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Photos: Splendour Festival 2014

Sun 27 Jul 2014

Saint Raymond, Gallery 47, Bud, Happy Mondays and more kept the crowds going no matter what the skies were saying

Pick of the Week: 28 July - 3 August

Sun 27 Jul 2014

A bit of this and a bit of that make for loads of fun things to do this week

Mannequin live at The Chameleon

Sat 26 Jul 2014

Nottingham hardcore types rip it up at at one of our favourite venues

Live: Splendour Festival 2014

Fri 25 Jul 2014

Joy Mumford, Saint Raymond, Amber Run, A Plastic Rose, Bitter Strings and many more dodge the rain to entertain the Wollaton Park masses

Alison Moore on short stories

Fri 25 Jul 2014

"I do seem to have an interest in characters who walk willingly into situations they then can't get out of"

We imagine what life was like for the ladies of Chilwell’s National Shell Filling Factory - dubbed the Chilwell Canary Girls for their yellow-tinged skin from the long term exposure to TNT - who packed over nineteen million ammunition shells during the First World War...

The Reviewers - Jenny Kohnhorst

Thu 24 Jul 2014

The Nottingham New Theatre have a musical comedy all ready to take to Edinburgh Fringe, but not before they preview it here

Left Line and Length: July

Thu 24 Jul 2014

"Yes, it felt like a game that would win a Championship. Ironically, the previous game had felt like one in which you chuck a Championship away"

Mouthy Poets: Say Sum Thin 7

Thu 24 Jul 2014

The Nottingham crew and guest John Agard get stuck into poetry at the Playhouse

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Thu 24 Jul 2014

Another prequel in the revamped franchise - how does it compare to the others?

Finding Vivian Maier

Thu 24 Jul 2014

A documentary about a photographer, now compared to Diane Arbus and Henri Carter-Bresson, who was unknown in her lifetime

A History of St Ann's Allotments

Wed 23 Jul 2014

With its community feel and green-fingered goodness, we look back at the history of Europe's biggest detached town gardens

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

Wed 23 Jul 2014

Mike Myers tries his hand at documentary making.

Top Five Tropical Beats according to Hemulen Soundz

Wed 23 Jul 2014

The Notts DJ digs deep and picks-out his favourite summer sizzlers

Jerusalem

Tue 22 Jul 2014

Jez Butterworth's play is "The Archers on acid"

I Am Divine

Tue 22 Jul 2014

The documentary about Harris Milstead, and his alter ego Divine, is at Broadway Cinema this week

A History of Coal Mining in 10 Objects

Tue 22 Jul 2014

"As a miner's son who grew up in the area during the sixties and seventies, I wanted to reflect on the culture that shaped me"

Twenty Feet From Stardom

Mon 21 Jul 2014

The Oscar winning documentary is now out on DVD

Three Girl Rhumba

Mon 21 Jul 2014

"I imagine if The Jonas Brothers came back after five years then they’d be really good, so that’s how we see what we do"

Nusic #83,Nusic

Mon 21 Jul 2014

Did you get yourself to Splendour? Catch up with some of the loveliness that went off, plus two fistfuls of tunes

Pick of the Week: 21 - 27 July

Sun 20 Jul 2014

We've scouted around the listings to give you some prime cuts from this coming week's diary

Oh What A Lovely War

Sun 20 Jul 2014

"The real stars are the set and the ensemble, who combine to bring the text alive"

Future Session 65 - Field Studies

Sat 19 Jul 2014

New music, live in session, from Nottingham. The latest artist in the Nusic studio is

Interview: Rankin

Fri 18 Jul 2014

Rankin is a portrait and fashion photographer behind the inception of magazines Dazed and Confused, Another and Hunger. Throughout his career, he’s pointed his lens at a dream list of celebrities, including Madonna, Kate Moss and David Bowie. He even got the Queen to crack a smile. As part of the Museums at Night project, he came to St Ann’s Allotments to shoot the people who call it a home away from home. We popped down to the event and caught a few words of wisdom from the mononymous man...