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Live Music Review: Island Life Tour 2016 at Lee Rosy's

Thu 17 Mar 2016

Sofar Sounds and Island Records teamed-up for a night of intimate performances at our favourite tea shop

Art Review: Carole Hawthorne at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

Wed 16 Mar 2016

"There is an overall sense of structure, repetition and use of shape within each piece, yet Hawthorne's line-making has a playful, free-flowing aspect to it that radiates personality"

Industry Week 2016

Wed 16 Mar 2016

Every year Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies hosts talks and workshops for its students from the most revered creative professionals going. The LeftLion crew got down to find out more about what was going on and are ready to report back

Interview: Ben Wheatley talks High-Rise

Wed 16 Mar 2016

We spoke to the film director about his latest film, in cinemas now, adapted from the JG Ballard novel

Interview: Local Filmmaker Jason M.J Brown

Tue 15 Mar 2016

We spoke to the film director about his new horror feature film Dark Vale

Top Internet Chav Devvo is Coming to Spanky Van Dykes

Sun 13 Mar 2016

We put some questions to the bus-hating, cell-dwelling moshy basher ahead of his gig at Spanky Van Dykes. Ya dick 'ed

Pick of the Week: 14 - 20 March

Sun 13 Mar 2016

The Music Exchange closing party, MC Devvo and Small Plate Speed Dating, all in one rollercoaster week

DHP Family's Scott O'Neill On What It's Like To Be A Promoter

Wed 09 Mar 2016

"About seven years ago I took a crazy risk in my pre-DHP days. I organised a tour for a very famous hip hop act, and confirmed three shows, including one at Brixton Academy"

Learning Mixed Martial Arts? There's an App for That - Robin Hamilton Talks Fighter Training

Fri 04 Mar 2016

"More and more people are starting martial arts from a younger age. Parents are becoming more aware of the huge benefits it has in fitness and self-discipline"

New Mansfield Club Night for People with Learning Disabilities

Wed 02 Mar 2016

"We want to involve people to make TENFIFTY a club night that is run by and for people with a learning disability"

Choose Your Own Adventure #2: Fighting Mad

Tue 01 Mar 2016

The second installment in the series that lets you decide what happens next. Don't forget to vote in the comments section or give us a shout on social media

What Notts: Strange News in Nottingham

Mon 29 Feb 2016

We've been scouring the web to find out all the stuff going off in the ends

Be - One: The Nottingham Arts Theatre Gig in Pictures

Mon 29 Feb 2016

We caught all the action of the live, multisensory performance of Be's soundtrack, One at the Nottingham Arts Theatre

Dizzy Ink Kickstarter To Set-Up School Of Print

Sun 28 Feb 2016

The design and print studio need your help setting up Nottingham's only open access screen print facility

Pick of the Week: 29 - 6 March

Sun 28 Feb 2016

Demon barbers and fundraising concerts. There's nothing Notts can't do for you, this week

Five Leaves Nominated for Independent Bookshop of the Year

Thu 25 Feb 2016

“I’m quite prepared to be wrong, quite prepared to go bankrupt, quite prepared to have egg on my face, but I’d rather look silly and be wrong than not have a go”

Nottingham in Photos: March 2016

Thu 25 Feb 2016

With work from Alex Clark, Arran Bee, Brian Sanderson, Ciaran Brown, Darren Cowley, Heather Drake, Neil Squires, Paul Dennan and Pete Feeny

Pick of the Week: 22 - 28 February

Sun 21 Feb 2016

All the best Nottingham events over the next seven days, in and around your face, with everything from art exhibitions, to gigs, to trampolining parties and film screenings

Live Music Review: Be Perform One Soundtrack at Nottingham Arts Theatre

Sat 20 Feb 2016

40,000 bees and 12 musicians play the album ONE as a live multisensory experience at the Nottingham Arts Theatre

I Know This City: A Poem by Sue Dymoke

Fri 19 Feb 2016

"I know that the laughter in here is getting louder and glitter-topped twenty-somethings cluster round their Primark bags, draining glasses, urging their barman to be quicker."