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36 22: Progress at Castlegate Home to a number of forward-thinking independents and the largest excavation project this city has seen, we discover how things are finally starting to look up for a long-neglected part of Sheffield centre.
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36: Johnny Marr “Sheffield is the Portland, Oregon, of the UK. That, or the Berlin of the UK ... It’s where young people go to retire.” Founder of The Smiths and the guy behind some of music’s most memorable riffs waxes lyrical about the Steel City to Nick Burke.
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Sheffield beer and cider festival This annual supfest returns to Kelham Island Museum for the fifth year in a row. There’ll be street food, live music and some of the city’s finest breweries in the building serving up over 250 ales for you thirsty lot on 10–13 October.
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Come and stay with us
The city’s prodigal sons returned for a string of sell-out shows at Sheffield’s FLY DSA Arena last month, performing tracks from latest album Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino and a selection of nostalgic crowd-pleasers. Head to p.77 for our full review of the opening night. Photography: Lewis Evans
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The Children’s Hospital Charity have launched the Building a Better Future appeal to raise £14.25m for a renovated emergency department, cancer ward and helipad for Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The hospital’s emergency department is a designated major trauma centre, providing specialist care to children across the region. Designed for 32,000 admissions a year, it now sees 60,000 patients every 12 months. The renovation will expand the clinical space and create privacy, helping children receive the most appropriate care in the best possible way. The cancer ward will also be transformed, with more space, privacy and natural light to help
relieve the anxiety felt by both parent and patient alike. Finally, a new Helipad will also stop critically-ill patients being transported across the busy A57 on a stretcher, wasting time when every second counts. The Children’s Hospital Charity Director, David Vernon-Edwards said of the appeal: “These projects have never been more needed as we strive to build a better future for Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every donation, large or small, will make a difference to young patients from across the UK and beyond, who depend on our hospital’s excellent care.” Visit tchc.org.uk/how-you-can-help to make your donation today.
THANK BREW VERY MUCH Sheffield’s Abbeydale Brewery has launched an online beer emporium exclusively for hop heads around the UK. The online shop will feature some of Abbeydale’s famous beverages, as well as clothing and other merchandise. Beers are available to buy in a six pack or in a crate of 24. Events and communications manager Carly Honeycombe told Exposed: “In extremely exciting news we’ve launched our online shop! For the first time in our history we can see beer direct to the public.” Abbeydale Brewery’s online shop is live now. Head to abbeydalebrewery.co.uk/ shop for more information. www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 13
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“mate, no chance i’m spending a night in that place again. everyone in there smells likes coins.” First round of traders announced for Cutlery Works
Sheffield’s newest food destination Cutlery Works was announced back in April to huge excitement.
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Popular Matilda Street nightclub Plug has silenced online closure rumours by announcing that the club is under new management ahead of its autumn and winter programme. Rumours of the closure circulated earlier on this year, with the 13-year old club allegedly about to shut up shop and a golfing supplies store waiting in the wings. Taking to social media last month in a pun-filled Facebook post, Plug bosses said: “There’s been a lot of rumours puttering around over the summer about Plug becoming a golfing supply company and whilst winter golf has its benefits, Plug is open for the fore-seeable future. Now there is no more driving a wedge between us, Sheffield. Plug is under new management, with a new events calendar.” Plug has already announced shows for the coming autumn with Black Grape, the Blinders and
Twisted Wheel booked in to play the famous venue where acts like Arctic Monkeys, Ed Sheeran and Catfish and the Bottlemen have graced the famous stage. Nicole Jewitt, Plug’s new general manager, told Exposed: “It’s such an exciting time to join as the new general manager here at Plug and to be a part of its rebirth! Our diary is now officially open and we are really looking forward to bringing some new concepts to the city. Customers can expect a real diverse programme of events this Autumn – we want everyone to feel welcome!” More info found at the-plug.com
GHOULISH BEHAVIOUR: CARBROOK TO STARBUCKS A Grade II-listed building steeped in history and tales of the supernatural could well be turned into a Starbucks cafe. Carbrook Hall in Attercliffe was initially owned by the Blunt family in 1176 until the Lord of Ecclesall, Tom Bright, acquired it in the late 16th century just after it was re-built. A descendent of the family, John Bright, allowed the property to be used by parliamentary forces when Sheffield Castle was under seige in 1644. In 1855, the hall was first used as a public house and despite having numerous owners since, remained a popular boozer until it closed permanently in 2017. Such an illustrious history has led to repeated stories of ghostly presences and hauntings inside the building. New proposals, submitted by DLP Planning on behalf of the owner West Street Leisure, have been submitted to the council. The historic parts of the building will be retained and restored. A report on the proposals stated: “The plans would provide a viable use for the building of public benefit.” A drive-through Starbucks is planned for the bottom floor, with the first floor of the building to be used as a training room.
The huge Kelham Island food hall has now revealed the first round of restaurants and street food traders who will be cooking up a storm when the venue opens in late October. Bullion Just over halfway into its crowdfunding campaign, Bullion Chocolate has raised 75% of the desired goal. This puts the chocolate purveyors well on track to bringing the full-time café to life. Edo Sushi Staying in Asia, local sushi experts Edo Sushi will be providing the Japanese cuisine with counter dining around the open kitchen so you can watch your sushi and sashimi getting sliced and rolled. Gravy Train A trader which will be known to Sheffielders from Peddler events, Gravy Train will be bringing its speciality poutine to the party. What’s poutine we hear you say? It’s posh Canadian chips and cheese, but with cheese curds. Five Rivers Coffee Next is Broomhill’s Vietnameseinspired Five Rivers, who will be taking care of the pho and bánh mì along with its famous Vietnamese drip coffee. Shed Shed join the line-up at Cutlery Works after its pop-ups at Union Street proved to be popular. They specialise in tasty plant-based food and wellbeing. Ma Ba Sheffield Brand new, family-run Indian Ma Ba and its head chef, Manisha, is launching her own project at Cutlery Works in October. Ma-Ba means mother – grandmother and reflects the generational cooking to be showcased along with family recipes. www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 15
Mr Dreadful’s haunted hotspots
Central Library
It’s a busy time of year for Steel City Ghost Tours. The Sheffield institution’s natural affinity for Halloween makes for the perfect spooky activity on a dark October night. For Mr P Dreadful, the tour’s enigmatic guide and founder, it’s business as usual. “We run every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday night of the year, come rain, shine or snow!” Even to this day, the tour changes as more stories are uncovered. “We’ve realised that the city still has more layers that nobody’s actually looked into. Sheffield’s like an onion: the more layers you remove the darker it gets towards the centre!” It’s the people that inhabit the city, though, that add extra depth to Sheffield’s tours. “You can just talk about buildings, but to have an empty city with no people from history is just a mausoleum! We put the people back into the buildings.”
“We’re getting a lot of good feedback. It feels like we’re opening a lot of people’s eyes to the city’s depths. Some who’ve lived here all their life say, ‘My god, I didn’t realise Sheffield was so interesting!’. This is a historic city, where we changed the world with industry and ideas.” The warm and goodnatured Mr P is an engrossing storyteller, backed by thorough historical research and corroborated with multiple eye-witness accounts. Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, everyone enjoys a well-spun yarn. Expect a tour full of them, and two hours well-spent. “Come down and learn a little bit of history – hopefully even see the city in a different way!”
“There’s a bookcase where a human arm slides out of the third shelf, twisting and dripping blood down the books. It goes back into the bookcase, the blood soaking into all the pages.”
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The library is one of the more haunted buildings. From 1818 to 1853 it was a medical school, one of the biggest in the city. That burned down next to another medical school which stayed standing because of all the bodies stored for autopsies. Then it became a theatre called the Royal Theatre, eventually that was demolished and then they had the library. It was built over the top of the autopsy rooms and the theatre – they didn’t realise they were getting ghosts from them both! Nobody escaped the fire, not the children in the wards, the doctors, the nurses. Some of the ghosts are of that time; there’s one that walks around in the basement of the library, a burnt corpse. I met a young man who used to be a security guard there, and he ran into it and it stuck to him. He’d turned vegetarian by the time he got back upstairs! There’s also a bookcase where a human arm slides out of the third shelf, twisting and writhing with the cut forearm dripping blood down the books. That lasts for seven and a half minutes as it goes limp and stops moving. It goes back into the bookcase, the blood soaking into all the pages, then there’s a bloodcurdling scream.
Campo Lane
We have lots of ghosts down on Campo Lane. In Paradise Square we have three ladies, tied together by the neck with collars and ropes, that come out of number 17. It used to be the old lady’s house. They’re pregnant, wearing all black with a silk face mask, going to the old workhouse with their feet below the ground. They died between the workhouse and the lady’s house. That happens every 42 days between 4pm and midnight. People have seen them and said just how heartbreakingly young they are.
