ISSUE 30 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2009 FIFTH BIRTHDAY ISSUE County and Forest previews Skeggy / Nottingham Castle Carl Fellstrom / John Knight Eagon Chambers / Mark Charan Newton Full Nottingham Events Listings GNP LEFTLION AD 08:Layout 1 16/7/09 15:31 Page 1 Free access to Nottingham Castle and the Big Wheel's Big Day Out festival. Saturday 26th September 2009 at Nottingham Castle from 11am until 4pm. DJs / live music / street performers / environment zone the Luminarium / creative workshops / fun for all ages ...and everything you could ever want to know about transport in Nottingham! To download a discount travel voucher or to find out more visit: www.thebigwheel.org.uk/festival Birthday cards to LeftLion as featured on the cover by Alison Hedley, Ging Inferior, Alex Godwin, George Mitchell, Mike Lomon, Kim Thompson and Rob White. LeftLion Magazine Issue 30 contents August - September 2009 editorial Hello and welcome to another issue of Nottingham’s favourite culture and events magazine! This is a special edition for us, as it marks five years of putting mags out onto the streets of Nottingham. It’s been quite a journey for us; we started out as a group of twentysomethings hacking away in a flat above a cob shop on Mansfield Road. Since then we’ve moved a few times, as well as getting a bit older and becoming a key focal point for creativity in this beautiful city. We celebrate the birthday of this magazine by guiding you through the art you will have seen on our covers over the last half decade, created by some of the very best artists in the city. Hopefully you will see some of the progression we have made in that time on this issue’s centrespread. By the time you read this, the football season will be about to kick off. Fortunes have been steadily rising 07 11 15 at Forest since they finally got promoted back into the Championship the season before last. However, things appear to have risen a lot more dramatically over the last month or so for Notts County, with new (and seemingly minted) investors stepping in and transforming the club, starting with the appointment of former England boss 04 May Contain Notts 11 Fifteen Year Itch and World Cup Bid 25 Artist Profiles Sven Goran Eriksson. Naturally, we’ve got a few opinions The news diary that hated Notts What our local football rivalry and Tracey McMaster, Rachel Eite, Andrew on that particular development… County long before everyone else did. the 2018 World Cup bid could mean to Brookfield and Daniel Kemp. Nottingham. As always, we’ve had quality input from various local LeftEyeOn Write Lion people. Eagon Chambers has been a security guard in the 05 Warning: explicit images of Shane Knight Writer 26 Three local book reviews and the Viccy Centre for two decades and has plenty of interesting MacGowan’s face. 12 Mark Charan Newton is expected best from the last two months on our stories in that time. Carl Fellstrom, the local authority on to be the next big fantasy author, creative writing forum. gun crime, was kind enough to chip in with his thoughts and he comes from Notts. on the shooting in Paris nightclub. According to people in 07 The Way of The Gun the know Mark Charan Newton could be the local answer Hoods author Carl Fellstrom on the 28 Reviews to Terry Pratchett and JR Tolkein. He has a chat with us shooting of Bernard Langton. 14 Eagon Chambers: Mall Cop Natalie Duncan, We Show Up On about all things fantastical. The daily trials of a Viccy Centre Radar, Arboretum Records, Captain security guard. Dangerous, Rescued By Wolves and But LeftLion is much more than just the paper you are A Canadian In New Basford more. currently clutching in your grubby mitts. If you visit 08 Our Rob gets injected with an armful our website then you can listen to one of our range of Skeg. Will he get addicted, or will it We’ve Got It Covered of Nottstastic podcasts, ranging from alternative make him vomit? 