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You might know Robert Ivars Michailovs-Mètra as that bloke who walks up Mansfield Road as if he owns the place. You might think of him as a local fashion mogul who actually could have owned it, were it not for the drink. You almost definitely know him as Roxy Rob, and after you’ve read this, you’ll know a little bit more...
"The colours I use are always muted and aged; each piece has the look of something from a time gone by"
Taking in members from Six By Seven, Bent, Model Morning and The Kull, Spotlight Kid are about to drop a new LP and play at Glastonbury. And, according to drummer Chris Heath and guitarist Rob McCleary, they’re the cockroaches of the Nottingham music scene...
If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, backin the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the SumacCentre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar debacle, and Mark Kennedy…
Darren Fletcher is the Arnold lad who gets paid to go to the World Cup and the Super Bowl, gets his feet under assorted press boxes for Five Live, banters with the entire UK about footy and hosts the An Evening With... nights at the Approach. And he knows Robbie Savage...
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…
We talk to author Colin Bacon about his new book on Vivian Mackerrell - the inspiration for Withnail and I
John Robertson was your archetypal terrace favourite for over a decade at Forest. In part it was because he obviously liked his pies, pints and fags, but mainly for providing the cross that Trevor Francis got on the end of in 1979, the goal that beat Hamburg in 1980, and all those photos of kids holding up the European Cup in Nottingham pubs thirty years ago.
Vivian Mackerrell was the jobbing actor who inspired the character of Withnail in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I. He lived much of his life in Nottingham. Here are some quotes about him from the people who knew him best...
He put work in for Portishead back in the day. Now he’s on a mission to inject the timeless thunk of Northern Soul into your tabs at Moog
"People say about Unmade Beds that they’ve never seen London look so good – that’s because it’s Nottingham"
“The organiser of the event interrupted my set halfway through to ask if anyone had ordered a sausage cob“
"The world loves Robin Hood - so why not make a buck or ten off of those suckers?"
"If this man-to-man cavorting has ever struck you as, well, not entirely heterosexual, you are not alone in your suspicions"
“It’s time to reclaim him from shoddy tourist attractions and stupid fancy dress costumes and put him on the pedestal he deserves”
The full run-down on the evolution of England's greatest folk legend in books, films and television
"There’s nobody else who has spread across all the generations in so many forms"
The Notts music scene has never had it this good. Ever. But what do the city's promoters and label-owners think?
This time of year, Rob Cutforth loves nothing more than rubbing up against tubby, sweaty beardos and cramming greasy, meaty balls into his Canadian maw. Calm down, Nana – he’s only at the Beer Festival…
A selection of photos of local bands and musicians by a Nottingham-based music photographer
Rob wanted to immerse himself in a totally authentic Nottingham historical experience. But he went to Tales of Robin Hood instead...
"People often recollect me using foul language, but I never did on television. It wasn’t the language but the attitude which was unsettling them"
'It’s not a question of a man and a woman, and children, more a question of a group of human beings, in a mutual bond'
"If I was a real typical fashion person, I would take myself too seriously, have a strong ego, go to all the openings and parties and pander to the press all the time."
We have a look at the past Robin's of Hoodtown
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