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Leftlion Magazine Issue 5 June-July 2005 04 Local News for Local People It Is an Interesting Learning Curve for Us Putting This Magazine Together FREE issue #5. our style is legendary www.leftlion.co.uk/issue5 3 credits contents . editorial LeftLion Magazine Issue 5 June-July 2005 04 Local News For Local People It is an interesting learning curve for us putting this magazine together. For those of you that don’t realise, Editor our team still work (and have always worked) on Jared Wilson 05 Election 2005: Notts Results LeftLion in our spare time and do other ‘day jobs’ as well. We’re just regular people who live in Nottingham, Deputy Editor catch buses to work, buy our dinner in the supermarket Al Needham 06 Joe Buhdha and Mista Jam and do all the things that you do in Hood Town. Sub Editors Karizma and DJ Format It takes a lot of hard work, but we’re proud of what we Alan Gilby 07 do and we really think we’re making a difference to the Timmy Bates dynamic that makes up life in this city. We’re aiming to Nathan Miller 08 The Magic Heroes give coverage to local people doing things that interest Cristina Chapman us along the way and it’s our belief that anybody who Floyd Ferris is reading this can probably contribute something if David Bowen 09 Left of the Dealer they want to. If you’re interested in doing something, just get in touch. Capeesh? Design David Blenkey 11 The Hellset Orchestra Since we started, other local publications have ceased [email protected] and a few others have arrived in their wake. From us at LeftLion, good luck to them all! It’s not an easy thing Photographers 12 Gob Squad for just anyone to do, but it can only be good for the Ben Dennis scene to have so many people trying. Some of them will Dom Henry Tales From The Business Called Show flourish and some will fail. It’s our task to make sure 13 that LeftLion falls into the former category. Joe Ryder Josh Skinner Kevin Lake 14 The Joys of Skegness: Nottingham’s Putting out this magazine and the time that goes into Petra Dee Medley it, however, does cost money and since we started Favourite Holiday Destination our quest for a true independent voice in Nottingham Illustrators media, we’ve also been learning the cost of business. Ricky Marr Out and About Advertising revenue makes us able to distribute this for Rob White 16 free. What we get as a result is a big audience of people who are keen to listen. If you are involved in a business Contributors 18 Just The Tonic’s Darrell Martin that you think could benefit by working with us then Adrian Bhagat please get in touch. Alex Kocan Bones 19 Nottingham Events Listings This issue contains some quality products of the current Dan Gardner live music scene in Nottingham. The Magic Heroes, The Guy Gooberman Hellset Orchestra and Left of the Dealer are three fine Howell Lovell 25 Nottsword exponents of what the kids are calling ‘Notts-Rock’. Jem Shaw Alongside them we have the hiphop offerings of Joe Roger Mean Buddha and Mista Jam, DJ Format and Karizma, as well 26 Rocky Horrorscopes & The Fun Cave as the Gob Squad theatre crew and a Skegness holiday LeftLion Embassy special. Thanks goes out in particular to Notts artist Yemi Akinpelumi Rikki Marr for his hard work on our awesome Beano-like cover! “The difference between a brave As always, there’s plenty more coverage of Nottingham man and a coward is a coward culture on our website. The stuff you see in this thinks twice before jumping in the magazine really is just the tip of the iceburg… cage with a lion. The brave man doesn’t know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.” Charles Bukowski [email protected] LeftLion 349a Mansfield Road Nottingham, NG5 2DA [email protected] For advertising enquiries please contact: [email protected] office/fax: 0115 9623676 mobile: 07866 312044 The views and opinions of contributors expressed in this 8,000 copies distributed in over 50 magazine are not necessarily those of LeftLion Ltd.. venues around Nottingham 4 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue5 Nottingham Voices things people have said local news for on the leftlion forum local people with Guy Gooberman our correspondent in London Save Haywood School Please note that Guy Gooberman is a fictional character and therefore only as real as the news he writes for more painful laughs visit www.lunch-break.co.uk This school is particularly important because there’s no other comp in the local catchment area. Closing it will leave a big gap in the local community of Sherwood, Bestwood, Mapperley