LeftLion Magazine - October 2016 - Issue 83

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www.octoberinnottingham.co.uk Get set to celebrate in Nottingham this Autumn! There’s so much going on in the city this October that we’ve christened it #Nottstober – and a month packed full of festivals, events and fun is the perfect time to pay us a visit and discover our amazing city. Or, if you already live here, the perfect time to roll out the airbed and invite your friends and family!

• The Spiegel Tent • The first EVER Nottingham Caves Festival • Goose Fair • Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival • GameCity • Hockley Hustle • Malt Cross Festival • Robin Hood Pageant • Mayhem Film Festival • Oktoberfest • Robin Hood Day • Nottingham Comic Con • and much more!

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LeftLion Magazine Issue 83 October 2016

Editor Ali Emm (ali@leftlion.co.uk)

Editor-in-chief Jared Wilson (jared@leftlion.co.uk) King of the Swingers Alan Gilby (alan@leftlion.co.uk)

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Wiggin’ Out After ten years on the scene, we had a word with Wigflex bigwig, Lukas Cole

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Street Tales With Ad Sectioned, Overheard in Notts and What Notts

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LeftEyeOn Pictures of Nottingham for your eyeholes and pleasure receptors

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In Focus: Unknown Era A proper cheeky contribution from Notts favourite reggae/ funk/ska band

By Jo, She’s Got It She’s got right loads to moan about. Luckily, Jo Caulfield is quite funny about it Bru is Storming He’s putting down Five-Pound Bets all over town. Bru-C is back on the scene

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There’s A Riot Going On Following a stint at Dismaland, Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Dislocation Principle is in Notts

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The Great Architect More on our main man Mr Fothergill from the Dilettante Society

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Berry Funny Former NTU student and comedian, Matt Berry, is bringing his band to Rescue Rooms

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Listings Have all the fun of the fair at all of the fairs and festivals cracking off this month

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Mortar Life The Victorian architect whose flamboyance and flair for detail made Nottingham that little bit prettier Hockley Hustle The charity festival turns ten, this month. We couldn’t afford a gift, so wrote about ‘em instead Poets Who Know It Two previously unpublished poems from Henry Normal and Matthew Welton for National Poetry Day

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Ooh Baby, I Like it Raw The pair who are adamant that print is not dead – Raw Print

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The Simpson Spokesman Books are the peaceful publishers following the principles of Bertrand Russell

Art Works With Yajie ‘Sophie’ Jiang and David Corbett

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Pick of the Month The creme de la creme of Notts events

editorial

We can’t compete with the A-list draw of Glastonbury, don’t have the stamina of Edinburgh, or the weather of Spain, but that doesn’t stop us turning Nottingham into the UK’s Festival City across the whole of October. Summat. For. Everyone.

Into gaming? Sorted, GameCity. Love your cult cinema? No problem, Mayhem Film Festival. Like getting a beer froth moustache? Who doesn’t, Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival. Wanna dance your socks off while shaking your pockets out for charity? Easy, Hockley Hustle. Want to live like a cat for the day? Weirdo. Can’t help you.

Don’t miss out, basically, because otherwise you’re going to have to listen to your mates banging on about all the good times and you’ll have to wait another year to get in on the action.

We have been sobbing into our lace-edged hankies this month, The Dilettante Society are bidding us a fond farewell. Francis Dashwood and Lady M have kept us right in with the more obtuse side of Nottingham history for the last couple of years, but being

busy souls, they need to focus on their own publication and events. We can only thank them for the time they’ve dedicated to us and raise a gin cocktail to them.

Their final piece is on the eminent architect, Watson Fothergill. Even if the name isn’t that familiar, we’re sure you will have gawked in wonder upon at least one of his buildings. His fancy designs are all over the city, from houses to churches, shops to warehouses. We’ve dipped our toe into his legacy, looking at his life and a handful of his work.

As for the rest of the mag – both Wigflex and Hockley Hustle are celebrating ten years of getting people excited this month, and Bru-C talks to us about his future plans. We’ve also got the lowdown on what’s inside the massive shipping container outside of the New Art Exchange. Well worth a peek.

Go on, be off with you, there’s stuff to be getting on with.

Ali Emm ali@leftlion.co.uk

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October Festivals They’re pulling out all the stops to make October the biggest month of the year

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Write Lion Goose Fair-inspired poetry from Kathy Pimlott

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Music Reviews Cuddle up on the dark nights with the top of the Notts playlist

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Noshingham With Inferno, The Peacock and Cured

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End Page With Rocky Horrorscopes, Art Hole, Notts Trumps, Strellyation, and LeftLion Abroad

Marketing and Sales Manager Ash Dilks (ash@leftlion.co.uk) Designers Raphael Achache (raphael@leftlion.co.uk) Natalie Owen (natalie@leftlion.co.uk) Sub Editor Shariff Ibrahim (shariff@leftlion.co.uk) Community Editor Penny Reeve (penny@leftlion.co.uk) Literature Editor James Walker (books@leftlion.co.uk) Deputy Literature Editor Robin Lewis (robin@leftlion.co.uk) Music Editor Paul Klotschkow (paulk@leftlion.co.uk) Photography Editor Dave Parry (dave@leftlion.co.uk) Poetry Editor Aly Stoneman (poetry@leftlion.co.uk) Screen Editor Harry Wilding (harry@leftlion.co.uk) Stage Editor Hazel Ward (hazel@leftlion.co.uk) Web Editor Bridie Squires (bridie@leftlion.co.uk)

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Editorial Assistant Lucy Manning (lucy@leftlion.co.uk) Cover Rikki Marr

Shaun Gordon Hailing from Nottingham, our new Photography Editor Shaun spent a good deal of time working in London before returning to the East Midlands about ten years ago.

LeftLion’s only Dr, he‘s just completed a PhD in Business and Management at Nottingham University Business School, and is now lecturing at Nottingham Trent University. He’s also researching the creative industries, particularly the music business – any interested folk, drop him a line.

Outside of academia, Shaun can be found in a dark and dingy photo pit or a muddy field, photographing the best bands the UK has to offer. On his turntable are Jagwar Ma, Amber Arcades, Meilyr Jones and FEWS. Some of his favourite Nottingham bands include Eyre Llew, April Towers, Kagoule, Field Studies and Crosa Rosa. His top musical tip Nottingham’s Cold Water Souls. shaungordon.photography

LeftLion magazine has an estimated readership of 40,000 and is distributed to over 350 venues across the city of Nottingham. If your venue isn’t one of them, or you’d like to advertise, contact Ash on 0115 9240476, email ash@leftlion.co.uk or visit leftlion.co.uk/rates

Contributors Kimberley Bond Wayne Burrows F Dashwood Joe Earp Jack Garofalo Lady M Sam Nahirny Nick Palmer Hannah Parker Eileen Pegg Louron Pratt Tim Sorrell

Photographers David Baird Martyn Boston Thomas Comery Sofie De Baere Svitlana Kolesnichenko Paul Mason-Smith Tom Quigley Rimas Vainorius

Illustrators Eva Brudenell Ian Carrington Christine Dilks Rikki Marr Rob White

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We delve a little deeper into the history of our city’s streets to give you the tales they’d never have taught you at school…

Mansfield Road: The Elizabeth (Bessie) Shepherd Murder He also tried, but failed, to take off her gown.

The well-documented murder of a young She was found by quarrymen the next day Papplewick girl on Mansfield Road in 1817 is one and an immediate search for the perpetrator that still resonates today. On 7 July, Elizabeth was undertaken. He was captured on route ‘Bessie’ Shepherd left her home around midday to Loughborough. Confessing to the crime, he to walk to Mansfield, where she was hoping to was found guilty and hanged on Gallows Hill, find employment in service. She was dressed in Nottingham (at the junction of Forest Road and her Sunday best, wearing a new pair of shoes Mansfield Road) on 28 July 1817. and carrying a yellow umbrella. Successful in her endeavours, witnesses saw her leaving Mansfield at A stone was erected in 1819 near to the spot of around 6pm. where Bessie met her end, and her body was Bessie’s mother waited for her daughter’s return, but interred in Papplewick church yard. Legend has it that if the stone is disturbed, her ghost will appear. as evening began to draw on she set out to meet In the late thirties, the stone was moved a few yards her. Taking Mrs Shepherd’s account of events, she when the road was widened, and for several days walked a good distance towards Mansfield and after, a ghostly apparition was seen in the area. In saw the familiar figure of her daughter on the road some distance ahead. Thinking that Bessie had also the early fifties the memorial was again disturbed seen her and would hurry to catch up, Mrs Shepherd when it was struck by a car, and shortly after, a young couple on their way to Mansfield reported turned and began to walk home. seeing a white figure hovering over the stone.

Shortly after turning for home she passed a stranger, who was later identified as Charles Rotherham. She Perhaps the strangest incident was in April of 1988. could not have known then that her daughter would It was noticed that Bessie’s headstone was missing. also meet him, an encounter she would not survive. To publicise it, two policemen from Hucknall posed for an Evening Post photographer by the roadside stone. One of them felt an overpowering urge to Witnesses state that Rotherham, a 33-year-old exsoldier from Sheffield, was drinking in The Hutt and touch it and was immediately inspired to return to had left shortly before he was seen by Mrs Shepherd. the churchyard. The missing headstone was found underneath undergrowth just sixty yards from the Encountering poor Bessie at the point on the Mansfield Road where it emerges from the southern grave site. side of Harlow Wood, he attacked her. Beating her For more on Nottingham history, check out the repeatedly about the head with a hedge stake, he Nottingham Hidden History website. then threw her body into a ditch and robbed her of her umbrella and soes. nottinghamhiddenhistoryteam.wordpress.com

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Teleview in Comfort with Goodwood Furnishers (c.1957) The long summer nights are slowly but inexorably drawing in. We'll soon be bracing ourselves for the sudden plunge into that cold, dark maelstrom of premature Christmas lights generally announced by the clocks going back an hour. This happens on Sunday 30 October this year, in case you were wondering, but it hasn't been much acknowledged that 2016 marks the centenary of our traditional exit from British Summer Time.

The practice of jumping backwards or forwards an hour at either end of a British Summer was instigated by a builder, William Willett, who complained about the effect of wasted daylight on his business and got an Act of Parliament passed in 1916. Like most things to do with time-keeping, it all came down to rationing hours so someone could make more money. As Lewis Mumford succinctly puts it, “the clock, not the steam engine, is the keymachine of the modern industrial age.”

What this has to do with Goodwood of Denman Street is the tendency of these looming, extra dark evenings to encourage a retreat indoors. Even in 1957, when there were still only two TV channels to watch, this advert suggests that dedicated TV furniture was beginning its process of replacing the fireside hearth with the Gogglebox. Even as TV itself was still exclusive enough for its furnishings to be designed in classic mid-century Scandinavian style as a mark of tasteful sophistication.

There might not have been much to watch then, but making a statement about watching it was clearly on an upward trend in 1957. These days, with around 450 channels churning out random programming across everything from mobile phones and laptops to massive plasma screens and home cinema projectors, there still might not be much on, but we watch it in far more varied ways than Goodwood's Tele-Circle customers ever could. With or without their latex cushions.

This still suits the rolled-back daylight hours of our changing clocks, by virtue of shunting us from after-work drinks in balmy pub gardens to the front of the telly. There, we can be bludgeoned into relaxation with DVD box-sets and Netflix binges. There, we’re out of the freezing cold and constant rain, but ready for an extra morning hour in a modern variation on William Willett's original 1916 daylight-squeezing business. leftlion.co.uk/adsectioned

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WHAT NOTTS Find out what’s been going off around and about the city over the past month...

PINK PIGEON Da-dun, da-dun, da-dun, da-dun da-dun da-dun da-dun da-duuuuun. It’s not the Pink Panther who’s been stomping about Hoodtown this month, but a mysterious pink pigeon. Experts are saying the little blighter was painted this way, and Tim Sexton from Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust reckons it’s actually a budgie. Will we ever know our feathered friend’s true identity? Will we ever bask in its shining pink glory again? Tune in next month, where we will probably still be none the wiser.

DOWN WITH MISOGYNY Back in April, Nottinghamshire Police became the first force in the country to classify misogyny as a hate crime. They actively want to crack down on “unwanted or uninvited sexual advances”, verbal assault, and “uninvited physical or verbal contact or engagement” by men against women. At the time of going to press, police have investigated 21 misogynistic hate crimes under the new rules – which ain’t great, but at least change is coming and the system is working.

ONION HEAD If dicing a shallot is enough to have your eyes streaming like a blue-rinsed lady after one too many white wine spritzers, then look away now. One bloke who goes by the name of Joe Atherton has managed to grow an onion the size of his noggin – Mr Atherton, of Mansfield Woodhouse, grew the prize veggie for this year’s Harrogate Autumn Flower Show. Big up to Bulwell’s Brian Marshall too, who managed to grow a pumpkin bigger than a baby elephant.

TRUMP ON TRUMP This is bleddy marvellous. The Raglan Road pub on Derby Road have popped a picture of Donald Trump in their urinals so punters can pee on the pompous piece of work. A grand move that surely needs to be extended to every gaff in town, including the women’s bogs, for equally hateful wazzes. The lineup could even be extended to pictures of Nigel Farage, Jimmy Savile, and Gail off of Coronation Street.

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"Nah you'll be alright, it'll all be out your system by then."

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Man 1: W thmark, I've 'ad ir B : 2 n a M

"Mining bitcoins... is tha t like Candy Crush for posh people ?"

“In my mocks I got all like As and Bs. But with all these extra lessons they're making me do, I dunno, I think they're making me more thick or something.”

Lad 1: Why's he called Fat Dave?

Lad 2: He sat on me mate's arm and it snapped in half. He's well fat.

Lad 1: Why's she called Mumbo?

Lad 2: She's me mate's mum and she's got B.O.

“I went to punch him in the balls and bust my knuckle .”

Bloke: Ooh, these chillis are spic y.

Woman: What sort are they?

Bloke: I think they're called hally peenos.

y st slapped m e little boy ju ay lfw ha “Maisie, som 's he , away. Yeah arse and ran et now.” re st e th n w do old… he's nearly 21!"

"He's really old, really

Lad 1: Yo, put in ‘Bugzy Malone The Revival’.

Lad 2: Nah that songs dead fam.

Lad 1: You’re dead.

Lad 2: You're dead in bed fam.

“Don’t expect Dawson’s Creek. It does have people sexing and taking mushrooms and that.”

“Go on, I dare you to

buy an aubergine.”

Tweet us @LeftLion with your #OverheardInNotts quotes.

Nottingham’s most opinionated grocers on...

BRANGELINA SPLIT Who is she? Oh actually, we might know. We went to the Chanel counter at Christmas to buy presents and there was a big poster of a man there.

The lady at the counter told us it was Brad Pitt. She’s his wife, yes? And they’re something to do with the United Nations?

Either way, who cares if they’ve split up. It’s none of our business.

GOOSE FAIR We’ll go in spirit. We stopped going about five years ago as the rides started to give us the willies. The Magic Carpet is no longer there and that was one of our favourites. We used to go every year, have a few pints and then go on a load of rides.

One reason that always makes it worth going is that there are some very good looking women there. Unfortunately, I don’t think any of them would ever go out with us.

MARK ZUCKERBERG TO CURE ALL DISEASES BY 2100 He’s deluded. Does he think he’s God? With all the money in the world right now they still can’t cure the common cold. What chance does he have of tackling the rest? He’s unsound of mind and should be sent straight to Mapperley.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICIALLY THE BEST IN THE WORLD Quite right, too! We went to Oxford two years ago to see a friend there and it’s absolutely delightful. We were there on a bank holiday. At that time in Nottingham, all the students would be out boozing. At Oxford, the library was full at 9am on bank holiday Monday.

What a marvellous place.

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What a hoopla Svitlana Kolesnichenko sveetyk.wixsite.com

“Excuse me, mate - which way to the Trent?”

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Reflections

The ripple effect Rimas Vainorius rimasvainorius.com

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Derby Derby

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With a sound that falls somewhere between reggae, funk, hip hop and ska, Unknown Era have been smashing the festival circuit and donning Nottingham stages like there’s no tomorrow.

Their self-titled EP went down a treat last year, and they’re now set to play the prohibition-era-themed opening night for the Spiegeltent in Market Square. The nine-piece have an energy that’s impossible to ignore, so get down on Saturday 1 October to skank yourself silly. And don’t forget to keep your pint low.

Unknown Era, Spiegeltent, Saturday 1 October, £10/£8 Unknown Era, Hockley Hustle, Sunday 9 October, £12 facebook.com/unknowneraband

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interview: Eileen Pegg photo: Shaun Gordon

The state of things is ever-changing. But one thing that has remained the same for the good folk of Nottingham over the last decade is the knowledge that there will be easily accessible bangers, schwangers and melodic madness from the Wigflex crew on a Friday night. To mark its move into double digits, we caught up with Lukas Cole, ringleader and chief party starter, to learn some tips on standing the test of time…

We’ve got Wigflex down as a club night, record label, clothing line, toy/tape producer, meat and hot sauce aficionados. Have we missed anything?

You missed the mighty Wigflex Miners Welfare six-a-side football team. Now disbanded because we were awful.

Who are the other members of the Wigflex community?

The crew consists of Hizatron, Morris Cowan, Metaphi Metske, Bashley, Medicut, Blades, Prole, Matt Woodham and Prefix Studio's wiz,Lewis Hacket.

Who played at the very first Wigflex gig?

It was locals and residents playing. I remember being thrown out by the bouncers for skinning a jazz fag in the club, and then having to pay them both £40 each to get back in. I hadn’t even DJed yet.

Who was your first actual booking?

A guy from Leicester called Dubchild. He made mucky garage rollers. Next up was DJ Distance, followed by Max Cooper.

What was the local nightlife landscape back then?

I started raving at Detonate, when it was at The Bomb – best club ever. It's really nice to see them still going strong. My favourite night during the early years was Firefly, a techno night who used to throw some pretty epic parties at the [Marcus] Garvey, and Max Cooper was a resident.

What was the Notts sound like? Do you think it’s changed ten years on?

Not really sure about the ‘Notts sound’ as a whole because everybody perceives that quite differently, I would imagine. But, for us lot, it was always drum and bass, techno, hip hop, breaks, garage and grime.

Anything mucky or melodic. There was a lot of house music about as well.

Your list of hero bookings is endless, with Marcel Dettmann, James Holden, Paranoid London, James Blake, Max Cooper... Whatever you have next up your sleeve must be pretty huge?

Pretty chuffed to be doing an all night back-to-back with one of my favourite DJs, Ben UFO, inside a 100-capacity former Boots laboratory on Saturday 5 November. Got some good bookings in the pipeline for next year as well.

When Wigflex was just a gleam in your eye, did you envision the night turning into the multifaceted techno empire that it is today?

Not really. I created a mix tape and named it Wigflex 2000 with the sole purpose of getting gigs off the back of it. It all kind of snowballed from that; and it's still the main reason I do it to this day. Playing records is my favourite thing – I just love being able to give my mates and myself a gig.

Did you think you’d still be going ten years strong?

To be fair, I didn't think I'd live this long.

And did you think you’d play a Boiler Room show?

