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The Gorgons Talk Making Music
Mon 21 Aug 2017The Gorgons were in town to play the Fuzzbox night at The Angel Microbrewery. We sat down with them after their set for a little chat...
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Talking Diversity and Kemet FM's Tenth Birthday with Jackie P
Fri 18 Aug 2017Jackie P has been a radio DJ and presenter for over seven years. A stalwart of Nottingham’s music scene, she presents The Breakfast Show on Kemet FM, who’ve been celebrating their tenth birthday this year by hosting a series of events, with lineups boasting everyone from Bobby Valentino to Sweet Female Attitude. In celebration of the radio station that champions urban music and the culture of Nottingham’s African and Caribbean communities, we grabbed the legendary presenter for a natter about her place within the city’s institution...
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Filmmaker David Lilley Talks Crowdfunding for Socks & Robbers
Sat 29 Jul 2017David Lilley, the brains behind Broadway Cinema's bi-monthly Short Stack short film night, is looking to raise £5,000 through a Kickstarter campaign for his new film Socks & Robbers. Our Screen Editor, Ash Carter, talked to him about the project...
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Talk about the Refugee Crisis in the Countryside
Fri 07 Jul 2017Communities Inc. have got a great new project on the go; Walk the Talk...
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Daudi Matsiko Talks Underwater Gigs at The Red Bull Music Academy
Mon 03 Jul 2017With his beautifully honest songwriting, Daudi Matsiko has carved a name for himself as one of Nottingham’s standout musicians. The last twelve months have been huge for him: signing to the legendary Naim Records, touring with Keaton Henson, and gaining a spot in the Red Bull Music Academy’s training camp for musicians. We spoke with Daudi about these life-changing experiences, plus his love of a good firehose shower...
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Neil Fulwood talks about the making of his debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It
Mon 26 Jun 2017“The poems are entirely personal expressions. There’s nothing owed, no debt to anybody else’s artistic legacy”
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From Lithuania to Lenton: Stephan Collishaw talks fiction, education, and travel
Mon 19 Jun 2017Author, publisher, teacher and family man Stephan Collishaw has made a name for himself with his Lithuanian lit publishing press Noir, and his own thriller writing. We had him in for a chat about books, Lithuania and Nottingham with the editor of the NottsLit blog.
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Notts Film Collective Them Pesky Kids Talk Crowdfunding for Crime Short Ariella
Tue 13 Jun 2017Them Pesky Kids are a film collective from Notts. All Confetti students, the group are aiming to raise £10,000 through a Kickstarter campaign, to fund a new short, Ariella, and they're off to a decent start indeed. Our Screen Editor Ash Carter spoke to Them Pesky Kids' Michael Jobling about the project...
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Maria Toledo-Rodriguez Talks Fake News Ahead of Pint of Science Festival 2017
Fri 12 May 2017Last year, the international festival Pint of Science came to Nottingham for the first time. This year, it's coming back even bigger and better, with an additional emphasis on combining art and science. We sat down with one of the speakers, Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, to get the lowdown.
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Inflatable Structure Don Alan Parkinson Talks The New Luminarium Albesila at Highfields Park
Wed 10 May 2017Founded in Notts, Architects of Air are famous for globally touring their giant, colourful, inflatable structures you can wander around in, and they’re bringing their latest offering home at the end of this month – that’s right, the luminarium is back. This time, it’s the brand new Albesila that’s landed, just in time for Architects of Air’s 25th birthday. Our Mary Dansie got down to experience the trippy tunnels first hand, and had a chat with the creator Alan Parkinson...
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Talking Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Pub
Mon 08 May 2017PubhD. The evening that combines research with... pints. With the Lavender Language and Linguistics conference taking place in Nottingham, PubhD put on a special event, inviting some of the conference attendees to speak. The theme of the conference was Language, Gender and Identity, and each of the talks fitted into this theme...
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Talking About Mental Illness Must Be Normalised
Sun 07 May 2017Student Ben Lomas, 20, has lived with anxiety and depression since he was a child. We caught up with him in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week to talk about his own experience with mental health, in the hopes that it will encourage others to open up themselves.
