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Theatre Interview: The Nottingham Drag Pageant Contestants
Sun 22 Jun 2025Meet the competitors in the Nottingham Drag Pageant 2025. Queens and kings slug it out in a feast of jaw-dropping costumes and laugh out loud humour. But there can only be one and who will win the coveted crown...?
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...
"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…
Stage Interview: Rosie Hollingsworth from Sugar Theatre
Wed 11 Jun 2025The Playhouse's AMPLIFY SEASONS is an opportunity for new talent to break through. And breaking through this summer is Rosie Hollingsworth, playwright and founder of Sugar Theatre. But as Rosie shares below, the journey has been anything but sweet...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #23: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 06 Jun 2025In this week's edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, we review new releases from Lucy Crisp, Pretty Windows and Rhythm Eaters...
LeftLion Interviews Podcast #11 LaQuarn Lewis on BBC mini series What It Feels Like For A Girl, Television Workshop, and LGBTQ+ Notts
Fri 06 Jun 2025Notts born actor LaQuarn Lewis is one of the stars of a new BBC mini-series, What It Feels Like For A Girl, which tells the story of Byron, a Queer teen who is desperate to escape the confines of Hucknall. We caught up with LaQuarn on the podcast to chat about the show, his time at Television Workshop and growing up Queer in Notts...
Film Review: Fountain of Youth
Thu 05 Jun 2025Some films are eternal and deserve to live forever, some should promptly fade away after screening. Join us as we review The Fountain of Youth to find out which category it belongs to…
"I love an ethical hacker": Overheard in Notts May 2025
Wed 28 May 2025Ethical hackers, Yorkshire Terriers and jacket potatoes feature in this month's Overheard in Notts...
Pick Six: Notts born athlete and Paralympian Richard Whitehead
Sun 25 May 2025For this month’s Pick Six we turn to Notts born athlete and Paralympian Richard Whitehead…
We chat to Davoli about music, life and Dot To Dot
Fri 23 May 2025Dot To Dot Festival is almost upon us! One of the hundreds of musicians performing at the day-long musical extravaganza is local artist Davoli. We spoke to him about his brand new EP, his inspirations, and what DTD means to him...
Novelist Alison Moore and LeftLion's Andrew Tucker Leavis talk connecting Notts to Melbourne in a month long digital residency
Fri 23 May 2025For all of its flaws, the internet has become a wonderful tool of cross-country collaboration, allowing the movement of ideas between far-flung time zones and territories. Last year, in a month-long virtual City of Literature residency, LeftLion Literature Editor Andrew Tucker Leavis took a virtual trip down under to explore the imagined meeting of outlaws Robin Hood and Ned Kelly. Here he recounts his experience and talks to fellow Notts writer Alison Moore about what they got up to.
LeftLion's Latest Listens #22: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 16 May 2025In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Blackadder, Mollie Ralph and Set In Motion...
Comedian Matt Forde talks Notts, politics, podcasts and Forest, ahead of his upcoming Nottingham Playhouse gig
Fri 16 May 2025Nottingham’s own Matt Forde is a comedian, TV and radio presenter, writer, impressionist and more. He’s perhaps best known for his podcast The Political Party, where he interviews politicians. However, he’s also a regular on radio, TV and even voiced Donald Trump in the reboot of Spitting Image.
Crowned in Sound: Talking memorable interviews, The Chameleon and Billy Bootleggers with music journo Dom Gourlay
Tue 13 May 2025Growing up in Mansfield, Dom Gourlay didn’t realise he’d later become one of the country’s top music journalists. We grabbed a long overdue coffee with Dom, currently the Festivals and Live Reviews Editor for Under the Radar.
LeftLion Interviews Podcast #10: Comedian Matt Forde on His Early Life In Notts, Kier Starmer, Spitting Image, Forest, Cancer and The End of An Era Tour
Fri 09 May 2025Originally from Lenton, Matt Forde is a comedian, TV and radio presenter, writer, impressionist and quite a lot more. He’s perhaps best known for his podcast The Political Party, but he's also a regular face on TV and currently on his End of An Era Tour...
War Horse: an interview with actor Damian Lynch
Thu 08 May 2025Damian Lynch is a British actor and voiceover artist, currently starring in War Horse at the Royal Concert Hall. Emma Hornsby spoke to Damian to get a glimpse behind the scenes of this momentous and memorable theatre production.
A Projectionist in Notts: The Savoy Cinema's Dave Cox recounts his career in pre-digital cinema
Thu 08 May 2025Since 2006, local Dave Cox has worked as the assistant manager of Lenton’s beloved local cinema The Savoy, but he also has decades of experience in the art of film projection, having started as a projectionist long before cinemas went digital. Delightfully, since the start of 2025, Dave’s used that skillset to facilitate The Savoy’s 35mm Films on Film showings. On learning this we were set-a-wondering: what was it like to work as a projectionist over decades, and how was it to return to that field after so many years? Dave was all too happy to tell us...
Experience different cultures, historical theatre, and homegrown Notts music: here's what's on this week 5 - 11 May 2025
Sun 04 May 2025This week in Notts, learn the Afro Brazilian martial art of Capoeira, experience Greek culture, check out some historical theatre or enjoy some lovely homegrown talent from local musicians...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #21: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 02 May 2025We're back once again with a pre-Bank Holiday edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens. This week, our music team reviews new releases from Swallowtail, highspeedpeach, MCØ and Drew Thomas...
Festival Review: Beeston Film Festival
Thu 01 May 2025From Cornish mermaids to crazy golf tournaments, runaway factory robots and first date musicals, this film festival had it all.
We catch up with Moonlit, winner of the 2025 Ultimate Battle of the Bands competition
Wed 30 Apr 2025Following their triumph at the Ultimate Battle of the Bands this year, and ahead of their Rough Trade appearance, we caught up with all six members of Moonlit to find out what the win meant to them, how they feel about playing Splendour Festival, and what else is on the horizon for them as a band…
Overheard in Notts: March 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025From the Lion King to lost blueberries, here's what we overheard in Nottingham in April...
The halcyon days of printed matchday programmes and a long-forgotten 1980s Notts County football tournament
Mon 28 Apr 2025In an increasingly technology-driven era in football, Julian McDougall harks back to the halcyon days of the printed matchday programme and a long-forgotten 1980s football tournament Notts County took part in…
LeftLion's Latest Listens #20: Notts music we're currently spinning
Sat 19 Apr 2025In this Easter weekend edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews recent releases from Katie Keddie, Joey Collins, Blu Syrup, Lace Thief and Karen Macleod...
Interview: The Northern Rascals present Sunny Side at Lakeside Arts
Thu 17 Apr 2025Northern Rascals are bringing their dance drama Sunny Side to Nottingham, a painfully honest account of male mental wellness, or the lack if it. Founders Anna Holmes and Sam Ford talk to Left Lion about their work championing those outside the mainstream...
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