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Book Reviews: October 2014
Fri 10 Oct 2014This month's review featuring Hunted by Hawks, DH Lawrence: Zombie Hunter, Influence and A Brief History of Whistling
Music Reviews: August - September 2014
Thu 11 Sept 2014With 1st Blood, Joel Baker, Nadir, Flaming Fields, Lone, The Idolins, Frazer Lowrie, Mannequin and more
Book Reviews August - September 2014
Wed 27 Aug 2014Featuring conditional love, a retiring detective, a ramshackle package of poems, a literary Frankenstein, and more
The Reviewers
Mon 28 Jul 2014Who reviews the Reviewers? We rate the play that tackles theatre criticism itself
The Reviewers - Jenny Kohnhorst
Thu 24 Jul 2014The Nottingham New Theatre have a musical comedy all ready to take to Edinburgh Fringe, but not before they preview it here
Music Reviews: June - July 2014
Tue 24 Jun 2014With Bru-C, Michael A Grammar, Ryan Thomas, Garton, Opie Deino, Simon Waldram, Grey Hairs, Privateers and more
Book Reviews: June - July 2014
Fri 20 Jun 2014A corrupt detective inspector, a post-war love affair, a cub who can't sleep in the dark, and more
Interview: Kogumaza
Wed 18 Jun 2014Our music is about finding patterns, bending and pulling, twisting, distorting and invertingWith a name that roughly translates from Japanese in to English as Ursa Minor, a constellation in the Northern Sky, it’s apt that Kogumaza have spent the best part of five years creating hypnotic, beguiling music that can often feel otherworldly. Between them Chris, Katy, Mark and Neil have been involved in the local music scene for twenty years, from playing in numerous bands, putting on shows, designing posters, and even hosting a show on Radio Trent. On the eve of the release of their second full length album, three of the band speak to LeftLion...
Review: Sat & Sun Southwell Folk Festival 2014
Fri 13 Jun 2014"For a brief moment it was like the eighties again, with Michael Praed swishing his hair fetchingly back and forth as Robin and Ray Winstone as Will Scarlett"
Review: Opening of Southwell Folk Festival 2014
Mon 09 Jun 2014An opera set in England during WWI on the eve of the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings sets the tone for an incredible weekend
Left Lineout: End of Season review
Sat 31 May 2014"What was by far the biggest event in this year’s rugby calendar actually had nothing to do with goings-on on the pitch anyway..."
Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra
Fri 23 May 2014The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…
Onlion Book Reviews
Mon 21 Apr 2014With Ross Bradshaw's collection of essays surrounding crime, The Artist and The Engineer, Seven Daze and more
Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014
Tue 17 Dec 2013Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more
Review: An Audience with Carl Froch
Mon 20 Aug 2012"He moved to Newark and discovered that the locals would rather steal his bike or jump him on his way home than face up to him in the ring"
Derrick Buttress on the Old Market Square
Thu 12 Jul 2012Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...
Interview: The Austin Francis Connection
Wed 02 May 2012The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...
The Revamped Sneinton Market and Orchard
Thu 08 Dec 2011"Even if people don't respond to art, they can understand and enjoy an apple tree in blossom"
Interview: The Lambhorse Cabaret
Sat 29 Oct 2011The Lambhorse Cabaret: 21st century vaudeville for the theatrical underclass, a party like it’s 1889, or a gloriously elaborate arse-about through the city’s biggest dressing-up box? Time to ask founder and Ringmaster Mark Evans who he and his confederates think they are…
Interview: Mark Patterson on Roman Nottinghamshire
Mon 15 Aug 2011Whilst other places in the UK wear their Roman origins like a badge of honour, there’s virtually nothing to look at in Notts – so much so that we’ve been described as an ‘archaeological blackspot’. Mark Patterson’s book Roman Nottinghamshire is the first step towards reclaiming our Roman heritage…
Interview: Mark Crossley
Fri 12 Aug 2011Mark Crossley - known as ‘Norm’ during his thirteen years as Forest’s goalkeeper, due to a resemblance to Norman Whiteside - started his career being hated by his own supporters. Then he nearly became the hero of the 1991 FA Cup final and a club legend. Nowadays he’s a player-coach at Chesterfield, an after-dinner speaker, and - as of this month - his own publisher...
FSN in the Market Square
Tue 28 Jun 2011Eleven new Notts acts play right in the centre of town in the semi-finals of the Future Sound of Nottingham contest
Interview: The Nusic Team
Thu 16 Jun 2011Mark Del used to fly the flag for the Nottingham music scene with Trent FM, but now him and his team - including Arielle Bosworth and Liz Riordan - have linked up with LeftLion to drop Nusic, help take the local scene to the next level and - maybe, just maybe - get your band on the main stage at Splendour...
Interview: Patrick Smith of Veggies
Mon 06 Jun 2011If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, backin the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the SumacCentre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar debacle, and Mark Kennedy…
Interview: Mark Kermode
Sun 07 Nov 2010Mark Kermode is a legend to most movie lovers, a film reviewer that has never learned to bite his tongue or hold back on anything he thinks. A regular on British TV and radio for nearly two decades now, he’s just released his book, It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive and is now touring the country doing what he does best – talking to people about films…