Site search

Isaac at Lakeside's Wheee! Festival

Our cutest LeftLion vlogger Isaac went to Wheee! festival at The Lakeside Arts. He saw, he ran, he played, he laughed. If you don't find it adorable you have a heart of stone. Yes, stone.

Live Music Review: Dot To Dot Festival 2017

After Friday in Manchester and Saturday in Bristol, the multi-city new music extravaganza arrived in Nottingham to close out the weekend. Taking place at over 30 venues, we headed along to join the dots...

Young Books Run Wild: Celebrating 30 Days of British Wildlife Literature with the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust

Determined to get us bookworms out and about in the sunshine, the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has launched a month-long campaign to review books about all things wild. 

Festival Fashion with Independent Nottingham Designers

As the sun starts to stir from its mighty slumber, folk in Nottingham rejoice. The days are getting longer, the trees are in bloom, beach breaks are being booked and there’s another very important thing on a lot of our minds... festival season. Whether you’re planning on trudging through mud at Glasto, dancing with your dad at Splendour, getting down and dirty at Boomtown or jetting off to hotter climbs in Croatia, we know you’re going to do it in true Notts style.

We’ve been doing a little digging around the city to find the best garms and accessories for you, and have created a festival fashion-inspired lookbook to feast your eager eyes upon. Everything made, designed and sourced in Nottingham...

Exploring Sci-Art at Pint of Science Festival

We had a grand old time at Pint of Science Festival this year. One of the events explored sci-art, so our Adrian Shaw got down to enjoy a subject close to his heart...

Interview with Twin Kidd ahead of their appearance at Dot To Dot Festival

We put some questions to the electro-pop three-piece who will be playing two sets on Sunday...

6 Acts To Watch At This Year's Dot To Dot Festival

The all-day new music blowout takes place this Sunday. We've gone through the line-up and picked out some recommendations for you...

29 Festivals You've Got To Get To This Year

If you’re struggling to find a festival best suited to you, worry no more, for we have put together a mildly comprehensive guide for you to follow. We’ve noted the headliners, a few Notts faces that’ll be making an appearance, and the cheapest possible ticket price. Summer sorted.

Maria Toledo-Rodriguez Talks Fake News Ahead of Pint of Science Festival 2017

Last year, the international festival Pint of Science came to Nottingham for the first time. This year, it's coming back even bigger and better, with an additional emphasis on combining art and science. We sat down with one of the speakers, Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, to get the lowdown.

Lauren at Nottingham Loves Cocktails

Loads of Nottingham's finest cocktail bars got together to provide us with the chance to learn more about the booze we drink on a Friday night and more importantly, drink some booze for a whole week. Who better to send to find out more than our cocktail lover vlogger Lauren...

7 Write Lion Poetry Performances at Rough Trade

We miss Nottingham Poetry Festival. Very much. We whacked on a night made up of some of the poets featured on our printed pages over the past year or so, and our mate David Belbin made a few videos of the boggers. Enjoy!

Quiet Riot Collected Anthology Launch at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

Singer Songwriter Bud on the Festival Circuit

University of Nottingham student, city bird and festival smasher Bud has been stealing stages with her fresh, reggae- and dub-influenced pop melodies. The perfect soundtrack to summer. We caught up with the local lass ahead of her appearances throughout the tent-based towns this year...

Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Our favourite guardians are back doing what they do best – saving the Galaxy. Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot first leapt onto the big screen in 2014 where it quickly became the most successful Marvel film at the time.

This year, we’re introduced to new characters, new planets, and gain new love for characters we didn’t have much for in the first instalment...

We headed down to Rough Trade for Record Store Day 2017

Started as a way of revitalising the sales of independent record shops, as it celebrates its tenth anniversary some people think it's kind of lost its way. We checked out this year's festivities...

An Ode to the Nottingham Poetry Festival

Bringing poetry to the masses, one week at a time...

Every Notts Act Playing This Year's Dot To Dot Festival

The definitive rundown of every local artist performing. Clue: It's long...

Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...

Find Out What's Happening In Nottingham For Record Store Day 2017

Marking ten years of celebrating independent record stores, there's plenty going on this Saturday...

10 Events to get to for Nottingham Poetry Festival

After wiggling their toes in the water back in 2015, Nottingham Poetry Festival is back. Mixing it up with over fifty events, there are local poets of all genres, backgrounds and disciplines, as well as workshops to get wordy in, and plenty of chances for you to get on the mic and give it a go yersen. Plus they’ve got some national treasures popping down – in the form of Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the inimitable John Cooper Clarke, and the lyrical John Hegley. If you don’t think poetry is your thing, think again. If you’re already a fan... well, as you were.

Nottingham Poetry Festival: Wendy Cope

Known for her dry wit and keen eye for parody, Wendy Cope has been a staple of British poetry since her debut in the eighties. We caught up with Wendy ready for her appearance at this year’s poetry festival.

Pint of Science: The Plague, Teaching the Brain to Hear, and Survival of the Sexiest...

Last year, Nottingham was one of the host cities for the international science festival Pint of Science. This year, it’s back, and the launch night at The Canalhouse saw four speakers give us a taste of what’s to come…

16 Bars to Slurp at for Nottingham Loves Cocktails Festival

Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer

After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...

Nottingham Trent Win Notts Varsity Ice Hockey Match Two Years on the Trot

Once again, Trent trumps UoN on the ice with a score of 5-4. At Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham holds one of the biggest university events of the year...