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We talk to CIC Pulp Friction about supporting people with learning disabilities and Autism and their Chelsea Flower Show awards
Tue 23 Jul 2024Running for fourteen years, it all started with one college leaver’s simple ambition - getting a job. Pulp Friction has now grown into a multi-faceted organisation offering learning disabled and autistic people across Notts opportunities to get into work. Strings to their bow include running a community garden, community café, catering service, and their nominative mobile smoothie bike. Now they can add several Chelsea Flower Show awards. We met the team to hear all about their work…
Notts Pride, 80s inspired Boho festival, Imara art auction, a punk gig. Here's what's on in Nottingham this week 22 - 28 July
Mon 22 Jul 2024Happening here in Nottingham this week: Notts Pride street parties, Boho festival in the wilderness, Imara art auction, punk rock band Phat problem & friends, Madagascar the Musical at The Royal Centre.
Locating Lawrence: July 1924
Mon 22 Jul 2024While building a cabin on the foot of the Rockies, D.H. Lawrence realises there is no hope for ‘cosmic unity’.
Twenty years of photographing Pride Festival with photojournalist Alan Lodge
Mon 22 Jul 2024Originating from a free festival and traveller background, Alan Lodge has worked as a photographer for over fifty years, with a particular special interest in ‘alternative’ lifestyles and subcultures. Having covered Pride events for several decades, we thought we’d share some of his best images and ask him a few questions about life behind the lens…
Film Review: Twisters
Mon 22 Jul 2024Car chases, romance, science experiments, cowboys – Twisters has it all!
Ahead of his Pride set, Hacienda DJ Graeme Park talks Selectadisc, the evolution of clubbing culture and being a DJ in the 90s
Sat 20 Jul 2024From starting out as a teenager working in a Notts record shop to DJing around the world and playing to 8000 alongside a classical orchestra, Graeme Park is one of the original founders of the UK’s clubbing and rave scene. We caught up with him ahead of two new shows in the city at Nottingham Pride and Hacienda Live at Wollaton Hall…
LeftLion Interviews Podcast #2: The Petebox on Beatboxing, Youtube Fame, Two Decades of Touring and ITV's The Voice
Fri 19 Jul 2024Welcome to the second episode of the ‘LeftLion Interviews’ podcast. Our guest is the amazing musician and beatboxer The Petebox...
Book Review: The Body In The Library by Graham Caveney
Fri 19 Jul 2024Though brutal and decidedly unromantic, Graham Caveney’s new ‘memoir of a diagnosis’ is told with remarkable tenderness and wit.
We spoke to Emma Gray and Grace Carter about their new play at Broadway
Fri 19 Jul 2024Emma Gray and Grace Carter met behind the famous Broadway bar. Now they've come full circle, launching their new play Yeah, No, Fine at Broadway. But how did they do it? What challenges were there to overcome?
We spoke to genre-defying queer electro-punk duo Arch Femmesis
Thu 18 Jul 2024Punk meets Club Kid with the genre-defying queer outfit, Arch Femmesis. Izzy Morris chatted to Zera Tønin and Princess Stephen about visual inspirations, Nottingham’s queer spaces and the city’s LGBTQI+ scene.
Gig Review: Cultural Vibrations turns 15 at Nottingham Playhouse
Wed 17 Jul 2024Cultural Vibrations is the brainchild and legacy to the Nottingham music scene, of Rasta Rella aka Rastarella L Falade. From very humble beginnings the organisation has become a central part of World Music in our city and now celebrates its 15-year anniversary. We went along to the Playhouse to celebrate...
We spoke to Charity Shop Sue creators Dead Sweet TV about comedy writing, creating a LGBTQ+ icon and working with Shane Meadows and Vicky McClure.
Wed 17 Jul 2024From her beginnings as a YouTube mockumentary star to appearing MTV Cribs, Charity Shop Sue has won the hearts of many - but what were the beginnings of Bulwell's iconic boss laydeh? We spoke to Stu Edwards and brothers Tim and Matt Chesney, creators at Dead Sweet TV to talk about comedy writing, creating a LGBTQ+ icon and working with Shane Meadows and Vicky McClure.
Award-winning trentbarton improves eight key bus routes
Wed 17 Jul 2024Whether it's for a commute or a day out, buses are hard to beat for value and sustainability. If you want to get a little further afield and are setting off from Nottingham and it's surrounds, trentbarton are hard to beat. They're now improving eight key routes, and have picked up an award along the way...