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This City is no longer running - I've moved away, and I'm not covering events or bands in Nottingham anymore. Check out Left Lion magazine and Dean Jackson's 'The Beat' on BBC Radio Nottingham, doubtless the two best places to keep abreast of Nottingham musical goings-on.All my writing is now on WillOrchard.com - make the jump, and I'll see you over there.Will

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Tuesday sees the launch of Rescue Rooms' new clubnight, Pressure, with the action kicking off at 10pm and going on til the early hours. 2 for 1 drinks offers run all night and some lucky sods will win a pair of tickets to see the sold-out Doves gig at Rock City next month. Entry's free before 11pm if you put your name on the guestlist here, so you've really got no excuse. Oh, and This City are on

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Leicester's Summer Sundae Weekend has announced its local line-up for this year's festival. Speaking on this evening's The Beat, festival promoter Richard Haswell confirmed Nottingham acts Yunioshi, Frontiers and The Breakdowns for the three-day jaunt which takes place from 14th-16th August in the grounds of De Montfort Hall. The festival is headlined by The Streets, The Charlatans and The Zutons

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Punk upstarts Swound! have been confirmed to play Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swindon next month, as part of the Beeb's Introducing Stage line-up. The band will be playing half-way up the stage's ruddy good Saturday running order, amongst Bombay Bicycle Club and Master Shortie while the bigger stages host the likes of Kasabian, Basement Jaxx and Franz Ferdinand. The festival takes place on the 9th

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So the term ‘EP launch’ might have been a tad erroneously thrust upon us – considering all of their ‘new’ tracks are mere touch-ups of familiar favourites – and the night itself may struggle under the weight of its semi-manufactured promotional sheen, but what more could you expect from probably Nottingham’s most hyped-up act?If anything, the air of slick professionalism even before Dog is Dead

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Lo-fi needn't be the dirty word people would have you believe; the gritty folk and warm bedroom atmosphere offered on Yonokiero's LP is as rich and percussive as any polished studio effort, and Chris Baldwin and Tom Coogan's wistful harmonies, exemplified to textured effect on the overdriven Joey Santiago-esque guitar of 'Rare Bit', are a case in point on an album where the subtleties far

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For a band whose appeal lies for the most part in their gritty everyman image, Mint Ive sure know how to toss some mystery into the equation when they see fit. The swelling anthemics of tonight's set, billowing through the smoke haze liberally employed throughout, have them summon up a raw yet ethereal atmosphere akin to Verve, or Doves at their most reverby. Compared with the earthy, organic

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Post-hardcore may have had its day come the turn of the new Millennium, yet myriad bands still to this day see fit to shamelessly raid the graves of Reuben and Million Dead for their own unoriginal gain; take two parts Yourcodenameis:Milo and one part Quicksand, and you can, unfortunately, pretty much track the course of the last five years of Kerrang-lite indie. It's to their credit then, that

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Gravel-throated Petty-alike Paul Walker seems to have a knack for the understated, and the brevity of Dragon Song's stripped-down folk belies a wealth of similar acoustic bluesmen. 'Window Shopping's unassuming protest recalls the most typical Dylanesque commentary, while 'Hollywood' channels an imagined Malkmus/Van Morrison collaboration, circa 'Astral Weeks'. For such an introspective approach,

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For a city so underwhelming in the pop stakes and so often a hotbed for the slightly leftfield side of things, it's a pleasant surprise to have Rescue Rooms so full of excitable teenagers, and proof that there's more to be proud of in our fair city than Kirsty and Phil would have us believe. The assured Libertines indie of Trent FM competition winners The Turf won't be the first to break the

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Regardless of whether or not it is in fact their first gig - as they're at such pains to inform us - tonight's openers Goodbye Smile are enough at ease, even with the stripped-down acoustic/bongo setup they employ, to effect a pleasing, if not wholly thrilling, few tunes. At times lacking the joie de vivre of their obvious influences (perm any one from the myriad James Morrison/Paolo Nutini

