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Nick Turner from The Chameleon on Running an Independent Music Venue

"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"

Interview: Captain Dangerous

"I made the mistake of getting drunk and inviting the whole bar back to mine. I hadn’t told my girlfriend and she was upstairs in tears being comforted by Dick Venom"

Why one night watching Bob Tilton in Dubble Bubble made me move to Nottingham...

Chris Summerlin, a one-time outsider, lays out exactly why our scene is so unique

Bantum TV: With Will of I'm Not From London

Our cheeky roving reporter Simeon catches Will Robinson with his trousers down

Bantum TV: With Nina Smith and Lou from Royal Gala

What happens when Simeon Bantum, Jared LeftLion, Lou from Royal Gala and Nina Smith all get together in a girls toilet?

Interview: Will Robinson of I'm Not From London

Riots, cagefighting, Hollywood actresses, ghost buses, Mexican wrestling and contracts signed in blood. It's all in a night's work for promoter Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London Label...

I'm Not From London Photoshoot

Ralph Barklam went on the buses with Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London label

Crocus Gallery Turns One

A Lenton shopping precinct might not be the first place you’d expect to find an art gallery - but for almost a year now, the Crocus Gallery has blossomed into a centre for the community and a chance for young artists to gain valuable work experience. We spoke to manager Allyn Mullholland, Exhibitions co-ordinator Alice-Georgina Thickett and curator Marie Drouin on the eve of the gallery’s first anniversary…

Interview: Billy Ivory

"You can’t take wide shots of the countryside around Eastwood without Ikea getting in the way"

Interview: Alan Fletcher aka Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours

He’s played the world’s favourite doctor for the past sixteen years, been the front man and singer in The Waiting Room for the past five, and would do almost anything for his legions of almost obsessive fans. When we heard that we was heading to The Walkabout in Nottingham as part of a UK tour, we called up Alan Fletcher, AKA Neighbour’s Dr Karl Kennedy, for a quick chat about music, his fans and being referred to as a DILF...

Interview: Terry Taylor from Programme World

For nearly forty years, Terry Taylor has held the keys to Aladdins Cave – assuming that Aladdin was a rabid Notts County supporter and Forest memorabilia hoarder. His shop, Programme World, on Arkwright Street, is still a beacon of footballing archaeology…

Interview: Hot Chip

"I know that people always say this, but I mean it; I always like visiting Nottingham, I get a good feeling when I am there"

Interview: Dave Green from Nottingham Castle

"I think it’s really important to remember that not everything in a museum has to have a high value in terms of finance"

Interview: Ade Edmondson

"These days it seems that there’s no kind of real subculture at all. In the seventies and eighties people were justifiably angry about stuff"

Alexei Sayle Interview

"People often recollect me using foul language, but I never did on television. It wasn’t the language but the attitude which was unsettling them"

Interview: MistaJam

"I've played in clubs around the world but nowhere quite matches the atmosphere of The Bomb as it was."

Nottingham Ghosts

In the build up to Halloween we look at some pant-soilingly scary ghosts from Nottingham past...

Seven rising stars from Television Workshop

Samantha Morton might get all the press, but here are seven other rising stars from the Television Workshop in Nottingham...

Street art photos from Tom Quigley

Shelter From the Storm

What do fish and chips, Marks & Spencer, the Mini and the Bank of England have in common? Refugees...

Interview: Toadfish from Neighbours

LeftLion Editor Jared Wilson meets Toadfish Jarrod Rebecki, aka Neighbours actor Ryan Maloney. An interview that might be a catharsis for the last decade of his life...

The Little Ones

Interview: Noel Fielding

"I think I’m much more sarcastic in real life, it’s a London thing maybe. Down here people are quite yappy"

Interview: 1st Blood

This fresh and funky hip hop band have just been signed by Tricky and play LeftLion Presents at the Orange Tree on Saturday...

Interview: A Drop in The Ocean Festival

"There won’t be any name bands from out of town this year. We took a conscious decision to make it as all-Notts as possible, because amongst other things, it is a celebration of Nottingham culture."