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Notts What I Call Music Vol. 2 - Submissions Open
Thu 22 Jan 2015Calling all Notts musicians. Want your music on the 2015 'Best of Notts' compilation from LeftLion?
Music Reviews: December 2014 - January 2015
Tue 20 Jan 2015With Lviv, Apalusa, Beth Frisby, Blue Vulture, Cecil Chamberlain, Ear Vings, Ivory Serfs, Jamie Moon, Karhide, Lois and Reckless
Safe at Last Charity Music Video
Sun 23 Nov 2014The charity who work with, and on behalf of, young people at risk through running away are releasing a song, with a video made by Nottingham's Rebel Yell
Music Reviews: November 2014
Thu 20 Nov 2014With Amber Run, Origin One, Separation Anxiety, Trekkah, The Madeline Rust, Rattle, Merrick's Trust, and The Wild Man of Europe
Music Reviews: October 2014
Sat 18 Oct 2014With Indiana, The Hip Priests, Can B, Electric Baths, Neil Ward, Cappo, Gold Codes and White Finger
Soul Buggin' Celebrates Ten Years
Mon 22 Sep 2014When Beane isn’t shovelling down doner in the name of his LeftLion kebab consumer advice column, he teams up with Wrighty for Soul Buggin’, Nottingham’s premier disco and soul night. As it turns ten, the boys reminisce on how it all started, their favourite guest DJs and the punters who got a bit too into the groove on the dancefloor...
Ellie Wake: Under the Music Hall
Sat 20 Sep 2014We spoke to the Nottingham filmmaker about her latest project, and new Indiegogo campaign, about the city's caves
Music Reviews: August - September 2014
Thu 11 Sep 2014With 1st Blood, Joel Baker, Nadir, Flaming Fields, Lone, The Idolins, Frazer Lowrie, Mannequin and more
Nottingham Music Venue Accessibility For People In Wheelchairs
Wed 03 Sep 2014Rob Maddison leads Spaceships Are Cool, drums for electro-funksters Yunioshi, and has a new musical project in the shape of Revenge of Calculon. A longtime performer and gig goer, he’s also been in a wheelchair since 2007. With Nottingham often being touted as having one of the UK’s best live music scenes, and with over eleven million registered disabled people in the country, we spoke to him about the accessibility of local venues and if there’s anything else that can be done to improve them...
Music Reviews: June - July 2014
Tue 24 Jun 2014With Bru-C, Michael A Grammar, Ryan Thomas, Garton, Opie Deino, Simon Waldram, Grey Hairs, Privateers and more
Musicwood
Sun 01 Jun 2014The UK Green Film Festival is touring the country. The first film to be shown at Broadway Cinema is about the Alaskan Tongass National Forest and the guitars made out of its wood...
Neat14 Music: Joy Mumford
Wed 28 May 2014The soulful songbird answers some questions ahead of her performance at CAST on Thursday 29 May
Neat14 Music: Haiku Salut
Tue 27 May 2014Accordion, glockenspiel and electronics at CAST as part of Neat14 on Wednesday 28 May
Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra
Fri 23 May 2014The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…
Neat14 Music: MuHa
Fri 23 May 2014Eastern European folk at CAST as part of Neat14 on Saturday 24 May
Neat14 Music: Manière des Bohémiens
Thu 22 May 2014The gypsy jazz outfit are performing at CAST as part of Neat14 on Friday 23 May
Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014
Tue 17 Dec 2013Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more
Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend
Sun 06 Oct 2013He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.
Interview: JT Soar
Mon 15 Jul 2013Using a DIY ethos, Joe, Phil and Nick from Nottingham punk band Plaids have turned an old fruit and veg warehouse at the back of Sneinton Market into a music and arts space. Run as a co-operative, together they’ve created a one-of-a-kind venue that’s already hosted bands from all over Europe and the US of A.
Interview: Hetain Patel
Sun 01 Jul 2012Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical
Fri 11 May 2012Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical
Wed 09 May 2012This May at the Playhouse, Alan Sillitoe’s definitive Nottingham novel gets the musical theatre treatment courtesy of local charity Musicworks, lyricist Catherine Spoors, and composer Stephen Williams…
The Music Exchange
Sat 21 Apr 2012Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...
Interview: Fists
Fri 20 Apr 2012The on-their-own-terms, no-compromise, if-you-want-something-done-properly-do-it-yourself attitude of Fists has made them one of the most respected bands in town. We asked James Findlay and Angi Fletcher why it took ‘em so long to play a gig, and in which decade we could expect an LP...
LeftLion Music Exchange Takeover in photos
Sun 01 Apr 2012LeftLion took over a record shop in town for a day and put on some of the best bands and acts from our local scene
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