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Jumpers for Goalposts

Thu 20 Dec 2012

"We don't hate football. We're just not sure we want to buy what it's selling"

We Are The 25%: The Creative Quarter Launches

Sun 16 Dec 2012

The Creative Quarter: another regeneration project, an attempt to catapult Nottingham into the big league of British cities, a massive hand-out for the city’s arty sorts, or the last attempt to drag the city out of its chain-shop morass? Toby Reid, Director of BioCity and Creative Quarter committee member, reveals the people who will be tasked with shaping the destiny of The Lace Market over the next decade - and don’t look now, but one of them could be you...

Photos: IMAX launch

Fri 14 Dec 2012

We snuck along to the opening of Nottingham's monster IMAX cinema screen to see just how big it is

Interview: Reactor

Thu 13 Dec 2012

Fancy some audience participation, but hate panto? How about being coerced into submitting to a make-believe totalitarian regime, or having aliens decide if you’re worth being enslaved or just got rid of? That’s the kind of thing that Niki Russell, Dan Williamson and their Reactor collective get up to...

Interview: Hatch's Nathan Miller

Tue 11 Dec 2012

For five years now, Hatch have taken away the pretentiousness of performance art, brought back the fun, and have redrawn the boundaries of the stage by refusing to acknowledge them. Playwright Michael Pinchbeck is one of the founders, and the other - Nathan Miller - used to put in serious work for an independent magazine you may have heard of...

Interview: Kappa Gamma

Fri 07 Dec 2012

Picked up by Denizen Records, linked up with Dog Is Dead, championed by Dean Jackson and glommed onto the Radio One playlist, it’s been a very decent year for Kappa Gamma and their freewheeling dream-pop stylings. Time, then, to talk to Tom Towle and Max Starbuck of the band...

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2012

Sun 02 Dec 2012

The news diary that leaves its Christmas lights up all year round and doesn’t give a toss what the neighbours think

LeftLion Magazine #50

Sat 01 Dec 2012

A bumper fiftieth issue with the Creative Quarter, Shane Meadows, Kappa Gamma, Kagoule, Nottingham Ball Bois, Hatch, Reactor, Damn You! and more

Interview: Gonzo Unit

Thu 29 Nov 2012

Gonzo Unit - a collaboration between Anna Schwanz and Rachel Murray - aimed to bring together artists from Notts and beyond to create and perform new works. Problem was, they didn’t have gallery space - so they got really creative and found space in an unexpected place...

Interview: Peter Bowles

Wed 28 Nov 2012

Peter Bowles went from a childhood in Hyson Green to an acting career that spans the early days of television, the golden age of sitcoms and the admiration of Marlon Brando - and he owes much of it to a theatre in town that now carries his name...

Katie Half-Price: Issue 48

Tue 27 Nov 2012

Nottingham’s orangest book reviewer in't very happy...

Interview: Play No Games

Tue 27 Nov 2012

The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts

Roller Derby Teams in Nottingham

Fri 23 Nov 2012

The Hellfire Harlots have just won team of the year at the Nottingham Sports Awards. We have a chat to them and the Nottingham Roller Girls about the sport

Interview: Don Masson

Thu 15 Nov 2012

Club skipper during the iconic Jimmy Sirrel era that propelled the club from the bottom to the top. Part of the QPR team that lost the league by one point in 1976. A key component of the doomed Scotland '78 World Cup squad. A prodigal son who finished his career helping his beloved 'Pies into the top flight. There's been 150 years of Notts County football, and - according to those who saw him in action - no-one has played it better than Don Masson...

Branched Out Festival Photos

Fri 02 Nov 2012

Photos from the festival that saw 50 of Notts finest bands put on one hell of a show

Notts County: 150 Years of History

Thu 01 Nov 2012

A potted history of the last century and a half in the life of world football's oldest league club...

Interview: MulletProofPoet

Wed 24 Oct 2012

"I started when I was about thirteen or fourteen; I was writing lyrics for a band that didn’t actually exist"

Interview: Shide Boss

Wed 24 Oct 2012

One of the most successful musicians in Notts right now has won TV talent shows, is up for two music awards, has worked with the President of Def Jam South and has someone from Hollyoaks on his video. He’s Shide Boss, and it’s about time you recognised him...

Broadway's Show and Tell

Wed 24 Oct 2012

Broadway's bi-monthly biggy-uppery binge

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse

Tue 23 Oct 2012

If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...

Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine

Tue 23 Oct 2012

It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.

Interview: Jake Bugg

Sat 20 Oct 2012

Scooped up from the mean streets of Clifton into the loving arms of a record deal. All over Radio One. Tours of the UK and Europe. Live TV appearances. Two glorious hometown gigs lined up at Dot To Dot and Splendour. Spends his spare time wondering what Fearne Cotton thinks of him. He’s Jake Bugg, and he’s only just old enough to get into pubs...

Preview: GameCity7

Fri 19 Oct 2012

"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"

Interview: Joe Dempsie

Thu 18 Oct 2012

Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...