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Interview: Peter Bowles
Wed 28 Nov 2012Peter Bowles went from a childhood in Hyson Green to an acting career that spans the early days of television, the golden age of sitcoms and the admiration of Marlon Brando - and he owes much of it to a theatre in town that now carries his name...
Interview: Play No Games
Tue 27 Nov 2012The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts
Interview: Don Masson
Thu 15 Nov 2012Club skipper during the iconic Jimmy Sirrel era that propelled the club from the bottom to the top. Part of the QPR team that lost the league by one point in 1976. A key component of the doomed Scotland '78 World Cup squad. A prodigal son who finished his career helping his beloved 'Pies into the top flight. There's been 150 years of Notts County football, and - according to those who saw him in action - no-one has played it better than Don Masson...
Interview: MulletProofPoet
Wed 24 Oct 2012"I started when I was about thirteen or fourteen; I was writing lyrics for a band that didn’t actually exist"
Interview: Shide Boss
Wed 24 Oct 2012One of the most successful musicians in Notts right now has won TV talent shows, is up for two music awards, has worked with the President of Def Jam South and has someone from Hollyoaks on his video. He’s Shide Boss, and it’s about time you recognised him...
Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine
Tue 23 Oct 2012It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.
Interview: Jake Bugg
Sat 20 Oct 2012Scooped up from the mean streets of Clifton into the loving arms of a record deal. All over Radio One. Tours of the UK and Europe. Live TV appearances. Two glorious hometown gigs lined up at Dot To Dot and Splendour. Spends his spare time wondering what Fearne Cotton thinks of him. He’s Jake Bugg, and he’s only just old enough to get into pubs...
Preview: GameCity7
Fri 19 Oct 2012"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"
Interview: Joe Dempsie
Thu 18 Oct 2012Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...
Interview: Jon Ronson
Tue 02 Oct 2012People who believe twelve foot-tall lizards run everything. Robots with souls. Real life superheroes. Conspiracists, fundamentalists, and extremists. He's hung out with them all...
Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger
Thu 06 Sep 20121,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...
Interview: Sleaford Mods
Thu 16 Aug 2012Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn: two small-town Lincolnshire lads who fuse blistering lyrics to brutalist loops, bolt on an uncompromising stage presence, and call it Sleaford Mods.
Interview: The Afterdark Movement
Wed 15 Aug 2012Your brand-new Future Sound of Nottingham winners and Splendour-openers spit bars, bend notes, chop beats, defy pigeonholing and kick arse. They’re the Afterdark Movement, and we managed to get two of them - Bru-C and Trekkah - to stand still long enough to hear their story...
Interview: Olympians Grace Carter and Tesni Ward
Sat 11 Aug 2012"When I was six, I told my teacher that I was going to be in the Olympics, and I would buy her a ticket"
Interview: Alan Moore
Tue 07 Aug 2012Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...
Interview: The Gramophones
Thu 02 Aug 2012The Gramophones: they’ve been from Lands End to John O’Groats by London Bus, microlight and even DeLoreans. Now they want to show you their holiday snaps in their brand new show, End To End, before they go back up North to Edinburgh for the Fringe. We spoke to Hannah Stone about what it’s like to live a road movie with your mates...
Justin Fashanu: The Biography
Fri 27 Jul 2012The scar on Brian Clough’s career. The most disastrous non-Italian transfer in Forest’s history. The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The only Tricky Tree to knock about with Peter Tatchell. Is it time to reassess the life of Justin Fashanu? Yes, says biographer Jim Read…
Interview: Natalie Duncan
Mon 16 Jul 2012Natalie Duncan held down a bar job at The Bell, but she couldn’t hold back her incredible voice. Now she’s signed to a major label, has dropped an astonishing debut single in Sky Is Falling, and is set to release her first LP in July. We think she’s on the verge of something massive...
Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square
Thu 12 Jul 2012Derrick 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...
Interview: Hetain Patel
Sun 01 Jul 2012Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...
Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey
Tue 26 Jun 2012Whether it was for living space, work, shelter or punishment, our ancestors were obsessed with going underground, with over five hundred caves dotted across the city. They’re all being catalogued by the Nottingham Caves Survey - and according to Project Leader David Strange-Walker, putting a sledgehammer through a pub door has
never been more educational...
Interview: Captain Dangerous
Fri 01 Jun 2012Captain Dangerous’s debut LP The Empire Never Ended is six years in the making. And if you’ve ever lobbed a couple of bob in lead singer Adam Clarkson’s hat, congratulations - you’ve paid towards it...
Dot To Dot 2012
Thu 31 May 2012"Come and see your new favourite band in the afternoon, have a few beers, and then come back and see your current favourite band"
Interview: Pirate Technics
Thu 24 May 2012Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...
Interview: Derren Brown
Mon 21 May 2012Master of magic, mind control and manipulation; Derren Brown has made an international career of persuading people to think and do things they otherwise would not. So when we asked him if he fancied an interview with LeftLion, before the Notts leg of his Svengali tour, we were elated and yet filled with trepidation when he said “yes”…
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