Nottingham Creative Community News

Folk Troubadour Clarke Camilleri Brings His Sound Back Home

Notts born and bred, folk singer songwriter Clarke Camilleri is one dedicated guy. From running his own folk clubs to touring...

Arianne Churchman is Wearing a Horse's Head at Nottingham Castle

10 September 17

Arianne Churchman won the Solo Exhibition Prize at the Nottingham Castle Open last year, and the result, Horse-Play, delves into the folklore of Hopper Joe, the Minehead Hobby Horse, and Arnold Rattenbury's 1977 exhibition about clowning. We talked to Arianne, and Rattenbury's publisher John Lucas, ahead of the opening later this month.

Progressive Jazz Folk Musician Jimi Mack on His New EP

21 June 17

Reminiscent of musicians such as John Martyn, Joni Mithell and Van Morrison, with a plethora of progressive influences to boot, Jimi Mack is about to release his anticipated debut EP.

Interview: Ferocious Dog

06 March 15

Few Notts bands can say they’ve sold out Rescue Rooms and The Bodega, let alone boast a Glastonbury headliner (we’re talking Pyramid Stage too, not Jethro’s Lentil Yurt Stage). Ferocious Dog can. Hailing from Warsop, they released their debut album in 2013 and are set to release their second. We had a natter with fiddle player and co-songwriter, Dan Booth.

Interview: Gallery 47

25 August 14

Three years ago, a singer-songwriter called Jack Peachey – with the stage name of Gallery 47 – released his debut album, Fate is the Law, and looked set to be the city’s next breakthrough star. A health scare dented his momentum, but over the last eighteen months things have been going from strength to strength: label interest and a tour with Paul Weller have made 2014 a great year, and his second album, All Will Be Well, is released in September…

Interview: Tindersticks

10 October 13

One of the three founding members lives in Prague, another in Antwerp, another in France, and they collectively left town over twenty years ago. Yet to many, Tindersticks are still seen as a Nottingham band. Ahead of the release of their tenth studio album, Across Six Leap Years, keyboardist Dave Boulter talks to us about the band’s roots, and about their recent re-invigoration of some old favourites...