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9 Notts Music Albums, Reviewed: Scorzayzee, Clay Shaped Boy, Damn Craters and more

Thu 06 Apr 2017

If you're from Nottingham and you want your tunes reviewed, hit up leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic...

Photos: Food and Trinket Market in Nottingham Market Square

Wed 05 Apr 2017

Sun's out, fun's out. We got down to Nottingham's Market Square to check out what the latest market has to offer. Turns out, lots of tasty treats and beautiful bits...

Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer

Tue 04 Apr 2017

After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...

Nottingham Trent Win Notts Varsity Ice Hockey Match Two Years on the Trot

Tue 04 Apr 2017

Once again, Trent trumps UoN on the ice with a score of 5-4. At Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham holds one of the biggest university events of the year...

10 Things To Do in Nottingham This Week

Sun 02 Apr 2017

Be off with you, there's things to be done...

3 New Nottingham Products You Have To Try This Summer

Sat 01 Apr 2017

Are you sick of global corporations and their cheap, quality goods? Do you think local, and act local? Then step this way, as we discover the finest products this side of the Midlands has to offer...

Nottingham Independent Fashion Parade in Photos

Mon 27 Mar 2017

On Saturday 25 March, Nottingham city was transformed into a catwalk to celebrate all the independent shops and fashion brands that exist among us. We got down to check out all of the strutters of the stuff on Saturday...

10 Things To Do in Nottingham This Week

Sun 26 Mar 2017

C'mon, Spring has sprung, and you should too...

Live Music Review: Jurassic 5's Chali 2na and Krafty Kuts at Southbank City

Sat 25 Mar 2017

There aren’t many places you can go for an old-fashioned dinner and dance these days, but Notts-based label / promoter / caterer Gangsta Wraps are putting that right with their Rhyme and Dine evenings...

Poet Leanne Moden on Spoken Word in Nottingham

Fri 24 Mar 2017

Who’d have thought there was such a wealth of spoken word events and culture going on in our fair city? Founder of the spoken word night Crosswords and former-East Anglian, Leanne Moden couldn’t believe it either. She explains why poetry’s proper poppin’ off in Notts…

Live Music Review: High Tides at Rock City

Fri 24 Mar 2017

The release show for new record I'm Not Giving Up, I'm Just Starting Over was a success...

9 Notts Music Albums to Tickle your Tabs

Wed 22 Mar 2017

We review the latest music albums born in Nottingham

Poetry and Chat with Nottingham Trent University's Rory Waterman

Mon 20 Mar 2017

Not only is Rory Waterman Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, his debut poetry collection, Tonight the Summer’s Over, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize in 2014. We had a chat with him about what politics and poetry mean to him…

The Nottingham Bucket List

Mon 20 Mar 2017

Once you've worked through this list, you can call yourself a real Nottinghamian. Click the image below to enlarge and print, so you stick it in your wall and can tick off the boxes as you go along. You're. Welcome.

10 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week

Sun 19 Mar 2017

Hold onto your hats, boys and girls. It's a biggun...

Music Video: Louis Antoniou - Bad Apple

Sun 19 Mar 2017

One of two independent singles the blues-rocker has released this month...

Live Music Review: Brad Dear EP Launch at The Bodega

Sat 18 Mar 2017

The singer-songwriter celebrated the release of his The Only Road I Know EP...

9 Theatres To See Plays and Comedy and Stuff

Fri 17 Mar 2017

We've got a massive music scene, but there's so much more going off on Nottingham's stages...

Nottingham Politics For Beginners

Thu 16 Mar 2017

Be you old or be you young, the world of politics is a murky one. We've compiled the basics of local politics to get you in the swing of things...

5 Cinemas to Visit in Nottingham

Wed 15 Mar 2017

Whether you’re a lone cinema wolf, leader of the pack, or top dog when it comes to romancing the better half, here’s our rundown of Notts picture houses…

8 Alternative Days Out in Nottingham

Mon 13 Mar 2017

If another Netflix binge just isn’t gonna cut it, and the thought of one more pub crawl is enough to turn your stomach, step this way...

7 Obscure Sports Teams in Nottingham

Mon 13 Mar 2017

Nottingham is a proper sporting city. Nottingham Forest Football Club have won the European Cup twice and Notts County are the oldest football league club in the world – although, not for much longer if they keep flirting with relegation. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club have won the County Championship six times and their home, Trent Bridge, is a world famous international cricket venue. Meanwhile, the Nottingham Panthers are one of the most successful ice hockey teams in the country, recently becoming the first British team to win a European trophy. But there are also some lesser-known sports teams in the city that deserve celebrating...