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Left Brian: January 2024

As grateful as I am for the chance to write about Forest in LeftLion each month, we seem to be in a period of the club’s history where even a daily column would struggle to cover all the various triumphs, tragedies, scandals and melodramas. So how to do this past month justice and resist the siren call of the bullet point list? Strap in, here goes...

Ballet Review: Sleeping Beauty at Royal Concert Hall

A traditional Fairy Tale ballet to dispel those January blues...

Festival Review: Backyard at The Bodega

Forming one of the best line-ups seen this year, seven bands took to the stage to bless the Nottingham music scene, while raising money for a great cause…

Gig Review: Fabio & Grooverider at Rock City

It sounds a little bit crazy: combining drum and bass with a live orchestra; putting that show on in rock venues around the country; inviting multiple MCs and DJs to an already crowded stage… but perhaps the best ideas are...

Toussaint Louverture: the Story Of the Only Successful Slave Revolt In History, an Illustrated Talk

Ossian Huskinson & Matthew Fletcher

Saad Qureshi: In Conversation

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal

Nt Live: Dear England

The Holdovers - Silver Screen

Emf

Artist Harry Mayston on Having His Work Exhibited at Surface Gallery

After graduating with a degree in fine art from Loughborough University, artist Harry Mayston went on to have his work exhibited in Surface Gallery’s recent exhibition Vessel after he, by chance, was asked to give the team behind the gallery a tour of the Loughborough School of Design and Creative Arts degree show. Following the exhibition, he tells us more about the nature of his piece Blue Things, which was made up of 76 cyanotype prints, and the plans he has for the future of his art practice…

Theatre Review: And Then There Were None at Theatre Royal

A new theatre adaptation of a classic Agatha Christie whodunnit. The original novel is the world's best-selling mystery and with over 100 million copies sold, one of the best-selling books of all time...

Theatre Interview: Witness for the Prosecution at the National Justice Museum

A courtroom drama performed in a real courtroom. Another great idea from local theatre company Your Chance Productions. Darren Paul Taylor and Connor Thomas, two of the show's stars, take LeftLion behind the curtain...

Holocaust Memorial Weekend 2024 at The National Holocaust Museum

This coming weekend, 27 and 28 January, The National Holocaust Museum opens its doors for what will doubtless be a powerful commemoration...

Motion for the Ocean: Nottingham City Council Votes to Back Campain Protecting Waterways

Nottingham City Council backs ambitious Motion for the Ocean to protect and improve local rivers and our ocean...

Gallery 47 + Katie Keddie

Brush Painting Workshop

Ncf Comedy Presents: Canalhouse Comedy Night

Saint Agnes

Open Mic Sponsored by Jack Daniels

Bryan Corbett Presents ‘ Instrumental Groove Unit’ [jazz/groove]

The Sleeping Souls & Seán McGowan

Notts' Hidden Library Could Be Expanding

Bromley House library, a subscription library founded over two hundred years ago, has just secured £70,000 to explore expanding its premises...

Director Aaron Trinder on His Documentary ‘Free Party: A Folk History’ - Which Features Nottingham's Own DiY Soundsystem

Free Party: A Folk History is a timely DIY indie film that follows the birth of the UK's free party movement from the late eighties and early nineties and the social, political and cultural impact it's had on our present times, with appearances from the founders of Nottingham’s very own DiY Soundsystem - but those of you who were lucky enough to go down to Broadway Cinema’s screening of the film back in November will already know this, of course. Director Aaron Trinder tells us about the process of obtaining footage for the documentary from a time before mobile phones and his own experiences of the free party movement…