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LeftLion Film Podcast #8 - Al Clark & Anna Griffin: Wellington Films

Fri 29 Jun 2018

Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto are joined by Al Clark and Anna Griffin of Wellington Films, who talked about their brilliant new film Calibre, which has just won the prestigious Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and is on Netflix now.

LeftLion Film Podcast #7: World Cup Football Film Special

Sun 17 Jun 2018

Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto discuss some of the best and worst football films to celebrate the launch of World Cup 2018

LeftLion Film Podcast #6: David Lilley

Sat 09 Jun 2018

Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto are joined by local filmmaker David Lilley to discuss his upcoming short film Socks and Robbers and Short Stack, his monthly short film event at Broadway Cinema

LeftLion Magazine #102

Fri 01 Jun 2018

With Doug Stanhope, Benjamin Zephaniah, Usha Sood, Panya Banjoko, Honey Williams, Valentine Nkoyo, Hallouminati, Nottingham Craft Beer Week, Young Creative Awards and more...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Nina Smith, Rag Doll, Blood Wizard and more...

Fri 04 May 2018

Here's what our music editor reckoned to some of Notts' latest releases...

LeftLion Magazine #101

Tue 01 May 2018

With the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, A Community Gardener in Notts, Bramley Apple Tree Fanclub, Stonebridge City Lambs, Nancy Campbell, Troy Jenkinson, Sara Poyzer, Non-Vegan Vegan Eateries and more...

The Thompson Brothers on LeftLion's 100th Issue

Fri 27 Apr 2018

Our favourite green grocers are well happy for us...

After They Left The Lion...

Tue 24 Apr 2018

We’ve had thousands of brilliant and interesting people contributing to the mag for fifteen years. Plenty have gone on to do some proper interesting stuff after working with us. Here are a handful of the boggers…

A Look Back at the Glory Days of the LeftLion Forum

Tue 17 Apr 2018

Back in the day, our forum was a HIT...

A Look Back at The LeftLion Gigs

Sat 14 Apr 2018

As well as running a magazine, we’ve put on hundreds of gigs and events across town. Some readers will be too young to remember ‘em, but many of you will have played and partied at our nights. This one’s for the old-school...

Overheard in the LeftLion Office

Tue 10 Apr 2018

Ash Dilk’s first contribution to LeftLion was a skateboarding article for issue #6. He started working as the Sales Dude from issue #58, which is when he also started collating all the funny and weird stuff he overheard in the office. Here, he presents his top picks from over the years...

LeftLion Magazine #100

Sun 01 Apr 2018

With Dave "Fish Man" Bartram, Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie, Jake Bugg, Paris Lees, Sleaford Mods, VVV, ReggaeNotts, Sam "Blues Man" Lindo, George Akins, Dilk, Henry Normal and more...

From The Archive: LeftLion Photos from Years Past

Sun 01 Apr 2018

Over the years we’ve seen some bleddy stunning sights from around the city – people, places, art, owls – and they’ve been documented good and proper by your lot. We’ve had a flick through some back issues to bring you a selection of vintage snaps, and here are the results...

LeftLion Magazine #100

Sun 01 Apr 2018

With Dave "Fish Man" Bartram, Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie, Jake Bugg, Paris Lees, Sleaford Mods, VVV, ReggaeNotts, Sam "Blues Man" Lindo, George Akins, Dilk, Henry Normal and more...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Bru-C, Lone, New Apostles and more...

Fri 30 Mar 2018

Plug your headphones in and tune out for a hot sec...

LeftLion Film Podcast #5: Fabrizio Federico

Fri 23 Mar 2018

Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto are joined by local filmmaker Fabrizio Federico to discuss his career, his Pink8 Manifesto, the time a witch put a curse on him, working with pimps, the time he burnt his house down and plenty more. Things got really weird, really fast...

LeftLion Magazine #99

Thu 01 Mar 2018

With Ladbaby, Charity Shop Sue, Toys AndMe, Bru-C, Martyn Poliakoff, Lamar Francois, Chris Underwood, A Cinema Attendant in Notts, Steve Underwood and more...

LeftLion Stereo with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Indiana, Scorzayzee and more

Mon 26 Feb 2018

Here's what our music editor reckoned to some of Notts' latest releases...

LeftLion Film Podcast #4: William Ivory

Mon 19 Feb 2018

Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto were delighted to be joined by William Ivory, the BAFTA nominated writer of Made in Dagenham, Burton and Taylor and many iconic British TV series. The Nottingham-born writer, who has worked with the likes of John Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Pete Poslethwaite, Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Matt Smith, Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, joined us to talk about his career, the film industry and much more.