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Live Music Review: Beat The Streets 2019

Wed 30 Jan 2019

Is there any better cure for the January blues than a day festival? We sent our Becky and Louise down to Beat the Street this Sunday to find out...

The Best Vegetarian and Vegan Food in Nottingham Presented by GorgeUs

Wed 30 Jan 2019

Sam Nahirny yams some of the best plant-based scran the city has to offer...

Nusic Future Session: Elliot Williams

Wed 30 Jan 2019

New Nottingham music from this talented bogger...

Interview: The Staircase lawyer David Rudolf

Mon 28 Jan 2019

We caught up with David Rudolf, Michael Peterson’s criminal defence lawyer from the compelling Netflix documentary series The Staircase, as he arrives in the UK for a series of speaking engagements...

Peggy's Skylight Sunday Jazz Jam in Photos

Sun 27 Jan 2019

We got down to take some snaps of the jazzy boggers down at Peggy's Skylight...

An Evening With Michael Foale

Sat 26 Jan 2019

Michael Foale, born in Lincolnshire, has been into space 6 times and was the first Brit ever selected by NASA. Our Gav wanted to be an astronaut so he went down to hear what Michael had to say.

Left Magpie: Dracula has a Better Record Against Crosses...

Sat 26 Jan 2019

Kübler-Ross may sound like the type of enigmatic signing Notts need to pull themselves out of the bleakness that has befallen the season, but its presence at Meadow Lane is almost as significant.

Nottingham Bands and Artists - Send Us Music!

Sat 26 Jan 2019

Want your music reviewed in LeftLion? Read on...

Film Review: Bird Box

Wed 23 Jan 2019

The latest big hit from Netflix might have kick-started the craze of daft kids walking around blindfolded, but is actually worth a watch?

Rapper and Busker TrueMendous is Coming to Notts for UKYA City Takeover

Wed 23 Jan 2019

A master of the multisyllabic rhyme scheme, TrueMendous is a rapper and busker from Birmingham who recently upped sticks to the big smoke. In February, she's back in the Midlands as part of the UKYA City Takeover in Nottingham. A residential artist at The Roundhouse, she's been kicking out multi-genre, story-focused music with a mad work rate, and is currently putting together a new EP and book of lyrics. We caught up with the rising star ahead of her visit…

Film Review: Beautiful Boy

Tue 22 Jan 2019

Felix van Groeningen's first English language film, an adaptation of Nic Sheff's book Tweak, is the story of a father helping his son through drug addiction...

Create Your Own Happy: Children’s Author Becky Goddard on Her Mission to Make the Little’uns Smile

Sat 19 Jan 2019

According to studies by The Children’s Society and Pisa, young people in England are among the unhappiest in the world. With internet bullying, endless school tests and cuts to services, it can be bleddy hard being a kid. However, help is at hand. Together with Penny Alexander, West Bridgford’s Becky Goddard-Hill has devised Create Your Own Happy, a workbook that aims to empower children.

6 Nottingham Acts to Check Out at Beat The Streets 2019

Thu 17 Jan 2019

We’re always chuffed to call Nottingham home, but there are certain moments where we’re bursting with pride, and Beat The Streets is one of them. It’s a one-day, multi-venue charity festival taking over the city on Sunday 27 January, aiming to raise vital funds to support homeless people in need. Off the back of 2018’s hugely successful inaugural event, Nottingham will again host more than eighty national and local acts playing across 10+ stages in venues across the city centre. All proceeds raised from ticket sales, merchandise and bar sales in DHP venues will be donated to local homeless charities, including Framework Official Site. Here’s who we’ll be queuing for this year...

6 Books to Read in 2019

Thu 17 Jan 2019

These page-turners will give you a cracking start to the year...

Surface Gallery's International Postcard Show 2019

Wed 16 Jan 2019

Surface are at it again with their ever-popular International Postcard Show bringing you art from a wide selection of artists, all small enough to fit in yer pocket! We got down to check it out...

Film Review: Stan & Ollie

Wed 16 Jan 2019

Laurel and Hardy, the most famous comedy duo in the world, attempt to kick-start their flailing careers on a gruelling UK theatre tour in Jon S. Baird's beautiful biopic...

School of Hard Notts: Enter Wrestle Gate Pro

Sat 12 Jan 2019

Finally…the wrestling has come back to Rushcliffe! Champions from across the globe are heading to Notts on 26 January to entertain fans and beat seven shades of subtext out of each other. Bringing a harder, edgier style influenced by Japanese wrestling and MMA and with at least one legitimate dream match on the card, it’s something new for the city. SOHN talks to Gary Ward, promoter and owner of Wrestle Gate Pro.

Live Music Review: Broken Witt Rebels at Rescue Rooms

Thu 10 Jan 2019

We went to Rescue Rooms to check out Broken Witt Rebels and Reef at Rescue Rooms...

Broken Witt Rebels Talk Recording Albums and Gigging in Nottingham

Thu 10 Jan 2019

We spoke to Brummie band Broken Witt Rebels about making music and gigging in Nottingham...

Nusic Future Session: Betsey Bircumshaw

Tue 08 Jan 2019

New Nottingham music from this talented bogger...

City Stylin' #9

Mon 07 Jan 2019

We took to the streets to find some of Notts' best dressed...

Snap Notts: Waterfront

Sat 05 Jan 2019

This month, our poet took inspiration from the canal...

Under Cover Artist: David Severn

Thu 03 Jan 2019

This month’s cover artist is one of the most hardworking photographers in the city. Having just released his Whitby Goth Weekend photobook, and with a bunch of other projects in the pipeline, we sat down with David Severn to get the skinny on his wrestling shoot at Nottingham’s House of Pain, for this issue of LeftLion...