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LeftLion Magazine #24

The Saturday Night Special - our full-mag tribute to the 50th anniversary of Alan Sillitoe's landmark novel. Featuring the last ever interview with Alan Sillitoe, Sir Ian McKellen, Tania Glyde, Nichola Monaghan and Liberty's bar.

A Canadian In New Basford on Recession

"I look at these people and think, 'God, how can I be unemployed when that dude's got a job?'"

LeftLion Magazine #23

Featuring Chris Needham, The Thompson Brothers, THePETEBOX, 24-hour film festival, rubbish jobs in Notts, and more.

Interview: The Petebox

"My relationship with beatboxing is a strange one; sometimes I love it, and sometimes it bores the hell out of me"

Leftlion Presents May 2008

Interview: King Henry

"People can view the book as a vile pornographic kill-fest, or a satirical comedy, joyously fisting contemporary English culture. I really don't care."

May Contain Notts: April-May 2008

Mansfield Town to become Harchester United, Arena sells out, Nottingham Eye is up, Capital One staff get p45s and more

Cult - Kubiks and Lomax

Interview: Sorrel Muggridge

"I have a sense of how long a minute is, and how long a mile is, but I don’t have any sense of what 3478 miles feels like"

Anarchy in the City by Nichola Monaghan

"First we knew about it was the papers, saying a bunch of organised anarchists were targeting the City. You’ve got to giggle at that. Organised ones?"

Polymath Live Extravaganza

Interview: Wholesome Fish

"We were accepting anything. We’d do any gig to get anywhere. I remember doing one for a Ginsters pasty."

Interview: Reverend Car Bootleg

"I get punters asking "Have you got Over & Over?" and I'll go “By who?”, and they walk away shaking their heads thinking 'And he calls himself a DJ?'"

Dollop @ The Bodega Social Club

Sia and Har Mar Superstar

LeftLion Magazine #22

Featuring Gay Nottingham, the Fish Man, Sorrel Muggridge, Public Enemy, Reverend Car Bootleg, Nicola Monaghan and loads more.

WritiN Words on your Street

"The aim of WritiN was to create a new Nottingham poem, written by young people, about their Nottingham"

May Contain Notts: Feb - March 2008

Kirkland Laing drops orange peel, Nottingham Eye makes it's debut, man makes chicken-shit firing catapultand man gets nose bitten off at Libertys

Down at the Red Bricks @ The Malt Cross

LIVE: Smashing Pumpkins

Admittedly, it took the band about five or six songs to look warmed up, but as soon as Superchrist struck, the arena was rumbling

Leftlion Presents Feb 2008

Interview: Roni Size

"Working with any established artist is a next level thing. You learn as a producer that there are stages in a producer’s life and working with those guys you realise that you’re in first class."

May Contain Notts: Dec 2007 - Jan 2008

Life-size cut-outs of Brian Blessed get stolen, Jermaine Pennant's dad gets sent down, Prince William pops up in the Pitcher and Piano and a former pop star becomes a copper

LeftLion Magazine #21

Featuring Roni Size, City redevelopment, Martine Hamilton Knight, Dallas Simpson, Gallows, Rod Duncan, Geiom and loads more.

Kerrang tour 2008