm Venue: Rock City Bonde Do Role Price: £8 adv All Nighter Patty Hurst Shifter Times: 7pm doors Venue: Rock City Venue: Maze Wednesday 18/10 Price: £6 adv Price: £8 adv Wednesday 25/10 Get Spaced with the Idjut Boys Times: 8.30pm - 6am Times: 7pm doors Style: Disco, Rock Main Hall, Skindred, Basement, Off the Wall Venue: Pelhams The Answer, Roadstar and Airbourne. iLiKETRAiNS Venue: Royal Centre Price: £7 Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £15 / £17 Times: 10pm - 5am Angelic Upstarts Price: £6 adv Times: 7.30pm Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 9pm - 2am Well Swung! and Price: £10 adv £12 otd Martha Tilson Band iLiKETRAiNS, Swimming, Grain Detonate - The Next Level 06 Oxjam Festival Times: 9pm - 2am Venue: The Rescue Rooms and The Garuda Commute. Style: DnB, Hiphop Venue: Loggerheads Price: £8 adv Venue: Rock City TM Juke, Fran Green, Ligre, VinylJacks KFR 3rd Birthday Bash Price: £16 adv Mike and Foe. Style: Sixties garage Brian Jonestown Massacre Venue: BluePrint Times: 8.30pm - 3.30am Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: NTU Union Price: £5 before 11 £6 after With the Valve System (Loud!) NME Rock ‘n’ Roll Riot Tour Price: £5 Price: £11 + bf Times: 9pm - 3am Drum and Bass: Ed Rush and feat. The Fratellis Times: 10.30pm - 3am Times: 8pm - 12am Kinda Funky Radio is 3! Optical Live, Jenna G (full live Venue: NTU Union Room 1 - DnB: Devize, Garry K, band), DJ Marky and Dynamite Price: £11 + bf Camouflage presents Fields The Force, Paul F, Maestro, Fury MC, Andy C and MC GQ, Dillinja Times: 8pm - 2am Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: The Social and Iziah B2B Nessy, Room 2 and Lemon D with MC Foxy and Price: £8 adv Price: £5 - Jungle and Classic DnB: Neil Transit Mafia. Hiphop: Foreign Product Times: 7pm - 10pm Times: 7pm - 10pm Badboy b2b Astro, Theory b2b Beggars, People Under the Stairs, Venue: Stealth Bonobo (full live band) Fields and Good Books. Lawson, Lowkey b2b Ben Force, Edan (live), Giant Panda, Santero Price: £7 - £10 Wings b2b Calmboy b2b Strike, and Detail. Breaks: Aquasky, Times: 10pm - 5am Samiam and The Draft Eric Taylor Rotary b2b Redz, Zebedee b2b Breakfastaz and Pete Jordan. Venue: The Boat Club Venue: Maze Lukie, MC’s Devious, Koop and Camera Obscura Price: £7 adv £8 otd Price: £8 adv Yons, Room 3 - Wigflex: Spam The Automatic Venue: The Social Times: 7.30pm doors Times: 7.30pm Chop, Kid Chameleon, Extreme, G Venue: NTU Union Price: £7 With support from The Wireless Skratch, The Hizatron (Live) and Times: 8pm - 12am Times: None Stores and Milloy. Kuiper Belt. Hosted By Shinobi. The Great Escape Camera Obscura and Venue: Junktion 7 Nottingham Unplugged El Perro Del Mar. The Highness Sound System Times: 8.30pm - 12am The Cool Off Venue: Loggerheads Venue: The Social Venue: Golden Fleece With Stege Pinnock and Guests. An Guilty Pleasures Price: £5 Epiphany Price: Free evening of acoustic music. Venue: The Social Times: 10pm - 3am Venue: Oceana Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £3 - £5 Price: £8 Abominable Iron Sloth (Will Times: 10.30pm - 2am Well Swung Haven) DJ Sean Rowley and friends. Venue: Loggerheads Goodbooks and Fields Sunday 15/10 Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £3 (NUS) Venue: The Social Price: £7 adv / £8 otd Camouflage Times: 10pm - 2am Price: £6 adv Times: 8.30pm - 12am The Rifles Venue: The Rescue Rooms Russ Porter, Capstone, Ligre and Foe. Times: 7pm With support from Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £10 (NUS) The Legion of Doom. Price: £8 adv Times: 9pm - 3am Percussion Camouflage Large - 3 days of Venue: BluePrint Thursday 26/10 Seth Lakeman underground hiphop and beats. Price: £5 Venue: NTU Union See flyer / web for more details. Times: 9pm Lordi Thursday 19/10 Venue: Rock City Price: £10 + bf Mr Lif, Metro and DJ Big Wiz, Price: £10 adv Times: 8pm - 12am Salmonella Dub Braintax and Mystro, DJ Kam Napalm Death Times: 7pm doors Venue: The Rescue Rooms and live drummer, Sway and DJ Venue: The Ballroom Reverend and The Makers Price: £12.50 adv Turkish, Genesis Elijah, Lost Project Price: £13 (NUS) Word Of Mouth Venue: The Social and T-Cutt. Host is Blugrass. Times: 730pm - 2am Venue: Muse Price: £6 VNV Nation Price: £2 Times: 8pm - 11pm Venue: Rock City Saggy Pants present... Sideshow Son Records Presents: Price: £12.50 adv Venue: Old Angel (The) Venue: Running Horse C-Mone and support. Times: 7.30pm Price: £3 Price: £2 Times: 8.30pm Times: 8pm

listings... exhibitions /theatre / comedy / weeklies / music Thursday 26/10 Saturday 28/10 Monday 30/10 Friday 3/11 Sunday 5/11

