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From a Duck on Bike Launch to Castle Rock’s Yard Party, Here’s What’s on in Nottingham This Week
Mon 08 May 2023Great music, great poetry -- you know what? Just bloody great times are coming to Notts this week...
60 Years Later: High and Low
Thu 26 Jan 2023As BFI’s Akira Kurosawa season is in full swing, one of his all timers turns sixty...
"At some point I realised that the truth sets you free." We talk to Simon Amstell Ahead of the Nottingham Date of his Spirit Hole Tour
Wed 13 Oct 2021It’s fair to say that Simon Amstell has come a long way since the days of broadsiding bemused musicians with snarky questions on Popworld. We caught up with the stand-up comedian, filmmaker and presenter as he heads back on tour with his new show, Spirit Hole, to talk lockdown, dodging threesomes in New York and drinking ayahuasca with a Peruvian shaman...
"No Disney princesses wear glasses and that made me feel like I wasn't beautiful enough." - Lowri Moore and Our Head Designer, Natalie Owen on Their New Children's Book
Sun 19 Jul 2020“If you don’t like something, change it.” That’s what poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou wrote and preached throughout her life. And, it’s exactly what Lowri Moore has done – fuelled by the lack of representation for glasses-wearing characters in Disney films, the eleven-year-old has collaborated with our very own designer, Natalie Owen on their new children’s book, Princess Rose and the Golden Glasses…
6 Nottingham Soldiers and the Historical Turning Points They Found Themselves in
Wed 11 Mar 2020It’s a sad fact of history that the fate of nations was often decided on the field of battle. In amidst the smoke of firing muskets, the explosions of cannonballs, the clashing of swords and the screams of dead and dying men, history was written in blood, and the world as we now know it was formed. In a new six-part podcast series, we’re bringing to life the stories of six Nottingham soldiers who were witness to these historical turning points, uncovering how life took them from the streets of Nottingham to some of the most definitive battles in world history…
RSC Make a Point of International Women's Day
Sat 07 Mar 2020If you’re looking for something a little different to mark International Women’s Day this year, Radcliffe Sword Club might have just the answer for you.
Local Game Developers Dambuster Studios Give Us the Lowdown on their Future Plans
Mon 17 Feb 2020Located in the heart of Nottingham, Dambuster Studios has been one of the country’s biggest video game developers for over twenty years. With projects including dystopian first-person shooter series Homefront: The Revolution and Dead Island, their Studio Development Director Rob Matthews tells us they have no plans of slowing down...
Gone Feral: Punk and Poetry at Low-Light Magazine launch
Tue 07 Nov 2017Who doesn't love a bit of punk? Hi-Vis are back with their DIY dazzlers, and we went down to the Chameleon to see what they had to say for themselves.
Nusic Podcast #163 with Babe Punch, Shelter Point, Maz, Yazmin Lacey and more
Mon 02 Oct 2017This week’s New Music Podcast is a Hockley Hustle special! Featuring Gilles Peterson’s fav Nottingham artist, the musician Nusic Editor Sam loved at school, plus the Notts artist on billboards at St Pancras.
Tommy Farmyard Gives Us The Hockley Hustle Lowdown
Fri 29 Sept 2017October in Nottingham pops off on a regular. What miserable glimmers we had of summer may be well and truly over, but the city shakes off the rain and comes out in such force that we’re crowned the UK’s Festival City for the entire 31 days. Adding to the mass of joy and wonder is the formidable Hockley Hustle; the charity music festival that transforms the cobbles of Hockley into a hedonistic paradise, all in the name of dobbing some worthwhile causes some cash.
This year, they’ve gone all out to bring the party to Hoodtown’s pint-sized partiers, and they’re proud to present, for the first time in the festival’s ten-year history, Young Hustlers. We had a word with festival kingpin, Tommy Farmyard, to find out more...
Shelter Point Are Having A Party
Thu 07 Sept 2017The lads of Shelter Point, Liam Arnold and Robin Hearn, have put their heads together to bring
you a night of electricity over at Rough Trade, this weekend...
Ocularist John Pacey-Lowrie Talks Making Artificial Eyes in Nottingham
Tue 25 Apr 2017John Pacey-Lowrie is the only ocularist in the whole of the Midlands. He’s spent forty years perfecting his craft, and people travel from all over the world to be fitted with one of his handmade, acrylic prosthetic eyes. He is constantly striving to make his prosthetics as realistic as possible and is currently at the forefront of the development of an artificial dilating pupil which reacts to light...
What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Juga-Naut, Grey Hairs, Shelter Point and more
Wed 12 Apr 2017Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...
Music Video: Trekkah - Slowly Fading (feat. Lowrie)
Fri 17 Jun 2016After being championed by Mistajam, DJ Target and Trevor Nelso, Trekkah is about to release his debut album The Enlightening. Here's the first release. You're welcome kidda
Stephen Lowe on Altitude Sickness and DH Lawrence in Taos
Tue 10 May 2016"Lady Chatterley's Lover came out when I was thirteen and I've spent my whole life living with and thinking about him. I've written about him so much he's like family now"
New Single Video Exclusive: Lowrie - Another Trip Around The Sun
Fri 27 Nov 2015Frazer Lowrie has dropped his first name and has got a new single out in a week's time. You heard it here first Nottinghamite
Live: Sounddhism and I'm Not From London present Low Leaf
Sat 22 Aug 2015We went to The Bodega to check out the L.A harpist alongside Shelter Point and Yazmin Lacey for a night of ultimate tunage