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Interview: Chuck Palahniuk

"Every book represents a portion of your life, kind of like a scrapbook. Fight Club is like reading a journal from fifteen years ago"

Nottingham Playhouse Turns Sixty

Nottingham Playhouse: into its sixtieth year, and more than just the building that wears the Sky Mirror like a big earring

A Canadian in New Basford Does Alternative Freshers Week

An alternative freshers' week, designed to help students blend in with the locals. Each day, you will take on the habits of a local...

Students Who Stayed

Apparently, Nottingham has the highest level of student retention in the UK – our students are more likely to stay here after they graduate than anywhere else. Lazy-arsed wasters trying to cling onto their halcyon days of cheap booze, or indisputable proof that Nottingham is ace? We spoke to three people who decided to stick around after their course…

May Contain Notts: Aug-Sept 2008

Robin Hood quits, Council buy Jaguars, Adlington wins gold medal, DG installs CCTV, 73-year-old jailed for concrete attack and Forest fans banned

LeftLion Magazine #25

Featuring Des Coleman, Chuck Palahniuk, Late Of The Pier, Notts For The Faint-Hearted, Nottingham Playhouse, Pixel Perfect and more. 

Interview: Vent Media

"When it comes to VJing, I haven’t got a problem with cutting up films that people know because it is just like musical sampling"

Preview: Hockley Hustle 2008

LeftLion's top ten recommendations of bands and artists you should check out at Hockley Hustle 2008 (apart from those at our gig of course)...

Interview: Jimmy Sirrel

Legendary Notts County manager Jimmy Sirrel has died. Here's an interview we did with him last year...

Bar Wars: Revenge of the Staff

This is what happens when you piss off the bar staff on a Saturday night...

Street art photos from Tom Quigley

Tania Glyde on Binge Drinking

"We must be one of the few societies in the world where two people can go on a first date, get so drunk they puke and end up getting married"

May Contain Notts: June-July 2008

Kris Commons and Robert Earnshaw swap clubs, NTU unveil Parky as new Chancellor, Steve Green retires

S. Mark Gubb

"The eighties was possibly one of the crappest decades, with The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, the miners strike, Thatcher’s Britain..."

Can You Finish Your Drinks, Please?

"It seems that every initiative taken by the government runs into the brick wall of our ingrained desire to get kaylide"

Interview: Sir Ian McKellen on Playing Arthur Seaton

Before becoming a national treasure, Sir Ian McKellen was the first actor to play Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’s Arthur Seaton on stage. He did this as part of the Nottingham Playhouse’s inaugural season in 1963-64. It was in a ten-week run that rammed out the new building and delighted critics and audiences alike…

LeftLion Magazine #24

The Saturday Night Special - our full-mag tribute to the 50th anniversary of Alan Sillitoe's landmark novel. Featuring the last ever interview with Alan Sillitoe, Sir Ian McKellen, Tania Glyde, Nichola Monaghan and Liberty's bar.

A Canadian In New Basford on Recession

"I look at these people and think, 'God, how can I be unemployed when that dude's got a job?'"

LeftLion Magazine #23

Featuring Chris Needham, The Thompson Brothers, THePETEBOX, 24-hour film festival, rubbish jobs in Notts, and more.

Interview: The Petebox

"My relationship with beatboxing is a strange one; sometimes I love it, and sometimes it bores the hell out of me"

Leftlion Presents May 2008

Interview: King Henry

"People can view the book as a vile pornographic kill-fest, or a satirical comedy, joyously fisting contemporary English culture. I really don't care."

May Contain Notts: April-May 2008

Mansfield Town to become Harchester United, Arena sells out, Nottingham Eye is up, Capital One staff get p45s and more

Cult - Kubiks and Lomax

Interview: Sorrel Muggridge

"I have a sense of how long a minute is, and how long a mile is, but I don’t have any sense of what 3478 miles feels like"