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S. Mark Gubb

"The eighties was possibly one of the crappest decades, with The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, the miners strike, Thatcher’s Britain..."

Interview: Sir Ian McKellen on Playing Arthur Seaton

Before becoming a national treasure, Sir Ian McKellen was the first actor to play Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’s Arthur Seaton on stage. He did this as part of the Nottingham Playhouse’s inaugural season in 1963-64. It was in a ten-week run that rammed out the new building and delighted critics and audiences alike…

Interview: The Petebox

"My relationship with beatboxing is a strange one; sometimes I love it, and sometimes it bores the hell out of me"

Interview: Sorrel Muggridge

"I have a sense of how long a minute is, and how long a mile is, but I don’t have any sense of what 3478 miles feels like"

Dollop @ The Bodega Social Club

Sia and Har Mar Superstar

WritiN Words on your Street

"The aim of WritiN was to create a new Nottingham poem, written by young people, about their Nottingham"

LIVE: Smashing Pumpkins

Admittedly, it took the band about five or six songs to look warmed up, but as soon as Superchrist struck, the arena was rumbling

Interview: Roni Size

"Working with any established artist is a next level thing. You learn as a producer that there are stages in a producer’s life and working with those guys you realise that you’re in first class."

Interview: Neville Staple

"There’s probably loads of stuff I’ve said on stage and regretted, but I just can’t remember any of it"

Interview: Cappo

"There are always hurdles to overcome, but this album has been in the pipeline for two years. I’ve been making beats and filing them away"

Miles Hunt: A Songwriter's Tale

"I have to come clean; in my formative years I showed absolutely no promise as a songwriter whatsoever..."

Shop Will Eat Itself

Nottingham, as you may have been told a million times or so, is a ‘Retail Mecca’. But is that necessarily a good thing, and what does it actually mean?

Interview: Duncan Hamilton

The winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 talks to the 'Lion about his experiences with Brian Clough...

La La Lepus, Sidecar Swampy and My Dark Star Eyes

Interview: Paul Kaye and Jonathan Glazer

"We just had the time of our lives. Studying art here was amazing in every respect, creatively, sexually and alcoholically"

Cappo Directories Commentry Mixtape Launch Night

University Challenge

Almost overnight and without asking to be, students have become the moneyed class in Nottingham...

May Contain Notts: Aug - Sept '07

Notts vs Forest friendly game not so friendly, Colin Gunn gets another nine years, Gordon Ramsey is in town and Sherwood bear is no more...

Interview: Loay Hady

Loay Hady recounts the highs and lows of Fresher week in his debut novel, published by Nottingham's Stone Soup...

Gatecrasher preview Sept 2007

A Canadian In New Basford

"I’ve tried watching other English sports apart from football, but I just don’t see the appeal"

LeftLion Presents September 2007

Things We Loved About 80's Holidays in Skeggy

Chips, weeing in buckets, being sick down the back of your Dad's neck and the Jolly Fisherman. A tribute to our spiritual homeland in its darkest hour...

Interview: Video Mat

"It started by accident, just with one picture."