I used to think I could see into the future whenever I was off my swede as a youth, but I never once foretold that. I've never been so nervous behind a pair of decks in my life. I remember the first tune feeding back horribly and just as I was going to mix it, the sound engineer ran down and got me to change the needle, which added to the angst. Once I got going, though, I started to enjoy it. The crowd was amazing and really helped me through the start. It was great to have that captured so people who don't know about our great city can see how we get down.

During your ten years, is there a particular night that has stood out as your favourite?

Last New Year's Eve was a special one. We managed to get our mitts on an old car garage in an industrial estate somewhere in Nottingham and threw one of most raucous parties to date. The secret ones in strange venues are always a lot of fun. Watch out for mark two.

Another memorable one was the 4 June, 2010; we had Joy Orbison, Shackleton, Floating Points, Mount Kimbie, James Blake, Deadboy, Alexander Nut, Lone and Martin Kemp all playing. It was a bit of a statement back then, some of those artists have gone on to be huge.

Wigflex brings all types of people together to worship the techno titans and blow off steam.

What’s kept the night afloat?

We don't take ourselves or our parties too seriously, but have some serious schwangers being dropped on the night. I think you hit the nail on the head with the crowd – it's always been a safe space for all types of freaks and geeks to come and forget about any bother and dance.

I used to think I could see into the future whenever I was off my swede as a youth, but I never once foretold that.

How will you be celebrating your arrival into double figures?

We're doing a party at the Brickworks and I'm really excited about the line-up. I've got one of my favourite producers of the last few years, Rival Consoles off the Erased Tapes record label, doing a live AV show.

We've also got Peverelist and Kowton performing a B2B on the night, all headlined by an artist who has arguably produced the tunes of the summer, Midland.

The date falls on Halloween, which is always one of our funnest parties of the year.

You’ve played and hosted parties in London, Manchester, Berlin and you play Gottwood festival every year...

Me and Hizatron played there five years ago, and a year later they asked us back to host our own stage.

We’ve been going back ever since. There is something about that place you can't put into words. The location is perfect. For those of you who haven't been, it's like a large-scale house party/art installation in a Welsh forest surrounded by coastline. All the stages are built into the beautifully undulating surroundings, and even if you're not interested in any of the amazing music being played, you can still get lost in the magic.

It's also a very intimate capacity. Smaller than some large club nights.

Any other love affairs with music events?

The Bohemian Drips dudes in Berlin throw some killer parties. Hizatron, Metske and myself will be going back to play over there in November. We can't wait.

Best thing about the Notts music scene?

The crowd.

Worst?

Vampires.

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By Jo, She’s Got it

interview: Hazel Ward

Insightful and funny, stand-up comedian Jo Caulfield has entertained us on shows like Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You. Her new live show sets the world to rights, looking at life’s pitfalls and advising on how best to deal with them. Or avoid them completely. We reckon life’s a funny old game too, so we grabbed her for a chat…

How did you get started in comedy?

It was completely accidental. I was drifting from job to job, no life plan at all, and a friend did a spot at the Comedy Store. I went to see him and it was quite bad – people ignored him and he wasn’t funny – but I couldn’t get over the fact that he actually got on stage. I thought, “I can do that”. I was hooked from the first laugh. You have to be really bad for a few years, but that’s the only way to learn – to basically ruin people’s evenings for five or ten minutes while you practice at being a comedian.

Does the audience help you edit your work?

Completely. There are things that you think are funny but it’s not until you say a joke in front of people that you know. In my current show, I’m doing a lap dance – I say it’s for comedic effect, but I’m actually trying my best – and everyone just ends up laughing. I rehearsed that at home with a mic stand to see how I was going to do it and what I would say. The audience tell you who you are, at times. When I’m mean to people the audience seem to like it, so I do it more because I can get away with it.

How did you begin working with Graham Norton?

Travelling from London to a gig in Chester. We’d not met before and he just turned up and said, “Do you mind giving me a lift?” When he got a TV show, they needed a warm-up artist and they were all men. Graham asked if there were any females, so the producer got me in. I did the warm-up for the first series, but they had trouble finding the right kind of writers to do the jokes at the top. They were straight, male writers writing very John Inman-ey, old-fashioned gay jokes, so the producers said, “Why don’t we give Jo a try? She knows the show and your voice”. I worked there for eight or nine years after that.

You’ve done stand-up, written comedy and appeared on panel shows. Which do you prefer?

TV is different because you have to prepare and there’s certain things you can’t say. It’s a challenge – you have to hone the piece. The last time I did The John Bishop Show I thought, “How can I do these jokes and not come across as a toned-down version of myself?” Live stand-up is always best, because that’s when you can engage with people. You can say anything you want and change what you’re doing. It’s free-form and that’s the best feeling.

I also do football shows – I’m very much into managers and their personalities. It’s like a huge soap opera.

What have been the best and worst gigs throughout your career?

Some are fun because they’re enormous and it feels incredible. But when I’m on tour in a small remote town where everyone knows everyone, and they’ve come to the show because you’re the only thing in town for a long time, you can spend thirty minutes talking about the town and the people in the audience. That’s huge fun. I worked in New York with Graham, and Chris Rock was a guest on the show. He’d been down to the Comedy Store in London when I’d been on, so when I walked past him on the stairs in New York he said, “Oh hey, I thought you were really funny.”

My worst... There was a woman running a gig with business people sitting at tables. She said, “We don’t have lights, we’ve got a radio mic, we don’t have a stage, but could you go round the tables? The magicians did that last week and it worked.” I won’t go round each table and tell them a joke. That’s more like an escort.

What’s it like performing in other countries?

There was a Comedy Store opening in Dubai, and stand-up was very new to them. It was a wonderful feeling, as they were hanging on every word. They thought it was hilarious when you made fun of people and picked up on the pomposity because they are usually deferential and careful. In Scandinavia, everyone on the bill was Swedish, and you can’t gauge the audience because you don’t know what’s being said. Although, the Swedish sense of humour seems very similar to the British – very dark. And more cynical than English people, if that’s possible.

What kind of jokes are you tired of seeing in comedy?

I don’t like when people try to fill the room with their shouty energy rather than having funny things to say. And I don’t like when they put the audience down in a bullying way. I like to find out about people and explore them, it should be a two-way interaction between you and them.

How tired are you about being asked about being a woman in comedy?

Incredibly tired, because I’ve been asked about it ever since I’ve started doing it. The BBC saying “We’re going to push a woman on every show” doesn’t help because they put a woman on, not a comedian – there’s a difference. And the fact that they made it one... why couldn’t you have two?

Jo Caulfield, Lakeside Arts Centre, Saturday 22 October, 7.30pm, £11 - £15 jocaulfield.com

Jo’s Woes People that never ask about the other person they’re talking to. And people who are really hard work – bring something to the table, have some funny stories ready when you go out for the night. Don’t be one of those people.

People who wait to see who is going to buy a round. I go the opposite way and pay for everything. If we’re gonna all sit there staring at the bill I’ll just bloody pay for it.

People who mumble: sometimes you have to give up having a conversation with them because you just can’t understand what they’re saying.

People who aren’t prepared when they go through airport security. They’ll get there and be like, “Oh, do I have to take my belt off?” There should be two queues: one for people who know what they’re doing, and one for the amateur travellers.

People deliberately being unhelpful, like when you ask someone a question and they won’t look at you, even though it’s their job to answer. Then again, when I worked in retail I was rude, so I understand it.

People thinking that it’s acceptable to be late. I’m always early because I factor in that something will go wrong. I don’t think there’s an excuse for being late – you just didn’t leave early enough. leftlion.co.uk/issue83

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Record label owner, event organiser, rap battler, youth worker and emcee, Josh Bruce, aka Bru-C, doesn’t do things by halves. After recently kicking out a proper funny grime track with Windowkid, where they celebrate the humble pint and roulette machines, our Bru-C has got an EP out this month called One Of Them, so we got gassing with him…

When did this all start for you?

I went to the youth club with my cousin and sister; everyone was a lot older than me and everyone was always spitting, but I never dared show anyone. When I was a bit older, people started clashing in school so I joined in, but that was only messing about.

keep something like that relevant. Especially when it comes to Don’t Flop – a lot of the same stuff is repeated, and not on a higher level. It fell hand-in-hand with everything I was doing at the time, so I have a lot of love for it. I still have that hunger to do it again. It would have to be the right place, right time, though. It’s always been about the music for me.

You were also doing youth work...

I’m still teaching at a school in Leicester. We did rap battles in schools – that was sick. We took subjects like nuclear war and eco greens, made ‘for and against’ bars out of them, and made them go against each other. I also did some mentoring work for YMCA, helping artists to get inspired.

It properly started in 2010 when I was about eighteen.

One of my friends said a guy, who was linked up with BBK [grime collective], needed some emcees. At the time I was plastering full-time and thought, “Might as well.” I started writing some tunes, then went to the studio with the guy.

That led to The Afterdark Movement and clashes. I just took those guys’ heads off – that’s when the ratings came in and I got a bit of respect.

How does the writing process differ writing on beat and writing a capella?

I don’t struggle writing a grime clash at all – you get your beats given to you beforehand, you know what kind of flow you’re going to go with, then you have one punchline that strings it together. When I started to write an a capella battle, I kid you not, I struggled big time. You’ve got nothing to start with and there’s so many more technicalities: a lot more brainstorming and choosing where certain words and phrases will go, and where your beginning, middle and conclusion will go in your round.

You’ve got your fingers in a lot of pies…

I don’t regret what I’ve done, but I’ve stretched myself thin.

I’ve done The Afterdark Movement, Origin One, Bru-C, Don’t Flop and Phlexx. So now I’m doing something for myself. I recently left Afterdark – I did enjoy being in a band but it was just too much, and I’ve got a kid now. I’m trying to go for a career in teaching, and for this to work out as well.

What do you reckon to rap battling these days?

It’s what started me getting promotion, really. I was doing battles, then when I heard of Don’t Flop [UK battle rap league], I did that. It was exciting when me and Youth[oracle, Nottingham emcee] would roll to events – it was just sick, you know? Personally, I’ve gone off it massively. It’s hard to

Have you got any rules for writing bars?

I try and stay away from things that aren’t true, things that I don’t relate to, and things that people have already said.

What’s your favourite Bru-C tune?

Probably I Am Bru. It’s a laugh. We came up with that while blazing a spliff in my mate’s car. He was finishing a bottle of Irn-Bru and he was like “I am Bru, haha.” You know one of them stupid jokes that just became a thing. Either that, or Five-Pound Bet. It’s doing well. Where did that one come from?

I’m always first in the pub, innit. I’m used to seeing grime videos being taken so seriously, always in the street, in a studio or in a rave. Why not just do it at a pub? We went to Up N Down Under, asked the guy if we could film, and he ended up giving us loads of free pints, even putting Wray and Nephews in the pint. We were steaming when we did the video.

When you had your son, the sound took a bit of a different turn. Maybe a bit more serious…

Definitely more serious. Another rule I have about my music is putting a stamp on where I’m at in current time, especially with Storytellers [JDZmedia series]. After my son was born, I wrote that whole [Black ‘N Red] EP in three nights – sitting up with him, chilling. It was just where I was at. It felt right to get something conscious out there. It was all about setting an example, not only to the young people I was working with, but to people around me and fans of my music.

There are gassy bars and hype tunes out there, but music is about expression and not following what everyone else is doing, which I felt I needed to make clear at the time.

What benefits are there to working solo?

In a band you get to share experiences, it’s socially brilliant. There’s nothing better than getting on stage with a band behind you. However, trying to manage six people, especially when we’re unsigned, can be difficult. The pros of being on your own… I mean, look how many releases I’ve got solo, compared to being in a band. But you have to do everything yourself, you haven’t got other people to push you. Luckily, if I want to do something, I’ll do it.

It must be cool to see the progression of your Phlexx nights…

It takes a while to build these things up, a lot of trial and error. I don’t think people realise that a lot of money is put into the music, more than the events really. It’s expensive if you want it to work. Even now, I’ll get money from a show and it will go straight into studio, or getting in the next person, or booking the next flight. It’s the only way to grow.

What’s going on with this new EP then?

It’s a bassline-garage hybrid track done five ways. It’s called One Of Them because it’s just one of them, innit. There’s gonna be a single, and a remix with six other emcees: MC Vapour, K Dot, Gino, Dizzle Kid, Dubzy, and Dan Ja. There’s also an instrumental and an a capella track, so other DJs and emcees can buy the music to make their own versions.

Any other plans for the future?

When One Of Them is released, I’m gonna do a show on Rinse FM with Marcus Nasty, with all the emcees on the remix. Plus, we’re gonna do a set. Then it’s just banging out tunes, man. I feel like I’m starting on a clean slate this year – it’s about quality control, making sure everything’s tight, playing as many shows in as many cities as I can, and getting to some banging raves.

One Of Them is released on Wednesday 19 October on Phlexx Records. bru-c.co.uk

There are gassy bars and hype tunes out there, but music is about expression and not following what everyone else is doing.

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Otobong Nkanga

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Otobong Nkanga, Dream in 1m2, Beirut Art Centre, 2016. Photo Walid Rashid Photography

The effect of that crazy amount of detail multiplied by thousands conspires to make it look real.

interview: Paul Klotschkow

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a post-riot landscape created in miniature by acclaimed artist Jimmy Cauty, co-creator of chart-topping band, The KLF. Following the installation’s critically acclaimed appearance at Banksy’s Dismaland last summer, it is now rehoused in a shipping container and will be paying New Art Exchange a visit on its tour of the UK… The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a post-riot landscape in three parts. Can you explain what those three scenes are and how they connect?

When the Aftermath arrived back from Dismaland, I wanted to set up a live workshop so people could come along and watch us making a new ADP section.

We hired a 2,000 sq ft railway arch in America Street, Southwark, and set it up like a model village with a turnstile and paying kiosk, charging £4 entry. There was a large section behind security fencing where myself and a small group of seven volunteer model makers set about over the next three months making the new parts.

The new section was based on the Tower of Babel, a vertical spiral city equivalent to 1,000 ft high. The idea for the new section came about as a result of reading a piece by Jonathan Downing in which he drew parallels between the ADP’s ravaged landscape, which is set in Bedfordshire, and the original Garden of Eden that, according to the Panacea Society, was also based in Bedfordshire.

I figured that if all the police officers were left to their own devices they would eventually come up with the idea of building a utopian police city from the wreckage of the Aftermath. This is what we set about building.

The city was called New Bedford, or New Bedford Tower, and was designed by the police for the police.

Around the fortified perimeter, a massive landfill site piled up against the ramparts, thousands of refugees were camped in this vast rubbish dump.

A sign at the entrance reads “Welcome to England” but, like the rest of the Aftermath, there was no sign of the inhabitants of the camp, just hundreds of construction police busy building the new tower.

As with the original Tower of Babel, New Bedford was never completed and the top sections remained clad in scaffolding and cranes. When the America Street ‘Model Village’ closed down on Christmas Day 2015, the tower was installed into a 10 x 8 x 9 ft shipping container and named ADP 2.

To connect ADP 1, the original landscape, with ADP 2, New Bedford Rising, a bridge was constructed – ADP 3. The bridge spanned the River Mersey, now relocated to Bedfordshire for the purposes of the ADP. The bridge, like the tower, was never completed and upon the closure of the ‘Model Village’ it was installed in a 6 ft³ shipping container.

Having spent two months installing ADP 1 into a 40 ft shipping container with 123 observation ports positioned around the outside, all three containers set off on a UK tour, The ADP Riot Tour.

On Christmas Eve 2016, all three containers will converge at the Garden of Eden in Bedford and will be aligned with the winter solstice sunrise. For the purposes of the ADP, the winter solstice has now been moved to Christmas Day. At dusk on Christmas Day the tour will end.

When did you first start working on the project and what were the processes you went through to get it to a stage where you felt that it was finished? There’s an amazing amount of detail going on…

I first started work on the ADP on New Year’s Day 2013. There was one thing I needed to start the work, and that thing was cash. Cash to buy all the parts and cash to pay for labour. At a meeting with the L-13 [studio/publisher/gallery] it was agreed that £5,000 would be paid into my bank account each month for nine months and this would pay for all the costs of building the ADP. Upon commencing the work, the £5,000 per month was quickly increased to £8,000. The ADP was delivered on time and on budget nine months later.

What were the challenges you faced working on such a small scale?

It was important to me that the ADP looked like a real world, and the only way to achieve that look is to make sure every detail is to scale. When you see

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a policeman standing looking at something everything about that policeman has to look right, even down to the smallest detail like the buttons on his coat. Even though you don’t notice the buttons, they are there and they are to scale. The effect of that crazy amount of detail multiplied by thousands – because there are thousands of police – conspires to make it look real. A bit like real life, if you saw a police officer in the street and his buttons were just badly painted smudges you would quickly start to question that version of reality.

When the exhibit moves to a new location, do you have to be present to help set it all up or are you able to leave detailed set of instructions?

Now that the ADP is safely installed inside a 40 ft shipping container, it’s just a matter of dropping the container in the right place and switching it on. Before it was in the container, when it was touring around the Netherlands and then went to Dismaland, I had to remake the landscape each time it was moved. It was built with this in mind, so every section fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle and every section had its own wooden crate for shipping. There were a total of 23 crates.

On your blog there’s a group of police officers looking at the piece. What did they make of it?

When we showed the Aftermath in America Street as the model village, we had a police-only day. Two vanloads turned up on the day, alerted by Twitter, which is a popular police communication tool. They seemed genuinely impressed by the amount of police cars all attending the crime scene at the same time – the ADP has over 100 police vehicles all with blue flashing lights. Because of the recent cuts to policing, very few police cars and vans are [now] left on the road.

Also on your blog there’s a message from someone in Penzance explaining reasons for not wanting the exhibit to visit their town…

That was a letter of rejection from Cornwall Council on the grounds that some of the graffiti that has built up on the outside of the container over the duration of the tour was thought to be offensive. It went to Falmouth instead who were very pleased to have it. On the whole, people seem to respond to the work in a genuinely positive and enthusiastic manner. Mostly we leave very happy people behind us.

You have created what looks like a rather desolate world.

Is there any sort of hope to be found within in it?

The Aftermath may look desolate on first sight but there are many heartwarming stories and acts of kindness going on out of sight just around the corner.

What influenced the idea of creating a world that exists in the immediate aftermath of a riot?

Originally there was to be a full-scale riot taking place within the city and surrounding countryside, and many of the rioters were made and painted in preparation for this. I think I had a problem with portraying any kind of movement – I didn’t want to show people doing anything like running or fighting, because that would just be weird because all the figures are static. I figured it would be better if all the people in the landscape were just standing doing nothing, standing in small groups talking or just looking around. That way I could say this is just a snapshot in time of say, three seconds; the police car lights are flashing so time is passing but those lights are just on a three second loop. It was only at that point I realised it should be the aftermath of something, so I omitted the rioters.

photo: Thomas Mayar

photo: Thomas Mayar

How are you choosing the locations where the tour visits?

The concept of the tour is based on the idea that there has been a riot inside the container, even though we are saying we don’t know what has really happened. For the purposes of a concept to hang the tour on, it fits well. We had a map of the UK on the office wall in America Street; I wrote the word ‘riot’ in bold text over the map and said if your town or village fell within the word riot and was the site of a real riot, we could come to you. We started by sending a Twitter message out calling for towns to come forward, and pretty soon we had most of the county covered and the tour commenced. Nottingham qualified because of the 1958 Race Riots and 2011 England Riots.

