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The Moonshine Sessions: Jealous Guy by Natalie Duncan

The Moonshine Sessions are a collaboration between Gigantic Tickets and Alchemistic Records borne out of a shared commitment to live music. They aim to provide a platform for cutting edge global talent as well as showcase the best of the vibrant music scene in our home city. This week's release sees Natalie Duncan play John Lennon's Jealous Guy...

Have I Got Newstead For You: Ian Hislop On His Satirical Exhibition Showing at Newstead Abbey

Private Eye Editor and Have I Got News For You panellist Ian Hislop is no stranger to satire. He was in Nottingham recently to launch an exhibition of satirical art at Newstead Abbey. It’s an offshoot of the British Museum’s 2018 exhibition I object: Ian Hislop’s search for dissent. Together with British Museum Curator Tom Hockenhull, Ian has selected nine of his favourite British satirical prints by Gillray and Cruikshank, among others, which are on display all summer...

Dr Tim Gregory Works with a Meteorite That's Older Than The Earth

Armed with a childlike sense of wonder, a natural gift for talking with passion and a boundless sense of enthusiasm, it’s clear to see why Dr. Tim Gregory is so well liked. After appearing on BBC shows The Sky at Night: Expedition Asteroid and Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?, the cosmochemist and research scientist is now working at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham studying Allende, the famous meteorite that predates Earth itself… 

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This August

Folk Troubadour Clarke Camilleri Brings His Sound Back Home

Notts born and bred, folk singer songwriter Clarke Camilleri is one dedicated guy. From running his own folk clubs to touring Belgium, we caught up with him ahead of a rare hometown show this month supporting Jinda Biant...

Luisa’s Vegan Chocolates Produce Healthy, Ethical and Delicious Sweet Treats in Sneinton Market

The only chocolate maker in Nottingham, Luisa from Luisa’s Vegan Chocolates, produces award-winning chocolate at her outlet in Sneinton Market, using a traditional artisan process to transform directly-sourced cocoa beans from bean to bar.

Review: The School of Artisan Food's Foraging and Wild Food Cookery Course

We wandered the gardens of the Welbeck Estate to see what delectable delights we could scoff...

City Stylin' #16

We took to the streets to find Notts' best dressed...

Left Brian: Can Sab Lamouch do the Fandango

Last year during our family holiday in North Wales (sorry Skeggy!) we met a lot of West Midlanders at the holiday camp, most notably Wolves fans. The joy and pride at their recent promotion to the top flight was matched only by their generosity in seeing my son in the Garibaldi red. To paraphrase them, “You’ll be up next year, lad. Can’t go wrong with young Portuguese talent. See you in the Prem!”

The Moonshine Sessions: This World Will Break Your Heart by Ogikubo Station

The Moonshine Sessions are a collaboration between Gigantic Tickets and Alchemistic Records borne out of a shared commitment to live music. They aim to provide a platform for cutting edge global talent as well as showcase the best of the vibrant music scene in our home city. This week's release sees Ogikubo Station play This World Will Break Your Heart...

In Pics: Belters Choir Songs In The Tunnel 2019

We papped some snaps at the annual Songs In The Tunnel event from Belters Choir.

Young, Gifted and Focused: Meet Notts Mod Band SubCulture

At this month's sold out This Feeling gig night at The Chameleon, Simon Wooldridge caught up with SubCulture frontman Oli Orton, the Notts answer to The Jam...

The Waco Siege: How a Man from Nottingham Became Part of an American Tragedy

26 years ago, a religious centre in Texas was home to one of the most brutal massacres in US history. Among the survivors was Livingstone Fagan, a young man from Nottingham – but how did he get there, and what part did he have to play in the infamous and calamitous Waco siege?

Live Music Review: Splendour Festival

Bleddy hell, what about those showers at Splendour this year? We got soaked to the bone, duck. Thankfully it cleared over just in time for some skanking to The Specials. In all seriousness though, what a spectacular day for music. Here’s the sets which got our Music Editors proper hyped….

Nusic New Music Podcast #209 - Live From Splendour

This week’s New Music Podcast is LIVE from Splendour 2019 – featuring an interview w/ the #FSN2019 Champ, our attempt to clunkily shoehorn in all our usual features, plus the artist with incriminating photos of the Splendour bosses… maybe.

This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Theatre Review: Stones in His Pockets

Dazzling, but Stones in His Pockets gave Adrian that sinking feeling…

Bad Gals From Notts: 8 Influential Women Who Helped Shape History

From writers and lawyers to suffragists and nurses, these eight women fought ruthlessly for social change and shaped history as we know it. Oh, and they all hail from our hometown, too...

Live Music Review: Benjamin Zięć and the Rarebreeds EP Launch

There's a new band in town that's just released on local label, Phlexx Records. Elizabeth O'Riordan popped down to Peggy's to see what all the fuss was about...

Object Walk: Martin Sommerville from By Our Hands We Make Our Way

In a new regular feature, we’ve teamed up with the National Justice Museum to put objects from the past into the hands of people of the present.

Unwavering Post-Punks Spear of Destiny Head to Notts This Autumn

Now approaching his mid sixties, Kirk Brandon shows little sign of slowing down. An integral member of several bands – Theatre of Hate and Dead Men Walking amongst others – he brings the outfit he’s probably best known for, Spear of Destiny, to Rescue Rooms this September...

Live Music Review: Damn Craters Album Launch

Local doom quintet Damn Craters launched their album An Ocean of Satellites in seriously sweaty style down The Chameleon last week...

Notts to Host Festival of Skate Culture

Skateboarding will become an Olympic sport for the first time in Tokyo next summer.  Nottingham is one of the sport’s original homes in the UK, with a vibrant community and culture going back more than fifty years, including internationally known professionals such as Carl Shipman in the 1990s and now Alex Hallford, who is one of just five skaters nationwide to be supported to compete in global Olympic qualification events in the run-up to Tokyo.

The Moonshine Sessions: Dr Worm by Ogikubo Station

The Moonshine Sessions are a collaboration between Gigantic Tickets and Alchemistic Records borne out of a shared commitment to live music. They aim to provide a platform for cutting edge global talent as well as showcase the best of the vibrant music scene in our home city. This week's release sees Ogikubo Station tackle They Might Be Giants' classic song...

School of Hard Notts: Gabriel Kidd – Butting Heads

Kidd is Nottingham’s very own GOAT (greatest of all time) a tough young grappler destined for the top. We caught “The Young Bull” fresh off the plane from a gruelling training camp at the legendary NJPW* dojo. Wearing his new battle scars proudly, Kidd pulled no punches in a forthright interview.

Live Music Review: Waterfront Festival 2019

On a hot and muggy day in July, with the backdrop of Nottingham Canal providing an ideal juxtaposition of industrial and picturesque - a reminder of the dystopian theme of this year’s Waterfront Festival - the Canalhouse hosted an eclectic marathon of local talent…