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29 Festivals You've Got To Get To This Year
Wed 17 May 2017If you’re struggling to find a festival best suited to you, worry no more, for we have put together a mildly comprehensive guide for you to follow. We’ve noted the headliners, a few Notts faces that’ll be making an appearance, and the cheapest possible ticket price. Summer sorted.
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Gigantic's Mark Gasson on His Ticketing Empire
Wed 03 May 2017Our Mark has been selling gig and festival tickets from his base in Nottingham for almost 25 years. We caught up with him to find out more about sneaking into Glastonbury and ticket touts...
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Gigantic's Mark Gasson on His Ticketing Empire
Wed 03 May 2017Mark Gasson has been selling gig and festival tickets from his base in Nottingham for almost 25 years. We caught up with him to find out more about sneaking into Glastonbury, ticket touts, and his Gigantic empire...
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Nusic Advice Guide: Getting Your First Radio Play
Thu 23 Mar 2017Our mates at Nusic have got a new advice video for all you up-and-coming artists...
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Nusic Advice Guide: Getting a Manager
Thu 16 Mar 2017The second video in a series of helpful advice guides from our pals over at Nusic, who want to see you do well in the music industry. In this vid, you can find out about whether or not it's appropriate to get a manager, and the steps you need to take to make it happen...
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Nusic Advice Guide: Making a Living from Music
Thu 09 Mar 2017The first in a series of advice videos from our mates over at Nusic. This week, find out the best ways to sell stuff, play live, and get free(ish) money...
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SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle - Biomolecules in The Fossil Record: Sequencing Proteins in Amber
Tue 28 Feb 2017The monthly science event stomps into the pub, causing ripples in all the pint glasses. This month, Dr Victoria McCoy from the University of Leicester comes to talk…
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Left Magpie: Notts County News and Updates
Mon 20 Feb 2017The last month has had the feel of an epic end-of-season finale; Alan Hardy producing his own Jon Snow moment in overcoming the dark hoards of amassed creditors at the gates, seizing the keys to the castle and becoming our King in the North (Trentside)
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10 Notts Music Albums to Tickle Your Tabs This February
Mon 20 Feb 2017If you're from Notts and want your tunes reviewed, go to leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic
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10 Things to do in Nottingham This Week
Sun 19 Feb 2017There's so much going off in the next seven days...
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Nottingham in Photos: February
Sat 18 Feb 2017The city's finest snappers have been out there a'snappin...
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The Gluten-Free Survival Guide to Grabbing a Bite in Nottingham City Centre
Mon 13 Feb 2017Coeliac disease is no laughing matter, especially when you want to grab a bite to eat in town. Sufferer Mollie Stone gives us a handy guide to the places in Nottingham that will sort you right out...
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9 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week
Sun 12 Feb 2017We're packed to the rafters with fun stuff to do this week...
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What's on the LeftLion Stereo?
Fri 10 Feb 2017Our Music Editor talks us through some of the best tunes to have come out of Nottingham recently...
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Left Panther: February
Wed 08 Feb 2017The Nottingham Panthers returned from Europe as Continental Cup Champions, a fantastic achievement as the first UK team ever to do so. But it feels like history is repeating itself, as their well-earned success is once again followed by a slump back at home in the Elite League...
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11 Things To Do in Nottingham This Week
Sun 05 Feb 2017Find out about all the things you could be cracking on with over the next seven days...
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Photos: Bud Live at JamCafe
Tue 24 Jan 2017We got down to the cafe of Jam to listen to the sounds of reggae-infused Bud and her band...
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Sleaford Mods' Rock City Gig in Photos
Thu 03 Nov 2016A gobby chap and his beatmaking chum tore the roof off Rock City last night, and we were there to take a few snaps...
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Theatre Review: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Family
Sun 16 Oct 2016Ben Norris' autobiographical play made its way home over the weekend
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Superfan Lucy Brouwer Has Been To Over 100 Radiohead Gigs
Thu 14 Jul 2016She's been following Radiohead across the globe for the last twenty years, all of which is recorded in a superb blog that's absolutely gagging to be turned into a book.
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LeftLion Festival Guide 2016
Fri 27 May 2016Wet wipes at the ready as we have a look at some of the best live music events taking place this summer and beyond
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Be - One: The Nottingham Arts Theatre Gig in Pictures
Mon 29 Feb 2016We caught all the action of the live, multisensory performance of Be's soundtrack, One at the Nottingham Arts Theatre
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Left Pie-On: February
Tue 23 Feb 2016"It is difficult to remember a time when there was a more poisonous atmosphere at Notts and the catalyst for the vitriol boiling over has undoubtedly been the appointment of Jamie Fullarton"
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Left Brian: February
Mon 22 Feb 2016"It's been a pretty quiet month, to be fair. Other than results, there's little to talk about, really."
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Gig Photos: Spring King at The Bodega
Mon 22 Feb 2016We got down to The Bodega to take a few snaps of the springiest kings you ever did lay eyes on
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