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“ Everything that I’ve done, right from Shane Meadows the beginning was born in Nottingham. Filmography

Twenty Four Seven (1997) I always want to give something back.” Meadows debut is a film about a group of young men living in a run down area of Nottingham. They are all restless and lacking adventure or even the will to try and find it, so when D’arcy (Bob Hoskins) starts up a local boxing club they show varying amounts of interest. The story is a warming one and, with the license to improvise the cast are given, there are one-liners and banter that will have you blowing snot bubbles on your popcorn. This film was also something of a landmark for filmmakers in Nottingham.

A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)

A Room for Romeo Brass follows the friendship be- tween two pubescent boys growing up next door to each other on a council estate in Nottingham. Hos- pital treatment and ridicu- lous parents are a constant strain, but when Morelle (Paddy Consadine) be- friends the pair their friendship is tested to its limits. Romeo Brass is a gripping and touching snippet of life. What makes the film so watchable are the relationships, plays Romeo with plenty of heart alongside a hilarious yet disturbing, first time performance from Consadine. This film is superb.

Once Upon A Time in the Midlands (2002)

Once Upon A Time in the Midlands was something of a departure for Meadows. After his previous two fea- tures he was offered the chance to work with not one, but several of the best upcoming actors in Britain. You’re very highly thought the city on and off for ten or and it was a chance to try of the film, basically because burger van. He was living in in it called Fantasia Burrino work in a care centre on a I understand Johnny In terms of the box office of in Nottingham. How do twelve years. I was actually working with them. They were he didn’t think he was good a caravan in the countryside and she’s really amazing. I housing estate and basically Vegas is lined up to star this is Meadows most suc- you feel about the city? born in Uttoxeter, a little really nice, but the problem enough to do it. I had found and I used to rib him for his want her to win it. Quentin all the kids hate him and in one of your future cessful film, but in the critics eyes it was probably his most market town in between Derby with working with successful Toby during one of my last cockney accent. I got him to Tarantino was a judge on it treat him like shit! In the films.. disappointing. Sterling performances from Ricky Tomlinson, ”It certainly seems that I’ve and Stoke.” actors is that it’s totally sessions at the Carlton Drama put a band together when I last week. I didn’t feel quite end, because he can’t do Kathy Burke and Robert Carlyle, alongside a few local actors been adopted… My whole different to the way I normally Workshop in Nottingham. He made and he wrote so embarrassed about liking anything to help them in the ”He wants to be the save this family based comedy from the bargain basement career has been born in Your last film Once Upon a like to work.” was about 20 when we met the whole soundtrack.” it when I saw he liked it.” day, he starts going round at superhero in the second of depths of British comedy. Nottingham. Everything that Time in the midlands was him and came in with only night. No-one pays attention the new films. We’ve become I’ve done, right from the a departure for yourself, ”Usually we all live together two days to go before filming ”By the time Sunhouse had You’ve just signed up to to him by day, but because friends and, by god, he can beginning when I was doing working with big name for six months before I start began.” broken up a few years ago, your next three feature he’s got this ninja mask on drink! I went out with him little tiny video festivals. I actors rather than the usual shooting, so I’m getting to however, he’d sort of given films. Can you tell us people are more prepared to to Ronnie Scott’s to see this always want to give something unknowns… know the cast. When you’re ”The part is a lad with mental up on making music. This guy a little about each of listen.” Jazz singer Jimmy Scott Dead Mans Shoes (2004) back. I live over in Burton on working with famous people disabilities, so it’s a difficult Ted Barnes, who works with them… who’s been around since Trent at the minute, but I’ve ”Having famous people in your they’re so busy that they can role to play even with a lot Beth Orton, rang him up and “The third one is something the 1940’s. I have never in A return to working with already been back three times films makes a difference to only turn up for the odd week of research time. Toby came said ‘look you’re too talented ”The first is called Mary and I’ve wanted to make for my life put away so much small names and budg- this week! Half of the crew for your box office, but it’s not here and there. I enjoyed the in with two days to go in not to be working and they all is a dark film set in the care about ten years. It’s a alcohol. It was three pints ets and a return to form the last film came from this something I’d do regularly experience, but I’m going to almost the same way that got together, formed this new system. It’s about all the true story called King of and three chasers a round, for Meadows. Dead Mans city, so I don’t just dip into because it doesn’t fit with how continue to work with more Paddy (Consadine) came in band, got a record contract abuse that goes on in the the Gypsies and is about a so after about two rounds I Shoes is a dark gritty tale resources, I’m always I work. It wasn’t my choice in untrained people in the future to do Morel in Romeo Brass. and it’s all looking very foster homes and young bare-knuckle fighter from was heaving my ring up and about a man who returns trying to bring through new the first place to fill the cast because I think that’s where He’s more than ably filled the promising for him now.” offenders centres. I’m going Uttoxeter who is champion he was just getting warm.” to his hometown to wreak people from Nottingham if I with lots of big names. I was my skills lie.” shoes.” to be looking into things of the gypsies. I knew him revenge on a gang of drug can.” half forced into it to be honest, What do you watch on TV in an almost documentary for about twenty years, he dealers and petty criminals. but I sat back and was pleased Tell us about the latest You’ve got a long held at home..? style.” was a close friend, and it’s Paddy Consadine takes the Are you originally a Notts there were lots of good actors Nottingham actor you’re working relationship with the film I’ve always wanted Dead Man’s Shoes lead role and is totally believable as a former army officer. boy? who wanted to do it.” unveiling, Toby Kebbel… musician Gavin Clarke… ”We watch American Idol. You ”The second film hasn’t got to make. Altogether it’s is showing at the Toby Kebbel is introduced as his mentally disabled brother know Simon Cowell and all a title yet. It’s a superhero probably going to take about and puts in a fine debut performance. Take the eerie atmos- ”No. I originally came here ”I respected people like Kathy ”When I was making Dead ”We met at Alton Towers that! The American one’s on story within a council estate. four years to do all three…” 1st-14th October 2004 phere of Danny Boyle’s Shallowgrave and add the revenge when I was 18. I went to do a Burke, Rhys Ifans, Ricky Man’s shoes, a lead member fourteen years ago. I was a Sky. Every single week I’m like It’s the story of guy who lust of Get Carter and you’re on the right lines. year at college and I lived in Tomlinson and Robert Carlyle of the original cast walked out clown and Gavin worked in a a slave to it! There’s a woman comes into Nottingham, to 02 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 03

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LeftLion Magazine Welcome to the first printed edition of the LeftLion October 2004 Local news for local people magazine. The very fact you’re holding this in your 4 hands is a personal triumph for us and hopefully Issue 1 for the city of Nottingham. It’s certainly been an 5 Goodbye Young Man. A tribute to the man who put interesting journey getting this far… Editor Nottingham on the football map. Jared Wilson LeftLion.co.uk was launched to the public on 1st Wonder Stuff lead singer Miles Hunt writes September 2003. Founders Alan, Timmy and I spent 6 several months prior to launch building it. Our Sub Editors exclusively for LeftLion Alan Gilby inspiration was living in the city and wanting an entertainments guide like this to use for ourselves. Timmy Bates 7 “Nottingham is not a massive city, but we got Yemi Akinpelumi a lot of talent. All we need now is a decent In the time that has followed, lots of interesting and exciting things have happened. Respect to every Design legal radio station in the city that is prepared single person who has contributed to get us this far. David Blenkey to play the kind of music that people around There are too many people to name all the names, but you know who you are and thanks for all the time Photographers here are making…” C-mone Interview you’ve put in! Thanks also to our friends for putting David Bowen up with us during all the late hours. Dom Henry 8 When is a computer game responsible for murder? Nottingham film directors Shane Meadows and Chris Joe Ryder Nottingham For Reel Cooke are both having serious success at the moment 9 and this month we spoke to them about the fantastic Contributors film community developing in the region. Adrian Bhagat 10 Nottsword Al Needham Likewise, there is a blossoming underground music Bones 11 Shane Meadows interview community that goes back years. This month rapper Gaz Smith C-mone told us about recording with the Streets and the old days of OutDaVille. There will be plenty more Guy Gooberman 14 LeftLion events listings: to come from that girl we’re sure… Miles Hunt theatre/club nights/live music/exhibititions/comedy Tim Evans Loads more information about things going on in Tom Cowdrey 22 Rocky Horrorscopes and Bones’ Fun Cave Nottingham is available on our website. As always, Roger Mean if there are things that you think we should know about then please do get in touch. The next issue ”Absolute truth is a very of the magazine will be released in early December. rare and dangerous com- modity in the context of [email protected] professional journalism.” Hunter S. Thompson

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Nottingham Voices things people have said on the leftlion forum local news for On Nottingham local people ”I met my wife on a blind date at the left lion in Nottingham nearly three and a half with Guy Gooberman years ago. I have since moved to the sun- Please note that Guy Gooberman nier climes of Songkhla in Southern Thai- land. (Songkhla, spookily is also derived is a fictional character and from the Yawi word for Lion).” therefore only as real as Idma the news he writes ”If you’re from Liverpool you’re a Scouser or even a Liverpudlian. Mancunians are from Man- chester. And if you’re from London you’re a Lon- doner, or possibly a Cockney. So what are we from Nottingham? What’s our word?” NJM

”If you’re from Sneinton your a Sneintonite and if you’re from Clifton your a Cliftonite. Bullwell = Bullwellian.” Baron of Carlton Nottingham

On Proposals for a New top for chavs Art Gallery in the City: Rejoice Burberry capped ”As much as I love green bits in the city, I think ones! Nottingham can add the it’s about bloody time and pretty jolly spiffing! prestigious ‘Chav City of 2004’ Its time that art was not relegated to the up- to its ‘Britain in Bloom’ title. stairs room of a library or to the edges of a city Left Lion to be replaced Notts has been voted the top in an upgraded poly.” Chav city in the entire UK, with Niffer Nefarious Belgian public artist, The other poor lion will not areas such as Top Valley, Bulwell ”All we will end up with is a place filled with Hanky Minstrel, has won backing escape his Euro art touch, as he and Killisick having more Chavs people who cant draw, dance or hold a con- for his controversial plans for plans to replace that feline with per square foot than anywhere versation without telling you how great, market square. The famous a wooden puffin that will smell in Britain. conceptual, mind numbing their work is. meeting spot of the ‘Left Lion’ of sheet metal. The Belg plonker A Chav (or Townies, Neds and They will also walk round with sh*t hats on is to be replaced by an 80 foot then plans to turn slab square Bazzas) are distinguished by pretending to be Bob Dylan.” phallus that will gush foamy water itself into jelly for passing children their penchant for caps, white Barry_Clava when the Council House chimes to eat. trainers and excessive amounts

