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Review: Dave Rowntree in conversation at Metronome

Spring has sprung and swept into town not one, but two members of much-loved 1990s indie survivors Blur in recent weeks. Following a dazzling appearance by virtuoso frontman Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz at the arena the night the clocks went forward, much-loved drummer Dave Rowntree’s date in our fair city may be far more low-key but is still engaging and enlightening. Here on the latest leg of his Q&A tour to promote his new coffee table-style photographic memoir of the band’s early days, No One You Know, Rowntree spent 90 minutes regaling the audience with the stories behind the celluloid images under the trusty stewardship of BBC Radio Nottingham’s Dean Jackson...

Dave Rowntree (Q&A)

LeftLion Interviews Podcast #15: Blur’s Dave Rowntree on NASA, Nottingham gigs and his new book of old Blur photos

This episode we are joined by Blur drummer Dave Rowntree who talks about Blur's early years, his memories (or lack of) of their Nottingham appearances, NASA and space and his new photo book No-one You Know'..

Blurry photos: Blur drummer Dave Rowntree talks his brand new photography book

As well as being one quarter of seminal English alternative rock band Blur, Dave Rowntree has been a politician, lawyer, animator, composer and alcoholic (not necessarily in that order). He’s heading to Metronome this month to showcase No One You Know, a book of photos from the early days of the band…

Left Stag: Dave Smith, Sandy Pate and Anglo Scottish Adventures in Ayr

With Burns Night on the horizon on Sunday 25 January, we invited our regular Notts County, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest football columnists to muse on the influence of Scotland in the history of their own clubs…

Below, Josh Osoro Pickering - our Mansfield Town specialist - tells a Mansfield-set story of Anglo-Scottish sport... 

Ncf Comedy Presents Dave Chawner: Mental

Ntu Big Band Live With Saxophonist Dave O'higgins

A Projectionist in Notts: The Savoy Cinema's Dave Cox recounts his career in pre-digital cinema

Since 2006, local Dave Cox has worked as the assistant manager of Lenton’s beloved local cinema The Savoy, but he also has decades of experience in the art of film projection, having started as a projectionist long before cinemas went digital. Delightfully, since the start of 2025, Dave’s used that skillset to facilitate The Savoy’s 35mm Films on Film showings. On learning this we were set-a-wondering: what was it like to work as a projectionist over decades, and how was it to return to that field after so many years? Dave was all too happy to tell us...

Dave Hause

Dave's World: a Solo Exhibition by Dave Irish

Book Review: akal by Dave Wood

We sit down with a mindful new collection from a much-valued Nottingham poet...

Listening Session: Dave Haslam On Warm Leatherette

Nottsvana: The Story of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain in Nottingham

Many would say Nirvana were the biggest band of the nineties, despite them only being active for the first half of it. However, not many people know about the links between the city of Nottingham and one of the biggest bands in rock history…

Get Lucky

Interview: The bEAT

Lawrence Poole interviewed The bEAT's Dave Wakeling ahead of their Rock City gig...

Return to Sender: A Tribute to Dave Bishop aka Lord Biro

Satirist, artist, writer and LeftLion contributor Dave Bishop (aka Lord Biro) died on 4 December 2022, aged 78. His old friend James Walker pays tribute to his life and legacy... 

DAVE HAUSE AND THE MERMAID

Ziggy Starbucks Rules, OK: A Poem by Dave Bishop aka Lord Biro

Gentrification is this week's poetic commentary from the prolific artist/poet Dave Bishop, aka Lord Biro...

Some Poems from Dave Bishop of the Millitant Elvis Anti-HS2 Party

Here's our Dave with the latest. Down with high-speed travel. Bring back Rudolph!

Future Session 104 - Paper Shop Dave

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

Canon Richard Davey

"I couldn't not be a priest... But if I wasn't able to write on art, I would equally feel bereft and that there was something missing"

The Wild by Paper Shop Dave

New Nottingham-based film company, Punchline Productions, have made a new music video

Interview: Hot Japanese Girl

"He offers us this contract and cuts his hand open, drizzles blood all over it and signs his name. I’m not a Christian, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong"

Interview: Dave Green from Nottingham Castle

"I think it’s really important to remember that not everything in a museum has to have a high value in terms of finance"