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Caribbean Carnival 2012

This weekend: get ready to feel the Forest Thump...

Interview: Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn: two small-town Lincolnshire lads who fuse blistering lyrics to brutalist loops, bolt on an uncompromising stage presence, and call it Sleaford Mods.

Nottingham Forest Season Preview: 2012/13

"Play-offs if the owners mean what they say. Threatened by relegation again if they don't"

Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13

"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"

Interview: The Afterdark Movement

Your brand-new Future Sound of Nottingham winners and Splendour-openers spit bars, bend notes, chop beats, defy pigeonholing and kick arse. They’re the Afterdark Movement, and we managed to get two of them - Bru-C and Trekkah - to stand still long enough to hear their story...

Interview: Olympians Grace Carter and Tesni Ward

"When I was six, I told my teacher that I was going to be in the Olympics, and I would buy her a ticket"

A Canadian at the London 2012 Olympics

"I want to lose myself in the joyous atmosphere of the world’s middle class getting together to cheer on its fastest and best at throwing heavy objects"

Interview: Alan Moore

Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...

Interview: The Gramophones

The Gramophones: they’ve been from Lands End to John O’Groats by London Bus, microlight and even DeLoreans. Now they want to show you their holiday snaps in their brand new show, End To End, before they go back up North to Edinburgh for the Fringe. We spoke to Hannah Stone about what it’s like to live a road movie with your mates...

May Contain Notts: June-July 2012

"It dawns upon me that I have spent the entire duration of an episode of Bullseye copping a feel of a husky’s breast implant"

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…

Splendour 2012 gallery

Checkout the photos from our roving band of photographers

Preview: Splendour 2012

A day of fun and music, set in Batman’s back garden...

Interview: Natalie Duncan

Natalie 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...

The Waterfront Festival 2012 in photos

We announce the total raised for charity and look back on a great day out with hundreds of photos

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

Derrick 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...

Poddingham #26: Summertime,Poddingham

Interview: Hetain Patel

Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...

Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey

Whether 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...

Future Sound of Nottingham 2012 in photos

Photos from the contest featuring Joe Danks, Tom Wardle, In The Northwood, Crash Jacket, The Species and eventual winners The Afterdark Movement

Interview: Captain Dangerous

Captain Dangerous’s debut LP The Empire Never Ended is six years in the making. And if you’ve ever lobbed a couple of bob in lead singer Adam Clarkson’s hat, congratulations - you’ve paid towards it...

Dot To Dot 2012

"Come and see your new favourite band in the afternoon, have a few beers, and then come back and see your current favourite band"

Interview: Pirate Technics

Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...

Interview: Derren Brown

Master of magic, mind control and manipulation; Derren Brown has made an international career of persuading people to think and do things they otherwise would not. So when we asked him if he fancied an interview with LeftLion, before the Notts leg of his Svengali tour, we were elated and yet filled with trepidation when he said “yes”…

2nd Nottingham Zine Fair

It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May