German Market illustration by Lewis Heriz LeftLion Magazine Issue 14 Welcome to the Christmas and New Year December 2006-January 2007 4. Notts The Nine O’Clock News issue of our magazine (or perhaps more accurately newspaper – but without much of the ‘newsy’ stuff). Editor 5. Wheels of Change Jared Wilson ([email protected]) 6. Die Neue Scheiße/ All That Jezz We’ve been really busy recently, but in Deputy Editors a good way. We got shortlisted for the Al Needham ([email protected]) Record of the Day music journalism and Nathan Miller ([email protected]) 7. Live Pursuit PR awards in the category of Best Free Music Magazine. So Alan (the Technical Technical Director 9. New Years Eve Extravaganza Director and co-founder of LeftLion) and I Alan Gilby ([email protected]) went down to the awards ceremony at the Marketing and Sales Manager 10. The Ground Hogs 100 Club on Oxford Street to schmooze it Ben Hacking ([email protected]) up with a room of predominately London- 13. Mighty And Quite Possibly High based hacks. Unfortunately we didn’t win Artistic Director the award, but we made the most of the David Blenkey ([email protected]) free bar and those little nibbly bits of food 15. Natural Born Rocker they serve up on silver trays. We were Listings Editors also happy to participate in the industries Florence Gohard ([email protected]) Tim Bates ([email protected]) 16. When They Were Peasants favourite sport of backslapping, but with a twist… we had LeftLion stickers in our Music Editor 17. There’s Only One Jason Lee hands! By the end of the night everyone Sadie Rees-Hales ([email protected]) from the Editor of the NME to an American 18. Striking Back guy who claimed to be the PR for American Proofreaders rock band Mr Big were inadvertently Charlotte Kingsbury ([email protected]) repping our style! Natasha Chowdhury 19. The Anti-Christmas Photography Editor In this issue you’ll find the usual mix of Dom Henry ([email protected]) 23. Through The Rocking Glass/ features and interviews with people from Nottingham and beyond. Kasabian are Photographers Electric Dreams playing at the Ice Arena in December, so Ben Cipher we got them in for a chat. Likewise with Dave Bevan Lois Advert Belle and Sebastian who play at the Social David Bowen 24. Jon Rouston and Hollywood icon Juliette Lewis, who 25. Artists Profiles we caught up with after her recent gig at Illustrators Rescue Rooms. Alasdair Couch 26. Out and About Lewis Heriz I got to put some questions to two of my Rob White ([email protected]) current favourite people, Noel Fielding of Rikki Marr ([email protected]) 28. Nottingham Events Listings the Mighty Boosh (who has been making me laugh a lot via the medium of DVD) and Contributors 35. Nottsword/ Pub Quiz Jason Lee (who’s been making me happy Amanda Young as a County fan by banging in the goals at Andy Clydesdale 36. Bagels and Nottingham Zoo Meadow Lane). James Walker Jenny Hill We also feature a range of great Jesse Keene 37. Creative WritingWriting Nottingham-based acts who will be Mary Gallagher Michelle Bayton HorrorscopesHorrorscopes performing at LeftLion gigs over the next Paul Klotschkow 38. couple of months including Formication, Roger Mean The Smears, Nuclear Family, DJ Squigley, Tom Hathaway Das Ragworms, Jezz Hall, Sidearm, Bassrooster and Alice Rock (Happy Magician In Residence birthday to you). Jack Curtis Emigrating to Ireland So, buoyed on by a bit of acclaim from the Paul Dilger music journalism industry, we have grand plans to take LeftLion to the next level in 2007. Stick with us, it’ll be a fun journey… ”It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of from all our crew! something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” Dr. Seuss [email protected] LeftLion 349a Mansfield Road Nottingham NG5 2DA 0115 9123782 If you would like to reach our readers by advertising your 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. Nominated as Best Free Music Magazine in the UK Record of the Day Awards 2006 www.leftlion.co.uk/issue14 3 THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT WINTER I only like winter when I’m looking out from a warm house, wrapped in a blanket with a nOTTs THE NINE cup of tea thinking “I don’t have to go out for anything. Yesssss.” Nuclear