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Interview:Geoff Diego Litherland

Sun 01 Feb 2009

"It’s not about there being a right or wrong. It’s about embracing the preposterousness of everything"

May Contain Notts: Dec 2008 - Jan 2009

Sun 01 Feb 2009

Forest appoint a former Derby manager, Christmas school plays ge cancelled, Carl Froch wins the WBC belt and a guy from The Spectator gets the arse with Notts

LeftLion Magazine #27

Sun 01 Feb 2009

Featuring Alexei Sayle, The gangs of Nottingham, Notts Credit Crunch, Mista Jam, Stephen Wright, Stephen Lowe and Geoff Diego Litherland.

LIVE: Detonate

Sat 31 Jan 2009

Expensive drinks, messy people, Dubstep, drum and bass, drum and bass and yet more drum and bass

The Wrestler

Sun 25 Jan 2009

Mickey Rourke has had high acclaim for his part in this film and it isn’t hard to see why, there is a delicate subtlety to his performance

StuPod #2

Thu 22 Jan 2009

The long-awaited return of the best student podcast in Notts - with added Nottingham-speak and tunes ahoy

Stupod #2,Stupod

Mon 19 Jan 2009

The long-awaited return of the best student podcast in Notts - with added Nottingham-speak and tunes ahoy

If you've never seen In Bed With Chris Needham, I feel both sorry and jealous of you. The former because it is unquestionably the greatest TV programme ever, and the latter because one day you will see it with fresh eyes. It's the kind of programme that makes you want to club yourself into amnesia so you can see it for the first time again and again

Interview: The Cockleman

Wed 31 Dec 2008

"I'm not too keen on the whelks meself, but they’re very good for keeping your wife quiet for a bit"

Crappest Jobs in Nottingham

Wed 31 Dec 2008

Crap jobs in the City of Nottingham, 600AD - 2008AD: A Retrospective

A Canadian in New Basford and the Goth Plumber

Mon 29 Dec 2008

"If you’ve got a coffin in the back of the hearse, that helps. You do get some strange looks though when you’ve got a bath in there"

Interview: Public Enemy's Chuck D

Mon 29 Dec 2008

"The Nottingham crowd went bonkers. And we was like, oh, shit!"

24-Hour Arty People

Mon 29 Dec 2008

BritFilms gathered 30 film crews and set them the task of creating and delivering a short film in just 24 hours. LeftLion were there to follow one plucky team throughout
the process, blogging live via mobile phone. Here’s what happened...

Diabolical Liberty's

Mon 29 Dec 2008

Alison Emm came to Nottingham to sample our vibrant and eclectic nightlife. But before that, she worked at the very crucible of Binge Britain...

Interview: Thompson Brothers

Mon 22 Dec 2008

"We’ve seen the world. We’ve been to Ireland and we’ve been to Crete, and we don’t want to see the rest"

The Ice Rink

Tue 09 Dec 2008

"Skating round in a circle for three quarters of an hour is a lot more fun than it should be"

Interview: Carl Froch

Sun 07 Dec 2008

The legendary British Boxer, in a LeftLion interview from 2005...

Petebox

Fri 05 Dec 2008

Local beatboxing legend the Petebox packed out the Rescue Rooms on Tuesday 25 November on a rare home date

Poddingham #2

Wed 03 Dec 2008

An all-singing, all-dancing LeftLion New Years Eve special with guests Old Basford, The Money, Vinyl Abort and Alright The Captain

Samantha Morton at Broadway Cinema

Mon 01 Dec 2008

"I spoke in a really broad Notts accent when I met Woody Allen, you can take the girl out of Notts, but you can’t take the Notts out of the girl"

P Brothers

Mon 01 Dec 2008

"You have to have a strong reason for putting any kind of music out there, don’t just dash it out for the sake of it!"

The Orphanage Drop In The Ocean Festival Built

Mon 01 Dec 2008

We paid a visit to Cambodia and the children’s shelter in Phnom Penh that your beer money from the Drop In The Ocean Festival helped to build…

Why I Became A Magpie

Mon 01 Dec 2008

When I walk my dog on the local park every day I try not to become too disheartened by the number of kids wearing Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool shirts