LeftLion Magazine - October 2004 - Issue 1

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Nottingham For Reel!

Shane Meadows Chris Cooke Miles Hunt C-mone + more

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“Everything that I’ve done, right from the beginning was born in Nottingham.

I always want to give something back.”

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Shane Meadows Filmography Twenty Four Seven (1997) Meadows debut is a film about a group of young men living in a run down area of Nottingham. They are all restless and lacking adventure or even the will to try and find it, so when D’arcy (Bob Hoskins) starts up a local boxing club they show varying amounts of interest. The story is a warming one and, with the license to improvise the cast are given, there are one-liners and banter that will have you blowing snot bubbles on your popcorn.

This film was also something of a landmark for filmmakers in Nottingham.

A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) A Room for Romeo Brass follows the friendship between two pubescent boys growing up next door to each other on a council estate in Nottingham. Hospital treatment and ridiculous parents are a constant strain, but when Morelle (Paddy Consadine) befriends the pair their friendship is tested to its limits. Romeo Brass is a gripping and touching snippet of life. What makes the film so watchable are the relationships, Andrew Shim plays Romeo with plenty of heart alongside a hilarious yet disturbing, first time performance from Consadine. This film is superb.

Once Upon A Time in the Midlands (2002)

You’re very highly thought of in Nottingham. How do you feel about the city? ”It certainly seems that I’ve been adopted… My whole career has been born in Nottingham. Everything that I’ve done, right from the beginning when I was doing little tiny video festivals. I always want to give something back. I live over in Burton on Trent at the minute, but I’ve already been back three times this week! Half of the crew for the last film came from this city, so I don’t just dip into London resources, I’m always trying to bring through new people from Nottingham if I can.”

the city on and off for ten or twelve years. I was actually born in Uttoxeter, a little market town in between Derby and Stoke.”

Your last film Once Upon a Time in the midlands was a departure for yourself, working with big name actors rather than the usual unknowns…

Are you originally a Notts boy?

”Having famous people in your films makes a difference to your box office, but it’s not something I’d do regularly because it doesn’t fit with how I work. It wasn’t my choice in the first place to fill the cast with lots of big names. I was half forced into it to be honest, but I sat back and was pleased there were lots of good actors who wanted to do it.”

”No. I originally came here when I was 18. I went to do a year at college and I lived in

”I respected people like Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, Ricky Tomlinson and Robert Carlyle

and it was a chance to try working with them. They were really nice, but the problem with working with successful actors is that it’s totally different to the way I normally like to work.” ”Usually we all live together for six months before I start shooting, so I’m getting to know the cast. When you’re working with famous people they’re so busy that they can only turn up for the odd week here and there. I enjoyed the experience, but I’m going to continue to work with more untrained people in the future because I think that’s where my skills lie.”

of the film, basically because he didn’t think he was good enough to do it. I had found Toby during one of my last sessions at the Carlton Drama Workshop in Nottingham. He was about 20 when we met him and came in with only two days to go before filming began.” ”The part is a lad with mental disabilities, so it’s a difficult role to play even with a lot of research time. Toby came in with two days to go in almost the same way that Paddy (Consadine) came in to do Morel in Romeo Brass.

He’s more than ably filled the shoes.”

Tell us about the latest Nottingham actor you’re unveiling, Toby Kebbel…

You’ve got a long held working relationship with musician Gavin Clarke…

”When I was making Dead Man’s shoes, a lead member of the original cast walked out

”We met at Alton Towers fourteen years ago. I was a clown and Gavin worked in a

burger van. He was living in a caravan in the countryside and I used to rib him for his cockney accent. I got him to put a band together when I made Small Time and he wrote the whole soundtrack.”

in it called Fantasia Burrino and she’s really amazing. I want her to win it. Quentin Tarantino was a judge on it last week. I didn’t feel quite so embarrassed about liking it when I saw he liked it.”

”By the time Sunhouse had broken up a few years ago, however, he’d sort of given up on making music. This guy Ted Barnes, who works with Beth Orton, rang him up and said ‘look you’re too talented not to be working and they all got together, formed this new band, got a record contract and it’s all looking very promising for him now.”

You’ve just signed up to your next three feature films. Can you tell us a little about each of them…

What do you watch on TV at home..?

”The first is called Mary and is a dark film set in the care system. It’s about all the abuse that goes on in the foster homes and young offenders centres. I’m going to be looking into things in an almost documentary style.”

”We watch American Idol. You know Simon Cowell and all that! The American one’s on Sky. Every single week I’m like a slave to it! There’s a woman

”The second film hasn’t got a title yet. It’s a superhero story within a council estate.

It’s the story of guy who comes into Nottingham, to

work in a care centre on a housing estate and basically all the kids hate him and treat him like shit! In the end, because he can’t do anything to help them in the day, he starts going round at night. No-one pays attention to him by day, but because he’s got this ninja mask on people are more prepared to listen.”

“The third one is something I’ve wanted to make for about ten years. It’s a true story called King of the Gypsies and is about a bare-knuckle fighter from Uttoxeter who is champion of the gypsies. I knew him for about twenty years, he was a close friend, and it’s the film I’ve always wanted to make. Altogether it’s probably going to take about four years to do all three…”

I understand Johnny Vegas is lined up to star in one of your future films.. ”He wants to be the superhero in the second of the new films. We’ve become friends and, by god, he can drink! I went out with him to Ronnie Scott’s to see this Jazz singer Jimmy Scott who’s been around since the 1940’s. I have never in my life put away so much alcohol. It was three pints and three chasers a round, so after about two rounds I was heaving my ring up and he was just getting warm.”

Dead Man’s Shoes is showing at the Broadway Cinema 1st-14th October 2004

Once Upon A Time in the Midlands was something of a departure for Meadows.

After his previous two features he was offered the chance to work with not one, but several of the best upcoming actors in Britain.

In terms of the box office this is Meadows most successful film, but in the critics eyes it was probably his most disappointing. Sterling performances from Ricky Tomlinson, Kathy Burke and Robert Carlyle, alongside a few local actors save this family based comedy from the bargain basement depths of British comedy.

Dead Mans Shoes (2004) A return to working with small names and budgets and a return to form for Meadows. Dead Mans Shoes is a dark gritty tale about a man who returns to his hometown to wreak revenge on a gang of drug dealers and petty criminals.

Paddy Consadine takes the lead role and is totally believable as a former army officer.

Toby Kebbel is introduced as his mentally disabled brother and puts in a fine debut performance. Take the eerie atmosphere of Danny Boyle’s Shallowgrave and add the revenge lust of Get Carter and you’re on the right lines.

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credits LeftLion Magazine October 2004 Issue 1 Editor Jared Wilson Sub Editors Alan Gilby Timmy Bates Yemi Akinpelumi Design David Blenkey Photographers David Bowen Dom Henry Joe Ryder Contributors Adrian Bhagat Al Needham Bones Gaz Smith Guy Gooberman Miles Hunt Tim Evans Tom Cowdrey Roger Mean ”Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

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Welcome to the first printed edition of the LeftLion magazine. The very fact you’re holding this in your hands is a personal triumph for us and hopefully for the city of Nottingham. It’s certainly been an interesting journey getting this far…

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Local news for local people Goodbye Young Man. A tribute to the man who put Nottingham on the football map.

Wonder Stuff lead singer Miles Hunt writes exclusively for LeftLion

“Nottingham is not a massive city, but we got a lot of talent. All we need now is a decent legal radio station in the city that is prepared to play the kind of music that people around here are making…” C-mone Interview

8 When is a computer game responsible for murder?

9 Nottingham For Reel 10 Nottsword 11 Shane Meadows interview 14 LeftLion events listings:

theatre/club nights/live music/exhibititions/comedy

22 Rocky Horrorscopes and Bones’ Fun Cave

LeftLion.co.uk was launched to the public on 1st September 2003. Founders Alan, Timmy and I spent several months prior to launch building it. Our inspiration was living in the city and wanting an entertainments guide like this to use for ourselves.

In the time that has followed, lots of interesting and exciting things have happened. Respect to every single person who has contributed to get us this far.

There are too many people to name all the names, but you know who you are and thanks for all the time you’ve put in! Thanks also to our friends for putting up with us during all the late hours.

Nottingham film directors Shane Meadows and Chris Cooke are both having serious success at the moment and this month we spoke to them about the fantastic film community developing in the region.

Likewise, there is a blossoming underground music community that goes back years. This month rapper C-mone told us about recording with the Streets and the old days of OutDaVille. There will be plenty more to come from that girl we’re sure…

Loads more information about things going on in Nottingham is available on our website. As always, if there are things that you think we should know about then please do get in touch. The next issue of the magazine will be released in early December. jared@leftlion.co.uk

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Nottingham Voices things people have said on the leftlion forum On Nottingham

local news for local people

”I met my wife on a blind date at the left lion in Nottingham nearly three and a half years ago. I have since moved to the sunnier climes of Songkhla in Southern Thailand. (Songkhla, spookily is also derived from the Yawi word for Lion).”

Idma

with Guy Gooberman Please note that Guy Gooberman is a fictional character and therefore only as real as the news he writes

”If you’re from Liverpool you’re a Scouser or even a Liverpudlian. Mancunians are from Manchester. And if you’re from London you’re a Londoner, or possibly a Cockney. So what are we from Nottingham? What’s our word?”

NJM ”If you’re from Sneinton your a Sneintonite and if you’re from Clifton your a Cliftonite.

Bullwell = Bullwellian.”

Baron of Carlton

Nottingham top for chavs

On Proposals for a New Art Gallery in the City: ”As much as I love green bits in the city, I think it’s about bloody time and pretty jolly spiffing!

Its time that art was not relegated to the upstairs room of a library or to the edges of a city in an upgraded poly.”

Niffer ”All we will end up with is a place filled with people who cant draw, dance or hold a conversation without telling you how great, conceptual, mind numbing their work is.

They will also walk round with sh*t hats on pretending to be Bob Dylan.”

Barry_Clava

On Graffiti in the City ”I can understand people wanting to catch those that mindlessly tag every point they come into, but when it comes to chasing down the artists that are putting colour and life into our otherwise dull urban streets then we’ve got issues...”

Timmy

Left Lion to be replaced Nefarious Belgian public artist, Hanky Minstrel, has won backing for his controversial plans for market square. The famous meeting spot of the ‘Left Lion’ is to be replaced by an 80 foot phallus that will gush foamy water when the Council House chimes its bell.

Booze City Dance madness in the caves

”What I don’t get with tagging is if the aim is to make people think more, but you know when the majority see it they only think ‘what a mess’, why bother? Isn’t it all a bit self defeating?”

Alan ”The whole point of graffiti is the underground feel. Getting the sub-culture message across right in the face of the rest of the world who are forced to open their eyes to it - either to criticize or appreciate, it doesn’t matter to the artists.”

Jamie ”Graffiti for graffiti’s’ sake, that’s when its at its best.”

