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Nottingham Jazz Orchestra Celebrates Its 50th Birthday

Mon 01 Apr 2019

As Nottingham Jazz Orchestra gets set to celebrate their 50th birthday, we caught up with drummer Les Shaw...

Notts-based Metal Band The Five Hundred on Personal Demons, Moscow and Their Debut Album

Wed 27 Feb 2019

Since forming in 2014, devastatingly heavy Notts-based metal outfit The Five Hundred are making their mark on the UK scene, with their unholy blend of crushing eight-string guitar breakdowns, soaring yet haunting vocal melodies and pummelling drums. Following the release of their EP, Mirrors, in 2015 and their debut album, Bleed Red, last year, the band have been picking up some serious momentum. We spoke to bassist Andy Crawford discuss their bleak lyrics, the current Nottingham metal scene and their plans for the future….

NTU Student MJ the Art Traveller to Appear on Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year 2019

Thu 14 Feb 2019

It's that time of the year again. Portrait Artist of the Year returns to Sky Arts with a new round of contestants ready to get painting. The set-up is simple: paint a portrait of a surprise celebrity in your own style in be in the chance to win a £10,000 commission for a major British Institution, plus £500 of materials from Cass Art. What’s not so simple is that you are judged by some of the best art curators and artists in a portrait you can do in four hours under the glare of TV lights. This year, the competition features Nottingham Trent MA student Michael Sheppard aka MJ the Art Traveller...

The Thompson Brothers on New Year’s Resolutions, Def Leppard and Wrestling

Thu 03 Jan 2019

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

6 Banging New Year's Eve Parties in Nottingham

Tue 25 Dec 2018

It's time we see this bogger out in style....

Celebrating 100 Years of Women Gaining the Vote with Midlands Suffragettes

Fri 23 Nov 2018

6 February 2018 marked 100 years of 8.5 million women gaining their right to vote. Although it will be another decade before we celebrate 100 years of all women gaining the vote, it was a huge milestone in the step towards women’s rights being achieved...

BACKLIT: Same as it Never Was / 10 year anniversary review

Fri 02 Nov 2018

Backlit have just celebrated their 10^thanniversary, which coincided with the new ‘Same as it Never Was’ exhibition. The exhibition reflects upon the journey of the organisation over the last decade. We got down to check it out...

Nottingham Comedy Promoters Just The Tonic are Celebrating 25 Years in the Business

Sat 20 Oct 2018

We’ve got bleddy birthday fever this month. Just The Tonic, Nottingham’s prime comedy promoters, have been bringing the funnies to the city for 25 years. From Johnny Vegas to Ross Noble, Darrell Martin has booked some right belly-twisting boggers, so we asked him to take a look back at his time over the years as the don of stand-up around these parts...

What's Going Down at Hockley Hustle This Year?

Thu 18 Oct 2018

Hockley Hustle is back on Sunday 28 October, celebrating its twelfth year, and it's bigger and better than ever. We give you the lowdown on the festival that features over 300 acts across thirty stages...

5 Films To See At Mayhem 2018

Wed 10 Oct 2018

With the opening night drawing ever closer, our Screen Editor cast his wry eye over the Mayhem 2018 schedule to pick out five films you simply cannot afford to miss...

1st Blood Release Creativity Crisis After a Five-Year Album Hiatus

Tue 25 Sep 2018

Pete Chilvers is the man behind Nottingham hip hop camp 1st Blood. His day-ones include Ty Healy, Louis Cypher, Liam Bailey and Cappo, to name just a few, and in his younger years he was under the wing of Bristolian monolith Tricky as a label signee. After a five-year release hiatus, 1st Blood have stuck a new album into the airwaves, so we thought we’d catch up with the man on the buttons...

Let's Make Some Mischief: Dennis, Gnasher and Horrid Henry to head this year’s Summer Reading Challenge

Fri 13 Jul 2018

Listen up, hell-raisers: The Nottinghamshire County Council have set up another summer reading challenge to get some noses in books. Our man Ian C Douglas is here to give us the low-down.