I didn’t want to ask too many questions about The KLF, but if I could end on a couple: the band’s appearance at the ’92 Brit Awards remains one of my favourite live performances. How did the organisers react when you told them what you had planned or how did you keep it secret?

There is a self-imposed 23 year embargo on Bill and myself talking about anything that starts with the letter K. That 23 years is coming to an end next year.

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle, New Art Exchange, until Sunday 9 October.

Jimmy Cauty and L-13 Light Industrial Workshop founder, Steve Lowe, will be giving a talk at the New Art Exchange on Saturday 8 October 2016. jamescauty.com

photo: Thomas Mayar

photo: Jimmy Cauty/L-13

If you saw a police officer in the street and his buttons were just badly painted smudges you would quickly start to question that version of reality.

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Celebrating the joy that is making magazines, Raw Print host a monthly seminar about the world of independent magazine publishing, both in Nottingham and beyond. The brainchild of Matt Gill and Ideas on Paper’s Alex Smith, Gill has also released his very own Metazine with the help of Dizzy Ink – a magazine about the independent magazine industry featuring interviews with speakers from the last year’s talks. We find out what drives their passion for print…

When I started my second semester as a magazine journalism student, my heart sank to the pit of my stomach when our tutor announced that we were expected to produce our very own magazine from scratch. It seemed like an impossible task for someone independent from a big media company to create something not only unique, but of high enough quality to scrape a passing grade at least. So it was with pure serendipity that I found out about Raw Print.

Committed to the magazine industry, the co-founding pair host regular talks on how to produce independent magazines, with the help of industry professionals. Perhaps I wasn’t so screwed after all.

When I meet Matt for our interview, he comes stacked with a pile of independent publications – including LeftLion, naturally – and it’s immediately clear he wasn’t exaggerating when he described himself as a ‘magaholic’. “I’ve always loved reading,” he explains. “It’s more of a physical experience than TV or film, as it allows you to use your imagination. I’ve always loved the art and design aspects within magazines and the creative process of it. It’s something that’s always interested me.”

It’s this interest in how magazines are manufactured that influenced him to start Raw Print back in 2010. “I’m a lecturer at NTU in fashion communication and promotion. Six years ago, we did a change of direction for the course with a move for students to create their own zine project. We worked with Alex Zamora on it, who got us to take part in the London Zine Symposium.

While we were there, we sold a lot and it became a yearly thing for us.”

It was a few years later that he was introduced to Alex Smith [owner of independent magazine shop, Ideas on Paper] and Raw Print as we know it began to take shape. “Alex had the idea of holding talks and discussions by using our contacts in independent publishing.” Matt explains.

“We got students involved in helping us organise and run the social media and website for the Raw Print brand.”

The first year of Raw Print talks started in September 2014, running over the academic year. Hugely popular, with most seminars selling out, its success brought about the idea of Metazine. The Metazine – a magazine about magazines – expands on the subjects addressed by the Raw Print speakers, archiving the seminar content and building on it. “Yeah, Metazine isn’t your standard mag,” Matt explains. “We intended the talks to be an introduction into the industry, to celebrate independent publishing by bringing people together as a community, and to get students talking to professionals.

For Metazine, we revisited all our speakers, who gave us a follow-up interview going into greater depth, highlighting the reality of how to make a magazine in 2016.”

Metazine was designed by Craig Proud and Benjamin Kay of Dizzy Ink, Nottingham Trent alumni, and regulars at the Raw Print talks.

The pair met Matt in the summer, and settled on giving the magazine its image. “Because it’s for Raw Print, we wanted Metazine to have the same raw feel,” Craig explains.

“Each issue is cut individually and handbound, so a lot of work went into it” “It’s almost like a celebration of zines in its design,” Benjamin adds. “It’s the era of DIY magazines – print is becoming cheaper, software such as InDesign and

Photoshop are easy to use, so making your own magazine is much more accessible.”

Metazine’s strong format allows the reader to construct two narratives of the material in the mag; people who want to admire Dizzy Ink’s unique risograph prints can follow the variety of images, which are interspersed between the text-led interviews. “It’s definitely the strongest format we’ve used.”

Craig said. “It works almost as if it’s two magazines in one.”

“Design is just as important an aspect as writing in magazines these days.” Matt says. “This is why we decided to do these split pages, as it allows people to delve into the text in a fairly straightforward way, as well as providing a larger and more in-depth discussion of material.”

The Raw Print talks have been host to some impressive speakers throughout its two-year run, with a variety of magazine genres; from Rob Orchard, editor of the slow journalism magazine Delayed Gratification, to Anja Wohlstrom from architecture magazine Icon.

For its final talk of 2016, Raw Print welcomed Liz Schaffer from Lodestars Anthology – the quarterly travel magazine which focuses on luxe design and rich photography – and us lot from LeftLion.

The success of the talks throughout the year has given rise to plenty of material for the second issue of Metazine, due to be released early next year. “We’re also working on launching a Raw Print archive,” Matt says.

“This will be a library made up of entirely independently published magazines and zines. At the moment I’m getting together some material; I’ve got the first fifty issues of i-D to start. Once I’ve got an assortment, we’re planning to have an exhibition.”

For some, however, independent publishing is a dead art. Print has gone through some dark times this year – we’ve seen some of the biggest names in publishing dying. The Independent moved solely online in March, and The New Day newspaper lasted for only fifty issues before folding in a crumpled heap in May. Despite this, Matt says print is still very much alive and kicking.

“Print isn’t dying, but it’s definitely changing. New technology and digital zines are exciting as they contain new elements, such as multimedia, which you wouldn’t usually get in print. These new elements can evolve, providing a dialogue between old and new technology, allowing old magazines to be reincarnated.”

For Matt, Raw Print and the magazine industry in general, are not necessarily all about the profitability of the final product.

“Magazines are fundamentally about telling stories in a really beautiful way,” Matt explains. “Some coffee table mags can cost between fifteen and twenty quid, but we pick them up and read them time and time again because they are a luxury. The editors we have come in and talk at our events do it for the love of doing it. People are desperate to be creative, and Raw Print wants to be part of that; it’s all about helping others in the creation of beautiful things.”

Raw Print with Seb Rogers (Cranked) and Nick Dawes (Hop and Barley), Wednesday 5 October, The Lacehouse, £3. facebook.com/raw-print

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THE SIMPSON

Tucked away on Bulwell Lane, Basford, is a rather dull-looking factory. But inside, the printers are churning out inspirational books that adhere to the principles of philosopher and peace campaigner, Bertrand Russell.

Publisher of Spokesman Books, Tony Simpson, explains why…

Give us a brief biog of Bertrand Russell…

Bertie was a mathematician, philosopher, lifelong political activist, and an aristocrat. He was a Nobel Laureate for Literature, and wrote some seventy books – most of which are in print and appearing in new translations around the world. He died in 1970, aged 97, and his last public message was about the Middle East: “The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was ‘given’ by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state.”

influential initiative. It continues to print for a range of voluntary organisations as well as commercial clients.

Yes, we adapt to survive, particularly by investing in good kit for magazine and book production. There’s a thriving publishing scene in Nottingham and the wider region, which helps keep the presses turning. Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature and the Creative North [Basford is part of Nottingham’s Creative Three-Quarters] point the way forward.

When was the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation set up?

The Russell Foundation was established in 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, in which Bertie intervened in a way that gave Khrushchev an opportunity to step back from the nuclear brink with Kennedy. The Foundation maintains a focus on nuclear disarmament, as well as peace, human rights, and social justice, which were all priorities for Russell.

How did you become the editor of The Spokesman?

The Spokesman, which is the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, has been published from Nottingham since 1970. Ken Coates, the previous editor, invited me to work at the Foundation in 1980, when the European Nuclear Disarmament (END) campaign was kicking off. He said Ken Fleet, secretary of the Foundation, was buried in post about END, and could I help dig him out.

How is it funded?

Russell sold his library and extensive archive of papers to fund the establishment of the Foundation. The Foundation also received donations, including works of art. In 1966, Alan Sillitoe contributed proceedings from the stage premiere of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in London for the benefit of the Foundation “in support of the people of Vietnam”. At that time, the Foundation was preparing the International War Crimes Tribunal about Vietnam, which was the first ‘Russell’ Tribunal. Nowadays, Russell’s royalties help fund the Foundation’s work, together with income from our own publishing under the Spokesman Books imprint.

Give us a rundown of a typical day…

A couple of hours editing or writing sets up the day. The Spokesman journal, as a quarterly, imposes its own timetable. Talk with colleagues, delve in the archives, meet visitors and tour the Russell Press, walk in Vernon Park. Happily, days vary quite a bit. At the moment, we’ve just finished preparing for a big conference in Berlin, organised by the International Peace Bureau, where they are interested in socially useful production and conversion from military manufacturing, as featured in the current issue of The Spokesman. Our main criterion for publication in The Spokesman is interesting content. That’s the key to Russell’s growing readership.

How did the Russell Foundation end up in Nottingham?

It was established in London in 1963. In 1968, it moved to Nottingham – which was much cheaper – where Ken Coates was based. By this time, Ken was working closely with Bertie. Russell Press was established in Nottingham in 1968, and shared premises with the Foundation, first in Goldsmith Street, then in an old mill on Gamble Street – Bertrand Russell House – off Alfreton Road. When Russell Press moved to Old Basford in the late nineties, the Foundation accompanied it.

How many trips do you make a year?

I usually make two or three trips a year representing the Foundation. Recently, I visited the Russell Archives at McMaster University in Canada, and also attended the annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society in Rochester, New York State, where I spoke about Russell in China. The Russell Society would like to stage an event in London in 2017, and we’re keen to help.

One of the aims of Russell Press was to provide costeffective printing to the voluntary sector. Is this still the case?

Russell Press printed for the Foundation’s campaigns as well as for a range of other voluntary organisations. For example, the Manifesto of the Gay Liberation Front was printed in Gamble Street in 1971. That proved a very

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China isn’t a country that naturally springs to mind when you think of Bertrand Russell…

In September 2015, I visited at the invitation of Commercial Press, who have published Russell in China more or less continuously since 1920. He is very popular there, with History of Western Philosophy on high school and university reading lists. Apparently, Russell facilitates all sorts of discussion in China, including topics which might otherwise be regarded as taboo, such as homosexuality.

Commercial Press are part of China Publishing Group, who send people to study at Nottingham Trent University.

These young publishers were supportive of Nottingham’s bid for UNESCO City of Literature, and sent photographs of themselves at various locations around Beijing, reading These Seven – the collection by local authors supporting the successful bid – which Russell Press printed and stores.

Russell resonates strongly in Japan too…

In 2011, the year of the Fukushima nuclear reactor explosion, I went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the annual conference commemorating the atomic bombings of those cities. At the Peace Museum in Nagasaki, I felt someone watching me. Then I saw Bertie sucking his pipe. He was included in the display about the RussellEinstein Manifesto of 1955, which gave rise to the Pugwash movement of scientists and others, which continues to highlight the threats posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. In his discussion of the Manifesto, Russell noted the radioactive fallout which killed Japanese fishermen aboard The Lucky Dragon, following the US hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1952. A Japanese Nobel Laureate was among the original signatories of the manifesto.

You’ve debated issues regarding Trident in The Spokesman but the government recently voted in favour of renewal by 355 votes. How do you feel about this?

I’ve just returned from holidays in Ireland where they’re commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule. At that time, the Royal Navy used to shelter in Bantry Bay. In the twenties, Ireland won its independence at great cost. Neutral Ireland has no nuclear weapons and few conventional ones. In 1947, it declined the invitation to join the Nuclear Armed Treaty Organisation that is NATO. So the UK position is anomalous in spending tens of billions of pounds to threaten mass death at the bidding of the US, which owns the missiles and runs NATO, to which the nukes are dedicated.

The current Vanguard submarines are clapped out, as Able Seaman Willie McNeilly reported in 2015, and the new ones will be vulnerable to detection and assault by underwater drones and other technologies. Young sailors are reluctant to join the Submarine Service for a variety of reasons. So, for a range of reasons, Parliament may well have to revisit this matter as well as the 1958 agreement between the US and the UK which governs nuclear weapons co-operation. spokesmanbooks.com russellpress.com

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A comedy sensation who’s appeared in TV shows including The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd and Toast of London, twenty years ago Matt Berry called Nottingham his home when he was an art student at NTU. He’s heading back to the city with his band The Maypoles this November, so we caught up with him for a trip down memory lane...

You came to Nottingham to study contemporary art. What kind of art did you create?

It was mixed media so you could choose what you wanted to explore. I was interested in lots of different things, that’s why it appealed to me. We worked in lots of different mediums over the three years. Eventually I concentrated on my painting, but I also dabbled a lot in music. There were a lot of talented musicians on the course and we were able to incorporate that into our art, too.

Where did you go for a night out when you were here?

I went to Rock City a lot. I’ve been a few times since then to play gigs and I’ve seen that they have these nineties Britpop nights, with massive posters of Jarvis Cocker and Liam Gallagher on them. But when I was there, Britpop was actually happening. It was an exciting time, right in the middle of that era. I was also a regular visitor to a place called The Hippo [now House of Coco Tang] and a club called Beetroot [now defunct] probably more than anywhere else.

You started in Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, which lots of people reference as an inspiration. While you were doing it, did you ever think it would be something that would transform your career?

I wasn’t thinking, “I’ve been part of something that will be inspirational to others.” It wasn’t like that. When you’re doing something you don’t even know if it’s gonna be broadcast or not. When that went out, it was basically hidden in the schedules without any kind of fanfare. It didn’t do amazingly, and as a result, there was no second series. At the time, there was no hint of success.

So what made it a success afterwards?

It’s impossible for me to know. You do something, and once it’s done, it’s done. Anything that happens after that isn’t your business. It’s in the lap of the gods. I have no idea why people reference it. It’s great that they do and that they like it, but I’m as perplexed as you, probably.

Did taking over from Chris Morris in The IT Crowd make you feel nervous?

It did and it didn’t. I knew that it would possibly piss a lot of people off, but I was gonna do my own thing and hope that no comparisons were gonna be made. I wasn’t taking over the same character, I was going in there to play his son. It was a completely different thing.

When you’re creating characters, like Todd Rivers or Dixon Bainbridge, how much of you goes into that character?

You’re hired because they know you do a certain thing. With Toast, I wrote that. So everything went into that. With the others, you just bring your ideas.

Is it more satisfying working on things you’ve written?

How does it feel to see Toast of London go into its third season?

I wrote Toast of London five years ago hoping it might get a pilot. Three series’ later and I’m on stage collecting a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance. That’s what you want as an artist: from this idea in your head to something that’s out there in the public consciousness. It’s a huge honour.

You’re currently touring with your band, The Maypoles, how did you start out with music?

I began playing at the age of twelve when I got my first four-track. I couldn’t read music and therefore couldn’t play other people’s songs, so I started to write my own. I haven’t stopped since.

There was a slot there, and they said, “Do you want to do something? There’s hardly any money.” I took advantage of that.

You’re signed to Acid Jazz, which is such a seminal label that it has a whole genre of music named after it. Were you a fan of theirs before you put pen to paper?

Absolutely. It was the only label where you could hear Hammond organ music and that kind of sixties/seventies funk and psychedelia. I remember buying some of the old Corduroy and Galliano vinyl from Selectadisc on Market Street. To end up being signed as a musician to them was a great thrill for me.

You did a cover of Ronnie Corbett’s Sorry. Where do your musical inspirations come from?

When you’re young, you hear stuff that’s different and you explore it. It’s even better if it’s not in the charts because it’s your own inspiration.

You did AD/BC: A Rock Opera – would you ever consider revisiting that?

No, that was just something I did at the time. From what I remember, the BBC wanted Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps to do a Christmas musical and I don’t think they could be bothered. There was a slot there, and they said, “Do you want to do something? There’s hardly any money.” I took advantage of that.

You’ve released five albums now. Which is your favourite?

It’s difficult to say. People always say the one that you’re currently doing, which is true to an extent. But I’ll always be fond of Kill the Wolf, because that was the one that was noticed, I suppose. I’m fond of them all because it’s all your own work. It’s not that I listen to them all the time, it’s just that they’re the closest to how they were in your head.

What was the last thing that made you laugh?

It would probably be a family thing, or something unintentional on the TV. It’s more likely not to be comedy.

Something real. I think the last thing that made me laugh was a weightlifter at the Olympics – it was just that little bit too heavy, and once he got on his feet he couldn’t lift it and it went to his neck. The force of it flipped him over. I don’t know if he hurt himself, but it looked incredible and was hilarious.

What was the last thing that made you cry?

There’s loads of ‘em. Anyone getting upset on the TV. Are you quite emotional, then?

It depends what it is. There’s certain things.

People see the side of you that’s quite shouty and loud…

Well yeah, that’s what they see because it earns money.

That’s totally fine.

How do you balance life between being an actor and a musician?

I don’t think about it. You just do it. I’m lucky to be able to do either of them, to be honest. Every day is a bonus.

Matt Berry, The Small Hours is available now.

Matt Berry and the Maypoles, Rescue Rooms, Thursday 3 November, £18. themattberry.co.uk leftlion.co.uk/issue83

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Mortar Life words: Ali Emm photos: Paul Mason-Smith

Nottingham Bank - Thurland Street (1877 - 1882)

An immense and imposing building, it was commissioned as the head offices for the Notttinghamshire and Nottinghamshire Bank. The huge central tower, although an elegant addition, served not just to be decorative but as part of the building’s ventilation system. The premises are adorned with decorative features that tell many a story; the reliefs were used to depict not only the bank’s history and many branches, but the industries of the region at the time, such as mining and textiles.

The monkeys on both the exterior and interior reference the proverbial ‘monkey on your back’ – a mortgage or debt. The menacing gargoyles that perch on the building are contrasted by the beautiful detail of the oriels and arched windows that line both facades. The first floor would have been an apartment for the bank’s manager – a nice little perk.

With his trademark red and blue brick banding, elaborate turrets, and love of a good stained glass window, Watson Fothergill left a lasting mark on our city’s architectural landscape. Mainly working in the gothic revival style, he designed over 100 buildings in Nottingham, although sadly not all of them survived. We can only imagine how different Long Row would look now if the Black Boy Hotel, demolished in the late sixties in a moment of civic madness, was there instead of the monstrosity that now houses Primark. Not the only casualty, hopefully we’ve learned from past mistakes and won’t be taking a wrecking ball to any more of his work anytime soon. Here are a few of our favourites that are still standing…

208 Mansfield Road - (1893)

A large detached property near the junction of Forest Road and Mansfield Road, it was built as a gentleman’s house for a lace maker. Until about forty years ago, there were also stables for the coach and horses, as well as quarters for the coach driver, behind the property. This building had an interior, irrigated, vertical wall garden with ferns and the like, that was demolished in the mid-twentieth century. The main house has stained glass windows that are rumoured to be William Morris’ work – at least copies of his patterns if not originals. After ceasing to be a residence, it was Coal Board offices for a while, before being converted into studio flats about fifty years ago. Fothergill is buried in the Church (Rock) Cemetery situated opposite.