its bell. of nasty ass gold jewellery from

Argos. On Graffiti in the City

”I can understand people wanting to catch those that mindlessly tag every point they come into, Booze City Dance madness in the caves but when it comes to chasing down the artists that are putting colour and life into our other- Hegley Stump, from New Basford, wise dull urban streets then we’ve got issues...” has caused a scene in a top Timmy Nottingham tourist as he refused to leave without a dance ”What I don’t get with tagging is if the aim fight. is to make people think more, but you know when the majority see it they only think That’s correct; this addlebrained ‘what a mess’, why bother? Isn’t it all a bit old man is throwing down the self defeating?” dance gauntlet to whoever has the Alan nerve to front him out in the damp natural passages that run under be lost in the maze of tunnels. ”The whole point of graffiti is the underground the . The problem is We’ve already seen on various Experts fear if he’s not found he feel. Getting the sub-culture message across no one can find the aged hoofer badly made, sensationalist could soon be dead. right in the face of the rest of the world who are to challenge him, as he seems to forced to open their eyes to it - either to criticize TV programmes how much or appreciate, it doesn’t matter to the artists.” Nottingham is a violent ‘Booze Jamie City’ but scientists have just revealed the shocking extent ”Graffiti for graffiti’s’ sake, that’s when its at its of Nottingham’s love affair Top art providing 12 million jobs best.” with alcohol. Barry_Clava Nottinghamshire received a The statue, which is 3 miles high Professor Bounce Rocket massive jobs hoist when a new and the width of the North Sea, explains: “Our tests prove that bit of public art was awarded to will show the ice skating pair in a 78% of Nottingham people the county. Maverick artist Verge dramatic pose. Michael Crank, a are more booze then flesh, Large-Stuff, explained: “Basically tax payer, said: “i’m a tax payer which means instead of being we’re building a massive statue of and i’m disgusted that my tax is made of bone and muscle and Torvill and Dean that will span the being wasted on arse like this!” Make your voice heard . . . other such things, Nottingham entire county and we need a lot of Verge reckons that at least half of people are mostly just lager www.LeftLion.co.uk/forum labour for a project like this”. the work force will die in creating and/or Bacardi Breezers held this art. together by a few strands of kebab.” for painful laughs, go to www.lunch-break.co.uk www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 05 Goodbye Young Man Brian Clough 1935-2004 words: Al Needham It’s May 26th, 1977. I am a ten year-old Top Valley lad sitting in my next door neighbour’s living room watching Liverpool parade the European Cup about. “See that?” said my neighbour. “That’ll be Forest in two years. You watch...”

I’d always had my doubts about only were we winning almost the foul language from the Trent my next door neighbour, but everything in sight by the end End, put up a massive sign that this confi rmed them. At school, of the 70s, but we were doing read ‘Gentlemen, No Swearing no-one (and I mean no-one) it in style. We were loved by Please – Brian’. If any other Life According supported Forest. You were a everyone else outside of Derby, manager had tried that, there Liverpool or Man United fan because we had put an end to would have been outrage, but it and maybe, if you were really the reign of Liverpool. worked. For a while, Forest fans To Brian… unlucky, your Dad took you to would chant “Your’re gonna get County every now and then. I’ve got a picture of myself as your fl ipping heads kicked in” an 11 year-old in the Royal Hunt and “The referee’s a naughty”. “The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.” But Forest? No way. Sure, they’d pub in Top Valley, holding up just got promoted the previous the European Cup. I still can’t The second event is the time week (by the skin of their quite believe that happened, when Cloughie went batchy over “If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, teeth), and their manager was and I doubt very much that it a pitch invasion and started he’d have put grass up there.” well known for having a big gob, will again (and not only because smacking up pitch invaders. On but they weren’t going to do the pub is being pulled down). I the video clip, you can see one “ United in Brazil? I hope they all get anything. Were they? see kids on our estate wearing bloke turn round and get ready bloody diarrhea.” Arsenal and Man U shirts and I to give it back, until he suddenly Six months later, you were as feel nothing but pity for them. sees who it is… then he legs it (On Man Utd opting-out of the FA Cup to play in the likely to see a Liverpool or Man They could win the European like a scalded cat. If anyone else World Club Championship.) United bag in a Nottingham Cup every year, but it’s not had done that, Forest would school as you’d see a Bros pencil really their team… have been hit with about 20 “I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the case today. Kids would roll up to lawsuits. All that happened to business. But I was in the top one.” school, their jumpers encrusted Cloughie was a TV appearance with plastic badges with phrases where he kissed two extremely “On occasions I have been big headed. I think most such as ‘Withe Strikes More sheepish-looking blokes. people are when they get in the limelight. I call Than British Leyland’ and ‘We All Agree Nottingham Forest Are Naturally, you can’t talk myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.” Magic’. One day, someone came about the glory years without to school with the lyrics of the mentioning the tragic “Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but We’ve Got The Whole World In denouement, when he stayed make a jumper has got to be a genius.” Our Hands, and about 50 lads on too long and Forest got (On Martin O’Neill). marched round the playground relegated. In fact, we should in a line, fl ares a-swinging, arms talk about that, because I was “I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn’t round shoulders, bellowing out never more proud to be from have hit him very hard.” the words; Nottingham than in 1993. I (On Roy Keane). was in London at Uni at the “We’re gonna win, we’re gonna time, and when people found win everything – so stand up out where I was from, the fi rst “I’m sure the selectors thought if they took and sing for Cluffeh the king! thing they’d say was “Forest, me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the Cluff-eh! Cluff-Eh!” And we eh? What a team – Cloughie’s show. They were shrewd, because that’s exactly hadn’t even won anything. Yet… ace, isn’t he?” And no-one took what I would have done.” the piss or rubbed it in when Before Cloughie, nothing we got relegated, because he (On the England manager’s job). happened in Nottingham that Cloughie might have been born made Forest hate-proof. I wasn’t warranted attention in the in Middlesbrough and he might there for his last home game, “You don’t want roast beef and Yorkshire every national media. Sure, everyone have died in Derby, but he was but I stood at a Dixons window night and twice on Sunday.” knew about Robin Hood, but pure Nottingham. Chelpy as in Brighton, crying like a Jessie (On too much football on television). by this time most foreigners you like, stubborn as anything, with pride at the reception he assumed he was a fox with an gobby enough to have a go at got at the City Ground. What ‘’That Seaman is a handsome young man but he American accent, thanks to the Muhammad Ali on Parkinson… other city would give a manager spends too much time looking in his mirror, rather Disney cartoon. The last time and he chinned Roy Keane. He a send-off like that after he took than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like Nottingham passed across the was Nottingham’s surrogate them down? national consciousness was Dad, and we were his lairy, that.” Saturday Night and Sunday sometimes bemused but always It still hasn’t sunk in that Brian (On England goalkeeper David Seaman). Morning, a whole generation fi ercely loyal kids. Two particular Clough is dead. But then again, before. events spring to mind… it still hasn’t sunk in that we “Barbara’s supervising the move. She’s having were once the greatest team in more extensions built than Heathrow Airport.” Thanks to Cloughie, everyone During the championship season the world, either. knew about Nottingham. Not Cloughie, getting narked off by (On moving house). 06 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 no Smoke Without fire... I’m a smoker, no two ways about it. I smoke therefore I am….

If the phone rings, In Los Angeles, for instance, phone call, just to step onto the I reach for mmyy it’sit’s been around for years.years. But street to feed mymy habit. pack before the then it nevernever bothered me there receivreceiver.er. Listening as it’sit’s virtually impossible to On the whole, and yyouou know I to music, especially enjoyenjoy a night out in LA anyway.anyway. I hate admitting this, I’m not ooverlyverly mymy own (y(yeah….eah…. we once playedplayed a gig in Fresno,Fresno, CA, troubled bbyy the ban. In mmyy most all do it) the fag is in another ‘No Smoking’ town, where reasonable of moments (few & far mymy gob before I’vI’vee I waswas told that I could smokesmoke on between) I eveneven support it. eveneven lined up the stage during mymy show,show, but only if track.track. StrangelyStrangely I could proproveve it wwasas an “essential The Dublin ban introduces though, two of part of mmyy performance”performance”.. I said one problem that I haven’thaven’t the most clichéd “Sure it’sit’s essential, I don’tdon’t smoksmoke,e, encountered in North America smoksmokers’ers’ moments I don’tdon’t play,play, how’show’s that..?” though. This is, the overwhelmingoverwhelming (after sex & after a smell of farts that permeates meal), hahaveve nevernever Californian authorities makmakee lawslaws everyevery barbar,, vvenueenue & clubclub.. North applied to me, because as a societsociety,y, they’re American cities are well equipped preferring instead terrifi ed of each other.other. More to with their air conditioning a good kip on both the point, terrifi ed of being sued systems, but is not and occasions. bbyy one anotheranother.. They are also eveveryoneeryone drinks Guinness!! I’veI’ve probably terrifi ed of havinghaving teeth nevneverer smelt anythinganything likelike it… Aside from the that look liklikee they’re on loan from obvious pleasures an Englishman… The ban in Eire applies to ‘the I get from smoking, work place’.place’. This can be a bar,bar, an there are other Last yyearear I sat next to a offi ce, a restaurantrestaurant or a companycompany advadvantagesantages to the habit. The Californian male on a plane, owned vehiclevehicle (this is the one that bonding that goes on between who told me that LA CountyCounty had amuses me the most). Picture, if smoksmokersers is a hard thing to recently issued him with a fi ne for yyouou will, three great big blokes,blokes, reject. Finding a ‘tab-‘tab-a-cab’,a-cab’, a smoking in his own apartment. sardined into the front seat of taxi where the drivdriverer lets yyouou Apparently the downstairs their work transittransit vvan,an, a copcopyy light upup,, is one of life’slife’s greatest neighbour could smell his smoksmokee of The Sun on the dash board. pleasures. Most often he’ll light & reported him to the authorities. They should be made to smokesmoke one up too,too, just to be sociable. It appeared he had committed an for chrissakes!chrissakes! It’sIt’s a great British Nice, nice… actual offence simply byby bringing tradition.tradition. his existence to another person’sperson’s What I really wwantedanted to talk about attention. Land of the free…. SoSo,, will The Smoking Ban come though, waswas the inevitabilityinevitability of here? I think itit’s’s more than ‘The Smoking Ban’ reaching A couple of months ago I wwasas in liklikely.ely. I might evevenen fi nd myselfmyself our shabbshabbyy little rock. I’veI’ve Dublin, where the ban has been welcoming it, just a little bit. experienced these in in effect since April this year.year. AtAt HangoversHangovers are a breezebreeze when I’veI’ve sevseveraleral other countries fi rst, on visiting J.J. Grogans, one not been chain smoking and I and cities & itit’s’s nevernever of the citcity’sy’s fi nest bars, I waswas rratherather prefer havinghaving friends come quite the same vveryery uneasy as I sat down for visit me at home anyway.anyway. But then thing. mymy fi rst pint of Kilkenny.Kilkenny. I shared judging byby the wwaysays of California mmyy discomfort with mmyy friends, & Eire, I might not be too long but as the conconversationversation began to before I’m unable to smokesmoke in mymy fl ow & the laughs grew louderlouder,, the own home. It is mymy work place irritation subsided. I evevenen after all… felt quite ridiculous as I made an exexcusecuse If the ban comes to RRubbishubbish of hahavingving to Island then so be it. But please, makmakee let’slet’s work on getting those air a conditioners installed fi rst!

