INDEX
INTERVIEWS
The Afterdark Movement — Alison Moyet — And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (Jason Reece) — Animal Collective (Geologist/Brian Weitz) — Athlete (Tim Wanstall)
Barry Adamson — Bellowhead (Jon Boden) — Big Audio Dynamite (Don Letts) — Beverley Knight 2011 — Beverley Knight 2010 — Black Kids (Dawn Watley) — Blondie (Clem Burke) — Boy George 2009 — Boy George 2008 — Bright Light Bright Light — British Sea Power (Yan) — Bruce Foxton (From The Jam) — Buzzcocks (Steve Diggle)
David Gest — Dionne Warwick — Don McCalman (Nottingham bouncer) — Donny Osmond — Doves (Jez Williams) — Duke Special —Duran Duran (Roger Taylor)
Easy Star All-Stars (Michael Goldwasser) — Elbow (Mark Potter) — Erasure (Andy Bell) — Erasure (Vince Clarke)
Gary Numan — Gavin Friday (The Guardian) — The Gossip (Hannah & Brace) — The Go! Team (Ian Parton) — Graeme Park — Great British Weather
Hard-Fi (Ross Philips) — Hercules & Love Affair (Nomi) — The Hold Steady (Craig Finn) — Hot Chip (Al Doyle) — Human League (Phil Oakey)
I Am Lono — Indiana (Pride Life) — Indiana (LeftLion) — The Invisible Orchestra (James Waring)
Jason Donovan — Jennifer Saunders — Joan As Police Woman — Joan Baez — John Barrowman — John Grant — Julian Clary
Kagoule — Kano — Katty Heath: Spotlight Kid/The Voice of Holland — Kevin Ayers
La Roux (Elly Jackson) — Lionel Richie — Liza Minnelli — Lone (Matt Cutler) — Lorna Luft
Marc Almond — Maria McKee — Marina and the Diamonds — Martha Reeves — Martha Wainwright — Miles Kane — The Musical Box (Martin Levac)
Natalie Duncan — Nick Parkhouse (101 Forgotten Hits of the 1980s)
Pam Ann (Caroline Reid) — The P Brothers (The Guardian) — Pentatronix/Sabar Soundsystem/Mikey Davis — Peter Sarstedt — Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant) — Public Enemy (Chuck D)
Rick Wakeman — Ricky Haley/Sausage Party — Rodney Bewes — Rodrigo Y Gabriela (Rodrigo Sanchez) — Ronika 2012 — Ronika 2011 — Roy Ayers — Rufus Wainwright — Rumer 2011 — Rumer 2010
Saint Raymond — Seth Lakeman — Shayne Ward — The Specials (John Bradbury) — Steve Hillage (System 7) — The Stranglers (JJ Burnel) 2011 — The Stranglers (JJ Burnel) 2010 — Supergrass (Gaz Coombes)
Teddy Thompson — The Temptations (Otis Williams) — THePETEBOX — Tindersticks (Dave Boulter) — The Twilight Sad (James Graham)
The Undertones (Damian O’Neill)
Wilko Johnson — Will Oldham (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) — Will Young
Yazoo (Vince Clarke) — Youthoracle
LIVE REVIEWS
Adam Ant — ADULT., Battant — Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Congregation — Alabama Three — Alesha Dixon — Alexandra Burke, Parade — Alison Moyet 2013 — Alison Moyet 2008 — Alt-J — Amber Run — Amp Fiddler — Amy Winehouse, Mr Hudson & The Library — And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — Andy Williams — Animal Collective — Arctic Monkeys — The Automatic, Mumm-Ra — Avi Buffalo, Admiral Fallow 2011 — Avi Buffalo 2010
Barry Adamson — Basement Jaxx — Bat For Lashes, Yeasayer — The Beat, Neville Staple — Bella Hardy Trio — Belleruche — Bellowhead — Beverley Knight — Beyoncé — Black Kids, Team Waterpolo — Black Mountain — Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy — Boomtown Rats — Boy George — Branch Out Festival 2012 — British Sea Power — The Breeders — Bruno Mars — Bucks Fizz, Brotherhood Of Man — Buena Vista Social Club/Omara Portuondo 2011 — Buena Vista Social Club 2007 — Bugz In The Attic — Buzzcocks
