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Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games Raised £90,000 in Two Days to Create a Hogs of War Minatures Game

There’s an element of risk in launching any crowdfunding campaign. If you don’t reach an audience, the failure can hang around the neck of a project like an albatross. But get it right, and the rewards can be limitless. The latter situation is one that Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games found themselves in recently, when their Kickstarter campaign for a miniatures version of classic PS1 game Hogs of War smashed through £90,000 in just two days. We caught up with co-owner Paul Allen to find out more...

Film Review: Undine

Daniel Turner reviews German-French drama Undine as part of our BFI London Film Festival coverage...

Nottingham Playhouse Will Be Performing Cinderella For This Year's Panto

Despite current restrictions, Nottingham Playhouse are determined not to let Coronavirus ruin Christmas…

Comedian Sara Pascoe on Her Move From Actress to Comedy and Singing For Robbie William's Dad

Stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, author, podcast host. There aren’t many things in the world of entertainment that Sara Pascoe can’t do. Ahead of her return to Nottingham to play Just the Tonic this month, we caught up with the popular comic to talk lockdown, her two new TV projects and being a backing singer for Robbie Williams’ dad…

Nusic Advice Video: How to Smash Your Branding as a Musician

In 2020, branding yourself well as a musician is real important. It's no longer just the major labels that are thinking about it. As an independent artist - you should spend time working out what your brand is, and how best to communicate that brand - as it'll help you reach your musical goals.

Why Zelda’s Hyrule Is Secretly Nottingham: A Link To Our Town

Teo Eve docks a deerstalker hat, picks up his magnifying glass and investigates the links between Robin Hood, Peter Pan and The Legend of Zelda...

Wollaton Hall Are Having a Light Extravaganza This Crimbo

They’re also looking for a special superstar to switch on the magic…

Exhibition Review: Lost Stories at Surface Gallery

Kelly Palfrey headed down to Surface Gallery to check out their latest exhibition, Lost Stories...

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Preview: Nottingham Playhouse's Unlocked Festival

The theatre is back with an absolutely corking three-week festival...

Under Cover Artist: Kate Sharp

Local artist and LeftLion regular Kate Sharp was kind enough to take a crack at our October cover, and I’m sure you’ll agree that she did a beautiful job. Here’s what inspired it...

The Thompson Brothers on Joe Biden. Birthday's and Chrimbo Trees

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Tuned Tuesdays

Overheard in Notts

Big baby has heard some things, man... 

Road to Recovery: Hospitality Venues on How Nottingham BID Helped Them Through COVID

With the hospitality industry in the most precarious state it’s been in for a generation, we catch up with five of Nottingham’s most popular venues and organisations to find out they’re thoughts on the ever-changing Government policies, adapting to life post-lockdown and the important role the Nottingham Business Improvement District has played in supporting the sector...

Nadia on... The Climate Crisis

In the first of her new monthly columns, where she will discuss issues going on in both Nottingham and Westminster, Nadia Whittome talks the climate crisis... 

LeftLion Magazine #130

Featuring Nadia Whittome's first column, The History of the Goose Fair, a Paranormal Investigator in Notts, Nottingham Contemporary's Grace Jones Exhibition, Hogs of War, Most Haunted revisited, Wild Clothing Store and more... 

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Nusic New Music Podcast #234 with Scorzayzee, Project Zeus, Blle, Karizma and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features Mark’s most humiliating moment since starting Nusic, new music from not one, but three of NG’s most respected MC’s, plus advice on how to cope with the mind fuckery that is being a musician.

This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

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Pete 'Woosh' Birch on the History of DiY Soundsystem

The DiY Soundsystem were one of the biggest raving crews of the nineties. Their ethos was all about rejecting profits and putting on damn good parties. Founding member Pete Woosh talks us through some of the highs and lows of being in the gang during the nineties...

Just The Tonic Comedy Club

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Nusic Advice Video: Why Music is Such a Headfuck

There are a number of reasons why being a musician is such a headfuck. Music is subjective, that subjective nature together with the public nature of music means the knockbacks are often more frequent AND more personal plus your job, dream and even identity are all wrapped up into one. In this vid we try and unpack this, and hopefully help you feel a bit better about your music and yourself.