Park, Carrington and further afield. The Elusive Pig Jared Mansfield Woodhouse isn’t The catchment is part of the problem, in that there’s a lot of famous for many things (apart disadvantaged young people going due to the area it’s in. from perhaps Andrew Brealey Guy Gooberman Accountants and a distinct lack of soul) but that’s all It’s true that Haywood is a very mixed ability school, with about to change thanks to a troubled kids as well as achievers. But, while it had problems macabre new initiative from a couple of years back mostly due to poor management, it local farmers and government. is now back on track and one of the most improved schools ‘Wild Pig Search’ is a in the entire country. new attraction for stupid apples tourists to waste their time running around after Our elected officials are here to make the right decision not wild pigs on local nature the easy one. I honestly believe closing Haywood would be reserves. The croney who bad for the area, if it only went wrong in the last few years thought up the idea cackled: it can be turned around. “There aren’t any wild pigs Alan of course, but it’ll get the fat juicy tourists in and then we can set upon them and Closing the Haywood site and merging with Bigwood eat their brains.” wouldn’t help re-engage the middle class parents, it would result in even more middle class children going to schools outside the city. On the other hand, a bit of stability and continuity, along with continuing improvement, could help enormously. Nearly Hit And Run Schools To NJM A sick new hobby has quite even going as far as to Be Replaced literally hit the streets ‘slightly maim’ bystanders of Nottingham and everyone shoving their metal weapons Banning Hooded Tops who I know is ruddy shocked on wheels literally into By Pits by it. Normal urban white the faces of the general middle class people are public. One pervert who does The PM has backed a shopping centre that banned anyone getting in their motor cars this every Saturday night In a controversial move to wearing caps or hoods. The reasoning seems to be that and mounting kerbs to see said: “We tried dogging for save money and streamline the people wearing caps and hoods are hard to identify on how close they can get them a while, but the wife can’t education system, schools CCTV. Well... yeah. What did they expect? to pedestrians. Some of the park properly. This is much are to be destroyed and NJM sick, twisted bastards are better…” replaced by massive pits, dug deep into the Earth’s crust. There should be no rule to ever stop you wearing what you Nottingham will be piloting want to. The shopping centre has the right to ban them the policy. Local Education (it’s their building) but they’re going to lose a vast amount Forest Fan Awol Apparatchik, PJ Bust said: of business. “Instead of schools we’ll have holes in the earth which Jamie The fact that Nottingham held some chickens and a children will be thrown Forest were relegated to the labrador hostage for four in and whoever crawls out I think it’s fair enough. I wear a hoodie but if I need to lower reaches of the earth days. He eventually freed alive will be deemed to have I can take it off. If a ban stopped all the little shits lurking hit one fan too hard for the labrador after painting graduated. It’s the epitome in shopping centres and throwing chips at old people, or words…but I’ll try. Mr Craig it red but the chickens of natural selection, but allowed the police/security to arrest/catch them I’m all David of Porchester Road, were ground down into a fine in a pit and with the added for it. Mapperley (who shall remain powder that Mr David used as possibility that some of the dlex anonymous) was so shook up a deadly snuff to kill his kids will be forced into that he locked himself in a mind. cannibalism.” I think that it’s good that the government are finally opening disused tramp’s house and their eyes, but by targeting all people in hoodies, they’re are going the wrong way about it. Ollie Yet again, the government targets symptoms of a problem Boy With Enormous Head rather than the causes. People don’t shoplift and vandalise because they wear hoodies, they do it because they are Savaged By Army Of Baboons poor, have nothing else to take out their rage on, and because of other anti-social conditions. hipster k An Abbey Park teenager with street corners. They are said a massive swollen cranium to have assaulted the odd- induced by copious amounts looking young man because: of glue, was attacked by a “He was asking for it”.
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