The Old Queen’s Head
It’s the oldest inhabited building in the city, originally the hunting lodge for Sheffield Castle. We get updates from mediums and clairvoyants that it’s like a railway station down there, with ghosts coming in and out from different time periods. We believe there’s now eleven down there. One’s an ex-sergeant in the royal marines, Thompson, who was sent down here in 1912 to find a spy ring of Germans who were trying to steal secrets: special boilers from Atlas Steelworks for their navy. He chased them back to Germany and was shot in the head with six others. Now he sits at the end of the bar wearing a tweed suit, reading a newspaper dated 1912, twirling his handlebar moustache. Students have bumped into him only for him to vanish. www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 17
UNIT SHEFFIELD Our resident Wing King Matthew Crowder defends his crown against Unit Sheffield’s preposterously spicy chicken challenge. Words: Paul ‘Wingman’ Stimpson
Last month, our designer Matthew Crowder (or Sir Wingsman of Yorkshire, as he’s taken to calling himself) set a new record at FirePit Rocks by eating 69 chicken wings. After a week or two of gloating, we’re now getting pretty fed up of it at Exposed HQ. He even signs off his emails with: “regards, Matthew Crowder CWK (Chicken Wing King, ya dun kno!)”. So when we heard about another wing challenge at Unit Sheffield, involving the hottest wings in the city, we thought we’d send his gloating mug down there and see if he could defend his crown. Only one person has succeeded so far, many have failed. “I’m just gonna go for it,” says Matt. This man’s confidence knows no bounds. After strapping on the blue gloves and posing for some incredibly creepy photos, a plate of chips and 20 chicken wings were brought to the table. As I, our photographer and sales director hovered around in curiosity, all three of us had to scatter due to sheer volume of spice radiating off the things and up our nostrils. A smug grin crept across my face – Matt has met his match here. He may well be able to monster his way through 69 chicken wings, but the smell of these wings alone had me reaching for a drink. God knows how he’s going to handle eating 20 of them. The stopwatch started: 20 minutes on the clock, 20 unbelievably spicy wings. Matt began the challenge by stripping each wing so he had a nice bowl of meat to plough through, presumably before the spice could take hold. A splash of hot sauce landed on our photographer’s hand, which he licked off (naturally) and proceeded to turn bright red. He was suffering from a cold
for about two weeks and one lick of this sauce cured him. That’s the level we were dealing with. After about five minutes of wing-stripping, Matt became concerned. With 15 minutes remaining, he’d only got half way through the wings and hadn’t even eaten anything yet. He decided to just crack on and hope for the best. The next four minutes was biblical-level entertainment. I’d wager that Matt had around five wings before his head started making some strange movements. He kept bopping up and down like some sort of strange pigeon. He’d succumbed to the dreaded hiccups. He was coughing, spluttering, hiccupping all over the place. Tears were streaming down his face. He was swaying side to side, saliva dripping everywhere. The Wing King’s crown was slipping. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! “I’m done.” No way! Surely not. The King has been conquered. “I need some milk.” In just under eight minutes, the challenge was over. Matt had lost his crown, but now was going through a spice-induced coughing fit, demanding milk and ice cream like a spoilt little brat. It was over. The owner informs us that once the hiccups start, you’re on a downward spiral. It’s the first hurdle of any spicy challenge and Matt had fallen at the first jump.
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Sheffield’s birthplace has fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, times are finally changing down on Castlegate. Once a thriving market hub, Sheffield’s historic centre has lost its way in recent times. The formerly bustling hub of storefronts and department stores has slowly been replaced by empty buildings and outdated architecture. This didn’t happen overnight, however – many factors have contributed to the area’s decades-long dilapidation. In the 20th century, improved public transport and the expansion of the traditional city centre shifted the focus away from Castlegate. This led to two competing town centres throughout the 60s and 70s, from The Moor to the Wicker, each with their own branch of popular high-street chains such as Woolworths and Dixons. Unsurprisingly, it was Meadowhall that broke the fragile balance, not only devastating the inner-city economy for over a decade but forcing one end of this teetering ecosystem to collapse. Trams have since connected the centre to the popular shopping destination, further reducing the need to renovate more disadvantaged areas. Nowadays, the proud Castle House, once home to the Co-operative department store, has gone unused for a decade. Exchange Street’s ‘street in the sky’ stands empty, old shop names on the floor above still visible from the ground. Market stalls dot side streets forgotten by the rest of the city. The markets themselves now reside on The Moor, drawn to the south of the centre along with the City Council buildings. “That was a tipping point. Castlegate had to find a new role,” says Simon Ogden, Castlegate project director and former head of city regeneration for Sheffield City Council. “It’s still one of the main gateways to the city. If you’re staying at any of the hotels, Castlegate is what you see. That’s your first impression. No one wants that to be the first impression of Sheffield!” Many might not realise Castlegate’s historical significance, something the council hopes to change.
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Under the mid-90s facade lies the confluence of the River Sheaf and the River Don, an unassuming geographical detail that spawned the North’s greatest city (objectively speaking). “It’s where Sheffield’s history began,” says Ogden. “Even people brought up here think Sheffield started around the Industrial Revolution, but it was a significant medieval town with a castle housing one of the wealthiest families in the north of England.” Sheffield Castle is currently undergoing an extensive archaeological investigation. Since its destruction during the English Civil War, the structure is now nothing more than an artist’s interpretation. The foundations remain though, waiting beneath centuries of constant building and demolition. Castlegate was bombed during World War II, and has seen slaughterhouses, hotels, pubs and steelworks all come and go. There was even a bowling green that once sat atop the castle site. Archaeologists are currently ‘trial trenching’ the area: a fast and inexpensive method of determining a site’s state of preservation and historical promise. The work will finish in mid-October, followed by a longer period analysing any findings offsite. Though this could theoretically lead to incredible discoveries, Ogden and his team are thinking realistically. “Nobody’s expecting us to find Camelot down there! We’re expecting minimal remains. Whether or not that becomes important to people is how we tell the story.” The team have also received support from the University of Sheffield. This collaboration has led to the creation of an augmented reality castle model (premiered at this year’s Festival of the Mind’s Futurcade exhibit in Millenium Gallery), as well as suggestions for trialling the site’s possible developments cheaply and effectively. At one point, plans proposed by the Department of Architecture were in place to build a ‘people’s pier’ to allow the community to interact with the excavation, though at the time of writing this has not obtained funding. The city’s regeneration has seen industrial space repurposed en masse in recent years, in areas like Kelham Island and the Creative Industry Quarter. For creatives, this has presented a different problem altogether. “We’re running out of places where bands can rehearse, record and perform because the old industrial places people used to play in are being redeveloped,” he says. “Plus, the tech sector is in dire need of inner city space. They don’t want to go to some business park in the suburbs, they want to be in an area where there are places to eat and it’s a stimulating environment.” In Castlegate’s renovation, the council hopes to solve both problems. “We might be running out of old industrial buildings, but what we have a lot of are old retail buildings in pretty good nick.” For musicians, the answer may lie down in Exchange Street. “We thought, ‘Why not use the old shops?’” Already, the likes of Delicious Clam, Rite Trax and Bal Fashions are injecting new life into the scene, at minimal risk to their finances. “It’s an idea we pinched from the Australians: ‘reducing the price of failure’. People can try something out, they don’t have to sign up to a 10 year-lease, spend loads of money … If it doesn’t work, someone else can take it over.” These early trendsetters are just the beginning for the area. “For the next couple of years we’re going to concentrate renewal efforts on Exchange Street and the shops around here. The aim is to get all the units renovated.” Castle House, arguably Castlegate’s centrepiece building, is also undergoing huge changes. The old Co-Operative will host multiple different projects, work and exhibition spaces, including a Barclays Eagle Lab an incubator for new businesses - and a food hall curated by local favourites Tamper and Depot Bakery. Perhaps most exciting of all is the arrival of the British 24 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
Gaming Institution and National Videogame Arcade, with the former due to open in late October. These announcements demonstrate a wider commitment by Sheffield policymakers to promote the fast-growing games industry. “We are putting that technology to the service of interpreting heritage, and hopefully will demonstrate the local talent we have.” The final piece of the Castlegate project, fittingly, is the castle itself. Currently, plans show a combination of new development, parkland and historical exhibit (depending on the quality and quantity of archaeological findings). “Just clearing the site and having an unobstructed green space would be underselling it”, says Ogden. “If this is going to be a viable part of the city there needs to be ongoing activities, people working and living round here that overlook the site at night, it feels safe, it feels lively, and there are things to do when you get to this part of town.” The centrepiece of the pocket park could well be the River Sheaf, currently hidden by a culvert. This would round off a project that Ogden says could take two to five years. Although the change will be transformative, the council want any renovations to keep the heart of the area intact. “The most prominent aspect of Castlegate is the level of vacancy. It’s about adding to what’s there rather than pushing people out. We want to hold onto the historic character of the area.” So far, plans seem to have unfolded smoothly. In just half a decade the city’s ancestral centre could be revitalised with new exciting points of interest, connected by streamlined road access and cycle routes that run right through the heart of the city. “It’s going to be transformational, especially for people visiting. There’s a lot of interest from local people in finding more about their history… we want to tell that story.”
The Vulcan Story
The ominous figure high on the wall of Castle House is Vulcan, god of fire and the forge in the Roman pantheon (not to be confused with Hephaestus, the closest Greek equivalent). Sheffield’s relationship with its adopted deity also sees him standing above the town hall, and adorned on the city’s official coat of arms. Apparently, artist Boris Tietze created the figurative sculpture in line with Vulcan’s appearance on the latter, a space he shares with Thor, Norse god of thunder. The two gods were apparently chosen as a (badass) celebration of the Steel City’s heritage.
