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School of Hard Notts: Puro-Vision
Tue 12 Feb 2019Wrestle Gate Pro (WGP) landed in Nottingham in January for their exciting debut show Open Gate an event noticeably influenced by Japanese wrestling. Also known as Puro it’s a relatively realistic, punishing style where wrestlers primarily get over* by displaying their “fighting spirit” i.e. willingness to absorb and subsequently dish-out a beating against any odds. In some ways a style at the other end of the spectrum from traditional UK wrestling were intangible factors like charisma can be as significant as pain threshold or athletic ability - Crabtree, I am looking at you.
Snap Notts: Church Rock Cemetery
Sun 10 Feb 2019The latest Snap Notts sees our poet and photographer pairing create work at Church Rock Cemetery on Mansfield Road...
Proper Good Poetry Stuff To Do In Notts
Wed 06 Feb 2019Here's a list of what we think are the best poetry events happening in Nottingham...
LGBTQ+ Notts: Drag Bingo, LGBTQ+ History Month at Broadway Cinema, and more
Mon 04 Feb 2019Caroline Barry has been gallivanting around Nottingham for all the incredible gay and gay-adjacent events. After finding out a bit of LGBTQ+ history at National Justice Museum and playing with some balls at Rough Trade, she’s got her big gay diary out to make plans for February…
The Thompson Brothers on the Panto, Gentrification of Sherwood and Notts County Twittergate
Mon 04 Feb 2019Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...
Interview: The Staircase lawyer David Rudolf
Mon 28 Jan 2019We caught up with David Rudolf, Michael Peterson’s criminal defence lawyer from the compelling Netflix documentary series The Staircase, as he arrives in the UK for a series of speaking engagements...
Rapper and Busker TrueMendous is Coming to Notts for UKYA City Takeover
Wed 23 Jan 2019A master of the multisyllabic rhyme scheme, TrueMendous is a rapper and busker from Birmingham who recently upped sticks to the big smoke. In February, she's back in the Midlands as part of the UKYA City Takeover in Nottingham. A residential artist at The Roundhouse, she's been kicking out multi-genre, story-focused music with a mad work rate, and is currently putting together a new EP and book of lyrics. We caught up with the rising star ahead of her visit…
School of Hard Notts: Enter Wrestle Gate Pro
Sat 12 Jan 2019Finally…the wrestling has come back to Rushcliffe! Champions from across the globe are heading to Notts on 26 January to entertain fans and beat seven shades of subtext out of each other. Bringing a harder, edgier style influenced by Japanese wrestling and MMA and with at least one legitimate dream match on the card, it’s something new for the city. SOHN talks to Gary Ward, promoter and owner of Wrestle Gate Pro.
Broken Witt Rebels Talk Recording Albums and Gigging in Nottingham
Thu 10 Jan 2019We spoke to Brummie band Broken Witt Rebels about making music and gigging in Nottingham...
Discotech are Making a Home in Notts
Thu 13 Dec 2018Notts is a pretty good place to parteh. And we're not the only ones who think so. Originally Derby-based, house heads discotech are setting up shop here in the new year...
4 Books From Notts Authors to Read This Christmas Holiday
Sun 09 Dec 2018There’s no time like Crimbo to get stuck into the printed pages of a new novel or poetry collection. The turkey’s roasting, the fire’s crackling and the wine’s mulling, giving you plenty of time to curl up in your stretchy trousers and prepare yourself for a feast of literary goodness…
Snap Notts: Nottingham City Centre on a Saturday Night
Thu 06 Dec 2018This month we showcase the dutty charm of Nottingham City Centre on a Saturday night...
A Former Coal Miner in Notts
Thu 06 Dec 2018"We became like brothers down there. Once we got into the mine, we were miners. Colour had nothing to do with it because we relied on each other for survival."
Director Jack Bond on Latest Documentary An Artist's Eyes
Tue 27 Nov 2018We caught up with the legendary director ahead of the release of his latest documentary, An Artist's Eyes...
School of Hard Notts Catch up with Stixx
Wed 21 Nov 2018Stixx is Nottingham’s very own HHH; a technician, brawler, trainer and promoter. He has contributed massively to Nottingham wrestling’s ongoing rejuvenation and has fought and trained some of the best in the world. Whilst Stixx benevolently left mainstream recognition to his protégés, to those in the know, there can be no doubt he is he is one of the linchpins of wrestling in the midlands. Sitting in the post-show wreckage after another bruising bout, LeftLion hangs out under the tree of woe with Notts’ most garrulous gigantic grappler.
PubhD Preview: An Interview with Vivyan Lisewski-Hobson
Tue 20 Nov 2018PubhD's November event is a tree special - we had a chat with one of the speakers, Vivyan Lisewski-Hobson, to learn about how she's been getting ready for this tree-mendous event
Interview: A
Tue 20 Nov 2018Having played Rock City countless times, rock band ‘A’ have a certain attachment to our citeh. We managed to have a chat with A’s busy front man, Jason Perry, abaht the band’s history, playing Rock City and what they hope to see from their crowds...
Karoline Sofie Lee on the London Korean Film Festival
Mon 19 Nov 2018We sat down for a chat with the lovely Karoline Sofie Lee, star of The Return, which is screening at Broadway Cinema on Saturday 24 November as part of the 2018 London Korean Film Festival...
Express Yourself in Notts: We Made a Zine with Hannah Whitlow and Dizzy Ink
Mon 12 Nov 2018We visited Nottingham Zine Library down at Nottingham Contemporary, to get inspired by the city in a zine workshop put together by Express Yourself...
Notts Hosts 2018 Games of Remembrance
Sun 11 Nov 2018Many of you will know the story of the Christmas truce, where both British and German soldiers temporarily cease-fired to play a football match during World War One. Perhaps it’s fitting that with 2018 marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, that a football match between British and German soldiers took place.
An Ancient Woodland Campaigner in Notts
Mon 05 Nov 2018"I always knew I wanted a job in the environmental sector, but to be honest I didn’t know this job role was even a thing. I kind of fell into it."
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