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Gig review: Girli at Rough Trade

Another day, another chance to see a great artist performing at Rough Trade. To celebrate the release of her new album It's Just My Opinion, Girli (aka Milly Toomey) headed out across the country to perform intimate in-store  shows for her fans, including a return to Rough Trade. Girli’s music is a chaotic but fresh mix that sits at the intersection of electropop, pop‑punk and synth‑pop and she brought this out from the offset...

Conscious Pilot + Big Girls Blouse

Scouting For Girls

GirlyPop Xmas Live

Ncf Comedy Presents Will Duggan: the Girl With the Duggan Tattoo

Theatre Review: The Revlon Girl at the Lace Market Theatre

You couldn't make it up with lipstick replacing grief in this production at the Lace Market Theatre....

The Revlon Girl

Outburst Colour Run

Sea Girls

Bicon 2025

Sterran Dance La Nuova Flora & the Pearl

Pick Six: Girlband frontwoman Georgie

Ahead of their upcoming performances at Pride and Splendour, for this month’s Pick Six we turn to Georgie from Girlband! to tell us some of her and the band’s favourite things in Notts…

LeftLion's Latest Listens #24: Notts music we're currently spinning

In the latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Cappo, Dorothy Ella. GIRLBAND!, The Doctor's Orders Collective and We Are Sovereign...

Film Screening: Cecilia's Story - Ghosts Of Yarl's Wood

LeftLion Interviews Podcast #11 LaQuarn Lewis on BBC mini series What It Feels Like For A Girl, Television Workshop, and LGBTQ+ Notts

Notts born actor LaQuarn Lewis is one of the stars of a new BBC mini-series, What It Feels Like For A Girl, which tells the story of Byron, a Queer teen who is desperate to escape the confines of Hucknall. We caught up with LaQuarn on the podcast to chat about the show, his time at Television Workshop and growing up Queer in Notts...

Nottingham actor Laquarn Lewis on his role in the brand new BBC drama: What It Feels Like For a Girl

Set to be released on 3 June, upcoming BBC mini-series What It Feels Like For A Girl tells the story of Byron, a Queer teen who is desperate to escape the confines of Hucknall. Based on the novel of the same name by Hucknall-born journalist Paris Lees, the witty, gritty and heart-breaking show delves into what it was like growing up as a trans person in a small town during the early 2000s. To hear about the show, ahead of the premiere, we caught up with LaQuarn Lewis, who plays Fallen Diva, ‘the premier podium dancer-cum-hellraiser’ Lady Die…

Gig review: Lambrini Girls bring riotous energy to Rescue Rooms

Brighton punk trio The Lambrini Girls played the Rescue Rooms on Friday night with fierce energy and a lot of things to say...

Beeston Tales - the Hairy Girl

Gig review: Girl Scout at The Bodega, with Penny Moon

Sweden's Girl Scout delivered a highlight set at The Bodega during 2024's Dot To Dot Festival. Returning to the same stage less than a year later to deliver a blazing headline set, the band were welcomed warmly by an appreciative crowd, and supported deftly by local group Penny Moon...

Review: Girls and Boys at Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham's own Aisling Loftus shines in this one-woman show that takes the lid off romance and shows the darkness lurking underneath...

Gig review: Our Girl at The Bodega, with Davoli

Our Girl were warmly welcomed back to Nottingham and The Bodega as they celebrated the release of their latest album The Good Kind, proving their ability to uplift and excite...

Notts actress Aisling Loftus talks about her one-woman play Girls and Boys currently at Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham’s own Aisling Loftus comes to Nottingham Playhouse with one-woman play Girls and Boys, an award-winning depiction of how love can go badly wrong. She shares her journey with LeftLion…

We chat to Swedish indie-rock group Girl Scout ahead of their gig at The Bodega

On the heels of their latest EP titled Headache, Swedish indie-rock group Girl Scout are gearing up for a tour of the UK and Europe, new music, and lots of fun. We caught up with front woman Emma Jansson ahead of their gig at The Bodega later this month.

In photos: Lambrini Girls at Rough Trade Nottingham