The Norris Alms Homes - Berridge Road (1892 - 1893)

The first of two alms houses Fothergill designed – houses funded by charity for the poor – it was built for “...widows or spinsters being ladies of superior education reduced to indigence… But no widow or daughter of the working classes” Charmingly charitable then. Although it’s good to hear that when Nottingham Community Housing Association took it over in the nineties that they removed the latter condition of the Trust.

A blue enamel and stone tile depicts Mary Smith Norris, the woman who commissioned the houses in honour of her late brother. Regardless of its elitism, the building’s symmetry and proud chimney stacks demand your attention as you walk up Sherwood Rise.

Watson Fothergill Offices - George Street (1894 - 1895)

Fothergill’s first office was on Clinton Street, but he was paid to leave it to be demolished so that a railway line could cut through its path. With cash in his, no doubt, well-tailored pocket, he built a new office, albeit moderately sized, to showcase all of his architectural styles – Old English, Germanic Medieval and Scottish Baronial – and paid homage to his architectural influences with stone busts on the exterior. Flamboyant to say the least, the building had function beyond just showboating; the ground floor was designed as a shop that he could let to maintain a stream of income. Unfortunately, in summer of 2015 a lorry decided that the pavement was as good a place as any to drive and managed to smash in the bottom of the first floor oriel - it is now awaiting repair.

Express Offices - Upper Parliament Street (1875 - 1876)

Built for the Nottingham Express, a radical, Liberal and nonconformist newspaper that ran until 1918 (after which it became the Nottingham Journal and Express, and a certain Graham Greene was a sub-editor in the twenties) this is an extremely ornate building, even

by Fothergill’s standards. In keeping with the paper’s political stance, above the entrance are three carvings of the heads of liberal politicians of the day, as well as tiles within depicting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

An additional storey and an extension to the King Street end was built in 1899, which dates the switch in Fothergill’s name as the original building bears a stone with FW, while the newer part has a stone with the initials WF.

Woodborough Road Baptist Church - (1893)

Avoiding the St Ann’s building cull of the seventies, this is one of the few surviving Victorian buildings of the area. Its octagonal tower rises 100ft – once at the heart of the residential area, it was designed to be noticed by all. Converted in the early eighties, it is now the Pakistan Community Centre.

words: Lady M and F Dashwood illustration: Christine Dilks As we are swept along in the humdrum of regular commutes and errands, it is easy to scarcely notice our architectural surroundings, and the way in which they set the tone of our visual culture. Modernist monstrosities and careless, branded facades are well expected in most cities, but behind the vulgar and purely commercial, there often lies relics of artfulness, design and detail.

Despite some poor judgments on the part of city planners and developers along the way, Nottingham is lucky to retain much historical charm within its buildings.

Few have made such a lasting impact on the character of Nottingham than local architect extraordinaire, Watson Fothergill, and his unique interpretation of the Victorian gothic style.

You will no doubt have noticed Fothergill’s flourishes of design throughout Nottingham, as there are many surviving buildings that set our city apart. His signature style is distinctly decorative – rich red, brick striped with blue, high arches and roofs pitching in every which direction.

The towers, turrets and gargoyles are a welcome reminiscence of childhood fantasy and, indeed, his curious style certainly caught our gaze from the top deck bus windows when us Dilettantes were young.

But what of the man himself? Such a great contribution to the Victorian city of Nottingham by a single vision could only have been the result of someone with true passion for beauty, an acute eye for detail and a strong desire to curate the visual landscape of our city.

Born in nearby Mansfield in 1841 to a wealthy lace manufacturer and his wife, curiously, Watson Fothergill was baptised and spent the majority of his life as Fothergill Watson. However, a strong interest in his maternal family lineage would lead him to switch the names around in an effort to preserve the Fothergill name.

His introduction to the world of architecture and design came early when he was sent to boarding school in Clapham Park, where he was not only privy to the extravagance of the London landscape, but also present during the cusp of the industrial revolution.

He was lucky enough to pay many a visit to the splendid Great Exhibition of 1851, which showcased international achievements in design, industry and culture. Fothergill later reminisced about feeling inspired by, “the colossal sculpture there... the splendid fountains; all these dwell in my mind as wonders, and the whole display a magnificent dream.”

Returning to Nottingham upon the death of his father just three years later, he resumed

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his studies with private tutors and left education at the age of fifteen to apprentice with Frederick Jackson, architect and surveyor of St Peter’s Gate. Here, the young Mr Watson was able to acquaint himself with the necessary planning and building ideals – a substantial groundwork of skills which he would soon complement with a rich tapestry of aesthetic design and inspiration.

Aged seventeen, an opportune trip to the grandly gothic Lichfield Cathedral would make a huge impression on his style, further his zeal for the ideal architecture, and drive his commitment to mastery of his art. Despite having fallen from fashion, for Fothergill, gothic was the definitive architectural style and one he found endlessly inspiring, providing, as he described in his diary, an “inexhaustible mine of novelties.”

Qualified and eager, he soon set off back to the bright lights of London, immersing himself in “long and happy days in the International Exhibition at Kensington, that splendid gathering of wondrous things in science and beauteous things in art.” He frequented South Kensington library where he drew and studied, completing measured drawings of buildings in London with his burgeoning precision and attention to detail.

While he could doubtless have found work in any region of the country, in 1864, aged 23, he chose to return to Nottingham, setting up his own practice on Clinton Street. He married Anne Hage in 1867 and, although his family life was said to be a happy one, he was clearly engaged to his profession in equal degrees, going as far as to insist on a honeymoon to France to visit the Paris Exhibition.

The enchanting additions Fothergill made to our cityscape were the fruits of a curious mind captivated by beauty and dedicated to cultivating his aesthetic. In 1876 he wrote, “You must be acquainted with the best works of the best man or the best will never come out of yourself”, and acquaint himself he did.

Fothergill’s many travels to the architectural centres of both England and Europe enriched his knowledge as he gathered ideas and inspiration from other talented souls and imaginative masterpieces. During these visits, his diaries became littered with references of visits to cathedrals, galleries and exhibitions, often with detailed descriptions of favoured works, and page after page of notes on each town and city he passed through.

Fothergill adored art galleries and, as a natural consequence, had long since curated a personal collection of favoured pieces. Yet it was not until 1883 that this private passion really took hold, and he began to acquire what he considered “really good paintings”, frequenting the famed Christie’s auction rooms in London as a favourite pastime.

His diverse and expansive collection grew to include many fine examples of paintings, engravings, enamelwork, china

He was clearly engaged to his profession, going as far as to insist on a honeymoon to France to visit the Paris Exhibition. and metalwork, including paintings by Rembrandt, pieces by Tiffany and works from locally born landscape painter, Richard Parkes Bonington. The latter he felt had not been sufficiently honored by his home town, and sought to redress this by bequeathing a statue commissioned at his own expense to the city.

Quite the Victorian gentleman in all regards, despite his meticulous approach to work – going as far as to carry always a dentist’s mirror in order to inspect even the most inaccessible aspects of his designs – he appeared to be well liked by all who knew him. His humour evident through a pair of stone monkeys adorning the head office of the Nottingham bank on Thurland Street. In Victorian vernacular, monkey was a slang term for a mortgage – the burden of which likened to the colloquial ‘monkey on the back’. Given that at the time of construction the bank would have owed debts to the architect, the jibe being that even the bank itself was mortgaged in effect.

When Anne died in 1922, Fothergill was distraught, but accounts suggest that he fought his grief with an overriding cheerfulness and humour, taking pleasure in visiting the elderly and disabled during his last years. He passed away in 1928 at the ripe old age of 87. Although his sons did not survive to carry on the family name, it is sure to say that his legacy lives on in the Nottingham landscape.

While bureaucracy and bad design will always be something of a plague on the visual culture of a city, we only have to look a little further to find those who contribute their flair and imagination to improving the landscape. Keep looking, for among arduous advertisements and mundane modernism, Nottingham is rife with curious detail and historical clues, and the gifts bestowed by our artists can be celebrated and seen.

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We look back at the ten years they’ve been going and some of the most successful bands and artists that have graced its many stages…

Jake Bugg

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2010 – Broadway Cafe Bar What they're up to now: Won Best Solo Artist at the 2015 NME Awards. Signed to Mercury. His debut album is now double platinum and he’s three albums deep in his career. Currently touring. jakebugg.com

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2014/15 – The Corner/The Bodega What they're up to now: Released their debut album, Urth, on Earache Records in 2015, scoring a very respectable 9/10 in NME. Currently recording their second album after a heavy stint of touring. kagoule.earache.com

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2014 – Nottingham Contemporary What they're up to now: Signed to RCA. Hailed as the next Mumford & Sons, which is shame as we reckon they’re better than that. In the midst of writing their second album. amber-run.com

Natalie Duncan

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Many years – Many venues What they're up to now: Appeared on Goldie’s TV show that culminated in a performance at Buckingham Palace. Her superlative vocals and keyboard skills earned her a record deal with Verve, on which she released her debut album. She has also appeared on Jools Holland. natalieduncan.com

Nina Smith

Many years – Mostly Broadway What they're up to now: In 2015 reached No. 4 in the Top 10 of the iTunes R&B/Soul chart. She’s currently teaching and rumour has it that she has an album out early next year. ninasmithmusic.com

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April Towers

2014 – Nottingham Contemporary What they're up to now: Got themselves featured on the FIFA 16 soundtrack – back of the net.

Currently recording their debut LP, they’re one of the UK’s buzzbands. apriltowers.com

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Many years – Many venues What they're up to now: Hit the Top 5 with his cowritten Chase and Status track, released his debut LP, and collaborated with Shy FX, DJ Fresh and Delilah. Toured with Paloma Faith, appeared on Jools Holland, and has recently been in the studio with Gorillaz recording tracks for their upcoming album. liam-bailey.tumblr.com

Gallery 47

Many years – Mostly Broadway and Nottingham Contemporary What they're up to now: Toured with Paul Weller, signed a publishing deal with BMG. New album is being released imminently. gallery47official.com

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Scorzayzee

2009/2015 – Broadway What they're up to now: Signed to Low Life Records. Starred in Shane Meadows’ Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee. Released his long-awaited, crowdfunded album, Aeon: Peace to the Puzzle in 2015. Is currently working on the Gangsta Wraps food brand. facebook.com/scorzayzee

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2007/2008/2015 – Muse/Revs What they're up to now: Releasing classic record after classic record, still one of the most revered underground UK hip hop acts. discogs.com/artist/122088-Cappo

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2014 – Nottingham Contemporary What they're up to now: Signed to Tru Thoughts.

Released debut LP Forget Me Not in 2013, produced by hip hop legend, Joe Buhdha. Has performed at major UK festivals including Bestival, Glastonbury and Boomtown. Released her Futurespective EP series last year, and is currently touring internationally. harleighblu.com

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Dog is Dead

2014 – Nottingham Contemporary What they're up to now: Managed by DHP. Played Glastonbury in 2010, and appeared as themselves in an episode of Skins, series five. Signed to Atlantic Records in 2011, but rebranded as DID in 2015. Fast Food EP was the latest offering in 2015. didnotts.com

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2015 - Brewdog What they’re up to now: Signed a mouth watering deal with Sony after presenting them 5 demo tracks. Released an EP in 2015, and another in 2016.

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When Henry Normal, acclaimed writer and co-founder of Baby Cow Productions, wanted to reconnect with poetry and his hometown, he contacted award-winning poet Matthew Welton. Both are passionate supporters of Nottingham’s UNESCO World City of Literature status, with Henry helping to instigate and organise the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in 2015, while Matthew is Chair of the Board of Nottingham Festival of Literature. We caught up with them to find out about their joint poetry book launches planned for National Poetry Day… How did you first meet?

Matt: Henry and I were part of a writing group called Live Poets Society, which Henry helped set up, that used to meet in Manchester in the early nineties and was the place where I took the first step towards publication.

The group included comedians, poets, singers, etc. I remember Henry saying that there was always more than one answer to any question. For example, if someone asked when you wrote your first poem, you might talk about the first poem you had published, or the first one you were happy with, or the first one you showed anybody. That inventive approach really opened my mind.

Henry: It’s nice catching up with Matt in Nottingham 25 years later. When I was working on my book, he looked through the manuscript and gave me advice. Like the Karate Kid, he’s now become the master.

What inspired you to plan a joint book launch at Lakeside Arts Centre, with poet Ruth Fainlight as the special guest?

Henry: Matt and I were in Hockley eating a pizza and talking about poetry, and we realised that both our books were coming out around the same time. National Poetry Day [Thursday 6 October] felt like a good day for the launch and the Lakeside’s a lovely theatre. I’ve never played there, so I’m really excited.

Matt: We both grew up in Nottingham, moved away, and then found a reason to return. Holding a shared launch event sounded like fun. I teach in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, and we invited Ruth to become an honorary lecturer a few years ago. She comes in occasionally to discuss the students’ work with them, and it is always a joy to hear the attentive, compassionate, intelligent things she has to say.

You have three very distinct voices, what will be your format for reading together?

Matt: The things that writers have in common are more important than the differences. I don’t see much difference between poetry and fiction, or published and unpublished writers, or between poetry of different types.

Although Ruth’s poems could be characterised as occupying that quietly formal British mainstream ethic, Henry has been seen as a performance poet; and I’ve been associated with the experimental tradition, there is something plainly poetic about what we all do. If the evening has a message, that’s part of it.

Henry: I’ve not given it a minute’s thought. I like a bit of anarchy as part of poetry, so I’m happy to turn up and see what happens.

What are the key themes in your new collections?

Matt: The title The Number Poems sets out the way that these are formal poems, but not necessarily in a conventional way. I love using language as a material and feel my imagination is suited to working within numerical constraints, so the forms of the poems in this book are to do with fixing how many words or sentences or lines will be used, or setting up a sentence and repeating parts of it, changing particular phrases as you go along, or selecting words that can be used both as nouns and verbs, and then working through the permutations.

Henry: Staring Directly at the Eclipse is a quiet act of defiance. There are many things we are told are not good for us to look at too closely. I’m interested in science and nature and the difference between what you think, what you feel and this idea of the spirit. Some of the poems try to grapple with that and other poems are about how, as you get older, you think about what life’s all about and what lessons you’ve learned. My son Jonny is autistic, so the idea of human perfection, or human imperfection, runs through my work.

Such as in your poem, Photo Bombing God? Henry: I’d got three images in my head: I’d got a photo of me and my son; the DNA double helix; and a brilliant drawing by Da Vinci of what you might call the perfect man (Vitruvian Man). And those three images run through the poem. It’s about the fact that DNA is supposedly what we actually are and this image Leonardo has come up with is supposed to be the correct proportions of a man; and then, of course, there is the reality of what you are and what your son is.

Do you have a favourite poem in your own collection?

Matt: The monkey poem. It’s actually called Construction with phrases but in every verse the poem mentions this kind of character called “the monkey in the mind”. He drinks a lot of coffee, is full of big ideas, and generally likes to give people a hard time.

Does your relationship with Nottingham resonate in your work?

Henry: I got started as a poet as part of the Angel Row Writers library group run by Wendy Whitfield. The first person to stock my debut collection Is Love Science Fiction? (1986) was Ross Bradshaw at Mushroom Books, so it’s lovely to be publishing Staring Directly at the Eclipse with Ross [Five Leaves Publishing] all these years later. I can’t pass myself off as being posh because I’ve still got my Nottingham accent and I use words that I have to explain sometimes, ‘cos they’re from Nottingham. I’ve educated myself outside of school – I co-wrote The Royle Family, for example, and there’s an observation on life you can get there because you have been on a different journey to those in academia.

Matt: The idea of living among a community of writers matters a lot. Having writers like Sarah Jackson, Jon McGregor, Lila Matsumoto and Richard House around can be an inspiring, affirming and reassuring part of my writing life. It is a beautiful city with an appetite for culture and creativity, and all the things that are part of that – buildings, parks, galleries, cafes, bookshops – are very conducive to taking reading and writing seriously.

And Nottingham is now a UNESCO World City of Literature…

Henry: Having the award as a focus and events like the upcoming Nottingham Festival of Literature (Tuesday 8 - Sunday 13 November) and Nottingham Poetry Festival (April/May 2017) will help in the cohesion of local talent and bring in some big names for international glamour.

Nottingham is thriving, and outside of London and Manchester, I’d say it’s one of the main places for arts and media.

Matt: The UNESCO thing is a wonderful opportunity for readers and writers in Nottingham to develop their ambitions in all kinds of ways. The City of Literature director, Sandy Mahal, is full of energy, compassion and brilliant ideas. Cultural life in Nottingham just moved up a gear.

Future plans?

Henry: I’ve got a book coming out in 2017 about living with autism, based on a radio show I did recently on BBC 4 called A Normal Family. It received very good reviews and was about my life with my son.

Matt: With The Number Poems only just published, I’m in that fun place of sketching out what comes next. I’ve got an idea for the weirdest novel ever written. Like my poems, its form is as important as its content.

Poetry Book Launches by Matthew Welton and Henry Normal, with special guest Ruth Fainlight, Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts Centre, Thursday 6 October, £5 - £8.

Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Henry Normal, Five Leaves Publications, £9.99 / The Number Poems, Matthew Welton, Carcanet, £9.99. lakeside.org.uk

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I've shaved my eyebrow in the middle so as not to resemble a Neandertal

Construction with phrases

A palm is four fingers A foot is four palms A cubit is six palms Four cubits make a man

We are a little burnt by the sun I can't believe my face was once as small as his

Whatever I was thinking it was almost right:– literature’s for losers; religion makes us weak; the mind’s a kind of monkey with its teeth all gone.

Henry Normal

My son's skin is almost prepubescent perfect sideburns suggesting maturity awaits From the sacred to the unanchored a sequence of genes mutate geometry is remapped I'm resigned to the thinning of grey a turning stubble hides my scars Johnny is far cooler in his sunglasses he wears a straw hat with the ease of a teenager Nucleic acid replaces architectural design twenty three chromosome pairs roll

The Tree of life twists in a double helix the canon of proportions spiral I look into the camera because I know it's expected and one of us has to Johnny still displays no compulsion to conform he has no interest in consequence Two thousand two hundred hopes disorder The Archangel's detail is without error A pace is four cubits A man is twenty four palms A man is twenty thousand five hundred proteins coding A man is three billion pairs of chance

Matthew Welton

I’m sitting in the kitchen with a pile of books I thought I’d read but can’t remember reading and I’m wondering what’s for supper ’cause I had no lunch and when the monkey in the mind pulls up outside and rubs his ribs and sucks his gums and says Aw shucks, we need to talk – what else am I supposed to do but give him coke and coffee till his words won’t come?

The insects in the windows fill the air with thoughts.

The clouds are closing in on us. The sun looks lost.

Published in The Number Poems, Matthew Welton, Carcanet (2016), £9.99

Published in ‘Photo Bombing God’ first published in Staring Directly at the Eclipse, Henry Normal, Five Leaves Publications (2016) £9.99

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Fighting Walls An exhibition of Iranian and Egyptian street art

a rebel scene Artists Kajal Nisha Patel and Sunil Shah explore local activism 1 October – 18 December 2016 FREE ENTRY

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Yajie ‘Sophie’ Jiang Follow with… dwell in…

This is a series of small sculptures made of porcelain and stoneware. Essentially, they are built by hand – the simplest technique within ceramics.