October 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month in the UK. It’s a time of celebration, remembrance and honour, for those who have gone before and for those who have come after. Historic moments of the past shared and stories re-told. In Sheffield, a new festival celebrating the month was launched by two local lasses, myself and Gabriela Thompson-Menateaux in 2017. The idea developed out of a mutual love for our city as well as the realisation that there was a missing gap on Sheffield’s cultural calendar. As the story goes, Gabs approached me after the 2016 Sheffield Black Lives Matter March. We met a couple of times and realised our interests were similar. Ideas were jotted down and Melanin Fest was born on 8 November 2016. From then on, our Sundays were spent at Gabs’; planning, eating and chatting, immersed in event planning. We were very conscious that Black History Month should not be confined to October, as being Black is more than just our skin colour. So we created Our Mel, a grassroots volunteer collective dedicated to exploring black history, cultural identity and what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today. Melanin Fest was launched at the Frog and Parrot in October 2017 brought together over 40 organisations and 1,300 people. Our Mel has since hosted over 60 events in Sheffield, London and Leeds and is fast expanding. Our mission is to support, encourage, teach and build the community through music, film, art and education by creating safe environments for learning where embracing cultural heritage is encouraged. The core belief behind Our Mel is that representation matters, stories matter and history matters. It’s about making sure the voices of black people and people of colour are centred and that talent is showcased right here in Sheffield.
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But what is Black History Month? Black History Month is the history of black people everywhere with its roots interwoven with stories of pain, struggle, strength and beauty. It goes beyond October, goes beyond classroom learning, and goes beyond the civil rights movement. It began as the brainchild of highly acclaimed historian Carter G Woodson, who was one of the first scholars of African-American history and the son of former slaves. He worked as a manual labourer in Kentucky whilst studying for his undergraduate degree. He later travelled to Africa, Asia and Europe and received his doctorate from Harvard University. He was committed to studying black history and in 1973, founded The Negro History Bulletin for learning in schools. Carter then launched Negro History Week in February 1926, amidst racial segregation and the Jim Crow Laws. It was later renamed Black History Month. Britain has its own history separate to America and it wasn’t until October 1987 when Black History Month began in the UK by Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, a special projects officer. British schools are notoriously lax at teaching black history with it not being compulsory in the school curriculum. Britain’s part to play in slavery has been whitewashed, its narrative distorted and black Britons misrepresented. Just one example of this is the Moors in Tudor times, black African people who had conquered and ruled in Spain before coming to settle in Britain. Growing up, I was never taught this in school.
The same goes for the Victorian era – I had never once seen a picture of a black Victorian, but since founding Our Mel, I’ve come across the most stunning portraits of black Victorians. Black History Month has always been a part of me and from a very early age, my parents have been insistent in teaching myself and my sister about who we are as people and where we came from. I identify as both black and mixed race, a feminist and a woman. I am half Welsh and half Jamaican by birth, adopted into a Jamaican household. I recognise that half of me as a race is steeped in colonialism and white supremacy and the other half is the oppressed. For Melanin Fest last year, we invited Paula Perry, author of the first and only textbook that meets the Michael Gove Curriculum, BLACK BRITISH HISTORY: Black Influences on British Culture (1948 to 2016). It is an important book, necessary for the time and one which I highly recommend for those wishing to teach their children solid British black history. 2017 gave rise to a new celebration of Black History Month: A New Black History. In Sheffield, there is an incredible amount of creativity which exists amongst the younger generation. We need to harness it and look back at the past in order for us to move on, honour our elders – the Windrush generation who paved the way, and really start to recognise the new wave of talent in Sheffield. Barriers need to be removed and strongholds taken down to honour the achievements of our young Black Sheffielders. Because together, we can.
MelaninFest Highlights Afua Hirsch: Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging 18 October // 6.30pm – 7.30pm // Free
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An exploration of the Black woman looking at themes of body positivity, self-love, mental health & vulnerability. Creating While Black 20 October// 12pm - 3pm // Trippets Lounge Bar // Free
PR masterclass and brunch with Ronke Lawal, founder of Ariatu PR. For further info, visit ourmel.org.uk
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The hotly-tipped Tino opens up our Mixposed series in style.
Welcome to Mixposed: a brand new series showcasing the hottest DJs and producers from all corners of dance music, filmed live at our favourite Steel City venues. To set the bar accordingly, we collared one of the most exciting up-and-coming names on the grime, dubstep and UK funky scene, Tino, to play an exclusive mix at the home of renowned underground clubnight The Tuesday Club. After spinning a power hour of fire tunes at the Foundry, we caught up with the artist to see what’s new. We’ve heard that your clubnight, Peachy, is stepping up a notch What’s good, Tino? Thanks for a killer mix! too. No, thanks for having me! I love TTC and rate Exposed a lot, so Yes, we’ve got loads of new stuff coming up and we’re doing a biggups for getting me involved in this series. rebrand. I’ve brought through my gal Lila as our creative director. What did you aim to showcase with your Mixposed mix? She’s doing so much to expand the brand and I love working with I’ve started incorporating some dark, techno-y bits in my sets her. Anyone wanting to do a guest mix for us please get in touch – so I was excited to demonstrate how much the likes of Madam X we want to give people a platform to promote themselves. and Swamp 81 have influenced the tunes I play out. I feel like I’ve Can you give us some insight into the artists you played finally found a way of incorporating the variety of sounds in this mix? and scenes that I love into my sets, so I’m gassed that ‘‘It was a I play tunes from Aztek in every set and there are a few Mixposed has given me the opportunity to do this in such really good bits from him in this mix. Not only is he insane at produca visual way! 80% of the stuff I play is from producers I showcase of tion, but he’s also one of my best friends, so I love playing rate, who I believe are unrepresented within their scenes, the diversity his tunes. Proper dark, heavy dubstep with really nice and who I chat with regularly online or at events. and talent melodies – check him out! I’ve also dropped some tracks So you’ve been booked at Fabric? Huge! of music in from Muhla, a Bristol-based producer who’s the main Yeah, I’ve been booked to play at Fabric this month with Sheffield man of the label Too Much Collective. A lot of them have my new fave b2b partner, Bethbethbeth. I’m hyped. I kind of oriental vibes – give him a listen too, and check played with her and Riko Dan on Rinse FM, which was that’s out the label. sick, and it was on my birthday. Oh, and we played after influenced I’ve got a new track in here from Aaee – also a BristolKahn & Neek at St Paul’s carnival in Bristol – one of my a lot of my based producer – who’s getting really big in the UK favourite sets ever. tastes’’ funky scene right now, even Skream has been playing his You’ve had so much on since your last interview with tunes. He’s had a release on Rhythm Athletic, a new label us back in May. Things are moving fast! from Murder He Wrote, and I can tell some big tracks are gonna Yeah, everything has been a bit mad! I had the opportunity to play be coming through on that label. Aaee often makes tracks with on BBC 1Xtra on Toddla T’s show when he did a pop-up carnival his pal Fonzo; I’ve included in Sheffield with DJ Target. The whole show was streamed live and one of Fonzo’s own tunes is defo worth checking out! It was a really good showcase of the in this mix too. There are diversity and talent of music in Sheffield that’s influenced a lot of many more artists, but I’ve my tastes. Marcus Nasty has still been supporting me and offering included the tracklist so me so many opportunities – he let me host his show on Rinse FM. people can look them all up. I was really nervous about chatting on the mic but I loved doing it.
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Children of the State are a local five-piece comprising of John McCullagh (guitar and vocals), Corey Clifton (bass), Conor O’Reilly (drums), Nathan Keeble (guitar) and Harry Eland (keyboards). The selfconfessed “peyote punks” recently released their debut EP ‘Kill Your Darlings’, which was produced by The Fat White Family’s very own Nathan Saoudi at Champzone Studios. Words: Jess Peace Photography: Duncan Stafford Every so often a new band comes along that has something to say. On first impressions the lads look like they’ve wandered across straight from the Stranger Things TV set, but once they get talking it’s clear to see that between them is a wealth of musical, cultural and historical knowledge – all blended together to create quirky stage personas and apocalyptic slow jams. In true Sheffield fashion we headed for a pie, pint and a wander around the Arctic Monkeys exhibition. First though, I chatted to John, Conor and Nathan to find out where it all began. How did the band first get going? N: Myself, John and Connor were in a previous band called Vultures. It started as a four-piece and then we needed another guitarist. But that band dissolved due to musical differences, as it often does. J: So we took some time out and had many long nights talking about what to do next. We decided to start a band and make music that we actually want to make. C: We’ve had a better response from this band already. J: It just feels more natural. How would you say your sound has evolved since first starting out? N: The addition of keys has changed
a lot of things. There’s so much space, you don’t have to constantly play the guitar to give musical undertones to reinforce the lyrics. There is a space created that you can sort of pull around with the guitars and bass and what have you. J: It’s a bit like a painting where you keep hitting the canvas with splodges until you get the desired feel. Who would you say your biggest influences are? J: We all have a similar taste in music but we all listen to different things as well. For me, it’s Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles. N: For more contemporary musicians, I’d say The Fat White Family, who we recorded with at Champzone Studios. Kanye West is a huge influence, that’s why we put the drum machine on the ‘Kill Your Darlings’ track. J: There are no other contemporary bands who I like. I think everyone’s bad. N: Apart from, well, you’ve gotta say the Arctic Monkeys. We wouldn’t be here right now if it wasn’t for them. J: Oh yeah, the Arctics are next level. Alex Turner for me is the modern day Bob Dylan. I think it’s important to take influence but not to try sound like them. Don’t rip them
off. You take one riff and before you know it… N: You’re balls deep. How would you say growing up in South Yorkshire has influenced your sound? N: Well there are many yuppy, sort of punk bands around at the minute. Singing about socialism. J: They don’t have a clue, do they? No yuppy punk band is gonna have a clue what it’s like to grow up and have no money. They don’t know anything. They’re all middle class. N: Not like that means anything! It’s completely irrelevant. You can’t use that as an excuse. You can’t say my parents didn’t have any money so I’m amazing for doing this, because that’s a destructive way of thinking. C: What was the original question? N: How does it influence our sound? Oh, it’s very grey and brutal. It’s almost like Eastern Europe, innit? There are so many grey buildings and people are so miserable. But that’s kinda beautiful. J: Sheffield has a hidden beauty in its walls. N: Sheffield in the summer is the most beautiful place ever. There’s so much green space. But in the winter and the rain, it’s brutal, it’s almost uninhabitable.
