LeftLion Podcasts (Nottingham)

We’ve got a great one for you this week - actor, internet legend and ‘queen of huns’, Selina Mosinski, who is better known by her alter-ego Sue Tuke, AKA Charity Shop Sue.  The Charity Shop Sue YouTube mini-series has gathered thousands of fans since it launched in 2019, but Selina is now back with a new character, Randy Cain. Her upcoming Edinburgh show Puss in Boots, a Working Class Fairyta...

Night Creatures is a LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your  host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him two decades of experience of putting on great parties in the city.   This month, he's joined by Wrighty, Mark and Elmo; fellow members of the Soul Buggin' collective – a passionate group of DJs,...

This episode we are joined by Nyrobi and Chaya of ALT BLK ERA, who talk about their whirlwind year of winning a MOBO, appearing on Jools Holland and touring Europe with Pendulum… In 2022, sister duo and Notts natives Nyrobi and Chaya Becket-Messam emerged onto the local music scene as electronic-rock act ALT BLK ERA. They started recording music in 2020 when they were just thirteen and sixteen yea...

Jim Baron is best known as one of the founders of Notts electronic music titans Crazy P. Their sound is a fusion of house, disco, and soul and between 1998 and 2024 they’ve released nine studio albums. Previously known as Crazy Penis, they are one of Nottingham’s most successful music exports. They’ve played at festivals all around the world including most years at Glastonbury in some form or othe...

Night Creatures is a LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your  host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and  he brings with him two decades of experience of putting on great parties in the city.   This month’s guest is Parisa East from Acoustickle. She's a music artist and entrepreneur  with many years of experience pro...

Dave Rowntree is one quarter of the British alternative rock group Blur. He’s the drummer. However, he’s also been a politician, a lawyer, an animator, a composer and quite a bit more. Dave is appearing at Metronome in Nottingham this month doing a Q&A around a book he has released of early photos of Blur called ‘No-one you know’ all of which were shot in the very early days on his Olympus OM1...

Born and raised in Clifton in a Notts County-supporting household, James Belshaw took a circular route to finally becoming Notts County’s goalkeeper. After dropping out of the Magpies youth system in 2005, at the age of 35 he finally signed for the club last January. This followed a journey via the USA, the English National Leagues, two play-off final wins for Harrogate (including one against Nott...

Night Creatures is a LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him two decades of experience of putting on great parties in the city. This month’s guest is Oli Gibbons from Tumble Audio, Risque Rhodes and Build Beats. He started out promoting death metal events at th...

Night Creatures is a LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him two decades of experience of putting on great parties in the city. The guests for this episode are Adam and Rob Perkins, two brothers from Nottingham, who founded Bohemian Events and Boho Festival. In...

Night Creatures is a LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city. The guest for this episode is Nate Coltrane from Mimm (aka Music Is My Motive). Mimm started out as a clothing shop 14 years ag...

Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city The guest for this episode is Killer Jim from Out To Lunch who has hosted jazz dance sessions in Nottingham for over a quart...

Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city The guests for this episode are Laurence Ritchie and Steve Littleman from Smokescreen Soundsystem. They’re one of the longes...

Hetain Patel is an English visual artist specialising in performance, sculpture, video and photography. Born and brought up in Bolton, his work is influenced by identity, his family's Indian heritage and mainstream Western pop culture.  He first came to Nottingham in 2000 as a Fine Art student and spent more than a decade living and working here before spreading his wings; exhibiting in Norway, In...

Bafta-winning documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis has a long career under his belt of making surreal films exploring how people think, feel, and act in the West. He first began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. However, the release of Pandora's Box in 1992 marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses...

Night Creatures is a new LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and he brings with him over twenty years of experience of putting on great parties in the city. The guest for this first episode is Felix Coulton, the director and founder of Nottingham’s Swing Dash Radio and the new Ho...

James Graham grew up in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts and has gone on to be one of the most prolific stage and screen writers in the country. In 2020 he was awarded an OBE for his service to drama and young people in British theatre. To date he’s written thirty five plays including Quiz (about the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire coughing scandal), Ink (about the Murdoch Empire) and Dear England (about G...

Upcoming BBC mini-series   What It Feels Like For A Girl  tells the story of Byron, a Queer teen who is desperate to escape the confines of Hucknall. Based on the novel of the same name by Hucknall-born journalist  Paris Lees , the witty, gritty and heart-breaking show delves into what it was like growing up as a trans person in a small town during the early 2000s. To hear about the...

Originally from Lenton, Matt is a comedian, TV and radio presenter, writer, impressionist and more. He’s perhaps best known for his podcast The Political Party, where he interviews politicians including in the past the likes of Kier Starmer, Tony Blair, Ken Clarke, Nicola Sturgeon, William Hague, George Osborne and Angela Raynor. Matt is a regular on radio stations like Radio 4, 6Music and Absolut...

DJ Jonathan (aka Jonathan Woodliffe) is a veteran DJ who grew up in Burton Joyce in Notts. He became well-known across Nottingham in the 1970s and 1980s as the first in-house DJ at Rock City. Believe it or not he even had a flat at Rock City in the early days and has some fun stories as a result. However, this interview focuses on his formative years at the place he first started DJing: The Palais...

George Akins is the Managing director of DHP Family, who run music venues and events both in Nottingham and around the UK.  In Nottingham DHP Family venues include Rock City, Rescue Rooms, Stealth, The Bodega and most recently they acquired The Palais. Across the UK they also run the Thekla in Bristol and Oslo and The Garage in London.  As well as the dozens of gigs they put on every week they are...

Chanel Cresswell is a BAFTA-winning actor who trained at Nottingham’s Television Workshop.  She got her first professional break as a fifteen year-old appearing in Shane Meadows’ 2006 film This Is England. She then went on to take a leading role in the three subsequent television series’ and in 2016 won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Kelly. Following this Chanel went...

Natalie Duncan is a Nottingham-born singer-songwriter and recording artist whose music straddles neo-soul, R&B, jazz and more.  Natalie, now in her early thirties, was performing at Hockley Hustle festivals as far back as 2007 and released her first EP on local label Farmyard Records. She broke nationally appearing in the BBC TV series Goldie’s Band: By Royal Appointment (2009), and went on to...

Shane Meadows is a legend of British film and television. In the mid-90s he was making lots of short films around Nottingham.  In 1997 he released his debut feature TwentyFourSeven. Since then he’s gone on to create masterpieces like A Room For Romeo Brass, Dead Man’s Shoes,  This Is England,  The Virtues, Gallows Pole, The Stone Roses: Made of Stone and more. Shane was also the cov...

British-Ugandan singer-songwriter Daudi Matsiko is a Nottingham resident and a well known face in our local music scene.  This interview was recorded in front of a live audience at Nottingham Central Library on Friday 6 September. Interview by LeftLion Marketing and Partnerships Manager Adam Pickering. 

Since launching her career in 2015, Emily has gained recognition for her artistic collaborations with acclaimed hip-hop artists, including Tha God Fahim, Juga-Naut, and Micall Parknsun. As a long-time artistic collaborator of the New York based rapper and producer, Your Old Droog, she was commissioned to design several of his album covers, notably his 2019 It Wasn’t Even Close and Space Bar in 202...