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LeftLion's Latest Listens #24: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 20 Jun 2025In the latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Cappo, Dorothy Ella. GIRLBAND!, The Doctor's Orders Collective and We Are Sovereign...
Bhajis in Beeston: visiting Indian street food café SuRano
Fri 20 Jun 2025Julia Head, AKA Instagram’s The Nottingham Food Guide, takes us to Beeston’s plant-based Indian street food café SuRano.
Gig review: Tim Minchin at the Royal Concert Hall
Thu 19 Jun 2025There are few plaudits that haven’t been thrown Tim Minchin’s way. The wizard of wordsmithery has found his way into every corner of live performance, whether that be composing and writing for award winning musicals, taking to the stage and screen as an actor or touring his own extensive back catalogue of music. Simply put, within the performing arts bubble he’s done it all. And now he's graced the stage of our city's own Royal Concert Hall...
Gig review: Shonen Knife at Rescue Rooms
Thu 19 Jun 2025It was a welcome return to Nottingham for Shonen Knife and their brand of punk rock / rock- and-roll rockabilly, with a coordinated cosmos of colour as always...
Our June cover artist Lily Keogh talks festivals and perfectionism
Thu 19 Jun 2025This month’s cover artist Lily Keogh talks about festivals, neurodivergence and perfectionism.
How Colwick design studio Future Makers wants to reinvent the plastics industry
Wed 18 Jun 2025Like it or not, our modern world is built on plastic - and whilst the long-term health and ecosystem impacts are still poorly understood, the early signs are pretty alarming. Tackling this issue is set to be a generations-long task, but pioneering Colwick-based design studio Future Makers are giving it a crack, turning waste plastic into useful, solid, creations that are built to last, whilst giving back. Founder and Director Tristan Hessing guides us through their manufacturing process, the education gap hampering creatives working with this abundant material, and why we need more young people joining and innovating in the plastics industry.
What's happening at the Nottingham Windrush Celebrations this weekend
Tue 17 Jun 2025With Windrush Day coming up on Sunday 22 June, there are celebrations and events happening across three days in Nottingham. Caradoc Gayer spoke to organisers Clive Foster, Joy Pennant-Edwards and Parisa East about why we need to continue to honour the Windrush community and what to expect throughout the celebrations.
Nottingham Craft Beer Festival Returns This Weekend!
Tue 17 Jun 2025Nottingham Craft Beer Festival is back once again at Sneinton Market Avenues this weekend for its seventh year. Over 4000 attendees are expected over three sessions on Fri 20 and Sat 21 June 2025.
Concert Review: MIRABILÉ at St Peter’s Church, Ruddington
Tue 17 Jun 2025Mirabilé, a Nottingham based all-female vocal ensemble, perform at Ruddington.
Exhibition Review: Country Lives at Lakeside Arts
Tue 17 Jun 2025Over at Lakeside Arts, the current exhibition ‘Country Lives’ explores the use and depiction of the English countryside over the last 200 years. We went down to check it out…
Film Review: The Phoenician Scheme
Mon 16 Jun 2025We review The Phoenician Scheme, an offbeat infrastructural binge across the desert in Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded satire of empire, excess, and (possibly) redemption...
Competition: Win Tickets To Splendour Festival 2025
Mon 16 Jun 2025Splendour Festival is back on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July after a year's hiatus. The festival returns to Wollaton Park bigger than ever with dozens of well known acts and lots of upcoming talent on the line-up. And we have two pairs of tickets to give away...
Theatre Review: Hamlet - The Rest is Silence
Mon 16 Jun 2025A unique Notts community rework of the classic tragedy
"You okay mate?" The Notts pub that’s getting men talking about their feelings
Mon 16 Jun 2025The national mental health crisis and its profound effect on men is a phenomenon widely talked about that lots of people have posed different solutions to. In Sneinton Market however, LeftLion neighbours The Fox and Grapes pub are tackling the problem in a concise and simple way, inviting local blokes into the space to openly chat about whatever might be bothering them. Matteo D’Alesio went down to speak to the team about how to Get Men Talking…
Gig review: Jadu Heart at Rescue Rooms
Sun 15 Jun 2025It’s been a busy year for Jadu Heart. Hot on the heels of the release of their fourth record, and following an extended jaunt across the US with recent Nottingham Arena fillers - and one of the biggest bands in the world right now - Fontaines DC, they find themselves packing out Rescue Rooms as part of their own headline UK tour...
Gig review: BBC Introducing East Midlands Showcase at Metronome
Sun 15 Jun 2025BBC Introducing returned to Nottingham's Metronome with a fresh showcase of local talent, expertly curated by East Midlands legend Dean Jackson. This edition featured SPLIT, Manye Fi, Harry Lyon and Drew Thomas...
Pick Six: Jackie P
Sun 15 Jun 2025Kemet FM DJ Jackie P is hosting the One World Acoustic Stage at Mansfield Carnival on Saturday 21 June. We asked her to choose half a dozen of her favourite things…