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May Contain Notts: June-July 2011
Mon 08 Aug 2011Genealogists work out that Barack Obama’s great-great grandfather ten times removed came from Sutton in Ashfield, and more
Left Brian: 2011/12 Season Preview
Fri 05 Aug 2011Forest failed to get out of the playoffs. Again. Old manager dumped, new manager promises better. Again. Initial foot-dragging over new signings. Again. Can Forest break the cycle this season?
Left Magpie: 2011-12 Notts County Season Preview
Fri 05 Aug 2011The good news: the Pies reached some kind of stability in 2011. The bad news: it was in the shape of a record-breaking losing streak. Can Martin Allen keep them up, or is it back to the basement?
LeftLion Magazine #42
Mon 01 Aug 2011Featuring Roxy Rob, Martin Allen, Mark Crossley, The Money, Michael Pinchbeck, Mark Patterson and your 2011/12 football season preview...
Gay Up Me Duck
Thu 28 Jul 2011With Pride taking place over the weekend, Troubled Diva (aka Mike Atkinson) takes us through Gay Nottingham past and present...
Future Session 4 - The Afterdark Movement
Thu 28 Jul 2011The Afterdark Movement, a hip hop/funk band so diverse they even get AC/DC fans rocking out to them at acoustic shows
Splendour 2011 in photos
Tue 26 Jul 2011Pics from Sunday at Wollaton Park with Blondie, Scissor Sisters, Eliza Doolittle, Cast, Feeder and some great Notts bands
Interview: Dog Is Dead
Mon 25 Jul 2011They smashed it at Glastonbury, ripped up the festival circuit, dropped a critically-acclaimed debut single and got a huge leg-up by the BBC this summer - so could Bridgford boys Dog Is Dead be the first Notts band in ages to take it to the next level?
Interview: Viv Anderson
Mon 18 Jul 2011"People ask me to try and compare Brian with Fergie... it’s very, very close but I’d say that Cloughie just pips Sir Alex"
Preview: Splendour 2011
Thu 14 Jul 2011Splendour: A day-long chunk of festie goodness, without the massive mobile phone adverts. And tents left behind by gormless students that blow across a field and upset some cows. And being in a different postcode to the nearest decent bog. Our Music Editor marks your card for this year’s event…
Captain Dangerous - Forgive Us We're British
Sun 10 Jul 2011Spangly new music video from I'm Not From London records
Interview: Deborah Stevenson
Thu 07 Jul 2011Deborah Stevenson left London to study in Nottingham and find her feet as a festival organiser, founder of Mouthy Poets and one of the UK’s most exciting spoken word acts – all filmed by Channel 4 as part of their Year Dot project. One year after the cameras stopped rolling, she’s still going from strength to strength…
FSN in the Market Square
Tue 28 Jun 2011Eleven new Notts acts play right in the centre of town in the semi-finals of the Future Sound of Nottingham contest
A Canadian At Your Barbeque
Thu 23 Jun 2011"Leonard Cohen wouldn’t tolerate frigging squeaky cheese on his grill, I can tell you that"
Interview: Spotlight Kid
Sat 18 Jun 2011Taking in members from Six By Seven, Bent, Model Morning and The Kull, Spotlight Kid are about to drop a new LP and play at Glastonbury. And, according to drummer Chris Heath and guitarist Rob McCleary, they’re the cockroaches of the Nottingham music scene...
Interview: The Nusic Team
Thu 16 Jun 2011Mark Del used to fly the flag for the Nottingham music scene with Trent FM, but now him and his team - including Arielle Bosworth and Liz Riordan - have linked up with LeftLion to drop Nusic, help take the local scene to the next level and - maybe, just maybe - get your band on the main stage at Splendour...
Interview: Dom Joly
Thu 16 Jun 2011Dom Joly’s CV is so studded with career highlights and downright randomness that his current incarnation – as a media-age raconteur and author – almost seems like downtime. On his way to the Playhouse to perform his one-man show, we collared him for a chat about mental ex-classmates, skiing in Iran, and everything in between...
Interview: Mick Newell
Thu 09 Jun 2011Summer’s here, and Notts County Cricket Club is defending their County Champions title. A lot of the credit for that goes to Mick Newell, the Outlaws’ highly-regarded director of cricket, and a man who could well be doing the same job for England in time…
May Contain Notts: April-May 2011
Mon 06 Jun 2011Des Coleman leaves the BBC, Panthers win the Elite Cup, man makes flamethrower and the Royal Wedding Nottingham-style
Interview: Patrick Smith of Veggies
Mon 06 Jun 2011If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, backin the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the SumacCentre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar debacle, and Mark Kennedy…
Interview: Darren Fletcher
Mon 06 Jun 2011Darren Fletcher is the Arnold lad who gets paid to go to the World Cup and the Super Bowl, gets his feet under assorted press boxes for Five Live, banters with the entire UK about footy and hosts the An Evening With... nights at the Approach. And he knows Robbie Savage...
Interview: Liam Bailey
Mon 06 Jun 2011He’s knocked about with Damian Marley and Aswad’s Brinsley Forde. His new album is produced by Salaam Remi, of Fugees and Nas fame. He’s been at No.5 with Chase and Status, he’s signed to Polydor, and Amy Winehouse has got his tea on. Yep, things have moved on a bit for Liam Bailey since he played LeftLion gigs back in the day, but he’s still proper Notts...
Interview: Tim Smith of Fourmost Films
Mon 06 Jun 2011Fourmost Films come from the Shop stable with a can-do attitude, a string of short films that have garnered attention from all over the place and a hunger to turn Nottingham into one of the hubs of the UK indie-film scene. Head honcho Tim Smith manages to drag his head from the edit suite long enough to spell out his masterplan…
Crocus Gallery Turns One
Mon 06 Jun 2011A Lenton shopping precinct might not be the first place you’d expect to find an art gallery - but for almost a year now, the Crocus Gallery has blossomed into a centre for the community and a chance for young artists to gain valuable work experience. We spoke to manager Allyn Mullholland, Exhibitions co-ordinator Alice-Georgina Thickett and curator Marie Drouin on the eve of the gallery’s first anniversary…
Interview: Marcus Clarke
Mon 06 Jun 2011Marcus Clarke and his wife Helena Smee have spent the last twenty years in a Sherwood house full of dismembered body parts. Calm down, Officer – they’re only keeping their hands in as one of the UK’s foremost puppet-based production companies with a list of credits as long as, well, your arm…