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Metronome Have Expanded Their Virtual Line Up with Three Events from Nottingham Poetry Festival featuring Henry Normal

Following the success of the virtual festival and a string of gigs at the latter end of 2020, the venue announced further big names for their Metronome Sessions… 

Be Scene and Heard: Video Showcase

Blather: The Series - Hockley Types

Check out the second in our Blather film series: Hockley Types, directed by Tim Doubleday and starring Justine Emma Moore & Sophie Bloor

Food Review: Uramaki

Posh sushi straight to your door...

The Carousel Launches International Womxn's Day Exhibition

The project showcases artists from all over the UK and is created by womxn, about womxn, to celebrate womxn...

Gallery Review: Interstitia: A Cyber Multiverse

What are art exhibitions like during a pandemic? Whilst we wait for normality to reappear and galleries to open their doors again, creatives turn to unknown territory - exhibiting their works digitally and trying to redefine what it means to experience art...

Beeston Film Festival returns for its seventh year

Beeston Film Festival is set to return for its seventh year.

International Women's Day: #Choosetochallenge in Music

International Women's Day 2021: Women Who #ChooseToChallenge

In celebration of International Women's Day 2021, we've complied a list of articles showcasing times in which Nottingham Women have actively chosen to challenge the norm...

Dead Quiet is a New Short Film That’s a Different Viewing Experience Because of Lockdown

Screen section co-editor Jamie Morris talks to filmmaker Alex Withers about how the pandemic has changed the way people will experience Dead Quiet, his new short film...

Interview and Video: Watch Re Teu's Isle Of Dogs (Orchestral Version)

Re Teu catches up with our Ellie as he revisits his track 'Isle of Dogs', offering a new orchestral version, complete with a stunning video. Read on for chats on personal goals, film scores, revisiting the song and his thoughts on the Nottingham music scene... 

Creative Incubators: Nottingham's Music Studio Scene

A rite of passage for musicians with a hunger to progress their ideas. A collaborative creative melting pot. A place to make memories with your mates and, for some, a lifeline. From Rockfield to the Brownswood Basement and the recent rise of Digital Holdings, the UK hosts a number of iconic music studios that have moved on from simply being a place to lay down some tracks. Adding to this is a steadily growing number of studios in Nottingham. Eileen Pegg takes a look at the role these spaces play for the creative community, speaking with established hubs in the city and those launched over the past ten turbulent months...

Nottingham Creatives Launch New Platform To Tackle Everyday Racism

Be The Change, launched by Yasmin Bryan and Jade Vowles of The Media Group UK, is already being used in schools in help educate in the fight against racism... 

Follow the Rebel Writers Trail on World Book Day

Can you find all thirteen plaques?

Framework's Winter Appeal Raises £232,000 to Support Work with Homeless People

The Nottingham charity's Winter appeal, which organisers hoped would raise £60,000, made £231,687.22 to support their work with homeless people...

Deep Fakes From Nottingham History

Ever wondered what it would be like to see video of historical figures who existed before video cameras? We've deep faked some figures from Nottingham history so you need wonder no more...

Southwell Music Festival set to return in 2021

The programme of classical and choral music, which takes place in the heart of Nottinghamshire, is scheduled to return this August...

Notts Filmmaker Jay Martin to Direct BBC Documentaries

Two Free Doughnotts For Every LeftLion King Supporter on Patreon

Yes, you read it right. We're giving away a couple of Nottingham's tastiest donuts to our beloved King supporters. Read on to find out how to get your mitts on them...

5 New Notts Albums You Need to Listen to

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

Food Review: Big Guys Thiccc Sauce

These sauces lit a fire under our bellehs...

Black Iris Brewery’s Director Alex Wilson on Producing Beers for Ten Years

Black Iris Brewery celebrate their tenth birthday later this year. We caught up with Director Alex Wilson to talk artwork, music, history and that time that they raised a smile from Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies...

The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner: Reimagining Sillitoe During Covid

On the event of Sir Tom Courtenay's 84th birthday, Dawn of the Unread's James Walker has re-written The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in the time of COVID. His take on Alan Sillitoe's classic work, re-titled as The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner, is being launched on Twitter today at 5pm...

Nusic New Music Podcast #244 with Chloe Rodgers, Bru-C, Wolf Club, Sade Ebone and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features the launch of sad-boy UKG, the artist selling his own condoms, plus the song that makes us think of pandas. 

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Metronome Announces New Series of Virtual Events Starting in March

After the success of the first fully-virtual Nottingham Poetry Festival in November, as well as their live-streamed gigs, the Metronome Sessions will see the Notts venue host a new series of virtual events beginning this March...