I’m very interested in materials, as well as the relationship between resources and the artist. For this piece, I used porcelain as my base material for the first time. Porcelain, for me, is a very special material. Firstly, it derives from my culture; I’m very familiar with the porcelain arts in China. Secondly, it’s a material that’s so relevant to our day-to-day life.

The most fascinating thing to me is the individual properties of porcelain – you get an instant response from it. Simple gestures create shape and texture, and I’m fascinated with the latter. A recent article in the Ceramic Review states that working with clay has powerful therapeutic properties; improving focus, enabling expression and reducing stress. Perhaps this is why I prefer to work with porcelain and focus on the perception of the clay body.

I studied in Reunion Island as part of an exchange, and it was during this time that I began to experiment with porcelain. The nature there inspired me a lot: the plants grow freely, budding large and fast into all sorts of bizarre shapes. I felt that I could communicate with nature through this material, as clay comes from soil.

During the making process, I don’t tell the clay how to move, rather I ‘listen’ to it and feel how it wants to form.

There is always a dialogue between me and the material, and I intend to follow the movement of the clay, rather than controlling it. When it’s complete, I don’t entirely feel that I created the artwork, instead, the sculpture had an effect on me.

I’m part of the art group Parallel – a multicultural artist collective whose membership is from Taiwan, China, La Reunion, Brazil and the UK, and continues to expand. It was established in 2015 by students on the MFA Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, and the collective are now residents in Primary Studios.

I’m currently an MFA fine art second-year student at Nottingham Trent University, after completing my BA in Decorative Art in China. Studying as an international student has made me all the more aware of the limitation of

language; it is difficult enough to explain your artistic intentions using your first language. My art allows me to communicate freely.

Through the making process I am able to communicate without words, and focus on material and bodily perception.

Moreover, art is never intended for a narrow audience, or limited perceptions. I believe art work should create a connection with its audience, too.

Parallel Artists Network, Crisis Interlude, Thursday 20 Friday 28 October, 10am - 5pm, Sneinton Market. oops7788.tumblr.com parallelnetwork.tumblr.com

Art Works David Corbett

Barricading for Beginners This is an image from Barricading for Beginners, a generative collage I exhibited in Nottingham Contemporary last year. It was made as a response to the show Rights of Nature, which although I thoroughly enjoyed, I felt it should have included some representation of the tools and techniques employed by environmental activists. Consequently, I decided to focus on the subject of protest sites and direct action as inspiration.

Parallel Artists Network, Crisis Interlude, Thursday 20 - Friday 28 October, 10am - 5pm, Sneinton Market.

Temporary Autonomous Art, Wednesday 9 - Saturday 12 November, Ex Fed, 199 Eade Road, London. www.artdoxa.com/davidcorbett

The work was displayed as a large projection with an audio score in the Contemporary’s live art space. I prepared the images, audio and text; then the final collage was composed and executed in Max/Msp. It was difficult to create customised sequences that selected, displayed and animated material before compiling it all into a self-contained application.

The images were selected to showcase the variety of inventive, nonviolent methods used in protests, including barricading, concrete lock-ons, tripods, and arm tubes (the technique employed by the Nottingham Black Lives Matter protest in August). The audio was a field recording from a large street protest and the text was extracted from Direct Action: A Handbook which is a free, @nti-copyright publication.

The images sporadically changed, reappearing at new coordinates on the canvas, while audio would vary in pitch, volume and track position. The intention was to express the unpredictability, dynamism and spectacle of environmental protest, and to evoke the same moments of fluctuating harmony and chaos. The piece received generally positive feedback, the most memorable comment being about its “unrelenting frenetic energy” – absolutely what I was aiming to capture.

In my work, I’m interested in the appropriation, arrangement and synthesis of existing materials to create new situations and reveal hidden connections between disciplines.

These activities are usually intuitive, driven by curiosity and experimentation, but given structure and cohesion through time-based composition and textual interventions.

I studied at West Notts College in Mansfield before completing a fine art degree in Hull.

After that, I became involved with a number of creative groups and collectives, including Waveswarms Sonic Arts, ILLFM Internet Radio and Temporary Autonomous Arts. More recently, I’ve returned to study an MFA in fine art at Nottingham Trent University, where my peer group founded Parallel Artists Network in 2014. The group have since moved into a shared studio space at Primary and we’re now busy working on the next show, Crisis Interlude.

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PICK OF THE MONTH SAT 1 OCT

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Hockley Hustle Nottingham City Centre

Spiegeltent Old Market Square

Taking over the city streets in a mammoth manner, it’s the tenth anniversary of one of Hoodtown’s most insane charity music festivals, the Hockley Hustle. Raising money for local charities – Equation, Rethink Mental Illness Nottingham, Framework, Dolly’s Imagination Library, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum, CYF Project and the John Van Geest Cancer Research Centre – local musicians and performing artists are giving up their time to give you a good time. Yours truly are hosting the Broadway stage, with the likes of Unknown Era, Natalie Duncan and Major Labia performing throughout the day. Head to Revolution to catch the best of the local grime and hip hop scene, with a stage hosted by Phlexx and Clash Money; or pop in to The Bodega to see Wire and Wool’s chilled-out acoustic stage. BBC Introducing are making Brewdog their home for the day, with the likes of Nina Smith and Indiana bringing it; and The Angel has a massive lineup with some of the noisiest Notts heads, courtesy of the I’m Not From London lot. Broad Street will also play host to a silent disco, so head over to the Hockley Hustle website to register your interest for that. And, as per, expect a fair few surprises when you’re out and about. £12

The travelling gypsy dance hall is back, transforming Market Square into a bohemian paradise once again. Not your average plastic-sheet-and-pole job, this tent is a proper Harry-Potter-at-the-Quidditch-World-Cup affair, with ornate mirrors, a wooden floor and enough height to stage circus performers. These nineteenth-century venues are notorious for debauchery and have set up shop everywhere from Sydney to New York, boasting performances from the likes of Marlene Dietrich, and claiming fans like Marilyn Monroe. Now, we get to give one of the last few Spiegeltents a home for a whole week. It’s free to pop in for a nibble or cocktail daily from 12pm - 1pm and 5pm - 6pm, otherwise you can book tickets for some of the incredible events lined up. Kicking things off is a prohibition-themed night, with the likes of Unknown Era, Bendigo and Fat Digester performing. Then there’s an almighty burlesque performance, with the Electric Swing Circus, to follow. Maniere des Bohemiens are doing things their way with an epic gypsy folk night that’s not to be missed on Wednesday 5. And on Friday 7, you have to get over to the biggest mass karaoke session of the year – Bamalamasingsong. We can’t bleddy wait. Various prices

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SAT 15 OCT

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Nottingham Independents Festival Nottingham City Centre We love that Nottingham is fit to burst with independent shops, restaurants and businesses. There’s no end of local enterprise cracking off, and there’s summat to do on every corner. It’s probably high time we celebrate this fact with a little bit of a shindig. This month, a heap of independent businesses are hosting a full day of events, with live music, food offers and activities coming out of every corner of town. Head over to Dukki in Broado for their Dukki Dialect Treasure Hunt, and pop your head into the National Videogame Arcade to catch Mario in a musical performance. Intrigued? We are too. There’s Death by Pizza to be found at Suede, and a free fudgetasting session up at The Treat Kitchen – we’ll be at the front, sugar rushing. There’s so much more cracking off on the day, so soak up all the fun, and support your local independents. Free

Women into the Future + Women into Film The Milk Lounge + Screen 22

Urban Circus Showcase Nottingham Arts Theatre

NG:She are a local community interest company who’ve been awarded funding from Notts County Council to offer women across the county a range of courses.

This programme kicks off with Women into the Future on Friday 7 October at The Milk Lounge in Arnold, running weekly with a half-term break. You’ll discuss whether wolf whistling should be a hate crime, whether prostitution should be regulated, and other topics suggested by you. All women are welcome, and you can bring babies, too. The second course, Women into Film, is a weekly course at Screen22 that starts on Thursday 13 October. You’ll meet other film lovers, so you can watch and discuss films directed by women with strong, interesting female leads. To secure a place, text your name, postcode and either #WomenFilm or #Women@ MilkLounge to 07850 524 319, or just turn up on the day.

Free

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8pm

Trekkah Album Launch Rough Trade

Harleighblu The Maze

One of our favourite bearded brothers from The Afterdark Movement and Origin One has gone all spiritual with his latest release. Following the critical acclaim of The Midnight EP in 2014, our man Trekkah is back with The Enlightening, a proper deep affair that’s gonna align our chakras and all sorts. The launch night at Rough Trade will feature a showcase performance of the entire album, with a job lot of projected visuals, a live instrumental performance showcasing the musicians involved, and free herbal tea on entry. Oo-er. Plus, you can get your sticky fingers on the album with a discount if you pop along. That’s what we like to hear. Including collaborations with the likes of Bud, Lowrie and new gal on the block, Sabrina Sandhu, it’s a proper celebration of the talent Notts has to offer. Free

Hold onto your hats, boys and girls. The woman with the biggest voice in Notts is back in local business and is ready to prove it at an exclusive gig up at The Maze.

The Notts native has been compared to both Erykah Badu and AlunaGeorge, and has a host of famous fans, including fellow Notts head, MistaJam, and Trevor Nelson. The girl’s making movements, and her soulful voice has been all over the shop of late, including Croatia’s Soundwave Festival, Boomtown Fair, and supporting Lionel Ritchie on tour in London. We’re mighty glad to have her back on home turf. With a new sound blending that distinctive soul voice with future beats and heavy bass, Harleighblu’s bringing the party.

Support from the likes of 94 Gunships and Nottingham’s soulful pop prince Rob Green will see you right until closing time. £7

Roll up, roll up. You’ve been invited to join the movement, and we sincerely hope you take the Urban Circus Showcase up on their offer. They’re bringing us a mammoth mashup of all things creative. Think culture clashes, audio-visual delights, spoken word artists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, artists, incredible performers and creativity bursting through the seams, and you might just be halfway to picturing the storm of greatness that’s about to come your way. With the likes of Mouthy Poets, Dream Nottingham Artists and the Revolution House ready and waiting to take the stage, alongside Crystalize, Ed Med and Challan Carmichael.

There’s a little summat for everyone to sink their tegs into, and a whole weekend to do it in. There’s literally no excuse for staying at home. £5

FRI 28 OCT Halloween Films The Maze + Broadway + Nottingham Contemporary

Not only is Mayhem Film Festival taking residence at Broadway in mid-October with a variety of horror, sci-fi and cult films ahead of the spookiest day of the year, there’re more film screenings to chill you to the bone come Halloween weekend. Broadway are indulging us on Halloween itself with the classic Kubrick film, The Shining. Always worthy of a rewatch – and if you haven’t seen it, we will reserve judgement and merely envy the fact that you can watch it for the first time.

If clowns are what get you, head to The Maze to see the twisted Pennywise in It! And for cult aficionados, get to Nottingham Contemporary on Friday 28 for a live soundtracked screening of Daughters of Horror.

8mm Orchestra will be your maestros for the evening, performing their self-penned score live to the silent film that follows one rather psychotic woman’s journey.

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MONDAY 3 OCT

TUESDAY 4 OCT

THURSDAY 6 OCT

Notts County v Morecambe Notts County Football Club £5-£22, 3pm

Detonate Nottingham: David Rodigan The Brickworks £18, 10pm

SYS Presents: Dowsing + Ratboys + Broadbay + Taco Hell JT Soar £6.50, 7:30pm - 11pm

Pinegrove The Bodega £7.50/£8.25, 7pm

Jake Quickenden Rescue Rooms £16.50/£33, 6:30pm

Marc O’Reilly The Bodega £8/£8.80, 7pm

Panthers v Storm Motorpoint Arena £10.50-£20, 7pm

Black History Month with Cultural Vibrations Nottingham Contemporary Free, 7pm

Trust Fund + Maybe Don’t + Jum + Prizefighter JT Soar £5, 8pm

Italian Poetry Reading Five Leaves Bookshop £3, 7pm - 8:30pm

Howie Reeve + Stuart Faulkner + Joey Chickenskin JT Soar £5, 8pm - 11pm

Big Fish Little Fish The Glee Club Free/£6.50/£8, 1:30pm - 4pm Louis Berry The Bodega £8/8.80, 7pm WSO + Attila The Stockbroker + Eagle Spits + Rachel Joy The Sumac Centre 7pm Coyote (DJ Set) Baresca Free, 8pm BassLayerz present A Decade of Low Down Deep The Irish Centre £10, 10pm A Potted History of Jazz Patchings Art Centre £8.50, 7:30pm Ohasis The Rescue Rooms £11, 6:30pm DJ Pied Piper & MC DT Spanky Van Dykes £5 - £10

Spiegeltent Prohibition Party with Unknown Era + Bendigo + Fat Digester Spiegeltent, Market Square £8/£10, 7:30pm Alvin Aily American Dance Theater Masterclass Theatre Royal £8, 1pm Mardy Yard (Mardy Gras Reggae Special) The Lofthouse £3, 10am Vegan Market Sneinton Market Free, 11am Lou Lou’s Vintage Fair The Albert Hall £2, 11am Nottingham Independents Festival Nottingham City Centre Free, 10am Scorzayzee Gangsta Wraps Launch Party Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 7pm - 11pm

Russell Howard Spiegeltent, Market Square 2pm Ling Peng and Sura Susso Lakeside Arts Centre £8 - £12, 2pm

Of Mice and Men Rock City £22, 7pm

Swingologie Quartet Vat and Fiddle Free, 5pm

Aussie Wrecking Crew Tour Rock City £13.20, 7:30pm

DJ Curtz The Southbank Bar Free, 8:30pm

Mura Masa The Rescue Rooms £13.75, 10pm

Fungi Foray Sherwood Forest Country Park £3, 10:30am

Too Deep For A Monday The Orange Tree £3, 7pm

The ‘SOS Clothes Swap’ Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 3pm - 8pm

Hollywood and Politics Broadway Cinema £50/£70, 7pm

Austerity Has Failed National Demonstration Forest Recreation Ground Free, 12pm

The Gilded Merkin: Burlesque and Cabaret Spiegeltent, Market Square £15, 8pm

Meet and Picnic Arboretum Park Free, 2pm

Mother’s Milk is Five!

Five Leaves Bookshop Free, 7pm - 8:30pm

Footage of the Battle of the Somme Nottinghamshire Archives Free, 11am The Bennies + Shit Present Rough Trade Nottingham £4.95, 7pm - 11pm WEDNESDAY 5 OCT

National Poetry Day with Ruth Fainlight + Henry Normal + Matthew Welton Djanogly Theatre £5/£8, 7:30pm - 9pm

Strangest Things Stealth £5, 10pm - 3am The Beat Starring Dave Wakeling Rescue Rooms £19.25, 6:30pm - 10pm Colette Sadler: We Are The Monsters Spiegeltent, Market Square £5.50/£8.80, 12:30pm

Bachatology Workshop The Lacehouse £20, 2pm

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The Mission Rock City £29.70, 6:30pm Parallax: A Night with Anthony Naples The Irish Centre £7/£9, 10pm

The Eskies The Bodega £7/£7.75, 7pm

Raw Print #13 The Lacehouse £3, 6pm

Old Time Music Hall Spiegeltent, Market Square £6, 2:30pm

Group Therapy Comedy Club Launch Night with Glenn Wool Rough Trade Nottingham £11, 8pm Stepping into Storytelling with Beeston Tales’ Tim Ralph and Mike Payton Nottingham Writers’ Studio £90/£130, 7:30pm

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SATURDAY 8 OCT

MONDAY 10 OCT

THURSDAY 13 OCT

FRIDAY 14 OCT

SATURDAY 15 OCT

The Pistols The Greyhound, Beeston Free, 9:30pm

Leftback X Plates Plates Records Free, 12pm

Augustana The Bodega £10/£11, 7pm

Flight Brigade The Bodega £7/£7.75, 7pm

Rikki Thomas-Martinez Baresca Free, 9pm

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Theatre Royal £20 - £23, 7:30pm

Corrupt Moral Altar The Maze 7pm

Bad Men ‘Honeymoon’ Album Launch The Angel Microbrewery Free, 7:30pm

Lonely The Brave The Rescue Rooms £13.75, 6:30pm

The Menzingers The Rescue Rooms £16.50, 6:30pm

Area 51 Yumacha 10pm

White Denim Rock City £19.25, 7:30pm

Petrol Girls Rock City £3.75, 10pm

Burr & Dempsey’s Filter The Blacks Head 9pm

Lauren Rycroft Rough Trade Nottingham 7pm - 10pm

The Harmonics + For The Girl + Josh Kemp Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 7pm - 11pm

Joe Strange The Bear & Lace Free, 9:30pm

Sorority Noise The Bodega £8/£8.80, 7pm We Shall Overcome + Acoustic Punx + DIY Poets The Sumac Centre Donations, 7pm The Hollies Theatre Royal £25.50/£28.50, 7:30pm

Talk with Jimmy Cauty and Steve Lowe New Art Exchange Free, 1pm - 2pm Enamelling on Copper with Alys Powers Focus Gallery £75, 10am Unwind Your Mind West Bridgford Libray Free, 10:30am

Moggerhanger - A New Novel by Alan Sillitoe Five Leaves Bookshop £3, 7pm - 8:30pm

Robyn Hughes-Jones Baresca Free, 7pm

Book Launch: The Boy Who Made God Smile Waterstones Nottingham £3, 7pm

Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School (18+) The Glee Club £8, 12pm Notts Zine Fest Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 12am - 6pm Warhammer 40,000 Battle Brothers: The Great Devourer Games Workshop HQ £100, 9am

Nightfish! presents Unknown Era + Bru-C + Whisky Stain The Southbank Bar Nottingham City Free, 8:30pm

The Friday Night Social Sneinton Market 6pm - 9pm

Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Chris Henry, Barry Castagnola Jongleurs Comedy Club £16/£23, 7pm

SATURDAY 15 OCT

SUNDAY 16 OCT

Last Great Dreamers + Nasty High Tap and Tumbler Free, 7pm

Nottingham Forest v Birmingham NFFC 3pm

Panthers v Giants Motorpoint Arena Nottingham 4pm

Sudden Infant + Guttersnipe + Colossloth The Chameleon Arts Cafe 8pm - 11pm

Wine Tasting The Bear & Lace £20, 7pm

Notts County v Crewe Notts County Football Club 3pm

MØ The Rescue Rooms £15.95, 6:30pm

Daliso Chaponda + Russel Hicks + Topping and Butch Jongleurs Comedy Club £16/£23, 7pm

John Harvey and Blue Territory: Poetry and Jazz Jazzsteps £8/£10, 7:30pm

Gorilla Burger: Improv Comedy Carnage Ned Ludd £3/£5, 7:30pm

Pearl Skam The Greyhound, Beeston 9pm - 1am

UB40 Rock City £33, 7pm

Just the Tonic Spiegeltent, Market Square £9/£12, 8:30pm

Gun Rescue Rooms £15.40, 6:30pm - 10pm

Oxjam Beeston Town Centre £8/£10 12am

Will Jeffery The Castle Free, 7pm

Chris Mcdonald Brass Monkey Free, 10pm

An Evening with Sir Tony Robinson Waterstones Nottingham £5, 6:30pm

Halfway to Paradise Theatre Royal £24, 7:30pm

Advanced Worldbuilding with Ian C Douglas Nottingham Writers’ Studio £35/£50, 6:30pm

