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Ncf Comedy Presents: Scott Bennett : Blood Sugar Baby (one Family, One Condition, One Hell Of a Hairy Baby) (work In Progress)
Sun 03 Nov 2024Day One at Broad Marsh's New Green Heart Space
Sat 07 Sept 2024After years of imagination and careful planning, a brand new spot for nature has been opened for city-dwellers in Notts. We go to tally up the dragonflies...
Competition: Big City Reads - win an original artwork by author and illustrator Tyrell Waiters
Wed 10 Jul 2024Nottingham City of Literature's Big City Reads campaign is underway, giving away thousands of free books to young people in the city. We're teaming up to give away one amazing prize. Read on...
Festival review: Day one at Download Festival
Fri 28 Jun 2024Every year, thousands of rock fans from across the globe make the pilgrimage to Donington Park, only half an hour from Nottingham city centre. This year, LeftLion joined them for an epic weekend at the 2024 edition of Download, perhaps our country's most legendary rock and metal music festival. Here's what happened on day one...
Glastonbudget 2024: the Original Tribute Festival returns from Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 May
Wed 15 May 2024Glastonbudget - which lays claim to being "the original tribute festival, keeping the music alive since 2005". Acts acting as other acts gracing the stage this year include The Bon Jovi Experience, Flash: A Tribute to Queen, ABBA Revival, Absolute Bowie, The Police Academy and many more. But there's plenty of local talent on offer too.
We Went to the School of Artisan Food to Try One Of Their Delectable Cooking Courses
Tue 09 Apr 2024Nestled in the expansive Welbeck Estate in north Nottinghamshire lies the School of Artisan Food, a hands-on cooking school dedicated to traditional processes and proper craftsmanship. Catering to everyone from the hobbyist hoping to perfect their puff pastry to budding professionals seeking the tricks of the trade, it's a haven of all things homemade and an antidote to a food culture dominated by the mass-produced and ultra-processed.
One of Nottingham's Best Eateries' - We Went to Check out Bar Gigi
Sun 17 Mar 2024One of Nottingham's Best Eateries' - We Went to Check out Bar Gigi
Gig Review: King No-One at Rescue Rooms
Fri 15 Mar 2024Having been actively releasing new music and touring relentlessly for the last decade now, it’s crazy to think that Manchester-based indie outfit King No-One have never actually released a full-length album. Now with the band briefly emerging from a studio lockdown for this run of shows and talk of new material on the horizon, we had to go along to their gig at Rescue Rooms to see how the new songs were coming along…
How Do the Processes of Making Music and Art Differ From One Another? We Find Out From 5 Nottingham Creatives
Mon 15 Jan 2024Louis Cypher asks five different Nottingham creatives how the need to make money affects their art, what the differences are in their creative processes, and whether they prefer one over the other...
Film Review: Godzilla Minus One
Thu 21 Dec 2023Japan’s latest kaiju outing blows its Hollywood counterparts out of the water…
We Do Some Etymological Digging to Discover How Some of Our Local Place Names Originated
Thu 21 Dec 2023Inherited over centuries from our ancestors to mark the lay of the land, place names give glimmers of the people and communities that occupied our terrain before us. Most often deriving from old English words relating to the landscape, or long gone land-owning families, these names evolve in the local collective consciousness while also becoming often overlooked after a time due to their familiarity. We thought we’d do a little etymological digging to discover how some of our local place names originated, and what they mean today…