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SELECT.SOUNDS: The Notts-Based Collective Level Up with a Site Upgrade

Two best mates turned business partners hit the ground running in 2019 with the formation of record shop and events series, SELECT.SOUNDS. Now, after pressing pause during lockdown they’re back with a new site and a heavy content focus. Alanah Khosla gives us an update on the creative platform that’s growing a steady following in the city.

Dekker on Rue Royale, Slow Reveal and making music with his five-year-old daughter...

We catch up with Chicago-born, Nottingham-based musician Brookln Dekker to talk Rue Royale, solo work Slow Reveal and making music with his five-year-old daughter...

5 Years Later: The Good Dinosaur

Has time been kind to Pixar’s often forgotten Jurassic feature?

Tim Bryn Smith on TAWN-19, The Actors Workshop Nottingham's new, socially-distanced film

Our Screen Co-Editor George White speaks to Tim Bryn Smith, founder of The Actors Workshop Nottingham, about their new, socially-distanced film, TAWN-19...

Deck the Hall: Wollaton gets set to host Christmas Lights Spectacular

This year has been full of compromises, tough decisions and – unfortunately – disappointment for many. As we lean into colder, gloomy nights, there are still question marks over Christmas 2020, and how we will be allowed to celebrate. While we already know we won’t be warmed by a bonfire at Forest Rec or filled with mulled wine in the Market Square, there is a light in the dark – Christmas at Wollaton, a light-up outdoor experience set to fill us all with wonder…  

Theatre Royal Is Staging a Socially-Distanced Sleeping Beauty This Christmas

To them, to you...

Film Review: Operation Christmas Drop

Is it too early to start watching Christmas movies? Netflix reckons not. Here's what Joanna Hoyes thinks of this one...

DiY Goodbye: A Tribute to Pete 'Woosh' Birch

Last month Nottingham (and the worldwide free party scene) said goodbye to Pete ‘Woosh’ Birch after a long battle with cancer. A driving force of the DiY Soundsystem, one half of the DJ duo Digs and Woosh and the founder of Spirit Wrestlers. Pete’s oldest friend Harry Harrison tells us about his remarkable life…

Campaigner Dr Lisa Mckenzie on Why Nottingham Needs to Stop the Gentrification of Sneinton Market

Having spent six years fighting against gentrification in London, working class academic and Notts lass Dr Lisa Mckenzie returned to her native city to find the same happening here. With more development plans tabled for Sneinton Market, including the demolition and replacement of extensions to Gedling Street and Boston Street to create retail and commercial space, as well as more student flats, she explores the potential impact of gentrifying the area will have on the past, present and future of working class communities...

D7 Sauce Are Creating Homemade Hot Sauce in Sherwood

Hot sauce can be an uncomfortable condiment to eat. I like a bit of spice, but the hot stuff generally doesn’t bring me much joy. However, D7 Sauce’s Scarlett’s Hot Sauce, with its bright packaging and promises of flavour made me want to give it a bash. Minutes before I was set to interview its owner and creator Mark Walsh, I did just that. My mouth imploded with the gorgeous rich, smokiness of the sauce – and then boom, I was hit with that signature hot kick. My senses were sizzling and I was fired up for a chat. And thankfully the tongue-tingling subsided just before we were set to begin...

Music Premiere: All I Ever Do by Camille Christel

We're buzzing to have the exclusive premiere of Camille Christel's new track, All I Ever Do...

Nusic New Music Podcast #236 with Archie, Distant Blue, Beka, Torn Sail and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features our Artist of the Month for October, two NG artists both getting love from Clash and Wonderland, plus our musician advice vid latest.

This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Street Art or Graffiti? Why Banksy's Notts Visit Shouldn't Distract from the City's Own Artists

Alex Kuster looks at the recent media circus surrounding Banksy's visit to Notts, and why local street artists aren't treated with the same level of respect...

Why We Decided to Watch an Episode of Most Haunted in a Dark, Empty National Justice Museum...

We should do something Halloween-y for our October issue. Yeah, okay. How about with the National Justice Museum? Good shout. But what? I dunno. They made an episode of Most Haunted there, you know. Really? Yeah it’s on Amazon Prime. Imagine if we went over there and watched it in the dark where they spotted the ghosts. Do you think they’ll let us? We can ask...  

The Licengoons: A Short Film Which Pokes Fun at the BBC's Decision to Scrap Free TV Licenses for Pensioners

Our Screen co-editor Jamie Morris speaks to the stars of The Licengoons, Miles Anthony and Alex Greensmith, about their hilariously punchy new short film…

Lakeside Art's Djanogly Gallery Reopens with Mat Collishaw Exhibition

After closing doors in March due to the pandemic, Lakeside Arts will be reopening from Saturday 17 October with the first major solo exhibition of a Notts-born contemporary artist… 

Nottingham Contemporary is Reopening with Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio

It’s hard to sum up someone like Grace Jones in a single word. Singer, model, actress, songwriter, record producer. Icon. With a life as eclectic as it was iconic, it’s only fitting that she’s the subject of the expansive, multimodal new exhibition, Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio at Nottingham Contemporary. Caroline Barry headed there for a sneak preview to find out more... 

Film Review: Days

Daniel Turner reviews the 11th feature film from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang following its UK debut at the 2020 London Film Festival...

Back to School: Twelve-year-old Jagoda Talks Returning to Education During a Pandemic

With all the talk of politicians, parents and teachers, it’s easy to forget those most affected by the decision to reopen schools after lockdown: the students. Twelve-year-old Jagoda Brown-Polanowska lets us know what returning to school in the midst of a global pandemic is really like...

Doughnotts Have Been Nominated for a National Award - Here's How You Can Help Them Win

They've been delivering tasty treats...

Burra Khana Have Got a Tantalizing New Menu - And You Can Get a Mega Discount

Delicious and discounted? Yes please. 

Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games Raised £90,000 in Two Days to Create a Hogs of War Minatures Game

There’s an element of risk in launching any crowdfunding campaign. If you don’t reach an audience, the failure can hang around the neck of a project like an albatross. But get it right, and the rewards can be limitless. The latter situation is one that Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games found themselves in recently, when their Kickstarter campaign for a miniatures version of classic PS1 game Hogs of War smashed through £90,000 in just two days. We caught up with co-owner Paul Allen to find out more...

Nottingham Playhouse Will Be Performing Cinderella For This Year's Panto

Despite current restrictions, Nottingham Playhouse are determined not to let Coronavirus ruin Christmas…

Comedian Sara Pascoe on Her Move From Actress to Comedy and Singing For Robbie William's Dad

Stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, author, podcast host. There aren’t many things in the world of entertainment that Sara Pascoe can’t do. Ahead of her return to Nottingham to play Just the Tonic this month, we caught up with the popular comic to talk lockdown, her two new TV projects and being a backing singer for Robbie Williams’ dad…

Pete 'Woosh' Birch on the History of DiY Soundsystem

The DiY Soundsystem were one of the biggest raving crews of the nineties. Their ethos was all about rejecting profits and putting on damn good parties. Founding member Pete Woosh talks us through some of the highs and lows of being in the gang during the nineties...