www.alexgodwin.co.uk illustration: Alex Godwin LeftLion Magazine Issue 26 contents December 2008 - January 2009 editorial Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009 to all our readers! Instead of talking about the stuff that’s in this magazine as usual, I’m going to talk about stuff that’s not instead. Confused? Well, there’s no need to be. If you like this magazine you will love what we do online at www.leftlion.co.uk for some, if not all, of the following reasons: Podcasts LeftLion now have a suite of podcasts that you can listen to at your leisure, whether you’re in the kitchen preparing a Sunday roast or at work with your headphones on staring at your computer. Shows include: 6 9 16 - LeftLion Radio (featuring chelp from Nish and the K) - Sound of the Lion (All-Notts tunes with Tom from Not In Nottingham) 04 May Contain Notts 13 The Drop That Keeps Dripping 21 LeftLion Listings - Cult Radio (Mouse and Chris with the best local The latest news round-up from We paid a visit to a children’s shelter From clubbing to theatre to art and dance music) Nottingham’s Mr Sex. in Cambodia that was paid for by back again. Nottingham beer money. - Poddingham (Paul telling you about what’s on in Notts) - ALT-Lion (alternative rock with Jon and Dan) 05 LeftEyeOn 26 Write Lion - StuPod (student ramblings straight outta HoodTown) Choice cuts from our Nottingham 14 P Brothers A selection of creative writing from galleries. Nottingham’s Heavy Bronx hiphop the LeftLion Forum The Fortnightly Lion duo in the house. We now send a fortnightly email to thousands of people County vs. Forest across Notts and beyond. It’s a bit like this magazine, but 06 We take an in-depth look at Reviews shorter, more frequent and sent straight to your email inbox. Nottingham’s local football rivalry. Free Christmas Board Game 28 Stuff people have sent us recently Go to www.leftlion.co.uk/newsletter to sign yourself up! 16 Don’t say we don’t treat you - here’s – including new albums from The a fun way to spend a couple of hours Hellset Orchestra and Ocean Bottom A Canadian In New Basford with mates. Nightmare. Forum 08 Rob visits The Tales of Robin Hood. Idle away your days discussing the relative merits of the slanty N logo and how bad that Russell Crowe film Artist Profiles The End Page ‘Naddinghayum’ is going to be, with over 2,500 other Samantha Morton 18 This issue’s selection of movers and 30 Rocky Horrorcopes, The Arthole, Nottingham folk. 09 We get some words from shakers from the local arts scene. Notts Trumps and Notts Abroad. Nottingham’s best known actress. Videos A series of short films and music videos produced locally - a 20 The Last Night Of The Year bit like YouTube, but much better quality and 100% Notts! 10 Lovvers Suggestions of how you might want We have a few words with the latest to spend the last hours of 2008 in Nottingham Events punks on the indie scene. Nottingham. This magazine has the most comprehensive printed listings of Nottingham Events. But the ones on our website are updated every day and have all those and more. So if you want to know what to do on Saturday night look no further! Directory credits Want recommendations of a good bar or restaurant to try out in Notts? Fear not, the LeftLion Directory is like a more Editor Photographers informative version of the Yellow Pages, pre-packed with Jared Wilson ([email protected]) Jon Rouston maps, features, user reviews and (coming soon) special offers and discounts! Art Director David Blenkey ([email protected]) Sound Bloke Mike Cheque Interviews Deputy Editors More interviews than we can cram into here. Recent Al Needham ([email protected]) ones include Dylan Moran, Sam Rockwell, The Money Nathan Miller ([email protected]) Adrian Bhagat Theatre Editor and Pendulum. Then there’s our back catalogue including Charlotte Kingsbury ([email protected]) “Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took the likes of The Prodigy, Paul Smith, Shane Meadows, the Adrian has been writing for LeftLion his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we Xylophone Man and more. Technical Director are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty for nearly five years. When not in the Alan Gilby ([email protected]) theatre he can be found at gigs, real-ale days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient Reviews pubs and the Broadway Cinema, where Marketing and Sales Manager shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.” People