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Lola Young, Day Fever and the Festival of Food and Drink: Here's what's on in Notts this week 15-21 September 2025

Sun 14 Sep 2025

Nottingham is hosting a diverse range of events this week, from back-to-back musical performances arranged by Rough Trade to a majestic murder mystery dinner night and a 2000s emo festival. Be it enjoying comedic nostalgia with Friends on stage or witnessing an epic confrontation between local poets, there is something for everyone and this week's top picks from our city are...

These streets are ours: Sneinton Market Avenues

Sat 13 Sep 2025

For this instalment of These Streets are Ours we celebrate the creative hub of Sneinton Market Avenues…

Night Creatures Podcast #1: Felix Coulton (aka OK Flex) on founding Swing Dash Radio and opening Movers in Hockley

Fri 12 Sep 2025

Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city...

Left Stag: September 2025 Stags away, I like it!

Fri 12 Sep 2025

Our Mansfield Town FC writer, Josh Osoro Pickering, is back with tales of a well-travelled period for the Stags...

Theatre Review: The Last Stand Of Mary Whitehouse at the Nottingham Playhouse

Fri 12 Sep 2025

Today's youth might think Mary Whitehouse was some cartoonish figure-of-fun. A prude and a bigot, leftover from the Victorian era. Not at all. Known as the most dangerous woman in England at the time, she wreaked havoc. The Playhouse's brand new play shares the horror...

Gig review: Sancho Panza at The Bodega

Thu 11 Sep 2025

On Saturday, The Bodega set the stage for a funk-soaked evening in celebration of Sancho Panza's latest single, Your place or mine?. Headlining the night, the band delivered a performance that felt like a milestone moment for Nottingham’s live music scene. Supported by two other local bands, Stone Black Witches and Soft Serve, the lineup showcased our city’s thriving wave of talent. And of course, LeftLion was there too...

We speak to Dan Cunningham of Vona Vella

Thu 11 Sep 2025

Nottingham five-piece Vona Vella formed in lockdown and have gone from strength to strength since. Gigging around Notts - and co-managing The Grove - has seen them hone their skills and build up a loyal following. We caught up with singer-songwriter Dan Cunningham to talk about Bear Trap, forging their own path in the industry and the benefits of ditching London...

Exploring street art in Beeston with Jeanie Barton

Thu 11 Sep 2025

Over the past ten years, the suburb south-west of Notts: Beeston, has become a hub for striking and inspiring street art, thanks to the efforts of the ever-industrious Beeston Civic Society. From tributes to Nottingham legends like Paul Smith and Richard Beckinsale, to an artistic interpretation of the butterflies that migrate from Africa to Attenborough Nature Reserve and Beeston Marina, take a stroll through Beeston and you’ll be treated to many visual treats lauding local culture. We asked Jeanie Barton, the person who set the Beeston street art wheels in motion, to tell us more about it.

Folklore and Fear: Darren Simpson discusses his latest scary novel Thirst

Tue 09 Sep 2025

Known for his gritty, thought-provoking books for older children, we caught up with self-professed cake lover and award-winning author Darren Simpson to discuss how fear and folklore have inspired his latest chilling tale, Thirst...

Beyond the Wall: the New Art Exchange team talk telling stories with street art in Hyson Green and Morocco

Tue 09 Sep 2025

In recent years, the New Art Exchange gallery in Hyson Green has sought to firmly centre their ambitions in serving the local community – placing the cultural needs of the neighbourhood first. A big part of that has been their street art and murals project: Beyond the Wall, which via lots of ambition and creativity has spanned both Hyson Green and Marrakesh, Morocco. We spoke about the project with NAE CEO Saad Eddine Said and artist Laura Decorum – whose work has been vital to Beyond the Wall…

Actor, Writer and Director Ryan Symons on The Void: Thunder Road’s chilling new sci-fi horror

Mon 08 Sep 2025

We caught up with writer, director and actor, Ryan Simons, about Thunder Road’s chilling new sci-fi horror, The Void. Catch it at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 September...

Follow the stickers: Notts filmmaker Matt Watts on the stories behind sticker art on the streets

Mon 08 Sep 2025

Hidden amongst the barrage of commercial advertisements and billboards that dominate our city landscape, the more curious among us may be drawn to some unusual markings; the plethora of quirky stickers plastered on lampposts, signs and electrical boxes. Follow the Stickers is a short film by Nottingham-based documentary filmmaker Matt Watts. Here he shares his journey of tangents, discovering artists, events and more obscure messages of the underground sticker world, and telling us why we should keep an eye out for them too…

Pick Six: Nathan Bainbridge AKA Kid30

Sun 07 Sep 2025

For this month’s Pick Six we turned to renowned Nottingham street artist Nathan Bainbridge, AKA Kid30.

