Site search

Nusic Future Session: Dollie Demi

One of Nottingham's finest up-and-comers did a music with the organisation championing the newbies...

Happy 230th Birthday Lord Byron! Here, Have a Beer.

Monday 22 January 2018 marks the 230th anniversary of the birth of Nottingham’s most notorious literary legend, the mad, bad and dangerous to know poet, Lord Byron...

Go on a Literature-Themed Pub Crawl in Notts

From the workplace and playground of Sillitoe’s Arthur Seaton, to the backdrop for DH Lawrence characters’ racy goings-on, Nottinghamshire is rich with literary connections. It’s also pretty well renowned for its pubs...

Live Music Review: Cute Owl Festival at The Maze

A brand new intimate festival of live electronic music with a variety unusual musical instruments...

Music Video: Haggard Cat - American Graffiti

After making their names in their previous act, the acclaimed UK hardcore band Heck, vocalist/guitarist Matt Reynolds and drummer Tom Marsh aim to carry that same attitude and fire over to Haggard Cat...

Cappo on the Importance of Lyricism in Hip Hop

The Notts veteran explains what wordsmithery means to the art form

Young Carers Photograph Nottingham

Over the winter holidays, young carers took part in a photography workshop, thanks to Create’s national inspired:arts programme, and here are the results…

Finding Nana: Playwright Jane Upton on The Journey Behind Her Play

When Notts playwright Jane Upton went to the Isle of Wight to reconnect with childhood memories of her Nana, her whole life changed. As her play Finding Nana comes to Nottingham for the first time next month, Jane talks about the inspiration behind the work...

Film Review: Coco

After a bumpy last few years, we went to see if Coco was a return to form for Pixar...

Film Review: Darkest Hour

Gary Oldman superbly evokes the sharp wit and strong defiance of the wartime leader in Joe Wright’s latest film…

A Bookseller in Notts

The latest in our series takes a look behind the scenes in one of Nottingham's book shops...

Getting Published with NTU's MA Creative Writing Course

Kim Slater talks about what she gained from her time at Nottingham Trent University...

Film Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Written and directed by In Bruges' Martin McDonagh, and with a cast that includes Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and Peter Dinklage, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has been tipped to be the big winner at this year's Academy Awards... but is it actually any good? 

Shreya Sen-Handley's Memoirs of My Body: An Extract

"On top of boobs that bounce unhelpfully, wombs that immobilize once a month and bums that can’t be squeezed into, well, anything – tight spaces, tight pants – must we also have masses of hair obscuring our vision, tripping us up, yanked out by Baby, and the dickens to maintain?"

Nusic Podcast #170 with Rob Green, Babe Punch, Tusk, Congi and more...

Film Review: The Greatest Showman

Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams team up for the all signing, all dancing biopic of circus pioneer P.T. Barnum

Let's Talk About Loss

When Beth Rowland lost her Mum a couple of years ago, she felt there was nowhere she could go to make sense of her grief. Now she’s on a mission to ensure that doesn't happen to others...

Film Review: Hostiles

Scott Cooper's dark Western odyssey, starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi has been one of the best received films of its genre in recent years.  We went to see if it was worth all the hype...   

Looking Back to When the Darts Came to Nottingham

As the British Darts Organisation World Darts Championship takes place at the Lakeside Country Club in Surrey, we look back to the first ever World Championship, which was held right here in Nottingham. Get yer arrers ready

John Harvey's Not Tommy Johnson: An Extract Taken from Going Down Slow and Other Stories

"A wall-eyed mongrel barked as he entered, hackles raised, then backed away, growling, from the kick that failed to follow"

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Plenty to be gerrin on with...

10 Nottingham Women in Literature

Mention Nottingham’s literary heritage and people often cite Byron, Lawrence or Sillitoe. But our female writers are equally as rebellious and ground-breaking. Margaret Cavendish was one of the earliest science fiction writers; Lucy Hutchinson was the first female writer of an epic English poem; Ada Lovelace is credited as the first computer programmer; suffragist, Alice Zimmerman, worked as a writer and translator; and Alma Reville was an influential screenwriter. In more recent times, Nottingham has been home to one of Britain’s funniest authors, Mhairi McFarlane; Pippa Hennessy played a key role in our successful bid to become UNESCO City of Literature; and Sandeep Mahal took up her position as its first director last year. Up the women. Here’s ten more who’ve contributed to Nottingham’s incredible literary landscape...

Rock Duo Haggard Cat Sign Deal with Earache Records

Big news for metal heads...

Left Panther: Nottingham Panthers News & Updates

The Panthers didn't have a particularly happy Christmas, was it too many mince pies? Our Sally gives us the low down

Sam Craven Talks Vertex Soccer and Helping Young Footballers

What happens when a youngster gets released from a football club? There was a time when all those years of hard work could have gone to waste but now thanks to Vertex Soccer, founded by former Notts County youth player Sam Craven, these players can now get a second chance.