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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...

LeftLion Issue #183 May 2025

Fri 02 May 2025

Featuring 20 Years of Dot To Dot, comedian Matt Forde, boxer Leigh Wood, Igloo Hostel, Nottingham Restaurant Week, NottAlone, Dom Gourlay, the 1525 Collective, The Amazons, A Projectionist in Notts and more...

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...

Book Review: 'Manfishing' by Peter Pheasant

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Callum Minford reviews a journalistic thriller nearly fifty years in the making.

Book Review: Freewheeling - Essays on Cycling

Wed 09 Apr 2025

Why wouldn't you just drive there? A new collection from Daunt Books finds the reason to invest in Lycra.

LeftLion's Latest Listens #19: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 04 Apr 2025

In this week's expanded edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Keane Baldwin, KALIKO, Pretty Windows, No Setting Son and Dusty 4 Track...

LeftLion Issue #182 April 2025

Fri 28 Mar 2025

The April issue of LeftLion features The Palais, Nottingham Pagan, Bromley House Library, Frank Turner, Herbert Kilpin, 25 years of Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Bongo's Bingo, 80s fashion in Notts, New Art Exchange, Gaia at Mansfield Palace Theatre, music reviews and lots more!

LeftLion's Latest Listens #18: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 14 Mar 2025

In our latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews a selection of recent new releases. This time it's the turn of ROB.GREEN, Dead Mint, Drew Thomas, Sam Oakley and Stuart Pearce...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #17 special edition: Divorce

Fri 07 Mar 2025

In this special edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, we sample the debut album Drive to Goldenhammer from Nottingham's own Divorce...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #16: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 28 Feb 2025

In 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...

LeftLion Issue #181 March 2025

Fri 28 Feb 2025

This month's edition of LeftLion features Fisher Gate Point, Marcus Garvey Centre, Doves, playwright Jane Upton, A Foster Carer in Notts, wild swimming at Colwick Park, Ay-Up Market, The Lace Market Theatre, Bulwell Forest Garden, Sister Midnight and much more...

Music Reviews: February 2025

Wed 26 Feb 2025

LeftLion's Latest Listens #15: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 14 Feb 2025

In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Confyde, Idolvein, Cara Flynn, Marseille and ALT BLK ERA...

An open conversation: journalist Gary Younge tells us about a public assembly on issues facing minority communities coming up in Nottingham

Mon 10 Feb 2025

Well known for his twenty years at The Guardian and a current position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, journalist, author and broadcaster Gary Younge has led conversations on minority experiences and systematic racism for decades. Those conversations have become all-the-more pertinent since 2020, so Mr Younge is planning new measures to address the issues facing minority communities.

This will take the form of public assemblies in four cities, one of which will be Nottingham. In January, Mr Younge arrived here to meet the local community who inform the substance of that assembly. Here he presents an open letter, explaining what people can expect from the meeting.

LeftLion Issue #180 February 2025

Fri 31 Jan 2025

This month featuring Gary Younge, Aisling Loftus, Revinyl Sessions, Tom Dale and Barret Hodgson on Light Night, Sobar, Nottingham Cinema Round Table, Notts County photographer John Anderson, Sarah Bard, Bellydancer Marija Zinkevica, Girl Scout, House of Pain Wrestling, Linden Archives and lots more...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #14: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 17 Jan 2025

In this, the first edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Rainbow Frog Biscuits, Bad Milk Blood Robot, Eleanor McGregor and Divorce...

Human rights barrister and author Christian Weaver talks about his second book, The Right To Protest

Wed 15 Jan 2025

Rising Nottingham star Christian Weaver was named Legal Aid Newcomer of the Year in 2023 for his tenacious work addressing dangerous public housing. The Secret Barrister called his first book ‘exceptional‘ - we join him now as he releases his second, Your Right To Protest...

LeftLion Issue #179 January 2025

Fri 03 Jan 2025

In this month's magazine we speak to Marcellus Baz, Nottingham Gig Buddies, sculptor Rachel Carter, ALT BLK ERA, Evil Scarecrow, Pretty Polly Tights, and author and human rights lawyer Christian Weaver. We also look at the history of The Garage club, Union Road, and hear about growing up as a trans man in Nottingham. Plus lots more!