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I'm Not From London Are Celebrating Their Fifteenth Birthday

Whether lockdown is coming to an end, or there’s still some way to go, time continues unrelenting. So as the legendary Nottingham record label, promoter and publisher I’m Not From London reaches its impressive 15th birthday, it continues to look ahead with a series of exciting projects, including the current Be Scene and Heard, a Youth Music project aimed at helping partial to fully deaf 18-25 year-olds get experience in the music industry. With one eye looking back over fifteen years of shaping Nottingham’s musical landscape, and one firmly placed on the future, we caught up with Managing Director Will Robinson to discuss the importance of I’m Not From London...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

The latest Nottinghamshire releases... 

Bonfire Night at the Forest Rec Cancelled

Nottingham City Council has announced the cancellation of its annual Bonfire Night and fireworks display at the Forest Recreation Ground on Thursday 5 November.

Witch of the East's Singer Aeris Houlihan on Her Turbulent Journey to Their Upcoming Album

With a story that wouldn’t look out of place in a HBO series, Witch of the East lead singer Aeris Houlihan certainly has plenty of experience to draw upon for writing new material. From serving in the armed forces to spending months incarcerated in Eastern Europe as a transgender woman, she talked to Alex Mace about her fascinating story, as well as the band’s upcoming music...

MOAN Zine on Female Pleasure, Illustration and This Month's Cover

Since 2018, MOAN has been exploring female pleasure through the perspective of women. After two successful issues and this month’s LeftLion cover, we chat to the woman behind it all about how it all began, receiving and illustrating stories around desire, and what the future holds for MOAN...

25 Years Later: Chungking Express

Contributors Charlie Alexander and Michael McCarroll revisit Chungking Express, 25 years after the UK release of this Hong Kong classic...

Nusic New Music Podcast #233 with Megatrain, Chloe Rodgers, Bru-C, The Crying Violets and More

This week’s New Music Podcast features the Nottingham artist getting love from 1Xtra, free career advice for musicians, plus the Notts MC who’s just hit one million monthly listeners on Spotify.

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

Artist Mitch Proctor, a.k.a Bon Idle, on his new comic: Henshin

Nine years ago, a mysterious explosion plunged a city into a seemingly endless blackout. That is, until a Mark Zuckerburg-like tech billionaire rebuilt it into a futuristic metropolis – but to Journalism student Alex, this shady figure’s motivations don’t quite ring true. Alex’s hunch soon thrusts him into a world of superheroes and monsters in Henshin, a new series from Notts-based artist Mitch Proctor, a.k.a. Bon Idle...

Shreya Sen-Handley on Being the First South Asian Woman to write an International Opera

She’s had two books published by HarperCollins, written for international media and was even the regional head of a television channel at the age of 25. It’s fair to say that there are achievers in this world, and then there’s Shreya Sen-Handley. And if that impressive CV wasn’t enough, she’s now become the first Indian and South Asian woman to write a Western, international opera, called Migrations. We catch up with the multi-talented writer to find out more...

Notes From a Mental Health Nurse: The New Normal

Our resident mental health nurse returns with advice on how to cope with life post-lockdown...

The Inside World of Nottingham BID's Festivals...

Nottingham’s blessed with more than its fair share of events, ceremonies and festivals, many of which have been facilitated by the Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID). Formed in 2012, Nottingham BID has offered support, information and funding to some of the city’s biggest cultural offerings and, with the upcoming ballot to determine whether they’ll continue next year scheduled for October, we caught up with some of the festivals that have benefitted from their support to see how they’ve coped during lockdown, and what Nottingham BID means to them…

Film Review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Thinking of watching I’m Thinking of Ending Things? Miriam Blakemore reviews Charlie Kaufman’s latest film...

City Stylin' #29

We took to the streets to find the most stylish folk in town...

Illustrator Kate Sharp talks Children's Books, Lockdown and Drawing Animals

After catching our eye with a sweet illustration of our magazine stands you can find around town, we’ve had the pleasure of working with recent-graduate illustrator Kate Sharp for our spot-the-difference series and many other illustrations featured in our past few issues. After she bagged a Young Creative Award for her children’s book, Lion’s Hate Pigeons, we took a deep dive into Kate’s colourful world, discussing her past, present and future plans…

20 Years Later: The Way of the Gun

Screen Co-Editor George White takes a look at Christopher McQuarrie's directorial debut, 20 years after its release...

Left Duck - August Review

It's been a long time since Nottinghamshire reached August without losing any games of cricket. Of course, it helped that the season didn't start until August this year! Let's see how they got on in their four Bob Willis games and three T20 matches.

The Thompson Brothers on Goose Fair, Holidays and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Overheard in Notts

It's everyone's favourite time of the month...

From Sneinton to Xingu: Notts Musician Nathaniel Mann and his experiences with Brazil's Wauja Indigenous Community

When Sneinton-based musician and radio broadcaster Nathaniel Mann responded to a 2018 British Council + PRSF opportunity for a musical residency with the Wauja Indigenous Community in Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. Two years later, he collaborated with the Wauja’s principal Akari Waura, assisted with the recording and preservation of his traditional songs and produced a BBC Radio 4 documentary about their work together. Now, as the community faces the threat of COVID-19, he’s working with the Wauja to help raise awareness and funds to ensure the long-term protection of a people whose descendants have lived in the Xingu territory for over a thousand years…

Goose Fair 2020 Cancelled

For only the eleventh time in 729 years, we're sad to report that there will be no Goose Fair in Nottingham this year...

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum Having Been Helping Asylum Seekers For 20 Years

Stranded boats at sea. Last breaths in lorries. Traumatisation by traffickers. These are just some of the horrific risks refugees take to reach the UK – a place that historically has been full of promise and hope for them. Yet when they arrive here, they’re met with a hostile government and campaigns of hate. However, the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum provides a range of services to help them survive and thrive in the face of adversity. As it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Eve Smallman talks to Director Matt Atkins about what they’ve achieved and how you can help them carry on their work…

Nottingham Lockdown Gallery Opens at intu Victoria Centre

The gallery shines a light on the experiences of Nottingham residents during lockdown, and is free to view...

The Nottingham Project's Greg Nugent: "We’re a creative city where culture thrives, but when other cities were upping their game, we stood still"

With a ten-year vision of turning Nottingham into a globally-recognised cultural heavyweight, and a board including the likes of Shane Meadows and Vicky McClure, last month saw the ambitious launch of The Nottingham Project. Spearheaded by the new Nottingham Board for Culture and Creativity, the project will seek to rejuvenate the city in the wake of a pandemic that has decimated much of the creative industry. As the director of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee, Project chairman Greg Nugent knows what it takes to deliver on the biggest scale. We caught up with the man at the helm to find out more about what the city’s creative community has to look forward to...

Notts Rebels: Eric Irons

In celebration of the Nottingham Castle Trust’s #VoicesofToday campaign, our Notts Rebels series continues with the story of Britain's first black magistrate: Eric Irons...

25 Years Later: Waterworld

Steady yourselves, there’s a storm on the horizon…The clouds are gathering for the 25th anniversary of one of cinematic history’s biggest flops. It's Mad Max crossed with Treasure Island. It’s Kevin Costner at the height of being Kevin Costner. It’s Dennis Hopper as a mad, underrated villainous pirate. Yep, you guessed it - it’s time to return to Waterworld.