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Interview: Lace Market Media

Lace Market Media have followed up their documentary about The Cockle Man with another well-known Nottingham legend, Annie from Annie's Burger Shack.  We caught up with them to see what's what...

Interview: My Pure Land director Sam Masud

We caught up with Sarmad Masud (Sam to his friends) ahead of the release of his debut feature, My Pure Land at Broadway Cinema

Catching up with former Future Sound of Nottingham winners Super Furniture

Young indie rockers on being in a band and plans for the future...

Interview: Patti Cake$ director Geremy Jasper

We caught up with director Geremy Jasper to talk about his new project, Patti Cake$

The Gorgons Talk Making Music

Dance Theatre Piece Layer Three Grapples with Humanity at Nottingham Contemporary

Kim Bormann recently wowed audiences with her choreography and performance in Layer Three at the Nottingham Contemporary. Staged by Naplew Productions, Layer Three used movement and music to explore how it is we become truly human. We had a chat with Kim about how her choreography evolves, her dabble in the world of acting, and what, for her, it really means to be human...

Interview: Next Door Dance

There's bleddy loads to love about making a home in Notts, and dance troupe Next Door Dance agree: their new piece Home asks peeps what a Notts home means to them...

Blues Singer Louis Antoniou Discusses His Latest Single And Playing In Nottingham

Watch the music video for the song I Don't Want No More Woes...

Neil Fulwood talks about the making of his debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It

“The poems are entirely personal expressions. There’s nothing owed, no debt to anybody else’s artistic legacy”

From Lithuania to Lenton: Stephan Collishaw talks fiction, education, and travel

Author, publisher, teacher and family man Stephan Collishaw has made a name for himself with his Lithuanian lit publishing press Noir, and his own thriller writing. We had him in for a chat about books, Lithuania and Nottingham with the editor of the NottsLit blog.

Interview with Twin Kidd ahead of their appearance at Dot To Dot Festival

We put some questions to the electro-pop three-piece who will be playing two sets on Sunday...

Interview: Thibault Delferiere

How one artist makes his unique body into art.

DJ Format and Abdominal Interview

Fourteen years ago, the rapper and DJ were guilty of Ill Culinary Behaviour on Format's debut album, Music For The Mature B-Boy. After years of featuring on each other's solo albums, they're now back with a full album made together called Still Hungry. Before their gig at Rescue Rooms on 11 May we sat down with Abdominal and Format to chew the fat...

Michael Rother Interview

The legendary German musician on Kraftwerk, Neu!, Harmonia, Bowie and Brexit…

Manchester Band The Slow Readers Club Play The Bodega and Dot To Dot Festival

The Manchester band have just been announced for this year's Dot To Dot Festival and play The Bodega this Thursday...

Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation Interview and Exclusive Playlist

Josefin and Fred from the band have answered a few questions for us and curated a selection of songs to get us in the mood for their show on Friday at Nottingham Contemporary...

Six By Seven Return to the Nottingham Stage

In their early-noughties heyday, alt rockers Six By Seven toured Europe, played various festivals, chalked up five Peel Sessions, appeared on Later… with Jools Holland, and were invited by none other than David Bowie to perform at his curated Meltdown Festival. Following the 6 Music breakfast show playing Eat Junk Become Junk, and the resulting fan-led campaign to get it to Christmas number one in 2015, The Closer You Get lineup of the band are reforming for a couple of special shows in Nottingham and London. Chris Olley, Six By Seven’s leader since their inception in the mid-nineties, talks us through it all…

An Interview with Glaswegian Band Civic Pride

A Glaswegian band forming more and more links to Nottingham

Eagulls on their Second Album

The Leeds band discuss their second album, Bill Murray, and playing The Chameleon…

Interview: 8mm Orchestra Ahead of Their Vinyl EP Launch at NVA

"...we wanted to get away from the post-rock eight minuters and come up with riffs and lots of movement and parts"

Billie Interview

"I loved singing Hannah Montana and would record myself over and over until I got the best take"

Filmmaker Interview: Jonathan Hawes

We had a chat with the Notts bred filmmaker and his recent short film On the Wagon

Interview: We Are Scientists

"It’s actually a pretty frequent problem for me - I wear a lot of hats in public, to thwart inappropriate hair tousling"

Interview: David Lilley talks Short Stack

We spoke to the man behind the regular short film screening event

Interview: Ben Wheatley talks High-Rise

We spoke to the film director about his latest film, in cinemas now, adapted from the JG Ballard novel