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LeftLion Magazine #44

Thu 01 Dec 2011

The Nottingham music special featuring I'm Not From London, Chris Summerlin, The Grey Topper, Hot Japanese Girl, Captain Dangerous, Baby Godzilla, Kirk Spencer, Docta D and DJ Razor, Roger Caney, Manière des Bohémiens, Harleighblu, The Maze and The Chameleon, Trent Sound and more...

Public sector strikes

Thu 01 Dec 2011

City centre protest - in pictures

Jitterbug in Photos

Fri 25 Nov 2011

Photo action from Jitterbug, Nottingham's vintage loving electro swing night

Interview: Smallkid

Sun 20 Nov 2011

From creating iconic flyers for Detonate to massive pieces at Glastonbury, Nathan Bainbridge - under the nom de spray of Kid 30 (Smallkid) – has become one of the city’s premier street artists. Here’s a chance to have a nose through his scrapbook...

Sounddhism at the Bodega

Wed 09 Nov 2011

Photos from live performances by Zero DB, Harleighblu, Kirk Spencer and more

Gunpowder, Treason and Pot in photos

Sun 06 Nov 2011

Photos of Chester P Hackenbush, Johnny Crump, Debris Stevenson, The Lambhorse Cabaret, Nottingham’s ‘Mr Sex’ Al Needham and more

Interview: Johnny Crump

Wed 02 Nov 2011

Johnny Crump is a turntablist-stroke-producer-stroke-artist who be flexing his considerable skills live at our Gunpowder, Treason and Pot night at Nottingham Contemporary this November…

Interview: Nottingham Panther's Jeff Heerema and Rob Lachowicz

Wed 02 Nov 2011

While Forest and County bumble along in their respective (lower) divisions, the most successful professional sports team in Nottingham quietly goes about its business of hoovering up trophies left and right – and this season they’re making a serious run at winning their first league title since 1955. They’re your Nottingham Panthers, and two
of them – right-winger Jeff Heerema from Thunder Bay, Ontario and left-winger Rob Lachowicz from Wollaton – had a word with us…

Interview: Mimm's Nathaniel Coltrane

Wed 02 Nov 2011

Mimm: it’s a clothes shop. And an art gallery. And a record label. And a club night. And according to owner Nathaniel Coltrane, it’s only just started…

The Bothy: A Short Story by Niki Valentine

Mon 31 Oct 2011

Niki Valentine - formerly Monaghan - releases her fourth novel, The Haunted, this October, just in time for Halloween. The tale of a couple holidaying in the Scottish Highlands that takes a turn for the worst, this bonus extract not available in the novel is just a taster...

Interview: The Lambhorse Cabaret

Sat 29 Oct 2011

The Lambhorse Cabaret: 21st century vaudeville for the theatrical underclass, a party like it’s 1889, or a gloriously elaborate arse-about through the city’s biggest dressing-up box? Time to ask founder and Ringmaster Mark Evans who he and his confederates think they are…

Preview: GameCity6

Tue 25 Oct 2011

If you want to go somewhere to stand with a load of people and play games, get yourself down to the Forest for Goose Fair and try to catapault a manky rubber frog onto a rotating lilypad, for a keyring of Donny Osmond that says ‘Justin Beeber’. If you care about videogaming and where its heading, on the other hand, happy days; GameCity is back...

Interview: Missimp

Mon 24 Oct 2011

After over a decade of high-energy improvised comedy shows, Nottingham’s very own MissImp now have a regular residency at Glee. Nick Tyler, Lloydie, Marilyn Bird and Martin Findell are four of the group’s regular performers; they spoke to us in the style of… (opens envelope) a dead pop star who has…(opens another envelope) just found out that their dad has had a sex change…

ArtWorks: The Time Freeze Fan Club

Thu 20 Oct 2011

"The fact that we somewhat resemble the original cast is only due to the impact this show had on our lives"

Occupy Nottingham

Thu 20 Oct 2011

The protest camp in the Market Square

Hyson Green Flats - On The Flats Project

Tue 18 Oct 2011

For a lot of people Hyson Green Asda is all they’ve ever known when they go down Radford Road. But way back when, it was home to one of Nottingham’s best-known landmarks

Art Works: Paperworks by Hannah Lobley

Sat 15 Oct 2011

"This is all down to a book I once accidentally left out in the rain"

LeftLion Abroad

Tue 11 Oct 2011

It's like taking a little bit of Nottingham on holiday with you

A Canadian at Goose Fair

Wed 05 Oct 2011

We dispatched our resident CanAlien Rob Cutforth off to Goose Fair, and told him not to come back without a slab of coconut ice, some brandy snap and an Elvis mirror...

So, you know your way around a QR code then?

Sun 02 Oct 2011

So, while you're here you might as well have a look at some of the things that we can't cram into a printed magazine, like our selection of:

LeftLion Magazine #43

Sat 01 Oct 2011

Featuring Goose Fair, The Lambhorse Cabaret, Kid 30, The Austin Francis Connection, the Nottingham Panthers, Mimm, Niki Valentine, and sex advice from the Fish Man...

Sounddhism - First year in photos

Thu 29 Sept 2011

Featuring DJ Format, Simbad, Jehst, Royal Gala, Submotion Orchestra, The Correspondents, 1st Blood, Epworth, Natalie Duncan, Liam Bailey, The Elementz, Monosonicos, DJ Switch and more