Music and Gig Reviews in Nottingham

Live music in Nottingham. We have done our best to get round all the venues to write our club reviews and live music reviews . Here is our review of The Chameleon.

Review of The Chameleon, Nottingham

By day, a little tea room above Clinton Cards; by night, an explosive music venue. When the Chameleon comes out to play, the curtains of the thirty-odd capacity room remain firmly closed, and while high ceilings lend an air of faded grandeur, general grime overrides. Broken sofas and a 'stage' area marked out by sheets show off the disorder. When act is on said sheet (in what is effectively a bay window), audience members grope walls and peer over shoulders on their tippy-toes. Lack of natural light and proper ventilation make a gig here a humid endurance; it's so intimate that when the bass player shakes their shaggy mop, you'll be within splattering distance.

Written by: Stephanie Potter

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Essential Detail


17 Angel Row ,
Nottingham
NG1 6HL

Open
For gigs, doors 8pm. Curfew, 12am (1am Sun morns)

Admission
Depends on gig. Often cheaper to buy tickets from Selectadisc or wegottickets.com than on door.

Contact
 0115 950 5097

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