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Homeless Film Festival 2012

Mon 02 Apr 2012

This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...

The Day I Met Brian Clough

Sat 25 Feb 2012

Marcus Alton - we wouldn't say he's the most dedicated fan in the world. But he's in the top one.

Can Trent Sound Bring Back The Good Old Radio Trent FM Days?

Mon 12 Dec 2011

Trent Sound: a heroic attempt to bring back the glory days of local commercial radio. But can it stay alive long enough to get an FM licence in 2013?

Preview: GameCity6

Tue 25 Oct 2011

If you want to go somewhere to stand with a load of people and play games, get yourself down to the Forest for Goose Fair and try to catapault a manky rubber frog onto a rotating lilypad, for a keyring of Donny Osmond that says ‘Justin Beeber’. If you care about videogaming and where its heading, on the other hand, happy days; GameCity is back...

Headstock Festival in photos

Mon 12 Sep 2011

Featuring Swimming, The Money, The Breadchasers, 25 Past The Skank, Dananananaykroyd, Silent Devices and more

Nottingham Comedy Festival

Fri 09 Sep 2011

The Nottingham Comedy Festival returns for its third year this September, offering a chance to see some of the greats perform their post-Edinburgh shows - as well as workshops and try-out gigs for aspiring performers. So we collared festival directors Helen Stead and Elliott Bower and asked...

Interview: Headstock Festival's Mick Leivers

Wed 07 Sep 2011

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…

Leeds Festival 2011 in photos

Mon 29 Aug 2011

Pics of Pulp, Muse, Cage The Elephant, Henry Rollins, Death From Above 1979, Metronomy, My Chemical Romance and White Lies

PHOTOS: Waterfront festival 2011

Tue 23 Aug 2011

Photo action from the Canalhouse music festival

Preview: Splendour 2011

Thu 14 Jul 2011

Splendour: A day-long chunk of festie goodness, without the massive mobile phone adverts. And tents left behind by gormless students that blow across a field and upset some cows. And being in a different postcode to the nearest decent bog. Our Music Editor marks your card for this year’s event…

Interview: Tim Smith of Fourmost Films

Mon 06 Jun 2011

Fourmost Films come from the Shop stable with a can-do attitude, a string of short films that have garnered attention from all over the place and a hunger to turn Nottingham into one of the hubs of the UK indie-film scene. Head honcho Tim Smith manages to drag his head from the edit suite long enough to spell out his masterplan…

Preview: Americana International

Mon 06 Jun 2011

"I’ve been driving for fifty years – all sorts of cars, American and British – but the American cars are not like anything else you’ll see"

Giles Croft on NEAT 11 Festival

Thu 26 May 2011

Another huge boost to the local arts scene takes place this summer with the launch of the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival, a collaboration between the big local venues showcasing top-line performances from around the continent. Festival artistic director Giles Croft explains all…

GALLERY: Hit the Deck Festival

Tue 26 Apr 2011

Photo evidence from Hit the Deck including Cancer Bats, Turbo Wold, We are the Ocean and more

Last Shop Standing

Sun 10 Apr 2011

Graham Jones has probably visited more record shops than anyone else on planet earth. He started working as a distributor for Proper, the largest independent music distribution company in the UK, over two decades ago. Since then he has watched his customers struggle to survive in a market of online downloads and corporate dominance. And written a book about it…

Jim Cooke of Selectadisc on Record Store Day

Sun 10 Apr 2011

"The last few years at Selectadisc were awful, staff morale was crap...it was clear we had had it."

Nottdance 2011

Sun 27 Feb 2011

Nottdance, run by terpsichorean titans Dance4, is one of the longest-running dance festivals in the UK. To celebrate the festival's 21st birthday, Dance4 is laying out the biggest series of events yet and, according to Chief Executive and Artistic Director Paul Russ, nowhere is off-limits...

Interview: Tony the Interpretive Dancer

Thu 18 Nov 2010

Antony Hodgkinson drums for Julian Cope, collaborates with a host of Notts bands, flew the flag for Derby Alt-Rock in the mid-90s with Bivouac, and likes to be known these days as ANTRØNHY. Oh, and he got up on stage during the 1992 Reading Festival and danced for his mate’s band - some bloke by the name of Kurt Cobain - and became known as Tony The Interpretive Dancer...