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This year marks the tenth anniversary of a documentary about a less widely recognised part of Nottingham history. NG83: When We Were B Boys, follows a particular few years in the mid 80s when, through happenstance, Notts became the UK’s unofficial breakdancing capital. In advance of two events celebrating the anniversary of the film, two of its co-directors: Claude Knight and Luke Scott, reminisce on making it.
Right on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire sits the 80s Video Shop – a one-way ticket to the age of neon, fuelled by original Big Box Rental VHS Tapes. Owners Chris Annable and Rob Lane talk to us about the story behind this tucked away portal to another time…
Following the launch night of a new exhibition ‘Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s’ which will be at the Bonington Gallery until Saturday 10 May, Fashion Editor Addie Kenogbon-Harley, takes a walk down memory lane of 1980s Nottingham, with exhibition co-curators Tom Godfrey, and Dr Katherine Townsend.
This week in Notts! Get yourself out to enjoy the first inklings of spring, plus a load of great events around the city. Check out a four day festival at New Art Exchange, enjoy gripping theatre at Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal, get crafting in a no-phone-zone, or head down to Vicky McClure's Day Fever at the Palais...
The term legend can be thrown around a lot in music nowadays, but only a select few truly deserve the tag. From his iconic basslines to his enduring work with Joy Division and New Order, Peter Hook is one-such artist. As he sets his sights on a return to Nottingham to play New Order’s Substance albums in full, we had a whirlwind chat with Hooky about his life in music.
Happening here in Nottingham this week: Notts Pride street parties, Boho festival in the wilderness, Imara art auction, punk rock band Phat problem & friends, Madagascar the Musical at The Royal Centre.
Ian C Douglas reviews The Hallé 80s Big Night Out...
Of all the films, in all the cinemas, in all the world, we chose to revisit this film
Roshan Chandy looks back on this Disney classic and all of its creepy delights...
Hollie Anderson says this is a part of Hollywood’s history that needs to be viewed with caution...
The eighties was a period of mixed fortunes for Britain’s LGBT+ communities, or lesbian and gay communities as we were known then. Sustained campaigning throughout the seventies had, by the turn of that decade, seen LGBT+ rights moving into the mainstream political agenda, but the emergence of AIDS in 1981 hit us on both a personal and political level...
One world, 80 days travel and 125 characters in 130 hilarious minutes
Featuring Rattle, The Hip Priests, Sheep Soup, Georgina Wilding and Mud Press, Lucy Brouwer's Radiohead adventures, SKON, Videomat, Super Furniture, Michael Holyk, Sir Vauncey Harpur-Crewe, Nottingham Craft Beer Week 2016 and more...
"ExLibris follows in the tradition of maverick Victorian bibliophile Josiah Saithwaite, who rescued and distributed books very cheaply to poor workers in a mask"
Following the untimely death of Louise Wright in 2014, Nottingham Roller Derby have set up a tournament in her honour that will celebrate one of her passions while raising cash for the road safety charity, Brake.
Local cartoonist and general badass, Brick, has done us a comic about one of the biggest and best typos in Nottingham
With Don Wright's Forever Forest, Jaq Hazell's I Came to Find a Girl, Darren Simpson's Dust on the Moth, Judith Allnatt's The Silk Factory, Carl Peter Robinson's A Dip in the Jazz Age, and Gerard Byrne's No Man's Audience
The Lane By Post chaps reveal all about their lamp and how much they love it
With Lawnmower Deth, Eyre Llew, Fonzse, Subway Circus, heurt, Billie, Crosa Rosa and We Show Up On Radar
"I was also thinking about work songs as a form for expressions of community and protest. Almost as soon as I began my research I found stories about miners whistling on buses"
With Heck, Sam & Joe, Some Skeletons, Felix M-B, The Five Hundred, Daniel Shipley, Bru-C, Be, and Friend of a Friend
"I began to wonder what would have happened if the weavers in the village had rebelled, with the might of the cavalry right on the doorstep"
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