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Live Music Review: Symphonic Queen & The Beatles

Sun 31 Mar 2019

The classic tunage got the full orchestral treatment in this sellout show

Film Review: Fighting with My Family

Sun 31 Mar 2019

WWE studios and Film4 team up to create a heart-warming true story of dreams coming true...

Theatre Review: Wendy and Peter Pan at The Television Workshop

Sat 30 Mar 2019

The third play in the Television Workshop season took place at Metronome and we were all hooked...

Theatre Review: David Almond's Skellig at Nottingham Playhouse

Thu 28 Mar 2019

Skellig by David Almond is Artistic Director Adam Penford’s sophomore family show of his tenure at Nottingham Playhouse. Lisa Blair takes the directorial reins of this darkly supernatural tale, guiding the audience along a journey which boldly discusses mortality through the lens of magic realism, provoking discussions and placing lumps in throats.

LeftLion Film Podcast #16 - Nick Frost

Thu 28 Mar 2019

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto chat to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz star Nick Frost about his new film Fighting with my Family and his upcoming appearance at EM-Con Nottingham on May 4-5.

For more information or to book tickets to EM-Con Nottingham, visit their website

Live Music Review: Group Listening at Metronome

Wed 27 Mar 2019

Group Listening, the collaborative name of Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) and experimental musician Paul Jones, have produced an album of ambient classics, reworked and reinterpreted for clarinet and piano. They stopped off at Metronome on their latest tour to give this Notts crowd quite a treat…

Film Review: Us

Tue 26 Mar 2019

Jordan Peele's follow-up to the enormously successful Get Out is in cinemas now...

Film Review: The White Crow

Tue 26 Mar 2019

The third film from the directorial career of Ralph Fiennes tells the story of Russian ballet icon Rudolph Nureyev and his defection to the West...

Live Music Review: Soft Girls & Boys Club at The Bodega

Sun 24 Mar 2019

Local lads Soft Girls & Boys Club launched their EP in epic fashion at The Bodega this weekend...

Live Music Review: Red Rum Club at Rough Trade

Sun 24 Mar 2019

Red Rum Club blew our Tina Sherwood’s socks off at their sell-out Rough Trade gig…

Theatre Review: Brave New World at The Television Workshop

Sat 23 Mar 2019

Written by award-winning playwright Dawn King, Brave New World is the theatre adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel of the same name. We got down to The Television Workshop, to see the performance as part of their 2019 Play Season..

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

Sat 23 Mar 2019

Featuring The Five Hundred, Shxdow, Dog Explosion, Garry Perkins and Pete Beardsworth...

Live Music Review: dodie at Rock City

Fri 22 Mar 2019

Singer-songwriter dodie brought smiles, tears and excitement to Rock City this week...

Theatre Review: Georgina Lock's The Lady in the Veil at West Bridgford Library

Fri 22 Mar 2019

The lesser known tale of a Nottingham-born aristocrat and her quest to bring Smallpox innoculations into general medical practise in the 1700s has been adapted for the stage in a one-woman play. Bea Udeh attended the East Midlands premiere of The Lady in the Veil at West Bridgford Library to out more about this fine lass of Nottingham heritage and her vast appetite for certain experiences underneath the yashmak.

LeftLion Film Podcast #15 - Jessica Hynes

Thu 21 Mar 2019

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto chat to BAFTA Award winning actress Jessica Hynes, star of Spaced, Twenty Twelve and W1A, about her new film The Fight. The film, which marks Hynes' directorial debut, is the story of a mother of three who steps into the boxing ring as a method of dealing with the anger that stems from her dysfunctional family and a dark period in her past.