Ambush The Young Knives Wasp Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson The Divine Comedy Venue: The Social Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: Rock City Venue: Royal Centre Venue: NTU Union Price: Free (NUS) Price: £8 adv Price: £17.50 adv Price: £16.50 Price: £17.50 adv Times: 9pm - 3am Times: 7pm - 10pm Times: 7.30pm Times: 8pm doors Poj Masta, Freeman, Ligre, Kid Red Rack’em Chameleon, Cut Freqz, Mister Sack Sabbath and Led Balloon, 7:21s Venue: Moog Mojave 3 Benn, Casual Breakin and Foe. Brit Boat Club Venue: Rock City Price: Free Venue: The Social Venue: The Boat Club Price: £6.50 Times: 8pm - 12am Price: £10 Rob Da Bank Price: £7 otd Times: 8pm - 11pm Venue: Dogma Times: 8.30pm Damn You! Presents The Tone Club Price: Free With support from Led Balloon. Venue: Maze Venue: NTU Union Deathstars Times: 10pm - 2am Price: £4 adv £5 otd Price: £3 adv - £4.50 otd Venue: Rock City B.E.A.T.S Times: 8.30pm Times: 9pm - 2am Price: £8 The Jamm Venue: The Social Talibam! and Exploits of Elane. Times: 7.30pm Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £5 Cosmic Rough Riders Price: £7 adv £9 otd Times: 11pm - 4am The Elvis Collection Venue: The Social Elaine Paige Times: 8.30pm - 12am A Skillz and Pete Jordan. Venue: Royal Centre Price: £7 Venue: Royal Centre Price: £13 - £15 Times: 8pm - 11pm Price: £29.50 - £32.50 Mufti Halloween Fancy Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Friday 27/10 Dress Party City Of Dog

Venue: Loggerheads Venue: Loggerheads Tom Jones Times: 8pm - 1.30am Tuesday 31/10 Times: 8pm - 1.30am Monday 6/11 Venue: Nottingham Arena

Acoustic Tuesdays open mic The Paddingtons Audio Massage - Black and Spectrum Detonate headlined by Daisy B Venue: The Rescue Rooms White Night Venue: Stealth Style: DnB, Hiphop, Dubstep Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: £10 adv Venue: The Orange Tree Price: £10 adv £12 otd Venue: Stealth Price: Free Price: £5 adv £7 otd Times: 10pm - 5am Price: £10 adv £12 otd Times: 8.30pm Dirt Club Times: 8pm doors Room One - Sound of Spectrum: Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: The Social Hellset Orchestra, Lupen Crook Stanton Warriors, Freestylers (DJ Hospitality presents: DnB: London Avenged Sevenfold Price: £2 and The Post War Years. Set), Dopamine and Pete Jordan. Elektricity (DJ Set), Bailey, Venue: Rock City Times: 8pm - 12am Room Two – Live Spectrum Logistics, Transit Mafia, MC’s SP, Price: £15 adv Liars Club Electronics: TooB (Live), Delerium Ruthless and P-Fine. Hiphop: Kyza, Times: 7pm Jim and the Belivers Venue: Stealth Funk (Live) and Missaw? Room Professor Green, Santero and Venue: Maze Price: £5 Three – Spectrum Live: Crazy P Detail. Dubstep: Loefah (DMZ), Price: £8 Times: 10pm - 4am (live) and Dave Boultbee. Aled Jones and Jon Rust. Wednesday 1/11 Times: 7.45pm doors Man Man and The Chap.

Ray Davies Bring me the Horizon Son Of Dave Skinny Sumo Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: The Social Tuesday 7/11 Venue: Maze Price: £26.50 Price: £7 adv Price: £7 adv Price: £5 Times: 7.30pm - 12am Opeth Times: 7pm - 10pm Times: 9pm Four Day Hombre Bring me the Horizon, Rolo Tomassi Venue: Rock City

