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Interview: Captain Dangerous

Fri 01 Jun 2012

Captain Dangerous’s debut LP The Empire Never Ended is six years in the making. And if you’ve ever lobbed a couple of bob in lead singer Adam Clarkson’s hat, congratulations - you’ve paid towards it...

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"

Interview: Pirate Technics

Thu 24 May 2012

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...

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”…

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.

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…

Interview: Dilk of Montana Shop

Thu 05 Apr 2012

Stephen Dilks - Dilk, to his friends, the global graffiti community, and huge chunks of wall around the city - celebrates ten years of running specialist shops in town and basically running our local street art scene.

Derren Brown

Tue 03 Apr 2012

"I’ve got over a hundred stuffed items at home, including a couple of giraffes, which is probably too many for any house"

Homeless Film Festival 2012

Mon 02 Apr 2012

This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...

Dilk - A retrospective

Sun 01 Apr 2012

Photos from Dilk's collection and from behind the scenes at the LeftLion #46 cover shoot

A Canadian On Cycling

Sat 24 Mar 2012

Think once, think twice, think Rob Cutforth in tight fluorescent lycra…

Interview: Dom Flynn from Navigation Brewery

Tue 13 Mar 2012

"I tell my mates I’m going in to sample the brews in the morning, and their faces light up - but if I’ve had a proper night out, it’s not nice"

Final Cut Pros: Music Video Director Round Table Discussion

Thu 08 Mar 2012

When the cream of Nottingham’s music scene need their work immortalised on video, they talk to Tom Walsh, Michael Holyk and Junglewire. But only when we’ve finished talking to them for this special round table interview...

The Day I Met Brian Clough

Sat 25 Feb 2012

Marcus Alton - we wouldn't say he's the most dedicated fan in the world. But he's in the top one.

May Contain Notts: Dec 2011 - Jan 2012

Sat 25 Feb 2012

The usual morbid carousel of mouth-breathery, wrongness and rubbishy football teams

Sowing Sneinton: Guerilla Gardening

Mon 20 Feb 2012

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t get alarmed now. It’s probably Donya Coward and Suzannah Bedford – collectively known as Sowing Sneinton – who have taken up the cause of guerilla gardening in order to improve the neglected flowerbeds and public spaces of their broken fridge-encrusted neighbourhood…

Interview: Docta D and DJ Razor

Tue 24 Jan 2012

"Anybody who has been a proper DJ at some stage in their life has had tuberculosis from going in Robs Records"

Interview: Harleighblu

Thu 19 Jan 2012

Incredibly talented, effortlessly cool, immaculate influences - no wonder labels are perking their ears to the old-school, big band soul of Harleighblu...

Nottingham Record Labels in 2011

Wed 11 Jan 2012

Every Nottingham record label we can think of, what they’re into, and if they’re up for listening to your demo...

The Grey Topper in Jacksdale

Mon 09 Jan 2012

In the days before Rock City, the Arena or even the Concert Hall, the best music venue in Notts was the Grey Topper in Jacksdale. Tony Hill, author of a new book documenting the club and the bands that passed through it on the way to something far bigger, takes us through his scrapbook…