Issue 42 AuG / sePT 2011 Jean Genet Act 1: Act 2: Marc Camille Prisoners of Love André Acquart Chaimowicz Emory Douglas Jean Genet... Latifa Echakhch Mona Hatoum The Courtesy of Objects Glenn Ligon featuring Abdul Hay Mosallam Alberto Giacometti The Otolith Group Tariq Alvi Lili Reynaud-Dewar Lukas Duwenhögger Carole Roussopoulos Mathilde Rachet Gil J Wolman Wolfgang Tillmans Akram Zaatari 16 July – 2 October 2011 nottinghamcontemporary.org Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Jean Genet...The Courtesy of Objects, installation view 2011. Photo by Andy Keate Courtesy of The Gallery at NUCA The Money at Splendour, 24 July 2011. Photo: Dom Henry LeftLion Magazine Issue 42 contents August - September 2011 editorial Welcome to the latest edition of the most graphic thing to read in Nottingham since they pulled down them bogs at the bottom end of the Square. I loved them bogs. Why they didn’t knock ‘em together and turn ‘em into a club, with the caretaker’s offices as DJ booths, I’ll never know. Ooh ahh yeah, I remember now – because it stank of wazz. I’m not lying yer; it’s been a mental couple of months in LeftLionLand. For starters, we got massively involved with our new bestest mates, Nusic.org.uk and their Future Sound of Nottingham contest. Eeh, it did my scabby Nottingham heart good to see so many salt-of-the-earth Notts sorts fill out Rock City to see the local talent geein’ it 06 08 18 some on the main stage – and it’s a pleasure to give over a page to The Money, who – as I write – are opening up proceedings in front of thousands of bods at Spendour. May Contain Notts Some People Think He’s Bonkers Art Works 04 The local news diary that responds 10 An exclusive interview with the 18 Featuring Maxrock and Gillian Lee The even bigger development this bi-month is that our old to stag do tossers asking where County gaffer Smith website – who’d served us well for nearly eight years – ‘Whoretown’ is by pointing towards practically snuffed it a few weeks ago, meaning our plans St Anns and saying; “Don’t forget Write Lion to completely revamp the site from top to toe were brought Truly, Madly, Crossley 21 the secret password, lads: NG2” 11 The latest missives from the forward a month sooner than we expected. If you’ve not The legendary Norm on life after Notterati seen it yet, you need to get over to leftlion.co.uk right now LeftEyeOn Brian and prepare to be knocked bandy by our wicked def fresh 05 More photography-related japery, Back To Mine stylings. And that’s only the beginning; wait until we drop starring the good folk of Nottingham Venneh, Viddeh, Vicceh 22 The return of Headstock the full package… 12 Mark Patterson on the shameful lack A Canadian in New Basford of Roman remains in Notts Nottingham Event Listings Anyway, hope you like the latest issue, and rejoice in 06 Rob takes a good look at British print 23 Read this and do summat, you the knowledge that, unbelievably, LeftLion outlived the media, particularly the ones on the 13 Whoaaaahhhh! Bodyline! miserable get News of the World. Yes, they sold thousands of times top shelf Notts playwright Michael Pinchbeck more copies than we give away – but then again, we adjusts his box in preparation for Noshingham never tapped dead kids’ phones, lobbed money over to Cha-Ching! The Ashes 29 We hoover up the wares of the Cross bent coppers, or had David Cameron snuffling round our 07 The Money: your Future Sound of Keys, Gurkha Kitchen and Tropiero trousers. Up your arse, Rupert Murdoch, you laundry Nottingham champs 15 Are You Having A Laugh? basket-sniffing, soon-to-be-sizzling-in-Satan’s-chip-pan The Nottingham Comedy Festival: Rocky Horrorscopes get. Trentformers: Teams In Total it’s a serious job trying to organise it 30 Plus LeftLion Abroad, The Arthole 08 Transition and Notts Trumps Word to your Nana, Forest and County, broken down to 16 What Shall We Do With The Al Needham, their very last compound Drunken Tailor? [email protected] The Roxy Rob interview James Huyton Our cover artist Screen Editor Contributors Remeber that mint image of Debbie Alison Emm ([email protected]) Mike Atkinson Harry on top of Wollaton Hall in the credits Ashley Clivery last issue? That was this man. When Sport