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How the Nottingham Gig Buddies community is uniting music lovers

Starting in 2009, and now with nearly 6,000 members to its name, the meetup.com social group Nottingham Gig Buddies (NGB) has been a life changer for many, bringing together people from many different backgrounds, ages, interests, through their passion for music. To understand the success behind the growth of this group, we got to know the people behind it.

Exhibition On Screen - Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

Exhibition On Screen - Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

Ava Liversidge: Liversidge Laughersidge Loversidge @ Wormhole Weekend @ Nottingham Comedy Festival

Gig review: Better Lovers at Rescue Rooms

Better Lovers rose like a phoenix from the ashes of the well-loved Every Time I Die, much to the joy of hardcore fans. At Nottingham's Rescue Rooms, they proved just why they are worth successors...

Better Lovers

The Thompsons on Doctor Who, King Charles III and Local Cheese

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

We Catch Up With the Cheese Shop to Discover the Best Cheeses to Indulge in This Christmas

A staple of every Brie-tish Christmas is, undoubtedly, the cheese board. However you choose to spend your holidays, nothing could be feta at warding off the winter bleus than treating yourself to some cheese by the fire. But with so many types to choose from, what could be gouda enough to be yours on the big day? We spoke to Webb Freckingham, one of the owners of The Cheese Shop on Flying Horse Walk, to cheddar light on the grate-st cheese this festive cheese-on…

Cheesed Off! Nottingham’s Food Riots (1750-1800)

Ultimate Cheese

Ultimate Cheese

5 Fun Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: Dot to Dot Festival, the Great British Cheese Club and More

Years & Years, Alfie Templeman and Bob Vylan are all coming to Notts...

Out of Time: Nottingham's Food History - Cheese Riots, Celery and HP Sauce

With this being the food and drink issue, our regular history feature explores Nottingham’s history of eccentricity, rebellion and invention through three food-related stories: Marshal Tallard’s introduction of celery to the country in the early eighteenth century, the 1766 Cheese Riots and Frederick Gibson Garton’s invention of HP Sauce in 1884…

Film Review: The Killing of Two Lovers

A married man struggles with the pain of his wife opening up their marriage in writer-director Robert Machoian’s flinty but moving drama…

Big Mike's Fat Kitchen is Whipping Up Cheesecake for Carlton

From age-old recipes to newly dreamt up decadence, Cheesecakes by Big Mike’s Fat Kitchen have hit the ground running and are whipping up a storm in Carlton. We talk to the namesake and owner Mike Jones to get the lowdown…

6 Items to Buy for Your Nottingham-Themed Cheeseboard

With every passing day we're getting closure to sunshine and picnic weather. This year, we're gonna pass on shop-bought spreads and create our own, locally-sourced board full of Notts goodies. Here's what we'll be plucking from the shelves... 

10 Halloween Themed Events For Music Lovers In Notts

Whether you’re into thrash metal or disco cuts, there’s an opportunity for music fans of all genres to get monster mashed this year. Here are our top picks… 

A Catch-Up with Metronome: Built by Music Lovers, For Everyone

Newcomer venue Metronome opened its doors last October, and has been wowing audiences with its audio-visual finesse and eclectic programme ever since. We caught up with promoter Kristi Maria to see how things have been going down on Huntingdon Street…

Music Video: I AM LONO - Lovers

Check out the brilliant new music video for Nottingham four-piece I AM LONO from Lace Market Media Group. Directed by Matt Daunt, produced by Mark Daunt and with a crew that included David Lilley and Alex Withers, the video for their new track Lovers is a belter...

5 Grilled Cheese Gaffs in Nottingham

Where would we brie without cheese in our lives, eh? It's especially great when you stuff it between two slices of bread and grill it for all it's worth. Here are the top places in Nottingham to get yerself a right cheesy bogger of a sarneh...

Competition for coffee lovers - big, big prizes

Stichelton Cheese Has an Identity Crisis

The Notts dairy are proper vexed as their cheese crusade continues

Practical Lovers - Inside Job

Watch the dour synth-pop duo's latest video ahead of the release of their debut album Agony

Cheese lovers in Bohemia... Beware!

One of our contributors goes on the hunt for a very special kind of cheese...

The Cheese Shop