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Justin Fashanu: The Biography

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…

Splendour 2012 gallery

Checkout the photos from our roving band of photographers

Batman: A Retrospective

With The Dark Knight Rises about to explode, we trawl through the history of Batman films...

Preview: Splendour 2012

A day of fun and music, set in Batman’s back garden...

Interview: Natalie Duncan

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...

Small Theatre Groups of Nottingham

From A (for Actors Workshop) to Z (for Zoo Indigo)

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

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...

Poddingham #26: Summertime,Poddingham

The Best Caves in Nottingham

The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey

King Bong: The Xylophone Man

Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?

Art Works: The Shopping List Project by Rosie MacLennan

"There is something so precious about this casually discarded piece of life detailing so much about a household’s existence, it’s an incredible celebration of the routines of life"

Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey

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...

Future Sound of Nottingham 2012 in photos

Photos from the contest featuring Joe Danks, Tom Wardle, In The Northwood, Crash Jacket, The Species and eventual winners The Afterdark Movement

Interview: Captain Dangerous

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...

Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero

"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"

Interview: Pirate Technics

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...

Art Works: Grand Central Station by Anna Griffin

"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"

Interview: Derren Brown

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

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

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 and Sunday Morning: The Musical

Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical

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…

The Maze 15th Birthday Extravaganza in photos

LeftLion and I'm Not from London last Saturday with Just James, Seas of Mirth, The Austin Francis Connection and 25 Past The Skank

Interview: Alex Hales

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?

A Canadian on the British Government

"Privatising the police force. How do you even do that? Adorn police stab vests with 888.com patches, like him off the snooker?"