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February Mix Of The Month: Games With Galaxy Wolf In Space

Thu 13 Feb 2020

In this mix series we invite local DJs to get creative with each issue’s theme. For February's game-themed mag, Galaxy Wolf In Space offers up a set of glitched-out bliss...

JT Soar's Phil Booth: "The gigs aren't here to make money for the space."

Mon 27 Jan 2020

Over the past decade, an angular building in Sneinton has grown into one of the UK’s most revered DIY music spaces. JT Soar, a fruit and potato warehouse turned studio, rehearsal space and gig venue, will celebrate its tenth birthday this month, with founder Phil Booth still very much at the helm. What began in 2010 as a recording studio has slowly but surely become a DIY exemplar, boosting our city’s street cred while simultaneously providing an all-embracing platform for artists from far and wide to flourish. We stopped by for a pre-birthday brew to find out more about JT Soar’s Midas touch…

Skate Nottingham on the Innovative Development of Disused Spaces and How Skateboarding Enriches the Community

Wed 13 Nov 2019

Since last year, more than 1,300 people have engaged in local skate-related activities. Nottingham held the UK’s first city-based festival of skateboarding – combining exhibitions, public talks and film screenings with skate comps and parties – Flo Skatepark was taken into public ownership, and we’ve been featured in international conferences and publications. Nottingham’s skate scene already offers solutions to unloved urban spaces and acute social challenges, yet there’s still so much left to do. Chris Lawton of Skate Nottingham gives us an update on recent events, and looks to the future of skateboarding in the city…

Community Group Friends of the Forest Have Been Protecting Notts' Green Spaces for Over Twenty Years

Tue 11 Jun 2019

For the last twenty years, Friends of the Forest – a community group founded and led by June Perry – has been opposing the Forest Recreation Ground from being built on, defending our right to use the area to enjoy a picnic on a Saturday afternoon, or a kickaround on a Wednesday evening. In other words, for public recreation...

Audiobahn: Recognising the Residents

Sat 01 Jun 2019

Originating as a radio show, Audiobahn is a club night too, celebrating its first birthday in June with Space Dimension Controller. Oliver Payne caught up with organisers Callum and Rory to ponder booking a personal favourite, the importance of the resident DJ and the buzz about our city’s music scene.

Gentleman's Dub Club on Bringing Their Lost In Space Tour to Nottingham

Mon 18 Mar 2019

Renowned for raucous live shows and a coalescent approach to making music, Gentleman’s Dub Club are a nine-man force to be reckoned with. This month sees them return to Nottingham, hot off the heels of the release of their latest album Lost In Space. We grabbed vocalist, Johnny Scratchley, for a chat about his band’s sound, their intergalactic ambitions and the possibility of an alien abduction…

The Attenborough, Beeston, and Chilwell Arts Trail and The Importance of Artist Space

Sun 14 May 2017

At the beginning of June, there's gonna be an art trail in Nottingham South, and our Rita is here to tell us all about it, and provide a little context to the idea...

Space the Band at Spanky Van Dykes in Photos

Wed 12 Apr 2017

Shock, shock. Horror, horror. Everyone's favourite nineties Britpop (with a twist) band showed up in Nottingham after a lengthy hiatus, with new material as well as some golden oldies. We got down to take some snaps of them and local support band Prime...

Tommy Scott from Space Talks Playing Spanky Van Dyke's This Friday

Tue 04 Apr 2017

Calling all Space cadets. We had a little chat with Tommy Scott, lead singer and lyrical master of the nineties-famous Liverpool legends Space, about the band’s new album, getting back together, their tip-top moments as a band and their upcoming gig in Spanky van Dykes...

Karl Collaborative Sharing Space

Sun 12 Feb 2017

Fancy yourself a new office space with loads of cool, creative types? Step this way...

Pint of Science Festival - Space: What's Out There?

Tue 07 Jun 2016

"If we know the mass of the universe, we can better understand its fate. Enough mass will halt the expansion of the universe and cause it to slowly collapse"

Nonsuch Theatre Open Clarendon Street Performance Space

Wed 18 May 2016

"NEAT needs to get bigger and bolder - it now rests on the powers that be to oomph it up a bit"

Cycling in Nottingham: Our Cycling and Road Space Transformation Officer

Wed 20 May 2015

"Bann must have iron leg muscles by now since he took one of those heavy clunkers up Hucknall Road"

Cycling in Nottingham: Our Cycling and Road Space Transformation Officer

Wed 20 May 2015

"Bann must have iron leg muscles by now since he took one of those heavy clunkers up Hucknall Road"

What Notts #3

Mon 09 Mar 2015

Check out what's been happening in Nottingham over the past month

Nottingham Music Venue Accessibility For People In Wheelchairs

Wed 03 Sep 2014

Rob Maddison leads Spaceships Are Cool, drums for electro-funksters Yunioshi, and has a new musical project in the shape of Revenge of Calculon. A longtime performer and gig goer, he’s also been in a wheelchair since 2007. With Nottingham often being touted as having one of the UK’s best live music scenes, and with over eleven million registered disabled people in the country, we spoke to him about the accessibility of local venues and if there’s anything else that can be done to improve them...

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

Thu 12 Jul 2012

Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...

2018: A Space Oddity

Sat 01 Aug 2009

"Nottingham 2018 risks benefiting everyone for a month at the long-term expense of the very people who actually go to watch football in Notts"

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