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Rankin is a portrait and fashion photographer behind the inception of magazines Dazed and Confused, Another and Hunger. Throughout his career, he’s pointed his lens at a dream list of celebrities, including Madonna, Kate Moss and David Bowie. He even got the Queen to crack a smile. As part of the Museums at Night project, he came to St Ann’s Allotments to shoot the people who call it a home away from home. We popped down to the event and caught a few words of wisdom from the mononymous man...
Over 1,000 radio documentaries and 100 for the telly. A pioneer of gay rights. Community activist. Anarchist. University drop-out published by Faber in his early twenties. Ray Gosling has spent his entire life fighting the system and standing up for ordinary people. Then it all went horribly wrong after that confession on live television. Suddenly people forgot half a century of broadcasting. It’s time to remember.
This July saw Warner Brothers release The Conjuring, a haunting tale of a family’s move to a dilapidated Rhode Island farmhouse; who then sought the help of notorious paranormal investigators, the Warrens. Annie Spaziano, who runs the brilliant Annie’s Burger Shack, moved to the house with her family after the film’s events took place. Her parents still live there now, but their lives have been changed since the film came out, and not in a good way...
Gonzo Unit - a collaboration between Anna Schwanz and Rachel Murray - aimed to bring together artists from Notts and beyond to create and perform new works. Problem was, they didn’t have gallery space - so they got really creative and found space in an unexpected place...
Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…
"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"
Headstock is a three-day music festival that takes place at the Newstead & Annesley Country Park, but if you think it’s another opportunity to listen to landfill indie whilst being bombarded with mobile phone adverts, think again; this event is geared towards getting an ex-mining community back on its feet and turning it back into a self-sustainable community. Headstock MD Mick Leivers tells us about this prime example of Notts folk mekkin’ their own entertainment…
LeftLion have produced a special magazine to celebrate 30 years of Rock City
To celebrate National Short Story Week we spoke to local publisher, Pewter Rose Press
It was announced yesterday that after over 40 years of trading in Nottingham, the legendary music shop Selectadisc is going to close at the end of March. There is only one word to describe this: Tragic.
Nottingham Playhouse: into its sixtieth year, and more than just the building that wears the Sky Mirror like a big earring
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