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The History of Robin Hood and His Links to The Green Man
Mon 25 Feb 2019He’s plastered on movie posters, book covers, bank logos and the sides of buses, but there is a side to Robin Hood that you may not be aware of. Today, Literature Editor LP Mills takes a deep dive into the strange and ancient history of Nottingham’s best-loved outlaw, Robin Hood...
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at The Nottingham Contemporary
Fri 22 Feb 2019A rainforest in the middle of Nottingham you say? I mean I know the weather's been positively tropical lately but that sounds rather absurd. Not in the art world. Our Dan got down to the Contemporary to check out how their new exhibition is more than just forestry...
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Manu Delago's Parasol Peak: A Music and Film Project Recorded in the Alps
Mon 07 Jan 2019What happens when a group of musicians lug their instruments up a mountain in the Alps to record an album? This month, multi-instrumentalist and composer Manu Delago brings his fascinating new project, Parasol Peak, to Metronome. Fusing music and film, the result is raw and mesmerising. We caught up with Manu ahead of the screening and live performance…
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Under Cover Artist: Robert Lever
Thu 13 Dec 2018We caught up with this month’s cover and poster artist, Robert Lever...
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Film Review: The Old Man and the Gun
Wed 12 Dec 2018We checked out the final film in the legendary career of Robert Redford...
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The Nottingham Hidden History Team Have Saved Many a Cave From Destruction
Fri 07 Dec 2018The Nottingham Hidden History Team, fittingly, have been around for yonks. Uncovering all sorts of tales about this city of ours, the organisation has saved caves from being destroyed in local redevelopment, and has held the torch up to many-a past goings-on. LeftLion Street Tales columnist and current member of the organisation, Joe Earp, gives us a little look-in to the origins of the team, and what’s driven them to lift the lid on Notts, for the past fifty years...
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Art Works: Robert Lever
Tue 16 Oct 2018He might not hail from Hoodtown, but he's obsessed with our architecture...
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Live Music Review: The Nightingales at The Canalhouse
Sun 07 Oct 2018Only two bands ever played more Peel sessions than The Nightingales and now they're at The Canalhouse promoting their new album.
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Snap Notts: Sneinton Market
Sun 16 Sept 2018Every month we lob at yer the latest installment of Snap Notts - the series that sees a bunch of photographers and poets divvied up into pairs and given a location to create summat cool around...
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Poetry Profile: A Self-Help Group for People With Too Many Feelings
Thu 06 Sept 2018One year on from their debut, Between the Shadow and the Soul has quickly become a bastion of pleasant poetry. Ahead of their big birthday bash, I had a chat with co-founders Jim Sharpe and Kaia Hristova about the success of their infant poetry night, their own creative processes, and the importance of celebrating good feels.
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Sneinton Market Street Art Block Party 2018
Tue 21 Aug 2018The Surface Gallery's annual Block party at Sneinton market is always a hit with the locals of Nottingham, great music, fantastic healthy food and unique urban market stalls. It’s a great opportunity to kick back and enjoy the city vibes, watch some skateboarding, hang out and of course check out some live street art.
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Film Review: Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Sat 11 Aug 2018There's bad films, there's terrible films, and then there's this pile of cack...
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The Masked Man of Boomtown Talks Revolution
Thu 09 Aug 2018Boomtown Fair – the immersive festival that tells the story of a grapple between revolutionaries and the establishment – has kicked off in Matterley Bowl, Hampshire. We grabbed the regime-toppling Masked Man for a chat as the tenth chapter kicks off good and proper...
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The Woman Behind Notts Tender-Stem Band Flöat
Fri 03 Aug 2018Soul-touching vocals accompanied by incredibly chilled instrumentals, flöat are fresh out of Nottingham and the woman behind the music, Heather Blore, tells us why we should be listening…
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Xylophone Man to be ‘Immortalised’ in Historic England exhibition?
Mon 30 Jul 2018Nottingham legend Xylophone Man, aka Frank Robinson, may be about to be 'Immortalised' in a new exhibition down south by Historic England
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Simpsonwave: Meet the Guy Behind the Meme
Tue 10 Jul 2018By splicing clips of The Simpsons together with the glitchy, retro aesthetics of the internet music genre vaporwave, Lucien Hughes, a student at the University of Nottingham, became the key proprietor of a new subgenre: Simpsonwave. Since releasing his first video in February 2016, Lucien has not only created a popular meme but somewhat rejuvenated vaporwave altogether, having garnered nearly 23 million YouTube channel views. We caught up with Lucien to give us some insight into the subgenre and its success.
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Comedian Doug Stanhope Reckons The Fish Man Is Well Odd
Fri 01 Jun 2018He’s one of those stand-ups that you’ve either never heard of or are obsessive about. British viewers may know him from a glut of appearances on Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe and Screenwipe back in the early- and mid-noughties, but there’s a lot more to Doug Stanhope than that...
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Preview: One Man's Madness at Nottingham Showcase
Sun 20 May 2018Nottingham Showcase are playing host to 'rocku-docu-mockumentary' story of Madness saxophonist Lee 'Kix' Thompson this Wednesday...
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The Crisis in Nottingham Healthcare: The Truth Behind The Headlines
Tue 15 May 2018If you watched the recent BBC2 series Hospital, you’ll know that Nottingham health services aren’t in the best of health themselves. The series showed just how much strain our NHS is under and how hard the staff work to paper over the increasingly obvious cracks.
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Live Music Review: Too Many Zooz at Rescue Rooms
Mon 14 May 2018Born in the subways of New York City in 2013, viral busking trio Too Many Zooz create an extremely unique sound...
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Meet the Nottingham Man Who Makes Music to Sleep To
Mon 14 May 2018Had trouble nodding off recentleh? Alistair Webster, founder of GMB record label has created some tunes to help your lot get forty winks and help with your concentration...
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Nottingham Poetry Festival 2018: Another Manic Monday
Tue 24 Apr 2018This festival has us rushing about like a bunch of blue-arsed flies, and we love it. Here's today's round-up of all the groovy poetry that came out of Monday 24th April, 2018.
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Nottingham Craft Beer Festival is Happening in Sneinton Market
Mon 23 Apr 2018The secret is out. We’re gerrin’ involved in summat exciting, soon to hit the avenues...
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Nottingham Buskers: Sam "The Blues Man" Lindo
Tue 10 Apr 2018Sam Lindo aka Blues Man has been strumming his strings on Nottingham streets for yonks. As one of the first acts to appear at a LeftLion gig, we met him for a chat about his life and music, and to tip our hat…
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