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Nusic Podcast #189 with Primal, Nina Smith, Hashtagobi, Camille Christel and more...

Fri 12 Oct 2018

This week’s New Music Podcast features info on how you can hand your demo to a bunch of A&R’s, new music with a strong Bastille influence, plus the artist living the dream – playing Paris, Barcelone and… Bradford.

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

Live Music Review: The Nightingales at The Canalhouse

Sun 07 Oct 2018

Only two bands ever played more Peel sessions than The Nightingales and now they're at The Canalhouse promoting their new album.

LeftLion Ran The IKANO Bank Robin Hood Half Marathon 2018 to Raise Money for Lee from The Elementz

Sat 06 Oct 2018

Three lions got down to Victoria Embankment to complete the Ikano Bank Robin Hood Half Marathon 2018. It was a bit of a feat, because us lot are a lot more well trained in running our mouths over several IPAs more than anything else, but we bleddy did it, and lived to tell the tale...

Theatre Review: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery

Wed 26 Sep 2018

Marx Brothers style comedy capers...

Film Review: Christopher Robin

Thu 23 Aug 2018

Christopher Robin is all grown up and in desperate need of his old friend Pooh in Marc Foster's new film about A.A. Milne's famous characters

6 Tips to Conquer the Ikano Bank Robin Hood Half Marathon

Wed 15 Aug 2018

The Ikano Bank Robin Hood Marathon Events are trotting round again on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September, this year with a half marathon, mini marathon, mile challenge and corporate challenge to choose from. That means there’s not too long now to get your training in, especially if you’re still recovering from a long, hot summer of lazing in a hammock or pub beer garden...

Nusic Podcast #184: Live From Splendour with Ady Suleiman, Nina Smith, Ashfields, Ferocious Dog and more

Mon 06 Aug 2018

This week, it's festival fever on the podcast, featuring a live interview with Future Sound of Nottingham 2018 winners The Dandylions, and a load more boggers who played Splendour this year...

Nusic Podcast #178 with Nina Smith, Ashfields, Sophie Castillo, One Giant Causeway and more...

Thu 10 May 2018

This week’s New Music Podcast features the five Industry Professionals listening to your FSN Round One entries, entry details RE how you could be playing the Splendour and Rock City main stages, plus the band so passionate they bleed when they play. This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Nina Smith, Rag Doll, Blood Wizard and more...

Fri 04 May 2018

Here's what our music editor reckoned to some of Notts' latest releases...

Robin Hood Vs Sheriff of Nottingham Rap Battle and Mark Grist at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

Thu 03 May 2018

It was absolute carnage down at the Fox and Grapes for Poetry is Dead Good, as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival...

Live Music Review: Rob Green and Eric Bibb at Rescue Rooms Nottingham

Mon 16 Apr 2018

“Now that we’re friends, I’m going to take my shoes off. Although, I don’t advise you do that… these floors get very sticky.”

Nusic Podcast #170 with Rob Green, Babe Punch, Tusk, Congi and more...

Tue 16 Jan 2018

On this week’s New Music Podcast – the band who’ve been promising to send us their demo since about 1979, Colwick’s answer to Charli XCX, plus six artists playing the debut Beat the Streets festival. This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Adam Peter Smith Talks Being a Musician in Nottingham

Tue 07 Nov 2017

Active on the local music scene for a while now, we put some questions to the rootsy singer-songwriter as he releases his latest EP...

Herbert Kilpin Spesh: Robert Nieri

Sat 21 Oct 2017

Robert Nieri is a charity lawyer by day, but he’s spent the best part of a decade researching and writing a book about a man called Herbert Kilpin. That and hanging out with the Milan glitterati. And us…

Left Panther: Nottingham Panthers News & Updates

Tue 17 Oct 2017

As the Panthers continue to break records in Europe, our Sally gives us the low-down on the goings on at the NIC

Robin Hood Marathon 2017 in Photos

Mon 02 Oct 2017

We got down to Victoria Embankment to check out the marathon madness...

Robin Hood Marathon 2017

Thu 31 Aug 2017

It’s that time of year again, when thousands of athletics-mad (and generally just a little mad) runners converge on Nottingham for one of the biggest runs of the UK race calendar – the Ikano Bank Robin Hood Marathon and Half Marathon. Get your headbands and energy gels at the ready, because there’s still time to sign up for the 36^th edition on Sunday 24 September.

Filmmaker David Lilley Talks Crowdfunding for Socks & Robbers

Sat 29 Jul 2017

David Lilley, the brains behind Broadway Cinema's bi-monthly Short Stack short film night, is looking to raise £5,000 through a Kickstarter campaign for his new film Socks & Robbers. Our Screen Editor, Ash Carter, talked to him about the project...

Make Your Own Robot with MeArm Pi

Thu 20 Jul 2017

Mime Industries are a local company that create build-it-yourself robotic kits, and people can use them to learn to code. To support the release of their newest product, the MeArm Pi, they ran a Kickstarter campaign that was quickly oversubscribed, with 852 backers pledging a whopping £56,376. We sat down with company founder, Ben Pirt; a man who’s very handy with robot arms...