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Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero

Sun 27 May 2012

"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"

Interview: Pirate Technics

Thu 24 May 2012

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...

Art Works: Grand Central Station by Anna Griffin

Wed 23 May 2012

"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"

Interview: Derren Brown

Mon 21 May 2012

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”…

Interview: Jenny Sealey

Mon 14 May 2012

Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical

Fri 11 May 2012

Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical

Wed 09 May 2012

This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…

Interview: James Hooton

Sun 29 Apr 2012

He’s spent the last seventeen years playing a member of the most infamous Yorkshire soap family on TV, but James Hooton is still a Nottingham lad through and through. So when he got a call from an old friend who was putting on a play about the Motherland then he decided it was an opportunity worth skipping a few of episodes of Emmerdale for…

FSN 2012 semi finals in photos

Fri 27 Apr 2012

Photos from the new Nottingham music acts who played in the Market Square

Interview: Dilk of Montana Shop

Thu 05 Apr 2012

Stephen Dilks - Dilk, to his friends, the global graffiti community, and huge chunks of wall around the city - celebrates ten years of running specialist shops in town and basically running our local street art scene.

Homeless Film Festival 2012

Mon 02 Apr 2012

This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...

Ben Judd - Songs of Innocence and Experience at Bonington Gallery

Wed 21 Mar 2012

A unique collection of documentary and short film pieces from the video artist and academic Ben Judd

Interview: Dom Flynn from Navigation Brewery

Tue 13 Mar 2012

"I tell my mates I’m going in to sample the brews in the morning, and their faces light up - but if I’ve had a proper night out, it’s not nice"

Sowing Sneinton: Guerilla Gardening

Mon 20 Feb 2012

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t get alarmed now. It’s probably Donya Coward and Suzannah Bedford – collectively known as Sowing Sneinton – who have taken up the cause of guerilla gardening in order to improve the neglected flowerbeds and public spaces of their broken fridge-encrusted neighbourhood…

Interview: Candice Jacobs

Mon 13 Feb 2012

Candice Jacobs has been one of the prime movers of the local art scene over the past decade - as a co-director of the massively influential Moot collective, helping to found the One Thoresby Street gallery and studios, and as an artist in her own right...

Interview: Kirk Spencer

Wed 25 Jan 2012

He's been played on Radio One, 1 Xtra and 6 Music, and has played at Reading and Leeds - not bad for a nineteeen-year old...

Interview: Roger Caney

Thu 12 Jan 2012

Roger 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...

The Grey Topper in Jacksdale

Mon 09 Jan 2012

In the days before Rock City, the Arena or even the Concert Hall, the best music venue in Notts was the Grey Topper in Jacksdale. Tony Hill, author of a new book documenting the club and the bands that passed through it on the way to something far bigger, takes us through his scrapbook…