Barry_Clava

Make your voice heard . . .

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The other poor lion will not escape his Euro art touch, as he plans to replace that feline with a wooden puffin that will smell of sheet metal. The Belg plonker then plans to turn slab square itself into jelly for passing children to eat.

Rejoice Burberry capped ones! Nottingham can add the prestigious ‘Chav City of 2004’ to its ‘Britain in Bloom’ title.

Notts has been voted the top Chav city in the entire UK, with areas such as Top Valley, Bulwell and Killisick having more Chavs per square foot than anywhere in Britain.

A Chav (or Townies, Neds and Bazzas) are distinguished by their penchant for caps, white trainers and excessive amounts of nasty ass gold jewellery from Argos.

We’ve already seen on various badly made, sensationalist TV programmes how much Nottingham is a violent ‘Booze City’ but scientists have just revealed the shocking extent of Nottingham’s love affair with alcohol.

Professor Bounce Rocket explains: “Our tests prove that 78% of Nottingham people are more booze then flesh, which means instead of being made of bone and muscle and other such things, Nottingham people are mostly just lager and/or Bacardi Breezers held together by a few strands of kebab.”

Hegley Stump, from New Basford, has caused a scene in a top Nottingham tourist attraction as he refused to leave without a dance fight.

That’s correct; this addlebrained old man is throwing down the dance gauntlet to whoever has the nerve to front him out in the damp natural passages that run under the Broadmarsh. The problem is no one can find the aged hoofer to challenge him, as he seems to

be lost in the maze of tunnels.

Experts fear if he’s not found he could soon be dead.

Top art providing 12 million jobs Nottinghamshire received a massive jobs hoist when a new bit of public art was awarded to the county. Maverick artist Verge Large-Stuff, explained: “Basically we’re building a massive statue of Torvill and Dean that will span the entire county and we need a lot of labour for a project like this”.

The statue, which is 3 miles high and the width of the North Sea, will show the ice skating pair in a dramatic pose. Michael Crank, a tax payer, said: “i’m a tax payer and i’m disgusted that my tax is being wasted on arse like this!”

Verge reckons that at least half of the work force will die in creating this art.

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Goodbye Young Man Brian Clough 1935-2004 words: Al Needham It’s May 26th, 1977. I am a ten year-old Top Valley lad sitting in my next door neighbour’s living room watching Liverpool parade the European Cup about.

“See that?” said my neighbour. “That’ll be Forest in two years. You watch...”

I’d always had my doubts about my next door neighbour, but this confirmed them. At school, no-one (and I mean no-one) supported Forest. You were a Liverpool or Man United fan and maybe, if you were really unlucky, your Dad took you to County every now and then.

But Forest? No way. Sure, they’d just got promoted the previous week (by the skin of their teeth), and their manager was well known for having a big gob, but they weren’t going to do anything. Were they?

Six months later, you were as likely to see a Liverpool or Man United bag in a Nottingham school as you’d see a Bros pencil case today. Kids would roll up to school, their jumpers encrusted with plastic badges with phrases such as ‘Withe Strikes More Than British Leyland’ and ‘We All Agree Nottingham Forest Are Magic’. One day, someone came to school with the lyrics of the We’ve Got The Whole World In Our Hands, and about 50 lads marched round the playground in a line, flares a-swinging, arms round shoulders, bellowing out the words;

only were we winning almost everything in sight by the end of the 70s, but we were doing it in style. We were loved by everyone else outside of Derby, because we had put an end to the reign of Liverpool.

I’ve got a picture of myself as an 11 year-old in the Royal Hunt pub in Top Valley, holding up the European Cup. I still can’t quite believe that happened, and I doubt very much that it will again (and not only because the pub is being pulled down). I see kids on our estate wearing Arsenal and Man U shirts and I feel nothing but pity for them.

They could win the European Cup every year, but it’s not really their team…

“We’re gonna win, we’re gonna win everything – so stand up and sing for Cluffeh the king!

Cluff-eh! Cluff-Eh!” And we hadn’t even won anything. Yet… Before Cloughie, nothing happened in Nottingham that warranted attention in the national media. Sure, everyone knew about Robin Hood, but by this time most foreigners assumed he was a fox with an American accent, thanks to the Disney cartoon. The last time Nottingham passed across the national consciousness was Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a whole generation before.

Cloughie might have been born in Middlesbrough and he might have died in Derby, but he was pure Nottingham. Chelpy as you like, stubborn as anything, gobby enough to have a go at Muhammad Ali on Parkinson… and he chinned Roy Keane. He was Nottingham’s surrogate Dad, and we were his lairy, sometimes bemused but always fiercely loyal kids. Two particular events spring to mind…

Thanks to Cloughie, everyone knew about Nottingham. Not

During the championship season Cloughie, getting narked off by

the foul language from the Trent End, put up a massive sign that read ‘Gentlemen, No Swearing Please – Brian’. If any other manager had tried that, there would have been outrage, but it worked. For a while, Forest fans would chant “Your’re gonna get your flipping heads kicked in” and “The referee’s a naughty”.

The second event is the time when Cloughie went batchy over a pitch invasion and started smacking up pitch invaders. On the video clip, you can see one bloke turn round and get ready to give it back, until he suddenly sees who it is… then he legs it like a scalded cat. If anyone else had done that, Forest would have been hit with about 20 lawsuits. All that happened to Cloughie was a TV appearance where he kissed two extremely sheepish-looking blokes.

Naturally, you can’t talk about the glory years without mentioning the tragic denouement, when he stayed on too long and Forest got relegated. In fact, we should talk about that, because I was never more proud to be from Nottingham than in 1993. I was in London at Uni at the time, and when people found out where I was from, the first thing they’d say was “Forest, eh? What a team – Cloughie’s ace, isn’t he?” And no-one took the piss or rubbed it in when we got relegated, because he made Forest hate-proof. I wasn’t there for his last home game, but I stood at a Dixons window in Brighton, crying like a Jessie with pride at the reception he got at the City Ground. What other city would give a manager a send-off like that after he took them down?

It still hasn’t sunk in that Brian Clough is dead. But then again, it still hasn’t sunk in that we were once the greatest team in the world, either.

Life According To Brian…

“The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.”

“If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he’d have put grass up there.”

“Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhea.”

(On Man Utd opting-out of the FA Cup to play in the World Club Championship.)

“I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.”

“On occasions I have been big headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.”

“Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.”

(On Martin O’Neill).

“I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn’t have hit him very hard.”

(On Roy Keane).

“I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that’s exactly what I would have done.”

(On the England manager’s job).

“You don’t want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.”

(On too much football on television). ‘’That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror, rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.”

(On England goalkeeper David Seaman).

“Barbara’s supervising the move. She’s having more extensions built than Heathrow Airport.”

(On moving house).

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no Smoke Without fire...

I’m a smoker, no two ways about it. I smoke therefore I am….

If the phone rings, I reach for my pack before the receiver. Listening to music, especially my own (yeah…. we all do it) the fag is in my gob before I’ve even lined up the track. Strangely though, two of the most clichéd smokers’ moments (after sex & after a meal), have never applied to me, preferring instead a good kip on both occasions.

Aside from the obvious pleasures I get from smoking, there are other advantages to the habit. The bonding that goes on between smokers is a hard thing to reject. Finding a ‘tab-a-cab’, a taxi where the driver lets you light up, is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Most often he’ll light one up too, just to be sociable.

Nice, nice…

What I really wanted to talk about though, was the inevitability of ‘The Smoking Ban’ reaching our shabby little rock. I’ve experienced these in several other countries and cities & it’s never quite the same thing.

In Los Angeles, for instance, it’s been around for years. But then it never bothered me there as it’s virtually impossible to enjoy a night out in LA anyway. I once played a gig in Fresno, CA, another ‘No Smoking’ town, where I was told that I could smoke on stage during my show, but only if I could prove it was an “essential part of my performance”. I said “Sure it’s essential, I don’t smoke, I don’t play, how’s that..?”

Californian authorities make laws because as a society, they’re terrified of each other. More to the point, terrified of being sued by one another. They are also probably terrified of having teeth that look like they’re on loan from an Englishman…

Last year I sat next to a Californian male on a plane, who told me that LA County had recently issued him with a fine for smoking in his own apartment.

Apparently the downstairs neighbour could smell his smoke & reported him to the authorities.

It appeared he had committed an actual offence simply by bringing his existence to another person’s attention. Land of the free….

A couple of months ago I was in Dublin, where the ban has been in effect since April this year. At first, on visiting J. Grogans, one of the city’s finest bars, I was very uneasy as I sat down for my first pint of Kilkenny. I shared my discomfort with my friends, but as the conversation began to flow & the laughs grew louder, the irritation subsided. I even felt quite ridiculous as I made an excuse of having to make a

phone call, just to step onto the street to feed my habit.

On the whole, and you know I hate admitting this, I’m not overly troubled by the ban. In my most reasonable of moments (few & far between) I even support it.

The Dublin ban introduces one problem that I haven’t encountered in North America though. This is, the overwhelming smell of farts that permeates every bar, venue & club. North American cities are well equipped with their air conditioning systems, but Ireland is not and everyone drinks Guinness!! I’ve never smelt anything like it…

The ban in Eire applies to ‘the work place’. This can be a bar, an office, a restaurant or a company owned vehicle (this is the one that amuses me the most). Picture, if you will, three great big blokes, sardined into the front seat of their work transit van, a copy of The Sun on the dash board.

They should be made to smoke for chrissakes! It’s a great British tradition.

So, will The Smoking Ban come here? I think it’s more than likely. I might even find myself welcoming it, just a little bit.

Hangovers are a breeze when I’ve not been chain smoking and I rather prefer having friends come visit me at home anyway. But then judging by the ways of California & Eire, I might not be too long before I’m unable to smoke in my own home. It is my work place after all…

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Out of the Ville

words: Jared Wilson. Photos: Joe Ryder C-Mone spent 4 years in Nottingham’s infamous OutDaVille crew alongside the likes of Lee Ramsay, Scorzayzee, Tempa, DJ Fever and many talented others. They eventually split in 2001 to pursue different musical directions.

Since then, C-mone’s excursion into solo femcee land has probably been the most successful of all her former bandmates. The release of her debut EP last year, might have been low profile, but it was heard in the right places and prompted a certain Mr Mike Skinner to call and ask her to feature on his next album.

”This is a bit of an exclusive for LeftLion, but there’s going to be an album come out next year. It’s going out on Son Records and it’s going to drop sometime between February and April. I’m really excited!

I got the chance to work with the P Brothers and Nick Stez (my producer from the OutDaVille days. There’s also a couple of other collaborations on there that will surprise people.”