Candi Staton — Cardiacs — Charlotte Church — Chris Brown — Chris Wood — Clean Bandit — Cocorosie — Contemporary Music Weekend 2011 — Crazy World Of Arthur Brown — Crystal Castles — Crystal Stilts, Wet Paint, Manhattan Love Suicides — CSS — Curating Sound Performance (Park Tunnel) 2013
David Essex — Dean Friedman — Delays — Diana Ross — Disclosure, Clean Bandit — Dizzee Rascal — The Dodos, Euros Childs — Dog Is Dead 2012 — Dog Is Dead, Kappa Gamma, Kagoule 2011 — Donny & Marie Osmond 2013 — Donny Osmond 2007 — Dot To Dot Nottingham 2013 — Doves — Drake — Drive-By Truckers — Duffy — Duke Special — Duran Duran — Dutch Uncles, Infinity Hertz, Boots Booklovers
Easy Star All-Stars — Elbow — Ellie Goulding — Elton John, Bright Light Bright Light — Erasure, Onetwo — Euros Childs — Evan Dando
The Fallout Trust, Computerman — Faustus — The Feeling — Feist — Fionn Regan — Fists, Cantaloupe, Kagoule — Fleet Foxes — Foals — Forest Fire, Hhymn, Twenty Year Hurricane, Fists — Frankmusik — From Notts With Love: Natalie Duncan, Liam Bailey, Nina Smith, Harleighblu — From The Jam December 2007 — From The Jam May 2007 — Fuck Buttons 2013 — Fuck Buttons, Zun Zun Egui 2009 — The Futureheads — Future Sound Of Nottingham semi-finals 2012
Gallery 47 2012 — Gary Numan (The Pleasure Principle tour) 2009 — Gary Numan (Replicas tour) 2008 — Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. — Girls Aloud 2013 — Girls Aloud 2008 — Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies, Florence & the Machine 2009 — Glasvegas 2008 — Gong — The Gossip — Greg Dulli & The Twilight Singers — Guillemots, Joan As Police Woman
Hard-Fi, The Rumble Strips — Harleighblu, MC Supernatural, Ady Suleiman — Heavy Trash, PowerSolo — Here & Now Tour 2008 — Hidden Cameras — Hockley Hustle 2014 — The Hold Steady — Holy Fuck — Hope Of The States — Hot Chip — Human League, ABC, Heaven 17 — Hyphen Hyphen, Moseek, The Lawyers
I Am Kloot 2013 — I Am Kloot 2010 — I Am Lono, Sleaford Mods — I’m From Barcelona — Imogen Heap — Indiana — The Invisible — The Invisible Orchestra, City Shanty Band, Origamibiro 2013 — The Invisible Orchestra, Royal Gala, Sabar Soundsystem 2012
Jake Bugg 2013 — Jake Bugg 2012 — JLS — Joan As Police Woman — Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong — John Barrowman — John Grant — Jonny — Journey South — The Joy Formidable, Chapel Club — Juana Molina — June Tabor & Oysterband — Justin Bieber — Just Jack
Kaiser Chiefs, Black Kids, Esser — Kappa Gamma, Kagoule — Kagoule, Hang, Bluebird — Katy B October 2011 — Katy B May 2011 — Katy Perry March 2011 — Katy Perry May 2014 — Keane — Kele Okereke — Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri — King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
La Roux November 2009 — La Roux, Heartbreak, Magistrates, The Chapman Family April 2009 — Late Of The Pier 2009 — Late Of The Pier, Fan Death 2008 — Lau — Laura Marling — Laura Veirs — The Leisure Society — Lionel Richie — Little Mix — Live & Local (Cultural Vibrations) 2011 — Liza Minnelli — Lorna Luft — Los Campesinos! — Low — The Low Anthem