Skinny Sumo, BluMonkey, Mr Jones Venue: The Social and Awoken by Moonlight. Price: £15 The Exploited and Delerium Funk. Price: £5 adv Times: 7.30pm doors Venue: Rock City Times: 8pm - 10pm Price: £10 Demo Ugly Duckling Times: 7pm doors Venue: BluePrint Rooster Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £5 Venue: Rock City Price: £8 adv Ginger (Wildheart) Times: 7.30pm - late Price: £10 Style: Techno, DnB Times: Doors 8.30pm Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 7pm doors Venue: BluePrint Price: £13 Spectrum Boat Party Times: 10pm - late Melody Market Times: 9pm Venue: Nottingham Princess Drum and Bass Aid Venue: Angel Arts Bistro Price: £15 Venue: Snug Trans Global Price: Free Assault Rock night Times: 7pm - 11.30pm Price: £5 Venue: Golden Fleece Times: 8pm - late Venue: NTU Union Halloween Fancy Dress Boat Party Times: 10pm - 4am Price: Free Price: £2 b4 11pm £3 after with A Skillz, Pete Jordan, Freeman Transit Mafia, DJ Nessy, DJ Quakerr Times: 8.30 - 12am Peter Grant Times: 9.30pm - 2am and more. and MC Yons. Venue: Royal Centre Price: £14.50 - £16.50 Dollop Punksoc All-Dayer: Neil McAndrew Saturday 4/11 Times: 7.30pm Venue: The Social Stars in their Eyes 2 Venue: Maze Price: £3 - £4 The Illegal Eagles Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £8 Times: 11pm - 3am Venue: Royal Centre Price: £5 Times: 7.45pm doors Wednesday 8/11 Price: £16 Times: 4pm - 2am Audio Massage Mistys Big Adventure The King Blues (as Meatloaf), INME Venue: Templars Bar We Are Scientists Venue: The Social Weeble (as Me First and the Venue: Rock City Price: £4 - £5 Venue: Rock City Price: £7 adv Gimme Gimmes), The Atoms (as Price: £10 Times: 8pm Price: £12.50 Times: 7pm - 10pm The Ramones), Skatch (as MXPX), Times: 7pm Gob $au$age plus Botnik, These Times: 6.30pm doors The Crimson Roadmap (as Muse), With support from Kate Goes. Monsters and more. The Sellout Flaw (as The Misfits) Ray Davies Two Gallants The Smugglers Inn and Countermand (as The Pixies). Venue: Royal Centre Dredzone and Highness Venue: The Rescue Rooms Style: Hiphop, Dubstep Price: £26.50 Sound System Price: £8adv Venue: Saltwater Tempest Times: 7.30pm Venue: The Ballroom Times: 7pm - 10pm Style: Alternative, Rock Price: Free Price: £13 (NUS) Venue: Sugar Times: 8pm - 1am Times: 7.30pm - 2am Price: £3 (NUS) Thursday 2/11 Geiom, Red Rack’em, Beane, Dave Times: 9pm - 3am Boultbee and Mike Greenwell. Foncheros Highness Sound System Venue: Maze Metalheadz LP Launch Party Amanda Pitt and David Owen Style: Reggae, Roots, Dub Willie Nile Price: £4 Venue: The Social Norris Venue: BluePrint Venue: Maze Times: 8pm Price: £5 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £5 Price: £8 Foncheros, Kuato, Kody and Times: 11pm - 3.30am Price: £12 Times: 10pm - late Times: 7.45pm doors Crimson Roadmap. Commix, Doc Scott and Times: 7.30pm Word Of Mouth Transit Mafia. Poppycock Venue: Muse Thursday 9/11 My Alamo Venue: Moog Price: £2 Basement Boogaloo Venue: Rock City Word Of Mouth Price: Free Weight Bench Presents: Cappo, Venue: Maze Price: £4 adv Venue: Muse Times: 8pm - 12am Midnight and Rukus Regardless. Price: £5 adv £6 otd Times: 10.30pm Price: £2 Times: 10pm - 3.30am Whity, Dj Kaney King and The Hedrons The Petebox. Sunday 29/10 Venue: The Social LeftLion Presents...

Saturday 28/10 Price: £5 adv Venue: The Orange Tree Le Chunk Once in a Lifetime Times: 8pm doors Price: Free Vampires Rock Style: Breaks, Tech House Venue: Nottingham Arena Times: 8pm - 12am Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Pelhams Daughters Clarky Cat and Electric Mouth. Price: £16.50 - £18.50 Price: £2.50 (NUS) Hockley Hustle Venue: Rock City Times: 10pm - late Venue: Broadway Price: £6 I Love You But I’ve Chosen Bocajito Price: £5 Times: 7.30pm doors Darkness Venue: Moog Times: All day Venue: Stealth The Herb Birds Price: Free Venue: Southbank Bar Underground:Live Price: £5 Times: 8pm - 12am Price: Free Sinister Sounds Presents Venue: The Ballroom Times: 10.15pm Local Notts label night with Times: 10pm Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £7 (NUS) some of Nottingham’s busiest Price: £6 Times: 8.30pm - 2am Basement Boogaloo Warmup DJ’s and producers: Bob Sadler Times: 4pm - 12am Party Ambush and Ron Basejam (Crazy P), Tom Venue: The Social Midnight Configuration, Katscan, Exodus Venue: Golden Fleece Bailey and Cal Gibson (Neon Price: Free Lauf Aus, Quek Junior, Avoidance Venue: Junktion 7 Price: Free Heights). Times: 10.30pm - 3am of Doubt, Artificial Darkness and Price: £14 adv Times: 8.30pm - 12am Kid Chameleon, Cut Freqz, Mister Forbidden Subject. Times: 7.30pm - 11.30pm Benn, Casual Breakin and Foe. listings... exhibitions /theatre / comedy / weeklies / music Thursday 09/11 Monday 13/11 Friday 17/11 Sunday 19/11 Friday 24/11

