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PHOTOS: Dot to Dot 2013
Sat 01 Jun 2013Checkout some of the stage side action from this years festival
Record Store Day 2013
Fri 19 Apr 2013What to expect at The Music Exchange this Saturday daytime and news of our party at Spanky's that evening
Interview: Evil Scarecrow
Tue 09 Apr 2013It’s often a good thing to not take your work too seriously. But Nottingham’s Evil Scarecrow take their unique brand of heavy metal parody to Pythonesque proportions. Dr Rabid Hell (guitar and vocals) and (guitars) go through their dirty laundry in public...
Interview: Retina Dance Company
Tue 19 Feb 2013The Retina dance company: bringing European sensibilities to a floor near you for nearly two decades. Artistic Director Filip Van Huffel explains why he’s made Nottingham his UK base, and plots the next steps for the local dance scene...
Dating in Nottingham
Thu 14 Feb 2013Wondering how to meet someone in Nottingham? We sent our community editor out to investigate speed dating, online dating and going to a meat market
Interview: David Almond
Mon 11 Feb 2013Master story-teller, Nottingham Trent lecturer and novelist David Almond has broadened the landscape of dreams with his latest book Mouse Bird Snake Wolf. And he’s not afraid to scare the kids…
May Contain Notts: Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Fri 08 Feb 2013"Winter Wonderland opens in the Square. Jesus Christ, what gibbon in the Council House stopped licking lead paint off a stick long enough"
Django Unchained
Sat 19 Jan 2013"The rich vein of humour that runs consistently through it superbly enhances the very dark, and very real heart of the film"
Interview: Reactor
Thu 13 Dec 2012Fancy 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...
Roller Derby Teams in Nottingham
Fri 23 Nov 2012The 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 2012Club 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...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse
Tue 23 Oct 2012If 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: Jake Bugg
Sat 20 Oct 2012Scooped 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...
Interview: Joe Dempsie
Thu 18 Oct 2012Joe 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...
Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger
Thu 06 Sep 20121,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...
Mike Breckon on the 1972 Murders of the Israeli Olympic Team
Wed 05 Sep 2012On 5 September 1972, two weeks into the Munich Olympics, members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and later murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team - witnessed by Mike Breckon, Yorkshire-born manager of the Canadian cycling team, who was based in the opposite apartment. He now lives in Nottingham, and speaks for the first time of what he saw.
Interview: Alan Moore
Tue 07 Aug 2012Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...
Interview: Natalie Duncan
Mon 16 Jul 2012Natalie 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...
Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square
Thu 12 Jul 2012Derrick 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...
The Best Caves in Nottingham
Fri 06 Jul 2012The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey
Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey
Tue 26 Jun 2012Whether 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...
LIVE: Captain Dangerous album launch
Tue 05 Jun 2012The 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
Mon 04 Jun 2012"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."
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