Magic Numbers — Manu Chao — Maria McKee — Martha Wainwright — Martin Carthy — Maxïmo Park, Bombay Bicycle Club — Melanie Safka — Menomena, MGMT — Miike Snow — The Morning Parade, The Money, Atticus Anthem — M People — The Musical Box: Selling England By The Pound
Natalie Duncan, Cecille Grey 2013 — Natalie Duncan 2012 — Nicki Minaj — Nina Smith 2013 — Noah and the Whale — Noisettes — The Nolans — Nottingham Rocks: Saint Raymond, Harleighblu, Amber Run, Georgie Rose 2013 — Nottingham Rocks: Natalie Duncan, Nina Smith, Indiana 2012 — Nottinghamshire Pride 2011 — Nouvelle Vague, Gabriella Cilmi — Nuru Kane & Bayefall Gnawa
Okkervil River — The Orb — Origamibiro — The Osmonds 2012 — The Osmonds 2006
Palladium — Pentatronix (Sabar Soundsystem), Sura Susso, Haiki Loki — Phantom Band — The Pierces — Piney Gir — Pink — Plan B — Portico Quartet, Red, Natalie Duncan — Prince — Public Enemy 2013 — Public Enemy 2008 — Public Service Broadcasting, Girls In Hawaii — The Puppini Sisters
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset — Rakim — The Rascals — Rebecca Ferguson — Rhydian Roberts — Richmond Fontaine — Rick Wakeman 2011 — Rihanna, Pixie Lott 2010 — Rihanna 2007 — Rodrigo Y Gabriela 2007 — Rodrigo Y Gabriela 2006 — Rod Stewart — Ronika, Harleighblu, Nina Smith 2012 — Ronika 2011 — Ron Sexsmith — Rudimental — Rufus Wainwright 2012 — Rufus Wainwright 2010 — The Rural Alberta Advantage — Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Saint Raymond, Indiana, Michael Lynch — SBTRKT — Scissor Sisters 2010 — Scissor Sisters 2006 — Seasick Steve — Secret Machines — Seth Lakeman — Show Of Hands with Miranda Sykes — Slaid Cleaves — Sleaford Mods, Kagoule — Spiers & Boden — Splashh, Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs — Splendour Festival: Jake Bugg, Dog Is Dead etc 2013 — Spotlight Kid, Grey Hairs 2012 — Spotlight Kid 2011 — Squeeze, Lightning Seeds — Stornoway — The Stranglers, Wilko Johnson — Swimming (binaural performance) — Suede — The Sugababes — Sugarhill Gang — System 7
Telepathe, Times New Viking, Rainbow Arabia, Icy Demons — The Temptations — THePETEBOX, Nina Smith, Captain Dangerous — These New Puritans — Tinchy Stryder — The Ting Tings — Tinie Tempah — Troyka — The Twilight Sad — Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes, Azealia Banks
The Undertones — Unicorn Kid — The Unthanks
The Verve — The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Das Wanderlust — VV Brown
Waterfront Festival 2011 — Westlife — White Denim — White Lies — Whitney Houston — Will Young — World Event Young Artists: Blackout 2012
Yazoo — The Young Knives, Ungdomskulen
FEATURES
America, Meet the Eurovision Song Contest #1 – Whose Three-Minute Pop Ditty Will Rule The Continent? (Slate 2006)
America, Meet the Eurovision Song Contest #2 – The Pain of Victory (Slate 2006)
America, Meet the Eurovision Song Contest #3 – Will I Be Vacationing in Sarajevo This Time Next Year? (Slate 2006)
America, Meet the Eurovision Song Contest #4 – Hard Rock Hallelujah (Slate 2006)
Armistead Maupin & Michael Tolliver Lives
Band Aid and its legacy (The Guardian)
Bodega Nottingham: the gig venue guide (The Guardian)
Breaking Big: who’s going to top the pops in 2014? (Pride Life Magazine)
The B-Side Special (Stylus Singles Jukebox)