Is that collaborations with Notts people or bigger national names? ”Both. Watch this space…”

Tell us a bit about the old days with OutDaVille…

Her appearance on The Streets’ ”The most memorable thing A Grand Don’t Come For Free for me was the beginning. I is brief but could be enough was sat there in the studio to push her into the realms of writing a rap and Big Trev musical success that elude so called a meeting about the many Nottingham musicians. group he was putting together.

He nudged me and told me I met C-mone in Big Trev’s I was in the group. That was studios, just off Carlton Road my initiation, no warning or after rehearsals. She was relaxed, but also lively and nothing. I just fell into Big clearly excited by her music.

Trev’s masterplan.” ”I spent years with You still living in Notts?

OutDaVille running up and Yeah of course. I’m still living down the country like a here and working away at the madwoman. It was a great community recording studios. learning experience. There It’s still all about Nottingham. I were good points and there don’t see why I should move!!” were bad points, but I’ve got a lot of good memories.” ”When we recorded the first You’ve been recording tunes we were so broke. There lots of new stuff recently I were no grants coming into the hear?

Sophie Johnson-Hill Another former laydee from OutDaVille, Sophie started out as a choirgirl at St Peters church. Her willingness to experiment, however, has led her into hiphop. Nowadays she’s recording with Nottingham label Dealmaker, alongside other ODV veterans Scorzayzee and Karizma.

She’s currently on a 6month break from singing after being warned about potential damage to her throat as she explained to LeftLion. “I miss my top range and the break might mean I get those high notes again. Music is my therapy and I’m going to be bursting with melodies when I get back.”

Community centre at that time at all. We had this battered Atari computer and Nick (Stez) was sampling on a broken Technics deck and we were in a shack because the studio had been flooded. I remember helping Trev to unplug all the equipment, with water everywhere. I could have got fried…it was properly messy!”

That carnage seems a long way from your success these days. How did you hook up with Mike Skinner? ”He heard my debut EP release on Son records and liked my accent, so I got called by his people to do a verse.

Sometimes labels call you up and end up using your verse on a remix, so I thought I’d go down, make a little bit of money and that’d be it.” ”When I got there I walked in the studio and Mike was sat there. His laptop was in front of him, all ready to go and he just really relaxed. He was really simple and down to earth. Afterwards he caught the tube back with us and then went off about his business…” ”A few months later when I heard a copy of the album I was well happy! It’s out there.

I do get people coming up to me asking me questions, telling me it’s at number three in the album charts and stuff.

It seems surreal, but at the end of the day it is a great thing for me. I’ve had feedback from America and Europe and elsewhere…

If you could make a track with anyone who would you choose? ”I’ve been asked this before and said Prince because I think together we could make something crazy. I’d like to work with Vadim, I like Phi Life Cypher, I’d also like to work with Rapper Ru from Smokes and Bluntz in Notts. I’ve tried to get him in the studio a lot and he keeps saying he’s going to but he’s really hard to pin down. ” What are your favourite places in Notts? ”The cashpoint!! No seriously, there’s a Chinese restaurant in Hockley that I really like and there’s always the studio.

I used to go out clubbing all the time, but now I get really bored! I still like good hiphop nights tho. I go to the Bomb every now and then and I’m looking forward to seeing The Roots play at Rock City in November.”

What UK acts are you particularly feeling at the moment? ”I like what Estelle is doing. I love Dizzee Rascal. I don’t care

what anyone wants to say, I love him and think his music is amazing. From Notts I love Mr 45, I think he’s an amazing rapper. He’s a timeless emcee.

I think Lee Ramsay is really underrated. He’s got so much skill it’s scary. There’s a load of new youths out there as well.” ”Check out the dark whisper label coming out in 2005. It’s my own label and there are going to be lots of new artists on there such as Smiley, Matic and Paris One ( female from Radford who’s done some stuff with Sweet Dreams).”

Anything else you want to say..? ”Yes. Nottingham is not a massive city, but we got a lot of talent. The support we get is good and whenever I’ve gigged here it’s always been love. Keep it up at LeftLion! All we need now is a decent legal radio station in the city that is prepared to play the kind of music that people around here are making…”

Marga Boys Lee Ramsay is still only in his mid-twenties, which is surprising when you consider that has been rocking Nottingham for a decade.

He is currently working on his ‘Marga Boys’ project, a collaborative which also heavily features ODV producer Nick Stez and multi talented musician Pij. We hooked up with them for a chat a while ago to hear their new sounds. Lee told us “Wherever we go it’s going to be exciting.

Whereas before we might not have gone to some of these places, now we want to try everything.”

Full interview and audio samples on www.leftlion.co.uk

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how sick is this game . . . words: Gaz Smith

Recently I was motivated to resume playing a PS2 game, which had remained dormant on my shelf for quite some time. The reason for this , renewed motivation was it s involvement in recent publicity surrounding a murder case...

I remember the day I purchased Manhunt from Another World. When I approached the counter the woman muttered under her breath ‘Manhunt… sick’. Whether she knew I had heard her or not didn’t matter. The truth is that I knew a lot about the game, but even I wasn’t quite prepared for its content…

The tabloids, the justice system, Curry’s, Dixon’s and even Tony Blair want Manhunt banned! The reason for this negative publicity is that it was alleged to have driven Warren LeBlanc, 17, to murder Stefan Pakeerah earlier this year in Leicestershire. This kind of press always irritates me, whether it’s a notoriously violent film, segmented satanic death metal verses or a post-watershed TV programme. Surely anyone in their right mind can make the decision between the real world and fantasy…?

The basic premise behind Manhunt is simple. You are a very very bad man and at the start of the game, you’re to be executed. However, someone gets you out of the execution chamber alive and will only let you live if you follow his directions. This man is, in fact, the ‘Director’ of the game. He instructs you on the basics and gives

you the ‘motivation’ for each scene. This generally translates to killing anything with a pulse. In order to really impress the director, you need do this in the most violent manner possible…

Other adult games that Rockstar have produced include the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series. The third chapter has the player controlling a character on a quest to ‘own’ the city.

This is acheived by going through just about every heinous activity known to man, such as extortion, protection, murder, mugging, car theft and property development. The beauty of the game is the freedom to do just about anything, particularly in terms of breaking the law.

It is this theme that Rockstar have exploited that concerns me. I am an avid gamer and enjoy video games as a means of escapism from the hum drum of daily life.

Looking back on yesteryear, however, I feel nostalgic for the likes of Sonic and Mario, both of which appealed on less brutal levels with cutesy looks and basic gameplay.

Nowadays we have photorealistic graphics with which developers are

free to create just about anything real or unreal.

They often use these to create brutal scenes of murder and violence. So, if an average kid plays something like Manhunt long enough are they likely to mimic its content? In my opinion no, but perhaps if the person playing such a game already has an unstable state of mind and difficulty determining reality from fantasy then

they may commit crime of any sort regardless of outside cultural influences.

It’s also worth pointing out that Manhunt was originally released with an 18 certificate and that both LeBlanc and Pakeerah were under this age at the time of the incident.

Manhunt could be definitely classed as a ‘snuff’ game.

Dan Houser the executive producer of Manhunt and

other Rockstar games (Max Payne, GTA 3 + Vice City) seems to have found a niche in producing games that would be illegal if produced in film format. As a hardcore gamer, I have to admit that the makers have once again pushed the boundaries in creating almost total freedom and that it’s slightly discomforting.

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Nottingham For Reel One For The Road is the debut feature film from the Nottingham-based film director Chris Cooke. It tells the tale of a group of alcoholics who meet at an AA class, but soon head off to the pub together to hatch crazy plans to make money. words: Jared Wilson. photos: Dom Henry The film will be released on DVD in November and was shot in locations throughout Nottingham.

It was made with financial support from local agency EM-Media and features a strong Nottingham cast and crew. It received rave reviews in the national press during it’s cinema run earlier this year.

Chris Cooke is one person who seems to have his feet on the ground, despite the lavish praise. In conversation he immediately puts you at ease with his dry self-depreciating sense of humour. I spoke to him one bleak Tuesday morning…

You must be pleased with the success of One For The Road… ”Yeah, I’m really happy. It’s had a fairly limited release, but it’s been a good one.

We’ve had some excellent reviews in the national press.

The audiences I’ve spoken to also seemed to enjoy it.“ Some of the Nottingham actors are brilliant in this film… ”Absolutely! When we were auditioning for Shifting Units, the short that lead to this feature, a mate of mine was saying that the guy we wanted to play Paul was Rupert Proctor. He came in for his audition last and, to be honest, I should have listened to her from the beginning. He walked in and he was the part.” ”The same thing goes with Mark Devenport. He’s another local filmmaker and actor and he was absolutely brilliant.

He’s one of the best comedy writers and short filmmakers in this region anyway and I wrote the character especially for him.”

It must have been quite a contrast between working with those guys and alongside a classic actor like Hywel Bennet?

The only way is up for Nottingham director Chris Cooke; Chris Cooke with fellow director and One For The Road star Mark Devenport ”He’s a great actor and he really looks the part. The great thing about him, compared to the other actors, is that he comes from a totally different tradition. It worked really well, because he was like an island that everyone else was kind of swimming around.”

It seems that the film-making community in Nottingham is thriving at the moment…

“There is a really good network here and I think it is growing. There really are loads of people making films all the

time. Some people are doing it on an outsider level, sometimes with really low budgets and others with a little funding.” ”The sense of community is definitely one of the things that kept me going. I was unemployed for about five years and during that time I worked on as many shorts as I could.

There was always someone who needed a runner or a sound recorder or someone to do the lighting or whatever.

It was a really good nurturing ground… and it still is.”

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Nottingham For Reel continued...

Are you a fan of Shane Meadows’ work? ”Absolutely. I’m dying to see his new film Dead Mans Shoes. I’ve heard so much about it and always look out for what he’s doing…”

Are you still going to use DV tape to film on? ”Yeah, I’m sticking with it!

It’s a double-edged sword because it allows me to get much closer to the actors and I can afford to experiment a lot more than I could on film.

On the other hand you end up with far too much footage.

There was something like a 90 to 1 ratio for One For The Road. It can be a nightmare in the edit suite.”

What are you working on at the moment?

”A comedy about death and grief. A woman flies out to the French Alps to pick her brother up after he’s spent months out there leading a hedonistic life. The story follows them on the journey back to Nottingham for their mother’s funeral. The closer they get to home, the more honest they become with each other.” ”It’s a bleak subject, but I chose it because I think that’s where the routes of comedy lie. The failure of communication is one of the things that I really enjoy writing about.”

I understand you’re also developing a British wrestling movie..? ”Another bleak black comedy, because I can’t stop myself.

Nottsword

Wrestling is one of those things where everything is fake apart from the physical pain. There’s something about the way that people create characters that I was really fascinated by. You create another identity and it becomes a facet or an extension of who you are and can reveal more about yourself than you’d like. You escape from things, but you can never really escape from yourself…”

One For The Road (2004) One For The Road, Cooke’s debut feature, is a poignant, blackly comic view on male bonding and the unreliability of friendship through drink. A bunch of recovering alcoholics meet at an AA class, only to decide to take a group journey to the pub. Whilst there they begin to hatch plans to make themselves rich and try to cover up the emerging darkness in their personal lives.

