Site search

There's more content than you would believe. Hopefully this will make finding it a bit easier...

Interview: Hatch's Nathan Miller

Tue 11 Dec 2012

For five years now, Hatch have taken away the pretentiousness of performance art, brought back the fun, and have redrawn the boundaries of the stage by refusing to acknowledge them. Playwright Michael Pinchbeck is one of the founders, and the other - Nathan Miller - used to put in serious work for an independent magazine you may have heard of...

Interview: Kappa Gamma

Fri 07 Dec 2012

Picked up by Denizen Records, linked up with Dog Is Dead, championed by Dean Jackson and glommed onto the Radio One playlist, it’s been a very decent year for Kappa Gamma and their freewheeling dream-pop stylings. Time, then, to talk to Tom Towle and Max Starbuck of the band...

Interview: Gonzo Unit

Thu 29 Nov 2012

Gonzo Unit - a collaboration between Anna Schwanz and Rachel Murray - aimed to bring together artists from Notts and beyond to create and perform new works. Problem was, they didn’t have gallery space - so they got really creative and found space in an unexpected place...

Interview: Peter Bowles

Wed 28 Nov 2012

Peter 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 2012

The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts

Interview: Don Masson

Thu 15 Nov 2012

Club 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 2012

One 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 2012

It 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 2012

Scooped 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 2012

Joe 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 2012

People 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 2012

1,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...

Interview: Sleaford Mods

Thu 16 Aug 2012

Jason 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 2012

Your 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 2012

Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...

Interview: The Gramophones

Thu 02 Aug 2012

The 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 2012

The 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 2012

Natalie 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 2012

Derrick 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 2012

Since 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 2012

Whether 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 2012

Captain 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...

1 ... 22 23 24 25 26 ... 38

Page 24 of 38
931 results