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Nottingham Ball Bois
Thu 10 Jan 2013The Nottingham Ball Bois - your gay-friendly neighbourhood football team - are one of the few local clubs in a national league. But, as Scott Lawley (chair and full-back) and Craig Simpson (player-manager) point out, they do a lot more...
White Collar Zoo
Thu 03 Jan 2013Notts-powered Web TV entertainment that aims to introduce local talent to the world. But will the world - and people round here - stop looking at grot and cats long enough to take notice? Lee Thomas and Guy Williams are banking that enough of us will...
Interview: Kagoule
Wed 02 Jan 2013Formed at school - and still at High Pavement - the grunge-cum-post-punk stylings of Kagoule have got more than a few onlookers into a froth, with XFM already pricking up their ears and a support slot on the main stage at Rock City under their wing. Adjusting their toggles and unzipping their lips are vocalist Cai Burns and bassist Lucy Hatter.
Shane Meadows: The Early Years
Tue 25 Dec 2012Forty-nine issues ago, we interviewed Shane Meadows for the first ever LeftLion Magazine. Since then he’s gone from being an underground Midlands filmmaker to a BAFTA-winning tour de force of both British cinema and television. We’re now on issue fifty and Shane took a break from working on his current project (a documentary about The Stone Roses) to give us a rare interview, reflecting on his early years learning his trade in Nottingham…
Interview: Reactor
Thu 13 Dec 2012Fancy some audience participation, but hate panto? How about being coerced into submitting to a make-believe totalitarian regime, or having aliens decide if you’re worth being enslaved or just got rid of? That’s the kind of thing that Niki Russell, Dan Williamson and their Reactor collective get up to...
Interview: Hatch's Nathan Miller
Tue 11 Dec 2012For five years now, Hatch have taken away the pretentiousness of performance art, brought back the fun, and have redrawn the boundaries of the stage by refusing to acknowledge them. Playwright Michael Pinchbeck is one of the founders, and the other - Nathan Miller - used to put in serious work for an independent magazine you may have heard of...
Interview: Kappa Gamma
Fri 07 Dec 2012Picked up by Denizen Records, linked up with Dog Is Dead, championed by Dean Jackson and glommed onto the Radio One playlist, it’s been a very decent year for Kappa Gamma and their freewheeling dream-pop stylings. Time, then, to talk to Tom Towle and Max Starbuck of the band...
Interview: Gonzo Unit
Thu 29 Nov 2012Gonzo Unit - a collaboration between Anna Schwanz and Rachel Murray - aimed to bring together artists from Notts and beyond to create and perform new works. Problem was, they didn’t have gallery space - so they got really creative and found space in an unexpected place...
Interview: Peter Bowles
Wed 28 Nov 2012Peter Bowles went from a childhood in Hyson Green to an acting career that spans the early days of television, the golden age of sitcoms and the admiration of Marlon Brando - and he owes much of it to a theatre in town that now carries his name...
Interview: Play No Games
Tue 27 Nov 2012The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts
Interview: Don Masson
Thu 15 Nov 2012Club skipper during the iconic Jimmy Sirrel era that propelled the club from the bottom to the top. Part of the QPR team that lost the league by one point in 1976. A key component of the doomed Scotland '78 World Cup squad. A prodigal son who finished his career helping his beloved 'Pies into the top flight. There's been 150 years of Notts County football, and - according to those who saw him in action - no-one has played it better than Don Masson...
Interview: MulletProofPoet
Wed 24 Oct 2012"I started when I was about thirteen or fourteen; I was writing lyrics for a band that didn’t actually exist"
Interview: Shide Boss
Wed 24 Oct 2012One of the most successful musicians in Notts right now has won TV talent shows, is up for two music awards, has worked with the President of Def Jam South and has someone from Hollyoaks on his video. He’s Shide Boss, and it’s about time you recognised him...
Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine
Tue 23 Oct 2012It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.
Interview: Jake Bugg
Sat 20 Oct 2012Scooped up from the mean streets of Clifton into the loving arms of a record deal. All over Radio One. Tours of the UK and Europe. Live TV appearances. Two glorious hometown gigs lined up at Dot To Dot and Splendour. Spends his spare time wondering what Fearne Cotton thinks of him. He’s Jake Bugg, and he’s only just old enough to get into pubs...
Preview: GameCity7
Fri 19 Oct 2012"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"
Interview: Joe Dempsie
Thu 18 Oct 2012Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...
Interview: Jon Ronson
Tue 02 Oct 2012People who believe twelve foot-tall lizards run everything. Robots with souls. Real life superheroes. Conspiracists, fundamentalists, and extremists. He's hung out with them all...
Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger
Thu 06 Sep 20121,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...
Interview: Sleaford Mods
Thu 16 Aug 2012Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn: two small-town Lincolnshire lads who fuse blistering lyrics to brutalist loops, bolt on an uncompromising stage presence, and call it Sleaford Mods.
Interview: The Afterdark Movement
Wed 15 Aug 2012Your brand-new Future Sound of Nottingham winners and Splendour-openers spit bars, bend notes, chop beats, defy pigeonholing and kick arse. They’re the Afterdark Movement, and we managed to get two of them - Bru-C and Trekkah - to stand still long enough to hear their story...
Interview: Olympians Grace Carter and Tesni Ward
Sat 11 Aug 2012"When I was six, I told my teacher that I was going to be in the Olympics, and I would buy her a ticket"
Interview: Alan Moore
Tue 07 Aug 2012Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...
Interview: The Gramophones
Thu 02 Aug 2012The Gramophones: they’ve been from Lands End to John O’Groats by London Bus, microlight and even DeLoreans. Now they want to show you their holiday snaps in their brand new show, End To End, before they go back up North to Edinburgh for the Fringe. We spoke to Hannah Stone about what it’s like to live a road movie with your mates...
Justin Fashanu: The Biography
Fri 27 Jul 2012The scar on Brian Clough’s career. The most disastrous non-Italian transfer in Forest’s history. The rampant fantasist who claimed affairs with sexually experimental Tory MPs and Bet Lynch. The scorer of one of the most famous goals in English football. The only Tricky Tree to knock about with Peter Tatchell. Is it time to reassess the life of Justin Fashanu? Yes, says biographer Jim Read…
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