If you were a wrestler what would your character be?

The stalwart cast of character actors is led by Hywel Bennett (The Family Way, TV’s Shelley), and features Nottingham-based actors such as Rupert Proctor (Heartlands, Notting Hill) and Greg Chisholm (TV’s Holby City). This is the wry downbeat world of The Office seen after a very heavy session!!

”The fat bald one. There’s always one. I’d like to be the new Brian Glover...”

One For The Road is released on DVD on 22nd November.

By Tom Cowdrey

All of the clues below can be answered using the names of Nottingham pubs and clubs, with the exception of two answers which are the names of local bands.

TOMMY C’S CHALLENGE A special prize (and the respect of all at LeftLion) will be awarded to the first daring adventurer who manages to have a drink in every one of the venues in the crossword. The brave winner will need to provide photographic evidence of their crawl by posting it to the forums of www.leftlion.co.uk/forum

CLUES DOWN 1 + 17a + 9d + 10d. Lordly-sounding Canning Circus pub. Great beer garden. (3, 4, 7, 6) 2. See 14d. 3. Druggy-sounding city bar and restaurant.

(5) 4. See 18a. 5. See 4a. 6. Paul Hogan’s favourite Notts live hiphop band. (9) 7. See 2a. 8. See 16a. 9. See 1d. 10. See 1d. 11. See 3a. 12.

Veggie bar located down a twitchel. 13 + 8a. Find the way to this Roman-sounding bar. 14 + 2d. The kind of pub where Robert Smith might get lost. (6, 6) 15. See 17d. 16 + 18d. Go on a wander to a favourite Antipodean pub. (4) 17 + 15d. Scrooge’s kind of place. (3, 6) 18. See 16d. 19. See 6a.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Can this bar make synthesised music? (4) 2. +7d. Blue-blooded offspring. (5, 8) 3 + 11d. Club offering salvation. (6, 5) 4 + 5d. Delicious-sounding night spot where biscuits are nibbled. (6, 4) 5. No smoking in this pub that rose from the ashes. (7) 5 6. + 19d. A ringer for this old city pub. (4, 4) 7. Fantastic pub at the bottom of Mansfield road.

4 The sister pub of 1d. (7) 8. See 13d. 9. Aptly-named canalside haunt. (10) 10. Have you been burning the candle at both ends in this Hockley bar? (3) 6 11. Get in shape! Nerds hang out here. (7) 12. Nightclub where all the local journalists hang out! (5) 13. The Robin _______ . (4) 14. Bar ______. This place lets anyone in. (4) 15. See 12d.

9 16 + 8d. The conversation always flows in this rock pub. (5, 4) 17. See 1d.

13 18 + 4d. This Notts Hip Hop group are not into acting. (3, 8)

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Shane Meadows is a bit of a legend around Nottingham. Three fulllength feature films into his career, he is well respected in the British film industry, with the cream of the UK’s actors seemingly queuing up to work with him.

Perhaps the most refreshing thing about our Shane, however, is that working with the shiniest tools is not necessarily what he wants to do. Meadows usually films in locations that you are more likely to see on East Midlands today, rather than in the cinema and this, alongside his eagerness to work with local and relatively untrained actors is, as he confesses, where his skills lie.

The streets and people of Nottingham had not appeared so regularly in mainstream British cinema since Karl Reiz adapted Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1960.

Meadows is about to launch his new film, Dead Man’s Shoes. This is an eerie tale about two brothers returning to their hometown to wreak revenge. On the verge of it’s release he returns to the city where he has made his name...

Once Upon A Time In The Midlands . . . words: Jared Wilson, photos: David Bowen

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Nottingham Voices Things people have said

on the LeftLion forum On Nottingham’s Face of Shame ”There is a certain mentality in Nottingham that counteracts the more leftfield aspect to the city.

Nottingham simply is not as ‘cool’ a place as many people make it out to be. It is a towny city, ruled by the mainstream.”

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”Every time I go into town at the weekend I witness some form of violence. Two weeks ago I went out and saw six separate incidents in which people took a beating.”

Baron of Carlton ”At the end of the day it’s a fact that people go out get pissed and look for a fight as a part of their weekly routine.”

Ben Cipher ”We’re all going down, sinking in the mire that continued apathy has left this nation with. Nothing to believe in, nothing to work for, nothing to lose.”

Barry Clava ”Part of the problem seems to be Nottinghamshire Constabulary’s bizarre obsession with appearing on TV. Every time I see something on telly about boozing, or fighting, it’s a programme following the Notts Police around.”

NJM ”Local crime statistics look more like they are being hyped up the police to gain extra revenue. They do not have a basis in reality.”

John Lyle “It’s all propaganda to make you feel that we live in the worst of times, when in fact we live in the best of times.”

Guy Gooberman ”If they eased the drinking hours, it would make a difference. You get a bottle neck at about 11pm where people are manoeuvring to their final venue for the night. This results in flash points for trouble.”

Chief 1975 ”Interesting that at Euro 2000, pretty much all the violence from England fans occured in Belgium (where pot was illegal and difficult to get hold of) and there was hardly any trouble at all in Holland.”

NJM ”Like most vices binge drinking is a way of escaping the mundane day to day life. The government should be putting effort into reducing the working week to 4 days and see what effect that has on these social issues.”

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Normally when you go to the loo you spend a penny. If you go into Trent Bridge public toilets this month, however, you might end up buying a theatre ticket and staying for an hour.

Ladies and Gents is the latest play from Irish theatre group Semper Fi. Formed in November 1999, the group’s purpose is to create profound theatre from unexpected tales, within site-specific locations.

They visit Nottingham in October as part of Nottinghamshire County Council’s Stages Touring programme, in association with the NOW Festival..

Trent Bridge public toilets will be the backdrop to their latest performance. As the title suggests, the play is set and performed inside the ladies and gents lavatories and has garnered much critical acclaim. Set in Ireland in the 1950’s it is a visceral and chilling descent into the murky underworld of high class prostitution and political scandal. Jared Wilson stood next to writer Paul Walker for a chat at the urinals...

So the play is set and performed in public toilets...

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“Yes it is. I appreciate that it’s not the usual venue for most theatre goers, but that’s partly why we did it. It’s important to keep pushing the boundaries of theatre and do something different. That’s probably why it’s done so well.”

I understand the play has been a big success in Edinburgh and Dublin...?

“Yeah. It’s got a really good reception everywhere we’ve performed it so far and we have picked up a few awards in and around the scene. The best accolades always come from the audience though.

It’s always fun to see what people make of it...”

How many public toilets would you estimate that that play has been performed in to date?

“It’s getting to be quite a lot.

Every night the play is performed in two parts, one half in the gents and one in the ladies. Both halves run simultaneously, so you begin in one side and then finish in the other. Up to now it must be dozens and will multiply as we go on a national tour with this...”

Have you ever had any bizarre incidents from performing in the loos...

“Not as many as you would think!

We’ve had a few people leave because of the smell. We also regularly get people outside who get angry with us. They see a public toilet and they want to use it, but don’t really appreciate the doormen telling them that they can’t because there is a `performance’ going on inside.”

Tell us a bit about the cast...

“They’ve been absolutely brilliant.

These are quite difficult roles and that is compounded by the fact that the venue is far from the usual one for any actor...”

What kind of audiences do you expect for this?

“The best kind of audiences are those that get really into it. We’re looking for more young people to come to our plays because a lot of older people don’t really like the thought of standing around in such an unusual venue for an hour. We’re also trying to take theatre out of its conventional venues and on to a new crowd, which is a big part of why we do it.”

Have you ever come across Nottingham’s Hard Graft Theatre Company? They’ve been performing in Charity Shops and people’s living rooms?

“I haven’t but I’d welcome the chance to speak with them. It sounds interesting... I’ve heard of people touring living rooms before but Charity shops sounds great!

Good luck to them..”

Ladies and Gents at Trent Bridge public toilets takes place from 11-16th October. Tickets are £10 from the Nottingham Playhouse

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Period of: 02/10/04 - 30/11/04 Theatre sat 2/10 Aladdin Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Times: 7pm The Keith Barret Show: Live Venue: Playhouse Price: £14.50 Times: 7.30pm Info: Rob Brydon plays the hapless chauffeur Keith Barret, who first found notoriety in the award-winning TV comedy Marion & Geoff. Join him as he tries to answer the eternal question: what makes a successful relationship?

Expect the usual brand of hilariously downtrodden but always positive humour, as Wales’ most famous divorcee delights audiences with his own woeful experiences of personal relationships.

theatre/clubs/live music/exhibitions/comedy mon 11/10

Dad’s Army Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Times: 7.30pm Info: “Don’t Panic, Mr Mannering”. The Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea are Britain’s last line of defence against a Nazi invasion. God help us. The foolish, doddery and flat-footed brigade are to be brought back to life by the Arts Theatre’s amateur company.

Runs Until: 16/10

tue 12/10 Event: Venue: Price: Times:

Benji Reid Lakeside Arts Centre £7 / £10 8pm

wed 13/10

Going Straight Venue: Royal Centre Price: £8 - £22.50 Runs Until: 9/10 A Passage To India Venue: Playhouse Price: £6 - £22 Times: 7.45pm + matinees Info: Adapted from E.M. Forster’s novel about the clash of cultures between Indians and their colonial rulers. When an Indian man is accused of assaulting an English woman, the battle lines are drawn, and woe betide anyone who finds themselves on the wrong side.

Runs Until: 23/10

wed 6/10 Mandragora King Of India Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £7 - £10 Times: 8pm Info: Tara Arts produce plays of particular relevance to Asian audiences. Mandragora is a fantastical story of an Indian king whose people are visited by a series of omens foretelling the arrival of people with white skin.

mon 11/10

Ladies & Gents Venue: Trent Bridge Public Toilets.

Times: 7.30pm, 8.30pm, 9.30pm Info: When was the last time you went to the toilet and spent a tenner rather than a penny? As part of the NOW festival, the critically acclaimed Ladies and Gents is coming to Nottingham to be performed in the Trent Bridge Public Toilets.

Described as “a chilling descent into the murky underworld of high-class prostitution, political scandal and establishment cover-ups” it promises to be a unique experience for theatre-goers.

Runs Until: Sat 16 October

tue 9/11

Henri Oguike Dance Company Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £7 / £10 Times: 8pm

fri 22/10 Elizabeth Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £5 - £10 Times: 8pm Trans Act Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Times: 7.30pm

Jus’ Like That Venue: Royal Centre Price: £8 - £19 Times: 7.30pm + Sat & Wed matinee.

