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Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at the Angel Microbrewery

Sun 20 Aug 2017

Fuzzbox, I'm Not From London's night of garage rock, garage punk, freakbeat, surf rock and New York punk, returns to The Angel Microbrewery and so we headed down to check it out...

Street Tales: Shelford Tommy

Sun 20 Aug 2017

Nottingham has always boasted its fair share of local characters, legends and eccentrics. People like Benjamin Mayo, and more recent contenders like Frank Robinson, affectionately known as Xylophone Man, will go down in Nottingham history...

Music Video: The DandyLions - Pick & Mix

Sat 19 Aug 2017

Sugary glam-rock from the Future Sound of Nottingham finalists...

Art Works: Shane Buckingham

Fri 18 Aug 2017

The local artist reveals how drawing is a welcome "side effect" of his brain injury...

Talking Diversity and Kemet FM's Tenth Birthday with Jackie P

Fri 18 Aug 2017

Jackie P has been a radio DJ and presenter for over seven years. A stalwart of Nottingham’s music scene, she presents The Breakfast Show on Kemet FM, who’ve been celebrating their tenth birthday this year by hosting a series of events, with lineups boasting everyone from Bobby Valentino to Sweet Female Attitude. In celebration of the radio station that champions urban music and the culture of Nottingham’s African and Caribbean communities, we grabbed the legendary presenter for a natter about her place within the city’s institution...

Sarah Maple's Not My Cup of Tea at New Art Exchange

Fri 18 Aug 2017

We got down to Hyson Green to check out the latest art exhibition on offer...

Live Music Review: The Flaming Lips at Rock City

Thu 17 Aug 2017

The Flaming Lips come to Rock City and bring more inflatables than you'd see at a children's birthday party...

LL Stereo: With Bru-C, Katie Cooper, April Towers and more...

Thu 17 Aug 2017

What you need in your ear holes this month...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Thu 17 Aug 2017

It's a cultural one this weekend, so get stuck in and see what's happenin'...

Nottingham 2023 European Capital of Culture Bid Launch at Sneinton Market in Photos

Wed 16 Aug 2017

Ayup Notts, it’s possible that we’re about to become the next tourist hotspot for all them tourists looking to get a little more creativity in their lives. Nottingham’s Cultural Strategy Partnership (CSP) announced its bid to become a European Capital of Culture 2023… in a giant light-up inflatable structure – otherwise known as a luminarium – no less...

Nusic Podcast #160 with As December Falls, Gallery 47, Kelsey Shaw and more

Wed 16 Aug 2017

Get your lugholes around this badboy...

Rescue Rooms Beer Festival

Wed 16 Aug 2017

"Shave the head off the top, duck"

The Lincolnshire Poacher's Brother From Another

Wed 16 Aug 2017

27 years ago, a sweet pub friendship blossomed. To this day, The Lincolnshire Poacher up Mansfield Road, and In De Wildeman in ‘Dam are twinned like the brotherly boozers they are, so we hopped across the pond and through the seasons, to search for the answers behind the bond. And for a couple of swift ones...

Notts County vs Everton U21

Wed 16 Aug 2017

With Everton U21s in town, our Gav headed off to Meadow Lane to check out the Checkatrade Trophy match and to get some opinions on whether these youth teams should be in the competition at all.

Art Works: Sophie Johnson-Hill

Tue 15 Aug 2017

The illustrator and animator on the beauty of a child's imagination. N'aww...

Theatre Review: Holloway Jones

Tue 15 Aug 2017

Teen crime drama packs a punch

9 Albums You Have To Listen To This Month

Mon 14 Aug 2017

With Yazmin Lacey, Little Barrie, Jimi Mack and more...

Lucy Does Burlesque

Mon 14 Aug 2017

There’ve been several times in my life when my mouth has signed me up to something before my brain has had the chance to work it out. Nominating myself to be school-council representative in year seven was disastrous for my street cred, and stepping up to the Ayia Napa boat party drinking competition went as successfully as one can imagine. Now, for the entertainment of you lot, I agreed to attend a burlesque class and write about my experience for dear old LeftLion. Why?

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Sun 13 Aug 2017

There's nuff stuff to do for the kids, the grown ups, and all those in between, this week...

It's A Pie for a Pie at Pieminister

Sun 13 Aug 2017

Mine’s a Moo. A Moo and Blue.

Advertising Sectioned: “It’s the local sound… and it’s all yours!” (BBC Radio Nottingham, 1979)

Sat 12 Aug 2017

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history...

A Word With the Beasts Behind Wild Boar Books

Sat 12 Aug 2017

New pigs on the block, Lincolnshire-based indie press Wild Boar Books, boast some proper weird, proper original releases. We thought we’d hit up our neighbours, and snorted in the direction of founders and editors Guy and Richard about the Midlands lit scene, gold star awards, and anti-establishment, porcine publishing...

In Focus: Mellonie Page

Fri 11 Aug 2017

Conscious, funky and unsigned, Mellonie Page aka Mellonie Williams, has gorra sound that moves between reggae-gospel and seventies soul, her Mother-Earthly voice in tow. You might have clocked her down Nottingham Contemporary launching her most recent album, Back to the Garden, or covering reggae classics alongside The Ites Band down Southbank. This month, she’s got a new single out – Women Women – and will be gigging all over the shop, so keep your tabs pricked for that nostalgic voice and them positive vibes.

Dan Hardy To Become Sky Sports Regular

Fri 11 Aug 2017

With the billion dollar super fight between Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor breathing down our necks, MMA fans throughout the world have been hit with some knockout news...