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Oh Nottingham, Is Full of Fun

If you want to let out a primal scream these days you have to do it under controlled conditions or else the locals think you’re nuts...

The Regeneration Game

Gabrielle Morgan discusses what it's like to live in an ongoing building site...

LeftLion New Years Eve 2008

Interview: Neville Staple

"There’s probably loads of stuff I’ve said on stage and regretted, but I just can’t remember any of it"

A Canadian in New Basford on Trent FM

"I thought James Blunt fans were rare, but a Posh Spice fan? Give me strength!"

Interview: Cappo

"There are always hurdles to overcome, but this album has been in the pipeline for two years. I’ve been making beats and filing them away"

Miles Hunt: A Songwriter's Tale

"I have to come clean; in my formative years I showed absolutely no promise as a songwriter whatsoever..."

Shop Will Eat Itself

Nottingham, as you may have been told a million times or so, is a ‘Retail Mecca’. But is that necessarily a good thing, and what does it actually mean?

Guy Barker Orchestra - the Amadeus Project

Left of the Dealer and Freaky Riverstyx

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2007

Chocolate makers go to war, Nightbus service axed, Notts County sack Steve Thompson and a Notts nazi sympathiser is revealed

LeftLion Magazine #20

Featuring Neville Staple of The Specials, Shopping, Cappo, Nottingham hiphop, Miles Hunt, Loay Hady, Notts Xmas Decorations, New Years Eve and more.

Interview: Duncan Hamilton

The winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 talks to the 'Lion about his experiences with Brian Clough...

La La Lepus, Sidecar Swampy and My Dark Star Eyes

Manu Chao

Interview: Paul Kaye and Jonathan Glazer

"We just had the time of our lives. Studying art here was amazing in every respect, creatively, sexually and alcoholically"

Nuclear Family and Vinyl [Abort]

A Brief History of Nottingham Rugby

A Brief History of or local rugby team, plus interviews withe three current players Tom Barlow, Ben Thompson and Daniel Montegu...

Live Jazz: Kirk Lightsey Trio

Interview: Matt Haig

To celebrate World Mental Health Day we interviewed Matt Haig. Author of The Dead Fathers Club, a book which deals with a young child's grief...

Cappo Directories Commentry Mixtape Launch Night

Interview: Nuclear Family

'It’s not a question of a man and a woman, and children, more a question of a group of human beings, in a mutual bond'

Miles Hunt

He's bringing Erica Nockalls along with him to the Rescue Rooms, so we caught up for a quick chat

Rugby Union

We have a chat with some of the Nottingham RFC lads

Interview: Looch

What do you think of when you hear the phrase "mentalist?"