New Food Blog Finds Best in Belper
With Belper becoming increasingly popular with visitors, a new Instagram account is shouting about the best of the best when
Read moreWith Belper becoming increasingly popular with visitors, a new Instagram account is shouting about the best of the best when
Read moreThis year’s Summer Food Festival can’t really be declared a success, as there was quite a lot of criticism and
Read moreWhilst festivalgoers were warming up to Stormzy at Worthy Farm, Vegan Revelation brought its own party to Number28 to showcase
Read moreMatt McGuinness’ new show, which previewed in Belper on Saturday 23rd February, before going on nationwide tour, is comfortable. That
Read moreWarm, comical, and a consummate storyteller Findlay Napier digs deep down to cover everything from imagined Justin Bieber Glaswegian romance
Read moreJust over a year ago, mum and daughter team April Elliot and Amber-Rose took over the Thorn Tree Inn, Chesterfield
Read more“I come from a boardwalk town where everything is tinged with fraud, so am I” Whilst few of us –
Read moreRainforest is a personal story, drawing on Tony’s many years’ experience at the frontline of the fight to save the
Read moreAs Nietzsche – or Rusty Cohle if it suits you better – once said “everything that happens is inextricably knotted
Read moreI went along to Derby Theatre unsure. After all Graham Greene’s novel, written 80 years ago, and the film starring
Read moreAy up, welcome to 1950s Yorkshire. Mind Granny as you find your seat. The Belper Players have stepped up their
Read moreAtlantis To Temporary Autonomous Interzone Warmed by feedback and reverb the huddled crowd gathered, like a colony of winter coats,
Read moreThe Beast Comes to Belper. Sunday saw a living legend in Belper, when ‘the Beast of Bolsover’ came to Belper
Read moreHaving spent much of his childhood in the mountains of the Basque country, his mother a florist and a great
Read moreAt this time of year, as our thoughts turn to the North and the weatherman forecasts a weather front from
Read moreThe Belper Players tonight performed Jeff Moule’s versions of five traditional folk stories in verse at the Strutt Centre. The
Read moreTwinkly guitar music plays in the basement of Belper’s North Mill as I look at the shimmering threads in a
Read moreHymn For Her are Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing, a Tampa Bay twosome who rode out their hot and humid
Read moreTrump. Brexit. Cyber warfare. Automated Jobs. The world is in crisis. It’s a troubling time, and not just for environmentalists
Read moreFollowing on from their live performances in Belper last year we take a look at the Idolin’s latest EP ‘Seasons’.
Read moreAs part of psychedelic super group Gong you’re more likely to see Dave Sturt playing in the packed out venues
Read moreJust for a moment, imagine that you are suspended in the middle of a huge flotation tank, shrouded in the
Read moreResponding to the death of parents and brother, Nottingham artist Stephen Elvidge has used his new collection to interpret how
Read moreGoldoni – The Perfect Antidote To Trumperi! Have events stateside been getting you down recently? Worried about the future? Give
Read moreRattling Good Years There’s a long tradition of folk-rock bands in and around Derby and much of it has Belper
Read moreA good festival is like a cocktail, it has to have the perfect mix of ingredients and a large splash
Read moreWhat’s the story, moaning glory? The lord of lad rock, Noel Gallagher, swaggered onto his temple of high indie with
Read moreThere is something quite extraordinary about this collection of poems. Helen Mort’s poems are of landscape and language, the human
Read moreThe road out of a Brit-pop legacy is fraught with danger, with many a chart-topping songwriter having to crawl back
Read moreOne of the things I like about George Monbiot is how well-researched his articles and essays always seem to be.
Read moreIn the bathroom at Derby Theatre I overheard a woman plaintively asking her friend, “But HOW can I explain to
Read more“Brian Clough’s journey from his beloved Derby County to the team he hated the most.” “Down the stairs, along the
Read moreI struggled to write this review and ended up leaving it far longer than I should have, for the simple
Read moreOn Friday 12th February a large group of people from Belper, Derby and Nottingham met in Strutt’s community centre (the
Read more“Can’t repeat the past?….Why of course you can!” As I walked into Derby Theatre, Billie Holiday was playing softly throughout
Read moreWhat could be more apt in these days of austerity than the Red Earth’s production of the Remarkable Tale of
Read moreThe Fairytales, Myths and Legends exhibition at the Banks Mill Studio began with an Ecocreate Twitter hour (this occurs every
Read moreI was very excited about seeing this exhibition of Henri Matisse’s later work. I was largely unfamiliar with that stage
Read moreA revamped Moon Bullet deliver lo-fi sounds and big energy to the crowd of the Old King’s Head. In the
Read moreThis Christmas, a story older than the Bible has travelled across many cultures to land in Derby Theatre, re-imagined and
Read moreI hesitate to write a review of an event that is based in Nottingham but for some things you just
Read moreNottinghamshire’s best live band return with ‘From Without’, a sophomore album that sees them more ferocious, more political and more
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