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The November issue of LeftLion is out now 🦁 As well as a mystical Newstead Abbey cover, this issue features film series Hart of the Wood, JayaHadADream, artist Heather Agyepong, Nottingham Panthers, and lots more

Read here: leftlion.co.uk/features/202... 🦁

#leftlionmagazine #newissue #lovenotts
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BIG NEWS! Nottingham's must-have stocking filler of 2026 has arrived. New book available to buy online now for just six paahnd (including delivery)... #overheardinnotts

Buy now >
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Buy: Overheard In Notts (Vol 7): The Pierre of the Resistance
We like to think that Christmas isn’t Christmas without a bit of Overheard in Notts in your stocking. Thus we are happy to announce the arrival of our seventh(!) book baby...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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An excellent debut for @nowthenmag.bsky.social from @rose-mason.bsky.social (not surprising, given she's an alumni of Nottingham's must-read @leftlion.bsky.social 🦁)
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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My photos of Billie Marten and Le Ren at the Rescue Rooms
in Notingham on Monday night are with this review by Kieran Lister for @leftlion.bsky.social

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Gig review: Billie Marten at Rescue Rooms
Still 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 teenag...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Our friends at Nottingham City of Literature are celebrating 10 years of their UNESCO status next month with a big party at Metronome. Here's all you need to know and how to be part of it...
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Nottingham celebrates ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature with a spectacular gala on 1 December
In 2025, Nottingham turns the page on a remarkable chapter; ten years as a UNESCO City of Literature and the charity is throwing a party worthy of Nottingham’s words!
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November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Having a swift half waiting for my never on time spanish mate, picked up a copy of @leftlion.bsky.social

The folks of Notts still doing me proud 😀
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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It's certainly been an interesting last month at the City Ground. Our columnist Julie gives us her thoughts on the reigns of Ange and Dyche... #nottinghamforest
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Left Brian: November 2025 - A New Daw...Dyche!
Our Forest columnist Julie Pritchard, the creator of the classic nineties 'Brian' fanzine, is back to give her thoughts on the last month at the city ground. Strap yourself in! 
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November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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As the Hillsborough Bill passes its second reading and moves one step closer to becoming law, I want to share my most recent @leftlion.bsky.social column, which outlines why this legislation is so important.
Nadia on… the Hillsborough Law
Nottingham Labour MP Nadia Whittome talks about the new Hillsborough Law.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Have you seen the latest issue of @leftlion.bsky.social? For those who don’t know, this is the ultimate magazine for all things Notts. Thanks to Sophie Gargett for this piece/questions. Available in print and online at: leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
#Hurtsfall #LeftLion #Nottingham #MusicInterview
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The November issue of LeftLion is out now 🦁 As well as a mystical Newstead Abbey cover, this issue features film series Hart of the Wood, JayaHadADream, artist Heather Agyepong, Nottingham Panthers, and lots more

Read here: leftlion.co.uk/features/202... 🦁

#leftlionmagazine #newissue #lovenotts
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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We need your help! We want your feedback!
> www.leftlion.co.uk/survey

Every few years we launch a reader survey and the time has come again! The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and really helps us out. Plus you could win a £100 Nottingham Gift Card!
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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10/27/60: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
D: Karel Reisz P: Tony Richardson
w/Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Evening Standard: “Here is a chance for our own New Wave”
More
Crowther, impressed: www.nytimes.com/1961/04/04/a...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Our supporters on Patreon just got a look at our November cover! The rest of you will have to wait a week or so.

If you'd like to get a little more from LeftLion and support our independent journalism then #SupportLeftLion

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Cover Reveal: Issue #189 November 2025 | LeftLion
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October 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Discos / nightclubs / ballrooms - What Notts venues past and present have you loved dancing in and why?
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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My photos of Welly with Vincent's Last Summer and Your Mate's Ex at The @bodeganotts.bsky.social with this review by Charlotte Gould for @leftlion.bsky.social Nottingham

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Gig review: Welly at The Bodega
Last week, Welly returned to The Bodega with more banging tunes, bigger moshpits and a sky full of bubbles. Walking out to the tune of The Macarena, Welly promises a night defined by character and cha...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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My photos of @allodarlin.bsky.social and The @hobbesfanclub.bsky.social at The Old Cold Store in Nottingham with this review by Michael Prince for @leftlion.bsky.social

