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“Rock City has a great friendly<br />
crowd. I enjoyed the gig I<br />
played here. I’ll come back<br />
again!”<br />
Ziggy Marley<br />
“This place is<br />
like part of<br />
my make-up<br />
really. I’ve<br />
been playing<br />
here since I was<br />
in my twenties<br />
and it’s one of<br />
those places<br />
you always look<br />
forward to coming<br />
to and playing in<br />
front of a crowd<br />
who are always up<br />
for it.”<br />
Tim Burgess,<br />
The Charlatans<br />
“Rock City is my favourite gig ever. There’s<br />
something about this place that is just amazing to<br />
play. It’s like Mecca for me!”<br />
Mark Richardson, Skunk Anansie<br />
“I love playing here. The audiences<br />
are always so enthusiastic and<br />
there always seem to be a lot of<br />
nice girls.”<br />
Tim Booth, James<br />
“Rock City is<br />
a great British<br />
music institution. I<br />
remember really<br />
loving the place from<br />
the fi rst moment I<br />
walked in. We’ve<br />
always done well<br />
here and it’s the kind<br />
of place that our<br />
fans like too. Yes it’s<br />
a scumhole, probably<br />
less of a scumhole<br />
than it used to be<br />
now as the sticky<br />
carpets have been<br />
replaced by wipe<br />
clean surfaces, but everybody who is anybody has played here<br />
and the place has a great history.”<br />
Justin Sullivan, New Model Army<br />
“The fi rst time we played Rock City<br />
was on our first UK tour. I remember it<br />
being packed and we were confused<br />
as to why because we’d never been<br />
to the UK before. The history of the<br />
place is awesome and to have been<br />
on the same stage as people like<br />
David Bowie and Mike Patton is a<br />
real honour.”<br />
“We were wondering what we were<br />
going to put in the set for Rock City back<br />
in 1987 and we decided to play this jam<br />
we made for the fi rst time. We decided to<br />
play it fi rst, because we knew the crowd<br />
were gonna be hype regardless, so you<br />
know you can’t lose. The name of the song<br />
was Bring The Noise and the Nottingham<br />
crowd went bonkers. We was like, oh,<br />
shit!”<br />
Chuck D, Public Enemy<br />
Alex Rosamilia, Gaslight Anthem<br />
“Rock City is the hairiest venue in the UK in a good way.<br />
Genuinely everyone who’s works there makes it very easy<br />
for us. And The Bodega is but a few blocks away where we<br />
can get messy later. There’s a reason why we always end<br />
up here.”<br />
Winston Marshall, Mumford and Sons<br />
Rock City 30th Anniversary Magazine 5
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