Music Archive

  • A Carnival of Monsters

    Posted on October 12, 2011 | No Comments
    This month, Nottingham plays host to a unique arts event – the Carnival of Monsters is coming to town! From 15th-29th October, if you trot along to the Bartons Buses site at Chilwell, you’ll find all sorts of amazing arty goings-on. From music to art...

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  • Image Credits: F.A.T Lab: http://fffff.at/ Brendan Oliver & Brendan Randall

    Links round up: news from legitimate sources

    Posted on July 8, 2011 | No Comments
    Many thanks to those of you on Twitter this week who provided me with details of events for this links round up – see, there’s no need for nefarious spying techniques when you have Twitter. Oh dear that sounds like product placement doesn’t it? Let’s...

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  • Lost for Something to Do?

    Lost for Something to Do?

    Posted on July 3, 2011 | No Comments
    “We are not lost. We are Nottingham. This is our island.” So says the website for the first ever NOTLOST Festival, launching this summer in Nottingham. It’s running throughout most of July (1st-23rd), and aims to bring together creative groups from all areas of the arts,...

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  • Introducing…Jake Bugg

    Posted on June 29, 2011 | No Comments
    At just seventeen years of age, Nottingham singer-songwriter Jake Bugg is already making waves on the city’s music scene. Having played his first gig at 16, he has been steadily building a reputation as one of the city’s most exciting new artists over the last...

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  • Dot-to-Dot-to-Notts

    Posted on May 25, 2011 | No Comments
    As if there wasn’t enough to do this weekend already, the world-famous Dot-to-Dot festival returns! We don’t cover much music here on Creative Nottingham, with good reason; there are many passionate people who cover the music scene much better than we could ourselves, and there’s so...

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  • Something to make you smile

    Posted on May 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
    In a previous blog I questioned if doing creative stuff is what makes us happy or happiest. An interesting discussion ensued, and with some fascinating, philosophical comments about the meaning of life in reply…all good stuff!  If you missed the article, here is the link...

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  • Guest Blog – Sunday 3rd April

    Posted on April 3, 2011 | No Comments
    Second day in the studio…  We came back with fresh ears and listened to what we’d put down yesterday.  It sounded fine, no awkward tweaking needed doing so we could now get on with the over dubs. The first thing was for me and Harry, who...

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  • Guest Blog – Saturday 2nd April

    Posted on April 3, 2011 | No Comments
    Today we spent 8 hours at ‘Stuckonaname’ studios recording our LP.  Recording is hardly ever stress free, and this proved to be no exception. The first obstacle was a noise we noticed on the guitar track which was a pain in the arse to sort out. ...

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  • Guest blog – Thursday 31st March

    Posted on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Sorry I didn’t get round to posting anything yesterday, I finished the day job and kind of got carried away making a mix-cd for mother’s day on Sunday.  Here’s the track listing for my mam - 1.  Judas Priest – Breaking the law 2.  The Spits –...

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  • Guest Blog – Tuesday 29th March.

    Posted on March 29, 2011 | No Comments
    At the day job today and band practice is this evening until 8pm.  After that I hope to finish off a portrait after pencilling most of it last night.  Yesterday managed to be pretty productive, I finished three exhibition pieces, a rough page for my new...

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