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Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero
Sun 27 May 2012"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"
Interview: Pirate Technics
Thu 24 May 2012Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...
Art Works: Grand Central Station by Anna Griffin
Wed 23 May 2012"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"
Interview: Derren Brown
Mon 21 May 2012Master of magic, mind control and manipulation; Derren Brown has made an international career of persuading people to think and do things they otherwise would not. So when we asked him if he fancied an interview with LeftLion, before the Notts leg of his Svengali tour, we were elated and yet filled with trepidation when he said “yes”…
2nd Nottingham Zine Fair
Fri 18 May 2012It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May
Interview: Jenny Sealey
Mon 14 May 2012Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.
Interview: Graham Coxon
Mon 14 May 2012Graham Coxon will be seeing off the Olympics with his old band in the summer, but not before swinging through town to promote new LP A + E at the Rescue Rooms this April...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical
Fri 11 May 2012Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical
Wed 09 May 2012This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…
The Maze 15th Birthday Extravaganza in photos
Wed 09 May 2012LeftLion and I'm Not from London last Saturday with Just James, Seas of Mirth, The Austin Francis Connection and 25 Past The Skank
Interview: Alex Hales
Fri 04 May 2012A new cricket season for Notts and a hugely important year for their twenty-three year-old batsman Alex Hales. He’s already made his mark in the first team, played Twenty20 for England and spent last winter in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with the England Lions – essentially the national reserves team. Is he the future of the Outlaws and the national side?
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...
A Canadian on the British Government
Sun 29 Apr 2012"Privatising the police force. How do you even do that? Adorn police stab vests with 888.com patches, like him off the snooker?"
Interview: James Hooton
Sun 29 Apr 2012He’s spent the last seventeen years playing a member of the most infamous Yorkshire soap family on TV, but James Hooton is still a Nottingham lad through and through. So when he got a call from an old friend who was putting on a play about the Motherland then he decided it was an opportunity worth skipping a few of episodes of Emmerdale for…
Hellfire Harlots vs Crime City Rollers
Sat 28 Apr 2012Nottingham's baddass roller derby ladies took on a team all the way from Malmo, Sweden
FSN 2012 semi finals in photos
Fri 27 Apr 2012Photos from the new Nottingham music acts who played in the Market Square
LeftLion Presents Fists, Cantaloupe and Kagoule
Fri 27 Apr 2012Photos from LeftLion's Record Store Day gig at Nottingham Contemporary
The Music Exchange
Sat 21 Apr 2012Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...
Interview: Fists
Fri 20 Apr 2012The on-their-own-terms, no-compromise, if-you-want-something-done-properly-do-it-yourself attitude of Fists has made them one of the most respected bands in town. We asked James Findlay and Angi Fletcher why it took ‘em so long to play a gig, and in which decade we could expect an LP...
Kagoule
Thu 19 Apr 2012"I guess people just expect you to be rubbish if you've not had much experience, so nobody ever replied to emails or offered us anything"
I'm Not From London goes to London
Thu 12 Apr 2012Ten Notts bands went to The Smoke for the day, took over a pub in Dalson, and tried to break everything
May Contain Notts: Feb-March 2012
Fri 06 Apr 2012That new loan shark place sets up a stall outside, and hands out tuffehs and balloons with their logo on it to kiddies. Amazingly, no-one punches them
Interview: Dilk of Montana Shop
Thu 05 Apr 2012Stephen Dilks - Dilk, to his friends, the global graffiti community, and huge chunks of wall around the city - celebrates ten years of running specialist shops in town and basically running our local street art scene.
Derren Brown
Tue 03 Apr 2012"I’ve got over a hundred stuffed items at home, including a couple of giraffes, which is probably too many for any house"
Homeless Film Festival 2012
Mon 02 Apr 2012This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...