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Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra
Fri 23 May 2014The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…
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Onlion Book Reviews
Mon 21 Apr 2014With Ross Bradshaw's collection of essays surrounding crime, The Artist and The Engineer, Seven Daze and more
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Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014
Tue 17 Dec 2013Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more
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Review: An Audience with Carl Froch
Mon 20 Aug 2012"He moved to Newark and discovered that the locals would rather steal his bike or jump him on his way home than face up to him in the ring"
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Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square
Thu 12 Jul 2012Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...
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Interview: The Austin Francis Connection
Wed 02 May 2012The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...
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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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Interview: The Lambhorse Cabaret
Sat 29 Oct 2011The Lambhorse Cabaret: 21st century vaudeville for the theatrical underclass, a party like it’s 1889, or a gloriously elaborate arse-about through the city’s biggest dressing-up box? Time to ask founder and Ringmaster Mark Evans who he and his confederates think they are…
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Interview: Mark Patterson on Roman Nottinghamshire
Mon 15 Aug 2011Whilst other places in the UK wear their Roman origins like a badge of honour, there’s virtually nothing to look at in Notts – so much so that we’ve been described as an ‘archaeological blackspot’. Mark Patterson’s book Roman Nottinghamshire is the first step towards reclaiming our Roman heritage…
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Interview: Mark Crossley
Fri 12 Aug 2011Mark Crossley - known as ‘Norm’ during his thirteen years as Forest’s goalkeeper, due to a resemblance to Norman Whiteside - started his career being hated by his own supporters. Then he nearly became the hero of the 1991 FA Cup final and a club legend. Nowadays he’s a player-coach at Chesterfield, an after-dinner speaker, and - as of this month - his own publisher...
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FSN in the Market Square
Tue 28 Jun 2011Eleven new Notts acts play right in the centre of town in the semi-finals of the Future Sound of Nottingham contest
Interview: The Nusic Team
Thu 16 Jun 2011Mark Del used to fly the flag for the Nottingham music scene with Trent FM, but now him and his team - including Arielle Bosworth and Liz Riordan - have linked up with LeftLion to drop Nusic, help take the local scene to the next level and - maybe, just maybe - get your band on the main stage at Splendour...
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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: Mark Kermode
Sun 07 Nov 2010Mark Kermode is a legend to most movie lovers, a film reviewer that has never learned to bite his tongue or hold back on anything he thinks. A regular on British TV and radio for nearly two decades now, he’s just released his book, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive and is now touring the country doing what he does best – talking to people about films…
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Interview: Mark Addy
Thu 13 May 2010"You wouldn’t recognise the Nottingham that was created for the film - Marks and Spencers is in a completely different place"
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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"
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Independent theatre in Nottingham
Thu 01 Oct 2009There’s far more to theatre in Notts than just the Playhouse, Theatre Royal, and AmDram productions involving middle-aged men running around with their trousers round their ankles...
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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."
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S. Mark Gubb
Sun 03 Aug 2008"The eighties was possibly one of the crappest decades, with The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, the miners strike, Thatcher’s Britain..."
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Mark Hodkinson interview
Mon 06 Aug 2007There is a northern light that never goes out. He is the man behind Pomona and he's just published a cracking memoir.
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Ten Reasons Why Slab Square Is Skill
Sun 01 Apr 2007Why Nottingham's Market Square is so much more than an Emo concentration camp...
Nottingham's Rebuilt Market Square Launched
Sun 01 Apr 2007"It has been the de facto centre of every major celebration in Nottingham - from VE Day to Forest coming home with the European Cup"
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Interview: Sparklehorse
Wed 01 Nov 2006"I'm definitely going to work more with Dangermouse. More collaboration, probably called DangerHorse or something"
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Book Review: My Father and Other Working Class Heroes
Mon 23 Oct 2006The author tries to piece together the life of his recently deceased father, a stoic individual who, like most from his time, kept his feelings hidden
Mark Askwith: 1954-2006
Tue 01 Aug 2006"His band, in its variously amended line-ups, was to frustrate and confound the Nottingham music scene throughout the eighties"
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