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Bluebird Tea Co
Tue 10 Dec 2013Forget your Tips and your Twinings, tea is heading down the hippy trail and gathering herbs, roots, fruits and flowers along the way. Bluebird Tea Co’s Krisi and Mike are tea mixologists who are ahead of the game with brews that are making people sit up and get the kettle on.
Ray Gosling's Final Interview (1939-2013)
Wed 20 Nov 2013Over 1,000 radio documentaries and 100 for the telly. A pioneer of gay rights. Community activist. Anarchist. University drop-out published by Faber in his early twenties. Ray Gosling has spent his entire life fighting the system and standing up for ordinary people. Then it all went horribly wrong after that confession on live television. Suddenly people forgot half a century of broadcasting. It’s time to remember.
Interview: Susan Beecroft
Thu 14 Nov 2013The Thompson Brothers may think that they’re Nottingham’s most devout Royalists, but they’ve got competition from local children’s author Susan Beecroft...
The Art of Kneel Before Zod
Thu 14 Nov 2013A selection of The Kneel Before Zod Video Club of Nottingham Club's finest poster art to celebrate their third birthday
Interview: Richard Whitehead
Wed 13 Nov 2013Born without legs, Lowdham’s Richard Whitehead was encouraged by his parents to play sport as a way of integrating. He now holds world records for full and half marathon and 200 metre distances, and can give able-bodied athletes a bloody good run for their money. After winning gold at the London Paralympics he set himself the challenge of running from John O’Groats to Land’s End, completing forty marathons in forty days. We caught up with him when his tour passed through his home town...
Jake Bugg secret gig at The Maze
Sat 09 Nov 2013Our very own answer to Bob Dylan went back to where he started as a fifteen-year-old playing Nottingham's most exclusive gig of the year
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: Luke Pearson On Hilda
Mon 04 Nov 2013Luke Pearson is an illustrator, cartoonist and comic book artist and not only is he mint at drawing, he can write a bit too. We love him most for Hilda, a series about a young girl who goes on loads of adventures and ends up dossing about with a guy made of wood, a dog with antlers, and a city full of dwarves. You get the picture…
Annie's Haunted Shack
Thu 31 Oct 2013This July saw Warner Brothers release The Conjuring, a haunting tale of a family’s move to a dilapidated Rhode Island farmhouse; who then sought the help of notorious paranormal investigators, the Warrens. Annie Spaziano, who runs the brilliant Annie’s Burger Shack, moved to the house with her family after the film’s events took place. Her parents still live there now, but their lives have been changed since the film came out, and not in a good way...
Mayhem Film Festival 2013 Preview
Wed 30 Oct 2013Mayhem Film Festival has been striking fear, and laughter, into the hearts of cinema goers for over eight years with line-ups rammed to the bloody hilt with exclusive screenings and cult classics. We spoke to directors Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil, the men who control an audience’s heart rate for four full days...
Art Works: Tom Stoker
Thu 17 Oct 2013"I’m a perfectionist - I think it’s something to do with being a Virgo - once I start I won't stop until the piece is completed"
Interview: Tindersticks
Thu 10 Oct 2013One of the three founding members lives in Prague, another in Antwerp, another in France, and they collectively left town over twenty years ago. Yet to many, Tindersticks are still seen as a Nottingham band. Ahead of the release of their tenth studio album, Across Six Leap Years, keyboardist Dave Boulter talks to us about the band’s roots, and about their recent re-invigoration of some old favourites...
Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend
Sun 06 Oct 2013He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.
Nerd Fest Preview
Thu 03 Oct 2013We’ve got a world-class comic book shop in the form of Page 45, but artist Kev Brett decided to up Nottingham’s graphic novel game and put us on the map as a comic convention hotspot with Nerd Fest, a very spectacular convention...
Interview: Mother Nottingham Su Pollard
Thu 26 Sept 2013For the last decade she’s been our unofficial mascot. Su Pollard, or ‘Mother Nottingham’ as we like to call her. She made her name in TV series like Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M’Lord? She even got to number two in the UK singles charts in 1986 - a time when that actually meant something. She’s coming home this December as Theatre Royal have confirmed her for this year’s panto. We finally hooked her up with Nottingham’s Mr Sex...
Interview: Samantha Morton
Wed 25 Sept 2013She’s starred opposite the likes of Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise, been directed by Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg and won a BAFTA for her 2010 directorial debut, The Unloved. Samantha Morton is now an international star; not bad for a lass from Clifton who left school at thirteen...
Art Works: Rikki Marr
Wed 25 Sept 2013"It has a mix of sarcasm, silliness and seriousness. I think people recognise that as an element of the Nottingham identity"
Interview: The Petebox, Human Beatbox Sensation
Fri 20 Sept 2013Nottingham’s Pete Sampson, aka Petebox, has been making music for about the same amount of time that LeftLion has been going. In that time he’s gone from playing small city venues to headlining festivals and being treated like a star in Abu Dhabi. Go on, son...
Nottingham by Balloon
Fri 20 Sept 2013Notts as seen from the baskets of our intrepid local balloonists
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: The Gorgeous Chans
Tue 27 Aug 2013Nusic’s Future Sound of Nottingham contest has helped break artists ranging from Dog Is Dead to Indiana. This year’s winners were the The Gorgeous Chans, an ensemble who have grown from six members to almost a dozen over the past year. We had words with Liam Gardiner (saxophone), Daniel Potts (drums) and Brandon Hill (guitar and vocals)...
Boomtown 2013
Tue 13 Aug 2013We went to Boomtown Fair with Notts bands Royal Gala, Seas of Mirth and Hallouminati
PHOTOS: Bug Art
Tue 13 Aug 2013Kids are learning about the wonderful world of bugs at Lakeside Arts Centre this week
Interview: Sheep Soup On Taking Mrs Green To Edinburgh
Sat 13 Jul 2013Two Television Workshop graduates are hoping to take Edinburgh by storm this year with a distinctive new musical