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The Waterfront Festival 2012 in photos

We announce the total raised for charity and look back on a great day out with hundreds of photos

Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square

Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...

Poddingham #26: Summertime,Poddingham

Art Works: Michael Cowell

"There is nothing more satisfying than lifting the screen off that final print to discover that you actually got most of them right"

The Best Caves in Nottingham

The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey

King Bong: The Xylophone Man

Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?

Art Works: The Shopping List Project by Rosie MacLennan

"There is something so precious about this casually discarded piece of life detailing so much about a household’s existence, it’s an incredible celebration of the routines of life"

Interview: Hetain Patel

Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...

Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey

Whether it was for living space, work, shelter or punishment, our ancestors were obsessed with going underground, with over five hundred caves dotted across the city. They’re all being catalogued by the Nottingham Caves Survey - and according to Project Leader David Strange-Walker, putting a sledgehammer through a pub door has
never been more educational...

Future Sound of Nottingham 2012 in photos

Photos from the contest featuring Joe Danks, Tom Wardle, In The Northwood, Crash Jacket, The Species and eventual winners The Afterdark Movement

LIVE: Captain Dangerous album launch

The string section opened with a spine tingling beautiful chord progression, before bursting into Eye Of The Tiger (aka the theme from Rocky)

A Canadian On The Diamond Jubilee

"Canadians pay more to support the Queen per person than the Brits do. Let me say that again: Canadians pay more. Not less. Not an equal share. More."

Interview: Captain Dangerous

Captain Dangerous’s debut LP The Empire Never Ended is six years in the making. And if you’ve ever lobbed a couple of bob in lead singer Adam Clarkson’s hat, congratulations - you’ve paid towards it...

LeftLion Magazine #47

Featuring Underground Notts, Natalie Duncan, Justin Fashanu, Jake Bugg, Hetain Patel and a free Euro 12 wallchart...

Dot To Dot 2012

"Come and see your new favourite band in the afternoon, have a few beers, and then come back and see your current favourite band"

Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero

"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"

Interview: Pirate Technics

Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...

Art Works: Grand Central Station by Anna Griffin

"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"

Interview: Derren Brown

Master of magic, mind control and manipulation; Derren Brown has made an international career of persuading people to think and do things they otherwise would not. So when we asked him if he fancied an interview with LeftLion, before the Notts leg of his Svengali tour, we were elated and yet filled with trepidation when he said “yes”…

2nd Nottingham Zine Fair

It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May

Interview: Jenny Sealey

Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.

Interview: Graham Coxon

Graham Coxon will be seeing off the Olympics with  his old band in the summer, but not before swinging through town to promote new LP A + E at the Rescue Rooms this April...

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical

Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical

This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…

The Maze 15th Birthday Extravaganza in photos

LeftLion and I'm Not from London last Saturday with Just James, Seas of Mirth, The Austin Francis Connection and 25 Past The Skank