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Nottingham Comedy Festival
Fri 09 Sept 2011The Nottingham Comedy Festival returns for its third year this September, offering a chance to see some of the greats perform their post-Edinburgh shows - as well as workshops and try-out gigs for aspiring performers. So we collared festival directors Helen Stead and Elliott Bower and asked...
Interview: Headstock Festival's Mick Leivers
Wed 07 Sept 2011Headstock is a three-day music festival that takes place at the Newstead & Annesley Country Park, but if you think it’s another opportunity to listen to landfill indie whilst being bombarded with mobile phone adverts, think again; this event is geared towards getting an ex-mining community back on its feet and turning it back into a self-sustainable community. Headstock MD Mick Leivers tells us about this prime example of Notts folk mekkin’ their own entertainment…
Leeds Festival 2011 in photos
Mon 29 Aug 2011Pics of Pulp, Muse, Cage The Elephant, Henry Rollins, Death From Above 1979, Metronomy, My Chemical Romance and White Lies
Preview: Splendour 2011
Thu 14 Jul 2011Splendour: A day-long chunk of festie goodness, without the massive mobile phone adverts. And tents left behind by gormless students that blow across a field and upset some cows. And being in a different postcode to the nearest decent bog. Our Music Editor marks your card for this year’s event…
Interview: Tim Smith of Fourmost Films
Mon 06 Jun 2011Fourmost Films come from the Shop stable with a can-do attitude, a string of short films that have garnered attention from all over the place and a hunger to turn Nottingham into one of the hubs of the UK indie-film scene. Head honcho Tim Smith manages to drag his head from the edit suite long enough to spell out his masterplan…
Interview: Marcus Clarke
Mon 06 Jun 2011Marcus Clarke and his wife Helena Smee have spent the last twenty years in a Sherwood house full of dismembered body parts. Calm down, Officer – they’re only keeping their hands in as one of the UK’s foremost puppet-based production companies with a list of credits as long as, well, your arm…
Preview: Americana International
Mon 06 Jun 2011"I’ve been driving for fifty years – all sorts of cars, American and British – but the American cars are not like anything else you’ll see"
Giles Croft on NEAT 11 Festival
Thu 26 May 2011Another huge boost to the local arts scene takes place this summer with the launch of the Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival, a collaboration between the big local venues showcasing top-line performances from around the continent. Festival artistic director Giles Croft explains all…
GALLERY: Hit the Deck Festival
Tue 26 Apr 2011Photo evidence from Hit the Deck including Cancer Bats, Turbo Wold, We are the Ocean and more
Nottdance 2011
Sun 27 Feb 2011Nottdance, run by terpsichorean titans Dance4, is one of the longest-running dance festivals in the UK. To celebrate the festival's 21st birthday, Dance4 is laying out the biggest series of events yet and, according to Chief Executive and Artistic Director Paul Russ, nowhere is off-limits...
Interview: Tony the Interpretive Dancer
Thu 18 Nov 2010Antony Hodgkinson drums for Julian Cope, collaborates with a host of Notts bands, flew the flag for Derby Alt-Rock in the mid-90s with Bivouac, and likes to be known these days as ANTRØNHY. Oh, and he got up on stage during the 1992 Reading Festival and danced for his mate’s band - some bloke by the name of Kurt Cobain - and became known as Tony The Interpretive Dancer...
Sideshow 2010 Events
Tue 26 Oct 2010A guide to the fringe events of this years British Art Show, which are on right now in a place near you
Preview: GameCity5
Mon 25 Oct 2010Nottingham kicks off a week-long videogaming sesh with the return of GameCity, but be warned: lolling about on sofas is not encouraged
Sideshow 2010
Mon 18 Oct 2010"This is our chance to show a lot of people from outside of Nottingham what’s going on here. And there’ll be a lot of parties going on"
Interview: Wellington Films
Wed 01 Sept 2010"People say about Unmade Beds that they’ve never seen London look so good – that’s because it’s Nottingham"
Interview: Jane Streeter
Sun 25 Jul 2010"I hoped someone would open a bookshop so that I could get a part-time job. That someone turned out to be me"
Interview: Ronika
Mon 12 Jul 2010"I’m gonna ride in on a deer, and hopefully get the stuffed gorilla from Wollaton Hall on stage for a dance"
The Evolution of Robin Hood 1262-2010
Mon 12 Apr 2010The full run-down on the evolution of England's greatest folk legend in books, films and television
Preview: GameCity Squared
Sun 25 Oct 2009GameCity - Nottingham’s very own console convention is back and has been described as ‘the Sundance Festival of videogaming’
A Canadian at Nottingham Beer Festival
Wed 07 Oct 2009This time of year, Rob Cutforth loves nothing more than rubbing up against tubby, sweaty beardos and cramming greasy, meaty balls into his Canadian maw. Calm down, Nana – he’s only at the Beer Festival…
Preview: LeftLion Circus Extravaganza
Thu 24 Sept 2009More information about all of the Circus acts and a printable timetable for Saturday!
Leeds Festival 2009 gallery
Mon 31 Aug 2009Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Faith No More, Gossip,Gallows, Kings of Leon, Scorzayzee, Petebox, Lovvers and more...
Godiva Festival
Sat 04 Jul 2009In the build up to Splendour, we thought we'd check out a Council-run festival at another city in the Midlands
24-Hour Arty People
Mon 29 Dec 2008BritFilms gathered 30 film crews and set them the task of creating and delivering a short film in just 24 hours. LeftLion were there to follow one plucky team throughout
the process, blogging live via mobile phone. Here’s what happened...