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Interview: Hetain Patel
Sun 01 Jul 2012Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...
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Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey
Tue 26 Jun 2012Whether it was for living space, work, shelter or punishment, our ancestors were obsessed with going underground, with over five hundred caves dotted across the city. They’re all being catalogued by the Nottingham Caves Survey - and according to Project Leader David Strange-Walker, putting a sledgehammer through a pub door has
never been more educational...
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Future Sound of Nottingham 2012 in photos
Mon 18 Jun 2012Photos from the contest featuring Joe Danks, Tom Wardle, In The Northwood, Crash Jacket, The Species and eventual winners The Afterdark Movement
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LIVE: Captain Dangerous album launch
Tue 05 Jun 2012The string section opened with a spine tingling beautiful chord progression, before bursting into Eye Of The Tiger (aka the theme from Rocky)
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2nd Nottingham Zine Fair
Fri 18 May 2012It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical
Fri 11 May 2012Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...
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Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical
Wed 09 May 2012This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…
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The Maze 15th Birthday Extravaganza in photos
Wed 09 May 2012LeftLion and I'm Not from London last Saturday with Just James, Seas of Mirth, The Austin Francis Connection and 25 Past The Skank
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The Music Exchange
Sat 21 Apr 2012Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...
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Interview: Fists
Fri 20 Apr 2012The on-their-own-terms, no-compromise, if-you-want-something-done-properly-do-it-yourself attitude of Fists has made them one of the most respected bands in town. We asked James Findlay and Angi Fletcher why it took ‘em so long to play a gig, and in which decade we could expect an LP...
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Interview: Dilk of Montana Shop
Thu 05 Apr 2012Stephen Dilks - Dilk, to his friends, the global graffiti community, and huge chunks of wall around the city - celebrates ten years of running specialist shops in town and basically running our local street art scene.
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Homeless Film Festival 2012
Mon 02 Apr 2012This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...
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LeftLion Music Exchange Takeover in photos
Sun 01 Apr 2012LeftLion took over a record shop in town for a day and put on some of the best bands and acts from our local scene
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Art Works: Twenty Fifteen by Allan Binns
Sat 17 Mar 2012"The studio floor is covered with snippets from fantastical comic books, holiday brochures and 1960s ‘gentleman’s special interest’ magazines"
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Final Cut Pros: Music Video Director Round Table Discussion
Thu 08 Mar 2012When the cream of Nottingham’s music scene need their work immortalised on video, they talk to Tom Walsh, Michael Holyk and Junglewire. But only when we’ve finished talking to them for this special round table interview...
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Interview: Martin Allen
Sun 19 Feb 2012Some see Martin ‘Mad Dog’ Allen as the epitome of the eccentric, geezerish football manager. But Notts County fans will testify that there is method in the madness, after he saved them from relegation last season. We caught up with him for a chat about Nottingham, posh hotels and a certain League Cup tie...
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Ecoworks: Nottingham’s first permaculture organisation
Fri 17 Feb 2012If they were any greener, Robin Hood would be wearing them. Part community project, part landscape design consultants, part catering service, part suppliers to Notts cafés and restaurants, 100% local produce champions, they’re on a mission to turn the entire city onto home-grown produce, as Business Development Manager John MacDonald points out….
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The Maze's Gaz Peacham on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sun 22 Jan 2012"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"
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Nick Turner from The Chameleon on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sat 21 Jan 2012"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"
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Nottingham Record Labels in 2011
Wed 11 Jan 2012Every Nottingham record label we can think of, what they’re into, and if they’re up for listening to your demo...
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Nottingham Gig Poster Designers Talk About The Art
Mon 26 Dec 2011The finest artworks that have ever blown down a street in Notts
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Why one night watching Bob Tilton in Dubble Bubble made me move to Nottingham...
Sat 24 Dec 2011Chris Summerlin, a one-time outsider, lays out exactly why our scene is so unique
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Women in Nottingham Music
Sun 11 Dec 2011Lou Barnell from Royal Gala takes us through some of the female musical talent in Nottingham...
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SOLD OUT: The Notts Music Photo
Fri 09 Dec 2011Your chance to buy a 16 x 12 inch high-quality copy of the LeftLion Notts Music Photo that adorns the cover of Issue 44
Interview: Nottingham Panther's Jeff Heerema and Rob Lachowicz
Wed 02 Nov 2011While Forest and County bumble along in their respective (lower) divisions, the most successful professional sports team in Nottingham quietly goes about its business of hoovering up trophies left and right – and this season they’re making a serious run at winning their first league title since 1955. They’re your Nottingham Panthers, and two
of them – right-winger Jeff Heerema from Thunder Bay, Ontario and left-winger Rob Lachowicz from Wollaton – had a word with us…
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