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Interview: Ferocious Dog
Fri 06 Mar 2015Few Notts bands can say they’ve sold out Rescue Rooms and The Bodega, let alone boast a Glastonbury headliner (we’re talking Pyramid Stage too, not Jethro’s Lentil Yurt Stage). Ferocious Dog can. Hailing from Warsop, they released their debut album in 2013 and are set to release their second. We had a natter with fiddle player and co-songwriter, Dan Booth.
Interview: Amber Run
Tue 06 Jan 2015The University of Nottingham-formed band Amber Run have been one of the city’s rising stars in recent months, releasing two strong EPs this year as well as touring, writing, and recording their debut album. Joe Keogh and Will Jones took time out of their busy schedule to tell us about their new music, performing, and baking...
Jeanie Finlay on Pantomime
Thu 18 Dec 2014Unenamoured with celebrity, Jeanie Finlay documents real people doing, well, real things - from goths to fibbing Scottish emcees, to the last of Nottingham’s lace manufacturers. In her latest film, she focused her lens on the Nottingham Arts Theatre’s panto, Puss in Boots, catching the triumphs and tragedies of the players who make Christmas magical for so many...
Interview: Anthony Hopwood Nottingham's Bicycle Boom Box
Tue 04 Nov 2014Anthony Hopwood is a hard man to miss. Partly because he’s a tall, beefy bloke with long hair, a beard and baseball cap, but mostly because he rides around town on a bike with a massive sound system thumping out dub reggae at high decibel levels...
The Hip Priests - Vodkacoma Casanova
Thu 14 Aug 2014Hot and sweaty rock n' roll taken from the band's latest album Black Denim Blitz
Live: Hip Hop All-Dayer 2014
Thu 31 Jul 2014Five films depicting the artform in its quintessential elegance along with panel discussions, workshops and, of course, break dancing
Nottingham Cinema History
Tue 14 Jan 2014From his first experience of Saturday morning kids’ shows at the pictures, Rick Wilde became hooked on not only films but on how cinemas worked. Beginning his career in 1953 as a four teen-year-old, he worked as a projectionist until 2006. When he joined the business there was 52 picture houses around the city: from the crude conversions of the early 1900s, the gilded Victorian palaces of the 1910s, the art deco continentals of the 1930s, the sophisticated twin and triples of the 1960s and 1970s, to the multiplexes of today - he’s seen it all. A walking encyclopedia of Notts cinema shares his knowledge with us...
Interview: Jon Burgerman on The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Wed 04 Sept 2013"I was excited when Jeanie told me about it. It’s a very intriguing tale. I kind of didn’t believe that it was true"
Jeanie Finlay on The Great Hip Hop Hoax
Tue 03 Sept 2013In 2003 Sony signed two Californian rappers, Silibil n’ Brains, to their label and hailed them as the next big thing. Friends with the likes of Madonna and tour buddies with Eminem, they seemed destined for stardom. The only problem was, it was all an elaborate lie: they were actually two lads from Dundee who had created fake personas after being ignored by the industry because of their Scottish accents. The Great Hip Hop Hoax is the documentary that tells their tale. We caught up with filmmaker Jeanie Finlay and collaborative illustrator Jon Burgerman to see how they went about separating the truth from the lie...
Interview: Fists
Fri 20 Apr 2012The on-their-own-terms, no-compromise, if-you-want-something-done-properly-do-it-yourself attitude of Fists has made them one of the most respected bands in town. We asked James Findlay and Angi Fletcher why it took ‘em so long to play a gig, and in which decade we could expect an LP...
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: MistaJam
Tue 10 Mar 2009"I've played in clubs around the world but nowhere quite matches the atmosphere of The Bomb as it was."
P Brothers
Mon 01 Dec 2008"You have to have a strong reason for putting any kind of music out there, don’t just dash it out for the sake of it!"
Interview: TY Chijioke
Tue 14 Nov 2006"I'm not here to make people feel sad or tell people that I'm the best. I'm here to help people to enjoy themselves..."
Interview: 1st Blood
Tue 01 Aug 2006This fresh and funky hip hop band have just been signed by Tricky and play LeftLion Presents at the Orange Tree on Saturday...
Interview: The Elementz
Thu 01 Jun 2006"One Christmas in a hall way in Bilborough, Little Zoutr played a Christmas carol on his brand new £5 Bontempi organ."
Ten Great Notts Radio Presenters
Wed 01 Feb 2006There's been plenty of great Notts chaps on the radio, don't you know?
Interview: The Elementz
Sun 02 Oct 2005"We bring something different to the table for each artist we work with. We see what identity they want to give a track, or if they just want us to go bananas."
Edward Hopper
Mon 13 Sept 2004When asked what it was he was trying to express with 'Sun In An Empty Room', Hopper simply replied "Myself"
UK Takeover
Sun 22 Feb 2004UK Takeover was cancelled last night because of police fears for public safety at the event.