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Interview: Stewart Lee

"I really like Nottingham, but because of what was going on in the media it seemed like a good thing to do an opera about."

A Canadian on Old England

"The English flag is the tapas of national flags; the more added bits, the better"

"Oh my God, you’re Alan Sillitoe..."

Nicola Monaghan met her hero a couple of years ago, and just about managed to hold it down...

Interview: Hot Chip

"I know that people always say this, but I mean it; I always like visiting Nottingham, I get a good feeling when I am there"

SOLD OUT: Proper Notts Tea Towel

The LeftLion Stocking filler of choice for 2009, get some Notts round your pots.

SOLD OUT: Buy an original LeftLion t-shirt

LeftLion have a new set of limited edition t-shirts for sale, lovingly made by our friends at Regenerate clothing

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2009

Overview of the last two months with: Libertys, Sol Campbell, LeftLion Circus Extravaganza, Carl Froch's weigh-in, stero-nicking and bonfire night

Drawn Together

Since the sixties Nottingham has been very much the capital of the region in terms of contemporary art. LeftLion's Arts Editor takes you through the current scene...

2018: A Space Oddity

"Nottingham 2018 risks benefiting everyone for a month at the long-term expense of the very people who actually go to watch football in Notts"

Interview: Karizma

Karizma is playing the final LeftLion at Brownes this Friday. Here's an interview we did with him back in the day...

Interview: Ade Edmondson

"These days it seems that there’s no kind of real subculture at all. In the seventies and eighties people were justifiably angry about stuff"

Alexei Sayle Interview

"People often recollect me using foul language, but I never did on television. It wasn’t the language but the attitude which was unsettling them"

Interview: MistaJam

"I've played in clubs around the world but nowhere quite matches the atmosphere of The Bomb as it was."

Our Style Is Legendary: The Art of LeftLion

Like our website and our magazine? Well come and have a look at our first exhibition...

The Orphanage Drop In The Ocean Festival Built

We paid a visit to Cambodia and the children’s shelter in Phnom Penh that your beer money from the Drop In The Ocean Festival helped to build…

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2008

Clough statue unveiled, Vienna closes, Slanty N banished, police write to hooligans and the Dalai Lama pays Notts a visit

Drop In The Ocean Shelter

We paid a visit to the children’s shelter in Phnom Peng that The Drop In The Ocean Festival helped to build…

TAO = The Art Organisation

Oh Nottingham, Is Full of Fun

If you want to let out a primal scream these days you have to do it under controlled conditions or else the locals think you’re nuts...

Interview: Cappo

"There are always hurdles to overcome, but this album has been in the pipeline for two years. I’ve been making beats and filing them away"

Guy Barker Orchestra - the Amadeus Project

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2007

Chocolate makers go to war, Nightbus service axed, Notts County sack Steve Thompson and a Notts nazi sympathiser is revealed

Green and Organic exhibition

Ooh La La! exhibition

Interview: Origamibiro

The artist formerly known as Penfold Plum and one half of Wauvenfold...