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Gig Review: Hard-Fi at Rock City
Fri 27 Oct 2023Though regularly heard over the years, calls for HARD-FI’s return became particularly vocal during the 2020 lockdown, after Richard Archer staged a solo, livestream show for charity from his home. Now, they are back for good, and they embark on a full UK tour, including a date at Rock City...
Film Review: Choose or Die
Tue 19 Apr 2022An eighties style game-based horror with an enticing cash prize. This has got to be Netflix’s next biggest hit, right?
Film Review: The Harder They Fall
Fri 05 Nov 2021Netflix’s ensemble Western is an unfocused and bloated revenge story...
Film Review: No Time to Die
Tue 05 Oct 2021No Time to Die is finally here – but is it the fitting send-off for Daniel Craig's Bond that we've all been waiting for?
School of Hard Notts: Twelve Year Old Jagoda Brown-Polanowska on Returning to Class and Saving the Planet
Fri 16 Apr 2021Jagoda Brown-Polanowska has been contributing to LeftLion throughout the pandemic, updating us on the state of affairs through the eyes of a twelve-year-old. As students have returned to a COVID-age schooling, we hear how uncomfortable masks, loneliness and Google Meet are a part of the story that shaped the next generation…
Historical Author Emily Brand: "I feel a sort of security in writing about real people who lived, loved and died, generations ago"
Mon 20 Apr 2020Emily Brand is a local historian who’s been researching the Byron family tree and all its drama-sprouting branches. With a close look at life in the eighteenth century, her fourth book The Fall of the House of Byron is released this month. We sat down for a digital chat with the author to find out more...
Fighting Fit with Dan Hardy and UFC
Fri 25 Oct 2019UFC GYM, the company associated with the famous MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) organisation have opened their first UK gym here in Nottingham. The gym has several unique features, including being the home of the first full-size Octagon ring in Europe. Isaac Seelochan went along to find out more.
Film Review: The Dead Don't Die
Mon 22 Jul 2019Jim Jarmusch's star-filled zom-com doesn't quite hit all the right notes, but still contains an important message about the ills of modern life.
School of Hard Notts: Gabriel Kidd – Butting Heads
Fri 19 Jul 2019Kidd is Nottingham’s very own GOAT (greatest of all time) a tough young grappler destined for the top. We caught “The Young Bull” fresh off the plane from a gruelling training camp at the legendary NJPW* dojo. Wearing his new battle scars proudly, Kidd pulled no punches in a forthright interview.
School of Hard Notts: WGP Lions Spirit
Fri 24 May 2019Wrestle Gate Pro (WGP) is an up-and-coming Notts based promotion, fast gaining a reputation for professional set-ups and major signings. Lions Spirit at Rushcliffe arena helped to cement this, bringing the hard hits, electric atmosphere and a huge surprise main event that could headline any Vegas show!
School of Hard Notts: Face Time with Visage
Mon 18 Mar 2019Meet Visage - Nottingham’s Wrestlin’ Bitch Face. Another House of Pain alumnus building momentum on the UK’s grappling scene Visage is a flamboyant and instantly recognisable character. He’s also proper nails - mock his collection of amazing wigs and he’ll slap the taste out of your mouth. Visage’s blend of humour, innuendo and merciless bludgeoning is an unusual in-ring fusion invoking classic performers like Gorgeous George and Cassandro. We cornered Visage for a chat in a pleasingly kitsch tiki-bar.
School of Hard Notts: Puro-Vision
Tue 12 Feb 2019Wrestle Gate Pro (WGP) landed in Nottingham in January for their exciting debut show Open Gate an event noticeably influenced by Japanese wrestling. Also known as Puro it’s a relatively realistic, punishing style where wrestlers primarily get over* by displaying their “fighting spirit” i.e. willingness to absorb and subsequently dish-out a beating against any odds. In some ways a style at the other end of the spectrum from traditional UK wrestling were intangible factors like charisma can be as significant as pain threshold or athletic ability - Crabtree, I am looking at you.
When Laurel and Hardy Came to Nottingham...
Sun 13 Jan 2019To celebrate the release of Stan & Ollie, we take a look back at the time legendary comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy spent Christmas in Nottingham...