Editor Rich Crouch he’s not turning out quality work Editor-in-chief Scott Oliver ([email protected]) Rob Cutforth for the ‘Lion, James is a freelance Jared Wilson ([email protected]) Jacob Daniel illustrator and graphic designer. Stage Editor Ian Douglas He’s worked on a wide variety of Editor Adrian Bhagat ([email protected]) Jeremy Duffield commercial and personal projects (he’d tell us who, but if Al Needham ([email protected]) Kristi Genovese he did someone would break his legs or sue him. Possibly Administrator Mark Goodwin both). One thing he can tell us, however, is that his work We’re Not Being Funny, But We Wish Duncan Heath ([email protected]) Rebecca Gove-Humphries is currently featured as part of Bantum Clothing’s latest He Was Our Boyfriend Darren Howard season of quality, cheeky rabbit-festooned gear, and it’s Alan Gilby ([email protected]) Cover Shariff Ibrahim dead mint. Currently making plans to collaborate with James Huyton Katie Half-Price more design studios, James is also preparing to have a go Marketing and Sales Manager Roger Mean at screen-printing, and hopefully doing more stuff for us. Ben Hacking ([email protected]) Illustrators Gareth Morgan jameshuyton.com Rikki Marr Beane Noodler Designer Adam Poole Nick Parkhouse Becca Hibberd ([email protected]) Rob White Tom Quickfall Di Slaney Milena Kowalska Literature Editor Photographers Matthew Spence James Walker ([email protected]) She’s been in Roxy Rob’s house David Baird Tim Sorrell Hailing from Poland, Milena is a Russ Hamer multimedia artist who specialises in Music Editor Adam Humpreys Paul Klotschkow ([email protected]) animation and graphic design. She Carla Mundy also has an uncanny knack of getting Laura Patterson facebook.com/leftlion involved with madly creative sorts, Photography Editor Tom Quigley Dominic Henry ([email protected]) as borne out by her shots of Roxy Stephen Wright twitter.com/leftlion Rob’s old house which can be found Andrew Wells Poetry Editor in the middle of this mag. 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Email [email protected] or phone Ben on 07984 275453 or visit leftlion.co.uk/advertise leftlion.co.uk/issue42 3 MAY CONTAIN with Nottingham’s Nottingham’s Scariest Bus Routes ‘Mr. Sex’ Al Needham Whenever I get on the 88/89 from Parliament Street there’s always the threat of violence hanging heavily in the air at the bus stop. Although to be fair, this could just be the stench from Burger King. NOTTS Daysleeper June - July 2011 The Dirty-Five (aka the 35) is possibly the worst. I’m not a snob, but this bus is for scummers. If you 26 May have ever been on this bus, or even mention it on Genealogists work out that Barack Obama’s an internet forum, you are a scummer and deserve great-great grandfather ten times removed to rot in jail. came from Sutton in Ashfield. This is the first Seamus Flannery time ever that a black man has had anything to do with that place. There are women now, There’s a bloke on the Brown Line (15,16,17) buses even as we speak, leaning on the garden wall, who sings/shouts really loudly. I presume he’s subtly pointing to other women across the listening to music at the time. It seems to make street and muttering; “Eeh, you want to watch everyone feel uncomfortable because he’s clearly her - her great-great-great-great-great-great- not all there. I was also on the bus once when great-great-great-great-grandpa’s great-great- someone got on with a dog the size of a horse. great-great-great-great-great-great-great-​ It stood in the pram area with its legs hanging granddaughter ended up​ getting married to over the seat staring at people really hungrily and a...”, and then pursing​ their lips and tutting looking like it might attack (though actually I think like Les Dawson used to. it was probably a perfectly nice dog). Adrian 27 May It’s been a long time since I’ve been on a city bus, A burglar in Beeston has his sentence cut but the late night bus service springs too mind. when he points out that he needs to be with Like the old Jasper Carrot sketch; I was sitting his five children. Of course he does; how else there, praying that the nutter/weirdo didn’t sit next is he going to get those fiddly little windows to me.