Unabombers Robben Ford Jools Holland Motorhead Detonate Venue: Dogma Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Rock City Style: DnB, Hiphop, Dubstep Price: Free Price: £15 adv Price: £28 Price: £22 Venue: Stealth Times: 10pm - 2am Times: 7.30pm Times: 7pm doors Price: £10 adv Rumble Strips Times: 10pm - 4am Audio Massage Venue: The Social The Other Smiths Nearly Dan DnB: LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad Venue: Maze Price: £6 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: The Rescue Rooms (2 hour set) and Transit Mafia. Price: £4 Times: 8pm doors Price: £10 adv Price: £10 adv Hiphop: Klashnekoff, Santero and Times: 8pm With support from The Other Detail. Dubstep: Skream. Acoustic Tuesdays Morrissey. Ben Kweller headlined open mic Venue: NTU Union Assault Rock night Friday 10/11 Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Acid Mothers Temple Price: £11.50 plus bf Venue: NTU Union

Price: Free Venue: The Social Times: 8pm - 12.am Price: £2 b4 11pm £3 after Assault Rock night Times: 8.30pm Price: £8 adv Times: 9.30pm - 2am Venue: NTU Union Times: 8pm - 10pm Tim Easton Price: £2 b4 11pm £3 after Saggy Pants Presents... Venue: Maze Dollop Times: 9.30pm - 2am Venue: Maze Fields Of The Nephilim Price: £8 Venue: The Social Price: £4 Venue: Rock City Times: 7.45pm doors Price: £3 - £4 The Go-Go Times: 8pm Price: £16.50 Times: 11pm - 3am Venue: Loggerheads Times: 7pm doors Marcia Jones School of Dance Price: Free Opera North Venue: Royal Centre Saggy Pants Presents... Times: 8pm - 1.30am Venue: Royal Centre The Tone Club Price: £7.50 - £10.50 Venue: Maze King Kahlua and guests playing Price: £12 - £50 Venue: NTU Union Times: 7.15pm Price: £4 (proper) garage, go*go beat Runs Until: 18/11 Price: £3 adv £4.50 otd Times: 8pm and surf. Times: 9pm - 2am

Katherine Jenkins Monday 20/11 Maximum Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Trickster Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Maze Taste of Chaos Price: £20 - £35 Venue: Stealth Price: £17 - £21 Price: £4 Venue: Rock City Times: 7.30pm Price: £7 - £10 Times: 7.30pm Times: 10pm - 2am Price: £20 Times: 10pm - 5am The Manfreds and special guests Times: 6pm doors Chris Farlowe and Maggie Bell. Keep On Magazine Taking Back Sunday, Anti Flag, Wednesday 15/11 Well Swung Venue: Golden Fleece Alexisonfire, Uneroath, Senses Fail Venue: Loggerheads Poppycock Price: Free Less Than Jake and and Saosin. Price: £3 Venue: Moog Times: 8.30pm - 12am Dropkick Murphys Times: 8pm - 1.30am Price: Free Venue: Nottingham Arena Well Swung! and Stay Chuffed: Times: 8pm - 12am Price: £17.50 Tuesday 21/11 Hint (Tru Thoughts / Ninja Tune), Saturday 11/11 Times: 7pm Parker and Moneyshot (4 deck LeftLion Unplugged Pink set - Solid Steel Radio), Detail Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Saturday 25/11 All Of Me - Cambell Bass Venue: Nottingham Arena (Detonate) and Foe (Well Swung!). Price: Free Venue: Notts Arts Theatre Bocajito Price: £26.50 + bf Times: 8.30pm Price: £12 Venue: Moog Guilty Pleasures Times: 7.30pm Price: Free My Milkman has AIDS Venue: The Social Kubichek Times: 8pm - 12am Style: Pop, Hiphop, Cheese Price: £5 Venue: The Social Damn You! Local Notts label night with some Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 10.30pm - 2am Price: £6 Venue: Maze of Nottingham’s busiest DJ’s and Price: £5 (NUS) DJ Sean Rowley and friends. Times: 8pm - 11pm Price: £6 otd producers: Bob Sadler and Ron Times: 10pm - 3am Times: 7.30pm Basejam (Crazy P), Tom Bailey The Green Bus Presents... The Resentments and Cal Gibson (Neon Heights). Ron Sexsmith Venue: Old Angel (The) Venue: Maze Beverley Knight Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £3 Price: £6 Venue: Royal Centre B.E.A.T.S Price: £15 adv Times: 8pm Times: 7.45pm doors Price: £21.50 Venue: The Social Times: 7pm - 10pm (Hooker), The Stoatz and Monkeys Times: 7pm Price: £5 Of The High Seas. Soundz Global Times: 11pm - 4am Something Different Venue: Golden Fleece Missill and Pete Jordan Venue: The Social Kombination Funk Price: Free Thursday 16/11 Price: £5 Style: DnB, Techno Times: 8pm - 12am Mufti Fancy Dress Party Times: 11pm - 4am The Wonder Stuff Venue: BluePrint Venue: Loggerheads Atomic Hooligan and Freeman. Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £5 Times: 8pm - 1.30am Price: £15 adv Times: 10pm - late Wednesday 22/11

The Mighty Funk Junction The Bluetones Demo Style: Funk, World Music Word Of Mouth Heavyweight Rocksteady Venue: The Rescue Rooms Venue: BluePrint Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Muse Style: Dubstep Price: £13.50 adv Price: £5 Price: Free Price: £2 Venue: Maze Times: 7.30pm - late Times: 9pm - 2am Dealmaker / Sit Tight Records Price: £4 Primal Scream ‘Demo is about real music, good Hexford and Louie the Leg. Presents: LG and Biscuit Times: 9pm - 3.30am Venue: Rock City beats and people. Creative and Lost Project. Price: £20 madness with an ethical vision. Road Block Cult Propaganda Times: 7.30pm doors Get involved, free Your feet.’ Venue: Loggerheads The Feeling Venue: Golden Fleece Price: Free Venue: Rock City Price: Free The Aliens Times: 8pm - 1.30am Price: £13 Times: 8.30 - 12am Venue: The Social Daddio and Beane. Times: 7pm doors Price: £8 Monday 27/11