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C-Mone spent 4 years in ”This is a bit of an exclusive Community centre at that time Nottingham’s infamous for LeftLion, but there’s going at all. We had this battered OutDaVille crew alongside to be an album come out next Atari computer and Nick (Stez) the likes of Lee Ramsay, year. It’s going out on Son was sampling on a broken Scorzayzee, Tempa, DJ Records and it’s going to drop Technics deck and we were Fever and many talented sometime between February in a shack because the studio others. They eventually and April. I’m really excited! had been flooded. I remember split in 2001 to pursue I got the chance to work helping Trev to unplug all different musical directions. with the P Brothers and Nick the equipment, with water Stez (my producer from the everywhere. I could have got Since then, C-mone’s excursion OutDaVille days. There’s also a fried…it was properly messy!” into solo femcee land has couple of other collaborations probably been the most on there that will surprise That carnage seems a long successful of all her former people.” way from your success If you could make a track what anyone wants to say, I bandmates. The release of her these days. How did you with anyone who would you love him and think his music debut EP last year, might have Is that collaborations with hook up with Mike Skinner? choose? is amazing. From Notts I love been low profile, but it was Notts people or bigger ”He heard my debut EP release ”I’ve been asked this before Mr 45, I think he’s an amazing heard in the right places and national names? on Son records and liked and said Prince because I rapper. He’s a timeless emcee. prompted a certain Mr Mike ”Both. Watch this space…” my accent, so I got called think together we could make I think Lee Ramsay is really Skinner to call and ask her to by his people to do a verse. something crazy. I’d like to underrated. He’s got so much feature on his next album. Tell us a bit about the old Sometimes labels call you up work with Vadim, I like Phi Life skill it’s scary. There’s a load of days with OutDaVille… and end up using your verse Cypher, I’d also like to work new youths out there as well.” Her appearance on The Streets’ ”The most memorable thing on a remix, so I thought I’d with Rapper Ru from Smokes A Grand Don’t Come For Free for me was the beginning. I go down, make a little bit of and Bluntz in Notts. I’ve tried ”Check out the dark whisper is brief but could be enough was sat there in the studio money and that’d be it.” to get him in the studio a lot label coming out in 2005. It’s to push her into the realms of writing a rap and Big Trev and he keeps saying he’s going my own label and there are musical success that elude so called a meeting about the ”When I got there I walked to but he’s really hard to pin going to be lots of new artists many Nottingham musicians. group he was putting together. in the studio and Mike was down. ” on there such as Smiley, Matic I met C-mone in Big Trev’s He nudged me and told me sat there. His laptop was in and Paris One ( female from studios, just off Carlton Road I was in the group. That was front of him, all ready to go What are your favourite Radford who’s done some stuff after rehearsals. She was my initiation, no warning or and he just really relaxed. He places in Notts? with Sweet Dreams).” relaxed, but also lively and nothing. I just fell into Big was really simple and down to ”The cashpoint!! No seriously, clearly excited by her music. Trev’s masterplan.” earth. Afterwards he caught there’s a Chinese restaurant Anything else you want to ”I spent years with the tube back with us and then in Hockley that I really like say..? You still living in Notts? OutDaVille running up and went off about his business…” and there’s always the studio. ”Yes. Nottingham is not a Yeah of course. I’m still living down the country like a I used to go out clubbing all massive city, but we got a lot here and working away at the madwoman. It was a great ”A few months later when I the time, but now I get really of talent. The support we get community recording studios. learning experience. There heard a copy of the album I bored! I still like good hiphop is good and whenever I’ve It’s still all about Nottingham. I were good points and there was well happy! It’s out there. nights tho. I go to the Bomb gigged here it’s always been don’t see why I should move!!” were bad points, but I’ve got a I do get people coming up every now and then and I’m love. Keep it up at LeftLion! All lot of good memories.” to me asking me questions, looking forward to seeing The we need now is a decent legal You’ve been recording ”When we recorded the first telling me it’s at number three Roots play at in radio station in the city that is lots of new stuff recently I tunes we were so broke. There in the album charts and stuff. November.” prepared to play the kind of hear? were no grants coming into the It seems surreal, but at the music that people around here end of the day it is a great What UK acts are you are making…” thing for me. I’ve had feedback particularly feeling at the from America and Europe and moment? Sophie Johnson-Hill elsewhere… ”I like what is doing. I love . I don’t care Another former laydee from OutDaVille, Sophie started out as a choirgirl Marga Boys at St Peters church. Her willingness to experiment, however, has led her into Lee Ramsay is still only in his mid-twenties, hiphop. Nowadays she’s which is surprising when you consider that recording with Nottingham has been rocking Nottingham for a decade. label Dealmaker, alongside He is currently working on his ‘Marga Boys’ other ODV veterans project, a collaborative which also heavily Scorzayzee and Karizma. features ODV producer Nick Stez and multi talented musician Pij. She’s currently on a 6- month break from singing We hooked up with them for a chat a while after being warned about ago to hear their new sounds. Lee told us potential damage to her “Wherever we go it’s going to be exciting. throat as she explained to Whereas before we might not have gone to LeftLion. “I miss my top some of these places, now we want to try range and the break might everything.” mean I get those high notes again. Music is my Full interview and Full interview and audio samples on therapy and I’m going to audio samples on www.leftlion.co.uk be bursting with melodies www.leftlion.co.uk when I get back.” 08 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 how sick is this game . . *. words: Gaz Smith Recently I was motivated to resume playing a PS2 game, which had remained dormant on my shelf for quite some time. The reason for this , renewed motivation was it s involvement in recent publicity surrounding a murder case...

I remember the day I you the ‘motivation’ for purchased Manhunt from each scene. This generally Another World. When I translates to killing approached the counter anything with a pulse. In the woman muttered under order to really impress the her breath ‘Manhunt… director, you need do this sick’. Whether she knew I in the most violent manner had heard her or not didn’t possible… matter. The truth is that I knew a lot about the game, Other adult games that but even I wasn’t quite Rockstar have produced prepared for its content… include the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series. The third The tabloids, the justice chapter has the player system, Curry’s, Dixon’s controlling a character on and even Tony Blair want a quest to ‘own’ the city. Manhunt banned! The This is acheived by going reason for this negative through just about every publicity is that it was heinous activity known alleged to have driven to man, such as extortion, Warren LeBlanc, 17, to protection, murder, murder Stefan Pakeerah mugging, car theft and earlier this year in property development. The Leicestershire. This kind of beauty of the game is the press always irritates me, freedom to do just about whether it’s a notoriously anything, particularly in violent film, segmented terms of breaking the law. satanic death metal verses or a post-watershed TV It is this theme that programme. Surely anyone Rockstar have exploited in their right mind can make that concerns me. I am the decision between the an avid gamer and enjoy free to create just about they may commit crime other Rockstar games (Max real world and fantasy…? video games as a means anything real or unreal. of any sort regardless of Payne, GTA 3 + Vice City) of escapism from the They often use these to outside cultural influences. seems to have found a The basic premise behind hum drum of daily life. create brutal scenes of It’s also worth pointing niche in producing games Manhunt is simple. You are Looking back on yesteryear, murder and violence. So, out that Manhunt was that would be illegal if a very very bad man and at however, I feel nostalgic for if an average kid plays originally released with an produced in film format. As the start of the game, you’re the likes of Sonic and Mario, something like Manhunt 18 certificate and that both a hardcore gamer, I have to be executed. However, both of which appealed long enough are they likely LeBlanc and Pakeerah were to admit that the makers someone gets you out of the on less brutal levels with to mimic its content? In my under this age at the time of have once again pushed execution chamber alive and cutesy looks and basic opinion no, but perhaps if the incident. the boundaries in creating will only let you live if you gameplay. the person playing such almost total freedom follow his directions. This a game already has an Manhunt could be definitely and that it’s slightly man is, in fact, the ‘Director’ Nowadays we have photo- unstable state of mind classed as a ‘snuff’ game. discomforting. of the game. He instructs realistic graphics with and difficulty determining Dan Houser the executive you on the basics and gives which developers are reality from fantasy then producer of Manhunt and www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 09 Nottingham For Reel One For The Road is the debut feature film from the Nottingham-based film director Chris Cooke. It tells the tale of a group of alcoholics who meet at an AA class, but soon head off to the pub together to hatch crazy plans to make money. words: Jared Wilson. photos: Dom Henry

The film will be released on DVD in November and was shot in locations throughout Nottingham. It was made with financial support from local agency EM-Media and features a strong Nottingham cast and crew. It received rave reviews in the national press during it’s cinema run earlier this year.

Chris Cooke is one person who seems to have his feet on the ground, despite the lav- ish praise. In conversation he immediately puts you at ease with his dry self-depreciating sense of humour. I spoke to him one bleak Tuesday morn- ing…

You must be pleased with the success of One For The Road…

”Yeah, I’m really happy. It’s had a fairly limited release, but it’s been a good one. We’ve had some excellent reviews in the national press. The audiences I’ve spoken to also seemed to enjoy it.“

Some of the Nottingham actors are brilliant in this film…

”Absolutely! When we were auditioning for Shifting Units, the short that lead to this feature, a mate of mine was saying that the guy we wanted to play Paul was Rupert Proc- tor. He came in for his audi- tion last and, to be honest, I The only way is up for Nottingham director Chris Cooke; Chris Cooke with fellow director and One For The Road star Mark Devenport should have listened to her from the beginning. He walked ”He’s a great actor and he re- time. Some people are doing in and he was the part.” ally looks the part. The great it on an outsider level, some- thing about him, compared times with really low budgets ”The same thing goes with to the other actors, is that he and others with a little fund- Mark Devenport. He’s another comes from a totally different ing.” local filmmaker and actor and tradition. It worked really well, he was absolutely brilliant. because he was like an island ”The sense of community is He’s one of the best comedy that everyone else was kind of definitely one of the things writers and short filmmakers swimming around.” that kept me going. I was un- in this region anyway and I employed for about five years wrote the character especially It seems that the film-mak- and during that time I worked for him.” ing community in Not- on as many shorts as I could. tingham is thriving at the There was always someone It must have been quite a moment… who needed a runner or a contrast between working sound recorder or someone to with those guys and along- “There is a really good net- do the lighting or whatever. side a classic actor like work here and I think it is It was a really good nurturing Hywel Bennet? growing. There really are loads ground… and it still is.” of people making films all the 10 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1 Nottingham For Reel continued...

