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A Light Bulb Moment

Sun 29 Jun 2014

Don't you just hate it when your light bulb goes pop? It's always wrought with drama

Push Button Wait For Signal

Sat 28 Jun 2014

The product of last year's BFI Film Academy that ran at Broadway Cinema

Nottingham Outlaws are one of the Midlands’ top rugby league clubs, boasting more than 200 players across their various senior, academy and junior teams. We caught up with captain and prop forward George Strachan, and committee member and club stalwart Richard Johnson, to talk club history and explain the difference between league and union, as well as bus fires, boozing and bingo...

Murdered By My Boyfriend

Tue 24 Jun 2014

This new, one-off BBC Three drama is based on the true story of a Nottingham girl who suffered at the hands of domestic abuse

Jersey Boys

Tue 24 Jun 2014

Clint Eastwood is back in the director's chair, and this time it's a musical

Future Session 63 - Suspect Alibi

Sat 21 Jun 2014

New music, live in session, from Nottingham. The latest artist in the Nusic studio is

Belle

Sat 21 Jun 2014

"Amma Asante’s new film is an interesting exploration of personal and societal liberties that sets it aside from comparable films in the usually stuffy genre"

Book Reviews: June - July 2014

Fri 20 Jun 2014

A corrupt detective inspector, a post-war love affair, a cub who can't sleep in the dark, and more

Interview: Kogumaza

Wed 18 Jun 2014

Our music is about finding patterns, bending and pulling, twisting, distorting and invertingWith a name that roughly translates from Japanese in to English as Ursa Minor, a constellation in the Northern Sky, it’s apt that Kogumaza have spent the best part of five years creating hypnotic, beguiling music that can often feel otherworldly. Between them Chris, Katy, Mark and Neil have been involved in the local music scene for twenty years, from playing in numerous bands, putting on shows, designing posters, and even hosting a show on Radio Trent. On the eve of the release of their second full length album, three of the band speak to LeftLion...

The Sneinton Art Scene

Tue 17 Jun 2014

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.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

Tue 17 Jun 2014

French Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's first English language film since Alien: Resurrection in 1997.

The Sparrows' Nest: An Anarchist Library

Sat 14 Jun 2014

Unbeknown to many, there's a hidden gem of a place for people to binge on books... In a house in St. Ann's

LeftLion World Cup T-shirts - SOLD OUT

Fri 13 Jun 2014

Get three Left Lions on your shirt, youth - now in red AND white

Poddingham Teaser: Adam Peter Smith

Fri 13 Jun 2014

A cheeky taster of what's to come in the next Poddingham session

Six Brazilian Artists to Watch Out For

Fri 13 Jun 2014

Forget the cheesy tunes you're offered up over the course of the World Cup, we've picked out six amazing artists in Brazil

Review: Sat & Sun Southwell Folk Festival 2014

Fri 13 Jun 2014

"For a brief moment it was like the eighties again, with Michael Praed swishing his hair fetchingly back and forth as Robin and Ray Winstone as Will Scarlett"

Live: Mannequin and Bus Stop Madonnas

Thu 12 Jun 2014

The newly established Fuzzbox clubnight featured live perfomances, accompanied by DJs spinning the best surf, NY punk and garage rock and punk tunes

FSN 2014: Oscar Speed

Thu 12 Jun 2014

"I really wanted to do something that everybody could have fun with, a happy, forget-everything-and-dance sorta song"

Look Back in Anger: The Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years On

Wed 11 Jun 2014

A corrupt lying government, mass unemployment, a rigged energy market, police brutality and a country in the throes of civil war. Sound familiar? Harry Paterson takes us back to 1984 and unpacks the myths of the Miners’ Strike.

Interview: Jeremy Deller

Wed 11 Jun 2014

Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller’s work is chock-full of the politics of working class Britain, from the miners’ strike and riots to the effects of the Industrial Revolution on popular culture. Mark Patterson remembers his own experiences of riots, before trying to pin down the evasive Deller for a few answers...