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Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

Thu 19 Dec 2013

Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...

Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014

Tue 17 Dec 2013

Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more

Art Works: Angelo Murphy

Fri 13 Dec 2013

"The thoughts and inspiration behind the work for my show draws heavily on folklore and mythological themes; a rich quarry for any artist"

Interview: Ross Bradshaw from Five Leaves Bookshop

Thu 12 Dec 2013

We’re in the middle of a recession. People can barely afford to put on their heating let alone buy something as luxurious as a book. Yet Five Leaves publisher Ross Bradshaw has taken the brave decision to open an independent bookshop. Thank goodness someone has got some balls… and books.

Interview: Adam Dixon and Harry Martin from Beeston Hockey Club

Wed 11 Dec 2013

Local lad Adam Dixon and Ipswich import Harry Martin are midfield partners for current national champions Beeston Hockey Club, as well as international regulars for both Great Britain and England. We popped along to discuss nights out in Nottingham, the highs and lows of the Olympics, and those pesky Panthers...

Bluebird Tea Co

Tue 10 Dec 2013

Forget your Tips and your Twinings, tea is heading down the hippy trail and gathering herbs, roots, fruits and flowers along the way. Bluebird Tea Co’s Krisi and Mike are tea mixologists who are ahead of the game with brews that are making people sit up and get the kettle on.

Sharing Sherwood

Tue 03 Dec 2013

we’re a nation of worriers. Our food purchasing decisions and eating habits reflect this.

LeftLion Magazine #56

Sun 01 Dec 2013

With Saint Raymond, Kenneth Alan Taylor, Five Leaves Books, George Akins, Fists, old cinemas, Corey Neilson, Beeston Hockey Club and more...

Photos: Hello Gore - Dia de Meurtos

Sun 24 Nov 2013

Hello Gore took over Nottingham Contemporary to celebrate the Mexican festival, El Dia De Muertos

Interview: Yelena Popova

Fri 22 Nov 2013

After growing up in a Soviet Cold War town that wasn’t featured on any maps, Yelena Popova now puts Nottingham firmly onto the international art map, having recently shown work in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York and at the Saatchi Gallery. We caught up with the woman described as “one of the most exciting painters currently working in Britain” in her studio at Primary in the heart of NG7…

Ray Gosling's Final Interview (1939-2013)

Wed 20 Nov 2013

Over 1,000 radio documentaries and 100 for the telly. A pioneer of gay rights. Community activist. Anarchist. University drop-out published by Faber in his early twenties. Ray Gosling has spent his entire life fighting the system and standing up for ordinary people. Then it all went horribly wrong after that confession on live television. Suddenly people forgot half a century of broadcasting. It’s time to remember.

Interview: Mieke Tate

Tue 19 Nov 2013

Mieka Tate, formerly Meike Hink, is a three-time World Kickboxing Champion from the Netherlands who has called Nottingham home for the best part of two decades. She has recently opened Aim High, a new martial arts school in the city, offering people the opportunity not only to learn how to fight, but also how to develop as a person...

Interview: Susan Beecroft

Thu 14 Nov 2013

The Thompson Brothers may think that they’re Nottingham’s most devout Royalists, but they’ve got competition from local children’s author Susan Beecroft...

The Art of Kneel Before Zod

Thu 14 Nov 2013

A selection of The Kneel Before Zod Video Club of Nottingham Club's finest poster art to celebrate their third birthday

Interview: Richard Whitehead

Wed 13 Nov 2013

Born without legs, Lowdham’s Richard Whitehead was encouraged by his parents to play sport as a way of integrating. He now holds world records for full and half marathon and 200 metre distances, and can give able-bodied athletes a bloody good run for their money. After winning gold at the London Paralympics he set himself the challenge of running from John O’Groats to Land’s End, completing forty marathons in forty days. We caught up with him when his tour passed through his home town...

The Gilded Merkin

Sun 10 Nov 2013

Cabaret tease action from Nottingham's quarterly burlesque fix at Glee

Jake Bugg secret gig at The Maze

Sat 09 Nov 2013

Our very own answer to Bob Dylan went back to where he started as a fifteen-year-old playing Nottingham's most exclusive gig of the year

Interview: John Blanche, The Seminal Art Director of Games Workshop

Wed 06 Nov 2013

A seminal artist who has defined the look of Games Workshop from its inception, art director John Blanche is worshipped by legion. Since joining the company in the late-seventies he has produced innumerable pieces of work that have sold millions of copies around the world. We talk reds and browns, small lead figures and how glam rock influenced him...

A Rough Guide to Nottingham's Games Workshop

Tue 05 Nov 2013

A company that has has captured the imagination of millions in its lifetime, Games Workshop is a recession-ignoring international institution that has its rather uniquely designed headquarters a stones throw from the QMC and University of Nottingham. We trace its impressive trajectory in popular culture.

Interview: Luke Pearson On Hilda

Mon 04 Nov 2013

Luke Pearson is an illustrator, cartoonist and comic book artist and not only is he mint at drawing, he can write a bit too. We love him most for Hilda, a series about a young girl who goes on loads of adventures and ends up dossing about with a guy made of wood, a dog with antlers, and a city full of dwarves. You get the picture…

Varial Magazine

Fri 01 Nov 2013

"I wanted to work with other photographers that were capturing these great images of Nottingham skateboarding, to see all our work together"

Annie's Haunted Shack

Thu 31 Oct 2013

This July saw Warner Brothers release The Conjuring, a haunting tale of a family’s move to a dilapidated Rhode Island farmhouse; who then sought the help of notorious paranormal investigators, the Warrens. Annie Spaziano, who runs the brilliant Annie’s Burger Shack, moved to the house with her family after the film’s events took place. Her parents still live there now, but their lives have been changed since the film came out, and not in a good way...

Mayhem Film Festival 2013 Preview

Wed 30 Oct 2013

Mayhem Film Festival has been striking fear, and laughter, into the hearts of cinema goers for over eight years with line-ups rammed to the bloody hilt with exclusive screenings and cult classics. We spoke to directors Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil, the men who control an audience’s heart rate for four full days...