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There's a little something for everyone this week - whether you want a rave, a laugh or a draw, come this way
With Ross Bradshaw's collection of essays surrounding crime, The Artist and The Engineer, Seven Daze and more
Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more
Mayhem Film Festival has been striking fear, and laughter, into the hearts of cinema goers for over eight years with line-ups rammed to the bloody hilt with exclusive screenings and cult classics. We spoke to directors Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil, the men who control an audience’s heart rate for four full days...
He’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.
Using 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.
"Winter Wonderland opens in the Square. Jesus Christ, what gibbon in the Council House stopped licking lead paint off a stick long enough"
The news diary that leaves its Christmas lights up all year round and doesn’t give a toss what the neighbours think
"It dawns upon me that I have spent the entire duration of an episode of Bullseye copping a feel of a husky’s breast implant"
Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...
This 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…
Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...
The 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...
That new loan shark place sets up a stall outside, and hands out tuffehs and balloons with their logo on it to kiddies. Amazingly, no-one punches them
LeftLion took over a record shop in town for a day and put on some of the best bands and acts from our local scene
When the cream of Nottingham’s music scene need their work immortalised on video, they talk to Tom Walsh, Michael Holyk and Junglewire. But only when we’ve finished talking to them for this special round table interview...
The usual morbid carousel of mouth-breathery, wrongness and rubbishy football teams
"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"
"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"
Masturbatory Gesture Goat is DEAD, garden-pilfery, and Derby's Xmas lights get nicked...
Lou Barnell from Royal Gala takes us through some of the female musical talent in Nottingham...
Your chance to buy a 16 x 12 inch high-quality copy of the LeftLion Notts Music Photo that adorns the cover of Issue 44
Genealogists work out that Barack Obama’s great-great grandfather ten times removed came from Sutton in Ashfield, and more
Mark Del used to fly the flag for the Nottingham music scene with Trent FM, but now him and his team - including Arielle Bosworth and Liz Riordan - have linked up with LeftLion to drop Nusic, help take the local scene to the next level and - maybe, just maybe - get your band on the main stage at Splendour...
Des Coleman leaves the BBC, Panthers win the Elite Cup, man makes flamethrower and the Royal Wedding Nottingham-style
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