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Frontiers were played for the first time on Radio 1 overnight, during Huw Stephens' BBC Introducing show. The show was broadcast to England and Northern Ireland from midnight - 2am and had the band played within the same half-hour as signed acts La Roux and Future of the Left, amongst others. For those of you who missed it, three cheers for iPlayer...The band also have two headline gigs in the

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Granted it's off our usual patch, but considering this is the closest Nottingham's electro pioneers stop to our fine city on this stretch of their UK outings, it's a fine enough excuse to stump up for a round-trip to our erstwhile Midlands neighbours. It also gives us the chance to spend the night in possibly the nicest venue in which we've ever set foot, Victoria Street's stunning mock-Victorian

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SEVEN, Junktion7's replacement on Canning Circus, flings its doors open to the public tomorrow night with Martyr Defiled's EP launch and a host of other local goodies. Doors open early for an all-nighter that, wait for it, doesn't cost a penny. You've got no excuse...www.sevenlive.co.uk

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It's definitely a pub gig night tonight; the promise of a cosy room and a chilled Guinness keeps us going through the ankle-high snow up Mansfield Road, and the Golden Fleece's genial atmosphere is, thankfully, the perfect antidote to the big freeze outside.Resplendent with washes of Joni Mitchell-esque introspection - 'Lightbulbs', for one, is a modern take on Mitchell's 'California' - Flo

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And... we're back. For the more attentive of you out there, you may have noticed the relatively hushed nature of the website for the past few weeks - unfortunately exams, illness and the typically quiet January gig calendar conspired against us meaning that, in what is now rapidly approaching February, we at TC Towers are finally able to offer you a belated Happy Christmas and New Years wishes.

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We here at This City aren't big fans of cover bands. More often than not, their crowd-pleasing mainstream pickings manage to replace any sense of artistic integrity and after not very long, you end up with a mish-mash of sub-Bjorn Again bollocks, aiming for the lowest common denominator and falling way short. Medleys are another thing. Hence, little surprise that we approached opening band King

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A Petebox-less We Show Up On Radar is, sadly, not much of a draw. It has to be said that, without the local beatboxing MC, WSUOR's live show leaves a lot to be desired and a synthless, beatless Andy Wright - tonight alone and thoroughly impatient with a half-attentive basement crowd - can only manage a short, muted and ill-tempered support set. It's a shame, because when the shaggy haired

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Something we all hoped never to hear, I'm sure: one of Nottingham's best venues in Junktion 7 has been forced to shut up shop. A statement was released earlier on today:"Due to the grim economic climate, the subsequent decline of the live music scene and the unbridled brutality of our beloved corporate friends, Junktion7 will be closing its doors for the last time on December 31st 2008.Over the

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It's been said time and time again that Late of the Pier used to picket Liars Club supremo Ricky Haley to be the clubnight's house band, and with a top 30 album and a self-curated lap of honour UK tour in the bag, what better time than now to see the band and everybody's favourite promoter launch their very own night together? Sausage Party #1 has Nottingham's finest exports heading the night,

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Album launchs tend to get a bit of a bad rap; all too often, the image springs to mind of industry types quaffing champers and canapes and paper-cutting unsuspecting support bands with business cards. The welcome return of Nottingham's goth-glam sextet sees The Rescue Rooms at bursting point with support from shoegaze experimentalists Swimming lending the night atechnicolor edge, thankfully free

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The Goth Pogues. Gorgol Bordello under a full moon. Queen at Goose Fair. With fireworks. Hellset could easily spearhead a goth-glam revival should, god forbid, it ever happens; thank heavens then, that they're so inimitably unique. Veering from November Rain cum Bohemian Rhapsody anthemics ('Bakare's Secret Space Station') through the Arcade Fire horror of the sprawling title track and back again

