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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 2012Marcus 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 2012Some 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 2012Candice 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...
Interview: Kirk Spencer
Wed 25 Jan 2012He's been played on Radio One, 1 Xtra and 6 Music, and has played at Reading and Leeds - not bad for a nineteeen-year old...
Interview: Docta D and DJ Razor
Tue 24 Jan 2012"Anybody who has been a proper DJ at some stage in their life has had tuberculosis from going in Robs Records"
Interview: Harleighblu
Thu 19 Jan 2012Incredibly talented, effortlessly cool, immaculate influences - no wonder labels are perking their ears to the old-school, big band soul of Harleighblu...
Interview: Roger Caney
Thu 12 Jan 2012Roger Caney: He’s seen more live music in Notts than you. Come, take his hand and let him lead you through the toilet venues of Nottingham...
Interview: Manière des Bohémiens
Wed 28 Dec 2011French for ‘Manner of the Gypsies’, according to Babel Fish - Manière des Bohémiens' infectious, rapturous, blindingly improvised Romany swing music is massively popular in Notts...
Interview: Captain Dangerous
Tue 27 Dec 2011"I made the mistake of getting drunk and inviting the whole bar back to mine. I hadn’t told my girlfriend and she was upstairs in tears being comforted by Dick Venom"
Interview: Hot Japanese Girl
Wed 21 Dec 2011"He offers us this contract and cuts his hand open, drizzles blood all over it and signs his name. I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong"
Interview: Baby Godzilla
Tue 13 Dec 2011"Smoke started coming out of the back of the van just as we got our tickets from the Eurostar. About ten yards later, the engine just stalled"
Interview: Will Robinson of I'm Not From London
Wed 07 Dec 2011Riots, cagefighting, Hollywood actresses, ghost buses, Mexican wrestling and contracts signed in blood. It's all in a night's work for promoter Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London Label...
Interview: Smallkid
Sun 20 Nov 2011From creating iconic flyers for Detonate to massive pieces at Glastonbury, Nathan Bainbridge - under the nom de spray of Kid 30 (Smallkid) – has become one of the city’s premier street artists. Here’s a chance to have a nose through his scrapbook...
Interview: Johnny Crump
Wed 02 Nov 2011Johnny Crump is a turntablist-stroke-producer-stroke-artist who be flexing his considerable skills live at our Gunpowder, Treason and Pot night at Nottingham Contemporary this November…
Interview: Nottingham Panther's Jeff Heerema and Rob Lachowicz
Wed 02 Nov 2011While Forest and County bumble along in their respective (lower) divisions, the most successful professional sports team in Nottingham quietly goes about its business of hoovering up trophies left and right – and this season they’re making a serious run at winning their first league title since 1955. They’re your Nottingham Panthers, and two
of them – right-winger Jeff Heerema from Thunder Bay, Ontario and left-winger Rob Lachowicz from Wollaton – had a word with us…
Interview: Mimm's Nathaniel Coltrane
Wed 02 Nov 2011Mimm: it’s a clothes shop. And an art gallery. And a record label. And a club night. And according to owner Nathaniel Coltrane, it’s only just started…
Interview: The Lambhorse Cabaret
Sat 29 Oct 2011The Lambhorse Cabaret: 21st century vaudeville for the theatrical underclass, a party like it’s 1889, or a gloriously elaborate arse-about through the city’s biggest dressing-up box? Time to ask founder and Ringmaster Mark Evans who he and his confederates think they are…
Interview: Missimp
Mon 24 Oct 2011After over a decade of high-energy improvised comedy shows, Nottingham’s very own MissImp now have a regular residency at Glee. Nick Tyler, Lloydie, Marilyn Bird and Martin Findell are four of the group’s regular performers; they spoke to us in the style of… (opens envelope) a dead pop star who has…(opens another envelope) just found out that their dad has had a sex change…
Nottingham Comedy Festival
Fri 09 Sep 2011The Nottingham Comedy Festival returns for its third year this September, offering a chance to see some of the greats perform their post-Edinburgh shows - as well as workshops and try-out gigs for aspiring performers. So we collared festival directors Helen Stead and Elliott Bower and asked...
Interview: Roxy Rob
Thu 08 Sep 2011You might know Robert Ivars Michailovs-Mètra as that bloke who walks up Mansfield Road as if he owns the place. You might think of him as a local fashion mogul who actually could have owned it, were it not for the drink. You almost definitely know him as Roxy Rob, and after you’ve read this, you’ll know a little bit more...
Interview: Headstock Festival's Mick Leivers
Wed 07 Sep 2011Headstock is a three-day music festival that takes place at the Newstead & Annesley Country Park, but if you think it’s another opportunity to listen to landfill indie whilst being bombarded with mobile phone adverts, think again; this event is geared towards getting an ex-mining community back on its feet and turning it back into a self-sustainable community. Headstock MD Mick Leivers tells us about this prime example of Notts folk mekkin’ their own entertainment…
Interview: Michael Pinchbeck on The Ashes
Wed 31 Aug 2011Michael Pinchbeck is a writer, live artist, performance-maker, and one half of the creative team behind Hatch. His latest project is The Ashes, the story of the infamous ‘Bodyline’ England cricket tour to Australia in 1932-33 that left the game’s reputation tarnished. On the verge of its debut performance at the Playhouse, we aimed a few questions at him - which he batted away with consummate ease…
Interview: The Money
Wed 17 Aug 2011"Having a festival main stage slot under our belts isn’t going to hurt at all"
Interview: Mark Patterson on Roman Nottinghamshire
Mon 15 Aug 2011Whilst other places in the UK wear their Roman origins like a badge of honour, there’s virtually nothing to look at in Notts – so much so that we’ve been described as an ‘archaeological blackspot’. Mark Patterson’s book Roman Nottinghamshire is the first step towards reclaiming our Roman heritage…
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