Bru-C on This Year's Outlook Festival

Fri 25 May 2018

This local donny of an emcee has been smashing it recently; touring with his bassline night Krudd, and smashing it in the iTunes charts with his EP Affiliation. We grabbed Bru-C on the phone to ask him a few questions, including what to expect from his appearance at Outlook Festival in Pula, Croatia this year...

Doing the Bookshop Hop at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Fri 27 Apr 2018

A dazzling evening of new connections and resonant readings at two of Nottingham’s thriving bookshops, Blackwell’s and Five Leaves…

From The Archive: LeftLion Photos from Years Past

Sun 01 Apr 2018

Over the years we’ve seen some bleddy stunning sights from around the city – people, places, art, owls – and they’ve been documented good and proper by your lot. We’ve had a flick through some back issues to bring you a selection of vintage snaps, and here are the results...

Review: 100 Years On... The Long Road to Gender Equality Event

Fri 09 Mar 2018

Centenary Cities Nottingham is a city-wide partnership celebrating 100 years since British women were first granted the vote. This event saw women from all over Notts come together to discuss gender equality...

Notes from the Middle Kingdom: In This Our Year of Dog

Mon 19 Feb 2018

The dog days have just begun, and James Kramer, our main man in Beijing, has dropped in to wish us a happy new year. 恭喜發財, Notts!

Talent, Talks and Tapes at Five Leaves McGregor Launch

Wed 14 Feb 2018

Not content to take it easy, author, storyteller, and long-time friend of the mag Jon McGregor has just released his new collection The Reservoir Tapes, hot off the heels of their initial airing on BBC Radio 4. Last Tuesday he made an appearance at Five Leaves Bookshop to launch the collection, so we thought we'd send our Chloe Campbell down to see what he had to say for himself.

13 New Year's Eve Parties You Have To Go To

Mon 25 Dec 2017

How will you be seeing in 2018?

Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Rock City, Stealth and Rescue Rooms with Bicep, Skream, Redlight and More

Wed 13 Dec 2017

It’s about to go off...

26 Nottingham Independents to Buy Creative Christmas Gifts From This Year

Mon 11 Dec 2017

It’s easy to get bogged down in the conveyor belt of tax-dodging chain shops in the UK. You know the story: it’s a few days before Crimbo and you’re wading through the Market Square gaggles, with oodles of ornamental cats and willy-shaped salt shakers spilling out of your arms. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there duck.

This year, you can pack in the panic buys and consult our handy guide to the best independent makers, doers and sellers in Nottingham. That’s right, we’ve rounded up some of the top creative establishments in the city, and have highlighted a few of their top buys to stuff in yer nan’s stocking. Argos? Do one.

5 Places to See Fireworks This Year

Thu 02 Nov 2017

Whether you're a firework fanatic or you just want summat fun to do on a code winter evening, here's the lowdown on this year's Bonfire Night in Notts...

17 Horror, Sci-Fi and Cult Flicks We Caught at This Year's Mayhem Film Festival

Thu 19 Oct 2017

Mayhem was finally back, ensuring a glorious four days of horror, sci-fi and cult cinema goodness. We donned our lanyards, filled our bags full of Relentless (other energy drinks are available) and headed down to Broadway...

Theatre Review: Five Years

Wed 11 Oct 2017

A story of coming of age in the 90s raises the curtain on the Playground festival.

10 Reasons to Visit the Nottingham Spiegeltent This Year

Mon 02 Oct 2017

In October, Old Market Square once again plays host to the magnificent Spiegeltent for a festival full of merriment. These glitzy pavilions were a popular haunt during the twenties to help people forget all the doom and gloom brought by the war, and now it’s returning to Nottingham to brighten up our dull and dreary October days. Here are ten reasons you should get yersen down to the tent as soon as possible.

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