always ask us why we don’t review events in this mag. he’ll only watch films with subtitles. Ben Hacking ([email protected]) Mark Twain It’s because we save them all for the website - where they He’s working as a computer programmer go up within hours of the event. Read about the latest gigs, Art Editor whilst developing plans to open a vegan theatre, exhibitions and films in Nottingham. Updated daily! Frances Ashton ([email protected]) tapas bar in Skegness. If you would like to reach our readers by Theatre Editor advertising your company in these pages Photos Adrian Bhagat ([email protected]) Jesse Keene please contact Ben on 07984 275453 or email See galleries from the latest events in Hoodtown and beyond. Nikki Barr [email protected] Literature Editor Roger Mean James Walker ([email protected]) Shariff Ibrahim Advertise Tom Quickfall LeftLion has an estimated readership of 40,000 in If you’re running a business in Notts and want to let Music Editors the city of Nottingham. LeftLion.co.uk received LeftLion readers know about it, either in print or online, Natasha Chowdhury ([email protected]) Cover Illustrator over 4 million page views in the last 12 months. then email [email protected] Paul Klotschkow ([email protected]) Chris Summerlin Oh yeah… and check out our New Year’s Eve gig at Photography Editor Illustrators This magazine is printed on paper sourced from Brownes and the Market Bar (see the back page) and come Dominic Henry ([email protected]) Alex Godwin sustainable forests. Our printers are ISO 14001 Rikki Marr certified by the British Accreditation Bureau for and see in 2009 with us! Contributors Rob White their environmental management system. Dave Evans [email protected] Jaycee www.leftlion.co.uk/issue26 3 MAY CONTAIN EARLY XMAS DECORATIONS with Nottingham’s ‘Mr. Sex’, Al Needham God Almighty, a house down my street in Beeston already has Xmas decs, tree and lights up in early NOTTS November! Are these guys insane or what? Sara October-November 2008 Not really, the whole of Nottingham city centre is alight... SamYouWell Sept 28 Mr Sex’s dad is one of the people who escaped fiery death when I like the Cornerhouse lights. They take the edge off the Balford Conservative Club skittle team’s coach bursts into that infernal building. flames on the way back from a day out in Whitby. He was more Stillman pissed off about leaving two cans of bitter on the back seat, and tried to lead a heroic yomp across the moors to find a pub, despite In these energy crisis times, surely the idea is to being told not to by the police. save electricity, not go hell for leather on burning it all away. Woe betide when the energy runs out! Sept 30 Onward Christian soldiers! Jo and Twiggy, the D-list celebrities of local radio broadcasting, Sara split up. Let’s have a minute of silence from Radio Trent. Actually, make it a century. Or two. I really like the idea of having lights up and decorations, i just wish Christmas hadn’t put its stench all over it. I’m pretty certain the idea is to Oct 1 help brighten up winter, to put decorations up Goose Fair. Is it me, or is it getting smaller every year? By the year where the flowers have failed for the season, to 2038, someone will go for a walk across the Forest and accidentally help fight against those cold night blues. tread on it. Sir Dancealot Oct 2 May as well leave them up all fucking year. The Council reveal that they’ve over-spunked the building of the Anyway, where can I get my easter eggs? Market Square and Nottingham Contemporary by a million quid Alexander Supertramp each. Come on, it’s easily done. You know what it’s like - some sales rep comes round to sell you an arts centre, then he says he’ll Viccy Centre have installed their new display, I even chuck in a free extension and he’ll split his commission, but Oct 24 remember commenting on the animatronic elves you’ll have to sign this form right now before his boss finds out. A man in Mapperley claims to see a UFO. No-one believes him. faces being all dirty last year on here and lo and And you end up with a big pile of bricks and Capital One are on Meanwhile, in a pub 34,000,000 light years away, a three-headed behold they have been replaced... with a load of your arse. purple-skinned alien in a pub gets laughed at by his mates when buck-toothed, puffy-cheeked, budget Disney dwarf he claims to have seen Mapperley. “No, I did! It was all flashing! rip-offs.