Are you a fan of Shane ”A comedy about death and Wrestling is one of those Meadows’ work? grief. A woman flies out to things where everything is the French Alps to pick her fake apart from the physi- One For The Road (2004) ”Absolutely. I’m dying to brother up after he’s spent cal pain. There’s something see his new film Dead Mans months out there leading about the way that people One For The Road, Shoes. I’ve heard so much a hedonistic life. The story create characters that I was Cooke’s debut fea- about it and always look out follows them on the journey really fascinated by. You ture, is a poignant, for what he’s doing…” back to Nottingham for their create another identity and blackly comic view mother’s funeral. The closer it becomes a facet or an on male bonding and Are you still going to use they get to home, the more extension of who you are the unreliability of DV tape to film on? honest they become with and can reveal more about friendship through each other.” yourself than you’d like. You drink. A bunch of ”Yeah, I’m sticking with it! escape from things, but you recovering alcohol- It’s a double-edged sword ”It’s a bleak subject, but can never really escape from ics meet at an AA because it allows me to get I chose it because I think yourself…” class, only to decide much closer to the actors and that’s where the routes of to take a group journey to the pub. Whilst there they I can afford to experiment a comedy lie. The failure of If you were a wrestler begin to hatch plans to make themselves rich and try lot more than I could on film. communication is one of the what would your charac- to cover up the emerging darkness in their personal On the other hand you end things that I really enjoy ter be? lives. up with far too much footage. writing about.” There was something like a ”The fat bald one. There’s The stalwart cast of character actors is led by Hywel 90 to 1 ratio for One For The I understand you’re also always one. I’d like to be the Bennett (The Family Way, TV’s Shelley), and features Road. It can be a nightmare developing a British wres- new Brian Glover...” Nottingham-based actors such as Rupert Proctor in the edit suite.” tling movie..? (Heartlands, Notting Hill) and Greg Chisholm (TV’s Holby City). This is the wry downbeat world of The One For The Road Office seen after a very heavy session!! What are you working on ”Another bleak black comedy, is released on DVD at the moment? because I can’t stop myself. on 22nd November.

Nottsword By Tom Cowdrey All of the clues below can be answered using the names of Nottingham pubs and clubs, with the exception of two answers which are the names of local bands.

TOMMY C’S CHALLENGE A special prize (and the respect of all at LeftLion) will be awarded to the first daring adventurer who manages to have a drink in every one of the venues in the crossword. The brave winner will need to provide photographic evidence of their crawl by posting it to the forums of www.leftlion.co.uk/forum

CLUES DOWN 1 + 17a + 9d + 10d. Lordly-sounding Canning Circus pub. Great beer garden. (3, 4, 7, 6) 2. See 14d. 3. Druggy-sounding city bar and restaurant. (5) 4. See 18a. 5. See 4a. 6. Paul Hogan’s favourite Notts live hiphop band. (9) 7. See 2a. 8. See 16a. 9. See 1d. 10. See 1d. 11. See 3a. 12. Veggie bar located down a twitchel. 13 + 8a. Find the way to this Roman-sounding bar. 14 + 2d. The kind of pub where Robert Smith might get lost. (6, 6) 15. See 17d. 16 + 18d. Go on a wander to a favourite Antipodean pub. (4) 17 + 15d. Scrooge’s kind of place. (3, 6) 18. See 16d. 19. See 6a.

CLUES ACROSS 1 2 3 1. Can this bar make synthesised music? (4) 2. +7d. Blue-blooded offspring. (5, 8) 1 3 + 11d. Club offering salvation. (6, 5) 2 4 + 5d. Delicious-sounding night spot where biscuits are nibbled. (6, 4) 5. No smoking in this pub that rose from the ashes. (7) 6. + 19d. A ringer for this old city pub. (4, 4) 5 4 3 7. Fantastic pub at the bottom of Mansfield road. 4 The sister pub of 1d. (7) 6 8. See 13d. 9. Aptly-named canalside haunt. (10) 7 5 10. Have you been burning the candle at both ends 8 9 13 in this Hockley bar? (3) 6 11 11. Get in shape! Nerds hang out here. (7) 7 12 13 12. Nightclub where all the local journalists hang out! (5) 8 13. The Robin ______. (4) 14 14. Bar ______. This place lets anyone in. (4) 15 16 15. See 12d. 9 17 10 16 + 8d. The conversation always flows in this rock pub. (5, 4) 17. See 1d. 11 18 + 4d. This Notts Hip Hop group are not into acting. (3, 8) 13 14 15 18 16 19

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Shane Meadows is a bit of a legend around Nottingham. Three full- length feature films into his career, he is well respected in the British film industry, with the cream of the UK’s actors seemingly queuing up to work with him.

Perhaps the most refreshing thing about our Shane, however, is that working with the shiniest tools is not necessarily what he wants to do. Meadows usually films in locations that you are more likely to see on East Midlands today, rather than in the cinema and this, alongside his eagerness to work with local and relatively untrained actors is, as he confesses, where his skills lie.

The streets and people of Nottingham had not appeared so regularly in mainstream British cinema since Karl Reiz adapted Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1960.

Meadows is about to launch his new film, Dead Man’s Shoes. This is an eerie tale about two brothers returning to their hometown to wreak revenge. On the verge of it’s release he returns to the city where he has made his name...

Once Upon A Time In The Midlands . . . words: Jared Wilson, photos: David Bowen 14 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue1

listings feature theatre Nottingham Voices Things people have said on the LeftLion forum Public theatre goes

On Nottingham’s Face of Shame down the pan... ”There is a certain mentality in Nottingham that counteracts the more leftfield aspect to the city. Nottingham simply is not as ‘cool’ a place as many people make it out to be. It is a towny city, ruled by the mainstream.” D

”Every time I go into town at the weekend I witness some form of violence. Two weeks ago I went out and saw six separate inci- dents in which people took a beating.” Baron of Carlton

”At the end of the day it’s a fact that people go out get pissed and look for a fight as a part of their weekly routine.” Ben Cipher

”We’re all going down, sinking in the mire that continued apathy has left this na- tion with. Nothing to believe in, nothing to work for, nothing to lose.” Barry Clava

”Part of the problem seems to be Nottingham- shire Constabulary’s bizarre obsession with ap- pearing on TV. Every time I see something on telly about boozing, or fighting, it’s a programme following the Notts Police around.” NJM

”Local crime statistics look more like they are being hyped up the police to gain extra Normally when you go to the I understand the play has been Tell us a bit about the cast... revenue. They do not have a basis in reality.” loo you spend a penny. If you a big success in Edinburgh and John Lyle go into public toi- Dublin...? “They’ve been absolutely brilliant. lets this month, however, you These are quite difficult roles and “It’s all propaganda to make you feel that we might end up buying a theatre “Yeah. It’s got a really good recep- that is compounded by the fact live in the worst of times, when in fact we live ticket and staying for an hour. tion everywhere we’ve performed that the venue is far from the in the best of times.” it so far and we have picked up usual one for any actor...” Guy Gooberman Ladies and Gents is the latest play a few awards in and around the from Irish theatre group Semper scene. The best accolades always What kind of audiences do you ”If they eased the drinking hours, it would make Fi. Formed in November 1999, the come from the audience though. expect for this? a difference. You get a bottle neck at about group’s purpose is to create pro- It’s always fun to see what people 11pm where people are manoeuvring to their found theatre from unexpected make of it...” “The best kind of audiences are final venue for the night. This results in flash tales, within site-specific locations. those that get really into it. We’re points for trouble.” They visit Nottingham in October How many public toilets would looking for more young people to Chief 1975 as part of Nottinghamshire Coun- you estimate that that play has come to our plays because a lot ty Council’s Stages Touring pro- been performed in to date? of older people don’t really like gramme, in association with the the thought of standing around ”Interesting that at Euro 2000, pretty NOW Festival.. “It’s getting to be quite a lot. in such an unusual venue for an much all the violence from England fans Every night the play is performed hour. We’re also trying to take occured in (where pot was illegal Trent Bridge public toilets will be in two parts, one half in the gents theatre out of its conventional and difficult to get hold of) and there was the backdrop to their latest per- and one in the ladies. Both halves venues and on to a new crowd, hardly any trouble at all in Holland.” formance. As the title suggests, run simultaneously, so you begin which is a big part of why we do NJM the play is set and performed in one side and then finish in the it.” inside the ladies and gents lavato- other. Up to now it must be doz- ries and has garnered much criti- ens and will multiply as we go on Have you ever come across ”Like most vices binge drinking is a way of es- cal acclaim. Set in Ireland in the a national tour with this...” Nottingham’s Hard Graft Thea- caping the mundane day to day life. The govern- 1950’s it is a visceral and chilling tre Company? They’ve been ment should be putting effort into reducing the descent into the murky under- Have you ever had any bizarre performing in Charity Shops working week to 4 days and see what effect that world of high class prostitution incidents from performing in and people’s living rooms? has on these social issues.” and political scandal. Jared Wilson the loos... Alan stood next to writer Paul Walker “I haven’t but I’d welcome the for a chat at the urinals... “Not as many as you would think! chance to speak with them. It We’ve had a few people leave be- sounds interesting... I’ve heard of So the play is set and per- cause of the smell. We also regu- people touring living rooms before formed in public toilets... larly get people outside who get but Charity shops sounds great! angry with us. They see a public Good luck to them..” “Yes it is. I appreciate that it’s not toilet and they want to use it, but the usual venue for most theatre don’t really appreciate the door- Make your voice heard goers, but that’s partly why we did men telling them that they can’t www.LeftLion.co.uk/forum it. It’s important to keep pushing because there is a `performance’ Ladies and Gents at Trent Bridge the boundaries of theatre and do going on inside.” public toilets takes place from something different. That’s prob- 11-16th October. Tickets are £10 ably why it’s done so well.” from the www.leftlion.co.uk/listings 15