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From the first rustling of duelling acoustic and electric guitars, the Listeners' EP is an aural assault - at times subtle yet beguiling, at others fiercely aggressive. The band seem to operate on two separate levels entirely - the muted introversion of early Modest Mouse and The Shins, and the sonic ferocity of Sons and Daughters and Howling Bells - yet it's when these paths cross that this EP's

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They only got here a month since and, presumably in some unified subversion of your Gatecrashers and your Oceanas, the students have already infiltrated the usually serene Johnson Arms. Then again, the bands didn't help much either - slinking onstage, Retford's two man (well, a man and a woman) folk-blues outfit The Listeners proceed to dish out more destruction to the quiet indie pub atmosphere

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Sometimes NCT buses do you massive favours. As This City misses an improbably early 6.52 and is left stranded waiting for the no-show that is the 7.22, we get the feeling they could be trying to tell us something. As it is, a hatless, gloveless, scarfless hour in the near Baltic conditions (I jest not) of Netherfield High Street are no match for the sub-Bowling for Soup dirge that is Ethan James

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Liars Club presents its pre-halloween shindig at the Bodega tomorrow (Tuesday 28th) night, from 8pm-12am. It's a joint-headliner, with Manhattan's A.R.E. Weapons sharing the bill with the dirty south's Selfish Cunt, with support from goth-noise beatniks Ulterior and resident DJs to keep the party going into the early hours. You can still buy tickets here, but make it snappy.

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Thank fuck for Frontiers. God knows we don't need any more bands droning on about their last night out, or forcing on us their two-bit philosophising of the class system. Twenty years of identikit indie, and what have we got to show for it? The Fratellis, that's who. It's exactly the derivative wares Frontiers were peddling this time last year as Republic, and the difference is evident - whereas

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Nottingham buzz-band Frontiers headed back to Alan Smyth (Arctic Monkeys, Pulp)'s 2Fly studios in Sheffield earlier today to begin recording the follow-up to July's Republic EP. Guitarist Charlie told This City earlier: "It's nice to see everything coming together after months of writing, and we're confident that the result will surpass even our expectations." The band will be back up to

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LATE OF THE PIER, July 2008 Shepherds don’t often achieve chart success, but then Late of the Pier aren’t exactly a straight-forward sort of a band. As keyboardist Potter dons his wax jacket and begins to herd us around mid-interview, thick Yorkshire accent and all, the rest of the band act like they’ve seen it all before. To be fair, they probably have. It’s little things like this that sum up

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Sharks, robots, throwing children down wells - it’s all in a day’s work for local punk-funk four-piece Swound!. While their lyrics may not tackle the weighty topics of the day like, say, Keane, sometimes poverty, homelessness and the credit crunch have to take second place to a sweaty house party and it’s just this that the four Staszkiewicz brothers do best. At times mind-numbingly obvious, the

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As your trusty scribe climbs the Bodega’s stairs and steps into the main room, the handful of punters hardy enough to show up so early are stood resolutely against its four walls. Peering around the corner and onto the stage, it’s evident why - three grown men in a variety of costumes ranging from Batman to Father Christmas are pacing the stage whilst frantically issuing an aggressive, if

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Grantham's Radio 1-featured The Jivecats have announced an exclusive support slot with The Holloways at Wakefield's Escobar on November 15th. Tickets are available from all major retailers for around a tenner.www.myspace.com/thejivecats

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You call it rehashing, but us lot in TC Towers call it revision - the best articles from the magazine back in its physical heyday, all in handy e-form. Laziness? Hardly - come Monday, it's all go again ;)NEPHU HUZZBAND, August 2008“We do like a bit of math rock”, admits lead singer Tom, “Proper math though, heavy –as-fuck math. Not... diet-math.” So far, so Foals... “I think if we’d released (

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Welcome one and all to This City - the online counterpart to Nottingham's only independent music magazine! Here we'll have all the news and reviews you can get in the mag, as well as up to date gig info, exclusive interviews and mp3s from all the bands flying the flag for Nottingham.Keep those peepers peeled...Will

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