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We Catch Up With Fashion Designer Suzanne Ford About the Opening of Her Beeston Shop, Ford and Guy

We Catch up with Compà, the Italian Restaurant Bringing Dishes Straight from Sicily

Beeston might not boast the same sunny weather and stunning sea views as Sicily, but it does boast some of its famous meals - thanks to Compà, the street food joint on Wollaton Road. We swing by to check it out for ourselves…

We Catch Up With Scott Matthews Ahead Of His Show At Metronome

With a UK tour underway, including a date at Nottingham’s swish Metronome later this month, LeftLion caught up with the West Midlands songwriter in his man cave adorned with string instruments of every variety… 

Film Review: The Blue Caftan

Maryam Touzani fashionably stitches together a delicate tale of illicit love in her second feature...

We Visit Long Eaton’s Street Food Kitchen, Winner of the Blue Ribbon Good Food Award for Cafes

This popular local joint is a worthy winner of its prize...

We Catch Up With Amber Run Ahead of Their Rock City Show

Nottingham-born Amber Run have a big year in store for them - they’ll soon follow the recent release of their latest album, How To Be Human, with a country-spanning tour. Our Amrit Virdi catches up with frontman Joe to chat all things music and their loyalty to our lovely city…

Food Review: New Art Exchange Plant-Based Cafe Bar

Nottingham’s New Art Exchange recently celebrated the launch of their 100% Plant Based Cafe Bar with a little bit of pizazz. Writer Dani Bacon went along to the official launch party to try out the new food...

In Photos: New Art Exchange Launch Their Plant-Based Cafe Menu

Dani Bacon stops by New Art Exchange to check out the launch of their new plant-based offerings...

We Catch Up With Swing Dash DJs About Their International Women's Day Livestream

We chat to Swing Dash owner Felix, alongside DJs Aura, Princess Trium, and Beaabea, about their International Women’s Day 24-hour livestream, their own respective projects, and the future of Swing Dash as a studio…

We Catch Up With Larkins Ahead of Their Rescue Rooms Show

We chat to Manchester indie outfit Larkins ahead of their Rescue Rooms show in April...

We Catch up With Mark Gallagher of Arc Cinema - Runner-Up in the National Cinema Heroes Competition

Nottingham has long had a thriving cinema scene, but there’s one man in particular who goes above and beyond - Mark Gallagher. Having worked at Arc Cinema in Hucknall for the past three years, Gallagher has recently been recognised as a UK Cinema Hero. Our writer Josephine Ruffles catches up with Mark about his love for cinema and what this achievement means to him…

We Catch Up With Midge Ure Ahead of His Rock City Show

After a lengthy hiatus, Midge Ure is back on the road to celebrate forty years of Rage In Eden and Quartet. The tour lands at Rock City in May, so we talked all things Nottingham, Yamaha and almost ‘being’ Johnny Rotten… 

We Catch Up with milk. Ahead Of Their Show at The Bodega

We catch up with alternative pop outfit milk. ahead of their show at The Bodega on Wednesday...

We Catch Up With easy life Ahead of Their Motorpoint Show

One of the East Midlands’ finest bands, Leicester lot easy life are about to embark on a grand arena tour, bringing them to their dream local venue - Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena. We chat to lead singer Murray Matravers as they rehearse for that very show…

Comedian and NHS Anaesthetist Ed Patrick Chats New Book Catch Your Breath

Part-time comedian and full-time NHS anaesthetist, Ed Patrick has taken to writing about the wacky world of medicine in his new book Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist. Ahead of Patrick’s visit to Five Leaves this December, our writer Lewis Keech catches up with the new author to chat his medical memoir, podcast and humour that can be found in the darkest moments…

November's Music Reviews: Catmilk, skaiwater and More

We take a look at some of our city's finest music releases...

Ahead of His Exhibition at Brickworks, We Chat to Kid30 About His Twenty Years Producing Eye-Catching Street Art

If you’ve taken a walk around the city centre at any point recently, you’ve likely seen the eye-catching work of Kid30, the graffiti artist known for taking famous cartoon characters and dropping them into a creative blender. Now, twenty years after first getting into the street art scene, he’s celebrating the landmark anniversary with an exhibition at Brickworks…

How Notts Filmmaker Georgianna Scurfield Is Celebrating the City’s Iconic Cattle Market

For 136 years, Nottingham Cattle Market has been a bedrock of the community. As a livestock market and, much later, a home for market stalls and Arthur Johnson & Sons auctioneers, it’s an eclectic ecosystem of stories, experience and big personalities tucked behind Meadow Lane near Trent Bridge. With a view to cataloguing the past and present of the market’s history for future generations, filmmaker Georgianna Scurfield launched The Cattle Market Project, a Heritage Lottery-funded documentary, photography, animation, oral history and historical archive project aimed at celebrating a Nottingham institution…

We Sit Down With Ford & Guy Founder Suzanne Ford to Hear All About Her Eye-Catching Fashion Brand

Combining stunning silhouettes, sustainable fabric and eye-catching graphics, Nottingham fashion brand Ford & Guy may be relatively new on the scene, but they’re already proving to be ones to watch with their designs already being worn by some big names and top social media influencers with a huge following, such as Astrid Zeegen. We catch up with owner Suzanne (Suzie) Ford to find out more about her iconic designs…

Exhibition Review: Catching Matter at Beam Gallery

A series of lime plaster boards with interwoven patterns and inky shapes have the appearance of stone tablets with galaxies and constellations on them. They are the product of experiments from the past several years with traditional craft techniques and natural materials in a meditation on the meaning of material and form. This is artist Geoff Diego Litherland’s latest series of work Catching Matter, which is now presented at Beam Gallery

City Stylin' at the Cattle Market #7

Georgianna Scurfield heads down to the Cattle Market to see what's cracking off...

We Catch Up With Marcus Brown to Learn All About Food as a Subculture and His New Culture Magazine Picnic

Founded by Ilkeston lad Marcus Brown, Picnic is the culture magazine celebrating all things culinary. In preparation for its first ever release we catch up with Marcus about food as a subculture, hanging out with chefs and the Nottingham food scene…

Food Review: Homemade Cafe

We take a trip to Forest Rec for a slice of cake - the finest sweet treat of them all... 

Catching up with Mayhem Film Festival as the Cult Cinema Weekend Returns To Broadway

Mayhem Film Festival returns from beyond the grave this month with a gloriously gory line-up of contemporary cult cinema – Screen co-Editor Jamie Morris speaks to programmers Steven Sheil, Chris Cooke and Melissa Gueneau about what they’re most looking forward to...

CATALYST is City Arts’ New Programme That Exhibits and Supports Black Artists and Artists of Colour

In response to their Black Lives Matter commitments, City Arts present CATALYST – a programme exhibiting and supporting black artists and artists of colour, designed by curator in residence, Saziso Phiri.