listings... theatre/clubs/live music/exhibitions/comedy mon 11/10 tue 19/10 tue 9/11 Period of: Dad’s Army Vincent Dance Theatre Henri Oguike Dance Company 02/10/04 - 30/11/04 Venue: Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Times: 7.30pm Price: £7 / £10 Price: £7 / £10 Info: “Don’t Panic, Mr Times: 8pm Times: 8pm Theatre Mannering”. The Home Guard of fri 22/10 sat 2/10 Walmington-on-Sea are Britain’s last line of defence against a Nazi Elizabeth Jus’ Like That Aladdin invasion. God help us. The foolish, Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre doddery and fl at-footed brigade are Price: £5 - £10 Price: £8 - £19 Times: 7pm to be brought back to life by the Arts Times: 8pm Times: 7.30pm + Sat & Wed Theatre’s amateur company. matinee. The Keith Barret Show: Live Runs Until: 16/10 Trans Act Runs Until: 18/11 Venue: Playhouse Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Price: £14.50 tue 12/10 Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm mon 15/11 Info: Rob Brydon plays the Event: Benji Reid sun 24/10 hapless chauffeur Keith Barret, Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre who fi rst found notoriety in the Price: £7 / £10 La Boheme award-winning TV comedy Marion Times: 8pm Venue: Royal Centre & Geoff. Join him as he tries to Price: £20 - £30 answer the eternal question: what wed 13/10 Times: 7.30pm makes a successful relationship? Info: Set in Paris this heart- Expect the usual brand of hilariously rending story and glorious music downtrodden but always positive never fails to move the crowd. humour, as Wales’ most famous fri 29/10 divorcee delights audiences with his own woeful experiences of personal The Tempest relationships. Venue: Playhouse mon 4/10 Price: £6 - £22 Info: Fearing for their lives Wyrd Sisters Going Straight in a mighty storm, a handful of Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Venue: Royal Centre noblemen are forced to abandon Price: £5 - £7 Price: £8 - £22.50 ship. They fi nd themselves washed Info: A tale of a lost Kingdom, Runs Until: 9/10 up on Prospero’s island, inhabited three witches and magic! Toy Story 2 - Disney On Ice for 12 years by the exiled Duke and tue 5/10 A hilarious madcap clash of Macbeth, Venue: Nottingham Arena his daughter Miranda. This is no Hamlet and Monty Python with all A Passage To India Price: £10.50 - £27 accident, and with Ariel and Caliban the elements typical of the Disc- Venue: Playhouse Runs Until: 17/10 under his power, Prospero sets about world atmosphere! You will fi nd Price: £6 - £22 to wreak his revenge. Love, magic, everything here - a lost crown, Times: 7.45pm + matinees Summit Confrence misplaced loyalty and characters that a scheming Duke, the ghost of a Info: Adapted from E.M. Forster’s Venue: only the audience can see are all murdered king, dim soldiers, three novel about the clash of cultures Info: An intensely atmospheric ingredients of one of Shakespeare’s witches meddling in royal politics between Indians and their colonial play set if 1941 examining the greatest romances. to put the rightful person on the rulers. When an Indian man is perverse logic of the Nazi party Director: Richard Baron throne, a kiss that lasts for 15 years. accused of assaulting an English through a meeting between the Runs Until: 20/11 Runs Until: 20/11 woman, the battle lines are drawn, mistresses of Mussolini and Hitler. and woe betide anyone who fi nds Directed By Daniel Bryant. sat 30/10 themselves on the wrong side. Runs Until: 16/10 Double Take wed 17/11 Runs Until: 23/10 Venue: Playhouse The Circus Of Horrors wed 6/10 Motor City Memories Price: £4 - £5 Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Royal Centre Times: 11am Price: £14, £18 & £22 Mandragora King Of India Price: £15.50 - £18 Info: Based on the lives of Times: 7.30pm Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Times: 7.30pm African-Caribbean twins, June and Price: £7 - £10 Info: An All star night of Supreme Jennifer Gibbons - the silent twins Riding the Roller Coaster Times: 8pm Temptation featuring Richard Street, - who grew up in rural Wales in the Venue: Lace Market Theatre Info: Tara Arts produce plays Kaaren Ragland & Jnr Walker All 1970’s. Merging text, music and Info: Written by a local author of particular relevance to Asian Stars. movement this fast-moving, highly- Andrea Weatherston the play takes audiences. Mandragora is a charged and thought provoking play a sensitive look at the growth of fantastical story of an Indian king fri 15/10 promises to help us all explore the the relationship between two young whose people are visited by a series challenges of being a teenager in an people as they go on an outing to of omens foretelling the arrival of ever more demanding adult world. the seaside. people with white skin. Decibel Live Season For 14yrs + Director: Gill Scott mon 11/10 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Runs Until: 20/11 Price: £6 - £8 mon 1/11 Times: 7.30pm fri 26/11

Yellow Earth Theatre (with Brit) presents: 58 Dance The Snow Playhouse Venue: Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre £5.50 - £10 Price: Times: 7pm 7.30pm Times: Runs Until: 28/11 Info: Based on real events you may remember, a police clerk in Dover is given the sat 27/11 job of cataloguing the possessions Event: Sleeping Beauty of 58 Chinese immigrants who Venue: Playhouse died while being smuggled into the Measure For Measure Runs Until: 15/1 Ladies & Gents country in a lorry. Through these Venue: Lace Market Theatre Venue: Trent Bridge Public articles, the hopes and struggles of Info: Set somewhere between tue 30/11 Toilets. those people is revealed. a comedy and a tradgedy. Times: 7.30pm, 8.30pm, 9.30pm Runs Until: 16/10 Shakespeare’s play of hipocrisy, Hamlet Info: When was the last time you love, sex and death examines the Venue: Royal Centre went to the toilet and spent a tenner ways in which a state can interfere sun 17/10 Price: £8 - £20 rather than a penny? As part of the with the private lives of its citizens. Times: 7.30pm NOW festival, the critically acclaimed Step Into Fantasy Director: Tony Armstrong Ladies and Gents is coming to Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Runs Until: 6/11 Info: The threads of this Nottingham to be performed in Times: 7pm classic play twist through the Trent Bridge Public Toilets. murder, madness and revenge. Described as “a chilling descent into mon 18/10 thu 4/11 Prince Hamlet is commanded by the murky underworld of high-class The Kaos Richard III his father’s ghost to avenge his prostitution, political scandal and Jesus Christ Superstar Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre murder by his brother Claudius. establishment cover-ups” it promises Venue: Royal Centre Price: £5 - £10 Hamlet wrestles with his uncle’s to be a unique experience for Price: £8 - £29.50 Times: 8pm guilt, his relationship with his theatre-goers. Runs Until: 2/11 Runs Until: 5/11 Runs Until: Sat 16 October mother and his own isolation. Runs Until: 4/12 16 www.leftlion.co.uk/listings

listings... theatre/clubs/live music/exhibitions/comedy

Period of: thur 7/10 thur 14/10 tue 26/10 01/10/04 - 31/11/04 Highness Sound System Liars Club vs. Our Detour Style: Reggae, Roots Style: Punk, Rock, Electronica Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Blue Print Venue: The Social Venue: Stealth Price: £5 Price: £4 (£3adv / b4 10:30) Price: £3.50 adv. £4 otd. Club Nights Times: 10pm til late Times: 9pm - 2am Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Roots music played in a Info: Simon Bookish (live), Info: Element, Casual Breakin, fri 1/10 traditional one-turntable manner. Trash’s Rory Phillips will be joining Transit Mafi a, Fergus, D’Lex , Movement Variety of deejays and singers Full Our Disco mainman Den Odell and Yons MC Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks reggae sound system operated by the Liars Club DJs thu 28/10 Venue: The Bomb Shakisha Hi Fi Regular fri 15/10 Funktion Price: £8 adv. £10 otd. Style: DnB, Breaks Times: 10pm - 3.30am Camoufl age fri 8/10 Venue: Synergy Info: Ray Keith, Marcus Intalex, Style: HipHop, Breaks Chibuku Shake Shake Price: Free Addiction, Mr. Lowkey, MC IC3, Venue: The Bomb Style: House, Breaks, Soul Times: 9pm - 2am Menace & Ninety. Bosco (live), Pete Price: £9 Venue: The Bomb Info: On rotation: Jest:R, First Blood, Technical Edge, Rico Times: 10pm - 3am Price: £8 adv. £10 otd. Random Guy, Marcus Stubbs, Back Scratchers Federation Info: Aspects, Dreadzone Times: 10pm - 3am Timmy W, The Weaselman, FYA Sound System. Featuring: Info: Jon Carter, fri 29/10 Basement Boogaloo MC Spee, Warpsound, Too-B, Tayo, Dom Chung, Weekend Breaks Style: Funk, Soul, House Non Thespian, Karizma, T-Cutt, Phat Phil Cooper, Style: Breaks Venue: Bar None Dubfella, Windows78 Presents NU Northern Venue: Synergy Price: Free Soul, Lewis RV , Price: £2.50(NUS/Flyer) or £3 Times: 9pm - 2am Soundsystem JS & Fever Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Residents: Nick Shaw, Style: Breaks,World Music,Funk On 4 Decks/2 Mixers Info: Paul Arnold Ed Cotton, Alphonse Venue: Stealth sat 30/10 Price: £8/£10 FireFly Spectrum Times: 10pm - 4am Kombination Funk Style: Techno Style: Breaks, HipHop Info: Soundsystem present Bugz Style: DnB, Breaks, Techno Venue: The Ballroom Venue: Stealth in the Attic Breakestra (live 12 piece Venue: Blue Print Times: 10pm - 6am Price: £10 (£8/£9) funk band from LA) Plus DJs from Price: £6 Info: Orbital DJ Set: Phil Hartnol, Times: 10pm - 4am DiY, Percussion and Leftfoot Times: 10 til late Justin Robertson, Rennie Pilgrem Info: (DJ Set), Info: Evol Intent, Paz, Jay (album launch), Chris Finke, Jeet, The Young Punx, Hexadecimal, On Your Knees B, Lowkey, MACP, MCs Ninety Nick Davy Pete Jordan. Stereo MCs, Border Style: Funky House,Breaks,Ska & Menace. Matt Bromley, Nick Crossing, Itchy Fader Fingers. Jon Venue: Blue Print Summers, Mark Jacobs Boutique & Stealth More (Coldcut), Dave Boultbee, Price: £5.00 Style: House and Spectrum Breakers, Camoufl age DJ’s Times: 10.30pm - late Sunglasses At Night Venue: Stealth Info: A night for all non-facist Style: Electronica, Eighties Price: £10 (£8 adv) sat 2/10 party lovers at Nottingham’s Venue: The Social Times: 10pm - 4am friendliest underground nightclub Price: Free Info: Tom Middleton, Tiefschwarz, Times: 9pm - 2am Radio Slave, DJ Touche and sat 9/10 Info: TBA Zongamin (live) tue 2/11 sat 16/10 Spellbound Style: Techno, DnB, Deep House Bugged Out! V Liars Club Style: Alternative, Electronica Venue: Blue Print Style: House, Breaks, World Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £5 Venue: Stealth Price: £3 Times: 10.30pm - Late Price: £10 (£8 adv.) Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: Neil Landstrumm (Live), Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Expect 80’s Goth, electro, JE:5, Dave, Dom & Mossup (a.k.a Info: Death in Vegas Live, JoJo and alternative sounds The Filthy Residents), DJ Smith, Jay Bombs Birthday Bash De Freq, Soul Mekanik & SEB, Paul Murphy, Ed Cotton Style: Breaks, Techno wed 3/11 Venue: The Bomb Detour tue 19/10 Rebirth Price: £12 tickets / £14 otd Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Style: Techno Times: 10pm - 4am Venue: Stealth Venue: The Bomb Info: Green Velvet 3hr set, Lo Price: £3.50 adv. £4 otd Style: DnB, Breaks, Deep House Times: 10pm - 4am Fidelity Allstars, Deekline & Wizard Times: 10pm - 2am Venue: Snug Info: Stacey Pullen (live) feat. Yolanda, Koda Collective Info: Fluff, Freqbeats, Lynkx, MG, Price: £5 Stealth Presents (live), Fran Green, Jeet, Max Cooper, Timmy W, MC Menace Times: 10pm - 3am Nick Davy Venue: Stealth wed 20/10 Info: Calibre, Breakage, Kasra, Price: £8/£6 Stealth Presents Camoufl age Stamina MC, Trouble, Reference, MC Times: 10pm - 4am Style: Breaks, House Style: HipHop, Breaks Manikular, Reason Soundsystem, Info: 2 Lone Swordsmen, Venue: Stealth Venue: The Rescue Rooms XS:if Dave Congreve Price: £12 / £10 Price: £7.50nus motd tue 5/10 Times: 10pm - 4am Times: 8.30pm - 1am Spellbound Info: Anthony Rother (live), Info: Peanut Butter Wolf, Kids Soul Surgery Style: Alternative, Electronica Craig Richards, Dave Congreve, of The Last Dats, Kids in Tracksuits, Style: Funk, Soul Venue: Cookie Club (The) Matt Tolfrey, Timm Sure Windows78, Dubfella Venue: Moog Price: £3 Price: Free tue 12/10 fri 22/10 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Detour Detonate Times: 8pm - 12am Info: Expect 80’s Goth, electro, Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Info: Essential treatment for that and alternative sounds Venue: Stealth Venue: Stealth midweek comedown with doctors: Ed Price: £3.50 adv. £4 otd. Price: £10 Cotton and Nick Shaw wed 6/10 Times: 10pm - 2am Times: 10pm - 3am Info: XS.iF, Goodfella, Trouble, Info: Hype, Bassline Smith, Repercussion Mouse, Camo, MC Manikular Drumsound, Transit Mafi a, MC fri 5/11 Style: DnB, HipHop, Deep House Biggie, MC E-LL, MR Thing & Yungun, Venue: Snug wed 13/10 Santero, Detail, Yoda, Freqbeats, Price: £5 Jon Rust Times: 10pm-3am sat 23/10 Info: Bad Company UK (D- Bridge), Artifi cial Intelligence, SP: MC, Ollie K & Wylie-D, MC Manikular, Style: Breaks, HipHop Reason Soundsystem, XS.iF, Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Reference Venue: Rock City Price: £10 (£8/£9 Cons / adv.) Price: £16 adv. Times: 10pm - 4am Soul Surgery Times: 8.30pm - 3am Info: Style: Funk Info: Rahzel Live, Goldie, Roni Renaissance Nottingham The Herbaliser, Venue: Moog Size Live, Zinc, Clipz, MC Tali, Style: House Stanton Warriors, Price: Free Dynamite MC, MC Foxy, Adam Venue: Stealth Phantom Beats, Times: 8pm - 12am Freeland, Hexadecimal, Phi Life, Price: £10 (£8 adv) Pete Jordan, Info: Ed Cotton & Nick Shaw. Cypher, Ricochett Klashnekoff, Times: 10pm - 4am Gotan Project (DJ Set) (tbc), Kaiser & DJ Dex, Rodney P Live Info: James Zabiela, David Dave Boultbee, Band, Transit Mafi a, MC E-LL, Guetta, Lexicon ave, Sound Alliance Itchy Fader Fingers, Santero, Detail, Problem Child Live, Can’tMixWon’tMix AllStars Spectrum Breakers (Residents) www.leftlion.co.uk/listings 17

