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Fight Club: Nottingham Cagefighters

Mon 22 Feb 2010

"For the last few minutes I’m just buzzing to get in there, but that’s the whole fun of it. If you didn’t have that feeling then it wouldn’t mean anything"

Interview: Hot Chip

Mon 15 Feb 2010

"I know that people always say this, but I mean it; I always like visiting Nottingham, I get a good feeling when I am there"

Interview: Red Rack'em

Tue 09 Feb 2010

"I wasn't cut out for the corporate life and got the sack after a month. Years of unemployment, dance music and low-quality housing ensued."

Interview: Rebecca Dakin

Fri 05 Feb 2010

"Obviously I was getting paid, but I spent quite a lot of time getting to know the person via email and phone conversations to check we were compatible"

Interview: Cassetteboy

Fri 05 Feb 2010

"We’re pretty much only going to work in video from now on, partly because we’ve run out of ideas for albums"

Interview: Mark Steel

Mon 01 Feb 2010

"I think what’s really lacking in society at the moment is organisation to protest. There are still people who feel resentment - but there’s no sense of strategy or organisation"

Interview: Sat Bains

Tue 26 Jan 2010

"You should cook with a bit of love...a bit of skill and technique"

Interview: Scorzayzee

Fri 15 Jan 2010

"There was no script at all. There was a plot outline from Shane, because we were playing characters in his film, but he didn’t give us any written dialogue"

Interview: Johnny Vegas

Fri 04 Dec 2009

"There was a night in Nottingham where I was singing in a wheelie bin, being passed around the tables like pass the parcel"

The Gig Issue: Nottingham Music Scene

Tue 10 Nov 2009

The Notts music scene has never had it this good. Ever. But what do the city's promoters and label-owners think?

Interview: Alex Farquharson

Sat 07 Nov 2009

"Nottingham Contemporary will generate £1 million from day visits in our first season. So it’s an investment rather than a cost"

Marcus Clarke interview

Wed 04 Nov 2009

Marcus Clarke left school with no qualifications. He is now a Bafta nominated puppeteer who prefers foam and fabric over rubber...

Interview: Mathew Horne

Sun 01 Nov 2009

"A lot of people think I’m from Essex, because that’s where Gavin is from. I’m always very quick to point out that I’m a Midlander"

Interview: Bent

Wed 14 Oct 2009

After four albums of aural euphoria, and a couple of years off, Nottingham's finest purveyors of electronica are back...

Independent theatre in Nottingham

Thu 01 Oct 2009

There’s far more to theatre in Notts than just the Playhouse, Theatre Royal, and AmDram productions involving middle-aged men running around with their trousers round their ankles...

Independent Publishers in Nottingham

Thu 01 Oct 2009

Independent self-publishers might just be the way forward – and Nottingham is full of ‘em...

Scribal Gathering

Thu 01 Oct 2009

It can be crap and lonely being a poet, scriptwriter or author - but the Nottingham Writers’ Studio can help make it better

Drawn Together

Thu 01 Oct 2009

Since the sixties Nottingham has been very much the capital of the region in terms of contemporary art. LeftLion's Arts Editor takes you through the current scene...

Notts County 3 Dagenham & Redbridge 0

Tue 25 Aug 2009

Kasper Schmeichel and Johnnie Jackson made their debuts as Notts trashed the league leaders at home

Interview: Mark Charan Newton

Sat 01 Aug 2009

"People love to immerse themselves in secondary worlds. You'd be surprised, some series go on for ten books or more."

The Fifteen Year Itch

Sat 01 Aug 2009

"All we want as Notts fans is not be patronised any more by the team we still see as our biggest rivals"

Interview: Dave Green from Nottingham Castle

Sat 01 Aug 2009

"I think it’s really important to remember that not everything in a museum has to have a high value in terms of finance"

Interview: John Knight

Sat 01 Aug 2009

John Knight’s era-spanning work encapsulates the fragile beauty of Pre-Raphaelite art with cutting-edge photography, creating a fascinating twist on art history...