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Lime Garden return to Nottingham with the world in their hands

Lime Garden’s first ever headline show was in Nottingham. I’d know, because I was there. That was November 2022, almost four years ago. When they played ‘Clockwork’ to a sold-out Rescue Rooms last night, they remarked that those who discovered the song around its release knew them before they were cool. I guess I can count myself among that club. Back then, the track had one million Spotify streams. Now, it has six million.Opening the night was Sarah Crean, an Irish musician now based in Brighto...
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yves02: "Taking The Pressure Off Gives You More Freedom"

yves02 explores the process of breaking away from expectation, finding your own artistic identity, and prioritising what you want to say over what you think people want to hear on his latest album, '12 stars'.

The London-based artist, who began making music while studying in Nottingham, first gained traction through his hidingthehurt project, which brought opportunities to perform outside the city and established a growing audience around his sound. As expectations around the project grew, he...
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The Neu Bulletin (bed, PISS, jo from school and more!)

We’ve also got a handy playlist where you can find the full slate of Neu tracks we’ve been loving, so you can listen to all our tips in one place! Dive in…Neu Bulletins are DIY’s guide to the best and freshest new music. Your one stop shop for buzzy new bands and red hot emerging stars, this roundup features some choice words from our esteemed contributors on just a few of the tracks we’ve been rinsing at full volume over the last few weeks.Tokyo four-piece bed fuse the grit of hardcore punk wit...
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Chanpan: “We’re so serious about music, but completely unserious people”

Chanpan have spent enough time playing to strangers that they know not to fear a difficult room. “Busking is character development,” laughs instrumentalist Matthew Tran, speaking from experience. Before festival slots, sold out headline shows and a recent European debut, the New York trio began performing on the streets of Chinatown to fund their early recordings. “That’s just like busking on the street. You have to deliver something so killer and be so captivating that you win them over.”It’s a...
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Antony Szmierek turns The Level into a safe space for dancing and emotion

The Level can be a tricky venue to navigate when sold out, with its low balcony making it difficult to get a good view of the stage. However, when there’s more room on the dancefloor, it proves it has the potential to host gigs where people can dance and move freely.And with Antony Szmierek’s music, it’s almost impossible not to. Touring the UK to celebrate his sophomore album, Decoding Birdsong, the former teacher’s unique blend of dance beats and spoken word makes for a live show that feels mo...
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Darling I Dreamt turns financial frustration into euphoric escapism on new EP ‘Recession Pop’

For Nottingham-based artist Darling I Dreamt, music has always been a way to navigate difficult feelings. But on new EP ‘Recession Pop’, that process takes a different direction, swapping introspective diary entries for glitchy, high-energy pop designed to offer escapism. Drawing on the sounds of late-2000s pop icons alongside influences from metalcore, emo and glitchpop, the project channels financial frustrations and uncertainty into fizzy, danceable tracks. Here, Darling I Dreamt discusses th...
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw hit Rescue Rooms like a ‘Cannonball’

Opening the show were Bathing Suits, a dance-punk, electro-noise outfit from Leeds, eager to win over the crowd ahead of their own headline show at The Bodega in February. Made up of Freyja Blevins on vocals and drum machine, George Dickinson and Alex Mulholland on guitar and Elise Hughes on bass, Blevins proved to be the band’s captivating presence on stage, beginning the set in a white T-shirt and jeans and ending it with only the jeans left.While Blevins’ attempts to get the crowd moving were...
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The Neu Bulletin (Madra Salach, PISS, Pollyfromthedirt and more!)

We’ve also got a handy playlist where you can find the full slate of Neu tracks we’ve been loving, so you can listen to all our tips in one place! Dive in…Neu Bulletins are DIY’s guide to the best and freshest new music. Your one stop shop for buzzy new bands and red hot emerging stars, this roundup features some choice words from our esteemed contributors on just a few of the tracks we’ve been rinsing at full volume over the last few weeks.The tongue-in-cheek Scottish punk duo are back with a s...
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EMiDORA on new EP 'haunted by the outside' and building Notts' hyperpop scene

“It’s been a long time coming. I wrote the title track four or five years ago and built the rest of the EP around it,” EMiDORA tells us a few weeks after the release of her new EP, haunted by the outside. “I was sat on all of my music for a long time when I was releasing under a different name” - EMiDORA performed as EM until 2024 - “so most of them I’ve had for a while.”Although she still releases music through her vocal collaboration project EM, EMiDORA has allowed her to establish her artistr...
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Lucy Crisp: “A lot of things are coming to fruition”

Lucy Crisp found her voice long before she found a stage. “When I was little, I always had a passion for writing songs. Performing in the playground to Charli xcx’s I Love It… quite iconic, really! I always came back to it somehow and was able to express my feelings on paper. That’s how I honed my craft. I then started at Confetti” - part of Nottingham Trent University specialising in the creative industries - “in 2018. It was a bit of a longshot but it’s paid off.”That early instinct has carrie...

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