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Despite the digital revolution, reading a magazine on a device is never quite as good as the real thing. It’s not all nostalgia - although yes, there is something wonderful about flicking through pages at leisure while getting a hit of the distinctive smell of ink and paper - physical print is actually easier to read. We spoke to Alex Smith, the man behind the independent magazine shop Ideas On Paper, about why print is here to stay...
Once a shining hope for the post-war housing crisis, and the backdrop for films such as This Is England, Control and Weekend, the Lenton Flats were slated for demolition three years ago. By late 2015 they will be but a memory. We look into why they outlasted similar housing projects and why the five tower blocks are the subject of Rubber Goat Films’ latest documentary.
"It was a very intense time of my life, and really hard work, but also one of the happiest"
Celebrating the release of his new album All Will Be Well at Nottingham Contemporary with support from Hearts and Jamie Moon
Marion Cotillard stars in this Belgian film from the Dardenne brothers
Donington Park got a little bit prettier when loads of people were given a lot of powder paint
The Oscar winning documentary is now out on DVD
Nottingham will never be mistaken for Paris but it is slowly being reorganised into French-style ‘quarters.’ In April the city council approved plans for Royal, Canal and Castle quarters to go with the business-orientated Creative Quarter that is based in and around Hockley. While LeftLion understand that there are as yet no plans to actually reorganise residential areas of Nottingham into arrondissements, readers may be wondering if there are also plans afoot to create the equivalent of Paris’ bohemian Left Bank.
Wolfgang Buttress has put angel’s wings and a halo above a London street, woven metal trees into The Lace Market, created floating spheres in Belfast and mapped the universe in Australia. We talked to him at his studio about art, science, football... and a very special collaboration with Tindersticks in June.
There were two finals, and two winners; but who took home the title?
A set of artworks have sprung up around the Creative Quarter to celebrate National Apprenticeships Week
NTU's School of Art and Design celebrates its 170th birthday and to mark the occasion they have invited back some of their most famous alumni to showcase their work in the Since 1843 exhibition…
We’re in the middle of a recession. People can barely afford to put on their heating let alone buy something as luxurious as a book. Yet Five Leaves publisher Ross Bradshaw has taken the brave decision to open an independent bookshop. Thank goodness someone has got some balls… and books.
Local lad Adam Dixon and Ipswich import Harry Martin are midfield partners for current national champions Beeston Hockey Club, as well as international regulars for both Great Britain and England. We popped along to discuss nights out in Nottingham, the highs and lows of the Olympics, and those pesky Panthers...
He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.
"You learn all aspects of the industry - it taught me how to write, how to prepare. I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now had it not been for radio"
The annual charity rock and metal festival returns to Stealth and the Rescue Rooms for its fourth year. We spoke to organiser and founder Kris Davis about his choice of charity and which bands you can expect to see on the day...
"I have received some vigorous dressings-down, yes. You get them when you deserve them. And if you think you don't deserve it, then you're wrong."
Walking straight out of school on Friday and into work on Monday. Grafting in a building the size of a small town. Workmates walking around with their giant appendages hanging out near machinery that could rip an arm off. Suicidal staff members helping themselves to cyanide. Mass copulation in the Pump Shop. Your workplace having itsown fishing pond and ballroom. If you weren’t around when Britain was the workshop of the world instead of its pound shop, only one word springs to mind when you read the tales of those who worked at Nottingham's iconic bicycle factory; Raleigh.
Derrick Buttress began writing in his late thirties, and recently had his first short story collection - a celebration of local figures and the Broxtowe community he grew up in - published at the age of eighty. He’s also the first commissioned writer for The Alan Sillitoe Committee’s contribution to The Space, the new BBC/Arts Council digital media project, where he celebrates the history of Nottingham’s favourite bit of paving, the Old Market Square...
The string section opened with a spine tingling beautiful chord progression, before bursting into Eye Of The Tiger (aka the theme from Rocky)
Ten Notts bands went to The Smoke for the day, took over a pub in Dalson, and tried to break everything
"I tell my mates I’m going in to sample the brews in the morning, and their faces light up - but if I’ve had a proper night out, it’s not nice"
Candice Jacobs has been one of the prime movers of the local art scene over the past decade - as a co-director of the massively influential Moot collective, helping to found the One Thoresby Street gallery and studios, and as an artist in her own right...
"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"
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