We chat to Death Of The High Street about life, music and taking things just seriously enough

Sun 07 Sep 2025

Death Of The High Street are a force to be reckoned with: a hard grafting, guitar-based rock band with bags of energy, a distinct social conscience, and a desire to spread their message far and wide. We caught up with founding members Scott Baxter and Ash Simpson to talk about hard work, music with a message, and why they chose Nottingham for their album launch show…

Blood Brothers, Tom Grennan and RELIC: Here's what's on in Notts this week 8-14 September 2025

Sun 07 Sep 2025

This week Nottingham is hosting loads of events for you to get out and be entertained. Whether you're a theatre enthusiast, a fan of live music or here for a bit of cultural celebration, there's something for you to get your teeth stuck into. Here are our top picks of the week...

Flying colours: a look inside legendary local paint shop Montana

Sat 06 Sep 2025

A cornerstone of Nottingham’s creative scene, Montana has made a name for itself as not just a paints shop, but a hub for local artists of all kinds – thanks to partners Sylvia and Dilk behind the business. Whilst Dilk is a well-known local artist Sylvia’s recently been taking the lead on some exciting collaborative projects. We sat down with her to chat about the importance of the local creative community, and the shop’s international reach…

Life's a drag: we speak to Doxxie Phisher and Benthic Zone about their upcoming show Nightmare! Nightmare! Kill! Kill!

Fri 05 Sep 2025

Nottingham’s drag scene has exploded in recent years with many new characters. We meet Doxxie Phmorisher and Benthic Zone to talk about queer venues, developing drag characters and what to expect from their show, Nightmare! Nightmare! Kill! Kill!

Theatre review: Momentos de la Vida at Squire Performing Arts Centre

Fri 05 Sep 2025

The Robin Hood Improv Festival is in full swing in Notts. Our reviewer Sam Harvey went along to check out Momentos de la Vida, a deceptively simple concept inspired by black-and-white photography...

Greening the streets: street artist Anna Wheelhouse on community and big canvases

Fri 05 Sep 2025

Anna Wheelhouse is one of Nottingham’s most well-known street artists, with her signature, verdant nature-themed murals enlivening buildings and walls around the city, from pubs to parks to back gardens. We talked to her about her lifelong passion for the arts, and the benefits of working on a larger canvas.

Stage Review: Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell at the Theatre Royal

Thu 04 Sep 2025

An intoxicating cinematic escape to 1930s Soho...

Whose streets are they anyway? How street art crossed the pond from New York to the East Midlands

Thu 04 Sep 2025

Graffiti, tags, murals, stenciling, paste-ups… street art is a diverse artform with many subcategories and styles. While some might deride the practice under the blanket term of vandalism, for proponents of the artform, taking art out of the gallery and into the streets is about civil disobedience, ownership of space, and creative expression outside of the mainstream. We dip into the origins of graffiti in NYC and speak to artist Richie ‘Pops’ Baker about how the medium came to Nottingham in the 1980s…

Left Brian: August - September 2025

Wed 03 Sep 2025

Julie Pritchard, the creator of the classic nineties 'Brian' fanzine, is back with her thoughts on the last month at Nottingham Forest FC...

Theatre and TV legend James Graham talks bringing Notts to the screen and writing about Gareth Southgate

Tue 02 Sep 2025

James Graham is one of British theatre’s most popular and prolific writers and also the creator of BBC TV drama Sherwood. He was born and brought up in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, in the 1980s -his first job was working the stage door at the Theatre Royal. Twenty years on, James returns to the city with the epic Dear England, a play about football manager Gareth Southgate, which headlines the theatre’s 160th birthday celebrations…

Cabaret, tug of war and speed skating: Here's what's on in Notts this week 1-7 September 2025

Sun 31 Aug 2025

This week brings you a brilliant range of events in Notts, whether you are a theatre lover or a sporting fanatic, there's plenty in store to kick off your September. Here are our top picks for the week...

Art is the heart: what to expect from year two of Art Fest in Notts

Sat 30 Aug 2025

With its first year in 2024 bringing 34 new murals to Nottingham’s streets, Art Fest is back this month to splash more colour and creativity on walls throughout the city. Festival Director Benjamin Kay, who co-runs The Carousel in Hockley, tells us why he set up the festival and what to expect from this year…

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