Runs Until: 18/11

mon 15/11

sun 24/10 La Boheme Venue: Royal Centre Price: £20 - £30 Times: 7.30pm Info: Set in Paris this heartrending story and glorious music never fails to move the crowd.

fri 29/10

mon 4/10

tue 5/10

tue 19/10

Vincent Dance Theatre Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £7 / £10 Times: 8pm

Toy Story 2 - Disney On Ice Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: £10.50 - £27 Runs Until: 17/10 Summit Confrence Venue: Lace Market Theatre Info: An intensely atmospheric play set if 1941 examining the perverse logic of the Nazi party through a meeting between the mistresses of Mussolini and Hitler.

Directed By Daniel Bryant.

Runs Until: 16/10 Motor City Memories Venue: Royal Centre Price: £15.50 - £18 Times: 7.30pm Info: An All star night of Supreme Temptation featuring Richard Street, Kaaren Ragland & Jnr Walker All Stars.

fri 15/10 Decibel Venue: Price: Times:

Live Season Lakeside Arts Centre £6 - £8 7.30pm

Yellow Earth Theatre (with Brit) presents: 58 Venue: Playhouse Price: £5.50 - £10 Times: 7.30pm Info: Based on real events you may remember, a police clerk in Dover is given the job of cataloguing the possessions of 58 Chinese immigrants who died while being smuggled into the country in a lorry. Through these articles, the hopes and struggles of those people is revealed.

Runs Until: 16/10

sun 17/10 Step Into Fantasy Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Times: 7pm

mon 18/10 Jesus Christ Superstar Venue: Royal Centre Price: £8 - £29.50 Runs Until: 2/11

The Tempest Venue: Playhouse Price: £6 - £22 Info: Fearing for their lives in a mighty storm, a handful of noblemen are forced to abandon ship. They find themselves washed up on Prospero’s island, inhabited for 12 years by the exiled Duke and his daughter Miranda. This is no accident, and with Ariel and Caliban under his power, Prospero sets about to wreak his revenge. Love, magic, misplaced loyalty and characters that only the audience can see are all ingredients of one of Shakespeare’s greatest romances.

Director: Richard Baron Runs Until: 20/11

Wyrd Sisters Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Price: £5 - £7 Info: A tale of a lost Kingdom, three witches and magic!

A hilarious madcap clash of Macbeth, Hamlet and Monty Python with all the elements typical of the Discworld atmosphere! You will find everything here - a lost crown, a scheming Duke, the ghost of a murdered king, dim soldiers, three witches meddling in royal politics to put the rightful person on the throne, a kiss that lasts for 15 years.

Runs Until: 20/11

sat 30/10

Double Take Venue: Playhouse Price: £4 - £5 Times: 11am Info: Based on the lives of African-Caribbean twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons - the silent twins - who grew up in rural Wales in the 1970’s. Merging text, music and movement this fast-moving, highlycharged and thought provoking play promises to help us all explore the challenges of being a teenager in an ever more demanding adult world.

For 14yrs +

mon 1/11

The Circus Of Horrors Venue: Royal Centre Price: £14, £18 & £22 Times: 7.30pm

wed 17/11

Riding the Roller Coaster Venue: Lace Market Theatre Info: Written by a local author Andrea Weatherston the play takes a sensitive look at the growth of the relationship between two young people as they go on an outing to the seaside.

Director: Gill Scott Runs Until: 20/11

fri 26/11 Dance The Snow Venue: Nottingham Arts Theatre Times: 7pm Runs Until: 28/11

sat 27/11 Measure For Measure Venue: Lace Market Theatre Info: Set somewhere between a comedy and a tradgedy.

Shakespeare’s play of hipocrisy, love, sex and death examines the ways in which a state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens.

Director: Tony Armstrong Runs Until: 6/11

thu 4/11 The Kaos Richard III Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £5 - £10 Times: 8pm Runs Until: 5/11

Event: Sleeping Beauty Venue: Playhouse Runs Until: 15/1

tue 30/11 Hamlet Venue: Price: Times: Info:

Royal Centre £8 - £20 7.30pm

The threads of this classic play twist through murder, madness and revenge.

Prince Hamlet is commanded by his father’s ghost to avenge his murder by his brother Claudius.

Hamlet wrestles with his uncle’s guilt, his relationship with his mother and his own isolation.

Runs Until: 4/12

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Period of: 01/10/04 - 31/11/04 Club Nights fri 1/10 Movement Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: The Bomb Price: £8 adv. £10 otd.

Times: 10pm - 3.30am Info: Ray Keith, Marcus Intalex, Addiction, Mr. Lowkey, MC IC3, Menace & Ninety. Bosco (live), Pete First Blood, Technical Edge, Rico Back Scratchers Federation Basement Boogaloo Style: Funk, Soul, House Venue: Bar None Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: Residents: Nick Shaw, Ed Cotton, Alphonse Spectrum Style: Breaks, HipHop Venue: Stealth Price: £10 (£8/£9) Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Freestylers (DJ Set), The Young Punx, Hexadecimal, Pete Jordan. Stereo MCs, Border Crossing, Itchy Fader Fingers. Jon More (Coldcut), Dave Boultbee, Spectrum Breakers, Camouflage DJ’s

sat 2/10

thur 7/10 Highness Sound System Style: Reggae, Roots Venue: Blue Print Price: £5 Times: 10pm til late Info: Roots music played in a traditional one-turntable manner.

Variety of deejays and singers Full reggae sound system operated by Shakisha Hi Fi Regular

fri 8/10 Camouflage Style: HipHop, Breaks Venue: The Bomb Price: £9 Times: 10pm - 3am Info: Aspects, Dreadzone Sound System. Featuring: MC Spee, Warpsound, Too-B, Non Thespian, Karizma, T-Cutt, Dubfella, Windows78 Soundsystem Style: Breaks,World Music,Funk Venue: Stealth Price: £8/£10 Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Soundsystem present Bugz in the Attic Breakestra (live 12 piece funk band from LA) Plus DJs from DiY, Percussion and Leftfoot On Your Knees Style: Funky House,Breaks,Ska Venue: Blue Print Price: £5.00 Times: 10.30pm - late Info: A night for all non-facist party lovers at Nottingham’s friendliest underground nightclub

sat 9/10 Style: Techno, DnB, Deep House Venue: Blue Print Price: £5 Times: 10.30pm - Late Info: Neil Landstrumm (Live), JE:5, Dave, Dom & Mossup (a.k.a The Filthy Residents), DJ Smith, Jay & SEB, Paul Murphy, Ed Cotton Rebirth Style: Venue: Times: Info:

Techno The Bomb 10pm - 4am Stacey Pullen

Stealth Presents Venue: Stealth Price: £8/£6 Times: 10pm - 4am Info: 2 Lone Swordsmen, Dave Congreve

tue 5/10

Spellbound Style: Alternative, Electronica Venue: Cookie Club (The) Price: £3 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: Expect 80’s Goth, electro, and alternative sounds

wed 6/10 Repercussion Style: DnB, HipHop, Deep House Venue: Snug Price: £5 Times: 10pm-3am Info: Bad Company UK (DBridge), Artificial Intelligence, SP: MC, Ollie K & Wylie-D, MC Manikular, Reason Soundsystem, XS.iF, Reference Soul Surgery Style: Funk Venue: Moog Price: Free Times: 8pm - 12am Info: Ed Cotton & Nick Shaw.

thur 14/10 Liars Club vs. Our Disco Style: Punk, Rock, Electronica Venue: The Social Price: £4 (£3adv / b4 10:30) Times: 9pm - 2am Info: Simon Bookish (live), Trash’s Rory Phillips will be joining Our Disco mainman Den Odell and the Liars Club DJs

fri 15/10 Chibuku Shake Shake Style: House, Breaks, Soul Venue: The Bomb Price: £8 adv. £10 otd.

Times: 10pm - 3am Info: Jon Carter, Tayo, Dom Chung, Phat Phil Cooper, Presents NU Northern Soul, Lewis RV , JS & Fever On 4 Decks/2 Mixers

Kombination Funk Style: DnB, Breaks, Techno Venue: Blue Print Price: £6 Times: 10 til late Info: Evol Intent, Paz, Jay B, Lowkey, MACP, MCs Ninety & Menace. Matt Bromley, Nick Summers, Mark Jacobs Sunglasses At Night Style: Electronica, Eighties Venue: The Social Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: TBA

Bugged Out! V Liars Club Style: House, Breaks, World Venue: Stealth Price: £10 (£8 adv.)

Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Death in Vegas Live, JoJo De Freq, Soul Mekanik

tue 19/10 Detour Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Price: £3.50 adv. £4 otd Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Fluff, Freqbeats, Lynkx, MG, Timmy W, MC Menace wed 20/10

Stealth Presents Style: Breaks, House Venue: Stealth Price: £12 / £10 Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Anthony Rother (live), Craig Richards, Dave Congreve, Matt Tolfrey, Timm Sure

Camouflage Style: HipHop, Breaks Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £7.50nus motd Times: 8.30pm - 1am Info: Peanut Butter Wolf, Kids of The Last Dats, Kids in Tracksuits, Windows78, Dubfella

tue 12/10 Detour Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Price: £3.50 adv. £4 otd.

Times: 10pm - 2am Info: XS.iF, Goodfella, Trouble, Mouse, Camo, MC Manikular

fri 22/10 Detonate Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Price: £10 Times: 10pm - 3am Info: Hype, Bassline Smith, Drumsound, Transit Mafia, MC Biggie, MC E-LL, MR Thing & Yungun, Santero, Detail, Yoda, Freqbeats, Jon Rust

wed 13/10

thu 28/10

Funktion Style: DnB, Breaks Venue: Synergy Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: On rotation: Jest:R, Random Guy, Marcus Stubbs, Timmy W, The Weaselman, FYA

fri 29/10

Weekend Breaks Style: Breaks Venue: Synergy Price: £2.50(NUS/Flyer) or £3 Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Paul Arnold

sat 30/10

sat 16/10

Bombs Birthday Bash Style: Breaks, Techno Venue: The Bomb Price: £12 tickets / £14 otd Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Green Velvet 3hr set, Lo Fidelity Allstars, Deekline & Wizard (live) feat. Yolanda, Koda Collective (live), Fran Green, Jeet, Max Cooper, Nick Davy

tue 26/10

Detour Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Price: £3.50 adv. £4 otd.

Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Element, Casual Breakin, Transit Mafia, Fergus, D’Lex , Yons MC

FireFly Style: Techno Venue: The Ballroom Times: 10pm - 6am Info: Orbital DJ Set: Phil Hartnol, Justin Robertson, Rennie Pilgrem (album launch), Chris Finke, Jeet, Nick Davy

Boutique & Stealth Style: House and Big Beat Venue: Stealth Price: £10 (£8 adv) Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Tom Middleton, Tiefschwarz, Radio Slave, DJ Touche and Zongamin (live)

tue 2/11 Spellbound Style: Alternative, Electronica Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £3 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: Expect 80’s Goth, electro, and alternative sounds wed 3/11

Style: DnB, Breaks, Deep House Venue: Snug Price: £5 Times: 10pm - 3am Info: Calibre, Breakage, Kasra, Stamina MC, Trouble, Reference, MC Manikular, Reason Soundsystem, XS:if

Soul Surgery Style: Funk, Soul Venue: Moog Price: Free Times: 8pm - 12am Info: Essential treatment for that midweek comedown with doctors: Ed Cotton and Nick Shaw

fri 5/11

sat 23/10

Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Rock City Price: £16 adv.

