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Interview: Shelter Point

Fri 20 Feb 2015

Shelter Point’s woozy, dreamy songs are winning over every tastemaker, from Zane Lowe to the LeftLion team. Back from a UK tour with Indiana, and with a Sony deal in the bag, we sat down with singer Liam and producer Robin to find out how it all began, what’s next, and their adventures in between…

Interview: Bob Robinson

Thu 11 Dec 2014

Born in County Tyrone, Bob Robinson has called Nottingham home for the last forty-odd years. It’s here he’s created work that is equally bold, humorous and grotesque, yet has gained little recognition. Now aged 63 and living with terminal cancer, we spoke to him about the inspiration behind his art and how it feels to have a retrospective at such a poignant time.

Mrs Green

Tue 07 Oct 2014

Sheep Soup’s original musical, Mrs. Green returns to Nottingham after a successful stint at The Fringe

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...

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: Sheep Soup On Taking Mrs Green To Edinburgh

Sat 13 Jul 2013

Two Television Workshop graduates are hoping to take Edinburgh by storm this year with a distinctive new musical

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.

UK Green Film Festival

Mon 03 Jun 2013

As our only national environmental film fest, The UK Green Film Festival is in its third year and will span sixteen cities. Broadway will be part of the festival, showing films that focus on local and global environmental issues. We spoke to the festival’s co-founder, and Nottingham resident, John Long, about the festival’s ethos and rapid growth…

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: 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"

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...

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…

Hyson Green Flats - On The Flats Project

Tue 18 Oct 2011

For a lot of people Hyson Green Asda is all they’ve ever known when they go down Radford Road. But way back when, it was home to one of Nottingham’s best-known landmarks

Interview: Roxy Rob

Thu 08 Sep 2011

You might know Robert Ivars Michailovs-Mètra as that bloke who walks up Mansfield Road as if he owns the place. You might think of him as a local fashion mogul who actually could have owned it, were it not for the drink. You almost definitely know him as Roxy Rob, and after you’ve read this, you’ll know a little bit more...

Interview: Spotlight Kid

Sat 18 Jun 2011

Taking in members from Six By Seven, Bent, Model Morning and The Kull, Spotlight Kid are about to drop a new LP and play at Glastonbury. And, according to drummer Chris Heath and guitarist Rob McCleary, they’re the cockroaches of the Nottingham music scene...

Interview: Darren Fletcher

Mon 06 Jun 2011

Darren Fletcher is the Arnold lad who gets paid to go to the World Cup and the Super Bowl, gets his feet under assorted press boxes for Five Live, banters with the entire UK about footy and hosts the An Evening With... nights at the Approach. And he knows Robbie Savage...

You Terrible Cult!

Thu 30 Dec 2010

We talk to author Colin Bacon about his new book on Vivian Mackerrell - the inspiration for Withnail and I

Interview: John Robertson

Wed 15 Dec 2010

John Robertson was your archetypal terrace favourite for over a decade at Forest. In part it was because he obviously liked his pies, pints and fags, but mainly for providing the cross that Trevor Francis got on the end of in 1979, the goal that beat Hamburg in 1980, and all those photos of kids holding up the European Cup in Nottingham pubs thirty years ago.

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