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LeftLion's Latest Listens #48: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 10 Jul 2026

This week, our music team reviews new releases from Ben McElroy, KID SPIRIT and E.R. Thorpe...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #45: Notts music we're currently spinning

Fri 22 May 2026

In this week's edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from The Littlemen feat. Hector Moralez, Lucy Crisp, Darling I Dreamt and Kid Spirit...

Theatre Review: Small Island at Nottingham Playhouse

Sat 02 May 2026

A play that focuses on the harsh realities of postwar Britain for the Windrush generation and examines the consequences of empire...

Gig review: Kid Kapichi at Rough Trade

Wed 28 Jan 2026

Fresh off the back of the release of their fourth album, Fearless Nature, Kid Kapichi showcased their new two-man line up at Rough Trade, for an intimate performance and signing. With a small 150 capacity space in the attic, vocalist and guitarist Jack Wilson and bassist Eddie Lewis played to an adoring crowd filled with people of every age and walk of life...

Food review: superb small plates at Piccalilli

Sat 27 Dec 2025

For a year Cannon Court’s Piccalilli has been making its name with a menu packed full with unique takes on the British small plate. We went to see what the fuss was about…

Exhibition review: Relic at 28 Broad Street

Fri 19 Sept 2025

Kid30 and friends bring you an immersive, bleak and humourous take on the future in this pop-up exhibition showing this weekend only in Nottingham City Centre...

Pick Six: Nathan Bainbridge AKA Kid30

Sun 07 Sept 2025

For this month’s Pick Six we turned to renowned Nottingham street artist Nathan Bainbridge, AKA Kid30.

Gig review: The Get Up Kids at Rescue Rooms

Sat 07 Jun 2025

The Get Up Kids graced Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms in a flurry of guitars and emotions on Wednesday evening. The room was full to the brim with long term fans, and the air buzzed with excitement...

Gig review: Kid Spirit at Mist Rolling Inn

Thu 08 May 2025

Alt-rock four-piece KID SPIRIT are carving their own path in Nottingham, and Mist Rolling Inn provided the perfect venue to showcase their talents...

Film Review: Small Things Like These

Tue 05 Nov 2024

A delicate and moving portrayal of a specific trauma, the Irish Magdalen Laundries, but one that speaks to the universal conflict between what's right and what's easy.

Chapters of history: author Simon Smalley turns the pages on Nottingham’s queer past

Sat 02 Nov 2024

The history of St. Ann’s has always been a fascinating one. Today, the idea that the council could bulldoze entire areas of communities separating neighbours and friends is one that is difficult to imagine. However, for those who lived it, it’s still all too real. CJ De Barra speaks to St Ann’s born-and-bred author Simon Smalley about growing up in the area as a young gay man in the 60s and 70s.

Gig review: Pete Doherty at The Grove

Thu 24 Oct 2024

Did you hear? The Libertines came to Nottingham this week to perform at Rock City. However, Pete Doherty also played a small intimate solo set at Nottingham's newest music venue The Grove a few hours before...

The Lovely Eggs talk small town rock n roll debauchery

Wed 15 May 2024

Expect the un-egg-spected: how Holly Ross and David Blackwell are doing what they want, how they want, sunny side up. We speak to The Lovely Eggs ahead of their gig at Rescue Rooms on May 31...

Gig Review: Kid Kapichi at Rescue Rooms

Thu 09 Feb 2023

Graduating from Bodega to Rescue Rooms, Kid Kapichi’s hotly anticipated return to Nottingham had one aim and one aim only; Smash the Gaff...

In Photos: Ugly Kid Joe & Massive Wagons at Rock City

Wed 09 Nov 2022

Two top acts combine for a night of proper rock (and roll, of course)...

Ahead of His Exhibition at Brickworks, We Chat to Kid30 About His Twenty Years Producing Eye-Catching Street Art

Tue 08 Nov 2022

If you’ve taken a walk around the city centre at any point recently, you’ve likely seen the eye-catching work of Kid30, the graffiti artist known for taking famous cartoon characters and dropping them into a creative blender. Now, twenty years after first getting into the street art scene, he’s celebrating the landmark anniversary with an exhibition at Brickworks…

Six Small Businesses Talk the Cost Of Living Crisis

Wed 05 Oct 2022

It’s been deemed “insignificant” compared to other national news. It’s been ignored by a Government whose sole focus seems to be on those at the top. Yet the rising cost of living is affecting real people in the real world, right now - not least the hard-working, talented minds behind our city’s vital and varied independent businesses. With a challenging winter on the horizon, how are these firms feeling, and are those in charge of the country doing enough to help? We find out…