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Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13

Wed 15 Aug 2012

"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical

Fri 11 May 2012

Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning the Musical

Wed 09 May 2012

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…

The Music Exchange

Sat 21 Apr 2012

Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...

Interview: Fists

Fri 20 Apr 2012

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...

LeftLion Music Exchange Takeover in photos

Sun 01 Apr 2012

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

Final Cut Pros: Music Video Director Round Table Discussion

Thu 08 Mar 2012

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 Maze's Gaz Peacham on Running an Independent Music Venue

Sun 22 Jan 2012

"Yes, I meet absolute idols of mine now and then, but I also have to clean sick out of radiators"

Nick Turner from The Chameleon on Running an Independent Music Venue

Sat 21 Jan 2012

"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"

Nottingham Gig Poster Designers Talk About The Art

Mon 26 Dec 2011

The finest artworks that have ever blown down a street in Notts

Women in Nottingham Music

Sun 11 Dec 2011

Lou Barnell from Royal Gala takes us through some of the female musical talent in Nottingham...

SOLD OUT: The Notts Music Photo

Fri 09 Dec 2011

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

Left Brian: 2011/12 Season Preview

Fri 05 Aug 2011

Forest failed to get out of the playoffs. Again. Old manager dumped, new manager promises better. Again. Initial foot-dragging over new signings. Again. Can Forest break the cycle this season?

Left Magpie: 2011-12 Notts County Season Preview

Fri 05 Aug 2011

The good news: the Pies reached some kind of stability in 2011. The bad news: it was in the shape of a record-breaking losing streak. Can Martin Allen keep them up, or is it back to the basement?

Interview: The Nusic Team

Thu 16 Jun 2011

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...

Left Brian: Forest 2010-11 Season Preview

Tue 03 Aug 2010

We don't want to go through any more playoffs, that's for sure

Left Pie-On: Notts County Season 2010-11 preview

Tue 03 Aug 2010

"The appearance of a red Nike tick would be an aberration had we not concluded amongst ourselves that it’s actually crimson"

Aah Ter Talk Notts

Fri 21 May 2010

A starter course on the greatest accent in the world

The Gig Issue: Nottingham Music Scene

Tue 10 Nov 2009

The Notts music scene has never had it this good. Ever. But what do the city's promoters and label-owners think?

Interview: Bent

Wed 14 Oct 2009

After four albums of aural euphoria, and a couple of years off, Nottingham's finest purveyors of electronica are back...

Robert Pitt's music photography

Sat 03 Oct 2009

A selection of photos of local bands and musicians by a Nottingham-based music photographer

Interview: DJ Format

Mon 02 Feb 2009

The Mature B-Boy plays a DJ set for MNSTR at Brownes this Tuesday. Here's an interview we did back in 2005...

Nottingham Forest and Notts County 2007-2008 Season Preview

Sun 01 Jul 2007

After a short break running paper shops, icing down knees and chatting up gormless birds in Geisha, our city’s lower division footballers prepare for another season of cloggery and huffing. We asked NFFC Blog and Martin Naylor – our regular contributors to Left Brian and Left ‘Pie-On – to give us a rundown on what a gwan on both sides of t’Trent…