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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...
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Clearing The Gap: Nottingham Skateboarders on Why Age Means Nowt
Mon 24 Sept 2018On the face of it, skateboarding can seem scary; like some secret club you can only join with a kickflip password. But it’s for anyone and everyone, no matter how old you are. There’s no line that says you can’t be a part of the culture.
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Why Nottingham Needs Skateboarding
Sat 08 Sept 2018Nottingham is one of the original homes of UK skateboarding with a large skate community that helps feed the city’s art, music and fashion scenes with a DIY sensibility. Skate Nottingham are a not-for-profit community organisation dedicated to changing perceptions of skateboarding and raising its profile as a positive, healthy culture and community that can help the city we love become more active and inclusive.
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Liam Bailey Talks Depression, His New Single and Touring with Paloma Faith
Tue 10 Jul 2018Liam Bailey is a singer-songwriter from Nottingham, loved for his jazz and blues-style sound. Best known for his collaborations with DJ Fresh and Chase & Status, his reggae undertones have seen him dubbed as the young Bob Marley. But with over a decade of musical endeavours under his belt, this guy’s sound is as varied as they come.
Things are heating up once again for Liam. With a host of new music, collaborations and tours with Paloma Faith coming up, his diary is jam-packed. After we managed to wake him up from his McDonalds-induced nap, we caught up with Liam ahead of the release of his newest single.
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Theatre Review: Flashdance the Musical
Tue 08 May 2018There’s a rift in space and time leading back to the 1980s...
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6 Reasons to Get Yourself Down to the Nottingham Canal
Mon 09 Apr 2018Nottingham provides plenty of natural beauty. There’s the deer-filled grounds of Wollo Park, the city’s oldest public park The Arboretum, and the lakes of Colwick County Park, to name just a few. But there's another top contender for the list: Nottingham & Beeston Canal. Here are a few reasons why everyone should be checking out this waterway…
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10 Nottingham Pubs Where You Can Get Your Game On
Tue 27 Feb 2018We checked out the ancient, the retro and the downright filthy. Get right competitive with your mates, just try not to punch each other...
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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.
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6 Games to Play with the Family This Christmas
Wed 20 Dec 2017Christmas is a time of love, joy and wonder. And blazing rows with estranged relatives and late-afternoon boredom. Find remedy for the latter and fuel for the former in this article, as this year, we're gifting you with a comprehensive list of the only games you'll wanna play this December 25...
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Theatre Review: Five Years
Wed 11 Oct 2017A story of coming of age in the 90s raises the curtain on the Playground festival.
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10 Reasons to Visit the Nottingham Spiegeltent This Year
Mon 02 Oct 2017In October, Old Market Square once again plays host to the magnificent Spiegeltent for a festival full of merriment. These glitzy pavilions were a popular haunt during the twenties to help people forget all the doom and gloom brought by the war, and now it’s returning to Nottingham to brighten up our dull and dreary October days. Here are ten reasons you should get yersen down to the tent as soon as possible.
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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.
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11 Tattoos and Why You've Got 'Em
Sat 26 Aug 2017We asked your lot to tell us about your inky endeavours, from the great to the gutterous, and here are the results...
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Celebrating Women in Punk at The National Video Game Arcade
Wed 23 Aug 2017A night of exploring women's role in British punk...
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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...
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Why We Love Nottingham Cattle Market
Tue 13 Jun 2017If you’re looking for something, you’ll definitely find it down the Cattle Market. Unless it's cows you're after...
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We held a Purple Party, this is why you should too
Tue 09 May 2017Monday 22 - Sunday 28 May is Nottinghamshire Hospice Big Purple Party Week, find out how to get involved!
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High Stakes and Sportswear at Poetercize! the Poetry Game Show
Mon 24 Apr 2017Scores were settled and mischief was made at Rough Trade this Saint George's Day, but which of our contestants won the championship title in this zany gameshow? We sent LP Mills to the hottest sporting event in Nottingham to find out.
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Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival
Sat 22 Apr 2017Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...
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Happy 1st Birthday to Board Game Cafe Ludorati
Tue 21 Mar 2017While café culture has never really taken off in the UK, mainly due to our notoriously inconsistent weather, board game café culture is making big strides. While pubs such as the Malt Cross and BrewDog have always had board games in them, and some places even have board game nights, the last couple of years have seen the opening of two dedicated board game cafes in Nottingham. With Ludorati recently celebrating being open for a year, I headed off on a grey, drab Sunday afternoon with a few friends to see if board games have really shed their boring image…
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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.
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6 Places to Get Your Game on in Nottingham
Wed 14 Dec 2016After hosting the annual GameCity festival for all these years, Nottingham has exploded with places to get your game on. Here, we offer up the list of places you can twiddle your thumbs...
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German Board Game Designer Reiner Knizia Visited Ludorati Cafe
Wed 09 Nov 2016He’s had over 600 games published, won several 'Game of the Year' awards, and has made some of the best-selling games of the last twenty years. Modern board games are all a bit different from playing Monopoly with your nan at Christmas, so when Reiner Knizia visited Ludorati, the board game café on Maid Marian Way, Gav Squires sat down with him to talk about all things board game...
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Hockley Hustle in Pictures - Wired, Homemade, Edins, The Lofthouse, Game City and Lee Rosy's
Tue 11 Oct 2016With Alex Milne, Motormouf, Ling Peng, Stacey McMullen, The Age of Stella, 3 Body Trio, Lowrie, and loads more
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Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey
Mon 22 Aug 2016Whenever I became Lyanna, it didn’t feel weird telling these grown men what to do.
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