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Interview: Badminton Star Chris Adcock

Chris Adcock won badminton gold medal at last year’s Commonwealth Games and is eyeing up even shinier prizes. Meanwhile, he’s skippering his hometown franchise – University of Nottingham – in the inaugural National Badminton League (which is on the telleh). We caught up to talk shuttlecocks.

Jon Ronson: The Shame Game

This man knows all there is to know about the public shaming game

Jon Ronson: The Shame Game

This man knows all there is to know about the public shaming game

GameCity 9: Mike Bithell

We caught up with game designer Mike Bithell post-GameCity

Just The Tonic 20th Birthday Bash

We went to see a myriad of comedians for a celebration of a nurturing, grass roots laughter tank

Darrell Martin Celebrates 20 Years of Just The Tonic

Just The Tonic founder Darrell Martin can boast giving the city a comedy scene worth shouting about and is due to celebrate twenty years in the comedy club game. But not before he gets back from running 120 shows a day for a whole month at the world’s biggest arts festival...

Just The Tonic Competition

Interview: Ross Noble

If you like your comedy a bit surreal and not at all structured, Ross Noble is your man. Not only is he currently on the box with a TV show controlled by Twitter, he’s about to tour the country with his new stand-up show, Tangentleman. With him gracing two Nottingham stages in the coming months, we thought it’d be rude not to have a chat...

Just The Tonic at Edinburgh Fringe

We followed round Nottingham's famous comedy club on their epic first week at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Nott Just Ballet

Kids from St Ann's and Sneinton got shown the dance ropes by the Birmingham Royal Ballet to kickstart In Notts We Love Dance Festival

Paul Kaye on his love for Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious was a sneering, violent, charismatic icon of an era of music that spoke to a disaffected generation. One of those he shouted loudly at was Paul Kaye, an actor and comedian who has graced our screens with his own alter-egos, including Dennis Pennis and Mike Strutter, as well as in dramas such as Game of Thrones and Waking The Dead. As the 35th anniversary of Vicious’ death approaches, he muses on the man and the legend... 

Interview: John Blanche, The Seminal Art Director of Games Workshop

A seminal artist who has defined the look of Games Workshop from its inception, art director John Blanche is worshipped by legion. Since joining the company in the late-seventies he has produced innumerable pieces of work that have sold millions of copies around the world. We talk reds and browns, small lead figures and how glam rock influenced him...

A Rough Guide to Nottingham's Games Workshop

A company that has has captured the imagination of millions in its lifetime, Games Workshop is a recession-ignoring international institution that has its rather uniquely designed headquarters a stones throw from the QMC and University of Nottingham. We trace its impressive trajectory in popular culture.

Interview: Play No Games

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

Preview: GameCity7

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

Interview: Joe Dempsie

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...

Justin Fashanu: The Biography

The scar on Brian Clough’s career. The most disastrous non-Italian transfer in Forest’s history. The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The only Tricky Tree to knock about with Peter Tatchell. Is it time to reassess the life of Justin Fashanu? Yes, says biographer Jim Read…

Interview: Jenny Sealey

Jenny 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.

Preview: GameCity6

If you want to go somewhere to stand with a load of people and play games, get yourself down to the Forest for Goose Fair and try to catapault a manky rubber frog onto a rotating lilypad, for a keyring of Donny Osmond that says ‘Justin Beeber’. If you care about videogaming and where its heading, on the other hand, happy days; GameCity is back...

Interview: Justin Moorhouse

"Hostility isn't a problem, really, indifference is much worse. If people are indifferent you can't change them."

Preview: GameCity5

Nottingham kicks off a week-long videogaming sesh with the return of GameCity, but be warned: lolling about on sofas is not encouraged

Interview: Joe Dempsie

Joe Dempsie from Skins is doing a fundraiser for The Television Workshop next week. Here's an interview with the man himself...

Christmas Board Game

It were the Friday before Christmas, and all around Notts

Interview: Johnny Vegas

"There was a night in Nottingham where I was singing in a wheelie bin, being passed around the tables like pass the parcel"

Preview: GameCity Squared

GameCity - Nottingham’s very own console convention is back and has been described as ‘the Sundance Festival of videogaming’