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Notts Property Graffiti Festival

"We’ve got a rich graffiti history here; we want to bring that back"

LeftLion Magazine #48

Raleigh, The Afterdark Movement, Alan Moore, Sleaford Mods, Forest and County previews, and some big London sports day rammel

Team NG: When To See Notts Olympians on TV

Notts athletes in the Olympics: when and where they'll be getting all sporteh...

May Contain Notts: June-July 2012

"It dawns upon me that I have spent the entire duration of an episode of Bullseye copping a feel of a husky’s breast implant"

Justin Fashanu: The Biography

The scar on Brian Clough’s career. The most disastrous non-Italian transfer in Forest’s history. The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The only Tricky Tree to knock about with Peter Tatchell. Is it time to reassess the life of Justin Fashanu? Yes, says biographer Jim Read…

Splendour 2012 gallery

Checkout the photos from our roving band of photographers

Batman: A Retrospective

With The Dark Knight Rises about to explode, we trawl through the history of Batman films...

Preview: Splendour 2012

A day of fun and music, set in Batman’s back garden...

Interview: Natalie Duncan

Natalie Duncan held down a bar job at The Bell, but she couldn’t hold back her incredible voice. Now she’s signed to a major label, has dropped an astonishing debut single in Sky Is Falling, and is set to release her first LP in July. We think she’s on the verge of something massive...

Small Theatre Groups of Nottingham

From A (for Actors Workshop) to Z (for Zoo Indigo)

The Waterfront Festival 2012 in photos

We announce the total raised for charity and look back on a great day out with hundreds of photos

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

Derrick 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...

Poddingham #26: Summertime,Poddingham

Art Works: Michael Cowell

"There is nothing more satisfying than lifting the screen off that final print to discover that you actually got most of them right"

The Best Caves in Nottingham

The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey

King Bong: The Xylophone Man

Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?

Art Works: The Shopping List Project by Rosie MacLennan

"There is something so precious about this casually discarded piece of life detailing so much about a household’s existence, it’s an incredible celebration of the routines of life"

Interview: Hetain Patel

Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...

Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey

Whether it was for living space, work, shelter or punishment, our ancestors were obsessed with going underground, with over five hundred caves dotted across the city. They’re all being catalogued by the Nottingham Caves Survey - and according to Project Leader David Strange-Walker, putting a sledgehammer through a pub door has
never been more educational...

Future Sound of Nottingham 2012 in photos

Photos from the contest featuring Joe Danks, Tom Wardle, In The Northwood, Crash Jacket, The Species and eventual winners The Afterdark Movement

LIVE: Captain Dangerous album launch

The string section opened with a spine tingling beautiful chord progression, before bursting into Eye Of The Tiger (aka the theme from Rocky)

A Canadian On The Diamond Jubilee

"Canadians pay more to support the Queen per person than the Brits do. Let me say that again: Canadians pay more. Not less. Not an equal share. More."

Interview: Captain Dangerous

Captain Dangerous’s debut LP The Empire Never Ended is six years in the making. And if you’ve ever lobbed a couple of bob in lead singer Adam Clarkson’s hat, congratulations - you’ve paid towards it...

LeftLion Magazine #47

Featuring Underground Notts, Natalie Duncan, Justin Fashanu, Jake Bugg, Hetain Patel and a free Euro 12 wallchart...

Dot To Dot 2012

"Come and see your new favourite band in the afternoon, have a few beers, and then come back and see your current favourite band"