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#104 August 2018 credits contents Duck of Calm Alan Gilby ([email protected]) Editor-in-Chief Jared Wilson ([email protected]) Editor Bridie Squires ([email protected]) Assistant Editor Lucy Manning ([email protected]) Editorial Assistant Emily Thursfi eld (emily.thursfi [email protected]) Designer Natalie Owen ([email protected]) Creative Digital Assistant Curtis Powell ([email protected]) A Hacker in Notts Protest of Time Nottingham’s Most 15 Anonymous talks fraud, the 27 Take a march through history 16 Notorious Criminals Sales and Marketing Manager online drug community, and with the city’s placard-wavers of We’ve had some proper baddies Ash Dilks ([email protected]) pissing off the Government days gone by roam these streets over the years. Sales and Marketing Assistant Ashwin Balu ([email protected]) Videographer Georgianna Scurfi eld (georgi.scurfi [email protected]) Ayup Duck Drag Through The Mud 8 The latest Nottingham news, plus Blather, 31 We sat down with the queens of Nottingham’s Sub Editors Overheard in Notts and City Stylin’ alternative pride scene, DirtyFilthySexy Shariff Ibrahim (shariff [email protected]) Emma Scriver Anna Marshall LeftEyeOn Music Reviews 10 Photos captured by your snap-happy 32 All the latest tunes to add a right spring to Art Editor lot from this scorcher of a month our step in this glorious month of August Alex Kuster ([email protected]) 12 Snap Notts Get Down to Brass Fashion Editor Some pictures and a poem that sum up 33 How the jazz vibes of New Orleans have Anna Murphy ([email protected]) the dutty charm of Forest Fields infi ltrated our city, according to scene insiders Literature Editor LP Mills ([email protected]) How to do Death Magic Weavers 19 A look at the Notts folk using their creativity 29 The old-school wine merchants have been Poetry Editor to open up conversations about grief winning awards and delving into gin distilling Aly Stoneman ([email protected]) Helen’s High Waters Flavours of the Week Stage Editors 21 Nottingham Women’s Centre are pulling 37 A heads-up on the best tipples to try during Hazel Ward ([email protected]) out all the stops to protect our local ladies Nottingham Cocktail Week this September Dom Henry ([email protected]) Screen Editor Survivor Tactics Stuff to Do 22 40 The events you’d be crackers to miss, plus The Dengest Ash Carter ([email protected]) Support for Survivors are kickin’ balls and empowering victims of childhood abuse Catto and Most Boofi n’ Doggo Award Winners Sports Editor Gemma Fenyn ([email protected]) 24 Displaced/Replaced Poster More Stuff to Do Our cover artist seems to ‘ave had some 41 Plus our Screen Editor’s fi lm column, and boozy Photography Editor technical trouble with this month’s poster Shakespeareans Much Ado About Theatre David Hammond ([email protected]) War Paints Pictures The Goose is Loose Cover and Poster 26 A Derby Road barber spent two years 46 He ain’t taking no prisoners this month, and Displaced/Replaced photographing the bleak truths of war in Kurdistan has even made the local headlines Interns Photographers Hannah Beresford Lorenzo Bufardeci Joseph Robinson Jack Curtis Eve Smallman Richard Chung Louise Clutterbuck Writers Rebecca Elcock featured contributor thanks to all our members Caroline Barry Monique Fryer Benedict Cooper Jeanin Kembangkhana Phoebe Cox Nigel King Hazel Monaghan Tom Morley Phoebe Cox Adam Chippendale, Alex Dick, Alison Evans, Amanda Simons, Ashley Morris Tom Quigley Andrew Cooper, Andy Kitt, Barb Raynor, Barbara Morgan, Baz Byfi eld, Sam Nahirny Notts born and bred, Phoebe Bryn Attewell, Carol Williams, Chris George, Chris Middleton, Chris Eileen Pegg Illustrators is a writer and poet; she Rodgers, Chris Sloandog Sloan, Christopher Chant, Craig Durbin, Adrian Reynolds Yasmin Bryan plans to study Film and TV CTRL Entertainment, David Cooper, David Knight, Dom Henry, Duncan Will Ryan Dolly Loves Dallas at university, has worked on McKenna, Elizabeth Watkins, Emma Bowden, Frances and Garry Bryan, Tim Sorrell Alex McDougall projects like the Leeds-based Geoff C, Helen Stirland from the Kilpin, Ian Brewster, Ian Chaplin Alex Traska Corrina Rothwell documentary, The Idle Work (a good egg), James Cooper, Jayne Tinsley, Jeremy Gibbard, Jerome Chloe Underwood Emmy Smith Factory, and has directed Robinson, Jim from Lee & Fletcher Coff ee, John Dabell, John Shaw, a youth production at Jonathan Woodcock, Joshua Sayers, Julian Bower, Kaye Brennan, Liam Mansfi eld Palace Theatre. As Clark, Livi and Jacob Nieri, Manon de Moor, Mark D, Mark Durkin, LeftLion Magazine has an well