listings... theatre/clubs/live music/exhibitions/comedy tue 26/10 fri 5/11 fri 26/11 sundays thursdays Basement Boogaloo Detonate Out To Lunch Dogmatic Style: Funk, Soul, House Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Style: Jazz Style: HipHop, Breaks, Funk Venue: Bar None Venue: Stealth Venue: Dogma Venue: Dogma Price: Free Price: £10 Price: Free Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Times: 10pm - 4am Times: Afternoon Times: 2am til close Info: Residents: Nick Shaw, Ed Info: SS, Pendulum, Transit Info: Less of a club night and Cotton, Alphonse Mafi a, Hold Tight, MC Biggie, MC more of an experience. Sunday jazz Mirrorball E-LL, Skinnyman & DJ Flip, Skitz, and beats to ease away the night Style: RnB, Disco, Funk thu 28/10 Santero, Detail, Finley Quaye, before Venue: Snug fri 5/11 Richie G & Martin K9 Price: £4 Movement Times: 10pm - 3am Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Weekend Breaks mondays Recover... Venue: The Bomb Style: Breaks, Breaks, Breaks Tuned Times: 10pm - 3am Venue: Synergy Style: Indie, Alternative, Pop Info: Price: £2.50 (fl yer)/£3 tuesdays Venue: Rock City Lineup to be confi rmed - Probably Times: 10pm - 2am Crash Price: £3.50 - £4 Brian G tbc, tbc, Heist tbc and Info: Ben & Lex Style: Indie, Alternative Times: 8.30pm - 2am Lynkx tbc! Venue: The Rig fri 29/10 Price: £2 / £3 Up The Junction sat 6/11 Times: 9.30 - 2am Style: Sixties WEEKLY CLUB NIGHTS Venue: The Cookie Club Detonation Price: £2.50 Style: fridays Times: 10.30pm - 2am Venue: The Ballroom Atomic Info: Offers you a whole evening sat 30/10 Price: £15 Style: Eighties, Nineties of tunes ranging from Beatlemania, Times: 10pm - 6am Venue: The Cookie Club Mod, Beatpop, Soul, Motown and Info: Price: £4 Detour Psychedelia all thrown into one big Shy FX, MC Skibadee Times: 10.30pm - 2am Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks melting pot of Nostalgia. Swift & MC IC3 Info: Friday night at The Cookie Venue: Stealth Zinc & Eksman Club is Retro night featuring two Price: £3.50 adv £4 otd Club NME Friction & SP MC decades of music Times: 10pm - 2am Style: Indie, Rock Blame & MC P-Fine Info: Where Detonate and Venue: Stealth Transit Mafi a & MC E-LL Audio Detonation cane it up the fast lane Price: £4/£3/£2 Style: Funk, Soul, Disco with the big boys, Detour hops over Times: 9:30pm - 2am a farmer’s gate, doffs its cap to Info: Home Taping Is Killing sat 13/11 Venue: Snug FireFly Price: £5 (£3 b4 10.30pm) some wider styles and strolls along Music Alongside some of the best Style: Techno, Breaks Times: 10pm - 3am the scenic route bands on offer. Check Stealth’s Venue: The Bomb website for up to date listings. Price: £tbc Love Shack Dusk Times: 10pm - 4am Style: Eighties Style: HipHop, Soul Non Stop & Dirtle Wax Records Info: Surgeon, Freq Nasty, Venue: Rock City Venue: Snug present: ‘ish’ Firefl y Residents Price: £4 adv £5 otd Price: £4 Style: HipHop, Funk, Soul Times: 9.30pm - 2am Times: 10pm - 3am Venue: Westside Bar tue 2/11 Price: Free wed 17/11 wednesdays Soul Surgery Sabotage Info: DJs Dirty Joe & Furious P, Style: Funk, Soul Guest MCs, Skate Videos & Kung Fu Style: Eighties, Nineties The Big Wednesday Venue: Moog fi lms Venue: The Cookie Club Alternative, Rock, Pop Price: Free Style: Price: £4 The Cookie Club Times: 8pm - 12am Venue: Times: 10.30pm - 2am £2.50 Info: From the lads that bring Price: Info: Anything from Acid House Times: 10.30pm - 2am To get your events you Basement Boogaloo. Ed Cotton to Brit-Pop wed 3/11 and Nick Shaw Info: A good mix of music for listed here, get them a comedy drunken nite. Upstairs Salt listed on the website! fri 19/11 plays current indie and downstairs is Style: HipHop, House, Breaks nothing but Rock/Metal/Punk & Ska Sunglasses At Night Venue: Dogma all evening http://www.leftlion.co.uk/add Style: Electronica, Eighties Price: Free Venue: The Social Times: 2am Close Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: Tom Magic Feet’s birthday saturdays event with live act/special guest TBA Distortion Style: Rock, Indie, Alternative Chibuku shake shake Venue: Rock City Venue: The Bomb Price: £5 Style: HipHop Style: Breaks, Hiphop Times: 10pm - 4am Times: 9pm - 2.30am Venue: The Ballroom Venue: The Bomb Info: Lottie, Lewis RV, JS and Price: £15adv Price: £9 (£7 adv) Fever, Dave Smith Date: Friday 12/11 Date: Friday 12/11 fri 19/11 Funk U Style: Funk, Disco, Soul Times: 10pm-5am Times: 10pm - 3am Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £5 Blak Twang Backdraft (botchit & scarper) Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: With access to Rise and Klashnekoff Michael Morph Shine downstairs included in the Skinnyman Too-B Style: DnB, Breaks, Techno price Estelle Cash Mark fri 5/11 Venue: Blue Print Price: £8 Jehst Treva Whateva Times: 10 til late Rise & Shine Yungun DJ Blakey (world dmc) Info: Faith In Chaos (Live), Style: Indie, Alternative Cappo T-Cutt Dylan B2B Robyn Chaos, John Venue: The Cookie Club Kyza Swiz Rolodex, Lynkx, Dyazide, Lowkey, Price: £5 Mr Thing MAC P, MCs Ninety & Menace Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: The Club’s long running Duurty Goodz thu 25/11 indie night continues with access to Asaviour Funk U in the price Tempa Funktion Style: DnB, Breaks 45 Venue: Synergy Tony Global MistaJam Price: Free Style: HipHop, RnB, Soul TL Times: 9pm - 2am Venue: Dogma Shinobi Info: DJ’s on rotation, Jest:R, Price: Free Random Guy, Marcus Stubbs, Timmy Times: till 2am W, The Weaselman Broadcast live on 1xtra 18 www.leftlion.co.uk/listings

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Period of: thu 7/10 tue 19/10 01/10/04 - 31/11/04 Bent, Rescue Rooms, £7 Nail Tolliday and Simon Mills, aka Alabama Thunderpussy Bent, are one of the most success- Venue: Rock City ful musical duos to hail from the Price: £7 Live Music city. Having soundtracked numerous Times: 8pm adverts and TV shows as disparate as fri 1/10 ‘Six Feet Under’ and BBC gardening. A Feast of Gilbert & Sullivan Lez Haultz Et Les Bas They still like playing out in their Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham stomping ground. Price: £8.50 - £17.50 Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm thu 7/10 thu 14/10 Splint Alias Crash Kelly Venue: Junktion 7 Oh What A Night Venue: Rescue Rooms (The) Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 Venue: Royal Centre Price: £7 adv Price: £6 adv Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £15 - £25 Times: 8pm With Support From: El Cielo, Times: 16th - 7.30, 17th & 18th - Times: 9pm - 1am wed 20/10 With Support From: Deadline, Spit Everything For Some 5.30pm & 9pm Like This, Silver Jet. End date: 16/10 Paris In Spring The ga ga’s Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Rock City Gary Us Bonds Bartok & Beethoven String Price: £4 Price: £5 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms Quartet Series Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: 7.30pm Price: £14 adv Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Info: + Support With support from: Hurricane Times: Early show as club night Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Party follows - 10.15pm fi nish Times: 7.30pm thu 21/10

