FREE our style is legendary www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 3 credits contents . editorial LeftLion Magazine Issue 3 Nottingham has always been a city with a February 2005 04 Local News For Local People thriving underground culture. In terms of Art there are many reasons to believe we are on the 05 Nottingham Set For New Arts Centre up. Plans for a brand new gallery in the Lace Editor Market have whet the appetite of many and the Jared Wilson 06 Popx interview number of arts students in residence here will always encourage a natural progression for the Sub Editors 07 Dilk interview local scene. Alan Gilby Timmy Bates 08 Toby Kebbell interview In this issue we look at the plans for a new city Nathan Miller gallery (to be opened in 2008) and speak to artists 09 Lo-Ego interview Dilk and Popx, two veterans of Nottingham’s Distribution thriving underground graffiti art scene. We’d also Breakin’ Media 10 Scorzayzee interview like to say thanks to Coverage and Small Kid for organizing this month’s cover. Design 12 Miles Hunt [email protected] Jump Nottingham In terms of film, the city has excelled itself 14 in recent years, with Shane Meadows and Photographers Chris Cooke, both succeeding whilst refusing Ben Cipher 16-24 Events listings to compromise their style. There are some Cat Edgar Crossword interesting products from this approach, as David Bowen 25 Nottingham actors with whom they work flourish Dom Henry 26 RockyRocky HorrorscopesHorrorscopes and Bones’ FFunun Cave on an internationalinternational stage. In this issue we speak Joe Ryder to TTobyoby KebbellKebbell about his next steps afafterter Dead Mans Shoes, working with WWoodyoody Allen and Contributors Oliver Stone. Al Needham Bones Just afafterter this issue is released,released, the DropDrop In The Claire Foss Ocean music festival will be taking place (Sunday Dan Gardner 30th January),January), featuring hundredshundreds of the cities Guy Gooberman musicians uniting to raise funds for the TsunamiTsunami Jennie Syson appeal. It promisespromises to be a showcase of local Jem Shaw musical talent and a greatgreat reasonreason for people to Miles Hunt work together for a good cause! Get yourself Roger Mean down therethere and check out the coverage of it Tom Cowdrey afterwardsafterwards on the LeftLionLeftLion website. International Peacekeeper Some people, howeverhowever,, strive to createcreate their own Yemi Akinpelumi new and alteralternativenative artart forms.forms. WeWe caught up with Beeston borbornn teenager StickStickyy afafterter we saw him on Channel FFour’sour’s awesome Jump Britain “The Edge... there is no honest prprogramme.ogramme. The day out we had with him araroundound way to explain it because the Nottingham city centrcentree was qualityquality,, particularlyparticularly only people who really know the rreactionseactions of passers-by as he busted crazy where it is are the ones who moves in evereverydayyday places. A greatgreat example of have gone over.”” what you can do when you put your mind to it… Hunter S. Thompson As you can see we’rwe’ree still on it herheree at LefLeftLion,tLion, LeftLion bringing you coverage of things that go down 349a Mansfield Road in hood town! As always, if you feel therethere is Nottingham. NG5 2DA anything that we should know about or if you feel [email protected] you’d like to contribute, let us know.know. There’sThere’s a lot of interestinginteresting stuff going on in Nottingham if you For advertising enquiries look out for it… please contact: [email protected] [email protected] office/fax: 0115 962 3676 mobile: 07866 312044 8,000 copies distributed in the city of Nottingham 4 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue3 Nottingham Voices things people have said local news for on the leftlion forum local people Bad Television Adverts with Guy Gooberman our correspondent in London “The best thing about the Ocean Finance ad is when one Please note that Guy Gooberman is a fictional character of the vegetables they interview mentions the fact that and therefore only as real as the news he writes they use ‘normal people’ in their ads as a reason to buy for more painful laughs visit www.lunch-break.co.uk the financial shit they sell.” Fossy “Every second ad on any of the music channels is a ringtone ad and they play a sample of them… all sodding ten. You know what the really scary thing is? These ads cost a lot to put on telly, so there must be millions of The Carlton Martyrs people wasting their money on this.” st El Chupacabra 21 February will mark an emotional