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Museum Takeover Day for Refugee Week

Food review: Saltbox X Mollis Takeover

This summer Nottingham's favourite fried chicken masters Mollis are bringing their banging burgers, wings, and tenders to gig-goers and hockey fans with a takeover of the kitchens at live music and sports bar Saltbox in Bolero Square. 

Elevating voices of the Global Ethnic Majority with Transform, a city takeover by New Art Exchange

With aims to celebrate and amplify the leadership, creativity, and broader cultural stewardship of the Global Ethnic Majority in Nottingham through music, film, talks and more, pioneering Forest Fields art gallery New Art Exchange is soon to launch Transform, a City Takeover. We spoke to CEO & Artistic Director Saad Eddine-Said and Associate Artistic Director Saziso Phiri, about this new festival.

Cheap Thrills X Sound at Central Takeover

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean Winning Olympic Gold at Nottingham’s National Ice Centre

Nottingham’s National Ice Centre is gearing up for its busiest time of year with thousands of skaters of all ages and abilities set to take to the ice over February half term at the home of Torvill and Dean...

Meet Karim Keita, the Nottingham Skateboarder Aiming for the Olympics

Nottingham’s skate community is renowned for its strong sense of togetherness and frankly terrifying lack of fear, but in Karim Keita, it may soon have an Olympian among its alumni. We sit down with Karim to hear all about his love of the sport and what drives him to succeed…

An Olympic Cyclist in Notts

Our regular Day in the Life feature shines a light on the life of an Olympic medal winner...

UK Young Artist City Takeover in Photos

The UK Young Artist City Takeover took place around Hoodtown from Thursday 7 to Wednesday 13 February. We got down to as many events as we could to take some snaps...

Rapper and Busker TrueMendous is Coming to Notts for UKYA City Takeover

A master of the multisyllabic rhyme scheme, TrueMendous is a rapper and busker from Birmingham who recently upped sticks to the big smoke. In February, she's back in the Midlands as part of the UKYA City Takeover in Nottingham. A residential artist at The Roundhouse, she's been kicking out multi-genre, story-focused music with a mad work rate, and is currently putting together a new EP and book of lyrics. We caught up with the rising star ahead of her visit…

Nottingham Houses of Parliament Takeover

Interview: Joe Buhdha

Producer, promoter, label boss, rapper, DJ, lecturer, Joe Buhdha has held down just about every job in hip-hop, bar leather trackies inventor. As Can’t Stop Won’t Stop’s first release hits stereos, he told us about how it all started, and why he’s got no plans to let up anytime soon…

Interview: Ed Clancy on The Milk Race

Once the most prestigious bike race in the country, The Milk Race was an annual cycling event, sponsored by the now-defunct Milk Marketing Board, that ran from 1958 until 1993. After a twenty-year hiatus, it returned to the streets of Nottingham city centre last year and looks set to be a regular event on the sporting calendar. We spoke to professional competitor Ed Clancy, an Olympic gold cyclist, about the sprint on two wheels.

Mike Breckon on the 1972 Murders of the Israeli Olympic Team

On 5 September 1972, two weeks into the Munich Olympics, members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and later murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team - witnessed by Mike Breckon, Yorkshire-born manager of the Canadian cycling team, who was based in the opposite apartment. He now lives in Nottingham, and speaks for the first time of what he saw.

Interview: Olympians Grace Carter and Tesni Ward

"When I was six, I told my teacher that I was going to be in the Olympics, and I would buy her a ticket"

A Canadian at the London 2012 Olympics

"I want to lose myself in the joyous atmosphere of the world’s middle class getting together to cheer on its fastest and best at throwing heavy objects"

LeftLion Music Exchange Takeover in photos

LeftLion took over a record shop in town for a day and put on some of the best bands and acts from our local scene

Interview: MistaJam

"I've played in clubs around the world but nowhere quite matches the atmosphere of The Bomb as it was."

UK Takeover 5

Organised by producer Joe Buhdha and 1xtra's Mista Jam, this was yet another showcase of everything that's good about the UK hiphop scene.

Interview: Joe Buhdha and MistaJam Talk UK Takeover

"There are strong foundations for hiphop in this town so we're just working to continue that tradition and invest in the future"

UK Takeover 3

Photos from UK Takeover 3...

UK Takeover 3

Hiphop is going off this weekend in Nottingham, with a night featuring some of the best in Britain.

UK Takeover Review

This show was a consummate show of solidarity in UK hiphop, the kind that the scene needs if it is ever to break in the way that many are praying for it to.

UK Takeover - The Prequel!

It reads like a who's who of UK hiphop. Roots Manuva was a 'late addition' to the bill and is simply the biggest pull in the UK scene.

UK Takeover

UK Takeover was cancelled last night because of police fears for public safety at the event.