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Mushroom Season LeftLion Magazine Issue 13 First off, a welcome to all the students October-November 2006 4. Notts The Nine O’Clock News arriving into Nottingham. This city is geared towards going out and when the universities close over summer everything Editor 5. Go Out To Play goes quiet. Club nights shut, pubs are Jared Wilson ([email protected]) 6. Totally Orson, Dude empty, shops close early and all the eye Deputy Editors candy goes south. So we’re glad you’re Al Needham ([email protected]) back and hope you enjoy the place like we Nathan Miller ([email protected]) 7. Divine Inspiration do! We’ve even put together a Nottingham Zoo centrespread, to guide you around Technical Director 8. LeftLion Extravaganza some of the species you may find in town. Alan Gilby ([email protected]) Artistic Director 10. Sounds of the Streets Preparing this issue has been full of David Blenkey ([email protected]) ups and downs. Ghostface Killah of the 13. The Hooded Man Wu Tang was going to be in here, but Listings Editors unfortunately we found out too late that Florence Gohard ([email protected]) his watch operates on ‘hiphop time’. Tim Bates ([email protected]) 16. Bruce Almighty/Cool for Cats Instead you’ll probably see that interview on LeftLion.co.uk soon (he plays Rock City Music Editor Sadie Rees-Hales ([email protected]) 17. Charitable Boy on 3 October). Jonas Armstrong (the new BBC Robin Hood) was also going to chat Proofreaders 18. John McGregor to us, but then someone nicked the master Charlotte Kingsbury ([email protected]) tapes of the new series and he had to go Natasha Chowdhury and refilm. Grrr! 19. Prepare for Lif Off Photography Editor But this is still our biggest issue ever! Dom Henry ([email protected]) 20. Spaced Out Inside these 48 pages you’ll find Photographers interviews with Badly Drawn Boy, The Kevin Lake ([email protected]) 21. Buzz Lightyears Divine Comedy, Mr Lif, Sparklehorse and Matt Dalton Orson, as well as some proper skill acts Jon Rouston 23. Nottingham Zoo from the neighbourhood. It was nice to get Rapunzel Map in here. She’s one Illustrators of the most underrated artists in Notts Rob White ([email protected]) 27. Artists Profiles Rikki Marr ([email protected]) and a good friend of the LeftLion crew. Likewise with the bands on the October Contributors 28. Nottingham Zoo continued Extravaganza line-up, we’ve chosen them Amanda Young all because we really liked them when they Andy Clydesdale 31. NOW that’s what I call Art last played in front of our sticky banner. Dannii Leivers So, come along and catch five of the best James Walker bands in Notts for a fiver at the Rescue Jennie Syson 32. Nottingham Events Listings Jenny Hill Rooms! Jesse Keene 43. Transatlantic Operation Michelle Bayton Jon McGregor also features in here. He’s Paul Klotschkow one of the most respected young authors Roger Mean 44. Cheese Lovers in Bohemia... Beware! in the country at the moment and has been Simon Hodge seen repping a Three LeftLion’s World Cup Tom Hathaway Nottsword/Quiz T-shirt at some of our events. Big up! 45. Magician In Residence Jack Curtis 46. Rocky Horrorscopes/Notts Trumps We relaunched LeftLion.co.uk in September and we’ll be adding more new Marketing and Sales Manager features over the coming months. Whether Ben Hacking ([email protected]) you want to find out what’s going on in town, natter with the forum crew or listen to Nish and the K play some sweet “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Hunter S. Thompson local vocals via mp3, there’s something ‘onlion’ for everyone. We’re always looking LeftLion for fresh talent too, so if you want to 349a Mansfield Road contribute get in touch. Nottingham NG5 2DA 0115 9123782 If you would like to reach our readers by advertising your [email protected] company in these pages please contact Ben on 07843 944910 or email [email protected] LeftLion magazine has an estimated readership of 40,000 in the city of Nottingham. In September 2006 LeftLion.co.uk received over 450,000 page views. www.leftlion.co.uk/issue13 3 nOTTsnOTTs THETHE NINENINE O’CLOCK NEWS with Nottingham’s ‘Mr. Sex’ Al Needham BBC Radio Nottingham I listen to Karl Cooper’s show sometimes when I’m getting ready for work. It’s fairly inoffensive stuff. Occasionally amusing, but in the sort of way that your nana would laugh at it too. Jared 1 August 3 September The Post