LL 22 is hard as HELL, battle anybody I don't care who you TELL

Apologies for my rubbish maintenance of this blog, but I'm currently editing LeftLion while the proper Ed is poncing off round the world. As you can see by that skill cover above, it might just have been worth it. Alas, Page 6 - featuring a bleddy mint article about Gay Nottingham by the chap who writes this blog - was mangled beyond recognition for some reason, so we've thrown it up on the website. You can - and should - read it here.

Other features include an interview with Chuck D, a long-overdue shine for the Fish Man, Nottingham's only Goth Plumber, an exclusive extract from Nicola Monaghan, Reverend Car Bootleg, and an upskillified listings sections. Hope you like it.

(and yes, consider this blog fully operational again)

LeftLion #21 - Aht NAAH

Shoving another handful of strawberries into Nottingham's chatty snout, LeftLion issue 21 is now available in all decent locations in town (but not the outskirts just yet, because our delivery van nearly blew up on Trent Bridge yesterday). A dead arty one, this, with loads of stuff about CCAN, Nottingham regeneration, interviews with Roni Size and Gallows, and all the other stuff you know and love.

Get Some Notts Round Your Pots

Details here.

LeftLion #20 - Out NOW! NOW NOW NOW!

FREE Notts Xmas decorations
The A-Z of Nottingham Hip-Hop
Cappo
Neville Staple of The Specials
The return of Miles Hunt
Shopping in Notts
Dominic Minghella
Loay Hady

Plus May Contain Notts, A Canadian In New Basford, two months of Nottingham listings and all the usual features. Available in all the pubs and bars in the city centre worth a toss tonight, and all the other shoppy places from Monday.

Yer GET Meh?

Ta very much to the youths at postoftheweek.com for their Biggery-Uppage of May Contain Notts. And welcome to anyone swinging by from that very mint blog, even if they don't live in Hood-Town. Don't worry. We're not going to shoot you.

New columnist in LeftLion

We're building up a solid team of shit-hot columnists on the Lion at the moment. Hot on the heels of Left Brian, Left 'Pie-on and A Canadian in New Basford comes our latest column; Bar Bar Black Sheep. It's by someone I know who has worked behind loads of bars across Notts, and has a shitload of stories to tell. I have the feeling it's gonna be a very decent read...

The NME says dead nice things about us again

...but they still haven't reviewed my Emo album yet. Bastards.

LeftLion Is Not For Sale

A note from LeftLion Towers;

It has come to our attention that a certain (alleged) Big Issue seller is going around town with a bag of LeftLions and offering them for sale, claiming that LeftLion has been bought out by the Big Issue. We’d like to draw your attention to the following;

• LeftLion has always been a free newspaper. That’s why it has a big ‘FREE’ logo near the top.

• LeftLion has not been bought out by the Big Issue, or anyone else. It remains a fiercely independent magazine produced for and by Nottingham people.

• If you see anyone attempting to sell LeftLion, please take their Big Issue vendor number and send it to info@leftlion.co.uk

• LeftLion is available for free in over 300 locations in the Nottingham area. Get a copy from there.

• (Oh, and ask the bloke if he’s got any Big Issues for sale, as it’s good karma)

Thank you,
LeftLion
www.leftlion.co.uk

Cheeky fucking bastards.

LeftLion #19: Scream If You Want To Go Faster, Girls

Students in Nottingham - Blessing or Curse?
The Coral
Nottingham RFC
DJ Looch Mentalism
Justin Moorhouse
Vinyl Abort
Nuclear Family
Athlete
Miles Hunt
Team Hughes
Matt Haig
Moot Gallery
Control

Plus Canadian In New Basford, May Contain Notts, Nottingham's meatiest listings section and all the other regular stuff - with FREE 'Proper Notts' tea-towel for every reader!

If you don't find this lying about tonight, you're obviously drinking at a shit pub. Or you've stopped in.

LeftLion Pub Quiz - It's Tonight, Duck

The Golden Fleece, Mansfield Road, 9pm. Click this for more details.

LeftLion Presents - This Saturday

LeftLion #18 Hits Town, Town Goes 'Ouch'

INTERVIEWS
Pav and Jesus of the Variety Club, Radford
Duncan Hamilton (author of the new Brian Clough book)
Shaun Ryder
Paul Kaye & Jonathan Glazer
Computerman
Swimming
Notts comedians
Not In Nottingham
Mat Rhodes
Scout Niblett
Zoe Johnson
David Blayze
Tim McDonald
Chris Summerlin

FEATURES
Asylum seekers in Notts
Forest & Notts season previews
Canadian In New Basford: Derby-bashing
8 Notts Football Books
Momentum Festival
Beats v Hippies

And all the usual listings, chelp and mither. And it costs you nuppence, guy.

On Your Knees For King LeftLion the Fifteenth, Peasants

Nice, in't it? The latest issue of the only free mag in Notts that's too good to put under your dog's ringpiece while he's curling one off in the living room is OUT NOW, youth - and will you just take a look at that sexy, sexy cover? Roll it up in the pub and mek aht that you've just come back from Skeggeh, or stick it under your armpit and try to convince girls that your Primark jacket is really Paul Smith. Or you could just read the bastard, I suppose, rammed to buggery as it is with interviews of some of the vanguard of the Trent Tempo and some other people. If you can't wait, here's the PDF.

And ohh ahh yeah - the LeftLion Pub Quiz is back tonight at the Golden Fleece on Mansfield Road from 8.30 onwards. It was heaving last week, mainly because the Post were there to write an article on pub quizzes, and various alt-media types were falling over themselves trying to get their pic taken to impress their Mams (tsk). So get in early.

(and I'd like to welcome all new readers of MCN who followed the link from my news section in the latest issue of the Lion. But I can't, because the bell-ends put the wrong fucking link up. Cha.)

Return of the LeftLion Pub Quiz

After an extended break over Xmas, our very own pub quiz (more often than not hosted by my good sen) comes back to the Golden Fleece on Mansfield Road this Wednesday, January 10th at 9pm-ish. You can read further details about it here, but suffice to say that it's an extremely good doss and the opportunity to get caylide on a school night with the lovely people who put LeftLion together. Two quid per team, first prize a gallon o' beer -so are you chipping out or what?

Tings A Gwan In LeftLionLand

8,000 issues of LeftLion - Nottingham's only free magazine worth the steam off your piss - has been whipped away from the printers and is currently stacked up in a flat in Sherwood, ready to be dumped all over the city this weekend. And although I say it myself, this is one mint issue. Look at that cover, for a kick-off; Rikki Marr is a talented fucker, in't he?

Contents...Kasabian...The Mighty Boosh...Juliette Lewis...Jason Lee...Belle & Sebastian...Gary Imlach...Ground Hog breakdance crew...Three-page Xmas diss...The usual Notts-based palaver...

40 pages of properness. Even the adverts look skill.


And, as is our wont, we'll be getting battered in the Orange Tree on Saturday 2nd December for the monthly LeftLion Presents, featuring The Deltarays and Alice Rock. So get your arse over, youth.