The Old Bus Depot

28/08/2024

🌟 Naad - The 2nd Handpan & Music Concert in Nottingham! 🌟 🎶 Join us for an enchanting evening of music with the handpan! 🎶 🗓️ Date: 31st August 2024 📍 Venue: The Old Bus Depot, 3 Fisher Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1GD ⏰ Doors Open: 6:00 PM 🎵 Event Starts: 6:30 PM ✨ Featuring Performances By: 🎤 Rishiraj Kulkarni 🎤 Solom (Pranav Badia) 🎟️ Book your tickets now and secure your spot for this amazing musical journey! 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naad-the-2nd-handpan-music-concert-tickets-917708931117?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios👈 📢 Share this with your friends and family and let’s make this evening unforgettable! Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎉 Feel free to share this message with your contacts and groups on WhatsApp to spread the word and invite them to the event!

18/08/2024

30/04/2024

This Saturday!!!

THIS SATURDAY‼️ - we support at alongside notts babes !! Ticket link is in bio (cheaper than otd so get ‘em while ya can)💓

05/04/2024

A lot of people ask us where we are.

It’s on the crossroads so opposite also opposite and across the road from , down the road from Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

This is where we are, technically this building is known as and the upstairs event room is The Old Bus Depot

This side door is the one we use for people coming and going to gigs. If you ever want to stop by then buzz lobby or co-working space and we can show you around. (Or message us here in advance preferably so we can make sure we’re free to give you the tour).

We are a community arts space.

We have offices for creatives to rent. Some of our current tenants are Hockley Hustle , Acoustickle and .

We have a recording studio ( .notts ) used for all the @ projects and Records that you can hire out. We’ve an events space upstairs that is also available to hire for workshops ( we have children’s subsidised music lessons via Nottingham Music Hub ) ,dance (Capoeria on Thursdays) & regular acting classes ran by

We host regular gigs ran by I'M NOT FROM LONDON & guest promoters RAMMEL CLUB and many more promoters/bands hire the space if they want to put their own nights on. All the events have a licensed bar and we serve a variety of beverages from all around the known world (mainly Red Stripe,Guinness (alc and 0%),Strongbow, Punk IPA and more spirits than Poltergeist #2.

We have a gallery space downstairs that’s currently exhibiting the ‘Wild Women’ collection by Sugar Stealers and soon we’ll have a cafe and downstairs bar. It’s all very exciting.

We have a downstairs car park for tenants and our nearest car park is about 2 mins walk away : Pemberton St, Nottingham NG1 1GS which charges £1 per hour, £5 till 6pm, £4 for the evening or £7 for 24 hours (they only take coins in the machine).

One day soon we’ll have a sign that will draw people to our venue like revelling moths to a musical flame.

For now these photos will have to suffice.

So now you know 😉

28/02/2024

and present:

*****NOTTS FINEST*****

A night to showcase and celebrate the rising talent emerging from the Nottingham Hip Hop Scene.

*****Featuring*****

Cee Selenite:

is a smooth RnB singer who delivers deeply emotional songs written from the depths of her heart.

Venus Milone:

sensual RnB singer/songwriter who specialises in writing cool, and at times, dark lyrics and performs them all in a beautiful tone.

WIGZ:

aka WIGZ is a piece of classic 90s hiphop brought into 2024 with his catchy lyrics, fire self produced beats and dedication to the city of Notts. He’s definitely one to watch out for!

C Hayez:

is an alternative/emo rapper whose impeccable flows and infectiously sad hooks make a crowd hang onto his every word

Lil Percoskett:

Our host for the night describes his music as time travel music because he is inspired by music from all sorts of genres and has fused all that together into his unique brand Hip Hop using obscure samples on gritty self produced beats, witty lyrics and the knowledge of a time traveller he brings something brand new to the table.

8.00 doors

£7 advance tickets via follow link in ‘s bio.
£10 on the door!