throws up its hand in horror at the news that an Arnold A new community sentencing project where people in St Anns If you were driving past Nottingham and bloke with an ASBO for kerb-crawling is still nobbing prostitutes. and Aspley get to decide how criminals are to be dealt with is Note to police; think about putting the tag somewhere else next announced. The council had better think about getting some your radio locked on to any of the local time… gallows fitted in the new Square, then. Personally, I’d like to see the stations, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d Burberry Ape and his minging missus who nicked my phone in the leaped back twenty years. Nottingham is 2 August Social the other week be made to pick up broken glass with their changing beyond all recognition but local Hero of the bi-month: Arnold shopkeeper Kuldeep Lalli responded to arse cheeks. Live on East Midlands Today. radio hasn’t kept up at all. a chav twat robbing his store by tracking him down to his flat and Lord of the Nish pinning him down until the police arrived. Hopefully getting a few 5 September knees to the head in while he waited. Hardy and Hanson, the last Notts-owned brewery in the county, The Beat is a good show during the last is sold off to some yokels in Suffolk, ending hundreds of years of hour and a half, they play a lot of local 3 August tradition. Bah. bands. They also have a live session and Another crushing blow for the Off-Your-Face Market, as cocaine they’ve had some crackers on there as well. (which as we all know is God’s way of letting men know how it 7 September Not just your usual NME shite. feels to queue up for a nightclub toilet) worth a hundred grand is ‘Lifestyle club brand’ (retch) Gatecrasher buys Media, with… and richardsnow recovered by police on a train to Nottingham. please excuse me while I vomit on my keyboard… ‘an accent on elegant clubbing’. On the upside, they intend to restore the Grade II Since the Sunday show with Dennis 5 August listed building to its former glory. On the downside, they’ve not said A Skysurfer (whatever the fuck that is) is removed from a park in owt about changing the crap name. McCarthy I ain’t tuned in....Code 5 Dennis! Bridgford because adults are coming out the pub and quite rightly Barnze fancying a go on it. As someone who believes that the Council 8 September should pull down the current Castle and replace it with a bouncy The Post go right into one at the news that Notts County Council I like the afternoon phone-in show: one, I weep at the backwardness of this move. are ‘cancelling Christmas’ by imposing new Health and Safety “Afternoon Doris from Bulwell. How can we laws on outside decorations. About time…I’m sick of my estate help?” “Alright duck, I’ve been looking for 8 August looking like a North Korean shopping centre for three months. a bowl to keep my fruit in, it’s got to be big Rock City dishes out their most expensive ticket ever, a whopping enough for my apples and preferably made £33, for the arrival of eighties hair-and-bulge act Whitesnake. Those 9 September of glass…” Excellent stuff. armadillos down the trousers don’t come cheap, y’know. The Bar Humbug lapdancing saga drags on like a wounded MegamanX hedgehog, as the Council slap down a bid to keep it open until 10 August 4am. The owners’ plans to ensure an upmarket audience include Didn’t Radio Nottingham do a big special Nottingham East Midlands Airport reacts to recently-uncovered charging six quid a pint, proving that they’re the biggest tits before Drop In The Ocean? Gotta give them terrorist plot by going on severe lockdown, banning hand luggage, anyone has ever seen in that dump. repect for that, I guess. Also, their folk liquids and…oh, sorry about that. I stopped writing this half an music programme makes me think of my hour ago to see if there were any crumbs of weed on the carpet 13 September somewhere and now I’ve lost me thread. The Great Nottingham weed famine is in full effect. dad’s cooking. The NJM 3000 12 August 17 September Notts get skanked by Leicestershire in the final of the Twenty20 Bouncers from Templars come to the aid of another stabbing victim Cup at Trent Bridge when the umpires fail to call an obvious no-ball in town, administering first aid and alerting the authorities. Then in the final over. Grr! they told the poor sod he couldn’t come in because there was all What Have You blood on his trainers.