Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city...
The guests for this episode are Laurence Ritchie and Steve Littleman from Smokescreen Soundsystem. They’re one of the longest-running soundsystems in Nottingham and have been putting on parties in the city for over thirty years.
Originally formed in Sheffield, Smokescreen launched amid the backdrop of the acid house and free party movement of the eighties and nineties. They eventually made Nottingham their base and moved over their parties out of warehouses and into nightclubs.
This interview was recorded in at Movers in August 2026. Find out more about Smokescreen and Soul Buggin’ on the links below:
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