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Interview: Nottingham Outlaws

Wed 25 Jun 2014

Nottingham Outlaws are one of the Midlands’ top rugby league clubs, boasting more than 200 players across their various senior, academy and junior teams. We caught up with captain and prop forward George Strachan, and committee member and club stalwart Richard Johnson, to talk club history and explain the difference between league and union, as well as bus fires, boozing and bingo...

Interview: Kogumaza

Wed 18 Jun 2014

Our music is about finding patterns, bending and pulling, twisting, distorting and invertingWith a name that roughly translates from Japanese in to English as Ursa Minor, a constellation in the Northern Sky, it’s apt that Kogumaza have spent the best part of five years creating hypnotic, beguiling music that can often feel otherworldly. Between them Chris, Katy, Mark and Neil have been involved in the local music scene for twenty years, from playing in numerous bands, putting on shows, designing posters, and even hosting a show on Radio Trent. On the eve of the release of their second full length album, three of the band speak to LeftLion...

Interview: Ed Clancy on The Milk Race

Fri 13 Jun 2014

Once the most prestigious bike race in the country, The Milk Race was an annual cycling event, sponsored by the now-defunct Milk Marketing Board, that ran from 1958 until 1993. After a twenty-year hiatus, it returned to the streets of Nottingham city centre last year and looks set to be a regular event on the sporting calendar. We spoke to professional competitor Ed Clancy, an Olympic gold cyclist, about the sprint on two wheels.

Interview: Jeremy Deller

Wed 11 Jun 2014

Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller’s work is chock-full of the politics of working class Britain, from the miners’ strike and riots to the effects of the Industrial Revolution on popular culture. Mark Patterson remembers his own experiences of riots, before trying to pin down the evasive Deller for a few answers...

Interview: London Grammar

Fri 06 Jun 2014

The band known for their single Wasting My Young Years have been doing anything but. They met at the University of Nottingham in 2009 and by 2012 London Grammar managed to not only graduate, but land themselves a record deal. They’re also now the proud owners of a platinum selling debut album. Clever stuff. Guitarist Dan Rothman talks about Hoodtown, No Tomorrow Festival and, of course, hair...

Interview: Wolfgang Buttress

Thu 29 May 2014

Wolfgang Buttress has put angel’s wings and a halo above a London street, woven metal trees into The Lace Market, created floating spheres in Belfast and mapped the universe in Australia. We talked to him at his studio about art, science, football... and a very special collaboration with Tindersticks in June.

Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra

Fri 23 May 2014

The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…

Notts TV

Tue 20 May 2014

Notts TV is gearing up for its launch in May. We caught up with the Channel Director, Jamie Brindle, a former Producer for Radio Nottingham’s Morning Show, to find out what to expect from day one and beyond...

Interview: Rhythm Plate

Tue 13 May 2014

Matt Rhythm and Ant Plate were two youngsters wandering around Matlock with no direction or hope. This all changed when they met and realised that together they could conquer the world of deep house and strut a funkier path than anyone had strutted before. We challenged them to a tea drinking contest and, when caffeined up, asked them a bunch of questions...

Interview: Michael Holt

Wed 07 May 2014

Michael ‘The Hitman’ Holt was once known for punching tables and swearing during matches. He’s calmed down a bit now and currently ranks 22nd in the world. We caught up with him while on a break at the 2014 Welsh Open...

Interview: Anthony Hamilton

Tue 06 May 2014

Known for his break building, Anthony ‘The Sheriff of Pottingham’ Hamilton has made over two hundred competitive century breaks in his career. Currently ranked 42nd in the world, we chatted to him about having one of the silliest careers out there...

Interview: Gilles Peterson

Wed 30 Apr 2014

Gilles Peterson is more than just a DJ, he’s a national institution. A record collector extraordinaire, a BBC radio host for almost two decades and a hero to crate diggers worldwide. We gave him a ring ahead of his Mimm gig...

Interview: Torvill and Dean

Tue 08 Apr 2014

It’s thirty years since Torvill and Dean became global megastars by getting an unprecedented score in the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics for their Bolero performance. This April they return home for the Dancing on Ice Tour and as part of the NEAT14 festival the Nottingham public will be encouraged to enact a mass Bolero. We put some questions to the duo and take a look back at that moment when they made sporting history…

Interview: Indiana

Mon 07 Apr 2014

Whirlwind doesn’t describe the last two years of Indiana’s life - since her first ever live performance at Nusic’s Future Sound of Nottingham gig in April 2012; she’s been signed to Sony, had a second child, is set to release her fourth single and play a hometown gig that’s going to struggle to contain her. Not too shabby for a lass from Long Eaton who likes her pop a darker shade of grey…

Interview: Youthoracle

Wed 02 Apr 2014

"As soon as you bring something quite personal up about someone, or expose them for something, you’ve won really"

Interview: Pippa Hennessy

Thu 13 Mar 2014

Pippa Hennessy is a one woman whirling dervish of creativity whose diary alone is enough to make a busy person’s head spin. She lets us in on the
secrets of her success...

Interview: Nicola L Robinson

Wed 05 Mar 2014

Nicola L Robinson spends her days drawing dragons, monsters, machines that don’t conform to health and safety standards, and scenes from beloved children’s stories. The Monster Machine, a book she both wrote and illustrated, was shortlisted for the Cambridge Children’s Picture Book Award. We dragged her away from claw and tooth littered desk to talk about her work.

Interview: Karl Hilton of Crytek UK

Tue 18 Feb 2014

Minding its own business on Canal Street is a games studio so inconspicuous that we had to stick our heads in to believe it. While we were there, Crytek UK’s Managing Director Karl Hilton talked to us about the industry, surprising uses for games development, and his work on some of the best-selling and most highly regarded first-person-shooters ever.

Interview: Airheads Inflatable Crowds

Thu 06 Feb 2014

What to do when you’re making a film and you need a few thousand people for a crowd scene. It’s a logistical nightmare that has plagued directors since the dawn of cinema. But not any more thanks to Airheads who have inflatable extras by the dozen and none of them will let you down…hopefully.

Interview: George Akins of Rock City

Thu 16 Jan 2014

George Akins lived the dream of every music-loving teenager when he was given the keys to Rock City as his eighteenth birthday present. Since then he’s taken it up a notch by adding more venues, a national promotions company and a roster of acts to his empire. By George, hasn’t he done well?

Interview: Saint Raymond

Fri 03 Jan 2014

If anyone can take Jake Bugg’s crown in 2014 our money is on Callum Burrows’ musical alter-ego, Saint Raymond...

Interview: Corey Neilson of Nottingham Panthers

Thu 02 Jan 2014

Last season Corey Neilson led Nottingham Panthers to their most successful season ever. They did a clean sweep of all three trophies winning the regular season title, the Challenge Cup and the play-offs. Can they repeat the feat again this year?

Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

Thu 19 Dec 2013

Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...

Interview: Ross Bradshaw from Five Leaves Bookshop

Thu 12 Dec 2013

We’re in the middle of a recession. People can barely afford to put on their heating let alone buy something as luxurious as a book. Yet Five Leaves publisher Ross Bradshaw has taken the brave decision to open an independent bookshop. Thank goodness someone has got some balls… and books.

Interview: Adam Dixon and Harry Martin from Beeston Hockey Club

Wed 11 Dec 2013

Local lad Adam Dixon and Ipswich import Harry Martin are midfield partners for current national champions Beeston Hockey Club, as well as international regulars for both Great Britain and England. We popped along to discuss nights out in Nottingham, the highs and lows of the Olympics, and those pesky Panthers...

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