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Eyre Llew on Success in South Korea

Sam Heaton, Jack Bennett and Jack Clark have been wowing audiences as Eyre Llew with their orchestral take on post-rock since forming in August 2014. Their music has taken them on tour around the UK and Europe, as well recent dates in South Korea. Fresh from a headline show at Rescue Rooms, and having just released their debut album, they joined us for a chat about their musical endeavours...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Some of the daftest things to happen in Notts...

SOLD OUT: Overheard In Notts Tea Towel 2

Who wouldn't want a tea-towel covered in ludicrous things you lot have said? We're coming at you with this years must have Notts based gift! 

Notes from the Middle Kingdom: An Asymmetrical Blade Runner looks for temp work in Nottingham

Finding work is tough, ain't it? Signing on at the job centre is a pain and there just aren't enough coffee shops in town to support all of us. Thankfully our wandering prodigal son James Kramer is here to give you some sure-fire tips to get yourself into the weird world of employment in Beijing. 

Street Tales: The Nottingham Canal

A look back at Nottingham's watery roads...

SoJo Publishing Mouse

Founded earlier this year by author and playwright Helen Goodbarton, and artist and animator Sophie Johnson-Hill, Sojo Publishing Mouse is intent on bringing some wacky anarchy to the world of independent children’s publishing. We popped down to Sobar for a chat with them about their latest project, the very Christmassy children’s book The Glowing Snowman, and to learn all about what makes these two fun-loving publishers tick...

Nusic Podcast #168 with Ashfields, Bone Cult, Kwoli Black and more

Film Review: Battle of the Sexes

Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in the story behind the most watched televised sports event of all time

Oxjam Beeston 2017 is the Largest Oxjam Fundraiser in the UK

The award-winning Oxjam Beeston Music Festival has broken its own fundraising record and become the largest Oxjam festival in 2017…

8 Places to Grab a Proper Roast Dinner in Nottingham

It’s a Sunday evening, you’re hanging. Spent all day sleeping and feeling self pitiful and dreading that Monday morning feeling. What can you do to pick yourself up and out of a dark, dark place? Stuff your face with roast potatoes, that’s what. Here are the top places to get a roast dinner in Nottingham…

Surface Gallery Leftovers Volunteer Show

The variation was simply stunning. In one corner you had Displaced/Replaced with his glitched photo montages coming to life, and another you had stunning glasswork by Phoebe Joy.

Interview: Helier Bissell-Thomas

We caught up with filmmaker Bissell-Thomas, whose debut feature Kaufman's Game, shot when he was just 20 years old, screens at The Savoy on December 4th

Sound of the Lion #65

With Taurtollo, Lokumu, Yashmak Webs, Charlesworth, heurt, Torn Sail, Slumb Party, Oliver Whitehouse and Saint Raymond...

Nusic Future Session: Homesick

The latest up and coming Nottingham band play a few tunes for Nusic... 

The Thompsons on Brexit

They're dead funneh...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo?

Find out what our Music Editor has been stuffing in his tabs this month...

Alex Bond on His New Venture Alchemilla

Here in Nottingham, fine dining can be a bit up its own arse. If you’re looking for a ten-course summat special to treat your main squeeze to, you can expect to remortgage your house around these parts. Now, though, there’s a new restaurant on the block that aims to take the stuffiness out of the whole experience. Previous employee of Sat Bains and head chef at Turners, Alex Bond has opened Alchemilla on Derby Road following a few supper clubs at Wired Cafe on Pelham Street, and it’s got the local gums flapping. With chatter about the restaurant’s potential to be graced with a Michelin star, we hit up Alex to find out why he doesn’t give a toss…

Left Magpie: Notts County News & Updates

Notts County's amazing run continues this month and our Colin takes us through all of the strange coincidences floating around Meadow Lane

Film Review: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

A tale of the last glimmers of a Hollywood starlet and why the North of England became her dying wish

The Centenary of Captain Albert Ball

2017 marks the centenary of the death of Captain Albert Ball, an English fighter pilot made famous during the First World War. After snapping some of the hidden Notts monuments dedicated to the historical figure, we took a look back at probably the most famous person not to have their name on a Nottingham tram; a man that the legendary Red Baron described as “by far, the best English flying man”...

9 Albums You Should Listen To Right Now

Top tunes doing the rounds this month...

Finding Headspace - Review of Making Headway's latest book launch

Living with a brain injury is a difficult and oftentimes raw experience. However, the writers and editors involved in the creation of the newest Global Words Press book Making Headway: Living with Brain Injury are willing to share their stories and inspire us all to live better and braver lives. 

Meadows Brick Graffiti from Days Past in Photos

We went a'snapping around Old Meadows to see what we could find in the way of graffiti, and here's what we found engraved in the walls...

Noshingham: Roxy Ball Room

Drinkers of Notts rejoiced upon hearing that the Roxy Ball Room, a boozer with a sporty twist, would be opening its doors on Thurland Street. It promised to bring a taste of London’s nightlife gaming culture to Hoodtown, and our Emily couldn’t wait to get down to the opening night...

Lucy Does... Framework's Street Outreach

Our Lucy was up at the crack of dawn to give the Framework Street Outreach team a hand...