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Stupod #2,Stupod

The long-awaited return of the best student podcast in Notts - with added Nottingham-speak and tunes ahoy

Interview: Thompson Brothers

"We’ve seen the world. We’ve been to Ireland and we’ve been to Crete, and we don’t want to see the rest"

Samantha Morton at Broadway Cinema

"I spoke in a really broad Notts accent when I met Woody Allen, you can take the girl out of Notts, but you can’t take the Notts out of the girl"

P Brothers

"You have to have a strong reason for putting any kind of music out there, don’t just dash it out for the sake of it!"

Why I Became A Magpie

When I walk my dog on the local park every day I try not to become too disheartened by the number of kids wearing Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool shirts

Drop In The Ocean Shelter

We paid a visit to the children’s shelter in Phnom Peng that The Drop In The Ocean Festival helped to build…

Stupod #1

Rosa introduces her new show aimed towards the studying residents of Notts.

Seven rising stars from Television Workshop

Samantha Morton might get all the press, but here are seven other rising stars from the Television Workshop in Nottingham...

Interview: Late of The Pier

"When you don’t really know how to play an instrument, in some ways, you end up being more creative or at least experimental"

Interview: Chuck Palahniuk

"Every book represents a portion of your life, kind of like a scrapbook. Fight Club is like reading a journal from fifteen years ago"

Nottingham Playhouse Turns Sixty

Nottingham Playhouse: into its sixtieth year, and more than just the building that wears the Sky Mirror like a big earring

Students Who Stayed

Apparently, Nottingham has the highest level of student retention in the UK – our students are more likely to stay here after they graduate than anywhere else. Lazy-arsed wasters trying to cling onto their halcyon days of cheap booze, or indisputable proof that Nottingham is ace? We spoke to three people who decided to stick around after their course…

May Contain Notts: Aug-Sept 2008

Robin Hood quits, Council buy Jaguars, Adlington wins gold medal, DG installs CCTV, 73-year-old jailed for concrete attack and Forest fans banned

Interview: Jimmy Sirrel

Legendary Notts County manager Jimmy Sirrel has died. Here's an interview we did with him last year...

Bar Wars: Revenge of the Staff

This is what happens when you piss off the bar staff on a Saturday night...

Street art photos from Tom Quigley

S. Mark Gubb

"The eighties was possibly one of the crappest decades, with The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, the miners strike, Thatcher’s Britain..."

Interview: Sir Ian McKellen on Playing Arthur Seaton

Before becoming a national treasure, Sir Ian McKellen was the first actor to play Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’s Arthur Seaton on stage. He did this as part of the Nottingham Playhouse’s inaugural season in 1963-64. It was in a ten-week run that rammed out the new building and delighted critics and audiences alike…

Interview: The Petebox

"My relationship with beatboxing is a strange one; sometimes I love it, and sometimes it bores the hell out of me"

Interview: Sorrel Muggridge

"I have a sense of how long a minute is, and how long a mile is, but I don’t have any sense of what 3478 miles feels like"

Dollop @ The Bodega Social Club

Sia and Har Mar Superstar

WritiN Words on your Street

"The aim of WritiN was to create a new Nottingham poem, written by young people, about their Nottingham"

LIVE: Smashing Pumpkins

Admittedly, it took the band about five or six songs to look warmed up, but as soon as Superchrist struck, the arena was rumbling

Interview: Roni Size

"Working with any established artist is a next level thing. You learn as a producer that there are stages in a producer’s life and working with those guys you realise that you’re in first class."