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New Food Blog Finds Best in Belper

14th September 2022 Edward Sills Best, Blog, Drink, Food, Reviews

With Belper becoming increasingly popular with visitors, a new Instagram account is shouting about the best of the best when

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CULTURE REVIEWS 

Mixed Reactions to Summer Food Festival

9th July 20199th July 2019 Clare Washbrook 6 Comments Belper Summer Food Festival, Belper Town Council

This year’s Summer Food Festival can’t really be declared a success, as there was quite a lot of criticism and

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REVIEWS 

Vegan Revelation Café Presents The Herron Brothers/Johnny Swineherder – Review

30th June 201930th June 2019 Edward Sills 0 Comments cafe, Food, Johnny Swineherder, Live Music, The Herron Brothers, Vegan, Vegan Revelation Café

Whilst festivalgoers were warming up to Stormzy at Worthy Farm, Vegan Revelation brought its own party to Number28 to showcase

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Review: We Are What We Overcome

26th February 201928th February 2019 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Matt McGuinness, Matt McGuinness And The MLC, We Are What We Overcome

Matt McGuinness’ new show, which previewed in Belper on Saturday 23rd February, before going on nationwide tour, is comfortable. That

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REVIEWS 

Findlay Napier – Old King’s Head, Friday 22nd February

24th February 201925th February 2019 Edward Sills 0 Comments Black Dog Radio, Blues, Findley Napier, Folk, Glasgow, live, Music, Old Kings Head

Warm, comical, and a consummate storyteller Findlay Napier digs deep down to cover everything from imagined Justin Bieber Glaswegian romance

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Thorn Tree Inn: Music Round Up

8th February 2019 Edward Sills 0 Comments Jiji LaVolpe, live, Music, Music Round Up, Spindrift, Thorn Tree Inn

Just over a year ago, mum and daughter team April Elliot and Amber-Rose took over the Thorn Tree Inn, Chesterfield

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Review: Abrucestic – Queens Head, Belper January 25th

27th January 2019 Edward Sills 0 Comments Abrucestic, live, Music, Nick McCann, Queens Head, Sophie Sparham, Springsteen, tribute

“I come from a boardwalk town where everything is tinged with fraud, so am I” Whilst few of us –

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ENVIRONMENT REVIEWS 

Book Review: Rainforest, Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines

7th September 201810th September 2018 Jo Kirk 1 Comment Book, Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines, Literature, nature writing, Rainforest, Review

Rainforest is a personal story, drawing on Tony’s many years’ experience at the frontline of the fight to save the

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REVIEWS 

Y NOT 2018: Manic Street Preachers 27/07/18

29th July 201830th July 2018 Edward Sills 1 Comment Friday, live, Manic Street Preachers, Manics, Music, Resistance Is Futile, Review, Y Not, Y NOT 2018

As Nietzsche – or Rusty Cohle if it suits you better – once said “everything that happens is inextricably knotted

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Review: Brighton Rock At Derby Playhouse

16th May 2018 George Gunby 0 Comments Brighton Rock, Derby Playhouse, Drama, Graham Greene, Play, Review

I went along to Derby Theatre unsure. After all Graham Greene’s novel, written 80 years ago, and the film starring

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Review: Billy Liar by Belper Players

19th April 201820th April 2018 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Belper Players, Billy Liar, Review, Theatre

Ay up, welcome to 1950s Yorkshire.  Mind Granny as you find your seat. The Belper Players have stepped up their

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REVIEWS 

Review: Crimewolf At Kunst

25th February 201825th February 2018 Edward Sills 1 Comment amber valley, Art, Belper, Crimewolf, Gallery, Kunst, live, Music Review, Performance, The Evil Usses

Atlantis To Temporary Autonomous Interzone Warmed by feedback and reverb the huddled crowd gathered, like a colony of winter coats,

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REVIEWS 

Review: ‘The Nature of the Beast’ At The Ritz, Belper

22nd November 201722nd November 2017 Cllr Ben Bellamy 0 Comments Beast of Bolsover, Dennis Skinner, Film, Film Screening, Labour, Making space Derbyshire, Sailing close to the wind, The Nature of the Beast

