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Gatecrasher preview Sept 2007

A Canadian In New Basford

"I’ve tried watching other English sports apart from football, but I just don’t see the appeal"

LeftLion Presents September 2007

Things We Loved About 80's Holidays in Skeggy

Chips, weeing in buckets, being sick down the back of your Dad's neck and the Jolly Fisherman. A tribute to our spiritual homeland in its darkest hour...

A Canadian on Fantasy League Football

"Here are a few tips on winning Fantasy Football when you know exactly two things about football; 'Jack' and 'Shit'"

Interview: Athlete

"It’s that weird thing in a band that your life is so dependent on what your next record does, in terms of where you’ll be, what you’re doing"

Interview: David Blayze

We put a few questions to the talented musician about his new solo career...

Interview: Swimming

"After branching out from recorder club I got really into making weird and wonderful sounds and writing songs."

Shelter From the Storm

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

Chris Summerlin

We've admired his work for some time now, so we put a few pressing questions to the artist behind Damn You!'s amazing artwork

Interview: Scout Niblett

Scout Niblett (aka Emma Louise Niblett) grew up in Nottingham, but moved away to America and became an international success...

Interview: Happy Mondays

"We’ve been followed around since we were eighteen. I’m forty five in August and a bit of an old fart now. I just did what most of the kids where I come from did"

Interview: Zoe Johnston

Zoe Johnston spent over a decade in electronica with the likes of Above and Beyond, Bent and Delerium. We found out what she's up to now...

Nottingham Forest and Notts County 2007-2008 Season Preview

After a short break running paper shops, icing down knees and chatting up gormless birds in Geisha, our city’s lower division footballers prepare for another season of cloggery and huffing. We asked NFFC Blog and Martin Naylor – our regular contributors to Left Brian and Left ‘Pie-On – to give us a rundown on what a gwan on both sides of t’Trent…

The 2007 Smoking Ban

The cigarette, the 'oily rag', the 'coffin nail'. The suffusion of pleasure and relief as you take that first draw...

Dot to Dot 07 - Part 3: live bands

A Canadian in New Basford on the NHS

One of the things that drives me crazy in this town is the obsession with hospital beds

Interview: Ziggy Marley

"Ziggy don’t have average days! But when I’m not touring or making music I go for a run, make some cornmeal porridge, drink water, play football and watch TV"

Nottingham Bar Staff on the 2007 Smoking Ban

With the smoking ban coming into force, we asked a few of our favourite local barmen how it will affect their business

Interview: Mat Andasun

"I once did a cracking gig supporting Marilllion in a 2000 seater in Utrecht. I was excited and only seventeen at the time"

Dot to Dot 07 - Part 2: live bands

Percussion Spring Ball

Ten Reasons Why Slab Square Is Skill

Why Nottingham's Market Square is so much more than an Emo concentration camp...

Nottingham's Rebuilt Market Square Launched

"It has been the de facto centre of every major celebration in Nottingham - from VE Day to Forest coming home with the European Cup"

A Canadian In New Basford: Shottingham

When I tell people from Nottingham that I moved here from Canada, they assume I’m the craziest man on earth...