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Interview: Bob Robinson

Born in County Tyrone, Bob Robinson has called Nottingham home for the last forty-odd years. It’s here he’s created work that is equally bold, humorous and grotesque, yet has gained little recognition. Now aged 63 and living with terminal cancer, we spoke to him about the inspiration behind his art and how it feels to have a retrospective at such a poignant time.

Rough Trade Open Up In Nottingham

Stephen Godfroy, director and co-owner of Rough Trade, is credited with revitalising the company after joining a decade ago. Firstly he introduced the subscription-based ‘Album Club’ and then helped develop Rough Trade East, the company’s flagship store on trendier-than-thou Brick Lane. After setting up Rough Trade New York last October, the independent record store has opened its first UK store outside of London on Broad Street. He came to Nottingham for the store’s opening, so we nipped in for a chat…

Interview: Owl Man Frank Shelton

You might have seen Frank Shelton walking around town with a majestic bird and cute little hound but, like us, probably refer to him as his more sophisticated alias – Owl Man. We grabbed a cuppa with him at the Malt Cross, along with his dog Lucy and barn owl Kim…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the funniest of them all?

Future Session 75 - Alcedo

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

YMCA Digital

Musicians and artists from all over the city have been helping out our youths to develop their creativity

New Wave Short Films

We chat to Derry Shillitto about his production company and short film festival

Red's True Barbecue

I'm Not From London Studios

I'm Not From London have branched out and opened a brand spanking new recording suite

Sound of the Lion #31,Sound of The Lion

With Origin One, The Madeline Rust, Trekkah, Merrick's Tusk, Rattle, The Wild Man Of Europe, Separation Anxiety and Amber Run

Bang! Short Film Festival Is Calling It A Day

Short films are perfect. Perfect for the filmmaker wanting to showcase what they can do, perfect for the YouTube generation struggling to concentrate on anything for more than an hour, perfect for creating some of the most diverse film festivals out there. Bang! Short Film Festival started off small but, as the digital age took hold and their audiences got bigger, it grew into a beast of a festival. Unfortunately, after fifteen years of filling Broadway’s screens with bite-sized reels, they’ve called it a day. We get all nostalgic and look at what the festival meant to filmmakers and audiences alike...

15 Bands You Wish You'd Seen At The Bodega

As The Bodega (formerly The Social) celebrates its fifteenth birthday, we look at fifteen bands who played there before they made it big

Jim's Smokehouse

Advertising Sectioned

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history, with Player's and Henry Farmer and Co

Red's True Barbecue

Safe at Last Charity Music Video

The charity who work with, and on behalf of, young people at risk through running away are releasing a song, with a video made by Nottingham's Rebel Yell

Future Session 74 - Gino

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

In Focus: Nina Smith

The soulful pop lass got snap happy when we put a few questions to her

Music Reviews: November 2014

With Amber Run, Origin One, Separation Anxiety, Trekkah, The Madeline Rust, Rattle, Merrick's Trust, and The Wild Man of Europe

What We Do In The Shadows

This mockumentary about a few vampires sharing a New Zealand house really needs to be seen by everyone

The Wild by Paper Shop Dave

New Nottingham-based film company, Punchline Productions, have made a new music video

Interview: INJ Culbard

INJ Culbard has drawn Sherlock Holmes, the unknowable and unnameable horrors of HP Lovecraft, clockwork universes, medieval mercenaries battling horrors, animals fighting aliens, Japanese Oni demons on the rampage and a crime fighting Edwardian vampire. Intrigued, we sat down with him for a cuppa and a chat...

LeftLion Stereo: November 2014

We've been searching high and low to find the best Nottingham tracks there are

Live: Mr. Scruff

The most bedraggled DJ of them all treated Nottingham to an early morning marathon of every genre under the sun

Live: Indiana and Shelter Point

"From the first seconds of the set an inescapable spell is cast upon the room"