Photo by Ian West.

Possibly the most exciting announcement we’ve ever had at NRG headquarters – our bout this weekend (Saturday February 8th) has been sponsored by our favourite band, Maxïmo Park! We were featured in both The Journal and The Chronicle today, if you didn’t manage to pick up a copy you can check out both great articles online here and here.  The ‘Park have been supporters of our league and north east roller derby for many years now so we’re ecstatic to work with them on promoting our event and their brand new album Too Much Information. You can get your discounted advance tickets for our double header against Rainy City Roller Girls right here, and the album is available in all the usual internet and real life shops from today. Oh, and keep your eyes on our Facebook if you’re a Maxïmo Park fan, you’ll soon see why…

Photo by Jurgen Rijsdijk– check out the full event album here! 

In their first ever bout outside the UK, our B team The Whippin’ Hinnies travelled to the Netherlands to take on Eindhoven’s Rock City Rollers, and took the win after a dramatic final jam at 183-182! Thank you to everyone who helped in the Hinnies’ fundraising drive to get them to the bout and safely back home to Newcastle.

Photo by Phil Seymour – check out the full Tattoo Freeze album here! 

After entering the UKRDA event Tattoo Freeze on Sunday January 12th as the highest seed, our Canny Belters smashed the predicted score in their game against Nottingham’s Hellfire Harlots and rose up the Derby Data Europe rankings and into the top 20.

Continue reading Belters break top 20 in Europe! →

It’s out with the old and in with the new here at Newcastle Roller Girls – at least when it comes to our website! We’ve refreshed everything in anticipation of our 2014 season and we hope you like what we’ve done with the place. And speaking of our 2014 season, we’ve posted details of our upcoming home bouts right here and very soon you’ll be able to buy tickets for our first fixture on Saturday 8th February.

And if a brand spanking new website AND the first home bout of the year wasn’t enough excitement for one day, we’ve just announced the start date of our next intake of new skaters – Sunday 2nd March. Keep reading for those all important details… Continue reading New season, new website, new intake! →

We’ve been so busy at here at NRG, it feels like we’ve had a bout every day so you’ll have to forgive us for not updating this website often enough!

First of all, the first ever tournament in Newcastle, Hassle in Newcastle, was held on Saturday October 26.

Continue reading Big Smack’s end of season round up! →