Urban Circus Showcase Nottingham Arts Theatre £5, 7pm - 10pm

SPEEDCraft6 Debbie Bryan £67, 11am

SATURDAY 8 OCT

SUNDAY 9 OCT

WEDNESDAY 12 OCT

FRIDAY 14 OCT

Jazz in the Bar Bonington Cinema Arnold 7:15pm - 10pm

Alvarez Kings The Bodega £7/£7.75, 7pm

All Them Witches The Bodega £9/£9.90, 7pm

Estrons + The Bay Rays The Bodega £7/£7.75, 7pm

Devil’s Advocate The Greyhound, Beeston Free, 9pm - 1am

The Roy Stone Foundation presents Syteria + SYZ + Black Rose Garden + Alexander Bradford The Doghouse 7pm - 2am

The Music of Wolf Hall Theatre Royal £15 - £20

Transmission (The Sounds Of Joy Division) The Doghouse £4.40, 8pm

Marc Block Album Launch Gig Poppy Folk Club £7.50, 7pm - 11pm

Crosswords Open Mic The Malt Cross Free, 7:30pm

King Goat + Wreck + Temple Steps The Chameleon Arts Cafe £6, 8pm

Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra The Albert Hall £11, 7:30pm

Dance4 Sunday Supplement: Neat Timothy Dance4 Free, 11am

More Than Jazz Radio Launch Featuring Periscopes plus 1 The Lofthouse Free, 7pm

Hockley Hustle Hockley £10, 2pm

Mozart Requiem Central Methodist Church, Hucknall Free/£4/£5., 7:30pm

From The Jam Rock City £24.75, 7pm

Learn To Knit Knit Knit Nottingham £20, 10:30am

The Lounge Kittens Rock City Basement £8.25, 6:30pm

MONDAY 17 OCT

An Evening with QM Barbershop Cafe Sobar £4, 6pm - 9:15pm Reggae Take Over presents Laid Blak Spanky Van Dykes £5-£10, 9pm Chris Lorenzo Stealth £8.80 - £13.20, 10pm Subterranean: A Night of Experimental Improvised Music in the Caves The Malt Cross Free, 8:30pm Ajay Henry Band Baresca Free, 9:30pm

Toseland Rock City Basement £8.80, 6:30pm Buzzcocks Rock City £24.75, 6:30pm The Northern Soul Night Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 7pm - 11pm Wrighty (Soul Buggin’) DJ Set Baresca Free, 8pm Zoo Nottingham Contemporary Free, 7pm

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Wild Food Walk Woodthorpe Grange Park Free, 1pm Overnight Ghost Hunt Galleries of Justice £59, 9pm Overwatch Night in Partnership with Game [ALT] Gaming Lounge Free, 7pm

Binns Organ Recital Ashley Grote The Albert Hall £6, 2:45pm Turnover The Rescue Rooms £9.90, 6:30pm Motown Goldrush The Castle 7pm

The Boy with Tape on His Face is TAPE FACE Nottingham Arts Theatre £14/£16, 7:30pm TUESDAY 11 OCT All Tvvins The Bodega £8/8.80, 7pm

Gavin James The Rescue Rooms £11, 6:30pm The Open Mic Monthly Rough Trade Nottingham 7pm - 11pm Derbyshire Nature with Guy Badham The Poppy and Pint 7pm Beeston Tales: Christine McMahon with Northern Grit The White Lion, Beeston £5/£6, 7:30pm

We Shall Overcome Final Shindig The Maze 7pm - 11pm

Out Of The Box National Videogame Arcade Free, 6pm - 11pm

Laughter Therapy The Place Activity Centre 10:30am - 6pm

Ladies Night Special Riverbank Bar & Kitchen £15, 6:30pm - 9:30pm NCF £1 Comedy Night Canalhouse

Sisters of Sound The Angel Microbrewery 9pm Nottingham Symphony Orchestra The Albert Hall £8, 6:30pm The Sunshine Underground The Rescue Rooms £15.40, 6:30pm Soul Intention Riverbank Free Feeder Rock City £24.75, 6:30pm

Lacey Rough Trade Nottingham £5, 6pm Ossie (Gallery Sounds, DIY) DJ Set Baresca Free, 8pm BHM with UoN: Natalie Duncan + Yazmin Lacey + Raphael Blake Nottingham Contemporary 7pm Workshop: World Making in Visual Storytelling Bonington Gallery Free

Raglans The Bodega £7/£7.75, 7pm Jeremy Loops The Rescue Rooms £12.10, 6:30pm Walter Trout Rock City £27.50, 7:30pm Blues Bar: Dale Storr Theatre Royal £8.50 Movie Mondays Spanky Van Dykes Free, 8pm

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The Duke Spirit + Joe Gideon The Bodega £12.50/£13.75, 7pm

Nightfish! presents For The Girl + The Mocking Jays The Southbank Bar Nottingham City Free, 8:30pm

Roots of Reggae Lovers Rock + Lloyd Brown + Paulette Tajah + Lisa Hendricks Nottingham Playhouse £15/£18/£20, 7:45pm

Nottingham Forest v Cardiff NFFC 3pm

Sunset Sons The Rescue Rooms £14.30, 7pm

The Next Step Wild Rhythm Tour Royal Concert Hall £28.50 - £40, 6pm

Andy Sheppard’s Hotel Bristol Bonington Theatre £6/£12/£15, 8pm

Massmatiks The Rescue Rooms £7.70, 6:30pm

JP Cooper The Rescue Rooms £12.10, 6:30pm Cirque Du Soul: Fatman Scoop Rock City £15.80, 10pm Trekkah – The Enlightening Launch Rough Trade Nottingham 8pm WEDNESDAY 19 OCT NTU Music Lunchtime Concert The Old Chemistry Theatre Free, 1pm

VASA + Bearfoot Beware + A-tota-so The Chameleon Arts Cafe £5.50, 8pm - 11pm Gordon City Rock City £17.60, 6:30pm Whisky on the Rocks!

The Orange Tree Free, 8:30pm

Kiko Bun The Bodega £8/8.80, 7pm

Film Night #6: Terraformers Special Bonington Gallery Free

Allah-Las The Rescue Rooms £12.10, 7pm

The Church of Sound Lee Rosy’s Tea Shop 7:30pm - 10pm

Love of Everything (Chicago, USA) JT Soar £5, 7:30pm - 11pm

Family Arts Festival: Felt Pom Pom Mobile Debbie Bryan £12, 11:30am

Searching for Lord Haw-Haw with Colin Holmes Five Leaves Bookshop £3, 7pm - 8:30pm

Stepping into Storytelling with Beeston Tales’ Tim Ralph and Mike Payton Nottingham Writers’ Studio £90/£130, 7:30pm

Seed Safari Highfields Park Free, 10am GeekZilla Fight Night National Videogame Arcade £5, 6pm

Writing for the Commercial Fiction Market Writers’ Crash Course Waterstones Nottingham £27, 1:30pm

Hans Teeuwen: Real Rancour Nottingham Playhouse £19.50, 8pm - 10pm

The Christmas Promise Book Launch Waterstones Nottingham £3, 6pm

Ross Noble Brain Dump Royal Concert Hall £25, 8pm

Man Booker Prize Shortlist Evening West Bridgford Libray £5, 7:30pm

Shvpes + Press To Meco (Basement Show) Rock City £7.75, 6:30pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Royal Concert Hall £7.50 - £34.50, 7:30pm

Dubkasm ft OBF Sound System Spanky Van Dykes £10/£12/£15, 10pm Metal Militia Ye Olde Salutation Inn £3, 8pm Je Suis Freaky The Lofthouse £2, 9pm Spring Kings The Rescue Rooms £11, 6:30pm

Reggae Take Over Records Launch Party Rough Trade Nottingham 7pm - 11pm

Billy Talent Rock City £20.80, 6:30pm

The Antics Roadshow The Maze £4, 10pm

Soul Buggin’ Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 7pm - 11pm

Hollingsworth Smith & Dempsey Brass Monkey 10pm

Perdition Vs Violated The Maze £3/£5, 8pm

The Littletones The Bear & Lace 9:30pm

Andrew Riley (Inland Knights) Baresca Free, 8pm

Friday Fright Night Wollaton Park £15, 7:30pm

Martin Alvarado Nottingham Contemporary Free, 7pm

Halloween Ghost Hunt Nottingham Castle £39, 7pm

Martinmas Fair 2016 Lenton Priory 11am

Polari Writing Workshop Nottingham Writers’ Studio £5, 2pm

Vintage Home and Furniture Market The Albert Hall £2, 11am

An Evening with Garth Nix Waterstones Nottingham £3, 7pm

Bat Walk Bulwell Hall Park Free, 7:45pm

The Friday Night Social Sneinton Market 6pm - 9pm

Introduction to Spoon Carving Rufford Country Park £30, 10:15am

Binns Organ Trust Heroic Music for Organ & Brass The Albert Hall £10, 2:45pm Sound System Culture presents Let’s Play Vinyl Rough Trade Nottingham 2pm - 10pm The Brace The Castle 7pm

Speed Dating for Professionals Aged 28-44 Missoula Montana Bar & Grill £20, 7:30pm LGBT Afternoon Tea at the Bookshop Five Leaves Bookshop £4/£6, 4:30am - 6:30am Oxfam Fundraiser The Maze £5, 4pm MONDAY 24 OCT Don Vito + Diakiri + LCDP + Pre Birds JT Soar £5, 8pm Teleman The Rescue Rooms £14.85, 6:30pm Martin Stephenson Theatre Royal £10, 7:30pm Bondax and Friends Stealth £11, 10pm Megan O’Neil The Maze £7.50/£10, 7:30pm

Back in the eighties, Nottingham was a hotbed of headspins, body popping and breaking. Rock City was devoid of sticky student nights, and instead, played host to B Boys and B Girls doing their thing.

Claude Knight, Luke Scott and Sam DerbyCooper created the cinematic masterpiece that is NG83: When We Were B Boys, celebrating the subculture that brought black and white youngsters together in the heady, political climate of the eighties.

Some of you might have caught sight of the documentary back in November last year, but since then, the flick has been doing the rounds.

After making a journey across the pond – to the New York Hip Hop Festival, no less

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MOBA Mondays [ALT] Gaming Lounge £5, 6pm TUESDAY 25 OCT The Four Tops and The Temptations Motorpoint Arena £50.40, 7:30pm

Seed Hunt Sunday Sherwood Forest Country Park Free, 11:30am

NG83: When We Were B Boys

Movie Mondays Spanky Van Dykes Free, 8pm

Steve Mason The Rescue Rooms £19.80, 6:30pm Band of Skulls Rock City £17.60, 7pm The Australian Pink Floyd Royal Concert Hall £28.50 - £39.50, 7:30pm Paint a Pot The Harley Gallery £3 Enabling Innovation: Introduction to 3D Modelling Nottingham Trent University Free, 5pm Five Leaves Book Club Five Leaves Bookshop 7pm - 8:30pm Guided Tree Tour Victoria Embankment Free, 1pm Scandi Crime with Author Sarah Ward West Bridgford Libray £3, 2:30pm Author Event: Alexander Gordon Smith West Bridgford Libray Free, 11am

– our boys were awarded the title of Best Documentary. Big in the game, lads. We’re right proud.

To celebrate the film in all its glory, it’s got a week's worth of screenings at the ever-wonderful Broadway, with a top dollar opening night party on Friday 28 October.

There’ll be old school DJs, breakdancing in the bar, and the chance to grill the filmmakers after the showing.

On top of all that, there’s gonna be an exhibition of previously unseen archive footage of the Nottingham crews, stills from the film, old flyers and posters from back in the good old days, and then and now photos of the main characters in the film will be on display at Broadway. Amazing.

NG83: When We Were B Boys Broadway Cinema Friday 28 October - Thursday 3 November facebook.com/ng83whenwewerebboys

OCTONOTTS There’s no such thing as resting on your laurels in Nottingham, there’s a whole lot of people who like to make sure events are going off left, right and centre throughout the year. It also boasts the rather grand title of The UK's Festival City during October, and for good reason. Seriously, it’s all going off...

Spiegeltent

Old Market Square Saturday 1 - Saturday 8 October Originally created in Belgium, these glamorous, mirrored, travelling entertainment tents have been around since the late nineteenth century and are notorious for debauchery. We like to fill the Spiegeltent with the best comedy, burlesque, circus, theatre and music when it comes to town. Even Russell Howard is making an appearance this year.

Nottingham Independents Festival

Nottingham City Centre Saturday 1 October Here in Hoodtown, we pride ourselves on our independent businesses. It’s In Nottingham champion the best of ‘em, and are raising the flag once more in an explosion of events, for one day only. Expect outdoor stages, free crazy golf, fudge and pizza tasting, arty workshops, treasure hunts, a pyrotechnic dance show, and even a doughnut-eating competition.

Canal Festival

The Big Draw Festival

Nottingham Castle Saturday 1 - Sunday 23 October Using the theme of STEAM – science, technology, engineering, art and maths – the world’s biggest drawing festival is coming to Nottingham. Pack your pencil case and head down to the free drawing workshops up at the Castle, and while you’re at it, peruse the work of Leonardo da Vinci himsen.

Hockley Hustle

Hockley Sunday 9 October Celebrating ten years, the Hustle is something special.

Hockley gets taken over by musicians, street performers and food stalls in an all-out shindig for charity.

Overflowing with talent and good vibes, it’s not a day to be missed. And, if you want a free wristband alongside some well-earned warm and fuzzy feelings, you can volunteer to lend a hand.

Robin Hood Beer & Cider Festival

Castle Wharf Saturday 1 October Being landlocked but not shy of a bit of industrial revolution, Nottingham has got a fair few canals. Head down to Castle Wharf to hop on a boat, try canoeing, have a go at angling, and generally have a good owd knees up in the name of the water-based roadways.

Nottingham Castle Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 October You’ll have to move fast if you want to bag tickets for this one. CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) holds the event at Nottingham Castle every year, with over 1,000 real ales and 200 ciders to sample – just make sure you pace yourself. And don’t forget to check out the musical treats on the old Victorian bandstand.

Black History Month

Mayhem Film Festival

City wide From Saturday 1 October Recognising and celebrating the contribution that the African and Caribbean communities have made to our society is as important as ever, this year. Head to Nottingham Contemporary on Saturday 1 October to catch the Cultural Vibrations Live Music Special, and back again on Saturday 15 to see the likes of Natalie Duncan, Yazmin Lacey and Raphael Blake performing, courtesy of The University of Nottingham BME Network. Keep your eyes peeled for more events popping up over the month.

Goose Fair

Forest Recreation Ground Wednesday 5 - Sunday 9 October For over 720 years, Nottinghamians have been gorging themselves on mint sauce and mushy peas, and seeing if they can keep them down after a session on the waltzers.

Fill your purse for the rides, and see if find yourself a cock on a stick to munch on. The Malt Cross are in on the action too, celebrating the opening of the Victorian music hall in time for Goose Fair in 1877.

Nottingham International Film Festival

Savoy Cinema Friday 7 - Sunday 9 October A new kid on the block this year, you’ll need to get your bottoms down to the art-deco gloriousness that is the Savoy, to feast your eyes on the best international films this side of anywhere. With films from all over the shop, covering all manner of topics, you’re bound to find summat proper boss to impress your mates with.

Broadway Cinema Thursday 13 - Sunday 16 October Every year, Nottingham’s independent fireball of a picturehouse, Broadway Cinema, is home to the flick festival to end ‘em all. Expect screenings of horror, science-fiction, and cult cinema, premieres, previews and masterclasses. Plus, a couple of international special guest speakers and a devilishly hard quiz. Not to be missed.

Oxjam

Beeston Saturday 15 October Another double whammy that gives you a proper good day out with the good feels. Dig deep and raise money for Oxfam, the charity that’s out to end poverty through emergency response and development work. They’re taking over Beeston for the day, so there’s loads to be getting on with – namely, the best musicians this city’s got to offer.

Diwali

Highfields Park Sunday 15 - Sunday 16 October Revel in the ancient Indian festival of lights, and get involved in a whole host of free events set to celebrate the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. You can even try your hand at making a floating lotus flower to add to the floating light installation on the lake.

Nottingham Caves Festival

Monday 17 - Sunday 30 October 2016 is the inaugural year for this festival, so we can only speculate that it’s going to be amazing. But why wouldn’t it be when there’s going to be live music, storytelling, tours and food and drink to be had. In caves. Yeah. Caves.

You couldn’t mek it up.

Nottingham International Microfilm Festival

Broadway/Lakeside/NVA/Showcase Cinema Thursday 20 - Saturday 22 October You’ll have square eyes by the time this month’s over, what with all the glorious films you’ve got to take in.

Make sure you have a wander over to the city’s big screens to feast your eyes on microfilms, some of ‘em all the way from China. You’ll be right cultured before the weekend is out.

Oktoberfest

Forest Recreation Ground Wednesday 26 - Sunday 30 October Get a slice of the Bavarian down Forest Recreation Ground, where the fields will be taken over with a huge marquee. It’s stuffed with dark, golden, German beer, plus foods like Schnitzel, pretzels, Händel, and Schweinebraten, and all the staff are dressed in traditional Lederhosen and Dirndl. With a German band to entertain, it’s the perfect knees-up.

GameCity Festival

National Videogame Arcade Wednesday 26 - Sunday 29 October The world’s biggest and baddest videogame festival turns eleven this year, and is progressing into big school with a bang. There’ll no doubt be a ton of retro games for you to get stuck in to, as well as the hottest new tech to discover. Geek out to the extreme.

Nottingham Comic Con

Nottingham Conference Centre Saturday 29 October Love your comics? This one’s a must. With guests including everyone from Marvel’s Marc Laming, to Beano’s Laura Howell, it’s definitely an event to power up your nerd/awesome levels. It’s hosted in partnership with Forbidden Planet, so pop in to the Nottingham shop after to keep yourself stocked up.

Robin Hood Pageant

Nottingham Castle Saturday 29 - Sunday 30 October It’s been said that, years ago, a Nottingham bloke with a bow and arrow took from the rich and gave to the poor.

Celebrate the biggest, baddest rebel about by getting stuck into some archery, cheering on the live jousting tournaments, having a go at some wood carving, and saying “Ayup” to our Robin and his Merry Men.

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NUSIC BOX Your new Notts music tip sheet, as compiled

by Nusic’s Sam Nahirny.

Want more? Check the fortnightly podcasts and live sessions in the Nusic website.

