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The British Triathlon Mixed Relay Cup Comes to Nottingham

Swim! Bike! Run! The British Triathlon Mixed Relay Cup is coming to Nottingham and we've got the low down

Southwell's Bringing Classic Back

Organiser Marcus Farnsworth gives us the lowdown on the hows, whys and whats of the upcoming Southwell Music Festival...

Stuart Broad - Recordbreaker

Stuart Broad already has an MBE, a tram and a Castle Rock beer named after him. On Saturday, he took 3 wickets to take him past Sir Ian Botham in the England all-time test wicket takers list. We have a look back on some memorable performances.

Comedy Review: Glee Club Foodie Friday

Glee Club weekend comedy bonanza – 3 acts and a compere

The Nottingham Creatives Bringing the NHS to the Stage

Fifty years ago, John Berger and Jean Mohr brought the world of a rural medical professional into the spotlight with the book A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor. Now, theatre-maker Michael Pinchbeck and photographer Julian Hughes have been developing a creative project based on the book. Working with New Perspectives theatre company, alongside a team of writers and visual artists, the pair have been taking another look at doctors, exploring just how much the NHS has changed over the years through their new theatre production A Fortunate Man...

The Gorgons Talk Making Music

Notes from the Middle Kingdom: Beautiful Baijiu

Nottingham's own cultural attache to China James Kramer is back to preach the virtues of China's national drink baijiu. Bottoms up, youth! 

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at the Angel Microbrewery

Fuzzbox, I'm Not From London's night of garage rock, garage punk, freakbeat, surf rock and New York punk, returns to The Angel Microbrewery and so we headed down to check it out...

Street Tales: Shelford Tommy

Nottingham has always boasted its fair share of local characters, legends and eccentrics. People like Benjamin Mayo, and more recent contenders like Frank Robinson, affectionately known as Xylophone Man, will go down in Nottingham history...

Music Video: The DandyLions - Pick & Mix

Sugary glam-rock from the Future Sound of Nottingham finalists...

Art Works: Shane Buckingham

The local artist reveals how drawing is a welcome "side effect" of his brain injury...

Talking Diversity and Kemet FM's Tenth Birthday with Jackie P

Jackie P has been a radio DJ and presenter for over seven years. A stalwart of Nottingham’s music scene, she presents The Breakfast Show on Kemet FM, who’ve been celebrating their tenth birthday this year by hosting a series of events, with lineups boasting everyone from Bobby Valentino to Sweet Female Attitude. In celebration of the radio station that champions urban music and the culture of Nottingham’s African and Caribbean communities, we grabbed the legendary presenter for a natter about her place within the city’s institution...

Sarah Maple's Not My Cup of Tea at New Art Exchange

We got down to Hyson Green to check out the latest art exhibition on offer...

Live Music Review: The Flaming Lips at Rock City

The Flaming Lips come to Rock City and bring more inflatables than you'd see at a children's birthday party...

LL Stereo: With Bru-C, Katie Cooper, April Towers and more...

What you need in your ear holes this month...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

It's a cultural one this weekend, so get stuck in and see what's happenin'...

Nottingham 2023 European Capital of Culture Bid Launch at Sneinton Market in Photos

Ayup Notts, it’s possible that we’re about to become the next tourist hotspot for all them tourists looking to get a little more creativity in their lives. Nottingham’s Cultural Strategy Partnership (CSP) announced its bid to become a European Capital of Culture 2023… in a giant light-up inflatable structure – otherwise known as a luminarium – no less...

Nusic Podcast #160 with As December Falls, Gallery 47, Kelsey Shaw and more

Get your lugholes around this badboy...

Rescue Rooms Beer Festival

"Shave the head off the top, duck"

The Lincolnshire Poacher's Brother From Another

27 years ago, a sweet pub friendship blossomed. To this day, The Lincolnshire Poacher up Mansfield Road, and In De Wildeman in ‘Dam are twinned like the brotherly boozers they are, so we hopped across the pond and through the seasons, to search for the answers behind the bond. And for a couple of swift ones...

Notts County vs Everton U21

With Everton U21s in town, our Gav headed off to Meadow Lane to check out the Checkatrade Trophy match and to get some opinions on whether these youth teams should be in the competition at all.

Art Works: Sophie Johnson-Hill

The illustrator and animator on the beauty of a child's imagination. N'aww...

Theatre Review: Holloway Jones

Teen crime drama packs a punch

9 Albums You Have To Listen To This Month

With Yazmin Lacey, Little Barrie, Jimi Mack and more...

Lucy Does Burlesque

There’ve been several times in my life when my mouth has signed me up to something before my brain has had the chance to work it out. Nominating myself to be school-council representative in year seven was disastrous for my street cred, and stepping up to the Ayia Napa boat party drinking competition went as successfully as one can imagine. Now, for the entertainment of you lot, I agreed to attend a burlesque class and write about my experience for dear old LeftLion. Why?