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Interview: Kappa Gamma
Fri 07 Dec 2012Picked up by Denizen Records, linked up with Dog Is Dead, championed by Dean Jackson and glommed onto the Radio One playlist, it’s been a very decent year for Kappa Gamma and their freewheeling dream-pop stylings. Time, then, to talk to Tom Towle and Max Starbuck of the band...
Interview: Gonzo Unit
Thu 29 Nov 2012Gonzo Unit - a collaboration between Anna Schwanz and Rachel Murray - aimed to bring together artists from Notts and beyond to create and perform new works. Problem was, they didn’t have gallery space - so they got really creative and found space in an unexpected place...
Interview: Play No Games
Tue 27 Nov 2012The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts
Interview: Don Masson
Thu 15 Nov 2012Club skipper during the iconic Jimmy Sirrel era that propelled the club from the bottom to the top. Part of the QPR team that lost the league by one point in 1976. A key component of the doomed Scotland '78 World Cup squad. A prodigal son who finished his career helping his beloved 'Pies into the top flight. There's been 150 years of Notts County football, and - according to those who saw him in action - no-one has played it better than Don Masson...
Interview: Shide Boss
Wed 24 Oct 2012One of the most successful musicians in Notts right now has won TV talent shows, is up for two music awards, has worked with the President of Def Jam South and has someone from Hollyoaks on his video. He’s Shide Boss, and it’s about time you recognised him...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse
Tue 23 Oct 2012If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...
Interview: Jake Bugg
Sat 20 Oct 2012Scooped up from the mean streets of Clifton into the loving arms of a record deal. All over Radio One. Tours of the UK and Europe. Live TV appearances. Two glorious hometown gigs lined up at Dot To Dot and Splendour. Spends his spare time wondering what Fearne Cotton thinks of him. He’s Jake Bugg, and he’s only just old enough to get into pubs...
Preview: GameCity7
Fri 19 Oct 2012"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"
Interview: Joe Dempsie
Thu 18 Oct 2012Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...
Interview: Jon Ronson
Tue 02 Oct 2012People who believe twelve foot-tall lizards run everything. Robots with souls. Real life superheroes. Conspiracists, fundamentalists, and extremists. He's hung out with them all...
A Canadian In New Basford Says Goodbye
Mon 01 Oct 2012Rob Cutforth says goodbye in his final column for LeftLion. Now, for God’s sake, someone stop him before he lets the cat out of the bag...
Goose Fair in the 1890s
Mon 01 Oct 2012Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…
Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger
Thu 06 Sept 20121,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...
Interview: Sleaford Mods
Thu 16 Aug 2012Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn: two small-town Lincolnshire lads who fuse blistering lyrics to brutalist loops, bolt on an uncompromising stage presence, and call it Sleaford Mods.
Nottingham Forest Season Preview: 2012/13
Thu 16 Aug 2012"Play-offs if the owners mean what they say. Threatened by relegation again if they don't"
Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13
Wed 15 Aug 2012"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"
Sound of the Lion #17,Sound of The Lion
Sun 12 Aug 2012With Sleaford Mods, Junkie Kut, Captain Dangerous, Felix, The Afterdark Movement, Moscow Youth Cult, 8mm Orchestra, Tribute To Nordberg, Russian Linesman, You Slut!, Natalie Duncan and We Show Up On Radar
Interview: The Gramophones
Thu 02 Aug 2012The Gramophones: they’ve been from Lands End to John O’Groats by London Bus, microlight and even DeLoreans. Now they want to show you their holiday snaps in their brand new show, End To End, before they go back up North to Edinburgh for the Fringe. We spoke to Hannah Stone about what it’s like to live a road movie with your mates...
Stories From The Raleigh Factory
Wed 01 Aug 2012Walking straight out of school on Friday and into work on Monday. Grafting in a building the size of a small town. Workmates walking around with their giant appendages hanging out near machinery that could rip an arm off. Suicidal staff members helping themselves to cyanide. Mass copulation in the Pump Shop. Your workplace having its
own fishing pond and ballroom. If you weren’t around when Britain was the workshop of the world instead of its pound shop, only one word springs to mind when you read the tales of those who worked at Nottingham's iconic bicycle factory; Raleigh.
Team NG: When To See Notts Olympians on TV
Sat 28 Jul 2012Notts athletes in the Olympics: when and where they'll be getting all sporteh...
Interview: Natalie Duncan
Mon 16 Jul 2012Natalie Duncan held down a bar job at The Bell, but she couldn’t hold back her incredible voice. Now she’s signed to a major label, has dropped an astonishing debut single in Sky Is Falling, and is set to release her first LP in July. We think she’s on the verge of something massive...
Small Theatre Groups of Nottingham
Sat 14 Jul 2012From A (for Actors Workshop) to Z (for Zoo Indigo)