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A Rough Guide to Nottingham's Games Workshop

Tue 05 Nov 2013

A company that has has captured the imagination of millions in its lifetime, Games Workshop is a recession-ignoring international institution that has its rather uniquely designed headquarters a stones throw from the QMC and University of Nottingham. We trace its impressive trajectory in popular culture.

Mayhem Film Festival 2013 Preview

Wed 30 Oct 2013

Mayhem Film Festival has been striking fear, and laughter, into the hearts of cinema goers for over eight years with line-ups rammed to the bloody hilt with exclusive screenings and cult classics. We spoke to directors Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil, the men who control an audience’s heart rate for four full days...

Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend

Sun 06 Oct 2013

He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.

Interview: Mother Nottingham Su Pollard

Thu 26 Sep 2013

For the last decade she’s been our unofficial mascot. Su Pollard, or ‘Mother Nottingham’ as we like to call her. She made her name in TV series like Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M’Lord? She even got to number two in the UK singles charts in 1986 - a time when that actually meant something. She’s coming home this December as Theatre Royal have confirmed her for this year’s panto. We finally hooked her up with Nottingham’s Mr Sex...

Nottingham by Balloon

Fri 20 Sep 2013

Notts as seen from the baskets of our intrepid local balloonists

Interview: Derek Randall

Fri 30 Aug 2013

A whippet of a fielder and a fidgety, gifted batsman; Derek ‘Rags’ Randall was one of the best loved and most eccentric cricketers in the history of Nottinghamshire and England cricket.

Interview: Stephanie Sirr on The Golden Years of Nottingham Playhouse

Fri 16 Aug 2013

The Nottingham Playhouse celebrates fifty years at Wellington Circus this September. We spoke to Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr about the venue, their history and their plans to celebrate...

Interview: JT Soar

Mon 15 Jul 2013

Using a DIY ethos, Joe, Phil and Nick from Nottingham punk band Plaids have turned an old fruit and veg warehouse at the back of Sneinton Market into a music and arts space. Run as a co-operative, together they’ve created a one-of-a-kind venue that’s already hosted bands from all over Europe and the US of A.

"Bring Back Mat" - How Artist Mat Collishaw Re-Connected With Nottingham

Fri 21 Jun 2013

We speak with Matt at Backlit Studios to talk zoetropes, myth-making and the crucial influence of Wollaton Hall...

Nottingham Legends

Thu 23 May 2013

After his iconic Byron Clough painting, Rikki Marr asked a group of artists to share their takes on other members of Notts royalty...

Homelessness in Nottingham

Wed 17 Apr 2013

Nottingham has kept its ‘rough sleeping’ numbers well below the national average. What’s happening differently here to elsewhere?

Interview: Andy Reid

Fri 08 Mar 2013

He arrived at Forest at the turn of the century from Dublin, put in five years graft, moved up to the Premiership, was pinged around four different clubs, came back in 2011.

BamaLamaSingSong

Thu 21 Feb 2013

A hark-back to old-school sing-songs round the pub joanna, karaoke for cowards, or a genuine communal event?

Dating in Nottingham

Thu 14 Feb 2013

Wondering how to meet someone in Nottingham? We sent our community editor out to investigate speed dating, online dating and going to a meat market

May Contain Notts: Dec 2012 - Jan 2013

Fri 08 Feb 2013

"Winter Wonderland opens in the Square. Jesus Christ, what gibbon in the Council House stopped licking lead paint off a stick long enough"

Nottingham Ball Bois

Thu 10 Jan 2013

The Nottingham Ball Bois - your gay-friendly neighbourhood football team - are one of the few local clubs in a national league. But, as Scott Lawley (chair and full-back) and Craig Simpson (player-manager) point out, they do a lot more...

We Are The 25%: The Creative Quarter Launches

Sun 16 Dec 2012

The Creative Quarter: another regeneration project, an attempt to catapult Nottingham into the big league of British cities, a massive hand-out for the city’s arty sorts, or the last attempt to drag the city out of its chain-shop morass? Toby Reid, Director of BioCity and Creative Quarter committee member, reveals the people who will be tasked with shaping the destiny of The Lace Market over the next decade - and don’t look now, but one of them could be you...

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2012

Sun 02 Dec 2012

The news diary that leaves its Christmas lights up all year round and doesn’t give a toss what the neighbours think

Roller Derby Teams in Nottingham

Fri 23 Nov 2012

The Hellfire Harlots have just won team of the year at the Nottingham Sports Awards. We have a chat to them and the Nottingham Roller Girls about the sport

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse

Tue 23 Oct 2012

If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...

Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine

Tue 23 Oct 2012

It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.

Goose Fair in the 1890s

Mon 01 Oct 2012

Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…