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Gig review: Allo Darlin' at The Old Cold Store
A reunion of many, with the moon looking down on it all... LeftLion's Michael Prince found himself in awe and happiness as he witnessed the long-overdue return of indie-pop band Allo Darlin'...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Something for the weekend? It's the second episode of our #NightCreatures podcast. Beane from Soul Buggin in conversation with Steve and Laurence from Smokescreen Soundsystem...
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Night Creatures Podcast #2: Laurence and Steve from Smokescreen Soundsystem on thirty years of club nights, free parties, police, gangsters and more
Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with ...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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My most recent for @leftlion.bsky.social on The Sound Sanctuary, a harm reduction collective at raves and free parties! Such inspiring important work and a pleasure to meet them leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
How the Sound Sanctuary is keeping Notts ravers safe
A lover of music and the underground rave scene, Magda realised the parties they were attending were under-delivering on safety. In 2023, they began The Sound Sanctuary: a travelling stand, a bunch of...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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In ten days Nottingham's annual arts and culture spectacular: Hockley Hustle kicks off again, and as our followers from Notts will know, there's no event like it, plus if you're not from Notts, why not make this a reason to visit? Here's what you can expect -

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Hustle Up: Queer Hustle, bands not to miss and what to expect from Hockley Hustle 2025
It’s hard to find a better way to describe Hockley Hustle than by its own succinct label: Nottingham’s arts and music festival. It’s a day of creativity, showcasing the best of our city and at the sam...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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As well as interviewing filmmaker and documentarian #AdamCurtis in our latest print issue, we've put out the audio as the latest episode of our #LeftLionInterviews podcast too. Have a listen to him in conversation with our very own Adam Pickering...
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LeftLion Interviews Podcast #13: Filmmaker Adam Curtis on Shifty, politics, filmmaking and Wollaton Hall
For our latest episode we are joined by veteran BBC documentary filmmaker, whose latest project Shifty promintently features some 1980s footage of Nottingham's Wollaton Hall...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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My photos of Belly at The Rescue Rooms in #Nottingham recently are on the @leftlion.bsky.social website now.

Many thanks and ❤️ to the great Tanya Donelly for allowing me to photograph the very special, sold out, show.

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In photos: Belly at Rescue Rooms
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October 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The October issue of LeftLion is out now!

At 72 pages, the mag features paranormal stories from the National Justice Museum, Wolf Wytch Apothecary, Primary, and loads more. The cover comes courtesy of illustrator Isobelle Farrar.

Pick up your copy from all your favourite Nottingham haunts👻
October 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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We had a chat with Eoin from GuestHouse Projects about masculinity and role models as they prepare to bring 'The Show For Young Men' to #nottdance and Nottingham Contemporary...

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Director Eoin McKenzie on Masculinity, Role Models and The Show for Young Men
Glasgow-based theatre producer and director Eoin McKenzie’s The Show for Young Men – a GuestHouse Projects production – which comes to Nottdance in November as part of a national tour, uses dance to e...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Were you there? Jared Wilson, of Nottingham's LeftLion ( @leftlion.bsky.social ) magazine was: "a short set in a small space, but there’s magic in seeing such an established band do what they do best up close." leftlion.co.uk/features/201...
Live Music Review: Suede at Rough Trade
It may have been Fresher’s week in Nottingham, but the biggest crowd last week was hanging around Rough Trade for a special acoustic set by Suede, in promotion of their latest album, The Blue Hour.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Tonight sees Nottingham Forest FC embark on their first European tournament adventure for three decades. Our columnist Julie Pritchard was there then, and she's over there in Seville right now... #Forest #NottinghamForest

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Left Brian: September 2025: Did I miss much?
Julie Pritchard, the creator of the classic nineties 'Brian' fanzine, is back to detail an ever so smooth sailing September at Forest and to get excited about European adventures once again...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Check out these beautiful photos of street art in Beeston, taken by our photography editor Dani Bacon 📷

If you want to know more about how street art became so prominent in the area, head to the article linked in the comments 🎨
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM