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Interview: Manière des Bohémiens
Wed 28 Dec 2011French for ‘Manner of the Gypsies’, according to Babel Fish - Manière des Bohémiens' infectious, rapturous, blindingly improvised Romany swing music is massively popular in Notts...
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Interview: Captain Dangerous
Tue 27 Dec 2011"I made the mistake of getting drunk and inviting the whole bar back to mine. I hadn’t told my girlfriend and she was upstairs in tears being comforted by Dick Venom"
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Women in Nottingham Music
Sun 11 Dec 2011Lou Barnell from Royal Gala takes us through some of the female musical talent in Nottingham...
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Poddingham Presents... Nina Smith,Poddingham
Sat 10 Dec 2011An early Christmas present for you all, courtesy of the Poddingham team
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The Revamped Sneinton Market and Orchard
Thu 08 Dec 2011"Even if people don't respond to art, they can understand and enjoy an apple tree in blossom"
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Bantum TV: With Nina Smith and Lou from Royal Gala
Thu 08 Dec 2011What happens when Simeon Bantum, Jared LeftLion, Lou from Royal Gala and Nina Smith all get together in a girls toilet?
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Interview: Will Robinson of I'm Not From London
Wed 07 Dec 2011Riots, cagefighting, Hollywood actresses, ghost buses, Mexican wrestling and contracts signed in blood. It's all in a night's work for promoter Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London Label...
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LeftLion Photographer teams up with Paul Smith
Mon 05 Dec 2011Our boy David Baird creates limited edition series of music prints to be sold on the Paul Smith website in aid of The Music Exchange
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Interview: Nottingham Panther's Jeff Heerema and Rob Lachowicz
Wed 02 Nov 2011While Forest and County bumble along in their respective (lower) divisions, the most successful professional sports team in Nottingham quietly goes about its business of hoovering up trophies left and right – and this season they’re making a serious run at winning their first league title since 1955. They’re your Nottingham Panthers, and two
of them – right-winger Jeff Heerema from Thunder Bay, Ontario and left-winger Rob Lachowicz from Wollaton – had a word with us…
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Interview: Roxy Rob
Thu 08 Sept 2011You might know Robert Ivars Michailovs-Mètra as that bloke who walks up Mansfield Road as if he owns the place. You might think of him as a local fashion mogul who actually could have owned it, were it not for the drink. You almost definitely know him as Roxy Rob, and after you’ve read this, you’ll know a little bit more...
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Art Works: Tomas by Gillian Lee Smith
Sat 27 Aug 2011"The colours I use are always muted and aged; each piece has the look of something from a time gone by"
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Interview: Spotlight Kid
Sat 18 Jun 2011Taking in members from Six By Seven, Bent, Model Morning and The Kull, Spotlight Kid are about to drop a new LP and play at Glastonbury. And, according to drummer Chris Heath and guitarist Rob McCleary, they’re the cockroaches of the Nottingham music scene...
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Interview: Patrick Smith of Veggies
Mon 06 Jun 2011If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, backin the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the SumacCentre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar debacle, and Mark Kennedy…
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Interview: Darren Fletcher
Mon 06 Jun 2011Darren Fletcher is the Arnold lad who gets paid to go to the World Cup and the Super Bowl, gets his feet under assorted press boxes for Five Live, banters with the entire UK about footy and hosts the An Evening With... nights at the Approach. And he knows Robbie Savage...
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Interview: Tim Smith of Fourmost Films
Mon 06 Jun 2011Fourmost Films come from the Shop stable with a can-do attitude, a string of short films that have garnered attention from all over the place and a hunger to turn Nottingham into one of the hubs of the UK indie-film scene. Head honcho Tim Smith manages to drag his head from the edit suite long enough to spell out his masterplan…
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LIVE: Liam Bailey
Mon 14 Mar 2011A Sunday afternoon in mid-March and a busking session on Chapel Bar
You Terrible Cult!
Thu 30 Dec 2010We talk to author Colin Bacon about his new book on Vivian Mackerrell - the inspiration for Withnail and I
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Interview: John Robertson
Wed 15 Dec 2010John Robertson was your archetypal terrace favourite for over a decade at Forest. In part it was because he obviously liked his pies, pints and fags, but mainly for providing the cross that Trevor Francis got on the end of in 1979, the goal that beat Hamburg in 1980, and all those photos of kids holding up the European Cup in Nottingham pubs thirty years ago.
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Vivian Mackerrell: The Actor Who Inspired Withnail
Fri 19 Nov 2010Vivian Mackerrell was the jobbing actor who inspired the character of Withnail in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I. He lived much of his life in Nottingham. Here are some quotes about him from the people who knew him best...
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Interview: Portishead's Andy Smith
Mon 01 Nov 2010He put work in for Portishead back in the day. Now he’s on a mission to inject the timeless thunk of Northern Soul into your tabs at Moog
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Interview: Wellington Films
Wed 01 Sept 2010"People say about Unmade Beds that they’ve never seen London look so good – that’s because it’s Nottingham"
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Interview: Nina Smith
Mon 12 Jul 2010“The organiser of the event interrupted my set halfway through to ask if anyone had ordered a sausage cob“
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AFI live at Rock City
Fri 07 May 2010Alt-punk-hardcore band AFI were in Nottingham on their comeback tour, check out the photos
Tourist Trap or Soulless Crap?
Mon 12 Apr 2010"The world loves Robin Hood - so why not make a buck or ten off of those suckers?"
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A Right Bandit
Mon 12 Apr 2010"If this man-to-man cavorting has ever struck you as, well, not entirely heterosexual, you are not alone in your suspicions"
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