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Young At Art
Next month, a first-of-its-kind event will take place in Nottingham. The World Event Young Artists (WEYA for short) is a brand new initiative that aims to showcase a selection of the most talented...
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Links Roundup: Carnivals, Craft and Culture Cloud
Image from BBC.co.uk As always, there’s lots happening in Nottingham over the next few weeks. Here are just a few things going on: Model Me at Nottingham Contemporary – Inspired by the Francis...
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My creative space – Mark Graham
The next installment of our Creative Workspace series takes us down by the Embankment, to visit Mark JW Graham, songster and tutor. A songster and tutor? *intrigued* Tell us what it is that you do I’m...
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October countdown
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/listings.cfm/title/lace-here-now-at-the-bonington-gallery-on-01-09-2012/id/47163 It seems to have been a regular occurrence this year – one month ends and we look to the next...
View ArticleBridgford Bop – bringing the dance floor to the doorstep
We all like to believe that clubbing is inclusive and doesn’t discriminate against age, race or class, but in reality clubs are incredibly tribal, and once you hit 30, its unbelievably difficult to...
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The Rest is Propaganda: Celebrating Alan Sillitoe
“Illegitimi non carborundum” , in literati Latin, or ”Don’t let the bastards grind you down”, as Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of “Saturday Night Sunday Morning” would translate into more local tones....
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Well hello there and welcome to the ramblings of a local musical entreprenuer….
Photo credit: Neil Marshall from Distinct Perception Right in the middle of an ill-fated long distance relationship with a self-proclaimed Nancy Boy from Norwich many, many years ago, the question...
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Stop! Undercutting your rivals is ruining your industry!
Photo credit: Neil Marshall from Distinct Perception The first money I ever made from sound work was £20. This was whilst shadowing the senior engineer who had decided for the last band that he would...
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Keep on rocking in the free world! An insight into the organisation of an...
All innovation starts with one crazy idea and what better, crazier idea have you you ever heard than starting up an independent music festival? Sometime back in the early Naughties Kate Moss et al made...
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Birthday guest blog by Parisa Eliyon: Acoustickle
Wow, four years feel like four months, not least of all cos the skin around my eyes has gotten significantly saggier in this time and I’m only 26. We could probably dedicate these laughter lines to...
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Links Round-Up: Lights, Gamelan, Actions
Checking my Mailbox by Woodleywonderworks www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2866289715(our inbox is not this tidy) It is a mixed pleasure, processing the email inbox here at Creative Towers, but this week...
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Not in Kansas anymore…
Now, we’ll confess it upfront, many of us here at Creative Towers don’t get to the theatre very often. So when we spotted that our Twitter pal Kimberley Tew had been offered free tickets to go and see...
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From Hollywood to Bestwood: Industry Comes to Town
Ok, I’ll be honest – I totally lifted that headline from Notts TV. But, you know what they say – good artists copy, and great artists… etc etc! Confetti Institute of Creative Industries has been a...
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Links round up – books, hustles and wedding cakes
Today I finally make it to an event for the Festival of Words. And then another. And another. And another. I’ve been saving them up… But seriously, there have been some great workshops and talks going...
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We welcome back the Malt Cross
Welcome We paid a visit to the newly refurbished Malt Cross this afternoon. Closed over the summer for a £1.38 million Lottery funded revamp, Nottingham’s Victorian music hall has been undergoing some...
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Rough Trade open new shop on Broad street
What do the people of Nottingham, New York and Brick Lane, London all have in common. Well, we all have a new Rough Trade shop. Though, shop is probably not an accurate description of the place. Rough...
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