Times: 8.30pm - 3am Info: Rahzel Live, Goldie, Roni Size Live, Zinc, Clipz, MC Tali, Dynamite MC, MC Foxy, Adam Freeland, Hexadecimal, Phi Life, Cypher, Ricochett Klashnekoff, Kaiser & DJ Dex, Rodney P Live Band, Transit Mafia, MC E-LL, Santero, Detail, Problem Child

Renaissance Nottingham Style: House Venue: Stealth Price: £10 (£8 adv) Times: 10pm - 4am Info: James Zabiela, David Guetta, Lexicon ave, Sound Alliance Live, Can’tMixWon’tMix AllStars

Style: Breaks, HipHop Venue: Stealth Price: £10 (£8/£9 Cons / adv.)

Times: 10pm - 4am Info: The Herbaliser, Stanton Warriors, Phantom Beats, Pete Jordan, Gotan Project (DJ Set) (tbc), Dave Boultbee, Itchy Fader Fingers, Spectrum Breakers (Residents)

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Basement Boogaloo Style: Funk, Soul, House Venue: Bar None Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: Residents: Nick Shaw, Ed Cotton, Alphonse

fri 5/11 Movement Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: The Bomb Times: 10pm - 3am Info: Lineup to be confirmed - Probably Brian G tbc, Krust tbc, Heist tbc and Lynkx tbc!

sat 6/11 Detonation Style: Drum and Bass Venue: The Ballroom Price: £15 Times: 10pm - 6am Info: Shy FX, MC Skibadee Swift & MC IC3 Zinc & Eksman Friction & SP MC Blame & MC P-Fine Transit Mafia & MC E-LL

fri 26/11

Detonate Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Price: £10 Times: 10pm - 4am Info: SS, Pendulum, Transit Mafia, Hold Tight, MC Biggie, MC E-LL, Skinnyman & DJ Flip, Skitz, Santero, Detail, Finley Quaye, Richie G & Martin K9 Weekend Breaks Style: Breaks, Breaks, Breaks Venue: Synergy Price: £2.50 (flyer)/£3 Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Ben & Lex

WEEKLY CLUB NIGHTS

sundays

Out To Lunch Style: Jazz Venue: Dogma Price: Free Times: Afternoon Info: Less of a club night and more of an experience. Sunday jazz and beats to ease away the night before

mondays

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tuesdays Crash Style: Venue: Price: Times:

Indie, Alternative The Rig £2 / £3 9.30 - 2am

fridays Atomic Style: Eighties, Nineties Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £4 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: Friday night at The Cookie Club is Retro night featuring two decades of music

sat 13/11 FireFly Style: Techno, Breaks Venue: The Bomb Price: £tbc Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Surgeon, Freq Nasty, Firefly Residents wed 17/11

Soul Surgery Style: Funk, Soul Venue: Moog Price: Free Times: 8pm - 12am Info: From the lads that bring you Basement Boogaloo. Ed Cotton and Nick Shaw

fri 19/11 Sunglasses At Night Style: Electronica, Eighties Venue: The Social Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: Tom Magic Feet’s birthday event with live act/special guest TBA Chibuku shake shake Venue: The Bomb Times: 10pm - 4am Info: Lottie, Lewis RV, JS and Fever, Dave Smith

fri 19/11

Style: DnB, Breaks, Techno Venue: Blue Print Price: £8 Times: 10 til late Info: Faith In Chaos (Live), Dylan B2B Robyn Chaos, John Rolodex, Lynkx, Dyazide, Lowkey, MAC P, MCs Ninety & Menace

thu 25/11 Funktion Style: DnB, Breaks Venue: Synergy Price: Free Times: 9pm - 2am Info: DJ’s on rotation, Jest:R, Random Guy, Marcus Stubbs, Timmy W, The Weaselman

Audio Style: Venue: Price: Times:

Funk, Soul, Disco Snug £5 (£3 b4 10.30pm) 10pm - 3am

Dusk Style: Venue: Price: Times:

Love Shack Style: Eighties Venue: Rock City Price: £4 adv £5 otd Times: 9.30pm - 2am Sabotage Style: Eighties, Nineties Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £4 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: Anything from Acid House to Brit-Pop Salt Style: Venue: Price: Times:

Detour Style: DnB, HipHop, Breaks Venue: Stealth Price: £3.50 adv £4 otd Times: 10pm - 2am Info: Where Detonate and Detonation cane it up the fast lane with the big boys, Detour hops over a farmer’s gate, doffs its cap to some wider styles and strolls along the scenic route

HipHop, House, Breaks Dogma Free 2am Close

HipHop, Soul Snug £4 10pm - 3am

wednesdays The Big Wednesday Style: Alternative, Rock, Pop Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £2.50 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: A good mix of music for a comedy drunken nite. Upstairs plays current indie and downstairs is nothing but Rock/Metal/Punk & Ska all evening

thursdays

Dogmatic Style: HipHop, Breaks, Funk Venue: Dogma Price: Free Times: 2am til close Mirrorball Style: RnB, Disco, Funk Venue: Snug Price: £4 Times: 10pm - 3am Tuned Style: Venue: Price: Times:

Indie, Alternative, Pop Rock City £3.50 - £4 8.30pm - 2am

Up The Junction Style: Sixties Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £2.50 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: Offers you a whole evening of tunes ranging from Beatlemania, Mod, Beatpop, Soul, Motown and Psychedelia all thrown into one big melting pot of Nostalgia.

Club NME Style: Indie, Rock Venue: Stealth Price: £4/£3/£2 Times: 9:30pm - 2am Info: Home Taping Is Killing Music Alongside some of the best bands on offer. Check Stealth’s website for up to date listings.

Non Stop & Dirtle Wax Records present: ‘ish’ Style: HipHop, Funk, Soul Venue: Westside Bar Price: Free Info: DJs Dirty Joe & Furious P, Guest MCs, Skate Videos & Kung Fu films

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saturdays Distortion Style: Rock, Indie, Alternative Venue: Rock City Price: £5 Times: 9pm - 2.30am Funk U Style: Funk, Disco, Soul Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £5 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: With access to Rise and Shine downstairs included in the price Rise & Shine Style: Indie, Alternative Venue: The Cookie Club Price: £5 Times: 10.30pm - 2am Info: The Club’s long running indie night continues with access to Funk U in the price Tony Global Style: HipHop, RnB, Soul Venue: Dogma Price: Free Times: till 2am

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HipHop The Ballroom £15adv Friday 12/11 10pm-5am

Blak Twang Klashnekoff Skinnyman Estelle Jehst Yungun Cappo Kyza Mr Thing Duurty Goodz Asaviour Tempa 45 MistaJam TL Shinobi Broadcast live on 1xtra

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Breaks, Hiphop The Bomb £9 (£7 adv) Friday 12/11 10pm - 3am

Backdraft (botchit & scarper) Michael Morph Too-B Cash Mark Treva Whateva DJ Blakey (world dmc) T-Cutt Swiz

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Period of: 01/10/04 - 31/11/04

thu 7/10

Bent, Rescue Rooms, £7 Nail Tolliday and Simon Mills, aka Bent, are one of the most successful musical duos to hail from the city. Having soundtracked numerous adverts and TV shows as disparate as ‘Six Feet Under’ and BBC gardening.

They still like playing out in their Nottingham stomping ground.

Live Music fri 1/10 Lez Haultz Et Les Bas Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Crash Kelly Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £6 adv Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: Deadline, Spit Like This, Silver Jet. Gary Us Bonds Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £14 adv Times: Early show as club night follows - 10.15pm finish

The ga ga’s Venue: Rock City Price: £5 adv Times: 7.30pm With support from: Hurricane Party

fri 8/10

sun 3/10

Modulator ESP + 4m33s Venue: Peggers Price: Free Times: 7:30pm - 10:30pm Info: Ambient live Awakenings presents an evening of live ambient and electronic music

Pitchshifter Venue: Rock City Price: £11 Times: 8pm With Support From: Sikth

mon 4/10 10,000 Things Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £5 The Elvis Collection Venue: Royal Centre Price: £12 - £14 Times: 7.30pm

tue 5/10 Off The Venue: Price: Times: Info:

Wall Royal Centre £13.50 - £15 7.30pm Pink Floyd Tribute

Maroon Venue: Price: Times:

5 Rock City £15 8pm

The Letters Organise Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 adv £5 otd Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: The Once Over Twice, The Wireless Stores

sun 10/10 Moscow By Night Venue: Royal Centre Price: £15 - £20 Times: 7.30pm Info: A celebration of Russian performing arts

wed 6/10 The Femm Nameless Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £7 adv £8 otd Times: 8.30pm - 12am Info: Described by Time Out as “Punk funk goes afrobeat..”

With Support From: Sambawamba Presents Nottingham School Of Samba

Nazareth Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £14 adv Times: 8pm

The Black Velvet Band Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm

Hondo Mclean Venue: Rock City Price: £tbc Times: 8pm

Hugh Cornwell and Band Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £12.50 adv Times: 8pm

Bowling For Soup Venue: Rock City Price: £12.50 Times: 7pm Info: 14+ night

The Brian Travis Band Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: Callaghan, We Show Up On Radar

sat 9/10

The Delgados Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £9 advance Times: 8pm Info: + Guests

thu 14/10

thu 7/10

Splint Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 Times: 8.30pm - 12am With Support From: El Cielo, Everything For Some

Focus Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £11 advance Times: 8pm With support from: The Boxer Rebelion, Ruben

wed 13/10

Oh What A Night Venue: Royal Centre Price: £15 - £25 Times: 16th - 7.30, 17th & 18th 5.30pm & 9pm End date: 16/10 Bartok & Beethoven String Quartet Series Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm

tue 19/10 Alabama Thunderpussy Venue: Rock City Price: £7 Times: 8pm A Feast Venue: Price: Times:

of Gilbert & Sullivan Royal Centre £8.50 - £17.50 7.30pm

Alias Venue: Rescue Rooms (The) Price: £7 adv Times: 8pm

wed 20/10 Paris In Spring Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 Times: 8.30pm - 12am Info: + Support

thu 21/10

Dopamine Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 Times: 8.30pm - 12am With Support From: Midasuno The Blueskins Venue: NTU Union Price: £4 Times: 7pm Info: With support from: The Koots. Earth The Calafornian Love Dream

fri 15/10 Texas Terry Bomb Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £5 Times: 9pm - 1am With support from: New Generation Superstars (tbc), The Darkheart Boys

sat 16/10

Brand Violet Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £6 Times: 9pm - 1am With support from: The Kull, Shard, Pressure

Track and Field Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £7 Times: 8.00pm With support from: Tom Hingley (Of Inspiral Carpets)& The Lovers Live, Philistine, The Tommies All Nighter Venue: Rock City Price: £6 Times: 8.30pm - 6am Info: Hell Is For Heroes, Breed 77, Amplifier, Mike Davis Dj Set

sun 17/10

Punish The Atom Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £2 adv

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci Venue: Royal Centre Price: £20 - £30 Times: 7.30pm

John Laws Cornucpia Ensemble Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 8pm - 12am

Hot Snakes Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £7.50 adv Times: 8pm - late

Swound!

