Night Creatures Podcast #3: Killer Jim from Out To Lunch on 25 years of Northern soul, jazz funk and jazz dance events in Nottingham

Friday 14 November 2025
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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.

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The guest for this episode is Killer Jim from Out To Lunch who has hosted jazz dance sessions in Nottingham for over a quarter of a century.

The Out To Lunch nights first started as an offshoot of his shop Culture Vulture on Mansfield Road and later moved on to venues like Casa, Dogma, Snug, Palais, Pandoras Box, Moog, Spanky Van Dykes, The Rose and Crown and more. 

This interview was recorded in at Movers in September 2025. Find out more about Out To Lunch and Soul Buggin’ on the links below:

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