Rock City is not the whole city
Nottingham gig guides that stop at Rock City ignore Rescue Rooms, Bodega, and Rough Trade. Those rooms are where a lot of first shows happen. Log the venue name exactly so your diary can tell a 400-cap night from an arena date.
Search the artist in Radar Find, save the listing, and keep the ticket email until the date is on the gig. After the show, the diary replaces the email.
Students and people who stayed
A lot of Nottingham history is three years of Wednesdays, then a gap. Backfill the years you lived there before you try to remember them from group chats. Venue plus month is usually enough to find the setlist.
If you still come back for tours, those return dates belong on the same timeline. The city page is the guide. Your logged nights are the record.
One diary for the Midlands run
Bands often play Nottingham and Leicester or Birmingham in the same week. Log each city separately. A “Midlands tour” note is not a gig.
Rate the Nottingham night on its own. The room, the curfew, and who you went with are the details you will want later.