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Alan Sillitoe: His Final Interview
Mon 26 Apr 2010In the Summer of 2008 our Literature Editor James Walker met up with legendary writer Alan Sillitoe for a cuppa and a chat at Broadway. It was fifty years since his breakthrough novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning had been published, so we decided to devote a whole issue to this seminal work. At the time we didn’t realise this was the last interview he would ever give. It’s an honour to have had that privilege and to know that he read our magazine...
The Rebel Is In The Detail
Mon 19 Apr 2010"Robin Hood is a touchstone for English rebellion – the sense that there is a natural justice that can be fought for"
Bow Selector
Mon 12 Apr 2010“It’s time to reclaim him from shoddy tourist attractions and stupid fancy dress costumes and put him on the pedestal he deserves”
Interview: Michael Eaton on Fellow Traveller
Mon 05 Apr 2010"There’s nobody else who has spread across all the generations in so many forms"
Interview: The Swiines
Tue 16 Mar 2010"We'd like to give Nottingham a slap! Make everyone get up off their arses - no one’s allowed to stop in and watch Corrie"
Fight Club: Nottingham Cagefighters
Mon 22 Feb 2010"For the last few minutes I’m just buzzing to get in there, but that’s the whole fun of it. If you didn’t have that feeling then it wouldn’t mean anything"
Interview: Hot Chip
Mon 15 Feb 2010"I know that people always say this, but I mean it; I always like visiting Nottingham, I get a good feeling when I am there"
Interview: Red Rack'em
Tue 09 Feb 2010"I wasn't cut out for the corporate life and got the sack after a month. Years of unemployment, dance music and low-quality housing ensued."
Interview: Rebecca Dakin
Fri 05 Feb 2010"Obviously I was getting paid, but I spent quite a lot of time getting to know the person via email and phone conversations to check we were compatible"
Interview: Cassetteboy
Fri 05 Feb 2010"We’re pretty much only going to work in video from now on, partly because we’ve run out of ideas for albums"
Interview: Mark Steel
Mon 01 Feb 2010"I think what’s really lacking in society at the moment is organisation to protest. There are still people who feel resentment - but there’s no sense of strategy or organisation"
Interview: Sat Bains
Tue 26 Jan 2010"You should cook with a bit of love...a bit of skill and technique"
Interview: Scorzayzee
Fri 15 Jan 2010"There was no script at all. There was a plot outline from Shane, because we were playing characters in his film, but he didn’t give us any written dialogue"
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: Alex Farquharson
Sat 07 Nov 2009"Nottingham Contemporary will generate £1 million from day visits in our first season. So it’s an investment rather than a cost"
Marcus Clarke interview
Wed 04 Nov 2009Marcus Clarke left school with no qualifications. He is now a Bafta nominated puppeteer who prefers foam and fabric over rubber...
Interview: Mathew Horne
Sun 01 Nov 2009"A lot of people think I’m from Essex, because that’s where Gavin is from. I’m always very quick to point out that I’m a Midlander"
Interview: Bent
Wed 14 Oct 2009After four albums of aural euphoria, and a couple of years off, Nottingham's finest purveyors of electronica are back...
Interview: Mark Charan Newton
Sat 01 Aug 2009"People love to immerse themselves in secondary worlds. You'd be surprised, some series go on for ten books or more."
Interview: Dave Green from Nottingham Castle
Sat 01 Aug 2009"I think it’s really important to remember that not everything in a museum has to have a high value in terms of finance"
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...
Interview: Karizma
Sat 11 Jul 2009Karizma is playing the final LeftLion at Brownes this Friday. Here's an interview we did with him back in the day...
Interview: Questionmarc
Sat 06 Jun 2009“Smashing a window or kicking down a fence is vandalism. Raising a smile through an imaginative use of public space is creativity.”
Interview: Graeme Park
Mon 01 Jun 2009"I soon realised that by being a DJ, three nights a week, I was getting 25 quid a night extra"
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"