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LeftLion Magazine #47

Fri 01 Jun 2012

Featuring Underground Notts, Natalie Duncan, Justin Fashanu, Jake Bugg, Hetain Patel and a free Euro 12 wallchart...

Dot To Dot 2012

Thu 31 May 2012

"Come and see your new favourite band in the afternoon, have a few beers, and then come back and see your current favourite band"

Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero

Sun 27 May 2012

"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"

Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...

Art Works: Grand Central Station by Anna Griffin

Wed 23 May 2012

"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"

Interview: Derren Brown

Mon 21 May 2012

Master of magic, mind control and manipulation; Derren Brown has made an international career of persuading people to think and do things they otherwise would not. So when we asked him if he fancied an interview with LeftLion, before the Notts leg of his Svengali tour, we were elated and yet filled with trepidation when he said “yes”…

2nd Nottingham Zine Fair

Fri 18 May 2012

It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May

Interview: Jenny Sealey

Mon 14 May 2012

Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.

Interview: Graham Coxon

Mon 14 May 2012

Graham Coxon will be seeing off the Olympics with his old band in the summer, but not before swinging through town to promote new LP A + E at the Rescue Rooms this April...

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical

Fri 11 May 2012

Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical

Wed 09 May 2012

This 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…

The Maze 15th Birthday Extravaganza in photos

Wed 09 May 2012

LeftLion and I'm Not from London last Saturday with Just James, Seas of Mirth, The Austin Francis Connection and 25 Past The Skank

Interview: Alex Hales

Fri 04 May 2012

A new cricket season for Notts and a hugely important year for their twenty-three year-old batsman Alex Hales. He’s already made his mark in the first team, played Twenty20 for England and spent last winter in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with the England Lions – essentially the national reserves team. Is he the future of the Outlaws and the national side?

Interview: The Austin Francis Connection

Wed 02 May 2012

The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...

A Canadian on the British Government

Sun 29 Apr 2012

"Privatising the police force. How do you even do that? Adorn police stab vests with 888.com patches, like him off the snooker?"

Interview: James Hooton

Sun 29 Apr 2012

He’s spent the last seventeen years playing a member of the most infamous Yorkshire soap family on TV, but James Hooton is still a Nottingham lad through and through. So when he got a call from an old friend who was putting on a play about the Motherland then he decided it was an opportunity worth skipping a few of episodes of Emmerdale for…

Hellfire Harlots vs Crime City Rollers

Sat 28 Apr 2012

Nottingham's baddass roller derby ladies took on a team all the way from Malmo, Sweden

FSN 2012 semi finals in photos

Fri 27 Apr 2012

Photos from the new Nottingham music acts who played in the Market Square

LeftLion Presents Fists, Cantaloupe and Kagoule

Fri 27 Apr 2012

Photos from LeftLion's Record Store Day gig at Nottingham Contemporary

The Music Exchange

Sat 21 Apr 2012

Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...

Interview: Fists

Fri 20 Apr 2012

The 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...