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Interview: Darren Fletcher

Mon 06 Jun 2011

Darren Fletcher is the Arnold lad who gets paid to go to the World Cup and the Super Bowl, gets his feet under assorted press boxes for Five Live, banters with the entire UK about footy and hosts the An Evening With... nights at the Approach. And he knows Robbie Savage...

Interview: Liam Bailey

Mon 06 Jun 2011

He’s knocked about with Damian Marley and Aswad’s Brinsley Forde. His new album is produced by Salaam Remi, of Fugees and Nas fame. He’s been at No.5 with Chase and Status, he’s signed to Polydor, and Amy Winehouse has got his tea on. Yep, things have moved on a bit for Liam Bailey since he played LeftLion gigs back in the day, but he’s still proper Notts...

Interview: Tim Smith of Fourmost Films

Mon 06 Jun 2011

Fourmost Films come from the Shop stable with a can-do attitude, a string of short films that have garnered attention from all over the place and a hunger to turn Nottingham into one of the hubs of the UK indie-film scene. Head honcho Tim Smith manages to drag his head from the edit suite long enough to spell out his masterplan…

Interview: Marcus Clarke

Mon 06 Jun 2011

Marcus Clarke and his wife Helena Smee have spent the last twenty years in a Sherwood house full of dismembered body parts. Calm down, Officer – they’re only keeping their hands in as one of the UK’s foremost puppet-based production companies with a list of credits as long as, well, your arm…

Preview: Americana International

Mon 06 Jun 2011

"I’ve been driving for fifty years – all sorts of cars, American and British – but the American cars are not like anything else you’ll see"

Interview: Architects of Air

Fri 06 May 2011

Sticking bits of plastic together for Architects of Air is a rite of passage for many a Nottingham arts graduate. The resulting pneumatic sculptures - known as luminaria - have toured the world, celebrating the beauty of light and colour. This June they’ll be drifting down to land at Lakeside, so time for a chat with AoA’s artistic director Alan Parkinson….

Interview: Justin Moorhouse

Wed 27 Apr 2011

"Hostility isn't a problem, really, indifference is much worse. If people are indifferent you can't change them."

A Canadian on the Royal Wedding

Tue 26 Apr 2011

Rob Cutforth can’t wait for the royal event of the decade...

Interview: Royal Gala

Sun 17 Apr 2011

Royal Gala is an eighteen-legged ska-reggae-funk music phenomenon from Notts. The band was put together by guitarist James Waring and is fronted by vocalist Lou Barnell, with seven other musos also along for the ride. But this is no ‘manufactured’ group. It’s more like a load of random mentalists thrown together in a
room full of instruments and dance drugs and told to play or die. As you may guess, we rather like the noise they make…

The Heavy Sounds

Sun 10 Apr 2011

We have a word with Clint Harris, owner of The Heavy Sounds in West End Arcade...

Interview: Richard Herring

Sun 10 Apr 2011

From TV fame as part of Lee and Herring in the nineties to the comedy wilderness in the early noughties and back again; the career of Richard Herring has always been interesting. Over the last few years he’s become a regular on 6Music, a prolific podcaster and come to within an inch of winning Celebrity Mastermind. We caught up with him before his appearance at the Playhouse…

Interview: Alistair McGowan

Wed 06 Apr 2011

Alistair McGowan is best known for his work as an impersonator on prime-time TV shows like The Big Impression and Spitting Image. But as well as being able to turn his tongue to just about anyone, he’s also an experienced actor and writer, having been awarded a BAFTA and nominated for an Olivier. So what’s he doing spending the best part of April in Notts you might wonder…?

Interview: Andy Barrett

Fri 01 Apr 2011

Andy Barrett has been creating community drama events and site-specific performances in Notts for years, as well as writing plays such as Garage Band and a musical about Dolly the sheep. We caught up with him as he prepared for the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival (NEAT).

Interview: Writing East Midlands

Fri 01 Apr 2011

As the Cleggeron takes a hatchet to the arts we decided to have a chat with Henderson Mullin, head of Writing East Midlands (WEM), to see how his organisation may be able to help local writers survive difficult times...

Interview: Billy Ivory

Wed 23 Mar 2011

"You can’t take wide shots of the countryside around Eastwood without Ikea getting in the way"

May Contain Notts: Feb-March 2011

Fri 11 Mar 2011

Mark Kennedy, pe crematoriums, Operation Mansfield, lizard dragons in the loft and the ongoing saga of Broadmarsh vs Viccy Centre

Interview: Don McCalman

Fri 04 Mar 2011

Don McCalman worked through the dark ages of Nottingham nightlife; a time when door staff were bouncers, a lobbing down a flight of stairs was an acceptable way to deal with an errant customer and the profession was completely unregulated. Then he wrote a book about it...

Nottdance 2011

Sun 27 Feb 2011

Nottdance, run by terpsichorean titans Dance4, is one of the longest-running dance festivals in the UK. To celebrate the festival's 21st birthday, Dance4 is laying out the biggest series of events yet and, according to Chief Executive and Artistic Director Paul Russ, nowhere is off-limits...

Interview: Ace Bhatti

Tue 22 Feb 2011

With an acting career that has already taken in the likes of Cardiac Arrest, Emmerdale, Bend It Like Beckham, Band Of Gold, Coronation Street and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Ace Bhatti – from the extremely North London borough of Sneinton - is the newest cast member of EastEnders…