Tell me about your songwriting process... C: It’s mainly these two who come up with the ideas. Sometimes John will send through acoustic ideas. J: I’m always writing, or trying to. It’s my life. I consider every second not listening to music or playing it a waste. N: The process usually is that one of us will have the bare bones of an idea. Maybe we have some lyrics and then John will put a melody to it and we’ll take it to the rehearsal room. It’s pretty much the standard formula of any band really. J: It’s important to have good structure. You need to have good music and strong words. You can’t have one without the other really. We as a band, as opposed to some other bands, we try to have the lyrics at the forefront. What inspires you when you’re writing? J: Everything. N: More specifically, with this EP, we were watching a lot of mad films. Have you heard of Federico Fellini? He’s a director, he made a film called 8 ½. This guy’s got writer’s block so bad that he retracts into his own self-conscious. He’s trying to make a sci-fi film and it becomes really
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autobiographical. That was our 8 ½ moment where we finished our other band and we didn’t really know what to do. J: But we knew we wanted to do something together. We’re such close friends. Well, not even friends really, more like arched minds which are all connected. We’re influenced by a lot of different spectrums. N: There’s so much out there and you have to realise that we are all going to die. There’s only a finite amount of time that we can actually absorb these things. I think that you should listen to your favourite song every day because there’s no room for music when you’re in the grave. J: Read as many books as you can. Books are the most important thing in the world. They are an escape. If you can make music then you can create a world that people can escape into, whether it’s good or not. N: Yeah, because certain music can take you to a certain place. There are parts of your life which almost feel like a room where that music can take you to. I think that’s one of the most beautiful things. J: The brain room. You can just walk down your own corridors and escape into that world. C: Alreyt, David Lynch! Your EP, ‘Kill Your Darlings’, was produced at Champzone Studios where you worked with Nathan Saoudi [Fat White Family], Jack Howorth [Mysteron] and Dean Honer [The Moonlandingz]. What was it like working with those guys?
N: It was one of the best experiences ever. C: It was like a bootcamp, one that sort of put us into shape. J: It sort of deflated our egos a bit. They taught us how to do things better and take things to the next level. N: It’s a good thing actually. The ‘Kill Your Darlings’ track didn’t sound
“Sheffield... it’s very grey and brutal. It’s almost like Eastern Europe, innit? There are so many grey buildings and people are so miserable. But that’s kinda beautiful.” anything like it does on the EP. We took it to the studio and Nathan said, “It sounds like a fucking Velvet Underground song.” He put this drum machine on it and it changed the song completely. We just added everything on top of that. What is your favourite track from the EP? N: For me, it’s ‘The Afterglow’ because I think it could be a Bond theme or something. J: It’s got some good Timothy Leary quotes in there as well. N: One of the most fun to make was definitely ‘Kill Your Darlings’. We didn’t have any lyrics for the end of that when we were in the studio. J: It was a proper Lennon and McCartney moment. C: We left it until the last day as well. It took us five hours and then it just came together. J: My favourite is ‘Tomorrow We’ll Drift’ which I wrote by myself, in my room, last year. I wrote it about
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a night that I had with someone. A long drive under the stars. What are your thoughts on Sheffield’s current music scene? J: I don’t know really. I should probably take more time to listen to more bands. I’m still stuck in 1966 listening to Dylan. C: Well with our last band, we were trying to fit in and be part of a scene. J: But all scenes die, so there’s no point. C: Yeah. and now we’ve gone on our own. N: International Teachers of Pop are really good, but they’re not really unsigned. They’ve brought some great stuff out and Dean was the one who mastered our EP. There are loads of bands which are really good, especially in places like the Audacious Art Experiment and Delicious Clam. And obviously The Fat White Family are based in Sheffield now... N: We were in Brixton last week actually, at the Windmill, where the Fat White Family played some of their first shows. I know it happens everywhere but the level of gentrification down there is insane. The Windmill is on a council estate but you still go in and pay eight quid for a pint. There are middle class people who are our age and then old men sat there with their dogs, all enjoying a pint. Which is a good thing but it’s also very strange. J: It’s a conundrum. N: Poverty has become trendy in the past few years. I think that’s why a lot of South London is the way it is. That’s why the Fat Whites moved up here, because they couldn’t afford it basically. C: I couldn’t imagine being an artist in London. N: The whole country is fucked. I know that’s such a cliché thing to say.
If you could collaborate with any other artist, dead or alive, who would it be and why? J: Alex Turner, easily. N: Does it have to be a musician? J: We could write a book! I’d love to write a book. C: I love the new Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino album. I love the video, there’s such a weird collection of shots. It’s very Kubricky. I’d like to collaborate with Kubrick. J: I’d love to collaborate with Stephen King on a novel as well. N: Kanye would be a good one. C: That would be incredible. What have you got planned for the rest of 2018? N: We’ve just booked tour for the release of our EP. So we’re going to be playing live...carrying some amps. J: We said when we started this band, that there’s no point in releasing singles or owt. It’s not 1995 anymore. Just release as much music as you can. We’ve got so many songs, we just want to release them and carry on making new ones. N: Yeah, the minute you start fannying around with singles and thinking about how you’re going to market them, it becomes subsidised music. What can people expect when they come to see you live? C: We’re not like any other Sheffield band. We don’t try to sound like anyone else. J: It won’t be like Pink Floyd with flying pigs and shit but we try to mix in a bit of everything. N: We’re here to drink milk and rock, and we’ve just finished our milk… Children of the State will be playing at Cafe Totem on 23 November. EP ‘Kill Your Darlings’ is available now on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc.
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On the eve of a non-stop three month tour, Exposed spoke to guitar hero Johnny Marr about The Smiths, his criticallyacclaimed solo work and everything in between. Words Nick Burke
Johnny Marr is an artist in love with his craft. As he waxes lyrical about everything from his creative process to the meaning behind latest album Call the Comet (in a nutshell, “escapism and defiance”), there is no doubt that, even after decades of relentless writing and performing, The Smiths’ legendary co-founder has so much more to say. “I’d be working whether I was getting paid or not. I’m not career motivated, but I’m very work motivated.” There is no escaping a career of Marr’s calibre, however. The Smiths were not only commercially successful, they were - and still are - creatively revered. Their songs spoke to a younger generation desperate for an identity, politically and ideologically. Their second album, Meat is Murder, inspired its own vegan movement. It was a bright-yet-fleeting light though, shining for only five years before the band ultimately split. After such intense success, any artist might feel burnt out. Lost, even. Not Marr. His post-Smiths legacy characterises a man who loves to create regardless of the circumstances, taking on project after project with musicians from the likes of Kraftwerk, Oasis, New Order and many more. These experiences take him all the way from 1987 to the present day, culminating in his decision
to finally work as a solo artist. If musicians needed a CV, his would be airtight. There’s not a single gap. Our conversation reveals an artist more concerned with his art than the limelight. Morrissey’s charisma and provocative lyrics might have been the The Smiths’ headline-makers, but it was Marr’s creative engine providing the backing tracks that kept the band fresh. He admits being more comfortable in the studio than touring, a preference that has only very recently reversed. Perhaps this change of heart was influenced by going solo. “When I was younger, working with either Morrissey, Kirsty MacColl or Matt Johnson, I expressed 100% of how I was feeling with the backing track,” he recalls. “I was happy with that process: there’s the track, it goes like this, sometimes it sounds like a single, sometimes it sounds like an album track. Then they put their thing on top of it. I was lucky that I got to do that to a high level. But now I do it a different way, I can’t imagine going back to that.” So being involved in every part of the process has rewarded him with new skills? “Yeah. I still write songs from a riff, but now I feel confident writing a song from my own lyrical concepts, a title or a phrase.”
