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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...

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 2012

Mike 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 2012

Master 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”…

Interview: Jenny Sealey

Mon 14 May 2012

Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.

Interview: Graham Coxon

Mon 14 May 2012

Graham Coxon will be seeing off the Olympics with his old band in the summer, but not before swinging through town to promote new LP A + E at the Rescue Rooms this April...

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical

Wed 09 May 2012

This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…

Interview: Alex Hales

Fri 04 May 2012

A new cricket season for Notts and a hugely important year for their twenty-three year-old batsman Alex Hales. He’s already made his mark in the first team, played Twenty20 for England and spent last winter in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with the England Lions – essentially the national reserves team. Is he the future of the Outlaws and the national side?

Interview: The Austin Francis Connection

Wed 02 May 2012

The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...

Interview: James Hooton

Sun 29 Apr 2012

He’s spent the last seventeen years playing a member of the most infamous Yorkshire soap family on TV, but James Hooton is still a Nottingham lad through and through. So when he got a call from an old friend who was putting on a play about the Motherland then he decided it was an opportunity worth skipping a few of episodes of Emmerdale for…

Interview: Fists

Fri 20 Apr 2012

The on-their-own-terms, no-compromise, if-you-want-something-done-properly-do-it-yourself attitude of Fists has made them one of the most respected bands in town. We asked James Findlay and Angi Fletcher why it took ‘em so long to play a gig, and in which decade we could expect an LP...

Interview: Dilk of Montana Shop

Thu 05 Apr 2012

Stephen Dilks - Dilk, to his friends, the global graffiti community, and huge chunks of wall around the city - celebrates ten years of running specialist shops in town and basically running our local street art scene.

Homeless Film Festival 2012

Mon 02 Apr 2012

This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...

Interview: Ronika

Wed 21 Mar 2012

After spending two years embedded in countless New Artist lists, could 2012 be the year that Ronika firmly stamps her mark upon our hearts and the charts?

Interview: Dom Flynn from Navigation Brewery

Tue 13 Mar 2012

"I tell my mates I’m going in to sample the brews in the morning, and their faces light up - but if I’ve had a proper night out, it’s not nice"

The Day I Met Brian Clough

Sat 25 Feb 2012

Marcus Alton - we wouldn't say he's the most dedicated fan in the world. But he's in the top one.

Interview: Martin Allen

Sun 19 Feb 2012

Some see Martin ‘Mad Dog’ Allen as the epitome of the eccentric, geezerish football manager. But Notts County fans will testify that there is method in the madness, after he saved them from relegation last season. We caught up with him for a chat about Nottingham, posh hotels and a certain League Cup tie...

Interview: Candice Jacobs

Mon 13 Feb 2012

Candice Jacobs has been one of the prime movers of the local art scene over the past decade - as a co-director of the massively influential Moot collective, helping to found the One Thoresby Street gallery and studios, and as an artist in her own right...