WEDNESDAY 26 OCT

FRIDAY 28 OCT

SATURDAY 29 OCT

SATURDAY 29 OCT

Vampires Rock Ghost Train Royal Concert Hall £26 - £28, 7:30pm

YMCA Running Tours of Notts YMCA Gym Free, 6pm

Mozart + Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Haydn St Mary’s Church £13/£15, 7:30pm

Abigoliah Schamaun + Addy van der Borgh + Steve Gribbin Jongleurs Comedy Club £16/£23, 7pm

Harken + Mark The Skyline + Fallen To Flux The Maze £6, 7pm

The Uke Box at the Hand and Heart Beer Festival The Hand and Heart Free, 8:30pm - 11pm

Punk 4 The Homeless with Vomit + Healer of Bastards + Hospital Food The Sumac Centre Donations, 7pm - 11pm

Adam Hills Clown Heart Royal Concert Hall £21, 8pm

Hearthstone Fireside Gathering National Videogame Arcade £3, 7pm NCF £1 Comedy Night Canal House £1, 8pm THURSDAY 27 OCT The Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff The Southbank Bar £20

Roe Green While his face may be familiar to Notts music lovers, this new project probably won’t be. Roe Green (NB: not Rob) is the brand new, sombre solo project of Antonio Panzera. During his Future Session, he cited reverb as being the reason he makes music, “It’s like the butter to your toast.” And from the tunes you’ll find online, it’s a suitably, beautifully buttery piece of toast he has created.

They’re delicate, heartfelt tunes – almost happy-sad at times – but damn are they catchy. If you take a gander at his Future Session on YouTube, you’ll hear exactly what we mean. And, even better – apparently Roe has written a good fifty or so songs. So there’s plenty of new material on the way, which is literally music to our ears. facebook.com/roegreenuk

K.Ji Another brand new one brought to our attention by Kemet FM’s local music guru, Jackie P. Local artist K.Ji is responsible for one of our favourite pieces of new music this year. His debut single, It Ain’t Even Fair, is funny, full of energy, and proper Notts. The song is powered by a huge full band sample, led by the sickest guitar riff.

Now don’t get us wrong, there’s quite a few naughty bits, so you’re probs not gonna play it at your nan’s during Sunday dinner. But, if you need a tune to get you proper energised before a title fight, or before sending that harsh email to Jeremy about stealing your coke can from the fridge, this might just be the song for that. K.Ji promises there’s plenty more on the way. We. Cannot. Wait. facebook.com/kjimusic

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Riot Act The Greyhound, Beeston 9pm - 1am Ilenkus + Wiremother + Kainoah + Dead Hands JT Soar 7:30pm - 11pm Kunt And The Gang ‘Last Ever Tour’ The Rescue Rooms £8.80, 6:30pm

Eagulls The Rescue Rooms £11, 6:30pm

Rob Green + Schmorgan Baresca Free, 5:30pm

Ajay Henry Baresca Free, 7pm

Ultra Lounge Yumacha 10pm

Seren Brewing Met The Brewer and Tap Takeover Kean’s Head 7pm

Josh Kemp Fat Cat Sherwood Free, 9pm

Air Vault by Andrew Taylor Five Leaves Bookshop Free, 7pm - 8:30pm First Birthday and Halloween Beer and Cider Festival Cock and Hoop £1/£2.50 Zoots The Hand and Heart Free, 7pm

Littletones Brass Monkey 10pm The Magic Lantern Family Tour Royal Concert Hall Free, 11am My Sight Nottinghamshire presents My Sound Live Fundraiser Rough Trade Nottingham 7pm - 11pm

Flying The Nest Theatre Royal £7.50

Art Exhibition: Inked!

by Paul Holding West Bridgford Libray Free, 9am

Steve Backshall Royal Concert Hall £19.50, 7pm

Spooky Campfire Tales Highfields Park Free, 5pm

Seed Safari Clifton Grove & Woods Free, 10am

Woolly Tellers Dark Tales The Malt Cross £8, 7:30pm - 11pm

Children’s Author Chris Mould West Bridgford Libray £3, 11am

Jimmy Carr Royal Concert Hall £27.50, 8pm

Halloween Biscuits Green’s Windmill £4, 11am

The Friday Night Social Sneinton Market 6pm - 9pm

Advanced Worldbuilding with Ian C Douglas Nottingham Writers’ Studio £35/£50, 6:30pm

SATURDAY 29 OCT

Meal Deal Appreciation Society Meetup. No Fry Up Police Outside Tesco £3.49, 6:30pm

Panthers v Capitals Motorpoint Arena 7pm

Notts County v Luton Notts County Football Club 3pm

Little Giants The Greyhound, Beeston 9pm

Detonate Halloween Nottingham Race Course 7:30pm Aces Halloween The Bowery Club 10pm Elvis - Ben Thompson The Albert Hall £26.50/£29.50, 7:30pm FM The Rescue Rooms £20.35, 6:30pm Halloween All Nighter Rock City £8.80, 8pm - 6am Andre Bonsor (Schmoove) Baresca Free, 8pm Harleighblu + 94 Gunships + Rob Green + The Girl and The Stone The Maze £7.70, 8pm Marie Laveau’s Dance of the Dead Party Nottingham Contemporary 7pm McGill & McMagic Fox & Hounds 7pm INFL Does Halloween with Catbone + Cannibal Animal + Stiff Kittens Rough Trade Nottingham Free, 8:30pm Workshop: Surviving The Art School Nottingham Contemporary Free Eat Yourself to Health: Chinese Medicated Diet Tiger Boe Centre £200, 10:30am - 4:30pm Ink Halloween Ink 10:30pm Trees of Bestwood Bestwood Country Park Free, 10:30am Halloween Walk Sherwood Forest Country Park £5, 7:30pm Gordon Southern + Alfie Moore + Brennan Reece + Compere Spiky Mike David Lloyd Leisure West Bridgford

Dance Show: Unite The Scene 2016 Nottingham Arts Theatre £10/£12, 7pm Writing Horror Fiction One-Day Writers’ Workshop Waterstones Nottingham £55, 10am Meet The Author: Marc Turner Waterstones Nottingham Free, 11am SUNDAY 30 OCT Isata Kanneh-Mason Royal Concert Hall £10, 11am Gecko + Lewis Bootle + Liam O’Kane The Maze £4.40, 7pm Night of the Hunter Nottingham Contemporary 7pm Sunday Social: Halloween Special Debbie Bryan Free, 11am Halloween Mask Making Green’s Windmill £3, 11am Finishing Class Knit Knit Nottingham £25 Gothic Afternoon Tea Wollaton Park £15, 12pm Halloween Storytelling Rufford Country Park £1, 1pm MONDAY 31 OCT Honne The Rescue Rooms £13.20, 6:30pm The Third Stage Haunting Tales Theatre Royal £7, 7:30pm Halloween Film Screaming - Stephen King’s It The Maze Free, 7:30pm Imperialism in the 21st Century with John Smith Five Leaves Bookshop £3, 7pm - 8:30pm

event listings ...for more: leftlion.co.uk/listings EXHIBITIONS AND PLAYS AND FESTIVALS AND THAT Camra Cider And Perry Month Various Venues Sat 1 - Mon 31 Oct Oktoberfest Castle Rock Brewery Mon 3 - Mon 17 Oct

Nottingham Goose Fair

Forest Recreation Ground Free, 5:30pm Wed 5 - Sun 9 Oct

Nottingham Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival Nottingham Castle £10 - £30 Weds 12 - Sat 15 Oct Exhibition, Francis Willughby (1635-72): A Natural Historian and his Collections Weston Gallery Free Fri 19 Aug – Sun 4 Dec German Bierfest Week The Embankment Fri 21 - Fri 28 Oct Nottingham Oktoberfest Forest Recreation Ground Free/£5 Weds 26 - Sun 30 Oct Robin Hood Pageant Nottingham Castle £10, 6:30pm Fri 28 - Sun 30 Oct Global Food and Drink Market The Old Market Square Free Ends Sun 30 Oct

Nottingham

International Film Festival Savoy Cinema Free, 2pm Sat 8 - Sun 9 Oct

Samba Dance (14+) Medium to High Impact City Arts Nottingham £5/£7/£30, 7pm - 9pm Ends Sunday 19 Apr October Craft Menu: Family Arts Festival Debbie Bryan Free, 11am Sat 1 - Sat 15 Oct

Marguerite Humeau Nottingham Contemporary Free Sat 15 Oct - Sun 8 Jan

Family Arts Festival: Draw Along Debbie Bryan Free, 11am Sat 1 - Mon 31 Oct Family Arts Festival:

Make a Family Poster Debbie Bryan £5, 11am Sat 1 - Mon 31 Oct

Family Arts Festival:

Paper & Pattern Debbie Bryan Free, 11am Sat 1 - Mon 31 Oc.

Salsa Classes Filthy’s £4 - £8 , 7:30pm - 11pm Mon 18 Apr - Mon 19 Dec

The Playboy of the

Western World by John Millington Synge Lace Market Theatre £8/£11, 7:30pm - 10pm Mon 10 - Sat 15 Oct The Effect of Gamma Rays on the Man in-theMoon Marigolds by Paul Zindel Lace Market Theatre £8/£9, 7:30pm - 10pm Tues 25 - Sat 29 Oct

By Our Own Efforts New Art Exchange Free Sat 17 Sep - Sun 6 Nov

Fighting Walls: Street Art in Egypt and Iran + A Rebel scene New Art Exchange Free Sat 1 Oct - Sun 18 Dec

Alistair Frost Syson Gallery Free Fri 21 Oct - Sun 11 Dec

The Legend of Lady Rock Nottingham Contemporary £15 - £20 Thurs 6 - Sun 9 Oct UKBFF British

Otobong Nkanga Nottingham Contemporary Free Sat 15 Oct - Sun 8 Jan

Championships 2016 Theatre Royal £15 - £45, 9:30am Sat 8 - Sun 9 Oct

The Revenger’s Tragedy Nottingham Playhouse £8 - £32 Fri 28 Oct - Sat 12 Nov

Million Dollar Quartet Theatre Royal £15 - £37.50 Tues 11 - Sat 15 Oct

The Artist Collection Patchings Art Centre Sat 1 Oct - Sun 20 Nov

The Story of Art. Peter Burgess and Patchings Club Members Patchings Art Centre Sat 1 Oct - Sun 13 Nov Intersections, Commission #4 Ian Nesbitt Primary Fri 1 Apr - Tues 28 Feb Anna K.E. - Leaving The Rock Stage Primary Free, 12pm - 6pm Thurs 19 Sep – Sat 12 Nov Halloween Trail Rufford Country Park £1, 10:30am Sat 22 - Sun 30 Oct S Mark Gubb Revelations Syson Gallery Free Fri 14 Oct - Sun 11 Dec

Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra Theatre Royal £8 - £15 Sat 15 Oct – Sun 26 Mar

George’s Marvellous Medicine Theatre Royal £10 - £22.50 Weds 19 - Sat 22 Oct The Producers Nottingham Operatic Society Theatre Royal £10 - £22 Tues 25 - Sat 29 Oct Exhibition: Travels in Stitch West Bridgford Library Free Tues 4 Oct - Tue 25 Oct Black History Month Nottingham Free Sat 1 - Mon 31 Oct

You’ve chosen Savoy Cinema for the festival…

It’s nice to work with independent cinemas, they tend to be a lot more supportive. It’s been refurbished and the history of it being the oldest cinema in Nottingham is also really good.

Why Nottingham?

We know there’s Mayhem and the Microfilm Festival here, but it’s a different kind of offering. Notts is a very artsy city, so we thought it would be something that you would really enjoy.

Did you look into other cities?

We started a festival in Oxford back in May – there was no film festival at all in there.

interview: Harry Wilding

Neil and Alan started the Manchester Film Festival last year and are looking for the same success with a Nottingham version this month. We spoke to them about what they have to offer and why they chose our city…

How did the Manchester Film Festivals go?

We had our first in July 2015 and the second in March this year. Both went really well – the second one grew considerably on the first. If you look at somewhere like Raindance, that’s what we’re aspiring to do – build the audience year on year.

What made you want to organise festivals?

We have a filmmaking background: producing and writing. We made a

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very low budget film together about four years ago, and that did the festival circuit before picking up distribution in the States. There wasn’t a festival in Manchester we could submit to, which seemed strange. With our experience of other festivals, we thought we could do something with a bit of integrity.

So you will be looking to make the Nottingham one annual?

Yes. Manchester will be the showcase event, with Nottingham and Oxford as sister festivals to be a platform for similar types of films.

Did you speak to any Notts-heads beforehand?

We just made sure that we weren’t stepping on any toes – like, Mayhem, is full of feature films but it was very much a different template. I think that the three festivals happening in October all complement each other,.

There’s no competition.

What can we expect at the festival?

Two short film programmes, five dramatic features and two documentary features. And then an awards ceremony – best short, best feature, best director and so on. We’re also doing a launch party at Das Kino on the Friday 7 October to launch the

festival and show off some trailers of the films and generally have a bit of a party – all free.

Have you got quite a mixed bag of films?

It is all about these filmmakers coming to these cities and sharing their films, so we can create that community across the festivals. We got a hell of a lot from outside of the UK – the States, a great one from Austria, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg – a good broad spectrum of world cinema as well as some more mainstream films. We try and cater for as big a scope as possible.

Any Nottingham entries?

A couple of documentaries. We like to support the local films, but they have to be up to scratch, we don’t put them in for the sake of it. If the craft and quality is there, it’ll always be considered.

Nottingham International Film Festival, Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 October.

Individual, day and weekend tickets available.

Launch Party, Das Kino, Friday 7 October, 7.30pm, free. nottiff.com/tickets leftlion.co.uk/issue83

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VAMPIRES ROCK: GHOST TRAIN

Steve Steinman has ramped up the vamp in this spectacular sequel to the phenomenally successful Vampires Rock Musical Concert. Amidst mischief and mayhem, this hilariously funny show lives up to its rocking reputation.

Packed with Aerial Silk Stunts, Fang-tastic Fire Routines, Guitar Gods and Sexy Vampettes performing some of the best rock anthems of all time including tracks from Guns & Roses, AC/DC, Meat Loaf and many more.

THE THIRD STAGE: HAUNTING TALES

Join the Theatre Royal’s resident company of storytellers for a special Halloween night concoction of ghoulish tales and spine-chillers. Not for the faint-hearted! Although not compulsory, please feel free to dress up in your favourite Halloween outfit to add some fun and spooky atmosphere to the proceedings. Please note this event carries an age restriction of 12+.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation. A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Everyone’s favourite kooky family are now on stage in the UK premiere of this spectacular musical comedy! Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, is all grown up and has a shocking secret that only Gomez knows.

She’s fallen in love with a sweet young man from a respectable family. With his cherished Morticia in the dark will Gomez manage to keep his daughter’s secret until the two families meet for a fateful dinner with hilarious consequences?

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Kathy Pimlott is a Notts native currently residing in London. But absence truly does make the heart grow fonder, and her love for her hometown bleeds through every poem she writes. A woman after our own hearts. We caught up with her ahead of National Poetry Day, Thursday 6 October, to find out more about her career...

How would you describe your poems?

I’m interested in the extraordinariness of the ordinary. I like stories. I think my work is very English – restrained, oblique, quite funny. At the moment I’m interested in rhyme in all its forms.

Why do you feel inspired to write about Nottingham?

I was born in Radford, between Players and the Forest Rec. The last place I lived in Nottingham was on Western Boulevard, watching the [Goose] Fair arrive and leave. I left for university, and then on to London where I still live. But that first eighteen years lays the groundwork for who you are. Nottingham is both place and family for me. I write about Nottingham to unpick who we are.

You’ve had an interesting career…

I started out in residential social work and went on to community activism, living in Covent Garden when it was threatened with demolition. This gave me the skills to do project management pretty much anywhere. At the moment, I’m writing a lot about ownership of place, which links in with my work for the Seven Dials Trust.

Tell us about your writing journey…

I loved playing with rhyme and rhythm, as most children do. I read and wrote poetry constantly until I was about 21. Then the need to make a living took over and I lost the habit. Over the years I had a couple of poems published, but really got going again when I had more slack in my life. I went to classes, and started getting published in magazines like Magma, Brittlestar, The North and in several anthologies.

You published your first poetry pamphlet in 2016…

I submitted work to open calls from two publishers, and when The Emma Press said they wanted to publish what became Goose Fair Night, I was so excited. I admired their diligence and flair. The launch reading at Five Leaves was scary because I was bringing Nottingham poems to Nottingham – was I a presumptuous outsider? But the event was a very warm and friendly occasion with fellow poet Jo Dixon and lots of family.

Favourite poems in the collection?

The first and last. You Bring Out the Nottingham in Me came tumbling out, inspired by a poem by Sandra Cisneros, full of exotic references to her Mexican heritage. It made me want to fly the flag for Nottingham. Five Unusual Things is a thank you to my late father.

What do you do when you aren't writing?

At work I’m organising street history plaques, two websites and consultation on public realm improvements. We have allotments, so it’s jamming and pickling season. This morning I cleaned the kitchen floor to avoid editing a sonnet sequence.

What's next?

I’ve got a poem in Magma’s next issue and I’ll be reading at Poetry at the Room in North London in November. I’m working on what may be the next pamphlet – a sort of ‘state of the nation’ through the prism of tales from the allotments and Seven Dials.

Where will you be on National Poetry Day? I’ll be at the Royal Festival Hall listening to a literary heroine, Margaret Atwood.

Will we see you at Goose Fair?

I haven’t decided. I went last year with my family who live in Nottingham and the mushy peas were rubbish. It’s hard, when your memories are so vivid, not to be a nostalgic killjoy.

Mushy peas should be served on odd saucers with tin teaspoons, not in polystyrene cups, and should only cost sixpence. I miss Mousetown and the Boxing Booth and all the other inappropriate sideshows. But mostly I miss the specific, dangerous excitement that only happened once a year for two and half days.

Goose Fair Night, The Emma Press, £6.50/£4.25 Ebook kathypimlott.co.uk

You Bring Out the Nottingham in Me

by Kathy Pimlott after Sandra Cisneros You bring out the Hyson Green and Forest Fields of me, Saturday night and Sunday morning love bite signalled by a chiffon scarf.

My scent is Dangerous October, hot engine oil, hot sugar, Mouse Town must. In electric dark beyond the caravans, I take on all just for the glory and floor them tenderly to rock ‘n’ roll, chain and lever growl and lovely screams.

I am all these: china saucers of acetic mushy peas, pomegranate pips eased out with pins, bows and arrows, bouncing fairy dolls and cocks on sticks.

Lace cuffs and stockings catch and run as Ludd spills out of me. Only with you I’m dun sandstone, tunnels undermine me secretly.

You bring it out of me, me duck, you do, that mardy Lawrence fuck. With you I’m Clough-strut right, so say it, say I walk in beauty like a Goose Fair night.

