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Left Brian: December 2023
Thu 14 Dec 2023If Steve Cooper is relieved of his duties, I won’t be heartbroken at the prospect of losing his brand of football, writes our Forest columnist Gareth Watts. But I will be heartbroken for pretty much every other reason...
Gig Review: Ice Cube at Motorpoint Arena
Thu 14 Dec 2023Our Rich Higton first heard Ice Cube's music when he was twelve years old, in 1993. Now, thirty years later, he experienced it live at Motorpoint Arena...
Nottingham’s Leading Youth Mental Health Charity the Wolfpack Project Give Advice on How to Tackle Loneliness This Festive Season
Wed 13 Dec 2023One in four seventeen–25-year-olds will experience a mental health problem each year, so it’s no doubt that the demand for support is only growing. As a leading charity that works with sixteen–35-year-olds living within Nottinghamshire, The Wolfpack Project provides an option for many. We speak to their Support Manager Rachel, who has been with them since June 2022, to find out more about the charity's work…
Gig Review: Sophie Ellis Bextor at Royal Concert Hall
Wed 13 Dec 2023Sparkles, glitter, tinsel, and disco - there was only one Christmas Party worth attending to this year, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Christmas Kitchen Disco...
We Review Nottingham Contemporary’s Latest Exhibition 'Ridykeulous'
Tue 12 Dec 2023Nottingham Contemporary’s latest interactive art installation Ridykeulous is host to over thirty intergenerational queer artists all of whom utilise the distinct lens of the queer experience to satirise culturally conditioned forms of self-expression and modernise out-dated stratifications of gender identity…
Theatre Review: Dick Whittington at Theatre Royal
Tue 12 Dec 2023Get yer big boots on for some spectacular, energetic, high-end panto sparkle...
Theatre Review: Once Upon a Crime at Nottingham New Theatre
Tue 12 Dec 2023Our Amelia Brookes reviews Once Upon a Crime at Nottingham New Theatre...
Left Magpie: December 2023
Mon 11 Dec 2023Ever since Notts returned to the Football League, there has been the determination to make an impact. Of “putting on a show” as the terrace favourite goes. And, as anyone reflecting on the previous month at Meadow Lane will testify, it’s certainly lived up to that billing…
Gig Review: The Silver Lines at The Chameleon
Mon 11 Dec 2023On a wet and windy Thursday evening there was no better place to retreat to than The Chameleon, to see exactly what a line-up of new and local artists had to offer...
Gig Review: James Yorkston & Nina Persson at The Bodega
Mon 11 Dec 2023A Swedish pop star and a Scottish folk singer were an unlikely pair to find in The Bodega. Differing from the usual punk and rock music, Nina Persson and James Yorkston created a beautiful atmosphere with their folk performance...
Gig Review: Gogol Bordello at Rock City
Mon 11 Dec 2023Formed in New York in 1999 from an eclectic collection of musicians from all over the world, this was Gogol Bordello's first show in Nottingham in five years, yet they have lost none of their anarchic fervour, dynamism and sweaty energy in the intervening period...
Gig Review: The Amity Affliction at Rock City
Mon 11 Dec 2023This Australian Metalcore outfit showed that their twenty years of experience was not to be messed with. Rock City and its crowd moshed and crowd-surfed their hearts out...
Gig Review: Cucamaras at The Carousel
Mon 11 Dec 2023Nottingham’s very own Cucamaras return home for two intimate, back-to-back shows at The Carousel…
Theatre Review: Hansel and Gretel at Nottingham Playhouse
Sat 09 Dec 2023Dave Kingsbury visits the gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel at the Playhouse...
Gig Review: DMA'S at Rock City
Fri 08 Dec 2023There is quite simply nothing better than a packed Rock City crowd, singing together at the top of their lungs. It doesn’t always happen but when it does, you’ll find yourself at a mighty special gig. Having already caught Australian indie heroes DMA’S a few times previously, including one time on their home turf in Australia, our Karl Blakesley had good inkling this could have been one of those magical nights. So, we headed down to Rock City to see if our assumptions were correct…
Gig Review: SOFY at The Bodega
Thu 07 Dec 2023Leicester lass SOFY returns to Notts after a stellar set at this year’s Dot-to-Dot. With her impressive repertoire of propa' Bri'ish indie-pop bangers, the singer is a frontrunner in a new wave of up-and-coming voices. Trust us, she’s mega...
Gig Review: Withered Hand & Darren Hayman at JT Soar
Thu 07 Dec 2023Alternating headliners throughout the tour, Edinburgh based cult-indie songwriter Withered Hand (aka Dan Wilson) and Darren Hayman (formerly of Hefner) joined forces at Nottingham's JT Soar...
Gig Review: Madness at Motorpoint Arena
Thu 07 Dec 2023Hailing from NW5, London’s iconic Madness turned up to Nottingham to show us all how ska can be done. With the Lightning Seeds in tow, it was a small line-up but full of large songs, big sounds, and of course some rather baggy trousers. The Motorpoint Arena was prepped for a slightly lower capacity than usual, but Madness managed to absolutely pack out every single seat and each iota of standing room was crammed with fez wearing fans...
Theatre Review: Outlawed at Nonsuch Studios
Wed 06 Dec 2023Our Sharon Stevens reviews an adult panto at Nonsuch...
Gig Review: Against The Current at Rock City
Wed 06 Dec 2023Returning to Nottingham for their first headline show here since 2016, Against the Current brought their Nightmares & Daydreams tour to Rock City…
Music Review: The Hallé at Royal Concert Hall
Wed 06 Dec 2023Our Kevin Stanley reviews the Hallé at the Royal Concert Hall...
Our December Cover Artist Chris Rickels Tells Us the Inspiration Behind His Festive LeftLion Cover
Tue 05 Dec 2023It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And so is the cover of our December issue by Chris Rickels. We find out more about him and his work...
Theatre Review: Cinderella at Nottingham Playhouse
Tue 05 Dec 2023Our Tanya Louise joined in the magic at Cinderella, this year's panto at the Nottingham Playhouse...
Gig Review: Billy Bragg at Rock City
Tue 05 Dec 2023Billy Bragg is perhaps Britain’s most intelligent and well-loved protest singer. He’s been unapologetically mixing pop and politics since 1983. He’s currently on his Roaring Forty tour across the UK and just in case we were feeling lonely in Nottingham the Milkman of Human Kindness makes a stop at Rock City to offer up his poetry...
Gig Review: Devon at The Bodega
Tue 05 Dec 2023Hailing from a sleepy town in the South-West of England, indie-pop songwriter Devon brings his dreamy tracks to The Bodega for a warming winter’s set…
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