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In this week's LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Luna & The Lime Slices, The Junipers, Jude Forsey and Kelsey & The Embers ...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #8: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 18 Oct 2024

In this week's bumper edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands, our team reviews new releases from Gender Envy, Set in Motion, The Chase, Marvin's Revenge, Cracked Hands, John Hardy and Stan Buckroyd...

In photos: Seb Lowe at Rescue Rooms, with The Guest List

Sun 06 Oct 2024

LeftLion's Latest Listens #7: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 04 Oct 2024

This week's edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team's picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands, features new releases from Bored Marsh, Jake Bugg, Jake Greener, Dorothy Ella & Gordon Parma, and Malin Hill...

Taylor Swift Listening Party: the Tortured Poets Department

Thu 03 Oct 2024

LeftLion's Latest Listens #6: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 27 Sept 2024

After a week off, LeftLion's Latest Listens is back with our music team's picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands. This time, we feature new releases from Drew Thomas, London Grammar, The Days of Tomorrow, The Publics and flöat...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #5: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 13 Sept 2024

LeftLion's Latest Listens #4: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 06 Sept 2024

In this week's edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team's picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands, we review new releases from Dark Bloom, ktlyle and Alex Blythe...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #3: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 30 Aug 2024

LeftLion's Latest Listens #2: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 23 Aug 2024

LeftLion's Latest Listens is our music team's picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands. This week, LeftLion listens to new releases from Purple Suns, Modern Coven, Sunflower Thieves, Bram Bancroft and Lace Thief...

LeftLion's Latest Listens: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 16 Aug 2024

Kicking off a new regular New Music review series, LeftLion's Latest Listens is our picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands. This week, LeftLion listens to new releases from Hollow Stone, Ben Blackadder, Molly Hindley and LYVIA.

GIRLBAND! talk to us about their rising fame, the Notts music scene and what they’re currently listening to

Mon 12 Aug 2024

Redefining alternative music and inclusivity, GIRLBAND! are smashing preconceptions with every release and live performance. Michael Prince recently spoke to the band for LeftLion…

Bestselling author Constanza Casati tells us about lions, dust and PTSD

Fri 21 Jun 2024

The twenty-nine year old author's mythological retelling 'Clytemnestra' was a Saturday Times bestseller - now she's back with the heroic follow-up, 'Babylonia'...

We caught up with her at Nottingham Waterstones ahead of her epic book tour earlier in the summer.

Paa Joe & the Lion - a Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah

Sun 16 Jun 2024

We speak to Benjamin Wigley, director of Paa Joe & the Lion ahead of Nottingham Poetry Festival

Mon 10 Jun 2024

Next year, Nottingham Poetry Festival will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. The longevity and success of the festival, which began as a project by Confetti and is now its own company, is an ode to Nottingham’s burgeoning poetry scene. This year, part of a jam-packed programme, is a screening of three films featuring poetry by the late, great, Benjamin Zephaniah. We spoke to the film's director and friend of Zephaniah, Benjamin Wigley, along with the festival’s creative director, Alma Solarte-Tobón.

Feedback Loop: Listening Session: Paul Stan Nataraj and Masimba Hwati

Sat 01 Jun 2024

Listening Session: Dave Haslam On Warm Leatherette

Tue 16 Apr 2024

Listening Session: a Conversation Between Carved Records by Masimba Hwati and Paul Stan Nataraj

Wed 07 Feb 2024

Tiger Community Hub - the Social Enterprise Livening Up Lister Gate with Love

Wed 09 Aug 2023

Tiger Community Hub is a big box retail unit with a difference. For one, they don't mind if you just come in and hog their heating whilst never spending a penny. Adam Pickering checks it out and chats to Founder and resident idea factory, Toni Jarvis.