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LeftLion's Latest Listens #25: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 04 Jul 2025

In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Parisa East, Torn Sail, Those Once Loyal and Mollie Ralph...

Stage Review: Kinky Boots at the Theatre Royal

Thu 03 Jul 2025

A joyful celebration of the beauty in being different (and shoes, lots of shoes), Kinky Boots the Musical sashays onto the stage at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal in an explosion of glitter, music and exceptional choreography.

Film Review: F1

Wed 02 Jul 2025

Join us as we review F1, is this Brad Pitt blockbuster well crafted and nuanced, or does it follow the same old formula?

Stage review: a beautiful night of drag, burlesque and art with Niche Artefact

Mon 30 Jun 2025

Thursday night saw a flamboyant jamboree of creativity and performance as Niche Artefact returned to Revolución de Cuba for a beautiful night of drag, burlesque and art...

Gig review: Gracie Abrams at Motorpoint Arena, with Dora Jar

Mon 30 Jun 2025

In a show postponed from March, US pop sensation Gracie Abrams finally arrived in Nottingham to round off her The Secrets of Us world tour in intense, glittering style…

Gig review and interview: Loren Kramar supports Father John Misty at Rock City

Fri 27 Jun 2025

We caught with up with American singer-songwriter Loren Kramar ahead of his Rock City show supporting the legendary Father John Misty...

Comedy Review: Omid Djalili's Namaste Tour at the Nottingham Playhouse

Fri 27 Jun 2025

The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his critically acclaimed new show to the Nottingham audience. So what's it all about...

Festival review: LeftLion at Download Festival 2025

Wed 25 Jun 2025

Rock and metal fans from around the world descended again on Donington Park – just a short drive from Nottingham – for the ultimate celebration of rock music. LeftLion's Natalie Owen was right there in the thick of it, soaking up the chaos, the riffs, and the raw energy of Download Festival – a true titan of the UK festival scene. Here's how it went down...

Review: 28 Years Later

Mon 23 Jun 2025

We review the sequel to Danny Boyle's classic, 28 Weeks Later. We ask ourselves, 'What if zombies, but pretentious..?'

Music Review: The Sound of Springsteen at the Nottingam Playhouse

Sun 22 Jun 2025

If any further evidence was required to confirm the sheer commitment to worshipping at the church of The Boss, then look no further than the Playhouse on Saturday night...

Theatre Review: The Nottingham Drag Pageant at The Nottingham Arts Theatre

Sun 22 Jun 2025

It’s official- Nottingham cannot get enough of drag- and it knows how to do it better than most cities!...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #24: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 20 Jun 2025

In the latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Cappo, Dorothy Ella. GIRLBAND!, The Doctor's Orders Collective and We Are Sovereign...

Gig review: Tim Minchin at the Royal Concert Hall

Thu 19 Jun 2025

There are few plaudits that haven’t been thrown Tim Minchin’s way. The wizard of wordsmithery has found his way into every corner of live performance, whether that be composing and writing for award winning musicals, taking to the stage and screen as an actor or touring his own extensive back catalogue of music. Simply put, within the performing arts bubble he’s done it all. And now he's graced the stage of our city's own Royal Concert Hall...

Gig review: Shonen Knife at Rescue Rooms

Thu 19 Jun 2025

It was a welcome return to Nottingham for Shonen Knife and their brand of punk rock / rock- and-roll rockabilly, with a coordinated cosmos of colour as always...

Concert Review: MIRABILÉ at St Peter’s Church, Ruddington

Tue 17 Jun 2025

Mirabilé, a Nottingham based all-female vocal ensemble, perform at Ruddington.

Exhibition Review: Country Lives at Lakeside Arts

Tue 17 Jun 2025

Over at Lakeside Arts, the current exhibition ‘Country Lives’ explores the use and depiction of the English countryside over the last 200 years. We went down to check it out…

Film Review: The Phoenician Scheme

Mon 16 Jun 2025

We review The Phoenician Scheme, an offbeat infrastructural binge across the desert in Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded satire of empire, excess, and (possibly) redemption...

Theatre Review: Hamlet - The Rest is Silence

Mon 16 Jun 2025

A unique Notts community rework of the classic tragedy

Gig review: Jadu Heart at Rescue Rooms

Sun 15 Jun 2025

It’s been a busy year for Jadu Heart. Hot on the heels of the release of their fourth record, and following an extended jaunt across the US with recent Nottingham Arena fillers - and one of the biggest bands in the world right now - Fontaines DC, they find themselves packing out Rescue Rooms as part of their own headline UK tour...