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Co-host Dan Schreiber on the No Such Thing as a Fish Podcast and Upcoming Tour Nerd Immunity
Mon 04 Oct 2021Founded by the QI researchers, No Such Thing as a Fish is the weekly British podcast celebrating facts, comedy, and all things nerdy. We catch up with co-host Dan Schreiber and chat about the upcoming tour, weird accents, and raising money for Comic Relief…
The Cod’s Scallops Owner John Molnar Reflects on Ten Years of the UK’s Best Fish and Chip Shop
Wed 04 Aug 2021Despite being about as far from the sea as you can get in the UK, The Cod’s Scallops was named as the UK’s best fish and chip shop in 2020, capping off an impressive list of accolades for one of Nottingham’s biggest culinary success stories. Opening as a single shop ten years ago, Nottingham is now home to four of the renowned chippies. With a fifth on the way, as well as a 10% discount running throughout August to celebrate their anniversary, we caught up with owner John Molnar to find out the secrets of his success…
Nottingham Forest Fan Rich Fisher Releases a Documentary About a Once in a Lifetime Road Trip
Wed 19 May 2021Way back in 2008, Rich Fisher headed to Mongolia with his friend Ed on a road trip. In the back of his mind, he always had the intention of making the journey into a film, but life got in the way. That was until the world came to a grinding halt, allowing Rich the time to finally create Rich and Ed’s Excellent Adventure – the story of two Forest fans on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure to the other side of the world. Roshan Chandy catches up with the Notts-based filmmaker to find out more…
Rose-Tinted Glasses, Rolled Up Sleeves and Fish Finger Sandwiches: What It’s Like Falling In and Out of Love During Lockdown
Fri 12 Feb 2021Being in love is gripping. It grasps at your heart as it falls into your throat, fills your lungs as you breathe in the moments, and sinks into your fingers, so imprinted you can’t let go. During this past year, we’ve all come to rely on it as everything else around us falls down and tightens up. But this year of instability forced me to let go of collapsing cliffs and find the joy of carving out new shapes. And so I embarked on a year of love lessons during lockdown...
Author Rich Fisher Reflects on His Involvement with the Brian Clough Statue Fundraiser
Fri 05 Jun 2020As we celebrate the genius of Cloughie through LeftLion’s #CloughChallenge campaign, Rich Fisher explains how Nottingham’s Brian Clough statue came to exist…
We Went Magnet Fishing in Nottingham Canal with Youtubers The New Magneterz
Mon 16 Mar 2020From guns, knives and bombs to bikes, trolleys and train carriages, you wouldn’t believe what's lurking at the bottom of our rivers and canals. And with the practice of magnet fishing – the process of retrieving such objects with industrial magnets attached to lengths of rope – growing increasingly popular around the UK, we decided to tag along with East Midlands collective The New Magneterz to find out what all the fuss was about...
Film Review: Fisherman's Friends
Thu 21 Mar 2019The remarkable true story of The Fisherman's Friends folk group gets the big-screen treatment...
Tribute: Gordon Pollitt (Wholesome Fish) 1965-2018
Sun 11 Nov 2018Gordon Pollitt, a founder member of Wholesome Fish died last month at the age 53 after a two-year journey with cancer. Here’s a tribute to him from his wife and bandmates…
There's Something Fishy Going on at Sushimania
Sat 15 Sept 2018"Miso hungry for these flipping tasty delights," says Ashwin Balu...
Tommy K on the Side: Sea Fish
Wed 11 Jul 2018Our condiment connoisseur is bringing the sauce to you, and this time he's made his way to Sea Fish...
Comedian Doug Stanhope Reckons The Fish Man Is Well Odd
Fri 01 Jun 2018He’s one of those stand-ups that you’ve either never heard of or are obsessive about. British viewers may know him from a glut of appearances on Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe and Screenwipe back in the early- and mid-noughties, but there’s a lot more to Doug Stanhope than that...
Tommy K on the Side: Carrington’s Fish Bar
Fri 18 May 2018Our condiment connoisseur is bringing the sauce to you...
The Last Fish Man Standing
Wed 04 Apr 2018Dave “The Fish Man” Bartram is a legend around these parts. Turning 72 this November, he walks from pub to pub selling various seafoods and tasty snacks from his basket, raising money for the charity Rainbows. He’s faced some adversity over the past year; he got mugged, broke his ribs, and as a result, discovered he had cancer. Looking back to our 2008 interview with Dave in issue #22, we sat down with him in The Bell for a catch up...
The Church of Stuart Pearce and other stories: Author Rich Fisher Discusses the Trials and Tribulations of Being a Forest Fan
Tue 03 Apr 2018Lifelong Nottingham Forest fan and author Rich Fisher has seen it all in Garibaldi red. In the latest Forest book to grace bookshelves around the city, he tells the tales of a local football fan experiencing delight and suffering during his time supporting his provincial city club.
5 Places To Eat Fish and Chips in Notts
Tue 20 Feb 2018We’ve rounded up some of our favourite Notts restaurants serving up our unofficial national dish, so you can get right stuck in to indulging yoursens. It’d be rude not to...
I Keep My Antidepressants in a Batman-Shaped Pez Dispenser
Thu 04 May 2017Abigail Fish reckons comedy and a sense of humour is a pretty good healer. We tend to agree. Here she is to tell us all exactly why laughing matters...
Doug Fishbone on his Latest Exhibition, Leisure Land Golf
Thu 19 May 2016"It's golf, it's inherently fun. So even if we wanted to talk about some heavily political things, like we have, it always has a certain lightness of touch"