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The 8 Judges for Nusic Future Sound of Nottingham 2017

Music industry experts and the public have decided the six finalists for the Future Sound of Nottingham, taking place on Sunday 7 May. Hashtagobi, Roe Green, Brotherhood, The DandyLions, One Giant Causeway and Kelsey Shaw will perform in a showcase of new, Notts music, hoping to be crowned the winner. The experts will form a score, alongside the points collected from the audience vote, and will send one of the acts to open the Splendour main stage...

Girl Power T-Shirt Launch and Networking Event

When you’re a small business, networking is everything. The Girl Power T-Shirt launch and networking event, hosted at Minor Oak Co-Working, celebrated this message while discussing one very important subject: the power of female business.

High Stakes and Sportswear at Poetercize! the Poetry Game Show

Scores were settled and mischief was made at Rough Trade this Saint George's Day, but which of our contestants won the championship title in this zany gameshow? We sent LP Mills to the hottest sporting event in Nottingham to find out. 

Big White Shed's Poetry Publisher Anne Holloway Answers Questions in Photos

Founder of the Big White Shed, a meeting place for creatives to seek advice and trade expertise, Anne Holloway has shown us the inner workings of her mind through the art of photography. This month, she’s rounding up some of her favourite poetic pals to perform as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. The likes of Chris McLoughlin, Trevor Wright and Hayley Green will be spraying similes and internal rhymes like nobody’s business over at Debbie Bryan for your viewing pleasure. Word.

Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...

Theatre Review: Showstoppers

Improvised musical delivers laughter, la-la-las and some moments of inspired lunacy.

Quiet Riot: The Poets Who Do Not Talk, But Have Plenty To Say

Nottingham’s Maresa MacKeith is a poet, educator, and member of the Quiet Riot collective – a group of wordsmiths who are unique in their literary plight, in that each member communicates nonverbally. We visited Maresa to find out more about creating poetry by tapping on a letter board, what it feels like to have it voiced by a personal assistant through facilitated communication, and the Notts launch of the Quiet Riot anthology at Sobar…

Gav at Science in The Park

Our vlogger, Mr. Gav Squires got himself down to Science in The Park to learn all about tardigrades, invisibility, and other crazy things on the Earth...

Coffee Shop Blend and Roastery Stewarts of Trent Bridge on Sneinton Market

You might have noticed over the last year that Sneinton Market has been picked up, given a dusting down and had a whole lotta love sprinkled over it. It’s no longer the place that time forgot and is quickly filling up with many a creative endeavour. One of its newest residents is Blend, a coffee shop whose light, airy environment begs you to pop in, and Stewarts of Trent Bridge, a coffee roastery right next door. We spoke to the main men behind the business about what they’re up to…

Find Out What's Happening In Nottingham For Record Store Day 2017

Marking ten years of celebrating independent record stores, there's plenty going on this Saturday...

Notts Coach Takes Over World’s Worst International Football Team

Chris Smith, a Nottingham-based football coach, who has worked previously with the likes of Nottingham Forest and Lincoln City, is picking up his passport this month to head to Micronesia, a country spread over 600 islands off the Western Pacific Ocean, to embark on one spectacular footballing journey...

Nusic Future Session: Super Furniture

The winners of the 2016 Future Sound of Nottingham competition got in the studio to perform L.A.A and Coloured In Smiles, and to chat to the Nusic crew...

Rapper Scorzayzee on Gangsta Wraps, New EP Illa Scorz, and Nottingham Hip Hop

Rap’s Robin Hood is back with new EP Illa Scorz, and a ton of new merch designed by his eleven-year-old son to boot. We caught up with Scorzayzee for the lowdown on his latest release, plus the burning question of who’d win in a fight between the most famous fast food mascots…

A Brief History of World Snooker Championships in Nottingham

We take a dive into the geographical history of the World Snooker Championship, and dig up an old rivalry…

Pint of Science: The Plague, Teaching the Brain to Hear, and Survival of the Sexiest...

Last year, Nottingham was one of the host cities for the international science festival Pint of Science. This year, it’s back, and the launch night at The Canalhouse saw four speakers give us a taste of what’s to come…

200 Degrees Coffee Shops

On a wander through town, or on your way past the train station, you may have had a little chortle at the witty A-boards decorating the pavements of Flying Horse Walk and Carrington Street. These are the siren song of 200° Coffee shops, a major player to emerge on the Nottingham coffee scene over the last few years, opening not one, but two cafes within a mile of one another...

16 Bars to Slurp at for Nottingham Loves Cocktails Festival

LeftLion Magazine Appoints Bridie Squires As New Editor

Big things a gwarn up at LeftLion HQ. We’ve only gone and got oursens a new Editor. 

Meet the Man Selling Coffee from a Phonebox in Nottingham

Luke Thorpe has taken on an unusual venture – selling coffee out of a phonebox. The city’s gone coffee mad recently, so we went down to ask him a few questions about what he’s doing...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Juga-Naut, Grey Hairs, Shelter Point and more

Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...

Space the Band at Spanky Van Dykes in Photos

Shock, shock. Horror, horror. Everyone's favourite nineties Britpop (with a twist) band showed up in Nottingham after a lengthy hiatus, with new material as well as some golden oldies. We got down to take some snaps of them and local support band Prime...

Left Panther: The 2017 Elite League Ice Hockey Season Ends

The Elite League ice hockey season is over for another year. It finished in an exciting way for some teams, but certainly not for the Nottingham Panthers, who failed to qualify for the play-off final weekend at the National Ice Centre (NIC) which was ultimately won by the Sheffield Steelers…

The Thompson Brothers on Sitting at Traffic Lights

Nottingham's most opinionated greengrocers on...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2016 Rundown

To say that 2016 was a mixed season for Nottinghamshire is a bit of an insult to things that usually come mixed, like a bag of nuts with only a couple of cashews...

Can Placenta Be a Model to Study Tumour Invasion? NTU's Dr Sivasubramaniam Explains at SciBar

Dr Sivasubramaniam from Nottingham Trent University joins us at SciBar to discuss whether placenta can be a model to study tumour invasion...