Capital FM Arena: the gig venue guide (The Guardian)
Clubbing in Nottingham in the 1980s
Dealmaker Records & Red
Disco Kicks (Pride Life)
Don’t Flop / battle rap (The Guardian)
Dr Feelgood and pub rock’s influence on punk (The Guardian)
Eurodance covers of rock classics (The Guardian)
Eurovision 2007 preview
Eurovision 2009: night of a thousand key changes (The Guardian)
Madonna Magic (Pride Life cover feature)
Nottingham music overview, March 2014
15 Nottingham Music Picks for 2014
Gay Up Me Duck: gay life in Nottingham
LeftLion: The Lion List 2013
Nottingham’s Music Scene (The Guardian)
Nottingham Pride Preview 2008
One & Other: Antony Gormley, 4th plinth at Trafalgar Square 2009
Owl City (The Guardian)
Pops Picked: music tips for 2015 (Pride Life)
Rescue Rooms: the gig venue guide (The Guardian)
Ricky Martin and what it means to be a gay pop star in 2010 (The Guardian)
Robin Hood: a right bandit
Rock City: the gig venue guide (The Guardian)
Selectadisc Nottingham (The Guardian)
Sugababes and bands with no original members (The Guardian)
Trent Sound Radio
Unicorn Kid: the teenager who remixed Pet Shop Boys (The Guardian)
Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? 2010
ALBUM REVIEWS
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir: Ten Thousand
Ali Farka Touré: Savane
Ashmore: The Ashmore Show
Athlete: Beyond The Neighbourhood
Brett Anderson: Brett Anderson
British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
Bucks Fizz: The Very Best Of Bucks Fizz
Cantaloupe: Zoetrope
The Cult Of Dom Keller: The Cult Of Dom Keller
The Datsuns: Smoke & Mirrors
Duke Special: Songs From The Deep Forest
Erasure: Light At The End Of The World
Gallery 47: Fate Is The Law
George Michael: Twenty Five
Hard-Fi: Once Upon A Time In The West
Hercules & Love Affair: Hercules & Love Affair (The Stylus Decade)
The Hidden Cameras: Awoo
Hot Coins: The Damage Is Done
Indiana: No Romeo
Jake Bugg: Shangri La
Joan as Police Woman – Real Life
Keaver & Brause: The Middle Way
Kevin Ayers: Songs For Insane Times (An Anthology) 1969-1980
Kevin Ayers: The Unfairground
Lady Sovereign: Public Warning
LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
Lone: Lemurian
Lone: Reality Testing
Marc Almond: Stardom Road
The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
Mr Hudson and The Library: A Tale Of Two Cities
Natalie Duncan: Devil In Me
Origamibiro: Shakkei
The Rascals: Rascalize
Ronika: Selectadisc
Rufus Wainwright: Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall
Rufus Wainwright: Release The Stars
Sean Lennon: Friendly Fire
Sleaford Mods: Key Markets
Souvaris: Souvaris Souvaris
THePETEBOX: Future Loops
Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (The Stylus Decade)
VDU: Past Future Sequence
Various Artists: Defected Presents Charles Webster
Various Artists: Golden Afrique Vol.3
Various Artists: Queer Noises 1961-1978: From The Closet To The Charts
Various Artists: Ultimate Eurovision Party
SINGLE/EP REVIEWS
Adem: Launch Yourself — The Afterdark Movement: EP — A-Ha: Analogue (All I Want) — Alesha: Lipstick — Antony & The Johnsons: Hope There’s Someone — Arctic Monkeys: When The Sun Goes Down — Ashlee Simpson: L.O.V.E. — Athlete: Half Light
