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Preview: Americana International
Mon 06 Jun 2011"I’ve been driving for fifty years – all sorts of cars, American and British – but the American cars are not like anything else you’ll see"
LeftLion Magazine #41
Wed 01 Jun 2011Featuring Liam Bailey, Mark Del and Nusic, Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly, sports broadcaster Darren Fletcher, Splendour Festival, cricket boss Mick Newell, puppeteer Marcus Clarke and more...
Giles Croft on NEAT 11 Festival
Thu 26 May 2011Another huge boost to the local arts scene takes place this summer with the launch of the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival, a collaboration between the big local venues showcasing top-line performances from around the continent. Festival artistic director Giles Croft explains all…
Interview: Architects of Air
Fri 06 May 2011Sticking bits of plastic together for Architects of Air is a rite of passage for many a Nottingham arts graduate. The resulting pneumatic sculptures - known as luminaria - have toured the world, celebrating the beauty of light and colour. This June they’ll be drifting down to land at Lakeside, so time for a chat with AoA’s artistic director Alan Parkinson….
Interview: Justin Moorhouse
Wed 27 Apr 2011"Hostility isn't a problem, really, indifference is much worse. If people are indifferent you can't change them."
A Canadian on the Royal Wedding
Tue 26 Apr 2011Rob Cutforth can’t wait for the royal event of the decade...
GALLERY: Hit the Deck Festival
Tue 26 Apr 2011Photo evidence from Hit the Deck including Cancer Bats, Turbo Wold, We are the Ocean and more
Interview: Royal Gala
Sun 17 Apr 2011Royal Gala is an eighteen-legged ska-reggae-funk music phenomenon from Notts. The band was put together by guitarist James Waring and is fronted by vocalist Lou Barnell, with seven other musos also along for the ride. But this is no ‘manufactured’ group. It’s more like a load of random mentalists thrown together in a
room full of instruments and dance drugs and told to play or die. As you may guess, we rather like the noise they make…
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth
Tue 12 Apr 2011A typical documentary with trials and tribulations, old footage, embarrassing baby pics and eighties hair dos
Last Shop Standing
Sun 10 Apr 2011Graham Jones has probably visited more record shops than anyone else on planet earth. He started working as a distributor for Proper, the largest independent music distribution company in the UK, over two decades ago. Since then he has watched his customers struggle to survive in a market of online downloads and corporate dominance. And written a book about it…
The Heavy Sounds
Sun 10 Apr 2011We have a word with Clint Harris, owner of The Heavy Sounds in West End Arcade...
Jim Cooke of Selectadisc on Record Store Day
Sun 10 Apr 2011"The last few years at Selectadisc were awful, staff morale was crap...it was clear we had had it."
Interview: Richard Herring
Sun 10 Apr 2011From TV fame as part of Lee and Herring in the nineties to the comedy wilderness in the early noughties and back again; the career of Richard Herring has always been interesting. Over the last few years he’s become a regular on 6Music, a prolific podcaster and come to within an inch of winning Celebrity Mastermind. We caught up with him before his appearance at the Playhouse…
Interview: Alistair McGowan
Wed 06 Apr 2011Alistair McGowan is best known for his work as an impersonator on prime-time TV shows like The Big Impression and Spitting Image. But as well as being able to turn his tongue to just about anyone, he’s also an experienced actor and writer, having been awarded a BAFTA and nominated for an Olivier. So what’s he doing spending the best part of April in Notts you might wonder…?
Interview: Andy Barrett
Fri 01 Apr 2011Andy Barrett has been creating community drama events and site-specific performances in Notts for years, as well as writing plays such as Garage Band and a musical about Dolly the sheep. We caught up with him as he prepared for the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival (NEAT).
Interview: Writing East Midlands
Fri 01 Apr 2011As the Cleggeron takes a hatchet to the arts we decided to have a chat with Henderson Mullin, head of Writing East Midlands (WEM), to see how his organisation may be able to help local writers survive difficult times...
LeftLion Magazine #40
Fri 01 Apr 2011Featuring William and Kate's Royal Wedding, Record Store Day, Royal Gala, Alistair McGowan, Andy Barrett, Richard Herring, Writing East Midlands and more...
Interview: Billy Ivory
Wed 23 Mar 2011"You can’t take wide shots of the countryside around Eastwood without Ikea getting in the way"
LIVE: Liam Bailey
Mon 14 Mar 2011A Sunday afternoon in mid-March and a busking session on Chapel Bar
May Contain Notts: Feb-March 2011
Fri 11 Mar 2011Mark Kennedy, pe crematoriums, Operation Mansfield, lizard dragons in the loft and the ongoing saga of Broadmarsh vs Viccy Centre
Interview: Don McCalman
Fri 04 Mar 2011Don McCalman worked through the dark ages of Nottingham nightlife; a time when door staff were bouncers, a lobbing down a flight of stairs was an acceptable way to deal with an errant customer and the profession was completely unregulated. Then he wrote a book about it...
Nottdance 2011
Sun 27 Feb 2011Nottdance, run by terpsichorean titans Dance4, is one of the longest-running dance festivals in the UK. To celebrate the festival's 21st birthday, Dance4 is laying out the biggest series of events yet and, according to Chief Executive and Artistic Director Paul Russ, nowhere is off-limits...
Interview: Ace Bhatti
Tue 22 Feb 2011With an acting career that has already taken in the likes of Cardiac Arrest, Emmerdale, Bend It Like Beckham, Band Of Gold, Coronation Street and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Ace Bhatti – from the extremely North London borough of Sneinton - is the newest cast member of EastEnders…
Interview: Gruff Rhys
Fri 18 Feb 2011Gruff Rhys is best known as the singer of the Super Furry Animals, but he’s also a documentarian, solo artist and plastic bottle modeller. Guess which one of those skills he’ll be demonstrating at the Glee Club this month?