B-Boy The clear skies you get on cold, wintery nights. O’CLOCK NEWS Frost forming on trees and sparkling at night time. with Nottingham’s ‘Mr. Sex’ Al Needham I love the fact that the moon is closest to the Earth at this point of the year. Mulled wine, making soups with fresh bread, hearing the frosty ground 1 October twin city in Germany has knocked out fourteen of the bastards. crunch under your feet. I love winter. £700,000 gets spent on the improvement of Canning Circus. Sara Pathetically, they don’t spend it on trapezes, clown cars, 26 October Winter is good because I hate the feeling of elephants and other things that would make the place live up An unbelievably fuckwitted bent copper gets sent down for sweat on my body when it’s warm, and you to its name. passing on information about murder witnesses to crims via the don’t sweat much in winter. It’s also the time manager of Limeys (the sort of clothes shop you go to kit out you are most likely to get a good blanket of 4 October for your next court appearance) in exchange for a discount on snow, and everyone knows snow rocks. Goose Fair opens, selling peas for a pound a pot. Let me say chatty clobber. Yep, you read that right - innocent people with BRJ that again, but this time in bold; peas for a pound a pot. A info on the Marian Bates and Stirlands murders were put at pound. For a pot. Of peas. risk because some cunt wanted 50% off a Stone Island jumper. I love getting all wrapped up in hats and Funnily enough, the last time I went past there, they were gloves and big coats. I love getting up in the 5 October having a half price sale. That’s irony, Alanis Morissette! morning when it’s still dark and having to run An incredibly vital survey commissioned by Nottingham into the shower to warm up. I love getting University discovers that 97% of people who won more than a 27 October home from work when it’s nearly dark outside million quid on the lottery were happier than they were before. David ‘Let’s headhunt a Pizzeria and watch a football and coming into a warm cosy house with a hot club dive down the toilet’ Platt sues Forest for a £50,000 cup of tea waiting for me. What next? Maybe they ought to commission an expedition in LadyBee the woods to see what that strange brown stuff that hangs out performance bonus. Yes, he’s a fish-faced cock-bucket, but of bears’ arseholes is. what the fuck were Forest doing offering fifty grand as a reward th I like winter because I’m not an outdoorsy for getting to 11 in the Second Division? person, and in winter nobody says things 7 October like “Don’t waste the whole day cooped up in Sorry, but I’m gonna have to say it one more time; a pound for 30 October here,” etc etc. a pot of peas. Local news story of the bi-month that sounds like a bad pollypocket Irvine Welsh novel. A smackhead in St Anns leaves her dead 8 October neighbour to rot down to a skelly in his bed for six months so 1. Can start bustin’ beanies without having to Non-black cabbies hold a protest march in town over the fact that she can spend his pension on gear. consider other hat options. they can’t use the same routes in the city centre that the Hackney 2. Hot squash is an acceptable alternative to cabs use. Unsurprisingly, the march veers right off course, goes 8 November coffee. through all the back streets away from its destination, and stops to Some poor sod is shot outside a pub in Bulwell, dumped in the 3. White wine out - Red wine in. boot of a car and left in Papplewick. Fucking hell, why didn’t 4. The cold can be used as an excuse for look at an A to Z with the meter still running. Twice! drinking brandy/carrying hipflask. they cut his tab off to Stuck In The Middle With You while they 5. New Year’s Eve missions. 16 October were at it? Mr.Dubbs He’s a Record Breaker! David Wyler of Notts gets done for growing the strongest weed ever found in the UK. Forensic scientists 10 November discover his gear (grown in a house in Ilkeston) contains a 29% Cor Blimey O’Reilly! Town is absolutely invaded by lesbians PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO LIVE THC content, enough to stun a rhinoceros and make it walk about for the weekend, as Pink and the Scissor Sisters play the Arena on consecutive nights.