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It was my last After Dark show on Monday, and after two years of playing the best local music around I couldn’t just leave without doing something memorable, so I decided it was time to put into action a plan I’d had since last year: would it be possible to get a load of local bands in to write and perform a song from scratch over the course of one show?

With the help of producer Alex and his band Frontiers, we managed to compile a supergroup of Nottingham talent with the aim of not only playing out music from the local scene, but directly contributing to it too.

Hi All, Tom Whiter from Monday nights here, letting you know about a gig you shouldn't miss out on this Weekend in town:

It was back in March that the sad news began to filter through from the US that the frontman of Sparklehorse- singer, songwriter and musician Mark Linkous- had taken his own life.

As the tributes poured in from the likes of Patti Smith, Steve Albini, Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie fame and Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, obituaries from major newspapers down to the music blogosphere remembered a man who's beautiful and haunting music made him a pin-up of the alternative indie-rock scene.

I came to Sparklehorse relatively late in the day, only picking up on the albumsIt's A Wonderful Life and Good Morning Spider after arriving at Uni and finding myself woefully uneducated. From there it was great to discover the collaborations with Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Radiohead and Danger Mouse that he was also famous for.