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
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REVIEWS
Mixed Reactions to Summer Food Festival
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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Vegan Revelation Café Presents The Herron Brothers/Johnny Swineherder – Review
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
Matt McGuinness’ new show, which previewed in Belper on Saturday 23rd February, before going on nationwide tour, is comfortable. That
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Findlay Napier – Old King’s Head, Friday 22nd February
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
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
“I come from a boardwalk town where everything is tinged with fraud, so am I” Whilst few of us –
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Book Review: Rainforest, Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
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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Y NOT 2018: Manic Street Preachers 27/07/18
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
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
Ay up, welcome to 1950s Yorkshire. Mind Granny as you find your seat. The Belper Players have stepped up their
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Review: Crimewolf At Kunst
Atlantis To Temporary Autonomous Interzone Warmed by feedback and reverb the huddled crowd gathered, like a colony of winter coats,
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Review: ‘The Nature of the Beast’ At The Ritz, Belper
The Beast Comes to Belper. Sunday saw a living legend in Belper, when ‘the Beast of Bolsover’ came to Belper
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Book Review: The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena
Having spent much of his childhood in the mountains of the Basque country, his mother a florist and a great
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Review: 60 Degrees North by Malachy Tallack
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
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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Review: One in a MILLion Exhibition – Belper North Mill
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
Hymn For Her are Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing, a Tampa Bay twosome who rode out their hot and humid
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Review: Demain (Tomorrow)
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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Review: “Seasons EP” by The Idolins
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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Review: Dave Sturt – The 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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Review: ‘What a Loving, and Beautiful World’ At The QUAD, Derby
Just for a moment, imagine that you are suspended in the middle of a huge flotation tank, shrouded in the
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Review: Stephen Elvidge ‘Memories In Place’
Responding to the death of parents and brother, Nottingham artist Stephen Elvidge has used his new collection to interpret how
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Review: A Servant To Two Masters – Belper Players
Goldoni – The Perfect Antidote To Trumperi! Have events stateside been getting you down recently? Worried about the future? Give
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Review: 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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Derbyshire’s Biggest Music Festival Returns
A good festival is like a cocktail, it has to have the perfect mix of ingredients and a large splash
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Review: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – 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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Review: “No Map Could Show Them” by Helen Mort
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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Chris Helme: The Belper Games
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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Review: “How Did We Get Into This Mess: Politics, Equality, Nature” by George Monbiot
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)
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
“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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Review: Jinny and Look Back in Anger
I struggled to write this review and ended up leaving it far longer than I should have, for the simple
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Is The Old Strutt’s School Haunted?
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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Review: The Great Gatsby
“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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Review: The Remarkable Tale of Oliver Twist
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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Review: Fairytales, Myths and Legends
The Fairytales, Myths and Legends exhibition at the Banks Mill Studio began with an Ecocreate Twitter hour (this occurs every
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Review of: Matisse – Running With Scissors exhibition at Derby Museum
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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Moon Bullet / Gripper and the Gurnards at the Old King’s 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
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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Alien Encounters: Sun Ra, Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery
I hesitate to write a review of an event that is based in Nottingham but for some things you just
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Ferocious Dog: ‘From Without’
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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