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Gig review: International Women's Day show at The Bodega, with Lara Elise Grant, Emily Alice and Dorothy Ella
Mon 10 Mar 2025The Bodega played host to a set of empowering gigs commemorating International Women's Day, in collaboration with Dizzy Magazine. We dropped in at the downstairs bar, where pink lighting, disco balls, glitter streamers (and crucial background music of Chappell Roan and Wet Leg) were ready to celebrate and support the local female artists of Nottingham’s music scene - to honour what we have achieved, and what work still needs to be done and recognised in the predominantly patriarchal industry...
Footstomping music at the Royal Concert Hall
Sun 09 Mar 2025Sinfonia Viva triumphs with Fanny Mendelssohn, Mozart and Beethoven...
We chat with Rob Green about music, musicals, and the value of the grassroots
Fri 07 Mar 2025Uplifting alt soul-pop Notts sensation Rob.Green is back and has dialled everything to the absolute max - bringing the emotion, fierce hyped energy and brand-new music for his first ever headline UK tour, which kicks off at Saltbox on 20th March. Rob shared his infectious joy with us in a conversation covering the tour, his collaboration with Cassell the Beatmaker, his ventures into musicals, and the value of grassroots venues...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #17 special edition: Divorce
Fri 07 Mar 2025In this special edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, we sample the debut album Drive to Goldenhammer from Nottingham's own Divorce...
Theatre maker Natalie Bellingham brings her one woman show to Nottingham
Fri 07 Mar 2025Ahead of her upcoming solo performance at Lakeside Arts, where comedy meets life’s biggest transitions, Emma Oldham caught up with Natalie Bellingham to uncover the hidden layers behind Look After Your Knees...
Theatre Review: Macbeth by Nottingham Shakespeare Company
Fri 07 Mar 2025Nottingham Shakespeare Company has conjured the world of Macbeth with a tragic, rugged intensity that grips the audience from the first words to the final clash of swords.
Pick Six: Rastarella Music Programmer & Community Engagement Expert at Cultural Vibrations (Unity Through Music)
Fri 07 Mar 2025For this month’s Pick Six, we spoke to Rastarella - Music Programmer & Community Engagement Expert at Cultural Vibrations (Unity Through Music) and Radio Host at 97.5 Kemet Fm. Rastarella will oversee the music programming at this month’s Ay-Up Market.
Gig review: You Me At Six at Rock City
Thu 06 Mar 2025You Me At Six bid farewell to their Nottingham fans with three shows at Rock City on their Final Nights of Six Tour. Intensity and nostalgia were mixed with the undeniable energy of a band at their peak...
The making of Sister Midnight: a multinational fable premiering at Broadway Cinema
Wed 05 Mar 2025Nottingham producers Alastair Clark of Wellington Films and Anna Griffin of Griffin Pictures have a wealth of projects to their names: A House in Jerusalem, Calibre, and The Levelling to name but a few. Ordinarily, their home is Nottingham’s very own Broadway Cinema, but their latest project Sister Midnight took them a little further afield. We met them to hear all about it…
Gig review: Vazum at The Chapel, with Stained Glass and City Flowers
Tue 04 Mar 2025Travelling all the way from Detroit, rock duo Vazum are welcomed warmly to Nottingham's upper room venue, The Chapel. With two rapidly rising local groups in support, the result was an atmospheric and intoxicating night of incredible music...
Preview: Showstopper at Mansfield Palace Theatre
Mon 03 Mar 2025Fancy a night out watching a show that has never been seen before and will never be seen again? Mansfield Palace Theatre have just the show for you next week…
Mancunian indie-rockers Doves talk past gigs in Notts and their brand new sixth studio record
Mon 03 Mar 2025When people think of great Manchester bands, alt-rockers Doves can often be overlooked. But across their six albums and multiple decades together, the band have rarely put a foot wrong. With their latest opus Constellations of the Lonely just released – their first in five years - and a show at Rock City on the horizon, we sat down for a catch up with drummer Andy Williams.
A new play shines a light on the first pioneer of film-length animation and it is not Disney!
Sun 02 Mar 2025Lakeside Arts hosts this intriguing and inspiring play about Lotte Reiniger...