15 The history of Nottingham’s only mag The Arthole rock (Alt:Lion) to spoken word (Write Lion), to dance worth a widdle, retold in its thirty 30 Plus Rocky Horrorscopes, LeftLion music (Cult Radio) to an overview of the local scene covers. Abroad and Notts Trumps. Left Brian and Left Pie On (Poddingham) and much more. Visit leftlion.co.uk/ 10 Our online local football columns break podcasts and treat your tabs. down the 2009-10 season. The Olde Curiosity Photoshoppe 19 John Knight and his Pre-Raphaelite We have also recently kick-started our online video photo collection. section, with the help of the lads at Donkey Stone Productions. Once a month we will be bringing you a new video about something cool going on close by. We’ve already covered the excellent Splendour Festival and hung out with the Fun Lovin’ Criminals, as well as loads of ace local bands. Go to leftlion.co.uk/video to check that. credits So yeah, here’s to another five years of going from strength to strength! If you’d like to get involved drop us an email. Editor in Chief Contributors Podcast Crew We’ve only just started… Jared Wilson ([email protected]) Al Needham Christopher Hough Alex Fisher Dan Hardy [email protected] Technical Director Alison Emm The K Alan Gilby ([email protected]) Andy Afford Paul Abbott Beane Rosa Brough Art Director Carl Fellstrom Stuart Rogers ALT:LION is a LeftLion podcast David Blenkey ([email protected]) Eric Manchester Jon Hall which plays the best indie and Jamie Rhodes Will Forrest alternative rock music from Deputy Editors Kristi Genovese Nottingham, hosted by Jon and Dan. Charlotte Kingsbury ([email protected]) Nicola Couch LeftLion.co.uk received over eight million page Jon has a vast musical knowledge Nathan Miller ([email protected]) Rob Cutforth views over the last year. This magazine has an from his time spent earning a crust Roger Mean estimated readership of 40,000 people and is in record shops and playing tunes in Marketing and Sales Manager Sahala Haynes distributed to over 300 venues across the city Ben Hacking ([email protected]) Sarah Morrison of Nottingham. If your venue isn’t one of them, indie clubs. Dan is a guitar-playing Tom Parkinson please contact Ben on 07984 275453 or email singer-songwriter (formerly with Art Editor [email protected]. Nottingham band The Deltarays) and a sound engineer. Frances Ashton ([email protected]) Illustrators Gerrit in yer tabs at leftlion.co.uk/podcasts Adam Poole This magazine is printed on paper sourced from Literature Editor Chris Askham sustainable forests. Our printers are ISO 14001 James Walker ([email protected]) Niko certified by the British Accreditation Bureau for Donkey Stone Films are a Rob White their environmental management system. fairly new film crew in Notts Music Editor having graduated from university Paul Klotschkow ([email protected]) Photographers in Manchester last year. With John Knight the honour of occupying Shane Photography Editor Jane Hoskyn Want to advertise in our pages? Meadows’ old Broadway office, they have four core members Dominic Henry ([email protected]) Phil Lowe - who each specialise in a different aspect of the filmmaking Christopher Frost Email [email protected] or phone Ben on process. They’ve agreed to hook up with us to make one Theatre Editor Ben Sigsworth 07984 275453 or visit leftlion.co.uk/advertise Adrian Bhagat ([email protected]) Rose Walsh new Notts video a month from now on. See leftlion.co.uk/video for more details. www.leftlion.co.uk/issue30 3 MAY CONTAIN Police taser attack in town with Nottingham’s Anybody else been watching the coverage on Sky ‘Mr. Sex’, Al Needham of the guy tasered by Notts police? Mobile phone footage taken by a bystander as cops got the guy NOTTS down on the ground by the Royal Centre tram stop and then proceeded to tazer him three times. June 2009 - July 2009 Khongor May 27 Nottingham’s pubs are filled with the usual shower of plastic It is pretty full on! With the taser and the clear Man United ‘fans’ who despise Nottingham and themselves, punches to the face, this is gonna take a lot of explaining. The only thing making this acceptable crying like women on Jeremy Kyle at the sight of ‘their’ team would be if the guy was carrying a gun or a knife or getting humiliated by Barcelona and - disgustingly - trying to start a broken bottle or something. on proper Nottinghamians who, quite reasonably, laugh at them it’s alan and do that snappy thing with their forefingers. When I am Lord Mayor of Nottingham, I’m going to pass a law that everyone born Oh God, that made me feel sick. Up until the in Notts who doesn’t support a local team will be forced to go to policeman hammers the guy I was being open the city of their adopted club whenever they want heathcare, dole, minded, but there is absolutely no call for that, the and maybe supermarket provisions an’all. guy was clearly incapacitated. Mr BRJ May 29 A farmer from Sutton Bonington is forced to spray-paint her I was brought up to have a bit of faith and respect hens pink in an attempt to deter thieves, and it’s worked a treat. in the cops but with the G20 stuff and this... it I’ve certainly been put off from my Friday night treat of having sex looks really bad.