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Nottingham BID on Their Five Year Plan for Nottingham Businesses
Sun 08 Nov 2020After securing an overwhelming victory in the recent ballot, Nottingham Business Improvement District is set to continue supporting businesses in the city for at least another five years. We caught up with BID Manager Lucy Stanford to find out more about their plans for the future…
Nusic Advice Video: Five Branding / Social Media Strategies for Musicians
Fri 06 Nov 2020Nusic's last branding video told you why it's important - this one tells you specific actions and strategies you can take to up your social media / branding game. No better time than lockdown 2, ay?
Left Brian: Hang on, Here's Another Five Reasons...
Fri 11 Oct 2019As if he'd do a top five without mentioning the Carabao Cup?! Truth is, once we got Gareth Watts talking about Forest's key highlights this season, we couldn't shut him up - so her are another five.
Left Brian: Five Key Moments in Nottingham Forest’s Season So Far …
Fri 11 Oct 2019Our lad Gareth Watts gives us the low down on the season so far.
Top Five Godzilla Films to Watch After King of the Monsters
Fri 07 Jun 2019If King of the Monsters didn't quite quench your thirst for Godzilla goodness, fear not, we've got you covered for what to check out next...
Emily Leary on Her Cookbook Get Your Kids to Eat Anything and Her Five-phase Programme
Sat 13 Apr 2019Local woman Emily Leary has written Get Your Kids to Eat Anything to help parents do exactly what it says on the tin with her five-phase programme...
Interview: Rough Trade Nottingham Turns Five
Tue 09 Apr 2019It’s hard to remember Broad Street without Rough Trade as an occupant. The record store, bar and gig venue turns five later this year, and over the past half-decade has earned its stripes as an integral part of Nottingham’s music scene. We caught up with bar manager, Sam Allison, to talk Drag Bingo, Record Store Day, and footprints on the ceiling…
History of the Weird Midlands Episode Five: The Great Nottingham Curio Show!
Thu 04 Apr 2019Roll up, roll up! In the season two premiere, the gang take a look at the remarkable and infamous curiosity show, including exploitative entertainers of Goose Fair, the perennial jokester William Wallet, and the world-famous Joseph Merrick, A.K.A. the Elephant Man! Warning: Contains strong language and some serious spookiness.
Notts-based Metal Band The Five Hundred on Personal Demons, Moscow and Their Debut Album
Wed 27 Feb 2019Since forming in 2014, devastatingly heavy Notts-based metal outfit The Five Hundred are making their mark on the UK scene, with their unholy blend of crushing eight-string guitar breakdowns, soaring yet haunting vocal melodies and pummelling drums. Following the release of their EP, Mirrors, in 2015 and their debut album, Bleed Red, last year, the band have been picking up some serious momentum. We spoke to bassist Andy Crawford discuss their bleak lyrics, the current Nottingham metal scene and their plans for the future….
5 Films To See At Mayhem 2018
Wed 10 Oct 2018With the opening night drawing ever closer, our Screen Editor cast his wry eye over the Mayhem 2018 schedule to pick out five films you simply cannot afford to miss...
1st Blood Release Creativity Crisis After a Five-Year Album Hiatus
Tue 25 Sept 2018Pete Chilvers is the man behind Nottingham hip hop camp 1st Blood. His day-ones include Ty Healy, Louis Cypher, Liam Bailey and Cappo, to name just a few, and in his younger years he was under the wing of Bristolian monolith Tricky as a label signee. After a five-year release hiatus, 1st Blood have stuck a new album into the airwaves, so we thought we’d catch up with the man on the buttons...
Talent, Talks and Tapes at Five Leaves McGregor Launch
Wed 14 Feb 2018Not content to take it easy, author, storyteller, and long-time friend of the mag Jon McGregor has just released his new collection The Reservoir Tapes, hot off the heels of their initial airing on BBC Radio 4. Last Tuesday he made an appearance at Five Leaves Bookshop to launch the collection, so we thought we'd send our Chloe Campbell down to see what he had to say for himself.
Theatre Review: Five Years
Wed 11 Oct 2017A story of coming of age in the 90s raises the curtain on the Playground festival.
Michael Eaton Talks About Famous Nottingham Criminal Charlie Peace
Sat 23 Sept 2017The notorious burglar and murderer Charlie Peace used to live right here in Nottingham. On the back of a successful play about Peace, Michael Eaton has written a book about him and comes to the Five Leaves bookshop to talk about how Peace was portrayed in various media.
Five Leaves Bookshop Don't Know When Their Birthday Is
Wed 05 Jul 2017One of the highlights of Five Leaves Publications’ tenth anniversary was the argument between those present as to whether the anniversary was actually the eleventh or twelfth. We know for sure our twentieth anniversary was either 2015 or 2016. It certainly is not 2017. Either way, we forgot about it until LeftLion asked us what we’ve learned in two decades of publishing. What we’ve learned, is that we’re crap at anniversaries...
Read Nottingham Goth Bands' USA and Mexico Tour Diary
Mon 10 Apr 2017Midnight Configuration and Death Party UK recently had the opportunity to perform at the Los Angeles Gothic Festival and the Mexico City Goth Festival. Trevor Bamford from the bands tells us more...
Five Leaves Shortlisted for Independent Bookshop of the Year
Wed 01 Mar 2017Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham's radical and independent seller of paged goods, is on the shortlist for the regional round of the UK and Ireland Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, for the second year running. Gerrin.
The Diary of a Nottingham Man in Hong Kong
Mon 14 Nov 2016Nottingham’s best travelled writer, Ben Zabulis, discovers a culture so obsessed with reading they queue up overnight for the Hong Kong Book Festival…
Five Must See Acts at Dot To Dot Festival 2016
Sun 22 May 2016The multi-venue music-a-thon is just around the corner, and the army of up-and-coming bands and eager fans are ready to greet each other in over 30 venues across the city centre
Five Must See Acts at Handmade Festival 2016
Tue 26 Apr 2016We have picked over the line-up and highlighted the five performers we think you must go and see
Five Leaves Nominated for Independent Bookshop of the Year
Thu 25 Feb 2016“I’m quite prepared to be wrong, quite prepared to go bankrupt, quite prepared to have egg on my face, but I’d rather look silly and be wrong than not have a go”
Scalarama 2015: Week Five
Sun 27 Sept 2015A rundown of the final days of Nottingham's contribution to the unofficial month of film
Alan Kitching and Monotype: Celebrating Five Pioneers of the Poster
Fri 18 Sept 2015A legendary typographer is coming to town for an exhibition celebrating some of the world's most crucial scribblers
Precinct Seven Five
Wed 19 Aug 2015We review a documentary about a corrupt police precinct in eighties Brooklyn
Five Reasons You Should Go To Splendour 2015
Mon 13 Jul 2015The annual bash at Wayne Manor is now in its eighth year and shows no sign of slowing down