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Champyun Clouds Shed Light on Album Made in Lockdown
Mon 19 Jul 2021After releasing their impressive self-titled debut album, Nottingham duo Champyun Clouds have received praise from far and wide. Having made the record without meeting at all, members Asa Hudson and Neil Tolliday describe what it was like collaborating on their eclectic first piece of music together and tell us what might be in store for the future...
Nottingham Poetry Festival's Creative Director Anne Holloway on Her Career Highlights and What You Can Expect from This Year's Festival
Fri 25 Jun 2021As Creative Director for Nottingham Poetry Festival, founding editor of Big White Shed and a former member of Mouthy Poets, Anne Holloway has just about seen and done it all on the Notts poetry scene. She talked to Bridie Squires about her work, career and what to expect from the upcoming festival...
Hockley Hustle Have Released An Album Full of Notts' Collaborations to Raise Money for Emmanuel House
Mon 12 Apr 2021The album includes contributions from not only musicians, but local poets and artists too...
10 MORE Albums You Should Listen To This Month
Thu 28 Jan 2021Also featuring a single / EP or two. Because our city’s creative folk have been cooking up some heat...
Film Review: The White Tiger
Sun 24 Jan 2021This tale of poverty set in noughties India is an engaging yet often difficult watch, writes Miriam Blakemore-Hoy...
Under Cover Artist: Rob White
Thu 17 Dec 2020Multidisciplinary artist Rob White takes us inside his sixth LeftLion cover, an ode to putting 2020 behind us for good...
Witch of the East's Singer Aeris Houlihan on Her Turbulent Journey to Their Upcoming Album
Sat 19 Sept 2020With a story that wouldn’t look out of place in a HBO series, Witch of the East lead singer Aeris Houlihan certainly has plenty of experience to draw upon for writing new material. From serving in the armed forces to spending months incarcerated in Eastern Europe as a transgender woman, she talked to Alex Mace about her fascinating story, as well as the band’s upcoming music...
Notts-Born Singer-Songwriter Natalie Duncan on Her New Album, Free
Sat 08 Aug 2020There aren’t many things in life that are a given these days. One exception, however, is the guaranteed beauty of a new album release by Notts-born singer songwriter Natalie Duncan. Free, which was released on 31 July this year, is Nat’s first full-length album since 2012, and is full of her customary soul-infused melodies and candid lyrics. Featuring tracks written over a number of years since 2012, it’s one heck of an expansive record, brimming with vivacity and ambition. We caught up with Nat to chat about her Notts roots, the new record and her musical life in the age of COVID-19….
5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month
Mon 15 Jun 2020The sounds of Notts, reviewed. If you'd like to write for us, or want your tunes chatted about, get in touch by emailing music@leftlion.co.uk...
How are Stonebridge City Farm and White Post Farm Coping with COVID-19?
Thu 04 Jun 2020The sun has been shining, the flowers have been blooming, and the lambs and chicks have been born. You’ve been able to feel the warmth on your skin and sweet scents as you’ve walked around your neighbourhood. Yes, spring has definitely come and gone, but the annual ritual of heading down to the farm to check out the newborns remains incomplete. Nottingham’s community farms haven’t been able to enjoy spring as much as usual, as lockdown has seen their income disappear entirely at a time when visitor numbers would have been at their peak. We speak to Anthony Moore from White Post Farm and Stonebridge City Farm’s Peter Armitage to find out how they’ve been coping during COVID, and how you can help support them…
5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month
Sun 17 May 2020Brighten up your lockdown with this month's Notts musical highlights...
Fleur East talks living in lockdown, reality TV and her new album, Fearless
Fri 15 May 2020After two stints on The X Factor, including finishing runner-up in 2014 where she became the first contestant in the show’s history to reach Number One on the iTunes chart during the competition, singer, songwriter and radio presenter Fleur East has walked an interesting path through the music industry. With her new album Fearless released last month, we caught up with her to talk about reality television, the unexpected truths of the music industry and how she’s handling lockdown...
5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month
Fri 24 Apr 2020The sounds of Notts, reviewed. If you'd like to write for us, or want your tunes chatted about, get in touch by emailing music@leftlion.co.uk...
Electronic Duo Bone Cult on Masks, World Tours and Their Debut Album
Tue 24 Mar 2020Formed in 2013, Bone Cult began after two members of a rock band decided they’d had enough. Time spent experimenting with productions in the studio – using synths, drum machines and more – led to the electronic duo, consisting of No.1 and Day2, finding that unique, fresh sound they were in search of, and settling on a new musical identity. Never showing their faces publicly, their only distinguishing feature comes in the form of artful tattoos covering their torsos. Even their tracked vocals are distorted beyond recognition. With an impressive cult following that has seen them perform across the globe and a debut album set for release this month, we talked to the Notts-based duo to uncover more about the minds that lie beneath the masks...
5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month
Thu 05 Mar 2020The sounds of Notts, reviewed. If you'd like to write for us, or want your tunes chatted about, get in touch by emailing music@leftlion.co.uk...
5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This February
Wed 05 Feb 2020The latest sounds from the Nottingham vault...