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LeftLion's Latest Listens #21: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 02 May 2025

We're back once again with a pre-Bank Holiday edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens. This week, our music team reviews new releases from Swallowtail, highspeedpeach, MCØ and Drew Thomas...

Gig review: Spear of Destiny at Rescue Rooms

Fri 02 May 2025

Still going strong since the band's original formation in 1982, Spear of Destiny have had many incarnations and permutations over the years. Back with a new album Janus, and plenty of energy to tour it, the band are proving themselves - once again - to be legends of the British rock scene...

Theatre Review: Ghost Stories

Wed 30 Apr 2025

Three tales which will have you leaping out of your seat

We catch up with Moonlit, winner of the 2025 Ultimate Battle of the Bands competition

Wed 30 Apr 2025

Following their triumph at the Ultimate Battle of the Bands this year, and ahead of their Rough Trade appearance, we caught up with all six members of Moonlit to find out what the win meant to them, how they feel about playing Splendour Festival, and what else is on the horizon for them as a band…

Exhibition Review: Money Talks: Stories from the Coins at Mansfield Museum

Mon 28 Apr 2025

An exhibition about money featuring, amongst other things, a hoard of Roman coins that have gone on public display for the first time and date back to the BC era...

Film Review: Sinners

Mon 28 Apr 2025

Director Ryan Coogler has graced us with a feature you can really sink your teeth into…

Gig review: Seas of Mirth, Bethlehem Casuals and The Barnacles at The Old Cold Store Nottingham

Mon 28 Apr 2025

The merry-makers of Nottingham were out on Friday night as promoter I’m Not From London presented local legends Seas of Mirth, with support from The Barnacles and Bethlehem Casuals at The Old Cold Store...

'Bad Betty Live' Returns to Peggy's Skylight

Mon 28 Apr 2025

This Sunday, watch the best live poetry with a daiquiri in hand.

Gig review: Chris Miggells at Sherwood Observatory

Sun 27 Apr 2025

At the age of 12, Chris Miggells began to play the piano – something which was encouraged by his parents to keep him out of mischief. From that point on, the Mansfield composer fell in love with the instrument, channelling his synaesthesia into writing classical works and performing candlelit concerts across the county and beyond. With word out about his incredible talent, Chris brought “The Piano Experience” concert series to the recently renovated Sherwood Observatory for three sold out shows in their new Planetarium. A candlelit concert under the moon and stars? This is one show we simply couldn’t miss…

Stage plays, Stewart Lee and vegan food at Sneinton Market: Here's what's on this week in Nottingham 28 April - 4 May

Sun 27 Apr 2025

This week in Nottingham it's all about the stage, as legendary productions like Les Misérables coincide with experimental, modern shows like Ghost Stories. Meanwhile, the Sneinton Market Avenues host one of our city's most loved markets...

In Photos: Goya Gumbani at Mimm Studios

Sat 26 Apr 2025

The last Let's Build Fam event in a 10-part series saw Mimm Studios host a Q&A and performance from Goya Gumbani. Support came from Loud Planet...

Theatre Review: Murder She Didn't Write

Sat 26 Apr 2025

A hilarious evening of improvised murder mystery mayhem

Gig review: Self Esteem at Rescue Rooms

Fri 25 Apr 2025

With the launch of the new album A Complicated Woman, there's plenty to celebrate for Self Esteem. We dropped in to one of her very special Rescue Rooms shows and found the pop artist on exceptional form, despite some tiredness...

Soul Survivor: veteran DJ Jonathan on cutting his teeth at The Palais in the 1970s

Fri 25 Apr 2025

Jonathan (aka Jonathan Woodliffe) has a long history of DJing in Nottingham. To many his name is synonymous to many with the early days of Rock City, but before that he cut his teeth as a DJ at The Palais. We asked Jonathan about his experiences of the Palais back in those halcyon days of the 1970s…

Theatre Review: Only Fools and Horses: The Musical

Wed 23 Apr 2025

Why do only fools and horses work? Well, perhaps Del Boy and Rodney can answer that as Britain's most beloved market traders ride again...

Film Review: The Penguin Lessons

Mon 21 Apr 2025

The Penguin Lessons is the latest in that oh so recognisable cinema sub-trope, British people doing slightly quirky things in the face of adversity...

Film Review: The Return

Mon 21 Apr 2025

We review The Return, a stripped back take on Homer’s classic The Odyssey…

Musicals, exhibits, legendary bass players and groovy deep sea gigs: Here's what's on this week in Nottingham 21 - 27 April

Sun 20 Apr 2025

From a musical adaptation of British TV classics to giant replicas of Earth, take a look at what's happening in Nottingham this week...

Gig review: Cliffords at The Bodega

Sat 19 Apr 2025

A double bill from Ireland - Cliffords and Bold Love - took to The Bodega on Wednesday night. The next two great bands to emerge from the country? We certainly think so…

LeftLion's Latest Listens #20: Notts music we're currently spinning

Sat 19 Apr 2025

In this Easter weekend edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews recent releases from Katie Keddie, Joey Collins, Blu Syrup, Lace Thief and Karen Macleod...

Gig review: The essence of "____" at The Bodega

Fri 18 Apr 2025

When Corder, co-founder of local promoters Nottalott, set up his first event in March of last year entitled 'The Essence of Punk', the feedback and support for the event was overwhelmingly positive. It was only honourable that 12 months later he would put on a second - more enigmatically titled - event, not only to mark the anniversary, but to celebrate what the first event achieved: a platform to champion local talent, as well as to support local causes...

Review: Record Store Day 2025

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Last weekend, Rough Trade Nottingham hosted the 18th consecutive Record Store Day, with local bands and international acts hitting the stage for a series of exciting live performances from the likes of Bored Marsh, Chloe Rodgers, Sancho Panza, Airport Dad and more...

Interview: The Northern Rascals present Sunny Side at Lakeside Arts

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Northern Rascals are bringing their dance drama Sunny Side to Nottingham, a painfully honest account of male mental wellness, or the lack if it. Founders Anna Holmes and Sam Ford talk to Left Lion about their work championing those outside the mainstream...

Lost in the Stacks: we visit Nottingham’s secret Library, Bromley House

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Every city has their hidden gems, for those who are curious enough to seek them out. Just off the Market Square, Nottingham boasts its very own secret library in a preserved Georgian townhouse. A cornucopia of local history, volumes of fiction and non-fiction, and one of the only walled gardens left in the city, Bromley House Library is a bibliophile’s dream waiting to be explored…

Gig review: Panchiko at Rough Trade Nottingham

Wed 16 Apr 2025

Going from an internet mystery that looked like it was never going to be solved to a well-known cult classic band across the UK, there isn’t any other Nottingham outfit that has been on as much of a journey as Panchiko…

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