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LeftLion's Latest Listens #44: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 08 May 2026In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2026, our music team reviews new releases from Bloodworm, No Peeling, People Laughing, Cathedra and Paytron Saint & Emzae…
Interview: BalletBoyz directors Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt at Nottingham Playhouse
Thu 23 Apr 2026After 25 years of pushing boundaries, BalletBoyz return to Nottingham with a radical new show celebrating their silver anniversary. Artistic Directors Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt talk to Leftlion about the story so far...
Gig review: Widow's Rock n Rollium with Hystamine and You Want Fox at Billy Bootleggers for International Women's Day 2026 Nottingham
Fri 13 Mar 2026On International Women’s Day Billy Bootleggers played host to the Widow’s Rock n Rollium - a spicy night of cabaret, burlesque, bands and fierce femme energy, featuring bands You Want Fox and Hystamine. We went down to check it out…
Gig review: Suede stun at Rock City, with support from Notts own Bloodworm
Sun 22 Feb 2026On Thursday night, 90s Brit-pop darlings Suede brought their 'Dancing With The Europeans Tour' to an adoring audience at Rock City, with support from Notts own dark dreamwave trio Bloodworm...
Theatre Review: Double Indemnity at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal
Mon 16 Feb 2026It’s not so often that one of the greatest crime novels of the twentieth-century comes to life in front of our very eyes! Last week Double Indemnity hit the stage at the Theatre Royal, so we went along to witness the perfect crime unfold...
LeftLion's Latest Listens #38: Notts music we're currently spinning
Fri 30 Jan 2026With this year off to a great start for new music, in this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2026, our music team reviews releases from Divorce feat. Marcus Mumford, Blackadder, Bloodworm and Make Strangers...
How local goth-punks Bloodworm built their profile with live shows
Sat 29 Nov 2025In the midst of their UK tour with fellow Nottingham band Swallowtail – which serves as preparation for their seventeen-date run supporting Suede next year – we met goth-punk outfit Bloodworm to chat about their upcoming appearance at a new Bodega festival – Paint by Numbers – as they close out a milestone year and look ahead to an even bigger one…
Gig review: Billie Marten at Rescue Rooms
Wed 12 Nov 2025Still only 26, Billie Marten finds herself a relative veteran despite her youth. Now on her fifth album, she has followed fellow folk heroine Laura Marling on a journey from prodigiously gifted teenager to assured songwriting talent and a beacon of her genre. She returned to Rescue Rooms in support of that new LP, the excellent Dog Eared, at the tail-end of a winding European tour and ahead of a jaunt to North America and beyond...
Pick Six: Steven Sheil at the Mayhem Horror Film Festival
Fri 10 Oct 2025For this month’s Pick Six we turn to Steven Sheil, Co-Director at the Mayhem Horror Film Festival which takes place at Broadway Cinema between Thursday 16 - Sunday 19 October.