#79 June 2016 #79 June 2016 LeftLion Magazine Issue 79 contents June 2016 credits Editor Ali Emm ([email protected]) Editor-in-chief Jared Wilson ([email protected]) In a Code Hole Alan Gilby ([email protected]) Marketing and Sales Manager NEAT16: Bards for Days Bivvy Bodies Funeral Director Ash Dilks ([email protected]) 10 Wordsmith and Mouthy Poets 12 The nineties are back, and they’re 24 Coffins are an art form in chief and wordsmith Deborah coming in the form of top musical Benjamin Wigley’s documentary, Designers ‘Debris’ Stevenson on her dogs Bivouac Paa Joe & The Lion Raphael Achache ([email protected]) grime project Natalie Owen ([email protected]) 06 Street Tales 21 Word Play 33 Listings Sub Editor With Ad Sectioned, Overheard in Abigail Parry ran away with the The in-depth list of wha gwarn in Shariff Ibrahim ([email protected]) Notts and What Notts circus, but she’s back as poet-in- this fine city, with everything residence at the NVA from gigs to exhibitions Community Editor 08 LeftEyeOn Penny Reeve ([email protected]) Pictures of Nottingham for your 22 DoughNotts 40 Nusic Box eyeholes and pleasure receptors The family business The Future Sound of Nottingham Literature Editor specialising in deep-fried dough competition is hotting up, we James Walker ([email protected]) 15 NEAT16: LaPelle’s Show talk the good stuff introduce the finalists Popcorn, movie nights and serial Deputy Literature Editor killers. All in a day's work for The Filth and the Fury Noshingham Robin Lewis ([email protected]) LaPelle’s Factory 26 DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s 41 With Suede Bar, Last Chance Lover was so dutteh that it went Saloon and Rescue Rooms Music Editor 17 NEAT16: Young Talent to trial Paul Klotschkow ([email protected]) The woman behind the theatre 42 Music Reviews show I, Myself and Me fills us in 29 Down with the Wickedness Collate your summer playlist with Photography Editor on her creative journey The Dilettante Society lift the the best Notts has to offer Dave Parry ([email protected]) lid on a right nasty so and so, 18 Designated Viva William Byron 45 Write Lion Poetry Editor The clever clogs of PubhD are Newstead Abbey’s second Aly Stoneman ([email protected]) taking over the globe, but let’s 31 Zombies: Break the Chains poet-in-residence since the not forget where it started The final instalment in our Lord himself Screen Editor Choose Your Own Adventure Harry Wilding ([email protected]) 19 String of Success series 46 End Page Cricket enthusiast, writer, poetry With Rocky Horrorscopes, Art Sport Editor publisher, and proper jazzy bloke, Pick of the Month Hole, Notts Trumps, Strellyation, Scott Oliver ([email protected]) John Lucas 32 Festival season is well under way, and LeftLion Abroad but there’s plenty more to be Stage Editor getting on with Hazel Ward ([email protected]) Web Editor Bridie Squires ([email protected]) Editorial Assistant editorial featured Lucy Manning ([email protected]) Covers contributor Ian Carrington Contributors Photographers Ay up. Last month we had the Police Rachael Young is exploring the Ging Inferior Sue Barsby Louise Clutterbuck Commissioner elections – which female outlook on the self, and Wayne Burrows Darren Cowley hardly anyone showed up to – LaPelle’s Factory are taking you into Graphic illustrator Ging – Ruby Butcher Rebecca Elcocl and this month we’ve got the EU the world of film and crazy couples. aka Ging Inferior, aka Craig Anna Butler Graham Lester Referendum. If you’ve not registered Humpston – has contributed Leigh Campbell George to vote, get on it, you’ve got until Taking it back to the old school, to LeftLion quite a few F Dashwood Ellie Gvozden 7 June. after a twenty-year hiatus, times over the years. A busy Joe Earp Julian Hughes Bivouac are back together and bloke, his professional George Ellis Five Leaves There’s so much rhetoric out there we’ve interviewed them to get the projects see him painting Lady M Bookshop that it’s not the easiest thing to lowdown. If you like your language murals, designing logos and Sam Nahirny Laura Wilson get your head around whether we clean, steer clear of our piece on the branding, and illustrations for print. An indulgent Nick Palmer Stephen Wright should we be in, out or shaking it all Lady Chatterley Trial, which details personal practice accommodates the more bizarre, Hannah Parker about, but we’re all about using your the obscenity trial of 1960, complete NSFW things that we love. He’s currently into Tim Sorrell vote. You’ve got the right to have a with all the bad words and filthy creating hand-drawn, traditionally