Competition: Win Tickets For Showstopper at Mansfield Palace Theatre
Sat 01 Mar 2025Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest – direct from the West End and now heading to Mansfield Palace Theatre! If you'd like to win one of 5 pairs of tickets we have to give away then answer our simple question below...
Fisher Gate Point party, Peggy’s Spotlight, Super League Basketball Final, and Bongo’s Bingo: Here’s what’s on this week in Nottingham 3 March - 9 March 2025
Sat 01 Mar 2025Seeing sunlight past 5pm is not the only thing we have got going on in Nottingham this week. Bongo Bingo’s long awaited return, up-and-coming Jazz & Blues musicians at Peggy’s Skylight, the UKs Super League Basketball Final, Fisher Gate Point is back and Wille and the Bandits will be taking the stage at The Bodega are just some of the many things going on this week…
LeftLion's Latest Listens #16: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 28 Feb 2025In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Otala, Sam Shaw & The Real Eyes, Green Grango, Fallowed and Divorce...
Theatre Review: The Shark is Broken
Thu 27 Feb 2025Going in deep to the cabin fever of the Jaws set
We chat to Wille Edwards of Wille and the Bandits ahead of their Bodega show
Tue 25 Feb 2025Wille and the Bandits hail from Cornwall, playing rock and blues which they have reinvented in their own innovative style, pushing the boundaries of the genre for a whole new generation. After an extensive European tour in 2024, the band are embarking on a UK tour visiting 18 venues and kicking off in March: just a couple of days in, they will visit The Bodega. We spoke with founder Wille Edwards about the new tour, the band’s music, influences and lots more...
Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe at Lakeside Arts
Tue 25 Feb 2025In 1980, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham received a letter containing a loose piece of chalk. The letter was from a former student, who explained that the chalk had been used by Albert Einstein during his visit to the university on 6 June 1930. Einstein had written equations on a blackboard during his visit, signing the corner once he had finished. This unique blackboard is now preserved at the university. Nearly a century after Einstein’s visit, Lakeside Arts is presenting Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe, an exhibition featuring newly commissioned artworks by nine artists. Jo Herlihy reviews...
We speak to Keep Our NHS Public, a campaign group against privatisation and underfunding
Sat 22 Feb 2025Our oldest contributor Mike Scott is the chair of the Notts branch of Keep our NHS Public, a two-decade old organization campaigning against privatization and underfunding of the National Health Service. With more discourse than ever on the problems that the NHS is facing, we speak to Mike about why the institution that saves us is so worth saving.
How Sarah Bard went from battling chronic illness to breaking through in wheelchair tennis
Fri 21 Feb 2025Wheelchair Tennis player and Nottingham resident Sarah Bard is nothing less than a soldier. Having fought through lifelong chronic pain and mobility problems, which peaked after an accident she suffered at age thirty, she’s cemented her position as one of our city’s most admired sportspeople. Back in 2018, LeftLion joined other local media in promoting Sarah’s story, and ‘Go-Fund-Me’ for a new wheelchair to help her travel to national tournaments. Here we pass Sarah the pen to tell her inspiring story.
Gig review: Marvin's Revenge at JT Soar
Thu 20 Feb 2025Marvin’s Revenge not only hosted and performed a blazing gig at Nottingham's JT Soar, but at the same time rasied funds to make their New York dreams come true. We got in on the action...
Universities for Nottingham’s Co(l)laboratory programme is seeking committed citizens for paid events shaping local research
Wed 19 Feb 2025The groundbreaking Co(l)laboratory programme is looking for local workers, people who are active in the community, and those with lived experience of facing complex challenges to take part in upcoming paid events that will help set the research agenda.
Feathers and royalty: Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - Swan Lake flaps into town
Wed 19 Feb 2025Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - Swan Lake returns to The Theatre Royal. After thirty years, has the ballet lost any of its charm?
From Masterchef to Market Street: Vanilla Bean bakery and café opens in Bingham
Wed 19 Feb 2025Opened by former MasterChef contestant Amy Vyse, Vanilla Bean is an artisan bakery, café and patisserie in Bingham, which doubles as the new residence for popular Nottingham supper club Incognito Club. Lucy Campion, food co-editor, chatted to Amy about her culinary journey so far and tried a selection of the baked goods on offer.
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