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Interview: Gallery 47

Mon 25 Aug 2014

Three years ago, a singer-songwriter called Jack Peachey – with the stage name of Gallery 47 – released his debut album, Fate is the Law, and looked set to be the city’s next breakthrough star. A health scare dented his momentum, but over the last eighteen months things have been going from strength to strength: label interest and a tour with Paul Weller have made 2014 a great year, and his second album, All Will Be Well, is released in September…

Interview: Shaun Derry

Wed 20 Aug 2014

Born and bred in Nottingham, Shaun Derry cut his teeth at Notts County before setting off on a career that took in Sheffield United, QPR, Crystal Palace – a few times – and Leeds United. An aggressive, defensive midfielder in his day, he’s come home to sort out the Magpies as player-manager. We spent some time with him to see what his game plan is…

Interview: Stuart Pearce

Tue 19 Aug 2014

Brought to the City Ground by Cloughie, Stuart Pearce played for Forest for twelve years, becoming their most capped international player and a stone cold cult favourite as he earned his ‘Psycho’ moniker. Ending his time here as a caretaker player-manager in 1997, he is now back as manager after proving his mettle with Manchester City, England under-21s and the 2012 Olympic Great Britain team. As the club prepares for an assault on promotion to the Premier League, we had a chat with the man himself…

Interview: Comic Artist D'Israeli

Tue 12 Aug 2014

Comic book artist Matt Brooker, aka D’Israeli, is equally at home drawing a Victorian London gothic horror as he is a science fiction action thriller starring a tramp and a businessman with a shark’s head. He sat down with us for a chat about his new book Ordinary...

Interview: Ross Noble

Mon 11 Aug 2014

If you like your comedy a bit surreal and not at all structured, Ross Noble is your man. Not only is he currently on the box with a TV show controlled by Twitter, he’s about to tour the country with his new stand-up show, Tangentleman. With him gracing two Nottingham stages in the coming months, we thought it’d be rude not to have a chat...

Mood Indigo

Mon 04 Aug 2014

Michel Gondry is back with his trademark brand of surrealist cinema

Rag & Bone

Tue 29 Jul 2014

Upon the release of her debut collection, Division Street Helen Mort treats us to a poem

Mouthy Poets: Say Sum Thin 7

Thu 24 Jul 2014

The Nottingham crew and guest John Agard get stuck into poetry at the Playhouse

I Am Divine

Tue 22 Jul 2014

The documentary about Harris Milstead, and his alter ego Divine, is at Broadway Cinema this week

Interview: Rankin

Fri 18 Jul 2014

Rankin is a portrait and fashion photographer behind the inception of magazines Dazed and Confused, Another and Hunger. Throughout his career, he’s pointed his lens at a dream list of celebrities, including Madonna, Kate Moss and David Bowie. He even got the Queen to crack a smile. As part of the Museums at Night project, he came to St Ann’s Allotments to shoot the people who call it a home away from home. We popped down to the event and caught a few words of wisdom from the mononymous man...

Live: Tame Impala

Thu 17 Jul 2014

"From the moment the roadies walked out wearing lab coats, there was a feeling this would be an evening of soul searching and acceptance"

Future Session 64 - Molly & Jack

Sat 05 Jul 2014

New music, live in session, from Nottingham. The latest artist in the Nusic studio is

Interview: David Flint talks Sheer Filth

Mon 30 Jun 2014

When it comes to low-budget eighties horror and ‘weirdiana’, writer David Flint is the man to go to. With a new book, Sheer Filth, just hitting the shelves, we spoke to him about his early fanzine days, getting arrested over possession of video nasties (twice), his campaign for Nottingham fetish clubs, and why they just don’t make porn like they used to...

Interview: Nottingham Outlaws

Wed 25 Jun 2014

Nottingham Outlaws are one of the Midlands’ top rugby league clubs, boasting more than 200 players across their various senior, academy and junior teams. We caught up with captain and prop forward George Strachan, and committee member and club stalwart Richard Johnson, to talk club history and explain the difference between league and union, as well as bus fires, boozing and bingo...

Interview: Kogumaza

Wed 18 Jun 2014

Our music is about finding patterns, bending and pulling, twisting, distorting and invertingWith a name that roughly translates from Japanese in to English as Ursa Minor, a constellation in the Northern Sky, it’s apt that Kogumaza have spent the best part of five years creating hypnotic, beguiling music that can often feel otherworldly. Between them Chris, Katy, Mark and Neil have been involved in the local music scene for twenty years, from playing in numerous bands, putting on shows, designing posters, and even hosting a show on Radio Trent. On the eve of the release of their second full length album, three of the band speak to LeftLion...

The Sneinton Art Scene

Tue 17 Jun 2014

Nottingham will never be mistaken for Paris but it is slowly being reorganised into French-style ‘quarters.’ In April the city council approved plans for Royal, Canal and Castle quarters to go with the business-orientated Creative Quarter that is based in and around Hockley. While LeftLion understand that there are as yet no plans to actually reorganise residential areas of Nottingham into arrondissements, readers may be wondering if there are also plans afoot to create the equivalent of Paris’ bohemian Left Bank.

Interview: Ed Clancy on The Milk Race

Fri 13 Jun 2014

Once the most prestigious bike race in the country, The Milk Race was an annual cycling event, sponsored by the now-defunct Milk Marketing Board, that ran from 1958 until 1993. After a twenty-year hiatus, it returned to the streets of Nottingham city centre last year and looks set to be a regular event on the sporting calendar. We spoke to professional competitor Ed Clancy, an Olympic gold cyclist, about the sprint on two wheels.

Review: Sat & Sun Southwell Folk Festival 2014

Fri 13 Jun 2014

"For a brief moment it was like the eighties again, with Michael Praed swishing his hair fetchingly back and forth as Robin and Ray Winstone as Will Scarlett"

Interview: Jeremy Deller

Wed 11 Jun 2014

Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller’s work is chock-full of the politics of working class Britain, from the miners’ strike and riots to the effects of the Industrial Revolution on popular culture. Mark Patterson remembers his own experiences of riots, before trying to pin down the evasive Deller for a few answers...

Interview: London Grammar

Fri 06 Jun 2014

The band known for their single Wasting My Young Years have been doing anything but. They met at the University of Nottingham in 2009 and by 2012 London Grammar managed to not only graduate, but land themselves a record deal. They’re also now the proud owners of a platinum selling debut album. Clever stuff. Guitarist Dan Rothman talks about Hoodtown, No Tomorrow Festival and, of course, hair...

Interview: Wolfgang Buttress

Thu 29 May 2014

Wolfgang Buttress has put angel’s wings and a halo above a London street, woven metal trees into The Lace Market, created floating spheres in Belfast and mapped the universe in Australia. We talked to him at his studio about art, science, football... and a very special collaboration with Tindersticks in June.

Art Works: Ian Jones

Wed 28 May 2014

"I have brushes made from Aztec symbols, from fish bones, from floorboards. It’s such a powerful tool - I like the freedom of it"

Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra

Fri 23 May 2014

The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…

Notts TV

Tue 20 May 2014

Notts TV is gearing up for its launch in May. We caught up with the Channel Director, Jamie Brindle, a former Producer for Radio Nottingham’s Morning Show, to find out what to expect from day one and beyond...