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9 Nottingham Music Albums to Listen to This December
Mon 18 Dec 2017Some of the city's musical fruits, brought to you by our task force of reviewers...
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Finding Headspace - Review of Making Headway's latest book launch
Sat 18 Nov 2017Living with a brain injury is a difficult and oftentimes raw experience. However, the writers and editors involved in the creation of the newest Global Words Press book Making Headway: Living with Brain Injury are willing to share their stories and inspire us all to live better and braver lives.
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9 Nottingham Music Albums to Stuff in Your Lugholes
Fri 27 Oct 2017All the top tunes you could want for of an October in 2017...
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The Raincoats 33 1/3 Book Launch at Rough Trade
Wed 25 Oct 2017Rough Trade hosts the launch of the 33 1/3 book on the eponymous debut album by The Raincoats. Author Jenn Pelly was joined by band members Ana da Silva and Gina Birch and friend of the band Shirley O'Loughlin who was at Rough Trade when they released the album...
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Live Music Reviews: Priests Live at The Maze
Tue 24 Oct 2017With support from Nottingham's Slumb Party and Thick Syrup who made the journey from Leeds...
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Man Alive! Readings from Man Booker Prize Shortlist at Lakeside Arts
Wed 11 Oct 2017This October, the best and brightest of the literary world will be celebrated in this year's Man Booker Prize 2017. We decided to head on down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre for a reading from some of this year's shortlisted authors.
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9 Albums You Need To Listen To This Month
Wed 27 Sept 2017The latest releases from some of Notts best-loved musicians...
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6 Books You Need To Read This Month
Thu 21 Sept 2017Cosy up by the fire and have a good read of one of these beauties...
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Graham Caveney on Abusive Relationships, Alcoholism and His New Book
Wed 06 Sept 2017Graham Caveney had success in the nineties as a journalist for publications like NME, The Face, The Independent, and loads more. He moved on to writing biographies of beat writers Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, then he completely disappeared. Two decades later, he’s back with a book that looks at the abuse inflicted on him as a child, by a priest: The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence…
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9 Albums You Have To Listen To This Month
Mon 14 Aug 2017With Yazmin Lacey, Little Barrie, Jimi Mack and more...
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A Word With the Beasts Behind Wild Boar Books
Sat 12 Aug 2017New pigs on the block, Lincolnshire-based indie press Wild Boar Books, boast some proper weird, proper original releases. We thought we’d hit up our neighbours, and snorted in the direction of founders and editors Guy and Richard about the Midlands lit scene, gold star awards, and anti-establishment, porcine publishing...
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Music Reviews: Russian Linesman, Hashtagobi, Stacey McMullen and more
Thu 03 Aug 2017Get your lugholes round this lot...
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Book Reviews: Bum Apple Freak Show and Other Stories
Wed 02 Aug 2017Here, have some words about words...
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The Jungle Book is Coming to Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Tue 11 Jul 2017In a collaboration between Nottingham Lakeside Arts and New Street Theatre, The Jungle Book is coming to town. True to the Kipling score, and definitely not Disney, the production has an awesome new musical makeup. We speak to director of the show Martin Berry about what to expect from the bogger...
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Music Reviews: June 2017
Fri 07 Jul 2017With London Grammar, Tom McCartney, Widows, Sawyer, Minatore, Endless Grinning Skulls, Daudi Matsiko, Cameron Sinclair Harris and Arc Nade...
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Five Leaves Bookshop Don't Know When Their Birthday Is
Wed 05 Jul 2017One of the highlights of Five Leaves Publications’ tenth anniversary was the argument between those present as to whether the anniversary was actually the eleventh or twelfth. We know for sure our twentieth anniversary was either 2015 or 2016. It certainly is not 2017. Either way, we forgot about it until LeftLion asked us what we’ve learned in two decades of publishing. What we’ve learned, is that we’re crap at anniversaries...
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The Particle Beast book launch at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio
Thu 29 Jun 2017Nottingham based author, Ian Douglas, explores life on Mars in the third instalment of his teen sci-fi adventure. We headed down to the book launch at NWS, where Douglas spoke about what’s in store for Zeke Hailey in this gripping nigh-apocalyptic tale…
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Young Books Run Wild: Celebrating 30 Days of British Wildlife Literature with the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Thu 01 Jun 2017Determined to get us bookworms out and about in the sunshine, the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has launched a month-long campaign to review books about all things wild.
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Music Reviews: May
Fri 26 May 2017With Alice Short, Alec Bowman, Ben McElroy, Brooders, Crimson General, Fonzse, Gallery 47, Jum and I'm Not From London...
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From Vilnius to Viccy Centre: Celebrating Lithuanian Literature At The Easiest Launch
Tue 23 May 2017It's not often we get the chance to celebrate literature from further afield. Thankfully, Noir Press have brought the best and brightest of continent to us. We went to One BC for the launch of their latest Lithuanian dark romance The Easiest.
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6 Books to get Stuck into This May
Sat 20 May 2017Books from Nottingham's finest, reviewed for your pleasure...
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Mental Health Issues Can Affect Anyone
Sun 07 May 2017Simon is 37, and works as a Healthcare Professional and a Musician. He also has lived experience of an eating disorder, self harm, depression and anxiety. We caught up with him in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week to talk about his own experience with mental health, in the hopes that it will encourage others to open up themselves.
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9 Notts Music Albums, Reviewed: Scorzayzee, Clay Shaped Boy, Damn Craters and more
Thu 06 Apr 2017If you're from Nottingham and you want your tunes reviewed, hit up leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic...
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