Bark Psychosis: 400 Winters — Basement Jaxx: Oh My Gosh — Battle: Isabelle — Beatriz Luengo: Hit-Lerele — Beck: E-Pro — The Bees: Chicken Payback — Bela B ft. Charlotte Roche: 1,2,3… — Belle & Sebastian: Funny Little Frog — Belle & Sebastian: I’m A Cuckoo (The Avalanches remix) — Ben Adams: Sorry — Black Eyed Peas: Don’t Phunk With My Heart — Blackout Crew: Dialled — Black Rock ft Debra Andrew: Blue Water — Bodyrockers: I Like The Way — British Sea Power: It Ended On An Oily Stage — Busted: Teenage Kicks
The Caesars: Jerk It Out — Cantaloupe: Splish/Wet Dog — Cantaloupe: Teapot EP — Cascada: Everytime We Touch — Cat Power: The Greatest — Charlotte Church: Crazy Chick — Chemical Brothers ft Kele Okereke: Believe — Chris Brown: Yo (Excuse Me Miss) — Cliff Richard: What Car — Clor: Love And Pain — Conjure One: Extraordinary Way — CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Da Buzz: Without Breaking — Daft Punk: Digital Love (The Stylus Decade) — Daryl Hall & John Oates: I’ll Be Around — David Guetta vs. The Egg: Love Don’t Let Me Go Walking Away — The Dears: 22: The Death Of All The Romance — Debojit: Jeena (My Heart Goes Duma Duma) — The Delgados: Mr. Blue Sky — Demi Lovato: Don’t Forget — Destiny’s Child: Girl — Dizzee Rascal: Off To Work — Doves: Snowden
Editors: Munich — Electrik Red: So Good — Elena Paparizou: Mambo! — Elton John: Turn The Lights Out When You Leave — Embrace: How Come — Erra: Stax/Jookup
The Faders: Jump — The Faders: No Sleep Tonight — Faithless ft. Estelle: Why Go — Feeder: Feeling A Moment — 50 Cent: Candy Shop — Franz Ferdinand: Eleanor, Put Your Boots On — The Futureheads: Decent Days And Nights
Gadjo: So Many Times — The Game ft 50 Cent: Hate It Or Love It — Garbage: Why Do You Love Me — George Michael: An Easier Affair — G4: Bohemian Rhapsody — Girls Aloud: Girls On Film — Goldfrapp: (Let’s Get) Physical — Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc. — The Go! Team: Ladyflash — Grey Hairs: F.S.D.T. — Groove Coverage: Poison — Gwen Stefani ft. Eve: Rich Girl
Hard-Fi: Tied Up Too Tight — Helen Love: Debbie Loves Joey — Hot Hot Heat: Goodnight Goodnight
Jamelia: Numb — Ja Rule ft Lloyd: Caught Up — Javine: Touch My Fire — Jem: Just A Ride — Jem: They — Jennifer Lopez ft Fat Joe: Hold You Down — Joe Danks: Bear On Ice EP — John Legend: Used To Love U — JoJo: Not That Kinda Girl — José Gonzalez: Hand On Your Heart — Joseki/Morris Cowan: Functions EP — Juliette & The Licks: You’re Speaking My Language — Just Jack: Embers
Kanye West: Through The Wire (The Stylus Decade) — Kapanga: Rock — Kappa Gamma: Just Another/Wildfire — Kasabian: Empire — Kelis ft. Nas: In Public — Kelis: Milkshake (The Stylus Decade) — Kelly Osbourne: One Word — The Killers: Smile Like You Mean It — Kim Lian: Teenage Superstar — Kirk Spencer: Wonderland EP — KT Tunstall: Other Side Of The World — Kylie Minogue: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (The Stylus Decade)
Ladytron: Oops (Oh My) — Laura Lynn: Jij Bent De Mooiste — LCD Soundsystem: Disco Infiltrator — Lemar: I Believe In A Thing Called Love — Lemon Jelly: Make Things Right — Le Tigre: After Dark — Liam Bailey: Please Love Me/On My Mind — Lil’ Wayne: Fireman — The Long Blondes: Appropriation (By Any Other Name) — Lucie Silvas: The Game Is Won — Ludacris: Number One Slot