Times: 7pm - 10pm Detonation Saturday 18/11 Last Tuesday Jazz Cafe

Style: DnB (on a monday) Razamajazical Chip Taylor Venue: The Ballroom Venue: Maze Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Maze Price: £15 adv Price: £3 Price: £10 / £15 Price: £7 otd Times: 10pm - 6am Times: 8pm Times: 7.45pm doors Grooverider and MC Rage, Mampi Hayseed Dixie Swift and MC IC3, Friction and Venue: Rock City Magic: A Kind of Queen Eksman, Total Science and MC Cult - Night of The Samurai Tuesday 28/11 Price: £13 Venue: Royal Centre Wrec, Bassline Smith and Biggie, Venue: Maze Times: 7pm doors Price: £14.50 UFO Break and Ruthless, Transit Mafia Price: £4 Times: 7.30pm Venue: Rock City and P-Fine. Vaccine Live, Vinyl [abort], Mouse Clocks Price: £16.50 and Houghmeister b2b Spamchop. Venue: The Social Times: 7.30pm doors The Cool Off Price: £5 Thursday 23/11 Venue: Golden Fleece Supernight with Yunioshi Times: 7pm - 10pm Acoustic Tuesdays headlined Price: Free Venue: The Social Word Of Mouth open mic Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £3 Venue: Muse The Highness Sound System Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Times: 8pm - late CTRL>ALT>ELITE Venue: The Social Price: Free

Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Sunday 12/11 Drum Attic Twins (Finger Times: 11pm - 3am Ambush Lickin) Venue: The Social Scissor Sisters Venue: Dogma Price: Free Venue: Nottingham Arena Wildside Festival Wednesday 29/11 Price: Free Times: 10.30pm - 3am Price: £23.50 Venue: The Ballroom Times: 10pm - 2am Kid Chameleon, Cut Freqz, Mister Levellers Price: £20 Benn, Casual Breakin and Foe. Venue: Rock City Luke Haines For more info on the festival visit Soundz Global Price: £17 adv Venue: The Social http://www.wildsidefestival.com Venue: Golden Fleece Moshkitten Promotions Times: 7.30pm doors Price: £8 Price: Free Venue: Old Angel (The) Times: 8pm - 11pm Lovers Bloc Times: 8pm - 12am Price: 4.50 Venue: Maze Times: 8pm Thursday 30/11 Rancid Price: £4 Mozart - 250 Years of Sheer Moshkitten Promotions Proudly Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 10pm Nextmen featuring MC Wrec Genius Present: 10 O’clock Horses and Price: £14 Venue: Dogma Venue: Royal Centre Satnams Tash. Times: 7.30pm Price: Free Price: £15.50 - £21.50 Times: 10pm - 2am on tour

TRANSATLANTIC OPERATION words: Simon Hodge Nottingham band Kingsize Operator went to Hollywood on tour in July and August

