Well, Headstock was great last weekend, saw so many of our favourite bands! Feels like the summer is over though now with festivals and Holidays just distant memories! BUT it is okay! We have a brilliant Autumn and Winter of events here at the Maze!

Starting this week…..

Tonight we continue with our Glastonbudget Auditions, showcasing the best of Nottingham’s up and coming talent for the festival to look at and decide who will be playing the Glastonbudget Festival in 2012!

Last year saw a whole host of Nottingham’s finest play the festival and this year we should be well represented again!! So check out the listings as these auditions will be happening ever Tuesday until round Xmas!

Also this Friday sees an amazing lineup, which is honestly one of the best lineups we have seen in 2011!

Headlining are Nottingham and The Maze favourites Royal Gala, it is always a sweat filled non stop dance off party when they play here and this time will be no different, after seeing them smash Headstock and Boomtown festivals in recent weeks I can’t wait to see the band back in a venue doing what they do best and making the crowd go mental!

Support comes from some of the best up and coming bands in the UK, China Shop Bull are top of the list with their Ska Rave, Jungle, Drum n Bass, Hiphop madness….again a band who have ripped the UK festival scene apart this summer and after a brilliant show here back in January with 25 Past the Skank…they promise to deliver a raucous show once again!

Great Malarkey are another band building a great reputation for bringing the party and though it is there first appearance at the Maze they were a highlight of Headstock festival and with their Gypsy Swing, Balkan Punk and Furious Folk will surely set the room alight!

Opening the show are a band only a few can vouch for…Sick Boys Club from Birmingham…a hidden gem who I discovered when on tour with Breadchasers earlier this year but DO NOT MISS THEM! They are quite unique and mix a mad progressive Ska, Rock, Jazz, Swing, Rockabilly and much more into one insane pot (even a bit of Barber Shop style harmonies!)…this show should be a banger so get down to the Maze this Friday…it is £6 enter and starts at 8.30pm!

Thats a start…but this week alone we also have the brilliant Laura Stevenson and the Can (plus support from Emily Marten, Jody Betts, Union Station Massacre and Shankland) on tomorrow, the return of Smokescreen Sound System on Saturday and a great line up of some of the hottest new and up and coming party bands next Wednesday (21st) with Just James, Breadchasers, Tribal Suns and The Spangle Corps…..plus coming later in the Autumn is Old Basford, The Smears, The Skints, Capdown, lots of Comedy as part of Nottingham comedy festival, Slaid Cleaves, Shapes, Lafaro, the return of Muzika, Dirty Revolution, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Seven Little Sisters, Eureka Machines, Rod Picot, a new metal clubnight (Perdition), JT Nero and another Stars in Their Eyes!!!!….and thats all before Xmas kicks in!!

So check out our listings, keep looking out for our flyers and gig guides….check facebook, twitter and all that social networking jazz and come say Hi for a pint and some of the most exciting music in the city of Nottingham!!!

See ya soon x