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With the new charity partnership between Nottingham Forest FC and Framework Housing Association, Nottingham's High Sheriff Nick Ebbs commissioned LeftLion Editor Bridie Squires to write a poem about the relationship, and how it might help our city's homeless community going forward...

Live Music Review: Reckless Yes present Chorusgirl, Mammoth Penguins and Fightmilk at Rough Trade

If you haven’t heard of Reckless Yes before, listen up: they’re a Derbyshire-based record label and promoter, with a habit of unearthing and supporting top-notch bands. So when we got wind of their triple bill takeover at Rough Trade, we couldn’t resist heading down.

The Americans at Rock City in Photos

We got down to Rock City to check out The Americans...

Celebrating 100 Years of Women Gaining the Vote with Midlands Suffragettes

6 February 2018 marked 100 years of 8.5 million women gaining their right to vote. Although it will be another decade before we celebrate 100 years of all women gaining the vote, it was a huge milestone in the step towards women’s rights being achieved...

Art Review: The Luminous at Surface Gallery

Thu 22 Nov 2018

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which can be difficult to determine in a day and age where we have social media ramming it’s notion of a ‘perfect’ woman down our throats left right and center. What if we knocked down those barriers and took a look at the extraordinary ordinary and gave them a platform to shine, to be luminous. That is what photographer Laura Dicken and The Renewal Trust have worked to complete alongside several of our very own women from Sneinton…

Emmanuel House: Spread The Love This Winter

As we dig out our big coats and SAD lamps in preparation for these cold winter days, Emmanuel House is preparing for its busiest, and most integral time of year. The charity provides some of our most vulnerable people in Nottingham with the basic necessities, which at this time of year is as basic as a warm room and a cup of tea. They have just launched their 'Think Christmas - Give Hope' campaign, in which they are trying to raise enough money to keep the centre going for another year. So, have a gander at these snaps from the launch event at Peggy's Skylight, get in touch if you feel inclined to help...

School of Hard Notts Catch up with Stixx

Stixx is Nottingham’s very own HHH; a technician, brawler, trainer and promoter. He has contributed massively to Nottingham wrestling’s ongoing rejuvenation and has fought and trained some of the best in the world. Whilst Stixx benevolently left mainstream recognition to his protégés, to those in the know, there can be no doubt he is he is one of the linchpins of wrestling in the midlands. Sitting in the post-show wreckage after another bruising bout, LeftLion hangs out under the tree of woe with Notts’ most garrulous gigantic grappler.

Art Works: Chantelle Arnold

Creator of the Bookish Plant Pots, Chantelle Arnold, had a chat with us abaht her works and her ever-growing plant collection...

Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The second prequel in JK Rowling’s wizarding world fails to capture the magic...

PubhD Preview: An Interview with Vivyan Lisewski-Hobson

PubhD's November event is a tree special - we had a chat with one of the speakers, Vivyan Lisewski-Hobson, to learn about how she's been getting ready for this tree-mendous event

Interview: A

Having played Rock City countless times, rock band ‘A’ have a certain attachment to our citeh. We managed to have a chat with A’s busy front man, Jason Perry, abaht the band’s history, playing Rock City and what they hope to see from their crowds...

Pitchshifter Are Reuniting for a Gig at Rock City

Pitchshifter’s last shows together were over ten years ago. The band went through some stylistic changes in the nineties; moving from a heavy, industrial sound to summat more d’n’b influenced by the end of the decade. After many rumoured reunions and new albums, the band are finally touring again, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their classic www.pitchshifter.com album, wrapping up with a show at Rock City this month. We put a few questions to lead vocalist JS Clayden ahead of the gig...

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita at Metronome in Photos

We got down to Metronome to take some snaps of the renowned musical duo Welsh harpist Catrin Finch, and Kora player Seckou Keita...

Film Review: Outlaw King