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Daudi Matsiko Talks Underwater Gigs at The Red Bull Music Academy

With his beautifully honest songwriting, Daudi Matsiko has carved a name for himself as one of Nottingham’s standout musicians. The last twelve months have been huge for him: signing to the legendary Naim Records, touring with Keaton Henson, and gaining a spot in the Red Bull Music Academy’s training camp for musicians. We spoke with Daudi about these life-changing experiences, plus his love of a good firehose shower...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket June Roundup

Our Gav gives us the cricket rundown of the month past...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Up, up and away, Hoodtown...

LeftLion Magazine #91

Featuring Dinosaurs of China, Sheep Soup, Mime Industries, Debbie Bryan, Daisy Godfrey, Nottingham drag queens, the Notts LGBT+ network and Earache Records...

Art Works: Saffron Bramley-Astle

The Nottingham Trent University graduate on her Ziggy Stardust Tribute Costume...

Declan James is Squashing His Competition

Squash isn’t all about city types taking out the frustrations of failed business deals on little rubber balls. It’s a fun, energetic, social sport, and one in which Notts is lucky enough to stake claims to a rising star. Declan James invited us to his fancy club in The Park at the end of his season to talk about his recent appearance in the British Open, his England call-up, and why more people should be picking up a racket and getting a sweat on down their local squash club…

Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Loads of charitable occasions to be getting on with, this week...

Hoodwinked: A Robin Hood Treasure Hunt Around Nottingham

Get geared up for 2018, when we'll be seeing all kinds of mysterious, hooded creatures knocking about...

The Particle Beast book launch at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio

Nottingham based author, Ian Douglas, explores life on Mars in the third instalment of his teen sci-fi adventure. We headed down to the book launch at NWS, where Douglas spoke about what’s in store for Zeke Hailey in this gripping nigh-apocalyptic tale…

Theatre Review: The Addams Family

Our favourite spooky family are back in a morbid musical

Theatre Review: Nonsuch presents The Party's Over at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

We got down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest offering from local heads Nonsuch...

Rest in Style, the Rock City Nottingham Graffiti Wall

Writers have been throwing up pieces on the wall next to Rock City for over a decade. Recently, the bogger was demolished, so local artist Onga gives us a bit of background to the Notts graffiti scene, and what the art form means for hip hop in the city...

Nusic Advice: Getting Your First Radio Plugger

Some more advice for up and coming musicians, from Nottingham's finest...

Golesedi at Lady Bay Arts Festival

Right then, we're right in the middle of festival season and our vlogger Golesedi and her mate Mark ditched the wellies, booze and music for tea, cakes and art at Lady Bay Arts Festival...

Theatre Review: MissImp Present Millions of Voices

Join Miss Imp for the touching story of a Twilek's erotic adventures

In Focus: Emily Catherine

Hip hop head and scribbling sensation Emily Catherine can be found in every arty corner of Nottingham city. Having worked alongside Risograph stalwarts Dizzy Ink, as well as poetry publishing house Mud Press, our Emily knows a thing or two when it comes to beautiful creations. The absolute badgyal is a specialist in hand-drawn and hand-painted pieces, but here she swaps the art utensils for a camera to answer our questions in photographic form...

Get Drunk and Draw over at Rough Trade

We wanted to know a little more about that there art event...

Neil Fulwood talks about the making of his debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It

“The poems are entirely personal expressions. There’s nothing owed, no debt to anybody else’s artistic legacy”

Theatre Review: Comedy Summerslam

Can white people enjoy black comedy?

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

No time to chill, there's things to do...

The Best in the Independent Biz

Ears to the ground, it's all kicking off...

Poet Panya Banjoko on Nottingham’s First Young Poet Laureate

Panya Banjoko, aka Panya The Poet, is a Nottingham-based writer who’s performed at the 2012 Olympic Games, as part of the award-winning film Brit I Am directed by Andi Osho, and as part of a BBC documentary based on the Olympian Jamie Baulch. On top of all this, her work has featured in various journals and publications, including Guardian Award-winning online graphic novel Dawn of the Unread, and she’s the co-founder of Nottingham Black Archive. We steadied ourselves, and had a chat with the local legend...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Come rain or shine, there's plenty of stuff to do this weekend...

Live Music Review: Kraftwerk At The Royal Concert Hall

The electronic music legends brought their 3D techno pop to Nottingham…