Kagoule

Any culturally savvy University of Nottingham fresher should consider themselves lucky to be part of a community now regarded as the East Midlands’ beacon of musicality. Joe Hughes offers a handy guide to the eclectic mix of musicians who coalesce to create the sound of Nottingham....

Not much seems to happen in February. As part of the student calendar, it’s sort of a non-month that flies by so quickly that we’ve barely recovered from January exams before we have to wake up, smell the pancakes and ready ourselves for March deadlines. However, living in Nottingham...

What does it say about us when this is the music that moves us? One man holding a beer playing beats off a laptop to the left of stage while to the right another spits foul-mouthed vitriol into a microphone. What does it say about the sentiment of a...

Nottingham’s Kagoule are comfortably rising to prominence, set apart from a clutter of new bands that seem like recycled Nirvana groupies. If it isn’t Cai’s sore vocals and slick guitar that separates Kagoule from this recent trend of beige soft-rock bands, Lucy Hatter’s tranquil vocals and accompanying bass alongside...

Another year, another line-up, another day of music and merriment. As many came to the end of exams, or others who tried to justify a break, students took to the city of Nottingham to enjoy the all day music festival of Dot to Dot. Including performances of brief nudity...

Following a summer of recording and touring, including a gig at Worthy Farm, Kagoule return to the city which spawned them. Once Band of Jackals brash, heavy sound had warmed the crowd, Kagoule and co-headliners, God Damn, seized the stage. To call God Damn ‘another duo’ would unfairly pile...