21/02/2024

Louis Cypher presents…

In association with &

* * * ARTISTIC SPECTRUM * * *

A - Saturday 24th February

A one of a kind event celebrating Nottingham’s vibrant and creative culture. Featuring some of Nottingham’s top musicians and artists and highlighting where these two creative forms of expression intersect. Inspired by Louis Cyphers article in January’s edition of Left Lion magazine that explored how artists will diversify their creative outlets in the face of adversity.

The exhibition is a celebration of some of Nottingham’s top multidisciplinary creatives all under one roof The exhibition will feature art and musical performances from:

Louis Cypher aka CypherSoreEyes


robinson.378 aka Pidge





PThe event will also include a creative market showcasing what Nottinghams independent creatives have on offer with live music playing through out the day and into the night Featuring additional stalls and performances from the aforementioned artists plus (Local Healers) and more…

***Green Leopard Creatives***

*** Big Nature Collective***

***theeyelifecollective***

***Eillat Cohen Vintage and Upcycle***

***Mo Brittain Vintage and Upcycle***

*** Eilat Cohen Vintage and Upcycle*** more tbc

Day time event is free /night time event after 7.30 pm is £5.

20/02/2024

Man Up Man Down: FREE Poetry, Spoken Word and Music Production Workshops For All Men.

Come join us at Fishergate Point Studios in Nottingham, UK for an exciting event designed exclusively for men.
During an unusually open discussion in between World Cup matches being shown at a Nottingham bar back in 2018, it became obvious to us that most men in our group had, at some point, had issues with their mental health. The seeds were sown to make an application to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund to provide support through Arts and wellbeing sessions.
Happily, eventually, we have now been successful in securing the funding to deliver these sessions and the Man Up, Man Down project is here !!

The first sessions that we will be introducing are a poetry/spoken word workshop and a music production workshop. They will be delivered in the community space and the HOAM recording studio in the same building.

All the workshops are free of charge, but spaces are limited so please only book your space if you can definitley attend via the link in the .up.mandown insta bio

Meet The Workshop Leaders:
Chris Oliver shares his wisdom and outlook on life using Spoken Word. His insights are thought provoking and heart felt, drawing on his personal experiences growing up in Nottingham.
Neo Hannan is a British Born Artist, Producer and Songwriter. He began to grow an interest in poetry and music at the age of 13. Over the years of developing his artistry, NEO started to look deeper into spirituality and aims to use music as a means of healing which has influenced his art to take more of a devotionally inspired approach.

Location: Fishergate Point Studios, Fisher Gate, Nottingham, UK
Days: Every Tuesday
Times: 7:30pm - 9:30pm

13/02/2024

This Saturday 17th Feb!!

The Old Bus Depot presents…
called.bonk , ,

£5 advance tickets from

Follow ticket link in bio!!

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08/02/2024

Hope you can all join us next Saturday for The Old Bus Depot presents BONK! // PURPLE SUNS// PURPLE LIAR - Sat 17th Feb

07/02/2024

During an unusually open discussion in between World Cup matches being shown at a Nottingham bar back in 2018, it became obvious to my business and venue partners Ian and Trish that most men in our group had, at some point, had issues with their mental health. The seeds were sown to make an application to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund to provide support through Arts and wellbeing sessions.

Happily, eventually, they have now been successful in securing the funding to deliver these sessions and the Man Up, Man Down project is here !!

The first sessions that we will be introducing are a poetry/spoken word workshop and a music production workshop. They will be delivered in the community space (the building where The Old Bus Depot is) and the HOAM recording studio in the same building.

All the workshops are free of charge on Tuesdays from 7.30-9.30 starting from 20th Feb.

Please Dm or get in touch with Ian Gardiner if you or anyone you know would like to take part.

31/01/2024

Hope you can all make our night with Erotic Secrets of Pompeii , Avess Arshad/Baby Tap and more on the 22nd March!

29/01/2024

This Friday at The Old Bus Depot!

and .will.yates.experience

Pay what you want on the door, 7PM onwards!

