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AN OVERVIEW LeftLion covers the whole We believe in showcasing spectrum of culture everything great about including: music, art, the city. comedy, cinema, sport Our readers know when they 2019 and literature. pick up the magazine or visit Over the last fifteen years, our website they will find out we’ve established ourselves what’s really happening in as the most trusted source Nottingham. of independent media in Nottingham. THE MAGAZINE ONLINE 50,000 estimated readership New content published daily 12,000 copies given away each 200,000 month in Nottinghamshire monthly page views 350+ stockists across 50,000 Nottinghamshire (bars, music unique monthly users stores, cafes and both major student campuses) 10,000 articles published The city’s most comprehensive event listings section 43,000 Twitter followers The largest full-page dimensions of any free magazine in the 20,000 region Facebook likes Juga-Naut x Sonnyjim What’s on? The Purple Door (Album) TUESDAY 22 JAN Sonnyjim once said that there were WEDNESDAY 23 JAN THURSDAY 24 JAN FRIDAY 25 JAN SATURDAY 26 JAN only a few rappers in the UK that he truly liked. On The Purple Door, Lecture: Gilman’s Women Dancing England NCF Comedy Night ♫ Steve Steinman’s ♫ The Hallé Juga-Naut demonstrates why he’s Djanogly Theatre Canalhouse Vampires Rock Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Nottingham Playhouse one of them. An excellent pairing of Free, 1pm £1 - £1, 8pm Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall £10 - £35.50, 7:30pm £15 - £19, 6.30pm boisterous and witty personalities, £28 - £35, 7.30pm this release is a highlight of Live at Lunch: Tom Hewson Nottingham Philharmonic ♫ Wine Tasting + Supper ♫ Rammel Club #095 - Ernie K ♫ Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Orchestra Family Concert: Sonnyjim’s career as EatGood Harts Hotel and Restaurant The Escape with Clare Harvey Fegg, Alexandertwatz, Yumah records head honcho. Both are well known by their fans as Free, 1pm £65 - £65, 7pm Waterstones The Chameleon Cafe Bar Heroes & Adventures! lovers of the fi ner things in life, yet they shrug off their lavish Free, 6.30pm £5 - £7, 8pm Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall ROH: Royal Opera 2018-2019 £9 - £23, 6pm brands and instead inject wordplay into a variety of fl ows. ♫ Steve Mason Season - The Queen of Spades However, their similarities end there. While they both excel in Rough Trade ♫ Monarchy Vegan Burn’s Night Savoy Cinema gluttonous bravado, Jugz reminds listeners of the proactive, £9.99 - £24.99, 6.30pm The Bodega Supperclub with Craig Floate ♫ Kill Your Television Club positive message of hip hop on Look Around, a highlight of the £11 - £13.50, 6.45pm £7.70, 7pm Debbie Bryan The Old Salutation Inn Free, 9pm album. Whereas Sonnyjim’s verse on Duck Season is a belter, ♫ Jimmy Eat World £40, 7pm Lost Under Heaven If you’re from Nottingham and want to get with searing punchlines delivered by his signature nonplussed ♫ Rock City ♫ Hobo Johnson & Rough Trade Heathen Deity + Sykelig Englen + demeanour. Ashwin Balu 6.30pm The Lovemakers ♫ Willie Watson ♫ added to our music writers list, or get your Free, 6.30pm Rock City The Bodega Abduction + Saarkoth The Chameleon Cafe Bar tunes reviewed, hit us up on: The News at 7:42 £16.50, 6.30pm £16.50, 7pm ♫ Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nottingham Playhouse £5, 8pm Night Sweata [email protected] £3, 6.30pm Holiday From Hell ♫ Tbtyezine Volume 4 Rock City Nottingham Playhouse Rough Trade ♫ BTS World Tour: Love Yourself £27.50, 7pm In Seoul There, There and There £5, 9pm Free, 7pm Paul Ibbotson Chloe McShane Nottingham Playhouse Savoy Cinema Consolation for Violin & Piano / Audition for Shadowlands by £9.25 - £11, 2.30pm Butterfl y (EP) £8, 7.15pm Shiraz Bayjoo in Conversation ♫ NTU Big Band Live Prelude for Piano (Album) William Nicholson New Art Exchange Nottingham Trent University Lace Market Theatre The Northern Soul Night Chloe McShane made her fi rst mark on the Gallery Tour: Free, 6.30pm Student’s Union ♫ The delicate level of rhythm coming from Nottingham music scene back in 2012, when Free Things From Home £4 - £8, 7.30pm Rough Trade Free, 7pm Paul’s mix of violin and piano is fi t for a she provided vocals to various underground Lakeside Arts Centre ♫ Metal 2 The Masses 2019: Notts in a Nutshell: The meditation, a slow dance and a drift-off , producers. In 2013, she started writing her ♫ Free, 1pm Heat 2 ♫ Cosmic American Presents: Timeouts + King Abyss + all rolled into one. With each track played own music and recorded her debut EP, The Maze Sam Morrow Band MissImp’s Intro to Improv Time in Antarctica Malt Cross so beautifully and carefully, there’s time to Singing Red, comprised of four hard-hitting Walkthrough: Catherine Grant £5 - £6, 7pm The Maze The Maze tracks showcasing the best of her singing ability. Chloe’s velvety- Nottingham Contemporary £12, 7.30pm £105 - £120, 