Kingsize Operator are Simon Hodge (Vocals), Dean who could further their career. Kingsize Operator however size of the Rescue Rooms. It is, however, steeped in history Barlow (Guitar), Ben James (Keys), Scott Barnes (Bass) had a secret weapon The sales pitch began as follows: and has an ambience that is almost mystical. The place and Colin Ward (Drums). was heaving and once again we just went for it. For forty “Hi, we’re English, we’re in a band called Kingsize minutes we played and performed our songs to a fired up We had been recommended by our LA Myspace friends Operator and we are playing at… Would you like a free crowd of over 300 on the same stage where the Doors got that The Rainbow was the place to be. Best described as CD?” This was followed closely by “Would you like to buy spotted forty years earlier. What an honour! What a night. a dingy, badly lit, two storey wooden barn, laid out like a ticket?” The resulting response would almost always We couldn’t get out of the building with the amount of a rabbit warren with rooms everywhere. The place was be enthusiastic, though you wouldn’t believe how many people coming over after our show ended. rammed with LA’s elite rock crowd. To be more precise the people actually thought Nottingham was in London. outdoor area was full of people due to LA’s smoking ban. The gig at the Roxy Theatre came round very quickly. Wide-eyed and very excitable we must have looked like That night Simon went into The Rainbow to use the Although it was not a full crowd the atmosphere was lambs to the slaughter. bathroom. On his way in he spotted Kiefer Sutherland superb, a load of guys from the rainbow showed up and and with beer-fuelled confidence went straight over, we had a lot of fun. As always, we hit The Rainbow after The following morning we got up early, had the clichéd barged past his entourage and introduced himself with a the show. Steve-O from Jackass was on the table next to American Breakfast at a diner next door and then headed handful of CD’s. They proceeded to have a conversation us. Ben took serious dissuading from challenging him to out for a busy day. Our first port of call was a meeting about music and film. Series six of 24 has just gone into some crazy stunt. He still regrets that we talked him out of with Carolyn Fox at KHZ Radio LA at 10am. We introduced pre production. Just as Simon was wrapping up the making a fool of himself. ourselves to this overly excitable lady, recorded an conversation Dean came bounding over like an enthusiastic interview. About an hour later we got back in the jeep and child and also shoving everyone out of the way proclaimed: It was our last day and we had one show left. We got to headed off to get the gear. Five guys stuck in a jeep for four ‘Mr Sutherland, I understand you have an amazing Gibson Universal City for our sound check at 5pm. We had sold our hours in 100 degree heat is not recommended. guitar collection...’ quota of tickets for the show so we were looking to go out with a bang. When we got to the venue we were told that The Gig, also in Hollywood, was on the way back so we The look on Kiefer’s face was an absolute picture. Clearly the Headline band Katcha Fire were stuck in Australia so popped in. The talent booker was a lady called Marsha. no-one had ever broken the ice with a statement like that the concert was not going to be shown live on US National Things were going well until Simon asked Marsha what before. They shook hands with Kiefer, came back out to find TV. It was a real shame, because that would have been the equipment we needed to bring with us. To our horror we the rest of us, then proceeded to recount their story over icing on the cake. We were a little deflated by the news. were introduced to a major difference between gigging and over again like a couple of star struck excitable kids. However, as the venue started filling up it became clear in Notts and LA. Anyone who is in or has been in a band that this was going to be a good show. BB’s has a real will know that generally the headline act brings the drum Having finally sorted out the equipment crisis by throwing touch of class. It has three balconies running the entire kit, bass amp and will usually allow the other bands to money at it to hire drums and amps we were set for length of the stage, creating a real intimacy. We were the run through their guitar amps. The logic for this is a quick our first gig at The Derby. The Americans pronounce it first band on, starting our performance at about 8pm. We turnaround. In LA every single band brings every single deeeeerbi. Very annoying! The venue was amazing. The played a half hour set, then two encores. piece of equipment, plays their show then takes everything stage was massive. We headlined to a packed house, went down. We therefore had a serious problem. We had no way down really well and came away from the gig with a lot of It was an emotional and drunken goodbye late on of making any noise. confidence. The tour had officially started! Wednesday night. Two weeks of partying, intense gigging, nearly a thousand CD’s handed out and relentless self The following journey to the CD duplication company The following night we were at it again for our show at The promotion had taken it out of us. Despite the stress of living seemed to take an age. Having a thousand professionally Gig. The feelings of excitement and adrenalin were intense. in each others’ pockets for two weeks, our desire to pursue printed CD’s with sleeves was an excellent mood improver. Once again the stage was huge and about four feet from music had strengthened to a new level. If you get a chance We hit The Rainbow with bags full of CD’s and went on a normal floor level. The roar as we started was unbelievable. to play in LA, do it. It will change your life. mission to spread the word of Kingsize Operator’s arrival The place was full and we just went for it. to an unsuspecting LA public. Everyone in LA is there for a reason. Whether you are an aspiring actor, singer, dancer, The gig at the world-famous Whisky a Go Go was intense. band, producer or just want to be famous, no-one dares be The venue started getting really busy at about 7pm. For rude to anyone in case they inadvertently insult someone its reputation the Whisky is not a massive place, about the www.kingsizeoperator.co.uk

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This contributor has recently acquired significant evidence which suggests that alien life may have been living with us side by side for decades or at least since the advent of Cordon Bleu cookery!

It was almost exactly ten years ago, whilst visiting a girlfriend in the Czech Republic that I was introduced to the aromatic subtleties of Olomouc cheese (from the Moravian town of the same name; pronounced Olla-moutz). She knew I’d heard of its reputation for being a bit of a tabflapper, but also that I had yet to try the stuff. With this in mind, she had lovingly afforded a half kilo wedge from the local less than an hour before my arrival and stuck it away on a plate in a kitchen cupboard as a surprise in case I fancied a bit straight away. Fnarhoooaaah!

Now. Some of you will already know that I’m a keen devotee of haute cuisine. I’ll eat absolutely haute; but when all the customary greetings were all done and she announced her surprise and opened the cupboard door and took out the plate, it was a resounding ‘Ooyahferk - fwooo! whaaat the? Errr… No thanks, babe!’ I should here point out that, although it was on a plate, it was also in its crust and wrapped in clingfilm and stuffed in a tightly closed biscuit tin. Yep. It made Gorgo smell like couple of post traumatic beers, during which time a very Dairylea. Rapid and successful duckout here. with yer knives and the gloop came gushing out like you’d just stomped on a tube of Bostic. The natural response was disturbing thought dawned on me. Let’s see. It jumped out and glued itsen to the plate and then it glued itsen to I didn’t get to try the stuff again until a very recent visit to attempt get some of the flush on yer knife or fork before it hit the salad or plate and immediately solidified. The pair the fork and then it glued itsen to me choppers and then it to Prague, this time with the wife. We’d just taken a break glued itsen to me tongue and back to the fork. Now. Why from the tourist bustle and adjourned to a tiny backstreet of us wrestled for at least five minutes to chip the fucker off the plate with our forks and then off our forks with our then didn’t it glue itsen to the breadcrumbs in the first restaurant. Then I saw it. There. On the menyuuo. Deepfried place? How did it get out? No… how did it leap out? I want Olomouc cheezo on the go. knives and then off our bloody teeth with both our tongues and forks simultaneously. to know exactly what them sinister crispy little bastards ‘Yeah! Yer gotta try this, Chuck! It’s esoteric! It’s gitt! It’s know that the rest of us don’t! not what them Yorkies at the next table’ve bought. Plus, if you get traditional Czech nosh, then they usually offer yer During all of this, I made the boldest attempt to smile warmly at the missus, who was throughout chucking me a Well; it’s now three twenty five I the morning. As I speak an erperratiff!’ She seemed less than convinced, having to you here in my Lion King pyjamas, I have a pair of heard my previous tale. look which could have pulled up the Grand National from the commentary box. In fact, we’d grappled so hard with nightlight binoculars trained on the remaining diskette the bloody stuff that its humongous ming went almost which I sneaked home and removed from the freezer half an Well, we went for it. The deepfried cheeso was promptly hour ago. No-one has ever thought of having a look at what serservedved up on two plates of gardengarden debris. FFine…ine… until yer unnoticed (apart from at the Yorkie’s table, where the odd shuffle of chairlegs went up) and we relaxedrelaxed with a an unattended one does beforbefore.e. Hah! I’ll be readyready for them chopped into these small brbrownown breadcrumbedbreadcrumbed diskettes this time… hah!

