The Thompsons on street art, Rocky Horror, and Notts venues

Street Art

If it’s done well, we don’t mind but if it's done badly it’s just horrible. Art is art though - we went to the Tate Modern and said ‘I’ve never seen so much junk in all my life’. If it’s just on empty buildings, do it tastefully. If it’s just vandalism it’s horrible. We’d like to know who does it all. You’ve got to be brave because it's all a bit close to the line isn’t it. When we have Sherwood Art Week you get all these knitted things popping up on postboxes. Make a jumper, by all means, but don’t knit something for a postbox.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

We went to see the Rocky Horror Show at the theatre recently. We had some friends from Yorkshire who wanted to go. We said, do you know what it’s about, and they said no - so we said where have you been all your life! But we’re convinced that the shouting from the audience is planted. A man said to us all you need to bring is a newspaper, a light, a Kit-Kat and a piece of toast. We said what’s the toast for? And he said well, halfway through they say, ‘Let’s have a toast!’ It was very, very good and we ended up going twice.

Nottingham venues

We said recently how amazing it is for Nottingham, as such a small city - we’ve got the Theatre Royal, the Concert Hall, the ice stadium, Rock City, and the Playhouse. It’s a lot of venues for a small city, and if there’s something on everywhere you can’t get a parking space for love nor money. The best thing about the theatre being built was that Market Street didn’t exist, and they built it so you’d look up from the Square and have a perfect view. It’s a marvellous theatre. When the Council took it over, they did a very good job.