Mario: Here I Go Again — Mario: Let Me Love You — Marisa Monte: Pra Ser Sincero — Marita: Just Me EP — Mark Owen: Hail Mary — Mars Volta: Widow — Max Graham vs Yes: Owner Of A Lonely Heart — McFly: Mr. Brightside — McFly: Please Please — MC Lars: Signing Emo — Million Dead: Living The Dream — Miranda: Don — The Money: Sparks EP — Mortiis: Decadent & Desperate — Mylo: In My Arms
Nadiya: Roc — Natalie Duncan: 5 track EP — Natalie Imbruglia: Shiver — Natasha Bedingfield: I Bruise Easily — New Order ft Ana Matronic: Jetstream — Ne-Yo: Sexy Love — Nina Smith: Lonely Heart Club EP — Nine Inch Nails: The Hand That Feeds
Oasis: Lyla — One Bomb: The Takeover EP — The Ordinary Boys: Boys Will Be Boys — The Others: William
Paolo Nutini: Last Request — Patrick Wolf: Wind in the Wires — Pharrell Williams: Angel — Plan B: Mama (Loves a Crackhead) — Praise Cats ft Andrea Love: Shined On Me
Queens Of The Stone Age – Little Sister
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan: Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaaye — The Rakes: Retreat — Raw Bud vs Roni Size: Rise Up! (The Punk Rock Anti-Mix) — Remioromen: Konayuki — Richard Hawley: Just Like The Rain — Rihanna: Umbrella (The Stylus Decade) — Rob Green: Learn To Fly EP — Rob Thomas: Lonely No More — Ronika: Forget Yourself/Wiyoo EP — Rooster: You’re So Right For Me — Roots Manuva: Too Cold — Royksopp: Only This Moment — Rubix: Style Wars EPs 1 to 4
Saint Etienne: Side Streets — Saint Raymond: Young Blood EP — Sarah Nixey: Strangelove — Shakin’ Stevens: This Ole House — Shanadoo: King Kong — Shapeshifters: Back To Basics — Shontelle ft Akon: Stuck With Each Other — Shrinkwrap: Beautiful Thing/Hot Dub — The Similou: All This Love — Sistem: Never — Snoop Dogg ft Justin Timberlake: Signs — Sons & Daughters: Taste The Last Girl — Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Yes Sir, I Can Boogie — The Spinto Band: Oh Mandy — Stevie Wonder: So What The Fuss — The Streets: Fit But You Know It (The Futureheads Remix) — System Of A Down: BYOB
t.A.T.u.: Friend Or Foe — The Tears: Lovers — The Tears: Refugees — Teenage Fanclub: He’d Be A Diamond — Tegan & Sara: Walking With A Ghost — T.I.: Bring ‘Em Out — Tokio Hotel: Schrei — Tom Vek: I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes — Tony Christie: Is This The Way To Amarillo? — Towers Of London: Fuck It Up — Trick Daddy: Sugar — Turin Brakes: Fishing For A Dream — TV On The Radio: Wolf Like Me — Twista: Slow Jamz (The Stylus Decade)
The Veronicas: Everything I’m Not — Vitalic: My Friend Dario
We Are Avengers: Midbrow/Revolution — West End Girls: West End Girls — White Stripes: Blue Orchid — Will Young: Hey Ya
Young Dro ft. T.I.: Shoulder Lean — Youthoracle: Flash Floods Vol.2 EP
FILM REVIEWS
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Otway The Movie
Weekend
COMEDY REVIEWS
Joan Rivers
Ken Dodd
Ladyboys of Bangkok
Pam Ann
DVD REVIEWS
Lou Reed’s Berlin – a film by Julian Schnabel
Rufus Wainwright: Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy! – Live At The London Palladium
THEATRE REVIEWS
DV8 Physical Theatre: To Be Straight With You
BOOK REVIEWS
The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History – John Kennedy O’Connor
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