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WEYA 12: Preview
Thu 06 Sept 2012What to look at, listen to, and experience this month at World Event Young Artists 2012...
Mike Breckon on the 1972 Murders of the Israeli Olympic Team
Wed 05 Sept 2012On 5 September 1972, two weeks into the Munich Olympics, members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and later murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team - witnessed by Mike Breckon, Yorkshire-born manager of the Canadian cycling team, who was based in the opposite apartment. He now lives in Nottingham, and speaks for the first time of what he saw.
Interview: The Afterdark Movement
Wed 15 Aug 2012Your brand-new Future Sound of Nottingham winners and Splendour-openers spit bars, bend notes, chop beats, defy pigeonholing and kick arse. They’re the Afterdark Movement, and we managed to get two of them - Bru-C and Trekkah - to stand still long enough to hear their story...
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...
Justin Fashanu: The Biography
Fri 27 Jul 2012The scar on Brian Clough’s career. The most disastrous non-Italian transfer in Forest’s history. The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The only Tricky Tree to knock about with Peter Tatchell. Is it time to reassess the life of Justin Fashanu? Yes, says biographer Jim Read…
Batman: A Retrospective
Thu 19 Jul 2012With The Dark Knight Rises about to explode, we trawl through the history of Batman films...
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...
The Best Caves in Nottingham
Fri 06 Jul 2012The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey
King Bong: The Xylophone Man
Wed 04 Jul 2012Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?
LIVE: Captain Dangerous album launch
Tue 05 Jun 2012The string section opened with a spine tingling beautiful chord progression, before bursting into Eye Of The Tiger (aka the theme from Rocky)
Interview: Captain Dangerous
Fri 01 Jun 2012Captain Dangerous’s debut LP The Empire Never Ended is six years in the making. And if you’ve ever lobbed a couple of bob in lead singer Adam Clarkson’s hat, congratulations - you’ve paid towards it...
Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero
Sun 27 May 2012"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"
Interview: Pirate Technics
Thu 24 May 2012Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...
Interview: Derren Brown
Mon 21 May 2012Master of magic, mind control and manipulation; Derren Brown has made an international career of persuading people to think and do things they otherwise would not. So when we asked him if he fancied an interview with LeftLion, before the Notts leg of his Svengali tour, we were elated and yet filled with trepidation when he said “yes”…
Interview: Jenny Sealey
Mon 14 May 2012Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.
Interview: Graham Coxon
Mon 14 May 2012Graham Coxon will be seeing off the Olympics with his old band in the summer, but not before swinging through town to promote new LP A + E at the Rescue Rooms this April...
The Maze 15th Birthday Extravaganza in photos
Wed 09 May 2012LeftLion and I'm Not from London last Saturday with Just James, Seas of Mirth, The Austin Francis Connection and 25 Past The Skank
Interview: Alex Hales
Fri 04 May 2012A new cricket season for Notts and a hugely important year for their twenty-three year-old batsman Alex Hales. He’s already made his mark in the first team, played Twenty20 for England and spent last winter in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with the England Lions – essentially the national reserves team. Is he the future of the Outlaws and the national side?
A Canadian on the British Government
Sun 29 Apr 2012"Privatising the police force. How do you even do that? Adorn police stab vests with 888.com patches, like him off the snooker?"
Derren Brown
Tue 03 Apr 2012"I’ve got over a hundred stuffed items at home, including a couple of giraffes, which is probably too many for any house"
Hot Japanese Girl EP Launch
Thu 29 Mar 2012Crowdsurfing and a moshpit in JamCafe? Everything and everyone went mental for the launch of Bear Shark Laser Tiger Fight
Ben Judd - Songs of Innocence and Experience at Bonington Gallery
Wed 21 Mar 2012A unique collection of documentary and short film pieces from the video artist and academic Ben Judd
Interview: Ronika
Wed 21 Mar 2012After spending two years embedded in countless New Artist lists, could 2012 be the year that Ronika firmly stamps her mark upon our hearts and the charts?
Art Works: Twenty Fifteen by Allan Binns
Sat 17 Mar 2012"The studio floor is covered with snippets from fantastical comic books, holiday brochures and 1960s ‘gentleman’s special interest’ magazines"