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Nusic Podcast #173 with Akomplis, Tash Bird, Ferocious, Ken Samson and more...

This week’s New Music Podcast features Gilles Peterson’s favourite Notts artist at the mo, the Nottingham band touring Kenya, plus the singer inspired by Maccy D’s.This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Nusic Podcast #171 with Joey Costello, Pretty Babs, Dollie Demi, Ken Samson and more...

Sam Craven Talks Vertex Soccer and Helping Young Footballers

What happens when a youngster gets released from a football club? There was a time when all those years of hard work could have gone to waste but now thanks to Vertex Soccer, founded by former Notts County youth player Sam Craven, these players can now get a second chance.

5 World Food Restaurants to Sample in Nottingham

One of Nottingham’s greatest assets is its multiculturalism. And how best to celebrate our diversity, than to taste it?

Rumours of a Rave: Interview with Fleetmac Wood

Since 2012 Roxanne Roll and Smooth Sailing have been celebrating the music of Fleetwood Mac by hosting parties using a curated and created assortment of remixes and edits. To celebrate 40 years of the legendary album Rumours, the husband and wife DJing duo bring their Rumours Rave to Rescue Rooms on Friday 24 November. We put some questions to Roxanne Roll to find out more...

Art Works: Adam Brett

Toy Photography

Left Duck: Season Review

With the season over, it's time to have a look back at how Nottinghamshire fared this summer.

Interview: My Pure Land director Sam Masud

We caught up with Sarmad Masud (Sam to his friends) ahead of the release of his debut feature, My Pure Land at Broadway Cinema

Duffy’s Wit Meets Sampson’s Musical Mischief at Theatre Royal

Household name Carol Ann Duffy and court musician John Sampson come together in this blend of lyrical wit and musical madness. 

Lord Biro Presents Woodie Woodpecker's Anti-Fracking Art Show

Lord Biro, aka Buss Pass Elvis, gets lyrical about the threat of fracking in Sherwood Forest in his own unique way...

Mobility Scooter Gangs Clash in Sam Maxfield's The Last Resort

Sam Maxfield’s book The Last Resort sees London artist Gina trapped in Mapton-on-Sea, a quaint English seaside town, with her outlandish grandmother and a host of other oddballs. In this extract, two rival mobility scooter gangs go up against each other in a thrilling 8mph road race…

Nick Wood on The Underground Man at Nottingham Playhouse

"He's mainly known for being an eccentric who built loads of tunnels and a huge underground ballroom underneath Welbeck Abbey – but there was so much more to him"

Music Video: Phoebe Katis feat. Sam Posener - Held Under Water

Get some of this in your lugholes and your eye crevices

Remembering Reformist, Philanthropist and Stocking Maker, Samuel Morley

Backlit have been involved in a year long project based around the prior owner of their building, Sam Morley. And what a guy he was

Samit Patel - The Worst Way to Get Out in Cricket

After Notts provided three of the England team recently, we have a look at one cricketer's literal downfall

Katherine Wood - Kari True Chronicles

"I was inspired in a strange way by reading Fifty Shades of Grey and thinking, if rubbish like this gets published then I’m definitely in with a chance"

Interview: Gregory Woods

In honour of February being LGBT History Month, we caught up with poet and former NTU lecturer, Gregory Woods, to discuss gay rights, Ann Widdecombe and our silly British sensibilities when it comes to sex...

Gregory Woods: Dream Midnight

Nottingham Trent University's former Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies shares a beautiful poem with us

Gregory Woods: Dream Midnight

Nottingham Trent University's former Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies shares a beautiful poem with us

Interview: Philip George

A short time ago, Philip Woodhead was making beats in his bedroom and working at Next, when attention for his tune Wish You Were Mine started gaining momentum on several streaming platforms. After signing to 3 Beat, the track reached number two in the charts and has picked up international acclaim. We checked in with him on the blower…

Live: Suspect Alibi, Vanity Box, Baybo Squaybo and Samuel J Lawrence

Notts clothing company Prisma lined up four up and coming acts for a night at Spankys

Interview: Airheads Inflatable Crowds

What to do when you’re making a film and you need a few thousand people for a crowd scene. It’s a logistical nightmare that has plagued directors since the dawn of cinema. But not any more thanks to Airheads who have inflatable extras by the dozen and none of them will let you down…hopefully.

Nerd Fest Preview

We’ve got a world-class comic book shop in the form of Page 45, but artist Kev Brett decided to up Nottingham’s graphic novel game and put us on the map as a comic convention hotspot with Nerd Fest, a very spectacular convention...

Interview: Samantha Morton

She’s starred opposite the likes of Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise, been directed by Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg and won a BAFTA for her 2010 directorial debut, The Unloved. Samantha Morton is now an international star; not bad for a lass from Clifton who left school at thirteen...

Interview: The Petebox, Human Beatbox Sensation

Nottingham’s Pete Sampson, aka Petebox, has been making music for about the same amount of time that LeftLion has been going. In that time he’s gone from playing small city venues to headlining festivals and being treated like a star in Abu Dhabi. Go on, son...