19/01/2024

I’m Not From London presents...
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Saturday 20th December at The Old Bus Depot!

SOURFLAKE
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11.00 pm

‘SOURFLAKE is a four piece punk outfit based in Liverpool, tipping the genre on it’s head.

The group can be defined by their gritty political lyrics and raucous sound as well as their ability to not take themselves too seriously. You might find yourself deciding wether to mosh or shake your ass, as they aim to make each show a sweaty affair with their genre fusing, high energy performances.’

https://linktr.ee/sourflake

G4yBOY
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10.00 pm

Debauched duo, Thom Nana and vocalist, songwriter and intergalactic leather daddy Franx have been steadily growing from supporting the incredible Dream Wife to festival stages. Inspired and eclectic, they’re a very interesting band on the rise to keep an eye on!

This outfit describe themselves as Anohni meets Underworld. Hear big beats, dark synths and powerful vocals.

https://soundcloud.com/alrightg4yb0y

PREHISTORIC BITCH
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9.15 pm

“We are Prehistoric Bitch! A beautifully q***r, energy-infused girl punk band from Nottingham. If you want IN on the girly-pop angst, we’re your type of band! Catch hints of L7, Bikini Kill, and Hole inspiration amongst our definitely loud and profound sound.”

4 hotties validating outrage💜 Girl Punk

https://www.instagram.com/prehistoric_bitch_official

TRUE AFFECTION
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8.30

From the ashes of Babe Punch rise True Affection

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Sign up to our mailing list to keep up to date on gigs and special offers!

https://www.imnotfromlondon.com/sign-up/

£5 advance / £7 otd

Get your tickets via

https://www.gigantic.com/g4yb0y-tickets/nottingham-the-old-bus-depot/2024-01-20-20-00

//// THIS GIG IS FREE * YOU ARE A SLAVE! ////

***rpunk

07/01/2024

Here’s a great opportunity to kickstart the year for emerging vocalists from Nottingham..

Sing City, a free competition designed for 11-to-18 year old students studying in Nottingham City schools, academies & colleges, is now open for entries. Organised by our friends over at a registered charity that provides joyous music programmes for children and young people, Sing City is a great opportunity for budding singers to showcase their talent on a formal yet supportive platform.

This year, Nottingham Music Service have announced that they’ll be working with singer/songwriters and Hockley Hustle alumni and , as well as vocal coach Sara King who will be leading workshops with the competition finalists. JayaHadADream will also be available as one of our mentors to run pre-competition workshops in city schools that want to sign up for this fantastic opportunity. These workshops will be suitable for any vocalist from 11-18 who is interested in improving their technique and performance skills. The deadline to enter the competition is 19th January 2024. All entrants will perform a song at the Heats and the finalists will be invited to a workshop with the mentors. All of them will perform again at the Final, before the winners are announced!

Head to the website for further info and to sign up:

www.nottinghammusichub.org.uk

07/01/2024

Opportunities for 11-18 year olds from the institution that is Nottingham Music Hub based in our venue: check it out and tag anyone that might be interested: Deadline is the 19th Jan so get on it!!

Happy New Year Hustlers! 👋 Here’s a great opportunity to kickstart the year for emerging vocalists from Nottingham..

Sing City, a free competition designed for 11-to-18 year old students studying in Nottingham City schools, academies & colleges, is now open for entries. Organised by our friends over at Nottingham Music Hub, a registered charity that provides joyous music programmes for children and young people, Sing City is a great opportunity for budding singers to showcase their talent on a formal yet supportive platform.

This year, Nottingham Music Service have announced that they’ll be working with singer/songwriters and Hockley Hustle alumni Jayahadadream and Alfie Sharp, as well as vocal coach Sara King who will be leading workshops with the competition finalists. JayaHadADream will also be available as one of our mentors to run pre-competition workshops in city schools that want to sign up for this fantastic opportunity. These workshops will be suitable for any vocalist from 11-18 who is interested in improving their technique and performance skills. The deadline to enter the competition is 19th January 2024. All entrants will perform a song at the Heats and the finalists will be invited to a workshop with the mentors. All of them will perform again at the Final, before the winners are announced!