time for one group of Carlton residents who, back in 1954, fought a pitched battle with the Gedling “Anything with Jamie Oliver. Walking into supermarkets militia in an effort to get the local language, Carltonian, recognised and snapping leeks in half. Who the hell does he think as a vernacular of business and local government. They lost the war he is? And that one where the pockets talk to each other. and many lost their lives in the massacre that followed to show how Might be the phones talking to each other, not sure but lexicon uprisings are dealt with. Since then the surviving linguistic it’s crap.” warriors have been known as the Carlton Martyrs, think of them this st Theonelikethe February 21 and weep. “Nope, it really is pockets talking to each other. I can’t believe someone’s getting paid actual money to design that.” El Chupacabra Progressive Mentalism Nottingham is famous for being a place where no good bands ever “What about the adverts with the windows for sale come from but that’s all about to end when the record buying public where it’s either Cannon and Ball or him out of Corro or hear the latest sensation straight out of Beeston Rylands called ‘Das that fat man that looks like the love child of meatloaf and Ass’. Lead singer and sheet metal banger Postmodern Frank explained a pirate?” their style thus: “It’s hardcore straight-edge jazz integrated with Pan- Harwill Tuesday American spoken word mayhem, plus a dollop of Ethnic drum blues, some Maths Rock and a nod towards Jefferson Starship.” New single ‘This is a Middle Eight’ will be out this month followed swiftly by their New Arts Centre debut album ‘I Am War’. Oh my god I can’t believe it, this is brilliant news. I don’t much care where they put it as long as we get one. Having spent a lot of time in the West Midlands I can’t tell you how inferior the East Midlands’ cities are in this respect. Fossy Care In The Community As an actor I second the need for a small scale theatre space in Notts. West Bridgford residents are Gooberman up in arms about the increase in people with severe mental I’m all for this thing anyway, it’s about time we got health issues roaming their something like this, it’ll certainly increase my interest in pristine, bourgeois boulevards. arts and crafts. I might even take up knitting you never Local Daily Mail reader Ginger know. Stack had this to say through Alan a megaphone made out of the I Love You, stem cells of crows: “These kind of people belong in the Meadows The best Evening Post News story ever… and are not welcome here. What do you expect us to do? Not judge Old Withered Hag “Sherwood housewives pretend to be Filipina mail order them and offer them support, bride sex phoneline harlots. Why wasn’t I told about this? care and understanding and I can think of no better way to spend £1 than to hear some perhaps a few hours of our time woman say “Sookeh-Fookeh twenteh paand” or “Me love by volunteering? Outrageos!” yo’ long fookin’ tahm, me duck” down the phone.” Guy Gooberman expects the rich Lord of the Nish people to get their way. “Haven’t bought the post for a couple of days and was on this like a shot. Asda hardly had any left! The best front page headline ever. ‘Ey Up Mi Duck...This Is A Filipina Sex Line. Beats the one the other day ‘Police Raid Wrong House’. Gotta love the Post...” Pancake Consumes Child With the card buying consumerist Fossy façade for love declarations No you idiots! Not a mixture approaching like an unavoidable car of flour and egg and whatnot “I loved this bit: “The staff also had crib sheets of crash, one local man has made his eaten by us with a squeeze of information about the Philippines.” Because you never feelings clear for the last remaining lemon and a light sprinkling of know when some sad bastard on the phone is going to witch in Nottinghamshire. Mr You Will sugar (or syrup and chocolate stop mashing his genitals for a bit and suddenly say “Hey! Know Us By The Trail Of Dead has spread if you’re a suet ridden What’s the average rainfall in the Zamboanga peninsula?” fallen head over heels in love with lard arse), how an earth could Lord of the Nish the old withered hag that lives in the that gobble a juvenile? No, bushes behind the football pitch that Pancake is the pseudo-cute belongs to FC Dynamo Stapleford name of a mysterious urban and she just happens to be the last wolf that prowls the streets of Old Basford praying on innocent lady who practices black magic in the make your voice heard children and ripping them to pieces with its massive fangs. county.