The Temples of Angkor, Cambodia words: Benji

Angkor represents one of mankind’s most enduring and astonishing architectural achievements. Erected between 802 and 1432 AD, it is the sacred skeleton of a powerful empire that stretched from Burma to Vietnam. Built by a series of God, kings who strove to better their ancestors achievements, the temples are dedicated to different gods depending on the religious leanings of the king at the time. Of over a hundred temples in the area, the jewel is Angkor Wat: the worlds largest religious building. Walking down its causeway at sunrise is an experience so haunting you are unlikely to make the return journey feeling like the same person. Many believe Angkors geographical position is based on planet spanning sacred geography from ancient times. The layout and iconographic nature of its sculpture indicate the celestial phenomenon of the procession of the equinoxes, the slow transition of one astrological age to another. This is a place that everyone should witness once in their lifetime.

44 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 This month’s Nottsword answers are all places in Nottingham where you can get a late drink, jiggle your booty and get down to some fine grooves in Nottingham city centre (but not necessarily in that order). We didn’t get a winner last issue, because everyone was too busy on their summer holidays to bother to enter. So this month we have an extra special prize of a set of six chart CD’s and a free mystery prize from LIDL.

Down 1. Cheesy bar that goes up and down (6, 4) 2. Stay at this club until the top of the morning (3, 5) 4. Indie nightclub that goes well with milk (6, 4) 5. Another cheesy club near the sea (6) 8. Minimalist late bar (3, 4) 10. Find freedom in Masonic place (6, 5) 11. Comfortable setting for reptiles (6, 5) 12. Where all the journalists go (5) 16. Popular with sailor types (4, 4) 17. Club that is likely to attack (7) 19. Don’t stand too close to this underground club (3, 4) 22. Methodical venue (4)

Across 1. Where the comedians hang out above Bar Risa (9) 3. Hard to find, yet on eponymous street (7) 6. The town of stone (4, 4) 7. Goddess of fertility, found out near the Showcase (4) 9. Where early 19th century activists keep spheres (6, 6, 8) 13. Cheesy club near the sea (5) 14. Warm and relaxed (4) 15. Traders are allowed in this Goose Gate bar (6, 3) 18. Club on the city centre outskirts, with an action plan (4, 5) 20. This late hangout is a peach (3, 8) 21. Where did Saturday and Sunday go? (4, 7) 22. Don’t get lost in Mansfield road’s late club (4) 23. Union venue where the lights always seem to be on (3, 3)

The LeftLion Pub Quiz has returned to it’s rightful home at the Golden Fleece on Wednesday nights. Blessed be to all of those who take part in this most fiendish and devilish of intellectual contests. Those brave souls compete to win a gallon of beer or a meal for them and their friends in this gladiatorial battle of the minds and beer bellies. Sample some of the weekly delights below...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 14. What animal killed the Greek playwright Aeschylus THE MAVERICK ROUND: GOOSE FAIR when it was dropped on his head by an eagle? 1. Who recently, and controversially, quoted Emperor 26. What Alan Sillitoe short story was named after a tale 15. What animal nearly killed the Queen Mother on several Manuel II in a speech? from the Bible and a ride at Goosey? occasions? 2. Who was the first Premiership manager to lose his job 27. Which film has its final scene at Goose Fair? this season? 28. What did Gordon the Gnome used to give you when you 3. According to pest control officers, rats in the city centre ON 13 SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY went to see him? are growing to the size of what other animal? 16. Who died ten years ago on the 13 September? 29. Scotland’s Tallest Man was a regular feature at Goose 4. What political party held its annual conference in 17. Which non-European country declared war on the Fair, and it was claimed that he was so tall that he could Brighton? Nazis on this day in 1939? step over which object? 5. Which country held this year’s Ryder Cup? 18. On the 13 September 1899, Henry Bliss was the first 30. Is Goose Fair worth the money? person in history to be killed by what? 19. The Conservative Party elected a new leader on this NOTTINGHAMIA day five years ago. Who was he? 6. The most expensive ticket ever sold at Rock City was for 20. On this day in 1922, a world record temperature of

a gig this summer. Who was playing? 136.4 °F was set. But on which continent?