The Beast Comes to Belper. Sunday saw a living legend in Belper, when ‘the Beast of Bolsover’ came to Belper

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ENVIRONMENT REVIEWS 

Book Review: The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena

18th November 201721st November 2017 Jo Kirk 2 Comments Book, extinction, Jo Kirk, Kew Gardens, Review, The Plant Messiah

Having spent much of his childhood in the mountains of the Basque country, his mother a florist and a great

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REVIEWS 

Review: 60 Degrees North by Malachy Tallack

11th November 201711th November 2017 Jo Kirk 0 Comments 60 Degrees North, Book, Literature, Malachy Tallack, Review

At this time of year, as our thoughts turn to the North and the weatherman forecasts a weather front from

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Review: Five Tales in Verse – and Sometimes Worse

10th November 201717th November 2017 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Belper Players, Five Tales In Verse – And Sometimes Worse, Jeff Moule

The Belper Players tonight performed Jeff Moule’s versions of five traditional folk stories in verse at the Strutt Centre. The

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REVIEWS 

Review: One in a MILLion Exhibition – Belper North Mill

14th October 2017 Jo Kirk 0 Comments Art, Belper North Mill, Exhibition, One In A MILLion

Twinkly guitar music plays in the basement of Belper’s North Mill as I look at the shimmering threads in a

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Review: Hymn For Her – The George & Dragon Pub

11th July 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments American, George & Dragon, George & Dragon Pub, Hymn For Her, Node 56

Hymn For Her are Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing, a Tampa Bay twosome who rode out their hot and humid

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ENVIRONMENT REVIEWS 

Review: Demain (Tomorrow)

24th May 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments Demain, Environment, Go Green Café, No 28, Tomorrow, Transition Belper

Trump. Brexit. Cyber warfare. Automated Jobs. The world is in crisis. It’s a troubling time, and not just for environmentalists

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REVIEWS 

Review: “Seasons EP” by The Idolins

4th March 20174th March 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments Folk, Idolins, Music, Pop, Seasons

Following on from their live performances in Belper last year we take a look at the Idolin’s latest EP ‘Seasons’.

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REVIEWS 

Review: Dave Sturt – The Queens Head

26th January 201726th January 2017 Edward Sills 2 Comments Ambient, Andy Bole, Dave Sturt, Gong, psychedelic, Queens Head

As part of psychedelic super group Gong you’re more likely to see Dave Sturt playing in the packed out venues

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REVIEWS 

Review: ‘What a Loving, and Beautiful World’ At The QUAD, Derby

26th January 2017 Claire Meese 2 Comments and Beautiful World, Exhibition, Gallery, Installation, Janet Ashmore, QUAD, What a Loving

Just for a moment, imagine that you are suspended in the middle of a huge flotation tank, shrouded in the

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CREATIVE BELPER REVIEWS 

Review: Stephen Elvidge ‘Memories In Place’

13th November 2016 Edward Sills 1 Comment Art, Gallery, Installation, Kunst, Memories In Place, Stephen Elvidge

Responding to the death of parents and brother, Nottingham artist Stephen Elvidge has used his new collection to interpret how

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REVIEWS 

Review: A Servant To Two Masters – Belper Players

11th November 201611th November 2016 Tony Cooper 2 Comments A Servant To Two Masters, Belper Players, Comedy, Commedia dell’arte, Drama, Goldoni, Strutts

Goldoni – The Perfect Antidote To Trumperi! Have events stateside been getting you down recently? Worried about the future? Give

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REVIEWS 

Review: The Rattlers

2nd August 2016 Claire Meese 0 Comments Celtic, live, Music, Old Poet’s, Reunion, The Rattlers

Rattling Good Years There’s a long tradition of folk-rock bands in and around Derby and much of it has Belper

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NEWS REVIEWS 

Derbyshire’s Biggest Music Festival Returns

1st August 20161st August 2016 Edward Sills 0 Comments Editors, Festival, Madness, Music, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Pikehall, Y Not

A good festival is like a cocktail, it has to have the perfect mix of ingredients and a large splash

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REVIEWS 

Review: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Y Not

1st August 2016 Edward Sills 0 Comments Noel Gallagher, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Oasis, Y Not

What’s the story, moaning glory? The lord of lad rock, Noel Gallagher, swaggered onto his temple of high indie with

