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Gig review: Punk Rock Factory at Rough Trade
Fri 21 Feb 2025After catching Punk Rock Factory’s unforgettable performance at Rock City last year, our designer Natalie was so impressed that she didn’t hesitate to grab a ticket for their intimate gig at Rough Trade, and an unforgettable experience...
How Sarah Bard went from battling chronic illness to breaking through in wheelchair tennis
Fri 21 Feb 2025Wheelchair Tennis player and Nottingham resident Sarah Bard is nothing less than a soldier. Having fought through lifelong chronic pain and mobility problems, which peaked after an accident she suffered at age thirty, she’s cemented her position as one of our city’s most admired sportspeople. Back in 2018, LeftLion joined other local media in promoting Sarah’s story, and ‘Go-Fund-Me’ for a new wheelchair to help her travel to national tournaments. Here we pass Sarah the pen to tell her inspiring story.
Gig review: Circa Waves at Rock City
Thu 20 Feb 2025Celebrating the release of new album Death & Love Pt.1, Circa Waves brought their festival anthems to the legendary venue that is Rock City with a high-energy performance that spanned across the range of their six studio albums. Birmingham indie rockers Peace joined as main support...
Gig review: Marvin's Revenge at JT Soar
Thu 20 Feb 2025Marvin’s Revenge not only hosted and performed a blazing gig at Nottingham's JT Soar, but at the same time rasied funds to make their New York dreams come true. We got in on the action...
Universities for Nottingham’s Co(l)laboratory programme is seeking committed citizens for paid events shaping local research
Wed 19 Feb 2025The groundbreaking Co(l)laboratory programme is looking for local workers, people who are active in the community, and those with lived experience of facing complex challenges to take part in upcoming paid events that will help set the research agenda.
Gig review: Welly at The Bodega
Wed 19 Feb 2025Immersive, exciting and utterly captivating - that was the atmosphere as Welly hit The Bodega's stage, unleashing creative chaos from the first moment. With The Pill and Polly Money setting the scene, the evening was unforgettable and proved this band are absolutely one to watch...
Feathers and royalty: Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - Swan Lake flaps into town
Wed 19 Feb 2025Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - Swan Lake returns to The Theatre Royal. After thirty years, has the ballet lost any of its charm?
Gig review: Bayside at Rescue Rooms
Wed 19 Feb 2025If Bayside are one of those bands always on the periphery of your scene knowledge... make them one of your go-to bands. Their makeshift ‘Greatest Hits’ tour has pin-balled the enigmatic five-piece through the last 25 years, and with a stop off in Nottingham's Rescue Rooms, it was a headline show hard to forget...