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Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13

"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"

Interview: The Afterdark Movement

Your brand-new Future Sound of Nottingham winners and Splendour-openers spit bars, bend notes, chop beats, defy pigeonholing and kick arse. They’re the Afterdark Movement, and we managed to get two of them - Bru-C and Trekkah - to stand still long enough to hear their story...

Sound of the Lion #17,Sound of The Lion

With Sleaford Mods, Junkie Kut, Captain Dangerous, Felix, The Afterdark Movement, Moscow Youth Cult, 8mm Orchestra, Tribute To Nordberg, Russian Linesman, You Slut!, Natalie Duncan and We Show Up On Radar

Interview: Olympians Grace Carter and Tesni Ward

"When I was six, I told my teacher that I was going to be in the Olympics, and I would buy her a ticket"

A Canadian at the London 2012 Olympics

"I want to lose myself in the joyous atmosphere of the world’s middle class getting together to cheer on its fastest and best at throwing heavy objects"

Interview: Alan Moore

Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...

Interview: The Gramophones

The Gramophones: they’ve been from Lands End to John O’Groats by London Bus, microlight and even DeLoreans. Now they want to show you their holiday snaps in their brand new show, End To End, before they go back up North to Edinburgh for the Fringe. We spoke to Hannah Stone about what it’s like to live a road movie with your mates...

Stories From The Raleigh Factory

Walking straight out of school on Friday and into work on Monday. Grafting in a building the size of a small town. Workmates walking around with their giant appendages hanging out near machinery that could rip an arm off. Suicidal staff members helping themselves to cyanide. Mass copulation in the Pump Shop. Your workplace having its
own fishing pond and ballroom. If you weren’t around when Britain was the workshop of the world instead of its pound shop, only one word springs to mind when you read the tales of those who worked at Nottingham's iconic bicycle factory; Raleigh. 

Notts Property Graffiti Festival

"We’ve got a rich graffiti history here; we want to bring that back"

LeftLion Magazine #48

Raleigh, The Afterdark Movement, Alan Moore, Sleaford Mods, Forest and County previews, and some big London sports day rammel

Team NG: When To See Notts Olympians on TV

Notts athletes in the Olympics: when and where they'll be getting all sporteh...

May Contain Notts: June-July 2012

"It dawns upon me that I have spent the entire duration of an episode of Bullseye copping a feel of a husky’s breast implant"

Justin Fashanu: The Biography

The scar on Brian Clough’s career. The most disastrous non-Italian transfer in Forest’s history. The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The only Tricky Tree to knock about with Peter Tatchell. Is it time to reassess the life of Justin Fashanu? Yes, says biographer Jim Read…

Splendour 2012 gallery

Checkout the photos from our roving band of photographers

Batman: A Retrospective

With The Dark Knight Rises about to explode, we trawl through the history of Batman films...

Preview: Splendour 2012

A day of fun and music, set in Batman’s back garden...

Interview: Natalie Duncan

Natalie Duncan held down a bar job at The Bell, but she couldn’t hold back her incredible voice. Now she’s signed to a major label, has dropped an astonishing debut single in Sky Is Falling, and is set to release her first LP in July. We think she’s on the verge of something massive...

Small Theatre Groups of Nottingham

From A (for Actors Workshop) to Z (for Zoo Indigo)

The Waterfront Festival 2012 in photos

We announce the total raised for charity and look back on a great day out with hundreds of photos

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...

Poddingham #26: Summertime,Poddingham

Art Works: Michael Cowell

"There is nothing more satisfying than lifting the screen off that final print to discover that you actually got most of them right"

The Best Caves in Nottingham

The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey

King Bong: The Xylophone Man

Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?

Art Works: The Shopping List Project by Rosie MacLennan

"There is something so precious about this casually discarded piece of life detailing so much about a household’s existence, it’s an incredible celebration of the routines of life"