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The decision to go solo has provided rewards in other ways, too, including claiming the vocal responsibilities. “I like being the singer in my own band – a really great band.” He sees this setup as a throwback to his own youth. “The lead guitarist being the lead singer in a fourpiece band isn’t as common as when I started out. When I was leaving school most of the bands I followed were four-piece – five at best, without any backing tracks.” This familiarity may have inspired some of the musician’s most varied work to date. Call the Comet represents a departure from Marr’s previous solo records, particularly his buoyant first album The Messenger. “Back then I was excited about putting a new band together, and had all these songs in my head to create as a solo musician,” he says wistfully. Nowadays though, there’s an awful lot to be worried about. Marr’s distress at our post-Brexit, mid-Trump society is well-documented. “I tend to look outwards for my material and sing about what I see around me, I find that a rich source of inspiration. Unfortunately, what I’ve seen around me over the last couple of years was not really something I wanted to sing about. Rather than complain in my music, I found myself accidentally imagining an alternate society...Not entirely futuristic, but definitely a better future.” Creating the album, then, was as much for himself as for his fans. “It was intense. The record is a personal refuge – I didn’t make it because the record company or my career needed the next chapter.” Creatively, he refused to let his music become weighed down by politics. “If I was explicit about it, it would just ruin my record.” I ask if he wanted to free his music from any specific time period, so that it might apply in the future too. “No. You know what, I didn’t want to tie it down to specific people. Because I think they’re wankers.” Ironically, Comet’s defiant apoliticism comes from a highly politicised place. Released in June, the album enjoyed a strong reception from critics and fans. “I had no idea how it was gonna turn out, no plan for it,” he admits. “I think it’s been well received because it’s emotional. There’s more drama in the music…People like to react to how an artist is feeling, and there’s something very honest about it.” The emotion ranges from more personal songs, including ‘Day In Day Out’ and the mellow ‘Walk Into The Sea’, to the classic driving guitar riffs of call-to-arms ‘Rise’. The latter tells a relevant story. “It’s about two people – lovers, friends, me and the audience, whoever – faced with the adversity of dealing with what we’ve got to deal with in the future. It’s saying we’ve got to rise to the challenge. It’s not something I’d have written before; I came up with the lyrics ‘here they come/it’s the dawn of the dogs’ in New York the day after the American election.” The album’s philosophy is summed up by lead single ‘The Tracers’; Marr even refers to the album as “coming out of that song”. “It’s a distinct story about humanity sending out a call to a more evolved version of us”, he describes. “I wasn’t entirely thinking of aliens, I was more thinking of an evolved intelligence in the cosmos – it’s a call out for some guidance.” The song feels straight out of old-school science fiction, in the style of War of the Worlds. “If you’re thinking along those lines then I’ve absolutely done my job because that’s exactly what I was going for! I was trying to turn H. G. Wells into a late-seventies New Wave track.” He continues, expanding on his songwriting process. “Writing songs is so great because craft can come into it. It’s not all craft, sometimes if you’re lucky it can be 100% inspiration. In the case of ‘The Tracers’, I made a concept that turned into a story that then led me to write the
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music. It was exciting, because I had to conjure up out of the air the correct tone and the riff.” Looking past this musical variety, does Marr write for anyone in particular? Fans of The Smiths perhaps? “I write for an audience of guitar music fans”, he says. “I am aware – having been around for a long time - that there’s people who’ve probably stuck with me for half their lifetime. That’s added a dimension to writing, because me and the fans have been with each other for so long.” Marr is now touring Call the Comet, embarking on a string of 50 consecutive dates spanning three months and two continents. The intensity doesn’t phase him, even if he’ll be 55 by the time the tour is over. “I’m looking forward to it. Most people go out, do 16, 18 shows and have a few weeks off. 50 shows is quite a lot!” The tour starts in the States before returning to the UK, with a date at Sheffield’s O2 Academy on 13 November. When shamelessly pressed, the Mancunian maestro reveals a lot of love for the steel city. “My association with Sheffield goes right back to 1981. I started working for a clothing company who were Leeds-based but had a shop in Sheffield called X Clothes. At that time it was a thing for people from Manchester to go to the Limit Club and the Leadmill. You had that whole first wave of Sheffield post-punk industrial music: Clock DVA; early Human League; Cabaret Voltaire. It seems to be that way now again: Yorkshire has its own [musical] identity … there are a lot of great musicians coming through.” To his amusement, there’s a running theme with the locals he meets. “Most of the people who come to my gigs seem to live in Crookes! I always tell them it’s alright, you can’t actually OD on pizza,” he laughs. “But yeah, I meet so many young people who are from Sheffield, and every one of them is proud of it ... In fact, I’ve lived in Portland, Oregon, and Sheffield is the Portland, Oregon, of the UK. That, or it’s the Berlin of the UK. It’s where young people go to retire.” That’s something Marr himself shows no sign of doing.
Touring vs studio? Touring – and that’s a complete reverse of 25 years of my life. I never liked touring, but now I’m all about touring and performing. Country you’re visiting with the best food? Even though I’m vegan I’ll say France. Good cuisine. Favourite place in the UK apart from Sheffield? Bristol. It’s very much like a southern version of Sheffield. Bristol is like one big festival with some buildings in it. Band to watch for the future? Crewel Intentions, led by my friend Chilli [Jesson] who was in Palma Violets. I’m very pleased to say they’re coming out with me on the UK dates. Also, Dreamwife. Kagoule. The Belle Game who are opening for me in America are really good too. My son’s band Man Made are a very Sheffield-friendly band, they’ve played a lot in Sheffield. They’ve got an album coming out at the end of this year – and it doesn’t matter that he’s my son, I’d be bullshitting if I didn’t mention him because I think they’re a really good band! Food or drink to enjoy while listening to Call the Comet? Even though I don’t drink myself, I’m not averse to people slamming down some champagne cocktails or a mojito or two. Non-alcoholic? Carrot, ginger and turmeric. Give it a bit of orange juice too.
Best gig you’ve played, no matter how small or big? Modest Mouse, Santa Barbara Bowl, 2008. Two and a half hours on stage. You had to be fit to be in that band – either very fit or very drunk. I got fit. Best way to spend a free afternoon? No matter what level of physique you’re at, get out and run until you just feel great - because you will feel great! Put some headphones on, listen to Call The Comet, Cornelius or Maxine Peake. Ever named an instrument? Yes, but totally ironically. I named one of my guitars Betsy, because Hank Hill named his acoustic guitar that. Otherwise, I would absolutely not go there. Thoughts on Manchester United? Tragic. They just can’t take it. Watch this space, enjoy the zeppelin going down. City fans have had 30 years of tragedy and it’s a great spectacle watching [United] freak out. It’s called being too entitled, it’s not good for you! Johnny Marr will perform at Sheffield’s O2 Academy on 13 November while touring for his newest album Call the Comet, available now.
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22 things to look forward to in Sheffield this autumn
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Summer may be long gone, but that doesn’t mean your social life has to cool down too. From bar and restaurant openings to inner-city festivals, here are some standouts on the city’s cultural calendar over the next few months. 2. Food, Glorious Food
1 Livin’ Social
Situated in the newly-renovated Castle House down on Castlegate (originally the Co-op), Kollider Social is one of many projects planned to set up shop in the building. This giant indoor food hall is being curated by local favourites Depot Bakery, Tamper and Peddler. It will open early for breakfast, with a range of Scandinavian-inspired food on offer. The plan is to encourage customers to connect over coffee and great food, sparking creativity and ideas in the shared space. With other projects in the works, Castle House is shaping up to be a hub for exciting new local experiences.
Kelham Island’s resurgence as a culinary hotspot continues with newest addition Cutlery Works, a food hall located inside an old factory. Opening in late-October, the first wave of traders has been confirmed to be Gravy Train, Five Rivers, Edo Sushi and Ma Ba, offering poutine, Vietnamese, Japanese and Indian food respectively. Each vendor has its own connection to the city, whether that’s Gravy Train’s highly successful appearances at Peddler Night Market or Five Rivers’ beloved Broomhill eatery. Currently, there is even a Kickstarter to support a ‘bean-to-bar’ chocolate café, Bullion, for those needing some extra sweetness in their lives. The renovation pictures look very promising so far, and more food and drink is never a bad thing. Watch this space.
4. Supper Time
3. Game On
Castle House will also play host to the British Gaming Institute from October onwards. This is an initiative to promote and support gaming within the UK, securing funding and championing gaming culture. Along with the National Videogame Arcade, an interactive museum moving from its current location in Nottingham, it’s set to provide a strong statement of Sheffield looking towards the future. 44 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
A new dining and drinking experience founded by Tom Aronica (food) and Jack Wakelin (drinks), supper club concept Bench launches on 24 November at Peter & Paul’s Testone Factory in Kelham Island. The event marks the first in a series of pop-ups that will take place on a quarterly basis throughout the city, with Upshot Espresso on Gibraltar Street one of the upcoming locations. Jack and Ronnie met whilst working in the prestigious underground bar Public. They have united their considerable clout in mixology and food to create a fresh and unique form of dining, one which is centred on the idea of a comfortable atmosphere and bringing people together to dine at one table – hence the name. Tickets are £5 and include an aperitif and food pairing. All dishes and drinks will then be priced at £7 each, to give guests the flexibility to suit both their taste and budget. Photo: Luke Hayes
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5. Dawn of a New Era
Soon to be Sheffield’s very own Chinese quarter, this ongoing £66 million development can be viewed from across the city thanks to its large centrepiece tower block. The finished build will offer a well-lit public plaza as well as an oriental supermarket, restaurants, a café and student accommodation. Sheffield’s universities welcome many Chinese students to the city every year who, along with the indigenous Chinese community, will be able to enjoy a state-of-the-art project planned and funded jointly by both UK and Chinese businesspeople.