Venue: Junktion 7 Price: Free Times: 8.30pm - 12am With Support From: Mawda, Big Gay Following, Metro Joe

Chk Chk Chk Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £10 adv Times: 8pm

22-20s Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £7 adv Times: 8pm Info: + Guests 22-20’s have been cutting up a bluesy storm since they shot on to the scene last year. They recently headlined the NME Britpack tour and seem to be on something of an upward tangent. Their recent single ’22 Days’ saw them claim a presence in the Top 40 and confirm their status as one of the most exciting new bands in the country. Not bad for a bunch of guys from Lincoln…

thu 21/10 Captain Everything Venue: Rock City Times: 8pm With Support From: Howard Alias, No Comply, Vanilla Pod

sat 23/10 Marah Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £8 adv Times: Early show as club night follows - 10.15pm finish University Philharmonia Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £7 (£3 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Maelkar Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £tbc Times: 9pm - 1am Info: With Redshift, + Support

sun 24/10

mon 18/10

Shichiseikai Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm

Hope Of The States Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £9 adv Times: 8pm

mon 25/10

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Spunge mon 25/10 Venue: Rock City Price: £10 Times: 7pm With support from: Whitmore, Solarbeat, Phinius Gage

tue 26/10 Living Colour Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £15 advance Times: 8pm Paul Carrack Venue: Royal Centre Price: £20 Times: 7.30pm

wed 27/10 Dr Faustus Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £8 advance Times: 8pm

Glass Onion Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £4 Times: 9pm - 1am Info: + Support

fri 29/10

Jackson Browne Venue: Royal Centre Price: £36.50 Times: 8pm Bartok & Beethoven String Quartet Series Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12(£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Midtown Venue: Rock City Price: Normal Admission Prices With support from: Hidden In Plane View

sun 31/10 Neal Casal Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £10 adv.

Info: +Guests

Delays Venue: Price: Times: Info:

Gene Pitney Venue: Royal Centre Price: £17 - £21 Times: 7.30pm

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New Music Players Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Lionel Richie Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: £30

On The Bus Royal Centre £9.50 2pm

U2 two Venue: Royal Centre Price: £13 - £15.50 Times: 7.30pm

tue 2/11

Bloc Party Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £6 adv Times: 8pm With support from: The New Rhodes, Vatican DC Brian Adams Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: £30 Times: 7.30pm

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings Venue: Royal Centre Price: £22.50 Times: 8pm 42nd Street Venue: Royal Centre Price: £10 - £16 Times: Various End date: 6/11

The Magic Of Mozart By Candlelight Venue: Royal Centre Price: £15 - £20 Times: 7.30pm

sat 06/11 Bright Lights Trio Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm Needledrop Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £5 Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: The Fluids, Mark Greville, +Support Hayseed Dixie Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £8adv Times: Early Show - 10.15 finish as clubnight follows

John Mayall & Chicken Shack Venue: Royal Centre Price: £18.50 - £22.50 Times: 7.30pm

The Filaments Venue: Rock City Times: 8pm With Support From: The Foamers, The Freaks Union, The Mingers

fri 29/10

mon 8/11 Tyketto (Original Line Up!) Venue: Rock City Price: £12.50 Times: 8pm

Sonia Wieder-Atherton Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £15 (£12 concessions) Times: 7.30pm

British Sea Power Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £12.50 adv Times: 8pm

Incredible String Band Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £13.50 advance Times: 8pm

The Commitments Venue: Royal Centre Price: £13.50 - £15.50 Times: 7.30 Andrew Foster-Williams BassBaritone Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Times: 7.30pm

sat 12/11

Byzantine Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £5 Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: Metal Gutworm, Running With Scissors

Russian Cossack State Dance Co. Venue: Djanogly Recital Hall Price: £16.50, £15.50

sun 13/11 Paul Weller Venue: Nottingham Arena Price: Tickets £28.50 + BF Divine Brown Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £5 Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: The Vincent Razorbacks, Six Killer (tbc) Busted Venue: Nottingham Arena Info: Wack!

tue 15/11

Motorhead Venue: Rock City Price: £19.50 Times: 8pm - late

thu 17/11 Beta Band Venue: Rock City Price: £15 Times: 7.30pm

fri 18/11

tue 9/11

Even from the title of their debut album, The Decline of British Sea Power, it is apparent that this band ooze a quintessentially British style.

An expectant crowd will await at the Rescue Rooms.

Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: Free Times: 7.30pm - 11pm Info: Bringing you the best live music that Nottingham has to offer. (But then we would say that...)

On the last friday of every month ‘LeftLion Presents’ brings you the best musical acts live from Nottingham. The music varies in style from folk, to funk to hiphop.

This month sees the mighty Hellset Orchestra take the stage.

A classically trained crew of Nottingham musicians who want to rock! Drawing comparisons with the likes of Eels and Flaming Lips, they will go far...

Blazin’ Fiddles Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Times: 7.30pm

fri 11/11

Adequate 7 Venue: Rock City Times: 8pm With Support From: Kenisia, The Peacocks, Buzzkill

tue 2/11

Forty Winks thu 10/11 Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £tbc Times: 8.30pm - 12am With support from: My Deaf Audio

fri 05/11

The Renegade Playboys Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £5 Times: 9pm - 1am With Support From: Zen Motel, Freegarden, Big Air

mon 1/11 thu 28/10

wed 03/11

thu 04/11 sat 30/10

Tim and Neil Finn Venue: Royal Centre Price: £26.50 Times: 7.30pm NTU £9 adv 7pm + support

Six By Seven Venue: Rock City Price: £6 adv Times: 8pm

Bartok & Beethoven String Quartet Series Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm An Evening WIth Joolz Denby Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £7 Times: 8.30pm - 12am

sat 19/11 The Dead Pets Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £tbc Times: 9pm - 1am Info: + Support

wed 3/11 Second Smile Venue: Junktion 7 Price: £tbc Times: 8.30pm - 12am Info: With Sparks, Lights & Flames, Plus Support Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac Venue: Royal Centre Price: £13.50 & £15.50 Times: 7.30pm Abram Wilson Sextet Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £10 (£7 concessions) Times: 8pm

sun 20/11 Amy Winehouse Venue: Rock City Price: £15 Times: 7.30pm Amy Winehouse has made a stunning impact onto the British music industry over the last year, her debut album Frank being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Still aged just 20, her husky style is at once innocent and sleazy.

The Hollies Venue: Royal Centre Price: £19.50 Times: 7.30pm All Nighter Venue: Rock City Price: £6 Times: 8.30pm - 6am Info: Flogging molly, Streetdogs, The Briggs, More acts TBC

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Live Listings Continued... sat 20/11

Joanna Newsom Venue: Rescue Rooms (The) Price: £6.50 adv.

Times: Early Show - 10.15 finish as clubnight follows

Goose Fair is more than just an institution in Nottingham. The biggest open fair in the country returns with the allure of hair-raising rides and hook a duck. This year there is also a fringe theatre and music festival taking place in various venues along Mansfield road.

Runs From: 06/09 - 09/09

sun 21/11 Spirit of Broadway Venue: Royal Centre Price: £13 - £18 Times: 7.30pm

fri 01/10

Period of: 01/08/04 - 01/01/05

Vince Neil Venue: Rock City Price: £16 adv.

Times: 7pm

Exhibitions fri 01/10 mon 22/11

Halfway To Paradise Venue: Royal Centre Price: £13.50 - £15.50 Times: 7.30pm

tue 23/11 Glenn Tilbrook Band Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £14 adv Info: + Guests

Landscape Photography Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery Info: Jem Southam works at specifically selected sites that he returns to repeatedly over several months or years, recording the effects of natural processes and human intervention on the environment.

Runs Until: 17/10

fri 01/10

wed 24/11

Dhaffer Youseff Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £12 (£9 concessions) Times: 7.30pm The Darkness Venue: Nottingham Arena Info: Sold Out

thu 25/11 Jools Holland Venue: Djanogly Recital Hall Price: £25.50 Times: 7.30

fri 26/11

Elshaday Berhane Venue: Angel Row Gallery Info: For the final exhibition in the Window 04 series Elshaday Berhane will create a new interactive installation which allows gallery visitors to change the ‘show window’ and entrance area at street level.

A series of wooden constructions, based upon an old Chinese game, will be hung in the foyer window; a simple mechanism allows the sequence of wooden panels to be manipulated and over turned to create different images.

Runs Until: 6/11

fri 01/10

LeftLion Presents...

Venue: Malt Cross Cafe Bar Price: Free Times: 7.30pm - 11pm Info: Bringing you the best live music that Nottingham has to offer. (But then we would say that...)

Nottingham Bach Choir and Orchestra Venue: St Marys Church

Bjorn Again Venue: Royal Centre Price: £15 - £16.50 Times: 8pm Electric Venue: Price: Times:

Six Rock City £12 adv 7.30pm

mon 29/11

You will see how domestic life was transformed by rationing, the threat of air raids, and a spirit of social responsibility. Government propaganda posters not only reflected the war news and civil defence, but also encouraged citizens to ‘Make do and Mend’ and ‘Dig for Victory’.

Runs Until: 16/12

fri 01/10 Sneezes 2003 Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery Info: Throughout 2003, artist Ellie Harrison has recorded the exact time, to the nearest minute, of her every sneeze - amounting to a grand total of 318. In this installation, the times of these random events are displayed around the gallery walls, as if on a giant timeline from January through to December. The changes between seasons and in the artist’s personal health are reflected in the distribution of sneezes around the space. (...bless you!)

Runs Until: 7/11

fri 01/10

sat 27/11

The (International) Noise Conspiracy Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: £8.50 adv Times: Early show as club night follows - 10.15pm finish

World War II Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery Info: This exhibition raises questions about the impact of the Second World War on local communities The material on display provides a local perspective on the war years for young and old alike.

Birdsong Venue: Angel Row Gallery Info: An Exhibition By Sutapa Biswas Sutapa Biswas has, in the last 17 years, created an evocative and challenging body of work which addresses feminism and cultural identity. The exhibition Birdsong Comprises two new films, which touch on themes of memory and rites of passage.

