Music Reviews Archive
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Review: Verdi’s Requiem – St Mary’s Church Nottingham
Posted on on November 18, 2018Driving through the city centre towards the Lace Market, with the imaginary sound of opera in my ears, I thought I was Inspector Morse passing the Dreaming Spires of […] -
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Review: Slaves – Rock City Nottingham
Posted on on November 18, 2018“I’ve only gone and done myself a mischief,” says Isaac Holman, one half of the English punk rock duo, Slaves, as he holds up his strapped-up fingers and thumb to […] -
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Review: Boy George & Culture Club – Nottingham Arena
Posted on on November 16, 2018I looked along the line of albums. One caught my eye. On the cover it had a beautiful man with long hair and make up. That man was Boy […] -
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Review: Rick Astley – The Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Posted on on November 16, 2018I never expected to wake up saying that going to see Rick Astley was one of the greatest gigs I’ve ever been to! Surely nobody has. But that’s exactly […] -
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Review: Caro Emerald – The Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Posted on on November 5, 2018As this was the Dutch multi-platinum selling artists fourth visit to the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, and my third time reviewing the pop and jazz singer, you have […] -
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Review: Dream Wife – The Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Posted on on November 5, 2018Defiance and calls for inclusion. A lesson in earned self assurance. We’re just done po-going through the pink leopard printed glammed-up slam-pulp of Queen Zee. Their neons and whites, their […] -
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Review: Blancmange – The Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Posted on on November 4, 2018Harsh isolation, dystopian dreamscapes, semi-connected catharsis caught up in electronic precision. That’s the evolving sound of Blancmange 2.0; collections of stripped down half hooks intertwined, building in […] -
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Review: Stepback 80s Concert – Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
Posted on on November 2, 2018Stepback 80s came to Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena last weekend, it was heaving with a very specific demographic, namely white 30-50 somethings, some dressed up as 80’s icons Prince, Freddie and […] -
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Review: Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited Tour – Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Posted on on October 2, 2018Invisible Touch, That’s All, I Can’t Dance. We’re not expecting to hear any of these tonight because this is proper old skool Genesis. Forget the mainstream pop of […] -
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Review: Hannah Trigwell – The Chameleon Arts Cafè Nottingham
Posted on on September 7, 2018On the day that she was announced as BBC Introducing artist of the week, I was lucky enough to catch a performance from Leeds vocalist, Hannah Trigwell at The […]