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Poddingham Presents... Nina Smith,Poddingham

An early Christmas present for you all, courtesy of the Poddingham team

Behind the scenes: LeftLion #44 photoshoot 4

Gallery 4 of 4 from the LeftLion #44 cover shoot, this time Jemma Cox was on photo duties

SOLD OUT: The Notts Music Photo

Your chance to buy a 16 x 12 inch high-quality copy of the LeftLion Notts Music Photo that adorns the cover of Issue 44

Bantum TV: With Will of I'm Not From London

Our cheeky roving reporter Simeon catches Will Robinson with his trousers down

The Revamped Sneinton Market and Orchard

"Even if people don't respond to art, they can understand and enjoy an apple tree in blossom"

Bantum TV: With Nina Smith and Lou from Royal Gala

What happens when Simeon Bantum, Jared LeftLion, Lou from Royal Gala and Nina Smith all get together in a girls toilet?

Interview: Will Robinson of I'm Not From London

Riots, cagefighting, Hollywood actresses, ghost buses, Mexican wrestling and contracts signed in blood. It's all in a night's work for promoter Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London Label...

Behind the scenes: LeftLion #44 photoshoot 3

I'm Not From London Photoshoot

Ralph Barklam went on the buses with Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London label

Behind the scenes: LeftLion #44 photoshoot 2

The second in our 'behind the scenes' galleries of the cover shoot involving nearly 500 of the city's musicians - this time by Ralph Barklam

Behind the scenes: LeftLion #44 photoshoot

When we took on the mammoth task of getting nearly 500 Notts musicians into one photograph, Carla Mundy was at Rock City to document it

LeftLion Photographer teams up with Paul Smith

Our boy David Baird creates limited edition series of music prints to be sold on the Paul Smith website in aid of The Music Exchange

LeftLion Magazine #44

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

City centre protest - in pictures

Jitterbug in Photos

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

Interview: Smallkid

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

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

Gunpowder, Treason and Pot in photos

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

Interview: Johnny Crump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…