8. Cast Away!
The luxurious CAST (experiencecast.com) experience arrives at Sheffield Students’ Union’s Inox Dine on 5 October for an evening of jewellery making and fine-dining. CAST empower people to make their own jewellery, either via mail order kits or guided events. Priced at £90 per head, attendees will leave the experience having made the wax blueprint of their very own sterling silver jewellery-to-be – whether it’s earrings, a ring or pendant. Snazzy.
9. Real Talk 6. Drinks and Dumplings
Part-bar, part-pun, this new collaborative venture from the managers of Freak Street Café and Bath Hotel debuts in November where Abbeydale Road and London Road split. Jabeerwocky takes over from Bar Ambasada PL, and plans to continue selling the Polish lagers the location is known for along with craft ales and Freak Street Café’s momos (Himalayan dumplings). These are served with a variety of colourful sauces and can be fried, steamed or fried only on one side in some kind of godless hybrid called a Kothay.
Aiming to redefine the post-work drink, Funzing organise talks across the world in the evening hours with the purpose of inciting discussion and opening minds to new ideas. Lecturers give planned talks on a huge variety while patrons enjoy their drinks and a good story. In the coming weeks, Sheffield will host talks titled Do You Have a Narcissist in Your Life (2 October), Murderers, Mafia Hitmen and US Prison (15 October), Exploring World Conspiracy Theories (22 October), Interviews with a Serial Killer (23 October) and Pablo Escobar – The Real Story (19 November). Search ‘Funzing Talks’ online to find out more, with talks due to be held at local venues such as The Leadmill and Yellow Arch.
7. Livin’ the Pie Life
The city’s first dedicated vegan pie shop has opened its doors this month, taking the place of recently-closed Burger Garden on Abbeydale Road. 3.14 The Vegan Pi Company opened on 1 October and features around 20 pies on its menu including specials. Each one is handmade at the restaurant’s own bakery, with all ingredients locally sourced.
10. On the Big Screen
Ahead of their Halloween screening event, The Village Screen and Kenwood Hall link up for an outdoor showing of Wes Anderson’s award-winning Grand Budapest Hotel on 12 October. It’s sure to be a treat for all the senses, with live music as well as a bar, street food and deck chairs from which to enjoy Ralph Fiennes’ zany antics. Doors open at 6:30pm, with the film starting at 8:30pm. Grab tickets from thevillagegreenevents.co and head down early to claim yourself a good seat.
11. Is Anybody There?
Theatre Deli presents DARKFIELD’s Séance, a 15-minute performance in a soundproofed shipping container in total darkness. The audience sit at a long table wearing ear-covering headphones, part of what is described as an evolving narrative with no live actors. Find Séance at a secret location in the city centre, running from 11-16 October, with hourly showings from 1pm-8pm. An “open mind” is asked for from participants; enter if you dare. theatredeli.co.uk for tickets and more info. 46 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
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12. At Your Service
Yorkshire Artspace, Persistence Works Studios // 27 September-4 November Created by Mir Jansen, this exhibition provides a vital and timely insight into the life of European nationals working and living in the UK today. Her painted portraiture includes interviews with eleven employees of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, uncovering the human beings behind the Brexit headlines and the personal impact of one of the largest political decisions in our time.
13. Liquid Crystal Display
Site Gallery // 29 September 2018-27 January 2019 The opening exhibition running at the revamped Site Gallery provides an analysis of all things crystal, and the unique but crucial place minerals hold in our society. From historical alchemical and healing uses to today’s applications within technology, LCD plans to reveal the beauty of nature. The premise sounds fascinating, with a centrepiece commission from Anna Barham titled Crystal Fabric Field. Expect a colourful, trippy exploration of natural geometry.
16. Off the Shelf
6-27 October This treasured festival of creativity continues Sheffield’s run of exciting and inspirational events in the fall. Running from 6–27 October, venues across the city take part in hosting presenters from famed thinkers to beloved comedians. Last year, Robert Webb and writer Lee Child gave presentations in what were only the high-profile picks of a fantastic festival line-up. Three key themes tie this year’s talks together in what will be the festival’s 27th appearance: the anniversaries of suffrage, Frankenstein and circus. Check out the website for full listings and this year’s unique event artwork by Tom J Newell, making sure to attend a talk or workshop in an unexplored field.
17. Steel City 44 – Sheffield Beer & Cider Festival
10-13 October After five years at Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield’s Beer and Cider Festival is going from strength to strength. The event runs from 10-13 October, rolling out live music and street food throughout the week. Entry is free Wednesday all evening and Thursday daytime, and attendees can expect plenty to eat on top of the guaranteed-to-be mind-boggling variety of beers and ciders. Those with a Campaign for Real Ale membership can get reduced prices on their tickets for the busier weekend period. Make sure to head on over to camra.org.uk for more information.
14. Construction House
S1 Artspace // 6 October 2018-20 April 2019 Focusing upon the legendary Bauhaus art school’s influence upon socially and technologically-conscious art, exhibits and new commissions will be added to this fascinating local initiative. Workshops, talks, screenings and performances are planned for the public across this period, too. It’s an exciting project for anyone wanting to learn more about the formative moments in modernist art, and a great chance to get your culture on while supporting an important local space.
15. The Great Sheffield Art Show
Millennium Gallery // 17-18 November Fancy an evening with the best amateur art from Sheffield and across the UK? Now in its 30th year, TGSAS gives all kinds of artists a platform, from budding hobbyists to part-time art aficionados. The event not only cares for the local artistic community, it also has the prestigious title of being the largest open art exhibition outside of London. Over 900 artworks will line the walls of Millennium Gallery with the opportunity to purchase the showcased work. Alternatively, people are welcome to submit their own! 48 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
18. No Bounds 2018
12-14 October This innovative festival returns for its second year, expanding to multiple new locations across an entire weekend. Led by much-loved nightclub Hope Works, No Bounds has been praised as a modern combination of music and the arts. Festivalgoers can expect their fair share of club music in various locations including Hope Works and Trafalgar Warehouse, augmented by live workshops, panels and talks from a diverse range of personalities.
19. Illuminate the Gardens
2-4 November This bonfire night spectacular promises to light up the Botanical Gardens next month. Following its sell-out inaugural year, an additional date has been added to cope with demand. Every night, street food vendors (including Proove Pizza) and pop-up bars cater for the adults while activities across the gardens keep the kids happy. The grand finale large-scale firework show is sure to excite all ages.
20. Oktoberfest Magna
13 October Prost! There’s nothing quite like knocking back some beers in good company. Surely then, supersizing the beer to steins, adding in live music and German food must be even better? Magna’s Oktoberfest is back by popular demand to deliver another evening of Bavarian craziness in October, running from 6pm until midnight.
21. Melanin Fest
1 -31 October Run by Sheffield-based social enterprise Our Mel, this festival celebrates black history and cultural identity throughout the October-long celebration of Black History Month. During the year, Our Mel hold workshops under the categories of My Mel, Your Mel or Our Mel. My Mel aims to empower people to be confident in their history and heritage, Your Mel offers a safe environment for group discussion and self-expression, and Our Mel brings together talent, embodying the meaning of being black and proud.
22. Sheffield Fizz and Prosecco Fest
10 November Held inside the stately Cutlers’ Hall, this upmarket bubble-fest celebrates all things fizz. Included in the admission ticket is a glass of prosecco upon arrival, with the event offering live bands, street food and over 20 different tipples. There are even some VIP tickets if you want to get super-fancy, and a choice of two separate entry times throughout the day.
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1 Steel, Street, Synth & Shutter Trafalgar Warehouse // 27 September – 6 October Part of Sensoria Festival, this exhibition will showcase the work of Barbara Wasiak, a photographer best know from documenting the Sheffield music scene in the 80s, 90s and beyond. With an archive featuring shots of notable acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Roisin Murphy and Treebound Story, it will allow visitors to revisit the unique context in which the city’s music scene flourished.
Save some dosh with these free to attend events taking place this month – just take yourself and, if needed, a bit of pocket money to tide you over.
2 Hive Verse Matters Theatre Deli Sheffield // 11 October A collaboration between Verse Matters, Hive South Yorkshire and Off the Shelf Festival, this event welcomes New Poets Prize Winner 2018 Warda Yassin to perform live alongside Bristol spoken word artist Sophie Shepherd and open mic performances from a number of emerging artists. 3 Northern Craft Fair 92 Burton Road // 13 October The Northern Craft Fair will provide a platform for some of the region’s finest makers and creatives to showcase their work, building a supportive local community in the process. A selection of food and drink plus live music and workshops will also be on offer. Head to the website – northerncraft.co.uk – for a full list of stallholders.
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4 Robert James Blues Dorothy Pax // 19 October The five-piece band brings their brand of blues with a jazzy feel down to Victoria Quays for a free evening of live music.
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5 Extracurricular Activities: James Green and Jonathan Wilkinson A Month of Sundays Gallery // 22 September – 20 October For the first time in three years, Pete McKee’s Sharrow Vale Road gallery will be hosting an exhibition featuring external artists. The collaborative show ‘Extracurricular Activities’ from local artists James Green and Jonathan Wilkinson will present a body of work exploring ideas of abstract expression in print and painting. The exhibition will be open 10am-5pm, Tues-Saturday.