Head to the website for further info and to sign up:

www.nottinghammusichub.org.uk

03/01/2024

Shout outs to our co-founder Louis Cypher aka on his latest work gracing the front cover of and remembering our old friends

Rapper Louis started working on his collage art in lockdown and has written a feature in the magazine exploring the creative sidehustles of some respected musicians in the city.

Grab a free copy now and check out work and come to the exhibition gig with Louis and friends on Sat 24th Feb!

01/01/2024

Our first gig of 2024: Sat 13th Jan at

- 10.30-11.00
Named By Machines - 9.45-10.15
Death Warmed Up - 9.00-9.30

£5 advance through (ticket link coming soon) £7 otd

Poster by Tim Strange

20/12/2023

Tonight at

poetry evening

08/12/2023

Wow, a full house tonight for the Xmas gig! A wonderful performance from many talented youngsters aged 7+ who meet to learn, play and create all sorts of music together every week in a variety of different groups.

Well done to all who performed, we’re looking forward to hearing more music from you in 2024!

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08/12/2023

Are there any female musicians we know in Nottingham that are also artists (paint/concept/industrial)?

23/11/2023

So looking forward to this!

I ( ) have been working with a group of young women and non-binary people and we are hosting an event in a couple of weeks!

Please join us on Thursday 30th November 6pm - 10pm at The Old Bus Depot for our PUBLIC open deck event.

We’re proud as .sounds to be a collective of women and gender- nonconforming creatives who are amplifying underrepresented talent through events, music and digital content.

The collective is made up of DJ’s, musicians, poets, event managers and content creators, and we can’t wait to join forces with YOU for an evening of networking, music making and fun.

If this sounds like an evening you want to get involved in, please feel free to drop us a message for more information.

You can find The Old Bus Depot, just down the road from the Ice Arena (1 Fisher Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1GD).

16/11/2023

16/11/2023

Hey Hellcats!

we are so excited to announce our next gig, it will be this saturday the 18th of november.

our line up is on the poster and you can get tickets for £7 on the door or through the ticket link in our instagram bio

see you there 😉

08/11/2023

This Thursday 9th November at The Old Bus Depot

We are holding a music showcase fundraiser in loving memory of our friend Darren Blair AKA Dazza B.

We're celebrating his life, the man, his passion, his love, his friends, his family and most of all his energy.

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Some of the artists playing for Daz (in no particular order) are:

Poetically Outspoken // Yazzy B // Alesha Barke // SNL Artists // Kizzianna // Chloe Rodgers // Kriptik // Kamar // Diddz & Sanka // Kane Ashmore // Alex Motormouf and friends // DJ Just Jai

Tickets from Gigantic here:

https://www.gigantic.com/in-loving-memory-of-darren-blair-tickets/nottingham-the-old-bus-depot/2023-11-09-20-00

£5 suggested donation, buy online or on the door.

All money raised will go towards the cost of Daz's funeral and repatriation fees.

Much love, see you on the night! X

19/10/2023

Lovely words about our venue from LeftLion Magazine Nottingham poss the first we’ve had in print, hope to see you all there on Sunday for the Hockley Hustle!

‘Arriving too early, I had a convivial visit to The King Billy, Nottingham and then made my way over to The Old Bus Depot. I’d not been before and heard it was hard to find. It wasn’t.
The door was open and staff were waiting to greet me. A DIY venue in much the same way as JT Soar, only bigger. Technical problems with the complexities of Thomas’s unusual equipment delayed the start but not badly. Comfy chairs in the entrance kept everyone happy as more people arrived. This was going to be one of those gigs were everyone had either seen him or knew of his music. ‘
- words and photos by LeftLion Magazine Nottingham’s Michael Prince

Check out the full article link in the comments and read about the fantastic artists Thomas Truax , Dusty 4 Track and Hex Undone

See you all soon! X

06/10/2023

I’m Not From London presents …

Fri 6th October (TONIGHT!)

