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Who you should be fighting your way down to the front for at this year's festival
One of our favourite record labels rundown five firsts from their first five years
Pippa Hennessy is a one woman whirling dervish of creativity whose diary alone is enough to make a busy person’s head spin. She lets us in on thesecrets of her success...
NTU's School of Art and Design celebrates its 170th birthday and to mark the occasion they have invited back some of their most famous alumni to showcase their work in the Since 1843 exhibition…
We’re in the middle of a recession. People can barely afford to put on their heating let alone buy something as luxurious as a book. Yet Five Leaves publisher Ross Bradshaw has taken the brave decision to open an independent bookshop. Thank goodness someone has got some balls… and books.
One of the three founding members lives in Prague, another in Antwerp, another in France, and they collectively left town over twenty years ago. Yet to many, Tindersticks are still seen as a Nottingham band. Ahead of the release of their tenth studio album, Across Six Leap Years, keyboardist Dave Boulter talks to us about the band’s roots, and about their recent re-invigoration of some old favourites...
The Nottingham Playhouse celebrates fifty years at Wellington Circus this September. We spoke to Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr about the venue, their history and their plans to celebrate...
Alison Moore’s unsettling debut novel The Lighthouse explores grief, helplessness and abandonment in a style that threatens to crash against the rocks at any moment. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it’s the first glimmer from an important new writer...
Forty-nine issues ago, we interviewed Shane Meadows for the first ever LeftLion Magazine. Since then he’s gone from being an underground Midlands filmmaker to a BAFTA-winning tour de force of both British cinema and television. We’re now on issue fifty and Shane took a break from working on his current project (a documentary about The Stone Roses) to give us a rare interview, reflecting on his early years learning his trade in Nottingham…
A potted history of the last century and a half in the life of world football's oldest league club...
"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"
"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"
Featuring DJ Format, Simbad, Jehst, Royal Gala, Submotion Orchestra, The Correspondents, 1st Blood, Epworth, Natalie Duncan, Liam Bailey, The Elementz, Monosonicos, DJ Switch and more
Rob braces himself for everyone’s favourite alcoholiday...
There’s far more to theatre in Notts than just the Playhouse, Theatre Royal, and AmDram productions involving middle-aged men running around with their trousers round their ankles...
Independent self-publishers might just be the way forward – and Nottingham is full of ‘em...
It can be crap and lonely being a poet, scriptwriter or author - but the Nottingham Writers’ Studio can help make it better
Since the sixties Nottingham has been very much the capital of the region in terms of contemporary art. LeftLion's Arts Editor takes you through the current scene...
On the fifth birthday of our printed magazine, we look at the stories behind the covers
"All we want as Notts fans is not be patronised any more by the team we still see as our biggest rivals"
"My style probably owes more to Hemingway than any other single writer, though I’ve tried hard to crib the art of dialogue from Elmore Leonard"
"For me my favourite gigs are local bands playing with local people. Just everyday people trying to make something of themselves"
It's that time of the year again, post New Year's Eve, where we imagine ourselves to be reborn...
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