sun 3/10 fri 8/10 Dopamine Modulator ESP + 4m33s Venue: Junktion 7 The Brian Travis Band Venue: Peggers Price: £4 Venue: Junktion 7 Price: Free Times: 8.30pm - 12am Price: £4 Times: 7:30pm - 10:30pm With Support From: Midasuno Times: 9pm - 1am Info: Ambient live Awakenings With Support From: Callaghan, presents an evening of live ambient The Blueskins We Show Up On Radar and electronic music Venue: NTU Union sat 9/10 Price: £4 The Delgados Times: 7pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms Pitchshifter Info: With support from: Price: £9 advance Venue: Rock City The Koots. Earth The Calafornian Times: 8pm Price: £11 Love Dream 22-20s Info: + Guests Times: 8pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms With Support From: Sikth fri 15/10 Price: £7 adv mon 4/10 Times: 8pm The Black Velvet Band Texas Terry Bomb Venue: Junktion 7 Info: + Guests 10,000 Things Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre 22-20’s have been cutting up a Price: £5 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £12 (£9 concessions) bluesy storm since they shot on to Times: 9pm - 1am Price: £5 Times: 7.30pm the scene last year. They recently With support from: New Generation Superstars (tbc), The headlined the NME Britpack tour The Elvis Collection The Letters Organise and seem to be on something of an Darkheart Boys Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Junktion 7 upward tangent. Their recent single Price: £12 - £14 Price: £4 adv £5 otd sat 16/10 ’22 Days’ saw them claim a presence Times: 7.30pm Times: 9pm - 1am Brand Violet in the Top 40 and confi rm their With Support From: The Once Venue: Junktion 7 status as one of the most exciting tue 5/10 Over Twice, The Wireless Stores Price: £6 new bands in the country. Not bad Off The Wall Times: 9pm - 1am for a bunch of guys from Lincoln… Venue: Royal Centre Hondo Mclean With support from: The Kull, Price: £13.50 - £15 Venue: Rock City Shard, Pressure thu 21/10 Times: 7.30pm Price: £tbc Captain Everything Info: Pink Floyd Tribute Times: 8pm Track and Field Venue: Rock City Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 8pm Maroon 5 sun 10/10 Price: £7 With Support From: Howard Alias, Venue: Rock City Moscow By Night Times: 8.00pm No Comply, Vanilla Pod Price: £15 Venue: Royal Centre With support from: Tom Hingley Times: 8pm Price: £15 - £20 (Of )& The Lovers Marah sat 23/10 Times: 7.30pm Live, Philistine, The Tommies Venue: The Rescue Rooms Hugh Cornwell and Band Info: A celebration of Russian Price: £8 adv Venue: The Rescue Rooms performing arts All Nighter Times: Early show as club night Price: £12.50 adv Venue: Rock City follows - 10.15pm fi nish Times: 8pm Focus Price: £6 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 8.30pm - 6am University Philharmonia wed 6/10 Price: £11 advance Info: Hell Is For Heroes, Breed Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre The Femm Nameless Times: 8pm 77, Amplifi er, Mike Davis Dj Set Price: £7 (£3 concessions) Venue: Junktion 7 With support from: The Boxer Times: 7.30pm Price: £7 adv £8 otd Rebelion, Ruben sun 17/10 Times: 8.30pm - 12am wed 13/10 Maelkar Info: Described by Time Out as Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci Venue: Junktion 7 “Punk funk goes afrobeat..” Punish The Atom Venue: Royal Centre Price: £tbc With Support From: Sambawamba Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £20 - £30 Times: 9pm - 1am Presents Nottingham School Of Price: £2 adv Times: 7.30pm Info: With Redshift, + Support Samba sun 24/10 John Laws Cornucpia Hot Snakes Bowling For Soup Ensemble Venue: The Rescue Rooms Shichiseikai Venue: Rock City Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £7.50 adv Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12.50 Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 8pm - late Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7pm Times: 8pm - 12am Times: 7.30pm Info: 14+ night mon 18/10 Swound! Chk Chk Chk Nazareth Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: The Rescue Rooms mon 25/10 Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: Free Price: £10 adv Hope Of The States Price: £14 adv Times: 8.30pm - 12am Times: 8pm Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 8pm With Support From: Mawda, Big Price: £9 adv Gay Following, Metro Joe Times: 8pm

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listings... theatre/clubs/live music/exhibitions/comedy tue 19/10 Spunge mon 25/10 Glass Onion fri 29/10 Six By Seven wed 03/11 Forty Winks thu 10/11 Venue: Rock City Venue: Junktion 7 Venue: Rock City Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £10 Price: £4 Price: £6 adv Price: £tbc Times: 7pm Times: 9pm - 1am Times: 8pm Times: 8.30pm - 12am With support from: Whitmore, Info: + Support With support from: My Deaf Audio Solarbeat, Phinius Gage thu 04/11

sat 30/10 New Music Players tue 26/10 Blazin’ Fiddles Jackson Browne Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Living Colour Venue: Royal Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £36.50 Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Price: £15 advance Times: 8pm Times: 8pm fri 05/11 Bartok & Beethoven String Lionel Richie fri 11/11 Venue: Nottingham Arena Paul Carrack Quartet Series The Commitments Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £30 Venue: Royal Centre Price: £20 Price: £12(£9 concessions) Price: £13.50 - £15.50 Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm The Renegade Playboys wed 20/10 Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 7.30 Price: £5 wed 27/10 Midtown Andrew Foster-Williams Bass- Venue: Rock City Times: 9pm - 1am Dr Faustus With Support From: Zen Motel, Baritone Price: Normal Admission Prices Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: The Rescue Rooms With support from: Hidden In Freegarden, Big Air Price: £8 advance Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Plane View Times: 7.30pm Times: 8pm sun 31/10 Adequate 7 thu 21/10 Venue: Rock City sat 12/11 Tim and Neil Finn Neal Casal Times: 8pm Byzantine Venue: Royal Centre Venue: The Rescue Rooms With Support From: Kenisia, The Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £26.50 Price: £10 adv. Peacocks, Buzzkill Price: £5 Times: 7.30pm Info: +Guests Times: 9pm - 1am The Magic Of Mozart By With Support From: Metal Delays Gene Pitney Candlelight Gutworm, Running With Scissors Venue: NTU Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Royal Centre Price: £9 adv Price: £17 - £21 Price: £15 - £20 Russian Cossack State Dance Co. Times: 7pm Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Venue: Djanogly Recital Hall Info: + support mon 1/11 Price: £16.50, £15.50 sat 06/11 U2 two Venue: Royal Centre Bright Lights Trio sun 13/11 thu 28/10 Price: £13 - £15.50 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Wheels On The Bus Times: 7.30pm Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Paul Weller

Venue: Royal Centre Times: 7.30pm Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: £9.50 tue 2/11 Price: Tickets £28.50 + BF Needledrop Times: 2pm Junktion 7 Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings Venue: Divine Brown Royal Centre £5 Venue: Price: Venue: Junktion 7 Bloc Party £22.50 9pm - 1am Price: Times: Price: £5 Venue: The Rescue Rooms 8pm The Fluids, Times: With Support From: Times: 9pm - 1am Price: £6 adv Mark Greville, +Support With Support From: The Vincent Times: 8pm 42nd Street Razorbacks, Six Killer (tbc) With support from: The New Venue: Royal Centre Hayseed Dixie Rhodes, Vatican DC Price: £10 - £16 Venue: The Rescue Rooms tue 15/11 Times: Various Price: £8adv Busted Brian Adams End date: 6/11 Times: Early Show - 10.15 finish as Venue: Nottingham Arena Venue: Nottingham Arena clubnight follows Info: Wack! Price: £30 tue 2/11 mon 8/11 Times: 7.30pm Motorhead thu 21/10 Tyketto (Original Line Up!) Venue: Rock City Sonia Wieder-Atherton Venue: Rock City Price: £19.50 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12.50 Times: 8pm - late Price: £15 (£12 concessions) Times: 8pm Times: 7.30pm thu 17/11 John Mayall & Chicken Shack Beta Band The Filaments Royal Centre Venue: Venue: Rock City sat 23/10 Venue: Rock City £18.50 - £22.50 Price: Price: £15 Times: 8pm 7.30pm Times: Times: 7.30pm With Support From: The Foamers, The Freaks Union, The Mingers Incredible String Band fri 18/11 Venue: The Rescue Rooms fri 29/10 British Sea Power Price: £13.50 advance Bartok & Beethoven String Venue: The Rescue Rooms Times: 8pm Quartet Series Price: £12.50 adv Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Times: 8pm tue 9/11 Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Even from the title of their debut album, The Decline of British Sea An Evening WIth Joolz Denby Power, it is apparent that this band Venue: Junktion 7 ooze a quintessentially British style. Price: £7 An expectant crowd will await at the Times: 8.30pm - 12am Rescue Rooms. Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar sat 19/11 sun 24/10 Price: Free wed 3/11 The Dead Pets Times: 7.30pm - 11pm Venue: Junktion 7 Info: Bringing you the best Second Smile Price: £tbc live music that Nottingham has Venue: Junktion 7 Times: 9pm - 1am to offer. (But then we would say Price: £tbc Info: + Support that...) Times: 8.30pm - 12am On the last friday of every month Info: With Sparks, Lights & sun 20/11 mon 25/10 ‘LeftLion Presents’ brings you Flames, Plus Support Amy Winehouse The Hollies the best musical acts live from Venue: Rock City Venue: Royal Centre Nottingham. The music varies in Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac Price: £15 Price: £19.50 style from folk, to funk to hiphop. Venue: Royal Centre Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm This month sees the mighty Price: £13.50 & £15.50 Amy Winehouse has made a Hellset Orchestra take the stage. Times: 7.30pm stunning impact onto the British All Nighter A classically trained crew of music industry over the last year, Venue: Rock City Nottingham musicians who want to Abram Wilson Sextet her debut album Frank being Price: £6 More info and listings available on the site: LeftLion.co.uk/listings rock! Drawing comparisons with the Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre nominated for the Mercury Music Times: 8.30pm - 6am likes of Eels and Flaming Lips, they Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Prize. Still aged just 20, her husky Info: Flogging molly, Streetdogs, will go far... Times: 8pm style is at once innocent and sleazy. The Briggs, More acts TBC 20 www.leftlion.co.uk/listings