CHEMTRAILS!!
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The post-garage-punk and psychedelic power pop anomaly that is started out as the DIY bedroom recording project of romantic partners Mia Lust and Laura Orlova, evolving into a full band in 2016.
Their uncanny talent for blasting out weird but irresistibly catchy pop songs was quickly noticed by Swedish label PNKSLM Recordings, who signed them just after their first gig — at Trans Pride Brighton.
After relocating from London to Manchester in 2019, Lust and Orlova joined forces with a ferocious new rhythm section, putting the final piece of the puzzle into place. With Ian Kane on bass and Liam Steers on drums, the Chemtrails machine is now souped up with a turbocharged rhythmic engine, propelling the hook-filled songs to new levels of raw power, as the band sashays between sleazy punk, frantic krautrock and sardonically sassy grooves.

Served on a bed of twangy and fuzzy guitars, primitive synths and polychromatic pop, Mia Lust’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics tackle alienation, the absurd, the human condition, the impending apocalypse and, occasionally, her place in the world as a transgender woman woman. The band cites their biggest influences as Pixies, Blondie, Oh Sees, Fat White Family and sixties psych and garage punk, but what has always held the whole project together is the endless supply of catchy melodies, delivered with the band’s relentless excitement and energy.

Support from the ever awesome and

Tickets (£5) from here:

https://www.gigantic.com/chemtrails-tickets/nottingham-the-old-bus-depot/2023-10-06-20-00

Big thanks to Uk Arts Council for making this all possible!

25/09/2023

presents…

A surreal and sublime evening of entertainment featuring….

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Thomas Truax (pronounced troo-aks) is an American singer/musician, inventor and multi-media artist.

One of the most imaginative characters on the pop music fringe, since the year 2000 Thomas has been traveling the world performing with his evolving “band” of bizarre self-made Harry Partch-esque instruments including a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels called ‘Mother Superior’ and a pimped-up Dr. Seuss-ian Gramophone called ‘The Hornicator’, as well as his venerable resonator guitar ‘Hank’. Time Out magazine has dubbed him “The king of home-made instruments” while Splendid magazine called him “one of the five or ten best singer/songwriters in the world that you’ve never heard of…an exceptional talent, unique and resistant to comparison, yet fairly accessible even to casual listeners.”

Truax crafts rich, poetically evocative songs about insects, trees, technology, and a lifelong obsession with things lunar, including various reasons ‘Why Dogs Howl at The Moon’. Notable supporters and collaborators include Jarvis Cocker, Duke Special, Richard Hawley, James Smith of Yard Act, Bob Log III, the Dresden Dolls and the late author Terry Pratchett. His latest album ‘Dream Catching Songs‘ features drummer Budgie of the Slits, Siouxsie & The Banshees et al. was released in 2023.

With support from , and !

Tickets (£5) available from !

https://www.gigantic.com/thomas-truax-tickets/nottingham-the-old-bus-depot/2023-09-30-20-00

Big thanks to the UK Arts Council for making all this possible!!!

22/09/2023

It’s Friday!!!!!!

The night is upon us……

‘We have been working on for over a year now and with the first album now recorded, we are mega excited to get first releases and start gigging more starting with tonight's headline show at .
We really don't know how to discribe our sound as it mixes a lot of influences for all four members back catalogue so it would be great to see people out and hear what they think our sound is cause we have no idea! We just know it's loud, weird and we are loving it!’
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Hope you can all make tonight’s gig! The BadMilkBloodRobots will be supported by and

Tickets (£7) on the door , (£5 in advance from ) tickets come off sale online at 7 pm.

Bit thanks to for making this all possible!

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