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LeftLion's Latest Listens #42: Notts music we're currently spinning

In this week's edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2026, our music team reviews new releases from Leah Wilcox, Eyre Llew and Origin One & Snowy... 

LeftLion's Latest Listens #36: Notts music we're currently spinning

In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Marseille, Kelsey and The Embers, Richard Snow and ALT BLK ERA...

Polka Theatre and Can’t Sit Still Present the Snowy Day

Theatre review: Slava's Snow Show at the Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

Confetti, inflatables and clowns at the Royal Concert Hall? Slava's Snow Show must be in town...

LeftLion's Latest Listens #28: Notts music we're currently spinning

With summer at its height, here's what our music team has been listening to recently. In this edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, we review releases from Antonio Panzera, Marvin's Revenge, Richard Snow and EMiDORA & Darling I Dreamt

Pick Six: Notts born athlete and Paralympian Richard Whitehead

For this month’s Pick Six we turn to Notts born athlete and Paralympian Richard Whitehead…

Gig review: Richard Dawson at Metronome

For a man with a bizarre and enigmatic back catalogue, Newcastle’s folk troubadour Richard Dawson possesses a rare gift: to create songs that revel in the mundane while also providing an elemental musical base that allows his tales to flourish. At Nottingham's Metronome, Dawson, with his leg encased in a surgical boot, was able to put on a show packed with a gamut of emotions; a night of opinion polls, cheese pasties, ghost stories and a ruptured Achilles tendon made for an evening which will go down as one of the most bizarre in a long time...

Richard Dawson

Black Snow

Richard Spaven [ Jazz/ Hip Hop]

Snow White & the 7 Drag Queens

Gig review: Richard Hawley at The Level

A rare appearance in Nottingham, as part of his annual pre-Christmas mini-tour, saw Richard Hawley play to a sold out crowd at The Level, backed by a five-piece band of tight, but lucid musicians...

Award winning actor Richard Armitage speaks about his latest crime novel

After a lengthy career making his name in blockbusters such as The Hobbit and BBC’s Robin Hood, multi-award winning actor Richard Armitage has turned to the written word. He visited Bromley House to discuss his latest crime novel The Cut, and how writing and acting converge.

Rejjie Snow

30 Years Of Richard & Slim

Review: An Audience with Sir Paul Smith at Nottingham Playhouse

The Beeston-born fashion guru took time out from his busy schedule to support Nottingham Playhouse with an evening of conversation...

Homecoming: a Solo Exhibition by Richard Mynett

The Snowman - the Animated Film With Live Orchestra

The Snowman Storytime

Theatre Review: Richard Herring at Nottingham Playhouse

Ian C Douglas enjoyed some chuckles courtesy of Richard Herring when he performed at Nottingham Playhouse...

Richard Pulsford: It Just So Happened - an Alternative History Show

Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller

Interview: Richard Herring

TV Comedian and celebrity interviewer, Richard Herring, brings his multi-award-winning show to Nottingham's Playhouse this November. In this exclusive preview, he talks of testicles, godlike powers and when podcasts go wrong...     

Richard Douglas (aka Joe Buhdha): Voices from Nottingham's Windrush Generation

To celebrate Black History Month and the 75th anniversary of Windrush we have been working with the New Art Exchange and their NAE YOUnity Commission funded by Freelands Foundation. Our aim is to highlight the voices of Nottingham's Windrush generation and some of the challenges they faced...

Musing on Nature and the Present Moment, We Talk to Richard C Bower About His Poetry Collection

Inspired by the beauty of the natural world, Richard C. Bower muses on our relationship with the earth in his new poetry collection, Pleasures In The Pathless Woods. Featuring 76 poems set across four seasons, it’s a project that focuses on experiencing the present moment. We catch up with the local author about the process, contemplating beauty, and his upcoming book…