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Art Works: Jamie Gibson

Mon 10 Mar 2014

"I find that interesting people, from whichever field of work they are in, make better subjects"

Switch Studio Billboards

Fri 07 Mar 2014

It's time to wave goodbye to the artwork that's brightened up Huntingdon Street for the past three years

Made By Apprentices

Thu 06 Mar 2014

A set of artworks have sprung up around the Creative Quarter to celebrate National Apprenticeships Week

Nicola L Robinson spends her days drawing dragons, monsters, machines that don’t conform to health and safety standards, and scenes from beloved children’s stories. The Monster Machine, a book she both wrote and illustrated, was shortlisted for the Cambridge Children’s Picture Book Award. We dragged her away from claw and tooth littered desk to talk about her work.

Authors Favourite Kids Books

Tue 04 Mar 2014

"Which books rocked your world growing up?"

A History of Women and Feminism in Nottingham 1903-2014

Fri 28 Feb 2014

In Celebration of International Women's Day 2014, WoLAN take us through the history of women's rights in the 20th and 21st century and Nottingham's part in the movement...

Lamar Francois

Tue 25 Feb 2014

Feast your eyes on a collection from the Young Creative Awards 2012 Photography winner

In Focus: Arse Full of Chips

Thu 20 Feb 2014

The rudest named band in town are hanging up their instruments in an attempt to grow up. But not before having one last night of mayhem

Interview: Karl Hilton of Crytek UK

Tue 18 Feb 2014

Minding its own business on Canal Street is a games studio so inconspicuous that we had to stick our heads in to believe it. While we were there, Crytek UK’s Managing Director Karl Hilton talked to us about the industry, surprising uses for games development, and his work on some of the best-selling and most highly regarded first-person-shooters ever.

Retrograde

Mon 17 Feb 2014

A new short film from Nottingham filmmaker Jason Croxall about a young man struggling with amnesia

Major Oak Chorus

Wed 12 Feb 2014

"There is an amazing raw power in hearing a song come together by sixty or so enthusiastic blokes all singing their hearts out"

Art Works: Ethan-Carrick Maguire

Tue 11 Feb 2014

"As a twelve-year old from St Ann’s, living in the hood equips me with a passion to do well in life"

Interview: Airheads Inflatable Crowds

Thu 06 Feb 2014

What to do when you’re making a film and you need a few thousand people for a crowd scene. It’s a logistical nightmare that has plagued directors since the dawn of cinema. But not any more thanks to Airheads who have inflatable extras by the dozen and none of them will let you down…hopefully.

Paul Kaye on his love for Sid Vicious

Wed 05 Feb 2014

Sid Vicious was a sneering, violent, charismatic icon of an era of music that spoke to a disaffected generation. One of those he shouted loudly at was Paul Kaye, an actor and comedian who has graced our screens with his own alter-egos, including Dennis Pennis and Mike Strutter, as well as in dramas such as Game of Thrones and Waking The Dead. As the 35th anniversary of Vicious’ death approaches, he muses on the man and the legend...

The Return of Poddingham

Tue 04 Feb 2014

LeftLion's premier music show is back after a good long winter sleep, and boy is it refreshed

LeftLion Magazine #57

Sat 01 Feb 2014

Don't Flop, Youthoracle, NG83, Switch Studios, Arse Full of Chips, The Beards, Crytek, Danny John Jules, Paul Kaye on Sid Vicious and more

NTU Body Casting Course with Ken Clarke

Sat 01 Feb 2014

See how we got on at Nottingham Trent Uni's one day Body Casting course

Art Works: Martha Glazzard

Tue 28 Jan 2014

"I’m intrigued by how customs come about and whether they are still observed today"

M is for Merry Christmas

Fri 17 Jan 2014

This Nottingham short film will be included in the horror anthology, The ABCs of Death 1.5.

Interview: George Akins of Rock City

Thu 16 Jan 2014

George Akins lived the dream of every music-loving teenager when he was given the keys to Rock City as his eighteenth birthday present. Since then he’s taken it up a notch by adding more venues, a national promotions company and a roster of acts to his empire. By George, hasn’t he done well?

Nottingham Cinema History

Tue 14 Jan 2014

From his first experience of Saturday morning kids’ shows at the pictures, Rick Wilde became hooked on not only films but on how cinemas worked. Beginning his career in 1953 as a four teen-year-old, he worked as a projectionist until 2006. When he joined the business there was 52 picture houses around the city: from the crude conversions of the early 1900s, the gilded Victorian palaces of the 1910s, the art deco continentals of the 1930s, the sophisticated twin and triples of the 1960s and 1970s, to the multiplexes of today - he’s seen it all. A walking encyclopedia of Notts cinema shares his knowledge with us...

History of Nottingham's Savoy Cinema

Mon 13 Jan 2014

On 7 November 1935, the Savoy Cinema opened its doors to screen its first film, Flirtation Walk, a musical romance starring Dick Powell. It was likely that only the Lenton locals took any notice of this event because, at that time, there were 52 other cinemas in and around Nottingham. So if it wasn’t that extraordinary then, what is its place in Nottingham today? And how in Cockleman’s name has it survived so long when the others have not?