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The Lovely Eggs talk small town rock n roll debauchery
Wed 15 May 2024Expect 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...
We Speak to Jim Cooke, Co-founder of 1980s-2000s Notts County Football Fanzine The Pie
Tue 14 May 2024Merging football, music and real ale, Notts County fanzine The Pie took football back to the community when it ran over 87 issues from the late 80s to the late 00s. We speak to one of the original founders Jim Cooke about the history of the publication...
We Speak to Julie Pritchard, Creator of 1980s-90s Nottingham Forest Football Fanzine Brian
Tue 07 May 2024It’s the late ‘80s, the internet doesn’t exist yet, and neither does the Premier League. However, the community around local football clubs is strong and one avid supporter, Julie Pritchard, decides it’s time for a Nottingham Forest fanzine. Thus Brian is born lasting eight years and 47 issues…
Sheriff of Nottingham Shuguftah Quddoos on the Nottingham cuts and her suspension from the Labour Party
Fri 08 Mar 2024Following on from famous film depictions by the likes of Alan Rickman and Matthew MacFadyen, Shuguftah Quddoos is the current Sheriff of Nottingham, a role which stretches back to the Norman conquest. We caught up with her on what has been quite a week on the council…
We Interviewed the Snuts Ahead of Their Rough Trade Show
Fri 23 Feb 2024We had the chance recently to have a lovely chat with the even lovelier Callum Wilson from Scottish indie band The Snuts to talk all things millennials, tours and being a happy artist...
Interview: Ray Bradshaw
Thu 15 Feb 2024With the Doppelginger tour coming to Nottingham in March, Ian C Douglas sat down with Ray Bradshaw to learn more about this red-letter day...
Victoria Villasenor Tells Us All About Her Latest Novel ‘Medea: Priestess, Princess, Witch'
Wed 07 Feb 2024Relocating from Los Angeles to the UK back in 2007, Victoria Villasenor started Global Wordsmiths in Nottingham over a decade ago, and has since published books under various pseudonyms including Brey Willows and Ally McGuire. She made the time to chat to us all about her thirteenth book Medea: Priestess, Princess, Witch, which has been released under the name JJ Taylor, writing LGBTQ+ fiction, and her advice to emerging queer authors…
Theatre Interview: Witness for the Prosecution at the National Justice Museum
Wed 24 Jan 2024A courtroom drama performed in a real courtroom. Another great idea from local theatre company Your Chance Productions. Darren Paul Taylor and Connor Thomas, two of the show's stars, take LeftLion behind the curtain...
Interview: Nathan Ellis
Thu 21 Dec 2023A huge opportunity for newly emerging playwrights kicks off in the New Year. Nathan Ellis, from the Playhouse's Amplify programme, talks us through it...
We Review Nottingham Contemporary’s Latest Exhibition 'Ridykeulous'
Tue 12 Dec 2023Nottingham Contemporary’s latest interactive art installation Ridykeulous is host to over thirty intergenerational queer artists all of whom utilise the distinct lens of the queer experience to satirise culturally conditioned forms of self-expression and modernise out-dated stratifications of gender identity…
Interview: Sinfonia Viva
Sat 09 Dec 2023With Sinfonia Viva's New Year's Eve performance at the Royal Concert Hall fast approaching, Ian C Douglas chats with Lucy Galliard, their Chief Executive, about all things orchestral...
Late Light, With Michael Malay… an Illustrated Talk On Moths, Eels, Libraries, the Economy and the Links Between Them
Thu 07 Dec 2023Interview: The Walk Director Michael Jobling and Screenwriter Sophie Ellerby
Fri 10 Nov 2023Sofia Jones speaks to director Michael Jobling and screenwriter Sophie Ellerby about their new short film The Walk, which was produced by Notts' own Griffin Pictures and screened at the 67th BFI London Film Festival as part of the Right Here, Right Now programme...