animated loops Gav Squires good old moan when it all goes tits references. For everyone else, enjoy in the form of gifs, just for the fun of it, that he’s up, then. Thursday 23 June is voting revelling in the myriad fucks and trickling out over the year. Illustrators day, get it in your diary. cunts and the fact that language is Kirsty Black there to be used. His bigger ambition for 2016 is to release a vector- Eva Brudenell This month LeftLion Stepping off my soapbox, what has based, clean-looking, but slightly psychedelic, Ian Carrington are sponsoring June got to offer us, Nottingham? Speaking of words, we’ve put around children’s book about karma and skills sharing. Christine Dilks NEAT16, held at Shed loads, that’s what. NEAT16 35,000 of them in these very pages And, to strike a balance, two dark, adult, funny Hunt Emerson various locations is in full swing and we’ve chatted you’re holding. Not a bad effort. and slightly gross-sounding, hand-drawn, coloured Ging Inferior across the city from to a few more artists who will be Whichever ones you read, every one comics: Sods of War will feature a grave-robbing Rikki Marr Wednesday 18 May – bringing their crafts to a stage near of them has had a little bit of love put farmer with an imaginary marshmallow friend Rob White Sunday 12 June. you. Deborah Stevenson, the woman into them – enjoy. who upsets the Gods; and Egg Whisk, a comic about behind the inimitable Mouthy Poets, a time-travelling viking trapped in Hyson Green. has a new piece that delves into the Ali Emm Watch this space... /leftlion ties that bind grime and poetry. [email protected] gingink.com @leftlion @leftlionmagazine LeftLion magazine has an estimated readership of 40,000 and is distributed to over 350 venues across the city of Nottingham. If your venue isn’t one of them, or you’d like to advertise, contact Ash on 0115 9240476, email [email protected] or visit leftlion.co.uk/rates leftlion.co.uk/issue79 5 We delve a little deeper into the history of our city’s streets to give you the tales they’d never have taught you at school… The Forest Windmills Green’s Windmill isn't the only set of sails Nottingham has of bakers. The first baker was Richard Annibal of Long Row, seen, The Forest once had thirteen windmills standing on and the second was Mr Smith, who jazzed the place up by its ridge, and the bad luck associated with that number converting it to steam power. It burned down in 1858, in certainly seemed to hang around these striking buildings. what was possibly a baking-related fire. During the time they stood on The Forest there were multiple fires, a riot and even a couple of deaths. Dame Moss’ Mill had a house within its enclosure and was owned by William Brewill, who let it to Mr Sharp and The number of windmills on the site fluctuated due to them William Smith. It was pulled down and moved to Kegworth. being post mills, which were easy to dismantle and move Another mill, near the south west corner of Mount Hooton – some were brought in from elsewhere, some were moved Road, was demolished and moved to Redmile, Vale of Belvoir away. It’s reported that seven of The Forest Mills turned – a 45-minute drive away. The windmills didn’t seem to have clockwise and six anticlockwise, giving rise to the joke that a nice time of it. they were ‘grinding’ and ‘ungrinding‘. Opposite the post office on Forest Road was a particularly The Mayor and Council, as Lord of the Manor, tried to control murderous mill – Bailey’s Mill. There was a house in the the mills and the encroachment of their gardens and houses ground of the mill, and one of the occupants met a grisly end on The Forest. They insisted in 1797 that the fences were to when his clothes got caught up in the machinery. The mill be removed and the gardens laid open to The Forest. This house is still there if you fancy a bit of ghost hunting. Taking did not apply to the fences around the mills themselves, “for the fight back to the windmills, rioters attacked another of the purpose of preventing anyone’s approach within the the mills in 1831 and did quite a bit of damage. After the Range of the Mill Sails.” Enclosure Act it was moved to Farndon, where it became known as the Nottingham Mill. It appears this precaution was not always taken, with one unfortunate kid finding out the hard way. “As we used to Finally, on the site of the now Church Rock Cemetery, there play about these mills, not preventing the danger we were was a mill owned by another baker called Samuel Toyne in as the sails whirled round, until one struck a playmate who worked on Back Lane (now Wollaton Street).