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Creative Incubators: Nottingham's Music Studio Scene

A rite of passage for musicians with a hunger to progress their ideas. A collaborative creative melting pot. A place to make memories with your mates and, for some, a lifeline. From Rockfield to the Brownswood Basement and the recent rise of Digital Holdings, the UK hosts a number of iconic music studios that have moved on from simply being a place to lay down some tracks. Adding to this is a steadily growing number of studios in Nottingham. Eileen Pegg takes a look at the role these spaces play for the creative community, speaking with established hubs in the city and those launched over the past ten turbulent months...

Nottingham Creatives Launch New Platform To Tackle Everyday Racism

Be The Change, launched by Yasmin Bryan and Jade Vowles of The Media Group UK, is already being used in schools in help educate in the fight against racism... 

Deep Fakes From Nottingham History

Ever wondered what it would be like to see video of historical figures who existed before video cameras? We've deep faked some figures from Nottingham history so you need wonder no more...

Southwell Music Festival set to return in 2021

The programme of classical and choral music, which takes place in the heart of Nottinghamshire, is scheduled to return this August...

5 New Notts Albums You Need to Listen to

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

Food Review: Big Guys Thiccc Sauce

These sauces lit a fire under our bellehs...

Nusic New Music Podcast #244 with Chloe Rodgers, Bru-C, Wolf Club, Sade Ebone and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features the launch of sad-boy UKG, the artist selling his own condoms, plus the song that makes us think of pandas. 

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

To Hull and Back: Music Showcase Throws Lifeline to Grassroots Music Scene

With live gigs off the cards for almost a year now, a new project has won funding from the Arts Council to showcase the musical output of Hull and Nottingham in one mammoth event on 20 March 2021.

25 Years Later: Sense and Sensibility

This period drama, released in 1996 in the UK, is in many ways a standard nineties rom-com; but does this adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel actually have too much sense, and not enough scandal?

Nottingham-Born Actor Tom Blyth on His Journey from the TV Workshop to HBO’s The Gilded Age

We talk to Nottingham-born, New York-based actor Tom Blyth about his journey from the TV Workshop to The Juilliard School, working with Terence Davies on Benediction, and his upcoming HBO series The Gilded Age...

Big Mike's Fat Kitchen is Whipping Up Cheesecake for Carlton

From age-old recipes to newly dreamt up decadence, Cheesecakes by Big Mike’s Fat Kitchen have hit the ground running and are whipping up a storm in Carlton. We talk to the namesake and owner Mike Jones to get the lowdown…

The No Jobs In The Arts Fringe Festival

The free digital festival takes place on February 26/27 and is aimed at creatives in the visual arts working across the East Midlands...

20 Years Later: In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love arrives on BFI Player as part of a retrospective of his work, with his films now available in 4K as part of a restoration process supervised by the director himself.

How Cricket Fans in Nottinghamshire are Making History and Coping with COVID

John Hess of the Trent Bridge Heritage Team provides an update on how the Notts cricket community has been coping with life during COVID...

Film Review: News of the World

Tom Hanks’ latest outing is an intriguing yet slow-moving journey, says Joanna Hoyes...

Film Review: Red Dot

The new Swedish-language survival thriller, Red Dot, starts out as a tense ride but ends up feeling about as empty as its barren scenery…

CATALYST is City Arts’ New Programme That Exhibits and Supports Black Artists and Artists of Colour

In response to their Black Lives Matter commitments, City Arts present CATALYST – a programme exhibiting and supporting black artists and artists of colour, designed by curator in residence, Saziso Phiri.

Film Review: To All the Boys - Always & Forever

In the third and final instalment of the Netflix original trilogy, this time we see Lara Jean and Peter set off for college, with LJ having to make some tough decisions not only in terms of her own future, but her relationship with Peter…

The Colour of Love is an Organisation Dedicated to Preserving the Stories of Mixed-Race Relationships in Nottingham

Claire Bale, author of Oo! That’s a Bit Racey! – a new blog about race, equality and inclusion – explores the impact of The Colour of Love, the organisation dedicated to preserving the stories of mixed-race relationships in Nottingham’s past...

6 of the Best Romantic Takeaways in Nottingham

They say the way to anyone’s heart is through their stomach – and what better way to win someone over than with some damn fine takeaways? Schmooze your sexy other half with these tasty treats...

Film Review: Possessor

Possessor, the latest film by Brandon Cronenberg, son of horror icon David Cronenberg, is an intoxicating descent into high-concept body horror not for the faint of heart…

Jenny Joss' Causes to Care About in 2021

Despite my numerous attacks on his rather limited wardrobe choices, my Editor was gratuitous enough to gift none other than I, Jenny Joss, Nottingham’s most inspired gossip columnist – an entire page to spread my new year cheer. While this may surprise you – after having read my monthly reports on Nottingham’s rogues and rascals found on page 7 – I really do care deeply about the welfare of this city, so have decided to temporarily change my tune, and give exposure to the charities, groups and general luminaries who are planning big things for 2021 and deserve your support… 

Film Review: Malcolm & Marie

Malcolm & Marie sees Euphoria's Sam Levinson and Zendaya team up once again. But should they have? Our Screen Co-Editor thinks not... 

The Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is a Lockdown-Friendly Digital Event This Year

After wowing audiences with an eclectic programme of events last year, the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is back with a new look and a lockdown-friendly digital festival this February. We caught up with festival producer Megan Shore to find out more about what FoSaC 2021 has in store…

Nadia on... The Pandemic

In her monthly LeftLion column, Nadia Whittome, MP for Nottingham East, discusses issues effecting both Nottingham and Westminster. This month, she discusses the ongoing pandemic, and the government's response...