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10 Notts Music Albums to Tickle Your Tabs This February

Mon 20 Feb 2017

If you're from Notts and want your tunes reviewed, go to leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic

Live Music Review: Amber Run at Rock City

Tue 14 Feb 2017

The Notts rock band are sky-rocketing to success all over the country with popular tunes such as I Found, 5AM and No Answers. Now they’ve come back to their roots for a massive show that marks the release of their second album, For a Moment I Was Lost...

Trekkah Talks High-Concept Album The Enlightening

Sat 11 Feb 2017

Trekkah has created an album full of raw improvisation, Notts collaboration and chakras – The Enlightening. The local producer has taken each of the seven so-called spiritual power points in the body and made fourteen tracks, with two based on each one. There are sixteen vocalists on the album and all the tracks correspond with a chakra’s specific tuning frequency. We met up with the big hippy down Broadway to see if he’s done wearing himself out yet...

Win Season Tickets to Nottingham Contemporary's Hypnotica Film Season

Mon 06 Feb 2017

Nottingham Contemporary is back with another season of film, this time exploring delusion, dreams and the subconscious - Hypnotica. Eight classic films over eight weeks at The Screen...

Live Music Review: Tom McCartney EP Launch at Rough Trade

Mon 30 Jan 2017

The sharpest dressed teenager in Notts launches brand new music...

Flex Dancer Jamal Sterrett Talks Creative Movement in Nottingham

Thu 26 Jan 2017

With limbs that contort and tremor like icy liquid, Jamal Sterrett can certainly claim a few moves on the dancefloor. Also a photographer, cameraman, graphic designer, and student who’s won awards for his creativity, the movement artist has derived his own style from flex and bruck up. You might have seen him around and about Nottingham’s streets with your jaw hanging by your knees. Yeah, that’s the one. We grabbed him for a chat…

Nottingham Talks New Year's Resolutions

Wed 25 Jan 2017

Every year we start off with a sense of optimism and a set of new resolutions. But by the end of January, how many of these have been kept? We stood by the left lion in the Market Square and asked the Nottingham public how they were getting on with them…

Live Music Review: Acoustickle's Vocab at The Maze

Mon 23 Jan 2017

When Acoustickle threw their Vocab launch party in November, it was a success that showcased independent artists on a Friday night. This second event turned out to be just as killer.

Talking Algorave With Notts-Based Electronic Music Maker Anny

Sat 21 Jan 2017

With the term first coined in Nottingham, we find out more about the live music and coding movement ahead of an event at Rough Trade Nottingham...

Europeans in Nottingham Talk Brexit

Wed 18 Jan 2017

In the aftermath of the EU referendum, many UK-based Europeans have been left with feelings of insecurity and anxiety about what the future might hold for them and their families. Here are a few snapshots of experiences from Europeans in Nottingham, capturing their thoughts and emotions following this momentous and potentially life-changing political decision…

14 Music Albums to Stuff in Your Tabs

Fri 13 Jan 2017

If you're from Nottingham and you'd like your tunes reviewed, drop us a line at music@leftlion.co.uk

Sleaford Mods Release New Music Video for B.H.S

Tue 10 Jan 2017

The first video release from the duo's upcoming album English Tapas...

Live Music Review: Wigflex New Year's Eve 2016 Cage Party

Mon 09 Jan 2017

New Year’s Eve is a prime event in every party person’s calendar, and for the dancefloor-inclined community in Notts there was no place to be other than the Wigflex NYE Cage Party...

Poet and Smallholder Di Slaney Talks Writing About Chickens

Thu 05 Jan 2017

After appearing on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, rescuing a whole bunch of farmyard animals, running her own small farm and publishing her first poetry collection, Di Slaney must be about ready for some down time over the festive period...

20 Top Nottingham Music Releases of 2016

Fri 30 Dec 2016

A rundown of some of our favourite Nottingham-related music releases of the year, in alphabetical order...

Nottingham Cello Player Sheku Kanneh-Mason on Winning BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016

Tue 27 Dec 2016

Being crowned BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016 is only one of the many accolades and awards that seventeen-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason has won. And, on top of those, he’s also bagged himself a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Not bad for an A-level student from Nottingham…

The Roy Stone Foundation Supports Young Musicians with Mental Health Issues

Tue 20 Dec 2016

When Roy Foster, aka Roy Stone, died in October last year, it was not only a devastating loss to those close to him, but also to the city he had entertained for over twenty years as a singer and frontman of the band Performance. The Roy Stone Foundation has been set up to honour his memory. We spoke to one of the organisers, Sally Jackson, to find out more…

Talking Nanoparticles Down The Vat and Fiddle at December's SciBar

Tue 20 Dec 2016

For the final SciBar of the year, The Vat & Fiddle hosted a talk on nanoparticles. As we all know, "nano" means small and "particle" means particle. Dr Gareth Cave explains more in his talk, Nanoparticles: From Therapeutic Vectors to Chicken in the Basket.

Live Music Review: Super Furry Animals at Rock City

Sun 18 Dec 2016

The Welsh band hit the nostalgia trail playing their albums Fuzzy Logic and Radiator in full...

Wolfgang Buttress Talks Making Music With Bees

Wed 14 Dec 2016

Originally designed to soundtrack Wolfgang Buttress’ beehive pavilion at the World Expo in Milan in 2015, One has since been released as a critically acclaimed album...

Live Music Review: Primal Scream at Rock City

Tue 13 Dec 2016

The indie-rock stalwarts return to Nottingham in support of their most recent album, Chaosmosis...

The Woolly Tellers Talk Storytelling in Nottingham

Mon 12 Dec 2016

This December, Wollaton Hall is to be taken over by two men who’ve got sacks of tales, stashed. After making a name for themselves as a couple of the best storytellers about, The Woolly Tellers are bringing those magical Christmas bangers that leave gobs on floors and tears in peepers…