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Nusic Podcast #198 with Joy Mumford, Mollie Ralph, Snowy, Aja and More...

A Furniture Upcycler in Notts

"Sometimes I kick pieces over or take a big hammer to them, to add a little more distress. People would think I was crazy if they saw me doing it."

School of Hard Notts: Puro-Vision

Wrestle Gate Pro (WGP) landed in Nottingham in January for their exciting debut show Open Gate an event noticeably influenced by Japanese wrestling. Also known as Puro it’s a relatively realistic, punishing style where wrestlers primarily get over* by displaying their “fighting spirit” i.e. willingness to absorb and subsequently dish-out a beating against any odds. In some ways a style at the other end of the spectrum from traditional UK wrestling were intangible factors like charisma can be as significant as pain threshold or athletic ability - Crabtree, I am looking at you.

Foodprint Nottingham are Saving Produce from Going to Waste

Tackling food poverty on the front line is Foodprint, a social supermarket run by students from the University of Nottingham. Not only does their Sneinton-based store provide vital produce to local residents in need, but each week they stop a significant amount of waste from clogging up landfills...

Save Stonebridge City Farm from Closure

Started by local residents four decades ago, Stonebridge City Farm in St Ann’s is a well-loved part of Nottingham life. But with their future in doubt, this community charity has launched an urgent fundraising appeal...

Snap Notts: Church Rock Cemetery

The latest Snap Notts sees our poet and photographer pairing create work at Church Rock Cemetery on Mansfield Road...

Overheard In Notts

Big Baby heard some right tripe this month... 

Proper Good Poetry Stuff To Do In Notts

Here's a list of what we think are the best poetry events happening in Nottingham...

Theatre Review: Queers at The Talent 1st Organisation

The Talent 1st Organisation put on an incredible performance of Queers, curated by Mark Gatiss…

Nusic Podcast #197: The People's New Music Podcast

Our annual People’s New Music Podcast, where you make your predictions of which local artists will realise their musical dreams in the coming year.

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Left Brian: Notes from the Virtual Dugout

It’s been the best part of two decades since I last played Championship Manager (or Football Manager as it’s now known) but recent events at Nottingham Forest have rekindled boyhood memories of the classic management simulation computer game.

LGBTQ+ Notts: Drag Bingo, LGBTQ+ History Month at Broadway Cinema, and more

Caroline Barry has been gallivanting around Nottingham for all the incredible gay and gay-adjacent events. After finding out a bit of LGBTQ+ history at National Justice Museum and playing with some balls at Rough Trade, she’s got her big gay diary out to make plans for February…

The Thompson Brothers on the Panto, Gentrification of Sherwood and Notts County Twittergate

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

LeftLion Magazine #110

Featuring Sleaford Mods, Stonebridge City Farm, The Urban Worm, Luke Radford, Nottingham Fixers, Small Food Bakery, and loads more...

Nusic Podcast #196 with Fast Car to Florence, Indiana, Holly Fallon, Haggard Cat and More...

Rapper and Busker TrueMendous is Coming to Notts for UKYA City Takeover

A master of the multisyllabic rhyme scheme, TrueMendous is a rapper and busker from Birmingham who recently upped sticks to the big smoke. In February, she's back in the Midlands as part of the UKYA City Takeover in Nottingham. A residential artist at The Roundhouse, she's been kicking out multi-genre, story-focused music with a mad work rate, and is currently putting together a new EP and book of lyrics. We caught up with the rising star ahead of her visit…

School of Hard Notts: Enter Wrestle Gate Pro

Finally…the wrestling has come back to Rushcliffe! Champions from across the globe are heading to Notts on 26 January to entertain fans and beat seven shades of subtext out of each other. Bringing a harder, edgier style influenced by Japanese wrestling and MMA and with at least one legitimate dream match on the card, it’s something new for the city. SOHN talks to Gary Ward, promoter and owner of Wrestle Gate Pro.

Snap Notts: Waterfront

This month, our poet took inspiration from the canal...

The Thompson Brothers on New Year’s Resolutions, Def Leppard and Wrestling

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Overheard in Notts

Another month, another loada tripe from your lot...

LeftLion Magazine #109

Featuring House of Pain, Humans of Nottingham, the Cattle Market, TrueMendous, David Severn, board-game cafes in Notts, Becky Goddard's Create Your Own Happy, Manu Delago's Parasol Peak, and loads more...

LeftLion Film Podcast #11 - Best and Worst Films of 2018 Part Two

Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto are joined by Daniel Turner for a two-part episode on the best and worst films of 2018. In Part Two, they discuss some of the terrible films that were released this year... 

LeftLion Film Podcast #11 - Best and Worst Films of 2018 Part One

Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto are joined by Daniel Turner for a two-part episode on the best and worst films of 2018. In Part One, they discuss their favourite films released this year...

12 Christmas Parties in Nottingham That Aren't Naff

Leave the mince pies at home and get yoursen out for a proper good time...

Nusic Podcast #194 with Page Three Boys, Indiana, Soft Girls and Boys Club, Nebula and More...