Nottingham Creative Community News

Live Music Review: Acoustickle's 9th Birthday at The Maze

Our Angel chats to promoter Parisa East as they celebrate Acoustickle's 9th birthday in style with great music, delicious food and...

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at The Bodega

09 April 18

I’m Not From London’s Fuzzbox, a night of dirty garage rock and psych, steps up a notch for its Easter egg-travaganza, moving on up to The Bodega. We went along for a listen.

9 Notts Albums To Add To Your Playlist

23 March 18

Fill your tabs with some proper Notts glory...

6 Notts Books You Need To Read This Month

21 March 18

Back in January, we celebrated Nottingham’s literary prowess with a whole issue dedicated to the wordy goods that’ve come out of the city and its edges. In the same breath, together with UNESCO City of Literature, we asked your lot to review your favourite Nottingham books in a competition to win book tokens and a feature in this here rag. The winners of said competition were Sue Barsby and Melanie Jane, the top two reviews on this here page. Check ‘em out in all their critiquing mastery, and remember: if you’re from Notts and want to get your pages poked, drop us a line on books@leftlion.co.uk...

9 Notts Albums You Need To Listen To

23 February 18

Our ravenous reviewers have devoured a whole heap of new music, and told us what they thought about it...

Review: FanSHEN Justice Syndicate Event

19 February 18

I’m going to put my cards on the table; when I got my tickets for FanSHEN’s Justice Syndicate show, from the name I was expecting a superhero-related show. I can’t say I was disappointed though, as what I got was an interactive jury experience. It’s much more interesting than it sounds...

Live Music Review: Lewis Capaldi at Rescue Rooms

13 February 18

We went to Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms to check out a sold-out gig from Lewis Capaldi…

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at The Chameleon

09 February 18

Following the release of his critically acclaimed album Pictures, Movies & Apartments late last year, Montreal's Paul Jacobs brings his tour to Nottingham as part of I'm Not From London's Fuzzbox night.

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at The Angel

27 January 18

Holy Bouncer come all the way from sunny Spain to play the latest I'm Not From London Fuzzbox night. The least we could do was to pop down to The Angel and have a listen.

Live Music Review: Fuzzhoneys at The Chameleon

26 January 18

Garage rock duo Fuzzhoneys from Malta bring their Glitter tour to the Chameleon Arts Café with support from local faves Babe Punch. Our Gav headed down to check things out

Live Music Review: Hellcats Night at The Bodega

24 January 18

I’m Not From London’s all-ages night Hellcats kicks off the year with an impressive line-up at The Bodega

20 Top Nottingham Music Releases of 2017

30 December 17

The sounds coming out of our fine city that have been doing it for us this year...

9 Nottingham Music Albums to Listen to This December

18 December 17

Some of the city's musical fruits, brought to you by our task force of reviewers...

9 Albums You Should Listen To Right Now

19 November 17

Top tunes doing the rounds this month...

King of the Hill: Talking Strange Weather and Spooky Stories with Joe Hill

10 November 17

A descendant of horror fiction royalty, Joe Hill is a best-selling author of novels, short stories, comic books and graphic novels. His latest book, Strange Weather, brings together four stories of strangeness and surreality that are bound to chill to the bone. With an international book-tour underway, we caught up with him ahead of his appearance at Waterstones to chat about his influences, creative process, and the book itself.