So here we are February 2026 with a new music and film magazine and a new editor but same old ethos (almost).
Three factors combined to lead to changes at what was CL (cannot use word) Towers .
- For the second time substack closed down the CL related review and it turned out that the word CL is in fact related to a insidious spam and phishing technique and has led to us being blocked across platforms. I communicated with substack and all good now as long as we do not use that term. The only reference is in the use of images related to that theme.
- Our hard-working editor found himself under the same pressures that led to the closing of the monthly readings i.e. not enough hours in the day to drive a bus and edit a magazine.
So sadly Neil has become a contributor instead. In 8 months CL ran he brought in some wonderful material ALL of which is archived here. - Before we reached this point we had realised that a general culture magazine that covered literature, film, muisc etc etc was just too wide a remit for such a small staff.
It also led to confusion about what CL actually was. To address this we have split the old material into two seperate websites. Like children we don’t prefer one over the other it just a way of organising material.
So all literary (for want of a better term..’wordy’) stuff is now here at the Nottingham Review.
https://www.openbook.org.uk/NLR
The old classical music, music and film related items now safe as a haunted house at the new TRACKS website ( a nod to Neil’s obsession with small steam engines and pieces of Hornby track) the image below an early mock front page which shows that theme.
Both are now housed on the Open Book website which is where we started.
https://www.openbook.org.uk/tracks
Also both websites are cross-posting directly to new substacks under my name which helps spread the word internationally.
https://nottinghamliteraryreview.substack.com
https://righttrack.substack.com
