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Interview: Rankin
Fri 18 Jul 2014Rankin is a portrait and fashion photographer behind the inception of magazines Dazed and Confused, Another and Hunger. Throughout his career, he’s pointed his lens at a dream list of celebrities, including Madonna, Kate Moss and David Bowie. He even got the Queen to crack a smile. As part of the Museums at Night project, he came to St Ann’s Allotments to shoot the people who call it a home away from home. We popped down to the event and caught a few words of wisdom from the mononymous man...
Interview: Nottingham Outlaws
Wed 25 Jun 2014Nottingham Outlaws are one of the Midlands’ top rugby league clubs, boasting more than 200 players across their various senior, academy and junior teams. We caught up with captain and prop forward George Strachan, and committee member and club stalwart Richard Johnson, to talk club history and explain the difference between league and union, as well as bus fires, boozing and bingo...
Interview: John Blanche, The Seminal Art Director of Games Workshop
Wed 06 Nov 2013A 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...
Interview: Bongo Bongo
Sun 24 Feb 2013Sophie Johnson-Hill and Rebecca McGlone spend their time dancing with kids and living in a big cloth house under the guise of Bongo Bongo, children’s entertainers extraordinaire. They’re also about to release Incy Wincy Boom Box - possibly the best LP you’ll hear out of Notts this year...
Art Works: Eva Brudenell
Fri 15 Feb 2013"Over the last year the iconic buildings I’ve drawn have included Home Ales in Daybrook, Shipstones Brewery in Basford, and Victoria Baths in Sneinton"
Interview: John Newling
Sat 09 Feb 2013After three years of pulling in art from all over the world, Nottingham Contemporary have finally handed their main space to a locally-based artist. John Newling has produced works in hotels, swimming pools, burnt-out cars and on the streets of Los Angeles and New York. So what does he have lined up for his adopted home town?
Interview: The Austin Francis Connection
Wed 02 May 2012The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...
Interview: Johnny Crump
Wed 02 Nov 2011Johnny Crump is a turntablist-stroke-producer-stroke-artist who be flexing his considerable skills live at our Gunpowder, Treason and Pot night at Nottingham Contemporary this November…
Interview: John Robertson
Wed 15 Dec 2010John Robertson was your archetypal terrace favourite for over a decade at Forest. In part it was because he obviously liked his pies, pints and fags, but mainly for providing the cross that Trevor Francis got on the end of in 1979, the goal that beat Hamburg in 1980, and all those photos of kids holding up the European Cup in Nottingham pubs thirty years ago.
Interview: Nick Parkhouse
Mon 09 Aug 2010Frustrated by the narrowing of the eighties pop canon to the Wham-Spands-Duran triumvirate, Nottingham writer Nick Parkhouse has published 101 Forgotten Pop Hits of the 1980s...
Interview: Sticky
Mon 07 Jun 2010"Your body is a temple. But it’s the only temple where you have to wear your trainers"
Interview: Johnny Vegas
Fri 04 Dec 2009"There was a night in Nottingham where I was singing in a wheelie bin, being passed around the tables like pass the parcel"
Interview: John Knight
Sat 01 Aug 2009John Knight’s era-spanning work encapsulates the fragile beauty of Pre-Raphaelite art with cutting-edge photography, creating a fascinating twist on art history...
John Harvey Interview
Mon 01 Jun 2009"My style probably owes more to Hemingway than any other single writer, though I’ve tried hard to crib the art of dialogue from Elmore Leonard"
Interview: Swimming
Wed 01 Aug 2007"After branching out from recorder club I got really into making weird and wonderful sounds and writing songs."
Interview: Zoe Johnston
Sun 01 Jul 2007Zoe Johnston spent over a decade in electronica with the likes of Above and Beyond, Bent and Delerium. We found out what she's up to now...
Miles Hunt: A Letter to John Lydon
Tue 01 Aug 2006"You are the one male that has affected my life, outside of family members, more than any other"
Interview: John Newling
Sat 01 Apr 2006John Newling's name is known all around the world, but he currently resides in his hometown of good old Notts. We had a chat about his passion for art
Interview: Sophie Johnson-Hill
Mon 27 Sept 2004"Everyone from OutDaVille was so passionate about music that it didn't matter where I was from"
Interview: Johnny Vegas
Wed 17 Mar 2004Johnny Vegas played at Just The Tonic this weekend. Last time he was in Nottingham we interviewed him...