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Issue 36 Aug-Sept 2010 “I wouldn’t say I was the best Romanticist poet in the business, but I was in the top one” Byron Clough GNP SAVE LEFTLION AD:Layout 1 11/9/08 13:40 Page 1 Just howmuch is your car costing you? Travelling by tram, train, bus, walking or cycling reduces congestion and CO2 emissions, helping you to do your bit for the environment www.thebigwheel.org.uk LeftLion Magazine Issue 36 contents August - September 2010 Based on Thomas Phillips’ 1824 portrait, Rikki Marr’s Byron Clough lives in the Cross Keys on Byard Lane. Prints available for sale at viewtheshop.co.uk. editorial Youths and Ducks, (...and yeah, Brian Clough’s been on the cover two issues running. You wanna mek summat on it?) We’re all aware, I trust, what an incestuous sniff-around- the-dog’s-ringpiece life in Nottingham can be - especially in LeftLionLand, where, every now and then, you find yourself interviewing people you actually know. It’s bleddy weird. You start the interview saying to some 7 14 15 band, “So when was your first gig?” and they say; “At the Maze, wan’t it? You were there, you bell-end. Oh, has the interview started, then?” For example, in this issue, 04 May Contain Notts 12 Hooray For Wellywood 22 Event Listings amongst other things, I got to interview my first boss The local news diary that’s just Wellington Films racks up ten years We know what you’ll do this who gave me my second-favourite job in Notts. Terry from come back from a dirty weekend in in the flick biz summer Programme World. Mabelthorpe with your Mam, and wouldn’t go anywhere near that Empathy and Ivory 13 Reviews It was the summer of 1980, and your humble Editor and stick of rock she’s brought back A long-overdue blather with Billy 25 his mate Gormy Dawny were returning from the City Ivory Opportunity knocks for 8mm Orchestra, Baby Godzilla, Ground after a daring raid onto the pitch to nick handfuls LeftEyeOn Tom Garner, Lowstarr, Manière des of grass when we chanced across Soccer City, the other 05 Throw Off Your Mental Chains! shop he owned on Arkwright Street. The first thing he did Pictures of lovely, lovely Nottingham 14 Nick Parkhouse: an Eighties Knight, Bohémiens, Spaceships are Cool, Kirk Spencer, Whatley & was ask if we wanted to buy some display cases for our fighting for the honour of Johnny grass (we did. Pound each). The second thing, after he’d A Canadian in New Basford Hates Jazz Stone and Yunioshi 07 Our Rob cuts the arms off his lumber had our money, was to tell us to piss off, as he was busy merging both shops into one, and couldn’t waste time jacket and gazes in awe at a proper Cerebral and Ballsy English summer 15 28 Noshingham chatting to a couple of mongs in scabby Harringtons. I Dan Edge: Putting the smackdown Another procession of Big Teas from asked him if he needed a hand, and before I knew it, I had on disability, and coming to a school the likes of Dino, The Cumin, and me first-ever job. 08 Blokes on Trent near you Cock and Hoop. Three words: ‘Om’, Will Forest get out of the ‘Nom’ and ‘Nom’ Back in the day, Arkwright Street used to run from the Championship? Will Notts thrive in 16 We’ve Been Framed train station right up to Trent Bridge, and at the time it League One? Portraits of Nottingham 30 LeftLion Abroad seemed like the entire world passed through there on a Plus The Arthole, Notts Trumps and Saturday afto. You saw everything an’all; one afternoon Rocky Horrorscopes Terry Venerable 18 Pete Davis I managed to leg it back to the shop after a Man U game 09 The undisputed overlord of He’s Nottingham’s premier just before hundreds of mardy Manc scab-bags tried to Programme World storyteller, don’t you know stove the doors in. I also built up the full collection of Forest European Cup proggehs, that my Dad put in a leaky shed after I left home. Heart of The Midlands 20 Write Lion 10 Simeon Hartwig talks t-shirts and A massive two-page spesh, But enough of my second favourite job in Notts; doing telly including - not lyin’ yer - this mag is my true love, and believe you me, it’s looking Sir Andrew Motion so gorgeous this month that I want to take it back to me family’s for tea, and then give it one up against the chest freezer in the spare room while Mam’s watching Deal Or No Deal. Hope you think so too. credits Editor in Chief Cover Illustrators Word To Your Nana, Jared Wilson ([email protected]) Rikki Marr ([email protected]) Rob White Al Needham Mike Schofield [email protected] Editor Contributors Al Needham ([email protected]) Mike Atkinson Podcast