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YMCA Digital

Tue 02 Dec 2014

Musicians and artists from all over the city have been helping out our youths to develop their creativity

In Focus: Nina Smith

Fri 21 Nov 2014

The soulful pop lass got snap happy when we put a few questions to her

Interview: Alex from Ideas on Paper

Tue 14 Oct 2014

Despite the digital revolution, reading a magazine on a device is never quite as good as the real thing. It’s not all nostalgia - although yes, there is something wonderful about flicking through pages at leisure while getting a hit of the distinctive smell of ink and paper - physical print is actually easier to read. We spoke to Alex Smith, the man behind the independent magazine shop Ideas On Paper, about why print is here to stay...

Nottingham Music Venue Accessibility For People In Wheelchairs

Wed 03 Sep 2014

Rob Maddison leads Spaceships Are Cool, drums for electro-funksters Yunioshi, and has a new musical project in the shape of Revenge of Calculon. A longtime performer and gig goer, he’s also been in a wheelchair since 2007. With Nottingham often being touted as having one of the UK’s best live music scenes, and with over eleven million registered disabled people in the country, we spoke to him about the accessibility of local venues and if there’s anything else that can be done to improve them...

Doing it for DiY

Wed 27 Aug 2014

Legendary Notts free-party collective DiY threw a 25th birthday at the weekend. At their expense. As ever. Then someone robbed them. LeftLion asks if you can help...

Poddingham: Adam Peter Smith

Tue 26 Aug 2014

We teased you a couple of months back, but with his album Fulcrum out now, here's his full session in all its glory

Poddingham Teaser: Adam Peter Smith

Fri 13 Jun 2014

A cheeky taster of what's to come in the next Poddingham session

Grand Theft Audio

Wed 04 Jun 2014

This June sees a secret collaboration between some of the coolest kids in Nottingham. From hip hop beats to visual treats, Flouche have pulled together the best in the businesses for two days of shenanigans. We tried to wangle our way behind the scenes with Flouche founder Kelham Stevenson, as well as NG64’s Rob Freeman and Phlexx Records’ Bru-C, who also have a hand in the weekend of madness…

Interview: Nicola L Robinson

Wed 05 Mar 2014

Nicola L Robinson spends her days drawing dragons, monsters, machines that don’t conform to health and safety standards, and scenes from beloved children’s stories. The Monster Machine, a book she both wrote and illustrated, was shortlisted for the Cambridge Children’s Picture Book Award. We dragged her away from claw and tooth littered desk to talk about her work.

Interview: Saint Raymond

Fri 03 Jan 2014

If anyone can take Jake Bugg’s crown in 2014 our money is on Callum Burrows’ musical alter-ego, Saint Raymond...

Art Works: Rob White

Tue 17 Sep 2013

"The sky at over 4000m above sea level is unreal, a blue so deep it could drive a painter to insanity"

Interview: Rob Green

Fri 19 Jul 2013

Itching to get on stage at Splendour, he explains how he learnt to fly a plane and why Denzel Washington won’t be featuring on his tracks any time soon..

Interview: Rob Howie-Smith

Tue 25 Jun 2013

A man literally opening doors for the creative and small business communities of Nottingham by repopulating derelict buildings.

Notts TV: The First Interview

Sat 27 Apr 2013

"There’ll be a fun element to this channel, but more than anything it’ll be relevant to where you live. There’s nothing like that at the moment"

King Bong: The Xylophone Man

Wed 04 Jul 2012

Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?

Interview: Pirate Technics

Thu 24 May 2012

Mike De Butts and Stephen Smith: they went from chucking burning torches about on the Forest to forming the Pirate Technics collective, constructing massive erections across the international festival circuit. And then setting fire to them...

Interview: Manière des Bohémiens

Wed 28 Dec 2011

French for ‘Manner of the Gypsies’, according to Babel Fish - Manière des Bohémiens' infectious, rapturous, blindingly improvised Romany swing music is massively popular in Notts...

Interview: Captain Dangerous

Tue 27 Dec 2011

"I made the mistake of getting drunk and inviting the whole bar back to mine. I hadn’t told my girlfriend and she was upstairs in tears being comforted by Dick Venom"

Women in Nottingham Music

Sun 11 Dec 2011

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

Poddingham Presents... Nina Smith,Poddingham

Sat 10 Dec 2011

An early Christmas present for you all, courtesy of the Poddingham team

The Revamped Sneinton Market and Orchard

Thu 08 Dec 2011

"Even if people don't respond to art, they can understand and enjoy an apple tree in blossom"

Bantum TV: With Nina Smith and Lou from Royal Gala

Thu 08 Dec 2011

What happens when Simeon Bantum, Jared LeftLion, Lou from Royal Gala and Nina Smith all get together in a girls toilet?

Interview: Will Robinson of I'm Not From London

Wed 07 Dec 2011

Riots, cagefighting, Hollywood actresses, ghost buses, Mexican wrestling and contracts signed in blood. It's all in a night's work for promoter Will Robinson and the three bands signed to his I'm Not From London Label...

LeftLion Photographer teams up with Paul Smith

Mon 05 Dec 2011

Our boy David Baird creates limited edition series of music prints to be sold on the Paul Smith website in aid of The Music Exchange

Interview: Nottingham Panther's Jeff Heerema and Rob Lachowicz

Wed 02 Nov 2011

While Forest and County bumble along in their respective (lower) divisions, the most successful professional sports team in Nottingham quietly goes about its business of hoovering up trophies left and right – and this season they’re making a serious run at winning their first league title since 1955. They’re your Nottingham Panthers, and two
of them – right-winger Jeff Heerema from Thunder Bay, Ontario and left-winger Rob Lachowicz from Wollaton – had a word with us…

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