The word "leftfield" is usable in written English and is well written.
It is typically used to describe something that is unexpected or unconventional, often in a surprising or unusual context.
Example: "Her proposal for a new marketing strategy was completely leftfield, but it might just work."
Alternatives: "Out of the blue" or "Off the wall."
White men are black men, too – at least according to the forthcoming album and accompanying press release from the Mercury prize-winning leftfield hip-hop group Young Fathers.
To me, bohemian means a leftfield woman, with her own nonconformist agenda.
Issued by Domestic – a hub for exploratory, leftfield music housing the likes of Mink Freud and Hektagon – it is the amalgam of cultural detritus and dream sequences from one young man's childhood, projected through a science-fiction approach to electronic music-making.
Fruit was another costume straight out of leftfield with some revellers dressing as bananas.
While Calvi reshapes classic sounds, most female guitarists are happier occupying leftfield environs.
One to watch: fast-rising Nick Mulvey, the Portico Quartet founder member turned leftfield acoustic folkie 31 July-3 August, Lulworth Castle, Dorset campbestival.net Rock heavyweights Red Hot Chili Peppers play their only UK performance of the year here, while Kings of Leon and Biffy Clyro also headline.
He has been leftfield in his acting choices, too, despite having two Oscar nominations by the age of 30 – for his 1996 film debut in Primal Fear with Richard Gere and then American History X, where he played a reformed neo-Nazi.
The shortlist for this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, formerly the Perriers and the if.comedy awards, may not have any women on it but the panel have nevertheless made some interestingly leftfield choices.
With a judicious mix of familiar sing-alongs, most exuberantly on 'Fairytale', leftfield rarities, among them The Ramones' 'Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)', and their own wry contributions, this venture could outlast those garish jumpers.
The professional gossip Perez Hilton has a crawl-on part in the video for Rihanna's "S&M", which caused complaints over its explicit depiction of leftfield sexual practices and earned censure from the broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, when it was shown before the watershed.
Unless something completely leftfield takes place, we are less than a day away from the biggest event of the election so far.
