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Nottingham, England
Joined August 2019
Winnipeg dream-poppers sundayclub brought their dreamy gut-punch pop to The Grove. Marq reviews the show and talks origins, influences and touring with Courtney and Nikki, plus why they’d want Morrissey, Liam Gallagher and Matty Healy bickering in the crowd. nottsrocks.com – at West Bridgford, England
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sundayclub, The Howlers and Coco Smith album reviews. We rant at ticket prices and everything you need to know about whale puke. You're welcome. nottsrocks.com – at Nottingham, England
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NottsRocks team went to this at Rough Trade on Friday. Filthy funky beats by Revenge of Calculon. Marq Sutton wrote a review. nottsrocks.com @RevOfCalculon – at Nottingham, England
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Binned In ASDA by Backroom Puppets. The new single by the techno duo will be released on the 12th October but early access is available below. linktr.ee/backroompuppets We love this one! There are good places to end a relationship. There are bad places to end a relationship. And then there’s halfway down aisle four in ASDA, standing between the carrots and the sprouts. And somewhere out there, Sonia is still on her way to aisle four with the mop. #ASDA #BinnedinASDA #backroompuppets #dancemusic #asda – at Nottingham, England
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It starts as a news story from somewhere far away. A respiratory illness. Mongolia. Central Asia. Rising cases. The WHO is monitoring the situation. They're calling it M-Plague. An old woman watches the report from the safety of her living room, her cat curled peacefully on her lap. Nobody knows what's coming. And nobody knows yet why the cat matters. PESTIS — a sci-fi pandemic thriller by Lee Marshman Thomas. #PESTIS #BookTok #SciFiBooks #ThrillerBooks #PandemicThriller #HorrorBooks #IndieAuthor #Bookstagram #ScienceFiction #NewBooks – at Nottingham, England
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Six friends kayak a recently opened stretch of the River Trent in Nottinghamshire. There's a reason why it was closed for so long. Not all of them make it back. #fishing #kayaking #trent #river #camping – at Nottingham, England
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Confessions of a Francophile: Thirty years, one country, and a tree that fell on my car. We are far more French than we like to admit #article #france #francophile #laFrance #nottsrocks nottsrocks.com/confessions-o… – at Nottingham, England
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Another fantastic EP from ALT BLK ERA - Our World. #MUSIC #altblkera @nottsrocks #NewMusicAlert – at Nottingham, England
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New book alert. The Red Album is available from marshmanbooks.com. Conrad King came back from Bosnia in 1995 with a red leather album he found in a ruined Bosnian town, and a silence he kept for the rest of his life. When his son Josh, a journalist who has spent his career on other people's histories and stories, finally goes to find it, the town he finds has a name: Mrkonjić Grad. A place destroyed twice, first by the war and then in the handover, with 181 of the massacred lying in the cemetery at its centre and a story far older than the soldiers who passed through it. Moving between present-day Britain and Bosnia, the long decades of a self-confident Yugoslavia, and the terrible autumn of 1995, The Red Album reconstructs the life of the family the album might have belonged to — and asks what it costs to return something, and whether some things can be given back at all. Grounded, cinematic, and quietly devastating, this is literary historical fiction in the lineage of Birdsong and The Cellist of Sarajevo: a requiem for a vanished country, a study of memory and inheritance, and the story of another family's past, carried across thirty years and finally laid down where it began. Inspired by a true object: in December 1995, serving in Bosnia with the British Army as part of NATO's peacekeeping force, the author found the red album in a safe in a ruined sawmill in Mrkonjić Grad, and kept it for thirty years. The town and the events of 1995 are real; the family at the novel's heart is imagined. Available in eBook and paperback from either marshmanbooks.com or Amazon. #TheRedAlbum #yugoslavia #bosnia #BookRecommendation #booklover – at Nottingham, England
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New book alert - The Red Album. Conrad King came back from Bosnia in 1995 with a red leather album he found in a ruined Bosnian town, and a silence he kept for the rest of his life. When his son Josh, a journalist who has spent his career on other people's histories and stories, finally goes to find it, the town he finds has a name: Mrkonjić Grad. A place destroyed twice, first by the war and then in the handover, with 181 of the massacred lying in the cemetery at its centre and a story far older than the soldiers who passed through it. Moving between present-day Britain and Bosnia, the long decades of a self-confident Yugoslavia, and the terrible autumn of 1995, The Red Album reconstructs the life of the family the album might have belonged to — and asks what it costs to return something, and whether some things can be given back at all. Grounded, cinematic, and quietly devastating, this is literary historical fiction in the lineage of Birdsong and The Cellist of Sarajevo: a requiem for a vanished country, a study of memory and inheritance, and the story of another family's past, carried across thirty years and finally laid down where it began. Inspired by a true object: in December 1995, serving in Bosnia with the British Army as part of NATO's peacekeeping force, the author found the red album in a safe in a ruined sawmill in Mrkonjić Grad, and kept it for thirty years. The town and the events of 1995 are real; the family at the novel's heart is imagined. Available in eBook and paperback from either marshmanbooks.com or Amazon. #theredalbum #yugoslavia #bosnia #selfmanagement #book #historicalfiction – at Nottingham, England
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Books for your library. #books #ReadingMatters #bookcollector – at Nottingham, England
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