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6 Awesome Tapes From Africa Bungalows & Bears // 26 October Representing the sounds of the continent in cassette form, Brian Shimkovitz brings together a wide range of African genres – from highlife to leftfield soul to curious local pop. The DJ brings his extensive collection to Bungalows for a free party featuring up-and-coming artist and Banana Hill resident SNO, plus local selectors Sourdough. Kicks off at 8pm. In association with
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Our pick of the Halloween treats in store in the days leading up to the big night. Out of This World 2018 // Sunday 28 Every year, on the last Sunday of October, hundreds of people gather in the city centre for some free, family-friendly sci-fi, magic and pre-Halloween spooks. Out of This World 2018 promises to once again be a unique, inclusive occasion that offers exciting events for everyone. Children will find The Moor alive with workshops and magic shows, and the Peace Gardens hosting some classic characters from popular culture as well as music and dancing. The Town Hall, meanwhile, is sure to be an enticing prospect for any collector of comics and sci-fi memorabilia. Running from 10:30am to 5:30pm, this popular event always fosters a feel-good atmosphere. Head on down to see your city centre in a new light, equal thirds spooky, magical and extraterrestrial.
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The Village Screen’s Halloween cinema at Kenwood Hall // Wednesday 31 Fans of The Village Screen will know this format well: watch a classic movie against the backdrop of beautiful scenery, accompanied by a picnic, blankets and some choice bevvys. The Village Screen’s Halloween cinema at Kenwood Hall takes this formula even further, offering a live acoustic band, “autumnal” food, a bar and deck chairs, all in the view of the stunning hall (and the surrounding spooky woodland). Families should come for the 5pm showing of The Witches (doors at 3:30pm), the unnervingly surreal adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic book. Everyone else, get yourselves down to the 8:45pm showing of The Shining for a Halloween to remember. You owe it to yourselves - ‘all work and no play’ and all that... Oh, and be sure to wrap up warm against that October cold, and bring a braver person to hide behind for the scary bits. The Grand Halloween Ball // Saturday 27 Love the strangeness of circus, the novelty of an old pinhole camera, or the allure of cabaret? This alternative ball at Sheffield City Hall will make for a delightful night. Expect a great deal of dancefloor action and eclectic-yetcatchy tunes in what is described as an “extravagent disco party”. Dress up is highly encouraged, from masquerade to gothic, with a host of entertainment stalls to enjoy in between bops. The event runs from 8:30pm to 3am - and remember, it’s 18s and over only, with some bawdy entertainment courtesy of Velvet Burlesque. Check out online sizzle reels from previous events for an idea of what to expect. For those who love to dress up in quirky and detailed costumes, it’s sure to be an excellent themed occasion. Sweats Halloween Mega Spesh w/ Chaos in the CBD, Esa, Dane, Faro // Friday 26 The famed Yellow Arch Studios is one of Sheffield’s most treasured multipurpose music venues. It offers cracking nights out throughout the year, along with recording and rehearsal facilities for artists both up-andcoming and established. This Halloween sees the return of Sweats, a relentless celebration of local music set in a multi-room warehouse for the first time. It’s one of the club calendar’s best excuses to head into Kelham Island and get involved. Tickets are available now, with the event starting late and finishing even later - a barmy 11:30pm - 6am stint. Bring those comfy insoles and remember to hydrate. Love, Mum.
Club Tropicana: Thriller Edition // Halloween // Wednesday 31 Few midweek nights o can match Club Tropicana for sheer spectacle and a zany, wavy good time. Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses are still a soft requirement, as is necking a few sunny, sugary cocktails before returning to the fray. Add in some zombie makeup as well as a competition for the best “Thriller”-esque costume, and it’s a great way to capture some of that Halloween buzz. Leadmill-goers will be well-versed by now in belting out 80s anthem after 80s anthem. In fact, it’s unlikely that the event’s promised zombification will drastically change it in any way, but it will sure feel extra spooky dancing in a crowd of light-averse undead with terrible taste in shirts. NLR’s Interactive Halloween Party w/ Maurice Fulton + much more // Friday 26 A short walk from The Moor and their old location at the Woolworths building, the recently-relocated Theatre Deli (AKA The Umbrella Factory) once again plays host to a huge Halloween spectacle in Nice Like Rice. Sheffield’s premier pop-up creative outlet, Theatre Deli is an arts charity that promotes art’s benefits to society, mental health and politics. This year’s NLR promises multiple rooms and a stellar musical lineup, elevated to 11 on the spook-o-meter by spine-tingling decor and entertainment that includes “hanging bodies” and “secret performances”. Artists popular with the local scene will be playing all night, from 11pm til 6am. As with Sweats (above), this night promises to be a gargantuan marathon sesh. Head along to support both the scene and the venue. Immersive Screening: Rocky Horror Picture Show // Saturday 27 As with most Halloweens, you may find yourself yearning for Tim Curry this spooky season. Fortunately, The University of Sheffield’s beloved Film Unit is offering an “immersive screening” of unique cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show in the lead up to the big night. Quite what that means is unclear, but the society have announced a partnership with the Uni’s Horror Society for this showing of Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s wild ride. As usual, films are screened in the Students’ Union’s Auditorium, with tickets available online and at the building’s welcome desk. The film starts at 7:30pm sharp; arrive earlier for the best seats and the luxury of laying out all your snacks and blankets in an unassailable fort of comfort. www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 53
Illuminate the Gardens reveal bumper street food line-up for 2018 event After the success of its first year fireworks and lighting show Illuminate the Gardens returns to the Botanical Gardens for three evenings this year – Friday 2, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 November. After initial teething troubles on their first night last year, the team behind the show - Events Collective - were widely applauded for taking feedback on-board and turning things around quickly to ensure the second night was an absolute stormer. With that first year experience under their belts, we caught up with Laura Holmes from Events Collective to see how the second show is shaping up.
What can Sheffield expect from Illuminate the Gardens round two? We’re really excited to be back in the Botanical Gardens this year! Last year’s event was a real challenge with it being the very first one and the first time we’d worked at that venue - we learned so much and it will be great to be able to put all of that fully into effect for this year’s show. As well as making sure we get the layout, lighting and signage right, we’ve got lots of new lighting features to increase the wow factor even further, plus the fireworks shows will be longer and the main display will be set to music. So, let’s talk street food. We’ve heard there are plans to beef things up for 2018? We just didn’t know how many people would come to eat at Illuminate the Gardens until we opened the gates last year, and the answer turned out to be all of them! This year we’ve added a load more street food and some roving vendors keeping people topped up with snacks and nibbles. And, of course, we’ll be improving our queuing systems so that it’s a better experience all round. What will we be able to tuck into? The new kids on the block at this year’s event are Proove Pizza - we loved working with them on Sheffield Food Festival and we’re really thrilled that they wanted to get involved with Illuminate as well. Not only will they be bringing their double oven so they can fire out their wood fired Neopolitan pizzas at breakneck speed, they’re also bringing their new Italian street food set up with arancini, crocche, angioletti and crispy fries – all served hot, crispy and fresh! And we’re chuffed to be bringing back Illuminate faves Smoke BBQ, this time with two stalls (one in the central area and one in the lower gardens) so that as many people as possible can enjoy butties stuffed with their famous pulled pork or their smoked sausage hot dogs. 54 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
Add to this pan-Asian street food from Little Somboon Kitchen, poutine with ALL the toppings from The Gravy Train, gourmet burgers from Cowboys, some of the best locally reared pork sausages from Moss Valley Fine Meats, proper pie and mash from Pie Eyed, insane mezze wraps from The Ottomen, top quality organic handmade pizzas from the Sunshine Pizza Oven, and Yabba’s ever popular Jamaican cuisine. There’s something for every taste – with plenty of vegetarian, vegan and gluten free options too. And if you’re looking for sweet treats, we’ve got artisan Breton crepes from Oooh La Laa or organic vegan churros and indulgent dipping sauces from Don Churros. There will also be roving sellers from popular Broomhill restaurant Butcher and Catch selling its scrumptious range of savoury nibbles such as bacon candy and piggy popcorn, and the team from the local Regather trading co-op selling sweet popcorn and cinder toffee.
And what about the bars? The main Illuminate bar will be bigger, better and more streamlined this year so that everyone can get served quicker and get chance to properly enjoy their pint. W e’re working with some of our favourite local breweries once again, with Stancil Brewery’s signature Sheffield Pilsner always extremely popular, and Bradfield Brewery’s Farmers Blonde and Belgian Blue making a return to the bar. As well as our good friends Mr D’Arcy’s Drink Emporium selling winter warmers such as mulled wine, mulled cider and Baileys hot chocolate, we’re also bringing in the fantastic Beetle Juice cocktail bus, which was a huge hit at this year’s Sheffield Food Festival. They’ll be selling freshly shaken cocktails using premium spirit brands, Aperol Spritz, canned craft ales, fruit ciders and soft drinks. What else should people keep an eye out for? We’ve got loads of things happening around the gardens to encourage people to keep moving and keep warm in between the fireworks shows, such as: pop-up performances from buskers, fire performers and light up poi dotted around the gardens throughout the night; vintage fairground rides for the kids in the lower gardens; an interactive shadow puppet light installation created by local artist Liz von Graevenitz; free kids activities from Regather, Ignite Imaginations and the British Science Association; a Sound Sculpture Garden installation in the Marnock Garden; and some wonderful decorative features designed by renowned local company Cloud 9 Decor.