as writing for LeftLion, Matthew Riches, Justin Clark, Mum/Kay, Nicola Greer, Nicola Williams, estimated readership of she enjoys photography and Nigel Cooke, Nigel Tamplin, Paul Argyle, Paul Jarman, Paul Spicer, blogging. An alien-obsessed Peteandreet, Philip Radnell, Qanon TheGreatAwakenening, Rachel 40,000 and is distributed to Aquarian with a love for tea Hancorn, Ray Sharpe, Richard Goodwin, Ron Mure, Ruth McIntosh, and space, her favourite fi lm Simon Blackham, Stephen Legg, Stuart Wilson, The Smiths, The Team over 350 venues across the city is Practical Magic and anything featuring Gillian Anderson. at Toast Nottingham, Toni Price, Tormund Giantsbane, UK Young of Nottingham. She believes that the most important thing our society needs Artists, Zoë Cooper is [Gracie Hart voice] world peace. If you’d like your name printing in every issue, plus loads of other If your venue isn’t one of them, Find Phoebe’s words and photos on page 20 of this rag. LeftLion gifts and perks then hit up leftlion.co.uk/subscribe or you’d like to advertise, @phoebsography contact Ash on 0115 9240476, email [email protected] or visit leftlion.co.uk/rates leftlion.co.uk/issue104 5 editorial Quite what's going on, I'm not sure. But something smells a bit protesty around these parts. From the Luddites smashing up factory machinery in the nineteenth century, to the fl abbergasted local populace moaning about the quality of rice and pea at Nottingham Beach – man, what a time to be alive – this city's always managed to kick up a fuss in the face of injustice. Last month, we got all silly on your arse with domesticated animal interviews, treasure hunts and suchlike activity. We were dead chuff ed when, just two days after launching a treasure map into the ether, a gang of mates followed the trail, found the fl ag, and dug up the booty. Well done your lot. Not only have you earned yourselves about 200 quid’s worth of proper Notts gear, you now have our piratey respect in droves. But the tomfoolery is over for now, and we're settling back down into some proper meaty written features that you can kick back with in this glorious bout of global warming. #LookUpDuck Fallen into a bit of a hole there, cherub? You might be wondering what the bob is up with the Anon mask glitching out on photo: Nigel King the cover. Well, local artist and paster-upper Displaced/Replaced has taken a break from adorning the city in politically charged posters to gift us with summat to stop you in your tracks. The iconic mask, originally spawned from V for Vendetta and based on Guy Fawkes, has become the face of many online and off line movements that question authority worldwide; some good, some not so good. Alongside a pixel-heavy, don't-mess- with-us stance from our statued Rob, I think the image sums up the content of the rag you hold in your hands quite nicely. LeftLion #104 contains stories of dark-net internet hackers, notorious criminals, protest movements, and survivors of war, to name just a few. We saw a right shit show of dystopian-world behaviour from a few Notts heads last month after England won a football match, and this magazine sticks two fi ngers up to the wasted energy so hamfi stedly exerted. Come on now, you jebs, smash the system and leave the bus stops out on it. Yes, everyone lost the plot about whether or not the bogger was coming home, but I have to say it's been a bloody wild ride, and despite the eventual loss, we've seen some serious animation of the smile muscles lately. Another reason to get that chin up is the impending arrival of Nottingham Cocktail Week in September. In this issue, we've published a three-page menu of drinks you'll be able to fi nd in various bars around the city that've been entered into the off icial competition of the festival. Well in. #LeftEyeOn Watch out for Boilermaker's off ering especially; it may or may not be called You carry on carrying on, duck. LeftLimon, and it may or may not come with “a side of Overheard in Notts.” photo: Lorenzo Bufardeci On top of the boozy and the treacherous, we've got our regular sides of event shout- outs, photography features, and of course our collaborative comic The Goose is Loose; this issue’s edition is created by our faithful Literature Editor LP, and badgyal Designer Nat Owen. The treats do indeed await. We've got some serious fi re in the pipeline for future magazine, so do hang tight while we rub our sticks together, and make sure you keep your eye out for our next LeftLion Open House sessions while you're at it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: this thing just wun't tick without your lot.