Published in Goose Fair Night, The Emma Press, 2016

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Wrap your tabs round Sound Of The Lion, our dedicated music podcast. If you want your own tunes reviewed and you’re from Notts, hit up leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic Mannequin Nobody’s Listening EP (Louder City Records) Perhaps it’s modesty, but it seems a little nihilistic for a band to pour their heart and soul into writing and recording six songs, painting some eyecatching cover art, only to then call the resulting EP Nobody’s Listening. Well, that is exactly what the three-piece Mannequin have done with their latest release. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if that prediction comes true, then frankly it’ll just be proof that everyone’s tabs are painted on. Mannequin is Ben on guitars, Joe on drums and Sid on bass, vocals and artwork. What they’ve created here is a diverse mix of styles that comes together beautifully into one coherent, 24-minute whole. On first listen, this seems to be fairly straightforward grunge: no one is accusing Sid of yarling, but there is definitely a touch of a yearning, angsty Cobain in the vocals – on the title track and Shark Eyes in particular. It’s not as simple as that, though. There’s some pretty substantial hard rock stylings throughout. Just check out the screaming solos on 1708 and Shark Eyes, and also more than a hint of psychedelia in some of the echoing, dreamy guitar. A high quality listen with great songs and excellent production values. If there is really nobody prepared to listen to this, then we might as well give up now and leave the world to Nickelback as it really isn’t fit for humans. Tim Sorrell mannequinuk.bandcamp.com Adam Prescott Warrior Album (Reggae Roast) Adam Prescott, the brains and production whizz behind Warrior, has taken an old-school reggae sound and given it a bit of a modern day spit and polish. Fortunately, he knows not to mess with the formula too much, and keeps his tweaks on the down-low – for example, drum samples and sequencers have replaced their human equivalent. The downside to this, and it could just be my low-quality copy, is that the bass feels like it’s non-existent, which is a shame for music where the sound system is king. Minor gripes aside, Prescott has handed over his tracks to a variety of collaborators who excel with the material they’ve been given. Most Notts heads will be familiar with Karizma’s dulcet flow (The Vampires, Days & Times), but elsewhere, Jago’s gruff delivery adds fire to Push The Back, Papa B’s horn play jazzes up Throwback, and Brother Culture visibly relishes wrestling Warrior to the ground. Paul Klotschkow soundcloud.com/adam_prescott Adim Spontaneous Monk EP (Timeline Provision) This marvellous homage to one of the forefathers of jazz, and perhaps the greatest pianist to have ever lived, is pure bliss upon the ears. Taking the listener on a journey of respect and raw originality; capable of taking the incomparable genius of a legend and revitalising it using simple yet wonderfully effective methods. Adim is a producer who breaks the mould, and this EP is the perfect example of how – stripped-back, simplistic beats in perfect accompaniment with that emotionenhancing piano. From the off, the alleviating intro glides into the tranquilizing Tell Me What You See with the undeniably atmospheric vocals of Faceless. It’s one of the tracks that wouldn’t be out of place on a Funky DL album, with its melodic jazzy strokes that transport to a dreamlike state. For those who like their music with a twist of yesteryear but wholly refreshing and innovative, this is an essential. Exquisite. Jack Garofalo timelineprovision.bandcamp.com/album/spontaneous-monk

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Bru-C One of Them EP (Phlexx)

For The Girl Shark Attack EP (Self-released)

Gun fingers are slung, ravenavigating eyes flash past. The bass chimes with a clock bell to signify it’s the grittiest hour of the night, where sweat drips from the noses of skankers and the final bangers are pulled up for the last boggers standing.

Wonk scrapes the tune like a washboard. These are the sights of Bru-C’s new EP – a nostalgic trip back to the early bassline hype days of funny-smelling fags, hoods up and furrowed brows. The collection of tracks does the same tune – One of Them – five ways: there’s the original, straight Bru-C-laced track, the a cappella version, and the instrumental. Plus, there’s the absolutely grim Thorpey remix, and appearances from a plethora of Notts emcees. The main man has a consistently cheeky flow – a quick bounce of lyricism, occasionally ruffled up like a dirty rewind. The garage-y bassline selection has dropped, and it’s definitely ‘one of them’. Bridie Squires

When you’re a five-piece indie rock boy band, it can be pretty difficult to stand out from the crowd, but For The Girl have managed to stick their head above the vast sea of similarity. And they’ve done it in a particularly ear-prodding manner.

On Shark Attack, the band have created an upbeat EP with a more mature sound than some of their more sullen contemporaries. Tracks such as Earthquake and Raise A Glass really jump out at you, the lads showcasing their awesome musical skills throughout the entirety of the EP. Personality oozes from each song – the great use of synth, the singers distinct voice that demands your attention, and a load of catchy tunes that will have you dancing and wanting more.

Shark Attack is full-sounding and multi-layered, full of addictive tunes that will grab you as soon as the first chorus kicks in.

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The Golden Troubadours Portrait of an Autumn Queen EP (Self-released)

Sea Monster Eyes’ Garlic EP (I’m Not From London)

Autumn, the best time of the year.

The crisp morning air, the crunch of leaves under foot, the mix of browns marking the changing of the season, no more back sweat, when my birthday is… I could go on, but you get the gist.

It also seems that The Golden Troubadours feel the same way as they release this soliloquy to the most poetic of seasons (just ask Keats). Wielding mainly acoustic instruments, Golden Troubadours aren’t your typical beardy, scrumpy-swigging folk band, though; blending blues and soul stylings into their finger-picked sound, Portrait of an Autumn Queen is full of warm, aching melodies and lilting rhythms. Friends of Treasure is the gentle opener, floating on top of some wonderful interweaving guitar lines. But it’s the closing double bill of Wave Song and Porcelain where the real magic lies, TGT channeling Elbow’s Newborn to create their own mini wide-screen misty epic. Paul Klotschkow

On their latest EP, Sea Monster Eyes prove once again that they're one of the most imaginative and enjoyable bands to come out of Nottingham area – Mansfield, to be exact – for a long while. Here, Sea Monster Eyes’s hook-laden, classic indie-rock sound, and charming boy/girl vocals is performed in the band’s distinct playful style.

From the wobbly Boat I Row, the jangly REM-goes-country of Run Away, Girl, the rowdy psych-folk of Games, the sixties popinspired Simulator, or There She Blows which bounces around like Blue in the mid-nineties, the oddly named Garlic EP is a joy to listen to from beginning to end. Fun can be had for any listeners wanting to play a game of spot the influences, but what is clear is that Sea Monster Eyes’ are capable of writing songs of class and distinction. Paul Klotschkow

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Fold EP (Self-released) The newest ‘kidds' on the block have marked their arrival with a bang. Fold, the band’s debut EP, is hot on the heels of their debut gig – which was only earlier this year – and is the perfect showcase for the band’s strengths and sound.

Writing and performing chilled-out, dreamlike indie-pop with subtle use of electronics throughout, the band sound both lively and dynamic; the bass is prominent and methodical, the drums keep it simple, while the keys and guitars help to gently shift mood and tempo throughout. Steff Wiliamson’s vocal delivery sounds effortless and unforced, perfectly blending with the instruments. In addition, harmonies are used perfectly. The four songs on this EP don’t necessarily stray too far away from each other stylistically, as Twin Kidd certainly know what sound they like and how to get it, and this gives Fold its own unique style. A peaceful listen, perfect for whether you are working or unwinding. Louron Pratt

You know that when a band has an official blue tick on their Facebook page, they probably mean business. After all, it is vitally important to make it clear to the world that you are the official We Are Carnivores, and not just any old band with the same name, eh? The complex rhythms, stop starts and somewhat angular melodies, quickly tell the listener that this is math rock: the whole EP lasts barely thirteen minutes, and yet there are more shifts of time signature here than your average King Crimson long-player. Coupled with those somewhat self-conscious song titles (You Can’t Argue With Sharks, I’m Not an Alcoholic, I Just Collect Bottles), if you were so inclined you could probably write this lot off as pretentious and self-absorbed. Thankfully, they’re far too good for that. This is complex, challenging and involved but also poppy, interesting and totally worth the effort.

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Kagoule - Magnified Ahead of hitting the studio to work on the follow-up to last year’s Urth, the noisey three-piece treat us to churning riffs and snarling harmonies.

Be - Blue Lullaby Lovely autumnal hymn incorporating the cello, choir and a cast of thousands of bees.

Indiana - Caroline A little something to keep us going while she busies herself with LP2. A sultry disco banger that’s got us all hot under the collar.

Ronika - Stay Here Forever The juiciest, retro-flavoured tropical pop that will be sure to keep us in our bermuda’s over the winter months.

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Sleaford Mods - Total Control Racing “£3.50 all-day ticket but I knew deep down I wasn’t going to use it” The angriest men in Notts get ready to release their new EP ahead of headline shows at Rock City next month.

VVV - Empty Red hot hip hop super crew unleash yet another six-eyed rap monster upon the streets of Nottingham. Bouncier than a bouncing bomb.

Metaphi Metske - Rukus Squelchy euphoric delights from the Notts electronic noise maker.

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Cured

Doctor’s orders

The Avenue in West Bridgford is a strip of delights: posh charity shops, banging paninis, and a park where you can roll about in all that money you’ve definitely not been spending on bread and lard. And Cured, who you should definitely pay a visit if you’re into pure quality with a sprinkle of brassy quirk and dim lights.

My summer sausage bap (£7.50) was served as a weighty pretzel ‘bun’, with Guinness-braised onions and perfect fries. The jalapeno-stuffed pork sausage of the day gained itself some massive respect, and with everything else pulling it together beautifully, it was a high scorer.

Some points deducted for lack of the word ‘cob’, though, gotta say.

On our Friday night visit the bar was buzzing, but we found hungover solace in the seating area at the back, thanks to the notably on-it and friendly staff. No messing about, a top-drawer espresso Martini (£7.50) was out, as well as a can of Beavertown brewery’s session IPA Neck Oil (£4.65), to kick things off.

The Cured burger (£12) patty was thoroughly juicy and scoffed rapidly along with proper coleslaw, braised onions, cheddar, and that lovely pretzel cob. The bread was dense and thinly glazed – the perfect stodge-wedges to hold everything together.

The new menu at Cured has been put together in collaboration with award-winning Sherwood butcher Johnny Puzstai, and doesn’t make a fuss while kicking out thoughtful dishes made with fine, local ingredients. The Sherwood Meat Platter, available in different sizes and prices depending on your table’s head count, is certainly one to be reckoned with. Puzstai’s own artisan cured meats – including lomo, coppa, bresola, colbassa and chorizo – are mouth-wateringly smoked using fruit wood, and come served with delicious capers, herby focaccia, and some show-stopping chutneys. The classic pickle chutney, the sweet, fruity jam, and the beetroot chutney are a delight to experiment with all the meats. Also, that bresola (air dried, smoked and cured beef) is something special.

We were perhaps more piggy than the meat on our plates, going for some bacon fries (£4) and onion rings (£3.50) on the side. The latter were fresh and crispy, with the bacon fries providing the ultimate sensation: skinny chips, lathered in mayonnaise and sprinkled with tiny fried bacon bits. Absolutely perfect.

We were fit to burst, but needed something to take the edge off, naturally. A scoop of sorbet each did the trick – a mango scoop and a blackberry scoop – before we walked away, chiming with plans to return very soon. Bridie Squires 33 Central Avenue, West Bridgford, NG2 5GQ. 0115 981 7070 curedonline.co.uk

Inferno

You want a pizza this

Inferno, at surface level, is like Subway for pizza. But delve a little deeper and you’ll see it is so much more than that. None of this solemn-look-when-you-ask-for-a-bit-more-bacon nonsense; all pizzas are one size (11”) and cost one price (£7.95), and it’s completely up to you how much gear you want to whack on that mother.

When this place landed in Nottingham I nearly chucked up with excitement. Why had nobody thought of this before? If you’ve not been yet: firstly, I envy your virginal state; secondly, hold onto your hat and calm the hell down when you get in there. It’s important to keep your cool in the quick-fire decision-making process. When the possibilities are endless, you really do need to reign it in. Or, you know, throw caution to the wind and splash everything in sight on your designated base. I suppose you can only learn from your own ‘mistakes’. Or ‘genius concoctions’, if you like.

Let’s start at the saucy bottom – you can choose from classic tomato, barbecue, spicy inferno or white sauce. I am, in general, dubious about anything that reads ‘white sauce’. I know Bechamel sounds a bit posh, but it needs something to take the connotative edge off, in my opinion.

Filthy mind aside, the spicy inferno sauce is amazing, and you can halves it up if that should so be your request. Sauce-to-cheese ratio is grossly unbalanced on most pizzas, but here you can demand equality like a socialist to the bourgeoisie.

Right, cheese. A choice of mozzarella shavings, hand torn mozzarella, cheddar, goats’ cheese, gorgonzola, parmesan or ricotta. All of them, please. Yes. Thanks.

Next up, vegetables. You’ve got all your regular stuff like mushrooms, peppers, sweetcorn and olives, but also some proper posh ingredients.

Chargrilled courgette, baby spinach, chopped garlic, marinated baby tomatoes and artichokes are all on the menu, ready and waiting for your finger to point at them.

It’s the same for the meats too. Apart from the spicy ground beef looking a bit ropey, you’re well away. Barbecue pulled pork, piri piri chicken, spicy nduja sausage and chorizo are all available. You can even have a free-range egg cracked into the middle of the whole thing, baked to perfection.

It’s banged in the huge oven for about five minutes and finished with chilli flakes, oregano, rocket or pesto – among other stuff – if you so desire. Get stuck in to their dipping sauces – unlimited garlic and herb, as well as spicy ketchup, and if you’ve got room, they’ve got their very own ice cream machine. The product of which you can lace with salted caramel pieces. Oh, and their fridges full of discerningly-picked craft beers are reason alone to pop your head in. Bridie Squires 37 Milton Street, NG1 3EN. 0115 947 3262 inferno.pizza

The Peacock

Feathered friends

Nottingham is currently excelling in its vegan options: Alley Cafe, The Natural Food Company, The Angel, Annie’s, Hartleys, Oscar and Rosie’s, and the brand new 100% vegan Amala Living Foods, to name but a few.

And now one of DH Lawrence’s old haunts, The Peacock, becomes the first pub in the city to go 100% vegan for food. Excellent. Note that their alcohol is not in that 100%, however, they do have the choice of a few lagers, including Amstel and Birra Moretti, and a craft ale or two on the way.

I pored over the extensive menu with my carnivore companion, spoilt for choice. We opted for a couple of starters – three generously sized samosas with mango chutney (£2.50) were some of the best I’ve ever had, but crikey, they were packing a lot of heat. Since my friend and I are both wimps when it comes to spice, it’s a testament to their great taste that we actually finished them. We also shared a ‘vork’ pie (£3.50).

There were three varieties on offer – butternut squash, piri piri and sweet potato – and we went for the latter. The taste as well as the design of the pastry was perfect, the filling rich in flavours.

My companion went for the more grown-up main course of asparagus, minted pea and caramelised onion pie with mustard mash and vegetables (£7.50). The pie itself was a pot pie, with the pastry top and filling possessing just the right amount of mint to complement the vegetables. And the mustard mash – wow. A minor niggle with this dish was the strangely mismatched cold side salad and lack of gravy but, overall, awesome.

So, dessert. The large portions of the previous course had done us in, so we opted for the sticky toffee pudding (£3.50) to share. The cake was, quite frankly, gorgeous with the right amount of sweetness and vanilla ice cream on the side. It would definitely have fooled any non-vegan into thinking they had just consumed all the animal products. Desserts vary day to day, but cheesecake is often on offer.

The pub will clearly be very inviting for vegans, as there is so much choice (‘fish’ and chips, sandwiches, creamy ‘cheese’ tarts, and burgers) but it shouldn’t put off vegetarians or meat eaters; they’ll be surprised if they brave it. Vegan Sunday roast, anyone? Harry Wilding 11 Mansfield Road, NG1 3FB. 0115 947 2152

Already pretty well fed, I went for the battered sausages with chips, beans and curry sauce for my main (£5.95). The chippy-style sausage is not something I’ve had since I was a meat-eating nine-year old, but my non-veggie friend concurred that it was pretty darn great. Good, wellbrowned chips too.

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Scorpio (24 Oct – 22 Nov) Your radical new look will cause heads to turn this week as complete strangers speed up their pace and avert their gaze to avoid any eye contact with you.

Taurus (21 Apr – 21 May) Look on the bright side: there are always people with bigger problems than yours and acting like you care about their problems can help you get laid.

Sagittarius (23 Nov – 22 Dec) They’ve taken to calling you a broken man; beaten, crushed, conquered, defeated, dispirited, hopeless and humiliated. But they do have access to a thesaurus.

Gemini (22 May – 22 June) People always say they believe the children are our future, but what they fail to mention is that it’s a future where android overlords feed on the blood of infants.

Capricorn (Dec 23 – Jan 19) Yes, your sibling’s new baby could be better looking, but that’s still not a good reason to sew it fully into the lining of Wish Bear from Care Bears the Movie.

Cancer (23 June – 23 July) After your third hospital visit in as many months you begin to lose faith in the abilities of your masseur.

Aquarius (20 Jan – 19 Feb) While it’s true that drugs are not the answer to any problem, if taken in large enough doses they can help you to forget exactly what your problems are.

Pisces (20 Feb – 20 Mar) The stars would like you to know that the brunette you’ve spent the last few evenings pointing them out to, starts conversations with clothes shop mannequins in House of Fraser when you’re not there.

Aries (21 Mar – 20 Apr) If that lightheaded, dreamy feeling is anything to go by, this might be a good time to stop donating blood.

Leo (24 July – 23 Aug) Turns out it’s not your strained family relationships that have been eating you up inside, but rather an eight-foot long tapeworm in your intestines.

Virgo (24 Aug – 23 Sept) There are many types of domestic dogs that are friendly, soft and do not attack humans.

You’re going to meet the other type this month.

Libra (24 Sept – 23 Oct) You always thought you’d make a doting, attentive father, but the private investigators hired by your ex-girlfriends have a very different view on the subject.

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Tucked within the school of science and technology on Clifton campus is the John van Geest Cancer Research Centre. This unique purpose-built facility hosts a team of world leading and first class scientists, who work to save lives and speed recovery through improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

100% of donations recieved by the centre are spent on life-saving, scientific research.

Plus, Castle Rock pubs will be fundraising throughout November, with gallons of beer to be won, and plenty of non-beery ways for you to get involved.

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Did you know that over 40,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year? So, funds raised through BROvember will be spent on improving diagnosis and treatments of prostate cancer. Help us help them Crack the Cancer Code!

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Nottingham's hub of craft beer, this unique pub has a canal inside the building, and one of the biggest beer gardens in the city centre 250+ bottled beers, 9 craft keg & 6 cask

EMBANKMENT

STUDENT WEDNESDAYS

20 p off pints

of house lager cider & ale

of house lager, Castle Rock b e e r &

&

just £7.50

cob & chips £4

The Castle Rock Brewery Tap, a no-nonsense, proper boozer The widest selection of Castle Rock beers in Notts Homemade Pub Grub Beer Garden Free Wi-Fi Brewery Tours Vat and Fiddle VatandFiddle @vatfiddle Queensbridge Road | NG2 1NB (1 min from train station)

LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER A student's secret: lots of beer, lots of spirits, a walled garden, and just a stroll from Victoria Centre

Beer Garden Lincolnshire Poacher

Free Wi-Fi @lincpoacher

Up to 12 cask & 5 craft keg Homemade burgers & Burritos

Live Music

@lincolnshirepoacher

Mansfield Road | NG1 3FR (a short stroll from vic centre)

www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk All offers only valid on production of student card or UNiDAYS app | Full terms & conditions apply

Reece Straw, BA (Hons) Fine Art

LAUNCH YOUR CREATIVE CAREER WITH AN ART AND DESIGN DEGREE

Find out how our undergraduate degree courses can help you to launch a successful creative career.

Courses available in:

Visit us:

• Animation, Graphic Design and Photography

Come and talk to us and our students at one of our open days in October, November or December.

• Costume, Theatre, Film and Television Design • Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design

Find out more at www.ntu.ac.uk/creative-career

• Fashion Management, Marketing and Communication • Fine and Decorative Arts BUR0921/09/2016