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Surface Gallery Leftovers Volunteer Show

The variation was simply stunning. In one corner you had Displaced/Replaced with his glitched photo montages coming to life, and another you had stunning glasswork by Phoebe Joy.

Sound of the Lion #65

With Taurtollo, Lokumu, Yashmak Webs, Charlesworth, heurt, Torn Sail, Slumb Party, Oliver Whitehouse and Saint Raymond...

Nusic Future Session: Homesick

The latest up and coming Nottingham band play a few tunes for Nusic... 

Live Music Review: The Charlatans at Rough Trade

Before their big headline show at Rock City, Tim and Mark from The Charlatans played an acoustic set at Rough Trade.

Live Music Review: Mac DeMarco at Rock City

Touring in support of his latest album This Old Dog, the Canadian 'indie slacker' came to Nottingham. We headed down to his show and also managed to grab him for a quick chat...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo?

Find out what our Music Editor has been stuffing in his tabs this month...

Live Music Review: Hyperjax at Pit & Pendulum

Rockabilly Boogie Night brings the best in old school rock 'n' roll to the Pit & Pendulum on the last Friday of every month. For November, Hyperjax were in town. 

Film Review: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

A tale of the last glimmers of a Hollywood starlet and why the North of England became her dying wish

9 Albums You Should Listen To Right Now

Top tunes doing the rounds this month...

Lucy Does... Framework's Street Outreach

Our Lucy was up at the crack of dawn to give the Framework Street Outreach team a hand...

Live Music Review: Blast Off Festival Day Four at Rough Trade

The final day of the Blast Off Festival saw the action relocating back to Rough Trade. A very tired Gav headed down to hear Thee Girl Fridays and The Launderettes.

Sex, Drugs, and Rolling On: An evening with Lee Stuart Evans

With a novel under his belt and years of TV experience to his name, comedic heavy-hitter Lee Stuart Evans is fast becoming a staple of Nottingham's literature scene. We decided to pop down to Five Leaves Bookshop for a reading of his latest novel Words Best Sung, and were treated to a night of rock and roll and rampant laughs. 

Live Music Review: Blast Off Festival Day Three at The Irish Centre

Day three of the Blast Off Festival unleashed the big guns - The Courettes, Hangee V, Muck & The Mires and The Pretty Things.

Peter Daltrey Talks Making Music

Live Music Review: Blast Off Festival Day Two at The Irish Centre

The second day of the Blast Off Festival saw it move across town to The Irish Centre. Gav followed them to check out Thee Eviltones, The Fuzillis and Kaleidoscope...

Live Music Review: Blast Off! Festival Day One at Rough Trade

The four day Blast Off Festival started on Thursday at Rough Trade, bringing garage-rock bands from all over the world. Our Gav went to check out Leadfoot Tea, Kings Of Hong Kong and The Hipshakes...

The Community Recording Studio

St Ann’s Community Recording Studio (CRS) is a legendary Nottingham institution lighting fires in the bellies of the city’s young people. After setting up in 1991, the facilities have seen the creation of local music legends like Scorzayzee, Lee Ramsey and Nina Smith, as well as today’s rising talent in the form of Young T and Bugsey, Jamal Sterrett and Nartz, to name but a few. Beyond musical projects, the registered charity acts as a source of support and guidance for youths, whacks on theatre productions, makes feature-length films, and has recently started to dabble in the fashion world. We thought it was high time we delved into the history of the organisation, and found out what’s buzzing in and “out da ville” these days…

King of the Hill: Talking Strange Weather and Spooky Stories with Joe Hill

A descendant of horror fiction royalty, Joe Hill is a best-selling author of novels, short stories, comic books and graphic novels. His latest book, Strange Weather, brings together four stories of strangeness and surreality that are bound to chill to the bone. With an international book-tour underway, we caught up with him ahead of his appearance at Waterstones to chat about his influences, creative process, and the book itself.

Never Mind the Court Case - A Look Back at the Sex Pistols' Obscenity Trial in Nottingham

Did you know that Nottingham was at the centre of a court case that saw punk rock standing up to the establishment over freedom of expression and the meaning of a certain word? On the 40th anniversary of the release of the offending album we look back at the case of the state vs Searle, a time when, to paraphrase The Clash, punk fought the law and punk won...

Some Poems from Dave Bishop of the Millitant Elvis Anti-HS2 Party

Here's our Dave with the latest. Down with high-speed travel. Bring back Rudolph!

Interview: Jack Delaney - Simply Thrilled

Nottingham-based production team Simply Thrilled are offering any company with charitable status a free stand-out live-action promo film of up to 90 seconds...

A Second Home in Nottingham: Stories of Immigration to Hoodtown

What’s life like for immigrants Nottingham? Caroline Barry asked a load of Notts residents to tell of their relocation tales...

Art Review: Sounds Like Her at New Art Exchange

Seven women, from a variety of different backgrounds, have brought their work together to create Sounds Like Her the New Art Exchange. They’re using their voices, language, noise, textures, music, sonic structures and non-sonic materialisations of sound all to grab your attention and make you think about things from new perspectives...

Boilermaker's Manager Makes Final of Gabriel Boudier Liqueur Competition

Turns out Nottingham has a secret cocktail wizard who has created the next best thing in flavoured booze...

Music Video: Re Teu - Darling

The artist formerly known as Sawyer gives us a taster of his forthcoming EP A Thawing Wind with this haunting autumnal track...