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Kold Chillin' Talk Hip Hop Events at Rough Trade Nottingham
Thu 27 Apr 2017The legendary hip hop promoters fill us in on their events...
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Ocularist John Pacey-Lowrie Talks Making Artificial Eyes in Nottingham
Tue 25 Apr 2017John Pacey-Lowrie is the only ocularist in the whole of the Midlands. He’s spent forty years perfecting his craft, and people travel from all over the world to be fitted with one of his handmade, acrylic prosthetic eyes. He is constantly striving to make his prosthetics as realistic as possible and is currently at the forefront of the development of an artificial dilating pupil which reacts to light...
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Miner David Amos and Linguist Natalie Braber on Poetry in Pit Talk
Mon 24 Apr 2017If you don’t know your ‘elephant’s tab’ from your ‘Monday hammer’, fear not. Seventh generation miner David Amos and linguist Natalie Braber have all the gobbings you need to understand Pit Talk...
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Quiet Riot: The Poets Who Do Not Talk, But Have Plenty To Say
Fri 21 Apr 2017Nottingham’s Maresa MacKeith is a poet, educator, and member of the Quiet Riot collective – a group of wordsmiths who are unique in their literary plight, in that each member communicates nonverbally. We visited Maresa to find out more about creating poetry by tapping on a letter board, what it feels like to have it voiced by a personal assistant through facilitated communication, and the Notts launch of the Quiet Riot anthology at Sobar…
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Wired Cafe Talk Coffee Culture in Nottingham
Fri 14 Apr 2017Set up by Très and Vanessa Gretton-Roche in 2014, Wired was right at the front of Nottingham’s coffee shop revolution. We got the lowdown on their success...
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Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer
Tue 04 Apr 2017After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...
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Tommy Scott from Space Talks Playing Spanky Van Dyke's This Friday
Tue 04 Apr 2017Calling all Space cadets. We had a little chat with Tommy Scott, lead singer and lyrical master of the nineties-famous Liverpool legends Space, about the band’s new album, getting back together, their tip-top moments as a band and their upcoming gig in Spanky van Dykes...
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Comedy Writer Lee Stuart Evans Talks Debut Novel Words Best Sung
Tue 28 Mar 2017You may not instantly recognise his name, but Lee Stuart Evans has left his mark all over our telly boxes. Having written for shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, A League of Their Own, Live at the Apollo and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, he’s now turned his hand to novel writing. We spoke to him about his Nottingham-based debut, Words Best Sung…
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Autism East Midlands Talks Autism Awareness Week 2017
Tue 28 Mar 2017It's Autism Awareness Week this week, so we spoke to Autism East Midlands CEO Jane Howson about what they're getting up to for the next seven days and beyond...
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DJ Greyskull Talks Alternative Queer Night DirtyFilthySexy
Mon 20 Mar 2017Find out a little more about one of Nottingham's favourite events, full of drag queens, music and laughs...
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Electro-Pop Queen Ronika Talks New LP Lose My Cool
Thu 16 Mar 2017Ronika has been pumping out banging electro-pop for years. As she releases new album, Lose Your Cool, the Notts-raised songstress spoke to us from her London home, which we can only assume is a huge mirrorball-ed space palace in the capital’s trendiest ends…
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Max Cooper Talks Playing All Night Long for Wigflex at The Brickworks
Thu 02 Mar 2017Having been active on the electronic music scene for over ten years, Max Cooper is bringing his refined musical experience to The Brickworks this weekend as part of Wigflex. We put a few questions to the absolute don ahead of his all-night-long set on Saturday…
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De La Soul Talk Crowdfunding Their Latest Release
Thu 23 Feb 2017Since releasing their debut 3 Feet High And Rising in 1989, De La Soul have been hip hop pioneers. Eight albums and almost three decades later, they decided to forsake record labels and crowdfunded their latest release, and the Anonymous Nobody…, instead. We chatted to founder member Posdnuos about Kickstarter, guest vocalists and their upcoming Rock City gig…
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