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LeftLion Magazine #36

Featuring Billy Ivory, Simeon Hartwig, Portraits of a City, Football season previews, Terry from Programme World and more...

Interview: Jane Streeter

"I hoped someone would open a bookshop so that I could get a part-time job. That someone turned out to be me"

Interview: Arsher Ali

"I hope Chris Morris becomes one of those cliquey British directors, because I would be part of that clique"

Incognito Masked Ball - The Maze

Red bull X fighters

Extreme freestyle motorcross hit Old Market Square recently, check out the pics

Interview: Nina Smith

“The organiser of the event interrupted my set halfway through to ask if anyone had ordered a sausage cob“

Interview: Ronika

"I’m gonna ride in on a deer, and hopefully get the stuffed gorilla from Wollaton Hall on stage for a dance"

Interview: Joe Dempsie

Joe Dempsie from Skins is doing a fundraiser for The Television Workshop next week. Here's an interview with the man himself...

Katie Half-Price read Make Less Strangers

I've got a massive pair of tits and I can read. LOL! Why don't yeh come and learn someink about lichrature...

Sugarhill Gang

Photos from the rap legends show at Spanky Van Dyke's

Exit Through The Record Shop

We went to the launch of an exhibition of art on vinyl at OhMyGosh records

LeftLion Radio: World Cup Special

Nish and The K - BACK! And they're bleddy World Cup MAD

Interview: Armando Iannucci

"It was great to be given the award. Though it’s slightly worrying in a way, because you start to think; is that it? Does that mean there’s not going to be anything else? Will it be all downhill from here?"

Interview: Sticky

"Your body is a temple. But it’s the only temple where you have to wear your trainers"

A Canadian on Old England

"The English flag is the tapas of national flags; the more added bits, the better"

Interview: Kasper Schmeichel

" I’ll follow Notts forever, always look for their results and come back and visit a few times"

May Contain Notts: April-May 2010

Overview of the last two months with: Carl Froch, Alan Sillitoe, elections, bus fare rises, the new Robin Hood film and the Ladyboys of Bangkhok

LeftLion Magazine #35

Featuring Sticky, Kasper Schmeichel, Armando Iannucci, Arsher Ali, and your free World Cup wallchart...

Aah Ter Talk Notts

A starter course on the greatest accent in the world 

Geek Mythology #3 - Wrestling

There's no other 'sport' out there that blends such high-level Gonzo weirdness with impressive feats of agility and strength than wrestling

Interview: Mark Addy

"You wouldn’t recognise the Nottingham that was created for the film - Marks and Spencers is in a completely different place"

AFI live at Rock City

Alt-punk-hardcore band AFI were in Nottingham on their comeback tour, check out the photos

Notts County 5 Cheltenham Town 0

Notts County finished their final home game of the season in style, with five goals and a Championship party at Meadow Lane

Alan Sillitoe: 1928-2010

"Unquestionably the greatest writer to emerge from the region, and certainly one of the master storytellers of his generation"

Alan Sillitoe: His Final Interview

In the Summer of 2008 our Literature Editor James Walker met up with legendary writer Alan Sillitoe for a cuppa and a chat at Broadway. It was fifty years since his breakthrough novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning had been published, so we decided to devote a whole issue to this seminal work. At the time we didn’t realise this was the last interview he would ever give. It’s an honour to have had that privilege and to know that he read our magazine...