7. Nottingham is playing host to a huge festival in October BONUS QUESTION! Name the country. No. 30. Mini A 29. Beans Lucky 28. Morning Sunday

26. Noah’s Ark 27. Saturday Night and and Night Saturday 27. Ark Noah’s 26. for what kind of entertainment? ROUND: MAVERICK

8. Which former Notts County manager was recently TV CATCHPHRASES Bovis Ted ANSWER! BONUS Hi-De-Hi 25. Hill Grange 24. Son

21. Bullseye 22. Mr & Mrs 23. Steptoe and and Steptoe 23. Mrs & Mr 22. Bullseye 21. implicated in a bungs scandal on Panorama? CATCHPHRASES: TV

Name the programmes these catchphrases are taken from. 9. Which high-profile poncy bar in town is being closed Libya ANSWER! BONUS Africa 20. Smith Duncan

21. “Take your time, listen to Tony” 16. Tupac Shakur 17. Canada 18. A car 19. Iain Iain 19. car A 18. Canada 17. Shakur Tupac 16. down and sold off due to a 50% dip in profits? DAY: THIS ON

22. “Be nice to each other” 10. ‘Bread and Lard Island’ is a derogatory term for which fish A 15. tortoise

23. “You dirty old man” 11. A stingray 12. A horse 13. An asp 14. A A 14. asp An 13. horse A 12. stingray A 11. part of Nottingham? MAGIC ANIMAL 24. “YOU! BOY!”

25. “First rule of comedy, Spike” Bridgford West 10. Geisha 9. Allardyce Sam ) 8. 8. ) City Game ( Videogames 7. Whitesnake 6.

ANIMAL MAGIC BONUS QUESTION! The last catchphrase belonged to NOTTINGHAMIA

11. What animal killed Steve Irwin? which character? Ireland 5. Dems Lib The 4. Otters 3.

1. The Pope 2. Bryan Robson (West Brom) Brom) (West Robson Bryan 2. Pope The 1.

12. What animal is alleged to have killed Catherine the Great? AFFAIRS: CURRENT 13. What animal killed Cleopatra? ANSWERS:

www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 45 Aries (March 21 - April 20) Libra (September 24 - October 23) Relinquish control. The dice will decide your future from now on. Write six options on a Happy Birthday! You’re looking muchacha attractiva, so don’t let the passing years worry piece paper of what to do tomorrow. Then shake on it. Put your destiny is in the hands of ya sweet. You’re looking so dandy in fact that I want to get primeval and start mating here your six-sided friend. and now. Let’s get some fruit and make like Bonobos!

Taurus (April 21 - May 21) Scorpio (October 24 - November 22) Seven bottles of bourbon in seven nights, you sill wouldn’t figure it out. Something queer is When you’re at Goose Fair this year have a look around you. Why do the geese not come going on around this place… and I’m not talking about that bloke who you know from the anymore? In years gone by they used to flock to the place with their families and sell out. yard. Look deeper and you will learn, but don’t stick your neck out. Now they can’t stomach it at all. How things change hey…?

Gemini (May 22 - June 22) Sagittarius (November 23 - December 22) Bloodshed is a nasty business. Power tools offer a distinct advantage, but can be messy on Have a good search around your house for booze. Anything stronger than wine is two carpets and furnishings. When you make the journey to buy the hardware remember black points per half pint glass. Drink as many of them as you can and it will bring good luck. If bags and sponges. You must clean before you are clear. you reach a dozen points then you’ll have nice dreams tonight.

Cancer (June 23 - July 23) Capricorn (December 23 - January 19) I’m a monkey’s uncle? That’s weird bro!! I blame the excessive amount of banana’s you fed Rollerdiscos are go. Normal steppy-legs dance parties are out! If you ain’t got wheels then to the kids when they were younger. I told you to lay off, but you’d always want to poke you’re missing the essential style addition of the last century. Those rolly-rolly badboys are another ‘nana through the bars of their cage… your ticket to becoming a bona fide Hockley fashion icon.

Leo (July 24 - August 23) Aquarius (January 20 - February 19) You have a smile that could light up the world... or at least your living room. Particularly if Gorillaman wants a word with you. He’s not happy about that bad batch of bananas and you gargle a pint of paraffin with a lit match between your teeth. Pyrotechnics will play a he’s been told that you’re the person responsible. Now is the time to have a good think big part in your future. Lighten up. about ways to satiate the hairy fella. Milkshakes perhaps?

Virgo (August 24 - September 23) Pisces (February 20 - March 20) Ancient wisdom says that calm comes before the storm. But what if it’s raining and you’re Looking up at the stars can leave you in a state of awe. They’re so big and you’re so small alreadyalready feeling calm? Some would say the only solution is to get angry.angry. It’s fun and gets that it can make your head spin like a planet in freefall.freefall. However,However, this is not the time to get you out of an awkwardawkward situation. dizzy,dizzy, but a time to assess your cosmos. Hair areare your aerials man!

Merry Men Robin Hood Ruckus

LITTLE JOHN WILL SCARLET ALAN A’DALE FRIAR TUCK MAID MARION

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