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Gig review: Lewis Capaldi at Motorpoint Arena

Mon 29 Sept 2025

After taking some time off to recuperate, Lewis Capaldi is well and truly back. One of the last stops on the UK leg of his huge world tour was at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena, where he treated his fans to a confident performance...

Theatre Interview: Dan Lewis

Mon 18 Aug 2025

Steptoe and Son ride again at the Nottingham Arts Theatre. Actor Dan Lewis shares his trip on the rag and bone cart as the curmudgeonly Albert...

Art Works: Solomon Lewis Hunter, leader and costume maker at Inspire Urself carnival troupe

Wed 06 Aug 2025

For this month’s Artworks, ahead of Nottingham Carnival, we spoke to Solomon Lewis Hunter, who leads and designs costumes for the local carnival troupe Inspire Urself.

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

Fri 06 Jun 2025

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

Tue 03 Jun 2025

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…

Friends, football, and poetry

Wed 20 Nov 2024

With male loneliness widespread in our modern age, award-winning poet Lewis Buxton comes to Nottingham to share his very personal struggles and how he found a way forward...

We Chat to Jeffrey Lewis Ahead of His Appearance at the Foolhardy Folk Festival

Wed 23 Aug 2023

The Foolhardy Folk Festival is back for the third year at Nottingham Arboretum for its all day affair on Bank Holiday Sunday, with a lineup curated by Beans on Toast. Joining him will be native New Yorker comic book illustrator and cult sensation Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage, who we caught up with ahead of the festival…

Gig Review: Lewis Capaldi at The Level

Tue 23 May 2023

It’s not often that you go from seeing an artist in a huge arena to an intimate standing-only venue, but that’s exactly what happened when Lewis Capaldi came to The Level for a Q&A on 22 May...

Gig Review: Lewis Capaldi at Motorpoint Arena

Sat 28 Jan 2023

We headed down to the arena to see Scottish sensation Lewis Capaldi on his Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent tour...

CPRE’s Lewis Townsend Explains Why Hedgerows Might Be More Important Than You Think

Tue 08 Nov 2022

The humble hedgerow is often overlooked, not only for their cultural and historic significance, but increasingly as a natural guard against the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss. Lewis Townsend from CPRE explores these rich seams, and explains why the charity is teaming up with Green Hustle and Nottingham City Council’s Parks and Open spaces team to bring hedgerows back…

"America just doesn’t want to acknowledge it’s dirty little history." Interview with Neither Wolf Nor Dog director Steven Lewis Simpson

Thu 22 Aug 2019

We talked to Scottish-born filmmaker Steven Lewis Simpson about his latest film, Neither Wolf Nor Dog, ahead of its upcoming screening at Broadway Cinema…

LeftLion Film Podcast #20 - Neither Wolf Nor Dog director Steven Lewis Simpson

Wed 21 Aug 2019

Steven Lewis Simpson, director of Neither Wolf Nor Dog, joins hosts Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto to discuss the history of Native America representation in the cinema, his unique independent distribution methods and his brilliant new film, which is screening at Broadway Cinema from Thursday 22 August...

Nottingham's John Lewis Advert: Christmas Covers 2018 at The Bodega

Mon 12 Nov 2018

What would the season be without a bit of Grey Hairs and Rod Stewart? This year we celebrate seventeen Christmasses filled with the covery wailings of our musical community, all in the cosy comfort of The Bodega. Last year, £1,800 was raised for Notts Hospice and Zephyr's, and so to stir some charitable happenings in Nottingham's belly once more, David Lilley has put together this wonderful advertisement to demonstrate what a Festive Miracle the evening is set to be...