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Live Listings Goose Fair is more than just an Continued... institution in Nottingham. The biggest open fair in the country returns with sat 20/11 the allure of hair-raising rides and Joanna Newsom hook a duck. This year there is also Venue: Rescue Rooms (The) a fringe theatre and music festival Price: £6.50 adv. taking place in various venues along Times: Early Show - 10.15 fi nish as Mansfi eld road. clubnight follows Runs From: 06/09 - 09/09 sun 21/11 fri 01/10 wed 02/11 Spirit of Broadway World War II The Surface Of The Lake Venue: Royal Centre Venue: Yard Gallery (The) Period of: Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery Price: £13 - £18 Info: This exhibition raises Info: Teruyoshi Yoshida’s Times: 7.30pm 01/08/04 - 01/01/05 questions about the impact of installation, Surface of the Lake the Second World War on local is aptly named. Shimmering, Vince Neil Exhibitions communities The material on display just above the gallery fl oor, it is Venue: Rock City provides a local perspective on the remiscent of the play of light on fri 01/10 Price: £16 adv. war years for young and old alike. water and beautifully captures the Times: 7pm Landscape Photography idea of the transient moment. In his work, Yoshida draws directly mon 22/11 Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery You will see how domestic life from his deep commitment to, and Halfway To Paradise Info: Jem Southam works at was transformed by rationing, the understanding of, Japanese culture Venue: Royal Centre specifi cally selected sites that threat of air raids, and a spirit of and ritual. It was also the starting Price: £13.50 - £15.50 he returns to repeatedly over social responsibility. Government point for a new commission by Claire Times: 7.30pm several months or years, recording propaganda posters not only Barber which is sited in the rarely the effects of natural processes refl ected the war news and civil tue 23/11 viewed laundry room next to the and human intervention on the defence, but also encouraged gallery. Strange, yet faintly familiar environment. citizens to ‘Make do and Mend’ and Glenn Tilbrook Band fabrics - an old tent, fi shnet tights Runs Until: 17/10 ‘Dig for Victory’. Venue: The Rescue Rooms and net curtains - are mementos Runs Until: 16/12 Price: £14 adv fri 01/10 of Claire Barber’s past and Info: + Guests Elshaday Berhane present, representing her personal Venue: Angel Row Gallery associations with her home and her wed 24/11 Info: For the fi nal exhibition Dhaffer Youseff travels over the past two years. in the Window 04 series Elshaday fri 01/10 Runs Until: 21/11 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Berhane will create a new interactive Price: £12 (£9 concessions) installation which allows gallery Sneezes 2003 fri 05/11 Times: 7.30pm Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery visitors to change the ‘show window’ Bad Behaviour Info: Throughout 2003, artist and entrance area at street level. Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery The Darkness Ellie Harrison has recorded the exact Info: Featuring over 50 works Venue: Nottingham Arena time, to the nearest minute, of her A series of wooden constructions, from the Arts Council Collection, this Info: Sold Out every sneeze - amounting to a grand based upon an old Chinese game, National Touring Exhibition from the total of 318. In this installation, thu 25/11 will be hung in the foyer window; Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, the times of these random events a simple mechanism allows the presents contemporary British Jools Holland are displayed around the gallery sequence of wooden panels to be sculpture, installation, photography Venue: Djanogly Recital Hall walls, as if on a giant timeline from manipulated and over turned to and video from the 80s to the Price: £25.50 January through to December. The create different images. present day. Times: 7.30 changes between seasons and in the Runs Until: 6/11 Runs Until: 19/12 fri 26/11 fri 01/10 artist’s personal health are refl ected in the distribution of sneezes around LeftLion Presents... the space. (...bless you!) Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Runs Until: 7/11 wed 10/11 Price: Free fri 01/10 Art On The Stairs Venue: Times: 7.30pm - 11pm China Black Price: Castle admission Prices Info: Bringing you the best Venue: Playhouse Info: New work refl ecting the live music that Nottingham has Info: In celebration of Black artist’s Iraqi heritage, cultural to offer. (But then we would say History Month, Nottingham experiences and longheld interest that...) Playhouse presents an exhibition in the science behind colour, as he of work by Korean and local sat 27/11 celebrates 20 years as a muralist. African artists. China Black takes Runs Until: 16/1 Nottingham Bach Choir and its inspiration from the production Orchestra 58, and is based on the themes sat 20/11 Venue: St Marys Church of journey and movement. The exhibition will be at the Playhouse Birdsong Nottingham Annual Open Art throughout October. The (International) Noise Venue: Angel Row Gallery Exhibition Conspiracy Info: An Exhibition By Sutapa Venue: Nottingham Castle Artists: Yun JI Young, Natalie Okpara Venue: The Rescue Rooms Biswas Info: A celebration of the and Valerie Burrell Price: £8.50 adv incredible range of creative work Curator: Inja Kim Times: Early show as club night Sutapa Biswas has, in the last 17 being produced by artists and Runs Until: 30/10 follows - 10.15pm fi nish years, created an evocative and makers in the East Midlands region. mon 29/11 challenging body of work which A fantastic opportunity to add to, or Bjorn Again addresses feminism and cultural start, your own art collection with Venue: Royal Centre identity. The exhibition Birdsong work by both new and established Price: £15 - £16.50 Comprises two new fi lms, which talents. From less than £100. Times: 8pm touch on themes of memory and Painting, photography, glass, rites of passage. ceramics and textiles are among the Electric Six Runs Until: 6/11 100 plus works to choose from. Venue: Rock City Runs Until: 5/12 Price: £12 adv Times: 7.30pm wed 13/10

Bonfi re night at the promises rides and Smallkid & Coverage Present entertainments, as well Venue: The Rescue Rooms as a display of fi reworks Price: Free that makes discerning Times: 5pm - 8pm local residents question Info: This cheeky starter to exactly how much of Detonate’s Rock City main comes their council tax has courtesy of Smallkid & Coverage. been sunk into the The event will include a graffi ti wall visual feast. Mushy peas outside the venue and an open mic are a popular choice... session inside hosted +by Mista Jam (UK Takeover) and Rodney P (1xtra) www.leftlion.co.uk/listings 21

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Period of: thu 14/10 mon 10/11 01/10/04 - 31/11/04 Jongleurs Mark Thomas Venue: Jongleurs Venue: Playhouse Price: £8 - £15 Cost: £10 - £14 Times: 7pm Comedy Times: 8pm Info: Brendan Riley, Roger D, Info: Mark Thomas is well known for Sean Meo, Richard Morton fri 1/10 his ability to create a political ruckus Runs Until: 16/10 Jongleurs in this country and seems to be able Venue: Bar Risa sun 17/10 to talk his way into causing corporate Price: £13 - £15 Just the Tonic fat cats all kinds of trouble. For this we Times: 7pm Venue: Cabaret at LeftLion admire his style. He brings Info: Michael Legge, Rex Boyd, Price: £tbc his live bandwagon to Nottingham’s Steve Harris, Hal Cruttenden Times: 7.30pm Playhouse this November. Runs Until: 2/10 Info: Will Smith, TV’s Posh Boy. Come laugh at him as he sun 3/10 makes a mockery of himself for our thu 28/10 thu 11/11 enjoyment. Hal Cruttenden, Just the Tonic Jongleurs Steven Carlin - Scottish, odd, Venue: Cabaret Venue: Jongleurs Jongleurs unique. Darrell Martin is your host Bar Risa Price: tbc Price: £8 - £15 Venue: and compere... can he stay off the £8 - £15 Times: 7.30pm Times: 7pm Price: booze? 7pm Info: TV Star and Perrier Award Info: Alun Cochrane, Daniel Times: Simon Clayton, David Newcomer 2004 Tony Law, Matt Packard, George Egg, Curtis Walker Info: tue 19/10 Hadingham, Curtis Walker, Kirshen. Compere Darrell Martin. Runs Until: 30/10 John Ryan Fresh from fun in Edinburgh Get A Grip Runs Until: 13/11 tue 5/10 Venue: The Social sun 31/10 Price: £5 sun 14/11 Get A Grip Times: 8.30pm Just The Tonic Just the Tonic Venue: The Social Info: James Dodeswell, James Venue: Cabaret Venue: Cabaret Price: £5 Sherwood, John Newton, MC Kevin Price: £tbc Price: £tbc Times: 8.30pm Shepherd Times: 7.30pm Times: 7.30pm Info: Alan Anderson, Ed Petrie Info: Phil Kay, The true Info: Glenn Wool - Canadian Craig Deeley and MC Mike Belgrave wed 20/10 improviser and maverick of comedy. cowboy of great mirth, Josie Long - TV can’t deal with him, a lot of clubs thu 7/10 The Edinburgh & Beyond Comedy She caused a sensation at Edinburgh can’t cope with his spontaneous Tour 2004 Festival. Darrell Martin Jongleurs nature. John Oliver, one of the Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Venue: Bar Risa ‘clever school’ of comedians. That’s Price: £5 - £10 wed 18/11 Price: £8 - £15 clever, but also a bit immature. Times: 8pm Jongleurs Times: 7pm Compere Darrell Martin. Venue: Bar Risa Info: Paul Tonkinson, Mark Maier, Info: Chris Addison, writer and star of The Department (Radio 4), Price: £8 - £15 Tony Morewood, The Fluffy Brothers tue 2/11 Times: 7pm Runs Until: 9/10 Dan Antopolski, Craig Campbell’s, Tony Law’s Info: JoJo Smith, Toby Foster, Steve Best, Geoff Boyz sun 10/10 thu 21/10 Runs Until: 20/11 Jongleurs sun 21/11 Venue: Jongleurs Get A Grip Price: £8 - £15 Just the Tonic Venue: The Social Times: 7pm Venue: Cabaret Price: £5 Info: Brendhan Lovegrove, Paul B Price: £tbc Times: 8.30pm Edwards, Mike Milligan, Times: 7.30pm Info: Andy White, Josey Long, Jamie Mathieson Info: Adam Hills on tour. More tbc Matt Green, Adrian Freeman, MC Runs Until: 23/10 Gary Delaney Just the Tonic tue 23/11 Venue: Cabaret sun 24/10 wed 3/11 Price: £tbc Just the Tonic Get A Grip Jongleurs Times: 7.30pm Venue: Cabaret Venue: The Social Venue: Jongleurs Info: Just Plain Silly and Special Price: £tbc Price: £5 Price: £8 Raymond and Timpkins Revue - Times: 7.30pm Times: 8.30pm Times: 7pm Every time this stupid duo are on Info: Johnny Vegas returns to Info: Hal Cruttenden, Johnston Info: Junior Simpson, Geoff Boyz, they absolutely storm it. Childish is his favourite club to host a night and Johnston, Hazel Humphries, MC Simon Bligh, The Raymond and Mr to mature a word, silly isn’t enough. of guests. Reg Hunter, the coolest Spiky Mike Timpkins Revue Compere Dan Nightingale - a new stand up on the planet. Perrier fi nd... come see this young man Nominee twice Stan Stanley, thu 4/11 fri 25/11 grow into a star mirthster and manicman. Very silly Jongleurs Brian Damage and Krystaal - a very Venue: Bar Risa Jongleurs thu 14/10 daft couple Price: £8 - £15 Venue: Jongleurs tue 26/10 Times: 7pm Price: £8 - £19.95 Info: Ricky Grover, Eddie Ifft Times: 7pm Get A Grip Get A Grip Sean Percival, Kevin Gildea Info: Tony Hendriks, Johnny Venue: The Social Venue: The Social Runs Until: 6/11 Candon, Jim Jeffries Price: £5 Price: £5 Runs Until: 27/11 Times: 8.30pm Times: 8.30pm sun 7/11 Info: Valentine Flyguy, Tom Bell, Info: Dougie Dunlop, Dave Michael Fabbri, Paul Kid, MC Spiky sun 28/11 Longley, Matthew Tiller, Brent Just the Tonic Mike Wilson. MC Spiky Mike Venue: Cabaret Just the Tonic Price: £tbc Venue: Cabaret Times: 7.30pm Price: £tbc Info: John Bishop, A truly Times: 7.30pm captivating stand up from the land Info: Chris Addison - Eddy We are looking to increase the variety of goods in the LeftLion online shop they call scouse. Warm and engaging Brimson. Another act TBC Darrell Jason John Whitehead. Compere Dan Martin We mean by this, stuff you’ve produced rather than stuff you Nightingale generally want to sell (like old socks, broken tv’s and nicked bikes). We’re thinking along these lines: tue 9/11 tue 30/11 Get A Grip • photos we could sell as prints, Get A Grip Venue: The Social Venue: The Social • original artwork on canvas. Price: £5 Price: £5 • clothing, Times: 8.30pm Times: 8.30pm • music (cd's/vinyl), Info: Silky, Issy Suttie, Tony Info: Paul Kerensa, Martin Evans, Griff, MC Liz Stephens or anything else you think people might be interested in. Cowards, Dave Parkin, MC Spiky WeWe offer the best rratesates prettprettyy much ananywhereywhere in notts Mike (at least that we’ve found so far). Please email suggestions to us at: [email protected] 22 www .leftlion.co.uk/issue1 Roger Mean’s Rocky Horrorscopes

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