crew Mat Brinks Paul Abbott Mike Atkinson Linchpin Alistair Catterall John Anderson A (formerly) chatty little blogger Alan Gilby ([email protected]) Joe Coghlan Timmy Bates Mike - who interviews Nick Parkhouse Rob Cutforth Mike Cheque in this ish - was the brains, fingers and Art Director Al Draper Rich Crouch soul behind Troubled Diva, one of the David Blenkey ([email protected]) Piers Edminson Jacob Daniel first - and best - blogs in the UK, before Katie Half-Price Will Forrest Big Media assimilated him into the Marketing and Sales Manager Adele Harrison Kristi Genovese Borg. He reviews gigs and interviews Ben Hacking ([email protected]) Duncan Heath Jon Hall pop stars for the Post, and writes for Pippa Hennessey Dan Hardy The Guardian’s weekly film and music Art Editor Sharriff Ibrahim Christopher Hough supplement. Not only does he know Frances Ashton ([email protected]) John James Robin Lewis more about the Eurovision Song Contest than is strictly Isabel Kaufman Stuart Rogers healthy, he also spent an hour on Anthony Gormley’s Film Editor Siobhan Logan Sam Vtekk fourth plinth dancing to a disco mix on his iPod. Dead Alison Emm ([email protected]) Roger Mean Alex Walker arteh, it wor. Sarah Morrison Oli Ward troubled-diva.com Literature Editor Sir Andrew Motion Jack Wiles James Walker ([email protected]) Beane Noodler Jim Wheatley Write Lion Aly Stoneman The LeftLion Lit-cast LeftLion.co.uk received twelve million page Music Editor Villayat Sunkmanit If you love the written word, but views during the last year. This magazine has Paul Klotschkow ([email protected]) Anthony Whitton want to give your eyes a rest an estimated readership of 40,000 people and is distributed to over 300 venues across the for an hour or so, Write Lion - Photography Editor Photographers hosted by James Walker and Aly Dominic Henry ([email protected]) David Baird city of Nottingham. If your venue isn’t one of them, please contact Ben on 07984 275453 or Stoneman - is the perfect balm Debbie Davies email [email protected]. for your tabs. Their aim is simple: Theatre Editor Video Mat to showcase the work of writers Adrian Bhagat ([email protected]) Carla Mundy This magazine is printed on paper sourced on the forum, play the odd tune, showcase the cream of Steve Rowe from sustainable forests. Our printers are ISO the Notterati, chat with industry professionals, listen to Listings Editor Stephen Wright 14001 certified by the British Accreditation some readings and offer information on how you can get Tommy Farmyard (leftlion.co.uk/add) Pete Zabulis Bureau for their environmental management. published. leftlion.co.uk/audio Want to advertise in our pages? Email [email protected] or phone Ben on 07984 275453 or visit leftlion.co.uk/advertise leftlion.co.uk/issue36 3 MAY CONTAIN England’s Glorious World Cup Run with Nottingham’s ‘Mr. Sex’ Al Needham Everyone involved in that Radio Trent song and video should be crucified in the middle of the Market Square - yes, even those small children. I’m willing to hammer the nails in if someone with NOTTS good woodworking skills can put some crucifixes together. June - July 2010 Daysleeper Apparently 14,000 Nottingham kids were dragged out of lessons to record that song. They would have caused less shame to our city if they had spend that time rubbing the heads of decapitated old people against their groins, live on Midlands Today. Lord of the Nish England 1 USA 1 Sigh. Deceased Every World Cup, at least one of Germany, Italy, Argentina and Brazil is described as having a worse than usual team, inexperienced defence, team-coach disputes etc., and this is given as one of the reasons why it could be England’s year. Come the first matches, all those teams prove to be as amazing as ever, far better than shaky, unconvincing England. Cheque Ronaldo makes me want to hit babies and old women. themn England 0 Algeria 0 Sigh. Deceased England 1 Slovenia 0 The USA have knocked us out of the World Cup. Lord of the Nish England 1 Germany 4 27 May 20 June I managed to trick myself into having high May Contain Notts reacts to the news of Gary Coleman’s death by Radio Nottingham launches a bid for Nottinghamshire to have its expectations of this team during qualification. launching the following petition; “We, the undersigned, demand own flag. Brilliant idea, and I know just the design; Two upright I think we lacked pace at the back though and that Nottinghamshire pays tribute to the television show Diff’rent columns (signifying the areas on either side of the Trent), joined by seemed very narrow in midfield.