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Future Session 4 - The Afterdark Movement
Thu 28 Jul 2011The Afterdark Movement, a hip hop/funk band so diverse they even get AC/DC fans rocking out to them at acoustic shows
Splendour 2011 in photos
Tue 26 Jul 2011Pics from Sunday at Wollaton Park with Blondie, Scissor Sisters, Eliza Doolittle, Cast, Feeder and some great Notts bands
Preview: Splendour 2011
Thu 14 Jul 2011Splendour: A day-long chunk of festie goodness, without the massive mobile phone adverts. And tents left behind by gormless students that blow across a field and upset some cows. And being in a different postcode to the nearest decent bog. Our Music Editor marks your card for this year’s event…
Interview: Deborah Stevenson
Thu 07 Jul 2011Deborah Stevenson left London to study in Nottingham and find her feet as a festival organiser, founder of Mouthy Poets and one of the UK’s most exciting spoken word acts – all filmed by Channel 4 as part of their Year Dot project. One year after the cameras stopped rolling, she’s still going from strength to strength…
FSN in the Market Square
Tue 28 Jun 2011Eleven new Notts acts play right in the centre of town in the semi-finals of the Future Sound of Nottingham contest
Interview: Spotlight Kid
Sat 18 Jun 2011Taking in members from Six By Seven, Bent, Model Morning and The Kull, Spotlight Kid are about to drop a new LP and play at Glastonbury. And, according to drummer Chris Heath and guitarist Rob McCleary, they’re the cockroaches of the Nottingham music scene...
Interview: Patrick Smith of Veggies
Mon 06 Jun 2011If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, backin the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the SumacCentre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar debacle, and Mark Kennedy…
Interview: Darren Fletcher
Mon 06 Jun 2011Darren Fletcher is the Arnold lad who gets paid to go to the World Cup and the Super Bowl, gets his feet under assorted press boxes for Five Live, banters with the entire UK about footy and hosts the An Evening With... nights at the Approach. And he knows Robbie Savage...
Interview: Liam Bailey
Mon 06 Jun 2011He’s knocked about with Damian Marley and Aswad’s Brinsley Forde. His new album is produced by Salaam Remi, of Fugees and Nas fame. He’s been at No.5 with Chase and Status, he’s signed to Polydor, and Amy Winehouse has got his tea on. Yep, things have moved on a bit for Liam Bailey since he played LeftLion gigs back in the day, but he’s still proper Notts...
Interview: Tim Smith of Fourmost Films
Mon 06 Jun 2011Fourmost Films come from the Shop stable with a can-do attitude, a string of short films that have garnered attention from all over the place and a hunger to turn Nottingham into one of the hubs of the UK indie-film scene. Head honcho Tim Smith manages to drag his head from the edit suite long enough to spell out his masterplan…
Interview: Marcus Clarke
Mon 06 Jun 2011Marcus Clarke and his wife Helena Smee have spent the last twenty years in a Sherwood house full of dismembered body parts. Calm down, Officer – they’re only keeping their hands in as one of the UK’s foremost puppet-based production companies with a list of credits as long as, well, your arm…
Last Shop Standing
Sun 10 Apr 2011Graham Jones has probably visited more record shops than anyone else on planet earth. He started working as a distributor for Proper, the largest independent music distribution company in the UK, over two decades ago. Since then he has watched his customers struggle to survive in a market of online downloads and corporate dominance. And written a book about it…
The Heavy Sounds
Sun 10 Apr 2011We have a word with Clint Harris, owner of The Heavy Sounds in West End Arcade...
Jim Cooke of Selectadisc on Record Store Day
Sun 10 Apr 2011"The last few years at Selectadisc were awful, staff morale was crap...it was clear we had had it."
Interview: Alistair McGowan
Wed 06 Apr 2011Alistair McGowan is best known for his work as an impersonator on prime-time TV shows like The Big Impression and Spitting Image. But as well as being able to turn his tongue to just about anyone, he’s also an experienced actor and writer, having been awarded a BAFTA and nominated for an Olivier. So what’s he doing spending the best part of April in Notts you might wonder…?
Interview: Andy Barrett
Fri 01 Apr 2011Andy Barrett has been creating community drama events and site-specific performances in Notts for years, as well as writing plays such as Garage Band and a musical about Dolly the sheep. We caught up with him as he prepared for the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival (NEAT).
Interview: Ace Bhatti
Tue 22 Feb 2011With an acting career that has already taken in the likes of Cardiac Arrest, Emmerdale, Bend It Like Beckham, Band Of Gold, Coronation Street and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Ace Bhatti – from the extremely North London borough of Sneinton - is the newest cast member of EastEnders…
Interview: Gruff Rhys
Fri 18 Feb 2011Gruff Rhys is best known as the singer of the Super Furry Animals, but he’s also a documentarian, solo artist and plastic bottle modeller. Guess which one of those skills he’ll be demonstrating at the Glee Club this month?
We Sent Our Editor For Colonic Irrigation
Sat 05 Feb 2011"I’ve packed up fags and cut down on booze. It’s either give up chips or have a go on this. Sod it. Why not?"
Interview: Skiman
Sat 05 Feb 2011Daniel Waithe – otherwise known as Skiman – is a prodigy of Notts superproducers The Elementz, the latest in a long line of bar-spitting behemoths from the NG and the man behind dancefloor-destroying mixtape Afterdark. And he’s still only 18…
Interview: The Soundcarriers
Mon 20 Dec 2010"We get bigger audiences outside of Nottingham, in places like Manchester, Sheffield and London, but it's starting to change"
Interview: Jeanie Finlay on Sound It Out
Thu 09 Dec 2010Originally from the North East, but now firmly established in Nottingham as both an artist and a film maker, both music and community have played a big role in Jeanie Finlay's work. Now the two come together for her latest project, Sound It Out - an observational, documentary portrait about Teeside's last surviving independent record shop...
Interview: Pete Davis - 'the Storyteller'
Sat 13 Nov 2010A former fireman turned storyteller who’s been entertaining locals for the past couple of decades with his unique tales of local life...
Interview: Portishead's Andy Smith
Mon 01 Nov 2010He put work in for Portishead back in the day. Now he’s on a mission to inject the timeless thunk of Northern Soul into your tabs at Moog
Sideshow 2010 Events
Tue 26 Oct 2010A guide to the fringe events of this years British Art Show, which are on right now in a place near you