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I'm Not From London Studios

I'm Not From London have branched out and opened a brand spanking new recording suite

Marketing & Business Administration Apprenticeship

Sound of the Lion #31,Sound of The Lion

With Origin One, The Madeline Rust, Trekkah, Merrick's Tusk, Rattle, The Wild Man Of Europe, Separation Anxiety and Amber Run

Bang! Short Film Festival Is Calling It A Day

Short films are perfect. Perfect for the filmmaker wanting to showcase what they can do, perfect for the YouTube generation struggling to concentrate on anything for more than an hour, perfect for creating some of the most diverse film festivals out there. Bang! Short Film Festival started off small but, as the digital age took hold and their audiences got bigger, it grew into a beast of a festival. Unfortunately, after fifteen years of filling Broadway’s screens with bite-sized reels, they’ve called it a day. We get all nostalgic and look at what the festival meant to filmmakers and audiences alike...

15 Bands You Wish You'd Seen At The Bodega

As The Bodega (formerly The Social) celebrates its fifteenth birthday, we look at fifteen bands who played there before they made it big

Jim's Smokehouse

Advertising Sectioned

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history, with Player's and Henry Farmer and Co

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Safe at Last Charity Music Video

The charity who work with, and on behalf of, young people at risk through running away are releasing a song, with a video made by Nottingham's Rebel Yell

Future Session 74 - Gino

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

In Focus: Nina Smith

The soulful pop lass got snap happy when we put a few questions to her

Being Arthur

The first ever live 24 hour Twitter presentation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning happens this weekend as part of the Being Human humanities festival

Music Reviews: November 2014

With Amber Run, Origin One, Separation Anxiety, Trekkah, The Madeline Rust, Rattle, Merrick's Trust, and The Wild Man of Europe

What We Do In The Shadows

This mockumentary about a few vampires sharing a New Zealand house really needs to be seen by everyone

Untangling the Politics of Black Hair: Bea Udeh on Black Hair

Nottingham’s art galleries are obsessed with hair at the moment, and why on earth not? From straight to frizzy, soft curls to tight spirals, black to blonde, short to long, our hair is shaped and styled as a way to express ourselves. With the upcoming discussion at New Art Exchange, Untangling the Politics of Black Hair, Nottingham Playhouse curator and Mouthy Poet Bea Udeh talks Afro hair...

Book Reviews: November 2014

With The Esplanade, Celeste, Duke and Disorderly, Nottingham: From Old Photographs, and more

The Wild by Paper Shop Dave

New Nottingham-based film company, Punchline Productions, have made a new music video

Interview: INJ Culbard

INJ Culbard has drawn Sherlock Holmes, the unknowable and unnameable horrors of HP Lovecraft, clockwork universes, medieval mercenaries battling horrors, animals fighting aliens, Japanese Oni demons on the rampage and a crime fighting Edwardian vampire. Intrigued, we sat down with him for a cuppa and a chat...

LeftLion Stereo: November 2014

We've been searching high and low to find the best Nottingham tracks there are

Interview: Origin One

After dominating this year’s summer line-ups, Origin One now possess a body of work with a bassweight to bust your tabs ten times over. With their reggae, dub and digi-dancehall vibes, they’ve become notorious in Nottingham for turning rooms wild. We caught up with Kevin Thompson, the bloke behind the beats…

Live: Mr. Scruff

The most bedraggled DJ of them all treated Nottingham to an early morning marathon of every genre under the sun

Live: Indiana and Shelter Point

"From the first seconds of the set an inescapable spell is cast upon the room"

Mr Stitch Films: Anthony Winson

We interview the Nottingham based filmmaker who has just made a feature film set in a haunted house

GameCity 9: Mike Bithell

We caught up with game designer Mike Bithell post-GameCity