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Music Reviews: February 2015
Tue 10 Feb 2015We write some words about Nottingham's finest noisemakers for your reading pleasure
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Book Reviews: February 2015
Tue 10 Feb 2015With Linda Hardy, Ian Douglas, Alan Gibbons, Steve Larder, Ed Nicholas Griffin and more
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Music Reviews: December 2014 - January 2015
Tue 20 Jan 2015With Lviv, Apalusa, Beth Frisby, Blue Vulture, Cecil Chamberlain, Ear Vings, Ivory Serfs, Jamie Moon, Karhide, Lois and Reckless
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Book Reviews: December 2014 - January 2015
Fri 16 Jan 2015With Kim Slater, Andrew Graves, Matt Haig, Al Needham, Rikki Marr, Jai Verna, and Andy Croft
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Interview: Laughing Matters
Fri 02 Jan 2015Taking the old adage that laughter is the best medicine, Kirstie MacDonald and Mark Christian set up Laughing Matters, a social enterprise project that aims to help people who’re having a hard time by getting them to learn a few tricks from the people who make a crust from chuckles…
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Music Reviews: November 2014
Thu 20 Nov 2014With Amber Run, Origin One, Separation Anxiety, Trekkah, The Madeline Rust, Rattle, Merrick's Trust, and The Wild Man of Europe
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Book Reviews: November 2014
Sat 15 Nov 2014With The Esplanade, Celeste, Duke and Disorderly, Nottingham: From Old Photographs, and more
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Music Reviews: October 2014
Sat 18 Oct 2014With Indiana, The Hip Priests, Can B, Electric Baths, Neil Ward, Cappo, Gold Codes and White Finger
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Street Tales: Market Street
Fri 17 Oct 2014Once upon a time, the proles of Nottingham got one over on the gentry through the medium of road-signage...
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Book Reviews: October 2014
Fri 10 Oct 2014This month's review featuring Hunted by Hawks, DH Lawrence: Zombie Hunter, Influence and A Brief History of Whistling
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Music Reviews: August - September 2014
Thu 11 Sept 2014With 1st Blood, Joel Baker, Nadir, Flaming Fields, Lone, The Idolins, Frazer Lowrie, Mannequin and more
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Book Reviews August - September 2014
Wed 27 Aug 2014Featuring conditional love, a retiring detective, a ramshackle package of poems, a literary Frankenstein, and more
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The Reviewers
Mon 28 Jul 2014Who reviews the Reviewers? We rate the play that tackles theatre criticism itself
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The Reviewers - Jenny Kohnhorst
Thu 24 Jul 2014The Nottingham New Theatre have a musical comedy all ready to take to Edinburgh Fringe, but not before they preview it here
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Music Reviews: June - July 2014
Tue 24 Jun 2014With Bru-C, Michael A Grammar, Ryan Thomas, Garton, Opie Deino, Simon Waldram, Grey Hairs, Privateers and more
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Book Reviews: June - July 2014
Fri 20 Jun 2014A corrupt detective inspector, a post-war love affair, a cub who can't sleep in the dark, and more
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Interview: Kogumaza
Wed 18 Jun 2014Our music is about finding patterns, bending and pulling, twisting, distorting and invertingWith a name that roughly translates from Japanese in to English as Ursa Minor, a constellation in the Northern Sky, it’s apt that Kogumaza have spent the best part of five years creating hypnotic, beguiling music that can often feel otherworldly. Between them Chris, Katy, Mark and Neil have been involved in the local music scene for twenty years, from playing in numerous bands, putting on shows, designing posters, and even hosting a show on Radio Trent. On the eve of the release of their second full length album, three of the band speak to LeftLion...
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Review: Sat & Sun Southwell Folk Festival 2014
Fri 13 Jun 2014"For a brief moment it was like the eighties again, with Michael Praed swishing his hair fetchingly back and forth as Robin and Ray Winstone as Will Scarlett"
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Review: Opening of Southwell Folk Festival 2014
Mon 09 Jun 2014An opera set in England during WWI on the eve of the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings sets the tone for an incredible weekend
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Left Lineout: End of Season review
Sat 31 May 2014"What was by far the biggest event in this year’s rugby calendar actually had nothing to do with goings-on on the pitch anyway..."
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Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra
Fri 23 May 2014The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…
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Onlion Book Reviews
Mon 21 Apr 2014With Ross Bradshaw's collection of essays surrounding crime, The Artist and The Engineer, Seven Daze and more
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Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014
Tue 17 Dec 2013Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more
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Review: An Audience with Carl Froch
Mon 20 Aug 2012"He moved to Newark and discovered that the locals would rather steal his bike or jump him on his way home than face up to him in the ring"
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