Ruby Tuesday 8th April @Billy Bootleggers : Upstairs/Downstairs) free (for all) Festival

Name: Ruby Tuesday 8th April @Billy Bootleggers : Upstairs/Downstairs) free (for all) Festival
Start: 2025-04-08T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-09T03:00:00+01:00
Location: Billy Bootleggers Nottingham

Schedule

Tue, 08 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm to Wed, 09 Apr, 2025 at 03:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Billy Bootleggers Nottingham | Nottingham, EN

I'm Not From London presents...
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RUBY TUESDAY 8th April: UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS - FREE 4 All FEST!

Ruby Tuesday is INFL’s free live music showcase night every second Tuesday, downstairs at Billy Bootleggers brought to you by I’m Not From London. This will be a mini festival celebrating the Three Year anniversary of Nottingham's favourite free fortnightly local band review...
Dance, drink and party like you don’t need to get up early the next day...
Downstairs 👇👇👇
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FULL BLAST ALL STARS
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11.00 pm
New Notts proto-punks with a mission to take over the asylum, balaclava fronted chaos merchants with scant regard for personal safety. Don't get to close, they'll get you in the band.
https://www.instagram.com/fullblastallstars/

ROYSTON DUXFORD
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10.00 pm
The long awaited return of the Nottingham/Antipodean foot stompin, bone breakin, finger lickin, low down, low fi, country blues rock and roll!
https://www.instagram.com/roystonduxford/

DOG EXPLOSION
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9.00
Dog Explosion is Nottingham's own one man cult of electronic and vocal expression. Created by singer / songwriter Oliver Lovley, Dog Explosion brings together the distorted sounds of electronic rock, the pumping hits n' stabs of 90's ravelation, the left wing ideologies of punk and the seasoned voice of the big band singer and mushes them all together in a paranoic outburst of furious positive energy, all with a polite smile, minimal bad language and a professional looking shirt and tie.
Lyrics are the driving force of Oliver's songs, informed by music and writers including Faith No More, Tina Turner, Erasure, Sleaford Mods, William Burroughs, Shriekback, Kate Bush, Benefits, Talking Heads, Sisters of Mercy, The Nightingales and many more.
Phrases such as “golden teeth in polystyrene gums, synthetic bile breaks down the scum” and “I broke every code of the organic zone so the lips of the mainframe could swallow me whole” become strains of a desperate manifesto delivered to a congregation of lost souls reunited in life's wilderness.

MATT MCCARTHY BAND
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8.00 pm
Nottingham-based singer-songwriter Matt McCarthy blends indie and post-punk influences with raw, emotive songwriting. A guitarist at heart, he ensures the instrument remains central to his sound, crafting dynamic and expressive tracks. Since graduating from Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies (BA Music Performance, 2021), Matt has gained recognition on BBC Introducing and performed across the city, including Hockley Hustle and FoxFest. A regular on the Nottingham open mic scene, he continues to refine his artistry. His latest single, Fashion Designer, released on February 28th, showcases his evolving style and is available now on all streaming platforms.
linktr.ee/MattMcCarthy_Music

with DJ Beautmont Polydactyl on the one's and two's playing before, in between and after the bands, spinning garage, psyche, psyche garage with a bit of garage-psyche chucked in for good measure - Viva la DiffFance until Adam Jay takes over on the wheels of digital steel til way past your bed time!

UPSTAIRS👇👇👇👇
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SKUNK
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10.30 pm
The freshest new punk band this side of Notts, a confetti based outfit with eyes firmly on the prize. Do not miss!

THE INEVITABLE, UNSTOPPABLE, DEATH BAND
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9.30 pn
Rising like a lairy phoenix from the embers of what was The White Skull Death Snakes of Death emerge the more sensibly named Inevitable, Unstoppable , Death, Band, playing their hearts out for your pleasure. They dance like no one's watching, play like no one's listening and sing like angel's just bunked out of heaven on it's tea break. Watch them live and die happy.
You won't find them on the internet, they're far too cool for all of that sort of nonsense.

THE ACH BAND
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8.30 pm
ACHB (technically short for Alex and the Christopher Hale Band, though don’t call them that) is the East Midlands’ number 1 anti-cool rock/roll band. Drawing from a decade-spanning back catalogue of over 200 DIY bedroom pop songs, they supplement timidity with tenacity, presenting fast-paced and high-energy musical tributes to troublesome housemates, unhelpful prophetic dreams and the concept of death.

Following a series of one-offs and false starts, the current iteration of ACHB has been ongoing since January 2019 and consists of 36-year-old child prodigy Alexander Christopher Hale and a selection of more competent musician friends who he was able to trick into backing him. Amongst its ranks you’ll find Baz 'The Barracuda' Barradell (Drums), Dom 'The Barracuda' Brady (Guitar), Stephen 'The Barracuda' Marsh (Guitar) and Cameron 'The Barracuda' Worne (Bass).
“Fiercely anti cool and brilliant because of that” - LeftLion

RICKY JAMARAZ
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7.30
Ricky Jamaraz is a young man who lives in the suburbs of Nottingham, UK. Ever since he was a 13 year old tearfuck he has been independently writing, recording and releasing his own music all from the confines of his bedroom. He is now 17 and he is still afraid to set foot in a 'real' recording studio. Along with writing and performing his music, Ricky is completely self-managed, and he wrote this stupid bio because someone on the internet said it would be a good idea.
https://www.rickyjamaraz.com/links
https://www.instagram.com/rickyjamarazmusic

With Karlos Da Jackal playing in between and after the bands for your aural pleasure!

THIS GIG IS FREE ★ YOU ARE A SLAVE!