Runs Until: 6/11

China Black Venue: Playhouse Info: In celebration of Black History Month, Nottingham Playhouse presents an exhibition of work by Korean and local African artists. China Black takes its inspiration from the production 58, and is based on the themes of journey and movement. The exhibition will be at the Playhouse throughout October.

Artists: Yun JI Young, Natalie Okpara and Valerie Burrell Curator: Inja Kim Runs Until: 30/10

wed 02/11

The Surface Of The Lake Venue: Yard Gallery (The) Info: Teruyoshi Yoshida’s installation, Surface of the Lake is aptly named. Shimmering, just above the gallery floor, it is remiscent of the play of light on water and beautifully captures the idea of the transient moment. In his work, Yoshida draws directly from his deep commitment to, and understanding of, Japanese culture and ritual. It was also the starting point for a new commission by Claire Barber which is sited in the rarely viewed laundry room next to the gallery. Strange, yet faintly familiar fabrics - an old tent, fishnet tights and net curtains - are mementos of Claire Barber’s past and present, representing her personal associations with her home and her travels over the past two years.

Runs Until: 21/11

fri 05/11 Bad Behaviour Venue: Djanogly Art Gallery Info: Featuring over 50 works from the Arts Council Collection, this National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, presents contemporary British sculpture, installation, photography and video from the 80s to the present day.

Runs Until: 19/12

wed 10/11 Art On The Stairs Venue: Nottingham Castle Price: Castle admission Prices Info: New work reflecting the artist’s Iraqi heritage, cultural experiences and longheld interest in the science behind colour, as he celebrates 20 years as a muralist.

Runs Until: 16/1

sat 20/11 Nottingham Annual Open Art Exhibition Venue: Nottingham Castle Info: A celebration of the incredible range of creative work being produced by artists and makers in the East Midlands region.

A fantastic opportunity to add to, or start, your own art collection with work by both new and established talents. From less than £100.

Painting, photography, glass, ceramics and textiles are among the 100 plus works to choose from.

Runs Until: 5/12

wed 13/10

Smallkid & Coverage Present Venue: The Rescue Rooms Price: Free Times: 5pm - 8pm Info: This cheeky starter to Detonate’s Rock City main comes courtesy of Smallkid & Coverage.

The event will include a graffiti wall outside the venue and an open mic session inside hosted +by Mista Jam (UK Takeover) and Rodney P (1xtra)

Bonfire night at the Forest recreation ground promises rides and entertainments, as well as a display of fireworks that makes discerning local residents question exactly how much of their council tax has been sunk into the visual feast. Mushy peas are a popular choice...

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Period of: 01/10/04 - 31/11/04 Comedy fri 1/10

Jongleurs Venue: Bar Risa Price: £13 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Michael Legge, Rex Boyd, Steve Harris, Hal Cruttenden Runs Until: 2/10

sun 3/10 Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: TV Star and Perrier Award Newcomer 2004 Tony Law, Matt Kirshen. Compere Darrell Martin.

Fresh from fun in Edinburgh

tue 5/10 Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Alan Anderson, Ed Petrie Craig Deeley and MC Mike Belgrave

thu 7/10 Jongleurs Venue: Bar Risa Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Paul Tonkinson, Mark Maier, Tony Morewood, The Fluffy Brothers Runs Until: 9/10

thu 14/10

tue 19/10 Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: James Dodeswell, James Sherwood, John Newton, MC Kevin Shepherd

wed 20/10 The Edinburgh & Beyond Comedy Tour 2004 Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre Price: £5 - £10 Times: 8pm Info: Chris Addison, writer and star of The Department (Radio 4), Dan Antopolski, Craig Campbell’s, Tony Law’s

Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Valentine Flyguy, Tom Bell, Michael Fabbri, Paul Kid, MC Spiky Mike

sun 24/10 Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Johnny Vegas returns to his favourite club to host a night of guests. Reg Hunter, the coolest stand up on the planet. Perrier Nominee twice Stan Stanley, mirthster and manicman. Very silly Brian Damage and Krystaal - a very daft couple

tue 26/10 Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Dougie Dunlop, Dave Longley, Matthew Tiller, Brent Wilson. MC Spiky Mike

We are looking to increase the variety of goods in the LeftLion online shop We mean by this, stuff you’ve produced rather than stuff you generally want to sell (like old socks, broken tv’s and nicked bikes).

We’re thinking along these lines: • • • •

photos we could sell as prints, original artwork on canvas. clothing, music (cd's/vinyl),

or anything else you think people might be interested in.

We offer the best rates pretty much anywhere in notts (at least that we’ve found so far).

Please email suggestions to us at: shop@LeftLion.co.uk

thu 28/10 Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Alun Cochrane, Daniel Packard, George Egg, Curtis Walker Runs Until: 30/10

sun 31/10 Just The Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Phil Kay, The true improviser and maverick of comedy.

TV can’t deal with him, a lot of clubs can’t cope with his spontaneous nature. John Oliver, one of the ‘clever school’ of comedians. That’s clever, but also a bit immature.

Compere Darrell Martin.

tue 2/11

thu 21/10 Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Brendhan Lovegrove, Paul B Edwards, Mike Milligan, Jamie Mathieson Runs Until: 23/10

thu 14/10

Mark Thomas Venue: Playhouse Cost: £10 - £14 Times: 8pm Info: Mark Thomas is well known for his ability to create a political ruckus in this country and seems to be able to talk his way into causing corporate fat cats all kinds of trouble. For this we at LeftLion admire his style. He brings his live bandwagon to Nottingham’s Playhouse this November.

sun 17/10 Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Will Smith, TV’s Posh Boy. Come laugh at him as he makes a mockery of himself for our enjoyment. Hal Cruttenden, Steven Carlin - Scottish, odd, unique. Darrell Martin is your host and compere... can he stay off the booze?

sun 10/10

Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Just Plain Silly and Special Raymond and Timpkins Revue Every time this stupid duo are on they absolutely storm it. Childish is to mature a word, silly isn’t enough.

Compere Dan Nightingale - a new find... come see this young man grow into a star

mon 10/11

Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Brendan Riley, Roger D, Sean Meo, Richard Morton Runs Until: 16/10

thu 11/11 Jongleurs Venue: Bar Risa Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Simon Clayton, David Hadingham, Curtis Walker, John Ryan Runs Until: 13/11

sun 14/11

Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Glenn Wool - Canadian cowboy of great mirth, Josie Long She caused a sensation at Edinburgh Festival. Darrell Martin

wed 18/11 Jongleurs Venue: Bar Risa Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: JoJo Smith, Toby Foster, Steve Best, Geoff Boyz Runs Until: 20/11

sun 21/11 Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Andy White, Josey Long, Matt Green, Adrian Freeman, MC Gary Delaney

wed 3/11 Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Price: £8 Times: 7pm Info: Junior Simpson, Geoff Boyz, Simon Bligh, The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue

thu 4/11

Jongleurs Venue: Bar Risa Price: £8 - £15 Times: 7pm Info: Ricky Grover, Eddie Ifft Sean Percival, Kevin Gildea Runs Until: 6/11

sun 7/11 Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: John Bishop, A truly captivating stand up from the land they call scouse. Warm and engaging Jason John Whitehead. Compere Dan Nightingale

tue 9/11 Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Silky, Issy Suttie, Tony Cowards, Dave Parkin, MC Spiky Mike

Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Adam Hills on tour. More tbc

tue 23/11 Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Hal Cruttenden, Johnston and Johnston, Hazel Humphries, MC Spiky Mike

fri 25/11 Jongleurs Venue: Jongleurs Price: £8 - £19.95 Times: 7pm Info: Tony Hendriks, Johnny Candon, Jim Jeffries Runs Until: 27/11

sun 28/11 Just the Tonic Venue: Cabaret Price: £tbc Times: 7.30pm Info: Chris Addison - Eddy Brimson. Another act TBC Darrell Martin

tue 30/11

Get A Grip Venue: The Social Price: £5 Times: 8.30pm Info: Paul Kerensa, Martin Evans, Griff, MC Liz Stephens

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Rocky Horrorscopes Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 19)

Cancer (June 21 - July 21)

You’re not going to die this week, but it will be close. If you feel a pain in the kidney, make arrangements with your family and friends. Avoid wearing hats until next Sunday.

Aquarius (Jan 20 - Feb 17) Since you were twelve you have never felt truly complete. All this is about to change as you meet a twin brother you never even knew you had. Play nice.

Your local supermarket is doing 2 for 1 on your favourite dessert. On Thursday afternoons they’re offering double dividend points on your storecard. They haven’t got any of that nice fruit juice you like, but don’t let it spoil your day.

Leo (July 22 - Aug 22) A tramps dog will attack you, biting into your leg with its sharp pincer teeth.

Make sure you are wearing clean pants because you will have to take your trousers off to show the full extent of the injury to the nurse.

Pisces (Feb 18 - Mar 19) Stay indoors for the first two days of the week. A scruffy looking man will follow home from Kwiksave on Wednesday afternoon and introduce you to someone important to your future. Go and buy milk with him.

Virgo (Aug 23 - Sept 21) Ever slept with anyone you shouldn’t have? Sexually transmitted diseases are currently invading your system. You should get it checked out before it gets too late. Flush the thrush!

Aries (Mar 20 - Apr 19) Spend all your money, because you won’t have much longer to enjoy it. Buy a fast car and drive it at high speed. For protection, you may wish to fill the entire car with foamy cushions. Weirdo!

Libra (Sept 22 - Oct 22) Don’t forget Auntie Vi’s birthday on Friday. Don’t send flowers on account of her hayfever. Don’t buy her chocolates because she’s on a diet. Take care.

Taurus (April 20 - May 19)

Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)

Eat a good 3 meals a day, brush your teeth when you wake up in the morning and before you go to bed at night. Make sure you get a good night’s sleep. Say no to strangers. Don’t forget to say your prayers. Don’t do drugs.

Watch out for small vicious furballs hiding out in a bush waiting to attack.

They’re pissed off because you don’t cuddle Muffsie any more. Don’t neglect your teddy bears!

Gemini (May 20 - Jun 20)

Sagittarius (Nov 22 - Dec 21)

Take that old musical instrument out of your attic because a famous musician’s car is going to break down in front of your house. Make sure you have your toolbox and a can of petrol handy. Napalm can be useful…

Feed your pets washing powder, it’s good for them. Stop using the toilet, its filthy! Cook your loved ones a nice dinner and sneak some of your bodily fluids in.

NOTTS

Bones’ Fun Cave...

TRUMPS

Grate Misstakes in Cultural Histroy

Victoria Centre

Shhh...soon zey vill be gone, Daisy

Broadmarsh Centre

Verr ist all zis MILK comming from?

Total number of shops

120

Of which selling worthless tat (%)

Total number of shops

8.2

Of which selling worthless

Wimpy bars

#01: The Dairy of Anne Frank

0

Wimpy bars

Big gay fountain clocks

1

Utter pikey rating

Big gay fountain clocks

2/10

Utter pikey rating

83 tat (%)

42.5 1 0 8/10