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The Maze's Gaz Peacham on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sun 22 Jan 2012"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"
Nick Turner from The Chameleon on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sat 21 Jan 2012"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"
Interview: Harleighblu
Thu 19 Jan 2012Incredibly talented, effortlessly cool, immaculate influences - no wonder labels are perking their ears to the old-school, big band soul of Harleighblu...
Interview: Roger Caney
Thu 12 Jan 2012Roger Caney: He’s seen more live music in Notts than you. Come, take his hand and let him lead you through the toilet venues of Nottingham...
Nottingham Record Labels in 2011
Wed 11 Jan 2012Every Nottingham record label we can think of, what they’re into, and if they’re up for listening to your demo...
Interview: Manière des Bohémiens
Wed 28 Dec 2011French for ‘Manner of the Gypsies’, according to Babel Fish - Manière des Bohémiens' infectious, rapturous, blindingly improvised Romany swing music is massively popular in Notts...
Interview: Captain Dangerous
Tue 27 Dec 2011"I made the mistake of getting drunk and inviting the whole bar back to mine. I hadn’t told my girlfriend and she was upstairs in tears being comforted by Dick Venom"
May Contain Notts: Oct - Nov 2011
Thu 22 Dec 2011Masturbatory Gesture Goat is DEAD, garden-pilfery, and Derby's Xmas lights get nicked...
Interview: Hot Japanese Girl
Wed 21 Dec 2011"He offers us this contract and cuts his hand open, drizzles blood all over it and signs his name. I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong"
Interview: Baby Godzilla
Tue 13 Dec 2011"Smoke started coming out of the back of the van just as we got our tickets from the Eurostar. About ten yards later, the engine just stalled"
Bantum TV: With Will of I'm Not From London
Fri 09 Dec 2011Our cheeky roving reporter Simeon catches Will Robinson with his trousers down
The Revamped Sneinton Market and Orchard
Thu 08 Dec 2011"Even if people don't respond to art, they can understand and enjoy an apple tree in blossom"
Interview: Will Robinson of I'm Not From London
Wed 07 Dec 2011Riots, cagefighting, Hollywood actresses, ghost buses, Mexican wrestling and contracts signed in blood. It's all in a night's work for promoter Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London Label...
I'm Not From London Photoshoot
Tue 06 Dec 2011Ralph Barklam went on the buses with Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London label
Behind the scenes: LeftLion #44 photoshoot 2
Tue 06 Dec 2011The second in our 'behind the scenes' galleries of the cover shoot involving nearly 500 of the city's musicians - this time by Ralph Barklam
Interview: Smallkid
Sun 20 Nov 2011From creating iconic flyers for Detonate to massive pieces at Glastonbury, Nathan Bainbridge - under the nom de spray of Kid 30 (Smallkid) – has become one of the city’s premier street artists. Here’s a chance to have a nose through his scrapbook...
Interview: Johnny Crump
Wed 02 Nov 2011Johnny Crump is a turntablist-stroke-producer-stroke-artist who be flexing his considerable skills live at our Gunpowder, Treason and Pot night at Nottingham Contemporary this November…
Interview: Nottingham Panther's Jeff Heerema and Rob Lachowicz
Wed 02 Nov 2011While Forest and County bumble along in their respective (lower) divisions, the most successful professional sports team in Nottingham quietly goes about its business of hoovering up trophies left and right – and this season they’re making a serious run at winning their first league title since 1955. They’re your Nottingham Panthers, and two
of them – right-winger Jeff Heerema from Thunder Bay, Ontario and left-winger Rob Lachowicz from Wollaton – had a word with us…
Interview: Mimm's Nathaniel Coltrane
Wed 02 Nov 2011Mimm: it’s a clothes shop. And an art gallery. And a record label. And a club night. And according to owner Nathaniel Coltrane, it’s only just started…
Interview: The Lambhorse Cabaret
Sat 29 Oct 2011The Lambhorse Cabaret: 21st century vaudeville for the theatrical underclass, a party like it’s 1889, or a gloriously elaborate arse-about through the city’s biggest dressing-up box? Time to ask founder and Ringmaster Mark Evans who he and his confederates think they are…
Interview: Missimp
Mon 24 Oct 2011After over a decade of high-energy improvised comedy shows, Nottingham’s very own MissImp now have a regular residency at Glee. Nick Tyler, Lloydie, Marilyn Bird and Martin Findell are four of the group’s regular performers; they spoke to us in the style of… (opens envelope) a dead pop star who has…(opens another envelope) just found out that their dad has had a sex change…
A Canadian at Goose Fair
Wed 05 Oct 2011We dispatched our resident CanAlien Rob Cutforth off to Goose Fair, and told him not to come back without a slab of coconut ice, some brandy snap and an Elvis mirror...
A Canadian On British Tabloids
Tue 13 Sep 2011"I don’t like to judge, but if you were a regular News of the World reader, you are a moron"
Nottingham Comedy Festival
Fri 09 Sep 2011The Nottingham Comedy Festival returns for its third year this September, offering a chance to see some of the greats perform their post-Edinburgh shows - as well as workshops and try-out gigs for aspiring performers. So we collared festival directors Helen Stead and Elliott Bower and asked...
Interview: Roxy Rob
Thu 08 Sep 2011You might know Robert Ivars Michailovs-Mètra as that bloke who walks up Mansfield Road as if he owns the place. You might think of him as a local fashion mogul who actually could have owned it, were it not for the drink. You almost definitely know him as Roxy Rob, and after you’ve read this, you’ll know a little bit more...
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