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LeftLion Issue #175 September 2024
Fri 30 Aug 2024LeftLion Issue #175 features... The Circus of Life Surrealist exhibition, The Angel Microbrewery, Raymond's, Phlexx Records and coffee, the Nottingham War Rooms, The Savoy Cinema, Poetraits and lots more.
Music Reviews: August 2024
Tue 27 Aug 2024August music reviews: Luna and the Lime Slices, The Blooms, KAP, Soul Infinity Orchestra, Ardency and GIRLBAND!
LeftLion's Latest Listens: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 23 Aug 2024LeftLion's Latest Listens is our music team's picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands. This week, LeftLion listens to new releases from Purple Suns, Modern Coven, Sunflower Thieves, Bram Bancroft and Lace Thief...
LeftLion's Latest Listens: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 16 Aug 2024Kicking off a new regular New Music review series, LeftLion's Latest Listens is our picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands. This week, LeftLion listens to new releases from Hollow Stone, Ben Blackadder, Molly Hindley and LYVIA.
LeftLion Issue #174 August 2024
Fri 02 Aug 2024The August issue of LeftLion features Herbie Hare, The Dungeon Club, The Bath Inn, geocaching, Notts queer history, Beans on Toast and lots more...
Big City Reads book reviews: Seven Million Sunflowers
Wed 31 Jul 2024Through July, we've been publishing book reviews from local young people, as part of Nottingham City of Literature's campaign to give out thousands of free books. To finish this series, Ukrainian NTU graduate Anastasiia Denysiv reviews Seven Million Sunflowers by Malcolm Duffy, a story about the Russia-Ukraine conflict to which Anastasiia reflects upon her personal connection.
Nottingham Pagan Book Club Reads Revolutionary Witchcraft: a Guide to Magical Activism by Sarah Lyons
Tue 30 Jul 2024Music Reviews: July 2024
Mon 29 Jul 2024June music reviews: The Roster, Red Sea, The Public Eye, 2079, Ben Mark Smith and Mighty Lightweights
Big City Reads book reviews: Electric Life
Wed 24 Jul 2024For the third instalment of our Big City Reads reviews - part of a campaign run by Nottingham City of Literature to provide free books for local young people - Mia gives us her thoughts on Electric Life by Rachel Delahaye. A gripping science-fiction tale, the book according to Mia well and truly allows the reader to escape into another world.
Book Review: The Body In The Library by Graham Caveney
Fri 19 Jul 2024Though brutal and decidedly unromantic, Graham Caveney’s new ‘memoir of a diagnosis’ is told with remarkable tenderness and wit.
Big City Reads book reviews: Stand Up Ferran Burke
Wed 17 Jul 2024Books can be the spark that makes us want to know more, and according to young reader Kelsi, Steven Camden’s “astounding” Stand Up Ferran Burke is one of them. Here’s Kelsi’s review, as part of Big City Reads - a campaign ran by Nottingham City of Literature to get thousands of free books in the hands and hearts of local young people.
Big City Reads book reviews: Vern: Custodian of the Universe
Wed 10 Jul 2024Big City Reads is a campaign ran by Nottingham City of Literature to get thousands of free books in the hands and hearts of local young people. There are four different books on offer, so we asked young people to write a review of each one. Here, Daniella Hoyland gives us her thoughts on Vern: Custodian of the Universe.
We learned about the Big City Reads project, which is giving away thousands of books to Nottingham’s youngsters
Thu 04 Jul 2024Books broaden young people’s horizons, give them an educational leg up, and can even provide big health benefits - but sometimes reading gets costly. We learned about the Big City Reads project, which is giving away thousands of books to Nottingham’s youngsters…
LeftLion Issue #173 July 2024
Fri 28 Jun 2024Featuring Charity Shop Sue, Cheap Dirty Horse, The Pastel Project, Graeme Park, Nottingham Food Tours, Notts LGBTQ+ music to check out and lots more