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REVIEWS 

Review: “No Map Could Show Them” by Helen Mort

21st July 20163rd June 2019 Admin 1 Comment Helen Mort, Jo Kirk, No Map Could Show Them, Penguin, poetry

There is something quite extraordinary about this collection of poems. Helen Mort’s poems are of landscape and language, the human

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REVIEWS 

Chris Helme: The Belper Games

18th July 2016 Edward Sills 0 Comments Belper Games, Chris Helme, live, Music, The Belper Games, The Seahorses

The road out of a Brit-pop legacy is fraught with danger, with many a chart-topping songwriter having to crawl back

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REVIEWS 

Review: “How Did We Get Into This Mess: Politics, Equality, Nature” by George Monbiot

23rd June 20163rd June 2019 Admin 1 Comment Book, George Monbiot, Jo Kirk, Politics, Review

One of the things I like about George Monbiot is how well-researched his articles and essays always seem to be.

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Review: Spymonkey’s The Complete Deaths (Rating 14)

17th June 201617th June 2016 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Derby Theatre, Shakespeare, Spymonkey

In the bathroom at Derby Theatre I overheard a woman plaintively asking her friend, “But HOW can I explain to

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Review: The Damned United

21st April 20163rd June 2019 Admin 0 Comments Derby Theatre, Football, Review

“Brian Clough’s journey from his beloved Derby County to the team he hated the most.” “Down the stairs, along the

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REVIEWS 

Review: Jinny and Look Back in Anger

21st March 201622nd March 2016 Clare Washbrook 1 Comment Derby Theatre, Review

I struggled to write this review and ended up leaving it far longer than I should have, for the simple

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LIFESTYLE NEWS REVIEWS 

Is The Old Strutt’s School Haunted?

16th February 201621st February 2016 Clare Washbrook 1 Comment ghosts, investigation, paranormal

On Friday 12th February a large group of people from Belper, Derby and Nottingham met in Strutt’s community centre (the

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REVIEWS WHAT'S ON 

Review: The Great Gatsby

11th February 2016 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Derby Theatre, Great Gatsby, Review

“Can’t repeat the past?….Why of course you can!” As I walked into Derby Theatre, Billie Holiday was playing softly throughout

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REVIEWS 

Review: The Remarkable Tale of Oliver Twist

11th February 201611th February 2016 Edward Sills 0 Comments Oliver Twist, Red Earth Theatre, The Remarkable Tale of Oliver Twist, Theatre

What could be more apt in these days of austerity than the Red Earth’s production of the Remarkable Tale of

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REVIEWS 

Review: Fairytales, Myths and Legends

3rd February 2016 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Art, Craft, ecocreate

The Fairytales, Myths and Legends exhibition at the Banks Mill Studio began with an Ecocreate Twitter hour (this occurs every

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REVIEWS 

Review of: Matisse – Running With Scissors exhibition at Derby Museum

14th January 201614th January 2016 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Art, Derby Museum, Matisse

I was very excited about seeing this exhibition of Henri Matisse’s later work.  I was largely unfamiliar with that stage

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REVIEWS 

Moon Bullet / Gripper and the Gurnards at the Old King’s Head

31st December 2015 Edward Sills 0 Comments Gripper and the Gurnards, Live Music, Moon Bullet, Nailed Down, Old Kings Head

A revamped Moon Bullet deliver lo-fi sounds and big energy to the crowd of the Old King’s Head. In the

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Review: Cinderella at Derby Theatre

11th December 201511th December 2015 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Christmas, Derby Theatre, family show, Theatre

This Christmas, a story older than the Bible has travelled across many cultures to land in Derby Theatre, re-imagined and

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REVIEWS 

Alien Encounters: Sun Ra, Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery

8th December 20153rd June 2019 Admin 0 Comments Art, Film, Jazz, Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery, Sun Ra

I hesitate to write a review of an event that is based in Nottingham but for some things you just

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REVIEWS 

Ferocious Dog: ‘From Without’

17th September 201522nd June 2021 Edward Sills 0 Comments Music, Review

Nottinghamshire’s best live band return with ‘From Without’, a sophomore album that sees them more ferocious, more political and more

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