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What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Some daft, some daring, and some down right cheeky...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Couple news stories from last month...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Last month's news. You lot are daft.

Daisy Godfrey on The Grease Soundtrack and Her New EP

You’d be hard-pushed to miss Daisy Godfrey if you saw her in public; her mighty mane of orange hair broadcasts her presence the second she walks through the door. A singer-songwriter and sturdy staple of the city’s busking scene, the local lass joins us for a natter about music, relaxation, and the stark bloody wonder that is Olivia Newton-John...

Save Our Heritage with Notts Mining Museum

Ann Donlan and Eric Eaton have got together in an attempt to launch the Notts Mining Museum, in commemoration of our history dahn pit. But they need your help...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

The wackiest news from the month of June...

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...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going on around and about the city for the past month...

Comedy Writer Lee Stuart Evans Talks Debut Novel Words Best Sung

You may not instantly recognise his name, but Lee Stuart Evans has left his mark all over our telly boxes. Having written for shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, A League of Their Own, Live at the Apollo and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, he’s now turned his hand to novel writing. We spoke to him about his Nottingham-based debut, Words Best Sung…

The Herbert Kilpin's Hop Pop Up: A Marriage of Food and Beer

It seems a few folks - including myself - misunderstood the game here… It’s not about matching the right beer to your food, it's having the beer added to your food while it's being prepared. Bloody genius. 

Cara does The Place Is Here Exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary

As well as Thatcher, MC Hammer and boomboxes, the eighties also saw the launch of the National Black Art Convention. Nottingham Contemporary is exhibiting work from thirty different artists and collectives from the movement, so we sent our vlogger Cara to see what it's all about...

The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary

There are some things from the eighties that we’ve – thankfully – waved goodbye to: Grolsch bottle tops on your shoes, poodle perms and the painfully long loading time of the Spectrum ZX. Some things, however, have stuck around like proverbial bad smells. Things like a lack of diverse representation on our television screens, oppressive and suppressive politics and political leaders, racism and xenophobia. Nottingham Contemporary’s latest exhibition, The Place Is Here, holds both colonial and modern Britain to account, unashamedly points the finger, and demands a response.

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...

De La Soul Talk Crowdfunding Their Latest Release

Since releasing their debut 3 Feet High And Rising in 1989, De La Soul have been hip hop pioneers. Eight albums and almost three decades later, they decided to forsake record labels and crowdfunded their latest release, and the Anonymous Nobody…, instead. We chatted to founder member Posdnuos about Kickstarter, guest vocalists and their upcoming Rock City gig…

The Heritage Sector and the Problem of the Constructed Identity

An essay on the way heritage and culture should be collated and presented inclusively in a modern age without leaning towards nostalgia…

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about the city for the past month or so...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about the city over the past month or so...

Graphic Novel Dawn of the Unread Book Launch at Antenna

The Nottingham book – packed full of zombies and local literary figures – has defied all norms and transformed from an online graphic novel to a printed version. We got down to the book launch at Antenna on Beck Street, where our literature editor and Dawn of the Unread creator spoke about our city's history as well as what we need to get heads in pages...

Katie Half-Price Reviews George Monbiot's Latest Book

Nottingham's orangest reviewer tells us what's up with How Did We Get into this Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature...

Georgie Talks Columbia Records, Touring with Jake Bugg and Her Debut Single

Mansfield-born singer-songwriter Georgie played a triumphant show at Rock City last Friday, supporting Jake Bugg on a night when fans celebrated two of the brightest talents to have emerged from Nottingham’s music industry in recent years. Alex Thorp spoke with her before the Leeds leg of the tour to talk about signing with Columbia Records, inspiring the next generation of musicians, and being able to give up her job at a Chinese takeaway…

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The Lord of Milan: The Story of Nottingham-born AC Milan Founder Herbert Kilpin

Did you know that the founder of AC Milan hails from Nottingham? No, neither did we until recently

Gabriele Reuter on her Dance Show, The Amplitude

The show that describes itself as where "movement and sound collide in space" is at Lakeside Arts Centre