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Interview: Torvill and Dean

It’s thirty years since Torvill and Dean became global megastars by getting an unprecedented score in the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics for their Bolero performance. This April they return home for the Dancing on Ice Tour and as part of the NEAT14 festival the Nottingham public will be encouraged to enact a mass Bolero. We put some questions to the duo and take a look back at that moment when they made sporting history…

Interview: Indiana

Whirlwind doesn’t describe the last two years of Indiana’s life - since her first ever live performance at Nusic’s Future Sound of Nottingham gig in April 2012; she’s been signed to Sony, had a second child, is set to release her fourth single and play a hometown gig that’s going to struggle to contain her. Not too shabby for a lass from Long Eaton who likes her pop a darker shade of grey…

Notts Parkour

The dashing men of Nottingham talk community, authority and how they secured funding for their park

Interview: Youthoracle

"As soon as you bring something quite personal up about someone, or expose them for something, you’ve won really"

LeftLion Reader Survey 2014 (Closed)

LeftLion Magazine #58

Featuring Gilles Peterson, Indiana, Torvill and Dean, Halle Orchestra, Notts TV, Creative Quarter and more...

The Fish Police and Constant Flux

The band and support organisation are bridging the gap between learning disabled and non-learning disabled musicians and audiences

A Fishy Tale

An animation from Notts born Tom Rourke, made for the BBC's comedy sketch show Two Episodes Of Mash

Don't Flop Raise the Bar in Nottingham

Don’t Flop have gone from strength to strength in the last five years to emerge as the UK’s biggest battle rap league. A forthcoming year of madness is on the cards for them and they’re dragging Nottingham into it with their newest event, Raise the Bar. Be there or be square...

NG83 - Rock City Crew

Nottingham was pretty ace at breaking back in the day, so we're chuffed there's a documentary being made about it

The Lord of Milan - Herbert Kilpin

Did you know that a Lacemaker from Nottingham co-founded AC Milan? Read all about it...

Interview: Pippa Hennessy

Pippa Hennessy is a one woman whirling dervish of creativity whose diary alone is enough to make a busy person’s head spin. She lets us in on the
secrets of her success...

Em-Con

Sci-fi and fantasy convention Em-Con is just around the corner. We chatted to the Red Dwarf favourite who will be there on the day, among others

Richard III: Rise To Power

McGibney Productions take on a Shakespeare classic

Art Works: Jamie Gibson

"I find that interesting people, from whichever field of work they are in, make better subjects"

Switch Studio Billboards

It's time to wave goodbye to the artwork that's brightened up Huntingdon Street for the past three years

Made By Apprentices

A set of artworks have sprung up around the Creative Quarter to celebrate National Apprenticeships Week

Interview: Nicola L Robinson

Nicola L Robinson spends her days drawing dragons, monsters, machines that don’t conform to health and safety standards, and scenes from beloved children’s stories. The Monster Machine, a book she both wrote and illustrated, was shortlisted for the Cambridge Children’s Picture Book Award. We dragged her away from claw and tooth littered desk to talk about her work.

Authors Favourite Kids Books

"Which books rocked your world growing up?"

A History of Women and Feminism in Nottingham 1903-2014

In Celebration of International Women's Day 2014, WoLAN take us through the history of women's rights in the 20th and 21st century and Nottingham's part in the movement...

Lamar Francois

Feast your eyes on a collection from the Young Creative Awards 2012 Photography winner

In Focus: Arse Full of Chips

The rudest named band in town are hanging up their instruments in an attempt to grow up. But not before having one last night of mayhem

Interview: Karl Hilton of Crytek UK

Minding its own business on Canal Street is a games studio so inconspicuous that we had to stick our heads in to believe it. While we were there, Crytek UK’s Managing Director Karl Hilton talked to us about the industry, surprising uses for games development, and his work on some of the best-selling and most highly regarded first-person-shooters ever.

Retrograde

A new short film from Nottingham filmmaker Jason Croxall about a young man struggling with amnesia

Major Oak Chorus

"There is an amazing raw power in hearing a song come together by sixty or so enthusiastic blokes all singing their hearts out"