11am admire the pace changes between slow and speedy, shown best on £3, 7.30pm the Violin and Piano Mix, which builds with some slight suspense. smooth vocals are back out to play on latest release Butterfl y, Free, 2pm reminiscent of early noughties r’n’b classics. The track was played The album has a wonderful blend of artistry, sound and general on BBC Introducing in December, and has been making waves on musical brilliance, played with passion and pleasure. It’s the type of SUNDAY 27 JAN MONDAY 28 JAN TUESDAY 29 JAN WEDNESDAY 30 JAN THURSDAY 31 JAN album that you could listen to on repeat. Invigorating to the brain, Spotify and Apple Music since. A jack-of-all-trades, Chloe’s songs Paradox Wrestling and riddled with that other-wordly wooze; if you’re looking for successfully venture into pop, indie and electronic genres. Inspired Going Home Big Birdwatch The Future of Business Lecture: Harold Gilman and Riley’s Sports Bar something to relax your bones after a long day, Paul’s therapeutic by her own personal experiences, her lyrics provide an outlet for the Djanogly Theatre Highfields Park The Newton Building, Nottingham Trent the Camden Town Group £10, 6pm melodies will do just the trick. Hanna Mawla singer to “express herself without being judged.” We can’t wait to 3pm Free, 10am University Djanogly Theatre hear what’s next. Alexandra Chrysotomou Free, 1pm Free, 5.30pm Crafty Club Sing with John Rocky IV Nottingham Womens Centre ♫ Mats Eilertsen Trio Rutter Workshop Savoy Cinema Basic Bike Maintenance ♫ Free, 10am Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall £4.85 - £6.60, 8.30pm Nottingham Bike Works Djanogly Theatre £10 - £16, 7.30pm J. Cooper Theorist £8 - £17, 2pm £40, 6pm ♫ The Howl & The Hum Talk Cinema: Afternoon The Bodega Malignant Spectres (Album) Ghosts (Album) Crosswords Uncovered Hula Hooping Broadway Cinema ♫ Charlene Soraia £8.80, 7pm Malt Cross J. Cooper returns with an album full of Nottingham Womens Centre £30 - £60, 2pm Rough Trade Appropriately named, Ghosts is a haunting £9.99 - £17.99, 6.30pm £2, 7.30pm Port Tasting Evening impressive experimental tracks, and no two Free, 2pm album by Theorist. Smudges of blurry Retro Video Games on The Golden Eagle sound the same. His lyrics are sung with vocals are interspersed with jarring pauses Beat The Streets Big Screen Acquaria ROH Live: La Traviata £30, 7.30pm a soft touch and come complemented by ♫ and static to give the tracks a chilling feel Various Venues Bunkers Hill The Glee Club Bonington Theatre mind-soothing accompanying instruments. that had me looking over my shoulder to £10 - £15, 6.45pm £6, 1pm Free, 4pm £20 - £35, 7.30pm I’m Not Running Whether it’s the press of a key or a guitar check I was alone. No genre can describe Savoy Cinema string plucked, the music empowers the vocals, creating an the unique, unnerving atmosphere these songs create; listening to Death Cab For Cutie Heavy Lungs The Faim £11 - £13.50, 7pm Bite-Sized Ballets: Tortoise ♫ ♫ ♫ alternate, experimental-indie style that can't be compared to Ghosts is like watching a horror fi lm that doesn’t stop when you & The Hare Rock City Rescue Rooms The Bodega anything else. It's not just the songs and lyrics that showcase turn the TV off . Each song is utterly diff erent to the next, possessing £11, 7pm Savoy Cinema £31.35, 7pm £7.70, 6.30pm ♫ Parway Drive + Killswitch Cooper's alternative tendencies; even the album's eerily atmospheric distinctly addictive and morbid personalities, yet the tracks still £5, 12.15pm Engage + Thy Art is Murder artwork matches the experimental style of the tracks. When men are Shvpes (Red Room Show) share an identical underlying tension. This album feels more like an A Streetcar Named Desire Missing ♫ Motorpoint Arena Nottingham dressed as goats, you know things are going to get strange. Get past Lace Market Theatre Nottingham Playhouse Rescue Rooms £38.42 - £84.40, 7.30pm experience than just music; Ghosts will plunge you into something MissImp’s Intro to Improv the goats though, and Malignant Spectres will transport you. Soft resembling fear, then rip you back out at the end before turning off Malt Cross £10 - £11, 7.30pm £8 - £24, 7.30pm £8.80, 6.30pm and peaceful, it’ll lift your mood in an unconventional way. the lights. Hannah Beresford £105 - £120, 11am ♫ Roderick Williams Baritone & Mats Eilersten Trio Ryan Muress ♫ Acoustic Rooms: Lord of Milan ♫ Christopher Flynn Piano Chrisèe + J Webb Lakeside Arts Centre Lakeside Arts Centre Lakeside Arts Centre Learn Drag: Live Performance, Talk & Q&A Rescue Rooms £9 - £9.50, 7pm £10 - £16, 7.30pm £8 - £22, 7.30pm Debbie Bryan Free, 8pm Cosmic American Presents: £4, 6pm ♫ Boyzone ♫ ♫ Metal 2 The Masses 2019: Andrew Combs + Charlie Whitten Historic Society Meeting Motorpoint Arena Nottingham Heat 3 The Lord Nelson £48.50 - £130.90, 7.30pm The Maze The Maze Your new Notts music tip sheet, as compiled by Nusic’s Free, 7pm £12 - £13.20, 7.30pm £5 - £6, 7pm NUSIC Sam Nahirny.