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Chatsworth Pot Roast Beef This recipe for slow-cooked, spiced, pot roast beef is extremely popular in the Farm Shop Restaurant throughout the chillier months of the year. It is remarkably easy to make, but the flavours are masterful. Chef’s tip: The beef can be cooked a day or so in advance, sliced cold and gently re-heated in the sauce as required. Preparation time: 10 minutes | Cooking time: 4-5 hours | Serves: 6 Ingredients 1.5kg rolled brisket of beef 40g fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped 1 tsp ground mace ½ tsp ground ginger ½ tsp ground cloves ½ tsp ground nutmeg 500ml dry cider 30ml white wine vinegar 40g cornflour Salt and black pepper Method Preheat the oven to 140°c. Apart from the beef and cornflour, thoroughly whisk all the ingredients together. Place the beef in an ovenproof lidded dish or casserole. Pour the spiced liquid over the beef, cover with the lid and cook, until very tender, for 4-5 hours. Once cooked, remove the beef from the cooking liquid and set aside to rest. Transfer the liquid to a pan and thicken to the desired consistency with the cornflour which has been slackened with a little cold water. Adjust the seasoning and slice the beef to serve. The beef can be kept warm in the sauce, without coming to any harm, for up to an hour. Alternatively, the beef can be cooked a day or so in advance, sliced cold and gently re-heated in the sauce as required.
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Sean Clarke, head honcho at the Moor Market’s Beer Central, showcases his craft brewery of the month and recommends some of their finest tipples.
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The Place
After making its name as The Old House, a venue known largely for cocktails and pies, The Devonshire has evolved into a restaurant bar with a penchant for cocktails and, erm, pies. There are two key distinctions here though: the interior is completely unrecognisable, now resembling a sleek NYC jazz bar with exposed brickwork, ornate mirrors, low-hanging lampshades and dim mood lighting. On the cocktail front, it’s all about the gin, and there’s a brand new menu devoted to over 150+ gins and vermouths, from which we chose two Mediterranean-inspired GVTs (Gin, Vermouth and Tonic) with Gin Mare, Regal Rogue Daring Dry vermouth, Fever-Tree Mediterranean Tonic, thyme and lemon garnish. A nice, fresh start to proceedings.
The Food
The menu provides a large choice of traditional pub fare: small bites, pub platters, burgers, fish and chips, homemade pies and sausages, roast dinners, etc. You’ll find a tempting offer pretty much every day of the week – from Fish Fridays (fish and chips with a drink for £10) to Gin and Jazz Wednesdays (50% off all gins from 8pm). We were here for the long run, however, so took advantage of the pub platter. We opted for the monkfish scampi and halloumi fries, which thankfully came with a side of salad and tartare sauce to counteract our self-inflicted beige binge. The twice-cooked, fluffy, chunky chips were joyously plentiful, the halloumi fries equally moreish and the scampi firm and meaty. For mains I ordered for the cider braised ham hock, and my dining partner kept it hearty by choosing the sausage and mash. Portions, once again, were not an issue. My ham hock was colossal. Smothering the peas and new potatoes beneath, it was a meaty triumph with crispy crackling on top and soft ham which peeled away at the merest brush of a knife. It was the ultimate indulgent pub tea. The sausage was another beast and provided plenty of bang(er) for our buck. Made in-house and served with creamy mash, garden peas and rich gravy, it almost defeated my partner – who bravely battled on until there were just a few peas and a forkful of mash remaining. We were stuffed, fully content, and dessert might well have finished us off. However, you can always find room for another gin when at The Devonshire, so we perked ourselves up with a round of Café Negronis (a classic negroni served with cold brew coffee) to finish in style.
Verdict
At The Devonshire come hungry and prepared for the generous portions of hearty pub classics, stay for the superb gin selection and laidback evening vibes. You can’t go far wrong.
Hope you enjoyed last month’s look at gluten-free beers, we’ve had some great feedback on the column and it’s always nice to hear what people think about our beery write-ups! October brings a nice, settled feel to Sheffield: the students are back, the summer holidays are long behind us and the dark nights are well and truly in charge. This month, we’ve got the brilliant Sheffield Beer Festival takes place down at Kelham Island Museum 10-13 October (see sheffield.camra.org.uk for more details) and the week before we have the spectacular Independent Manchester Beer Convention (indymanbeercon.co.uk). IndyMan is based in Manchester but showcases breweries from across the globe, all taking place in the historic Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road. Our featured brewery for this month is also based in Manchester, not quite as historic as Victoria Baths, but they’ve certainly been around for a while now. Marble Brewery first got rolling back in 1997, based behind its pub (the brilliant Marble Arch on Rochdale Road), brewing in front of its customers behind glass observation windows! By 2009 the brewery was ready to almost triple their capacity and moved from the pub into a Manchester railway arch, setting the trend for this type of brewing location in the city. The brewery is relatively unique in producing beer across pretty much all formats. Marble is also renowned as a great place for modern UK brewers to come and learn the trade, with many previous team members are now leading the industry for breweries such as BlackJack, Thornbridge, Magic Rock, Cloudwater, Buxton and new Manc stars, Wander Beyond. In addition to being pretty damn good at this brewing business, Marble also own three rather spiffing Manchester pubs. Seek out aforementioned Marble Arch (a living legend), alongside 57 Thomas Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and The Beerhouse in nearby Chorlton. Back to beer though, and here are three brews to search out…
Lagonda IPA
500ml Can & 5% ABV (Vegan Beer)
Available in plenty of bottle shops, this is also stunning on cask too. A contemporary classic: hops, bitterness and total satisfaction.
Export Export Stout
660ml Bottle & 9% ABV (Vegan Beer)
Brewed in collaboration with Boundary Brewing Co-operative in Belfast, this beer is an ‘export’ version of their export stout – rich, dark and dreamy!
Earl Grey IPA
500ml Can & 6.8% ABV (Vegan Beer)
Originally brewed alongside Kees Brewery (Netherlands), this is a citrusy India Pale Ale and fermented with regular additions of Earl Grey Tea, another modern classic.
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The Place
Unit Sheffield is best described as a hidden gem of Sheffield city centre. It’s just a short walk from The Moor, tucked away on Headford Street close to St Mary’s roundabout. Despite its slightly off-thebeaten-track location, the urban diner has proved popular with Sheffielders since opening around a year ago. With warm, Americandiner style décor and a wide-ranging burger menu, it’s easy to see why Unit has become a hit.
The Food
Once we tried and miserably failed the hot chicken wing challenge (which to Unit’s credit, tasted incredible for the first few seconds before the spice attack), we ordered our Mexican Cokes and scanned the large menu. I went for the Falafel Burger, which came with a homemade falafel patty, sandwiched between two brioche buns. The burger also came with pickles, salad and a splash of the incredible “Unit Sauce” which I can only describe as the nicest burger sauce I’ve had in a long time. Our photographer had the Chilly Changa chicken burger which came with jalapenos. The chicken was grilled well, remaining moist throughout. It was marinated in peri peri sauce but wasn’t too spicy. Similarly the jalapenos added a pleasant kick to it, but weren’t overpowering. Our former Wing King went for a Philly Cheese Steak. Slow cooked succulent brisket, with jalapenos, fried onions, topped with American cheese and served on a beautiful semolina roll. All three of us tucked into a huge plate of loaded fries on the side. A variety of fries (skin-on, curly etc…) topped with gloopy cheese and more brisket. For dessert, we were treated to Unit’s signature cookie dough. The pretzel chocolate chip was delicious, but the real show stopper was the salted caramel cookie. The flavour was rich and quite literally melted on the tongue.
The Verdict
If you’re looking for American-style comfort food, you could do much worse than Unit Sheffield. The food was top-notch and great value for money too. The portion sizes were huge and the majority of the menu costs less than £10. Perfect for a cheap-ish bellybuster of a meal out. 58 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
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Cargo Hold Mediterranean restaurant and bar Cargo Hold recently opened its doors on Church Street inside the Grade II-listed Cairns Chambers. We had a quick natter with co-owner Shaun Campher who also happens to be an awardwinning mixologist – bring on the cocktails! Hi Shaun, how’s it going at Cargo Hold? Tell us a bit about the venture… So far, so good! We have seen an increase in trade and it’s building very quickly, which is wonderful to see. Cargo Hold is something I have been developing for a few years now. Our mission is to create an experience that is inviting, enjoyable, theatrical and high quality - all at an attractive price. My memory of growing up in South Africa with an abundance of fresh seafood and quality meats available is one that has stayed with me throughout my career. Likewise, so has my love for creating interesting, innovative cocktails with a twist. And how did the name Cargo Hold come about? It came from the restaurant in South Africa that I proposed to my wife in, so it has a strong personal meaning to me too. How do you plan on keeping things interesting here? Menus will change seasonally and we will also be looking at introducing special event nights to be confirmed in the coming months. Any handy deals we need to know about? We run our ‘Rapido lunch menu’ on weekdays 12pm-5pm (main and a drink for £9.95) and we have drink offers on everyday such as two for £9 on selected cocktails (Sun-Wed: 4pm-10pm; Thurs-Fri: 4pm-7pm; Sat: 3pm-5pm). cargohold.co.uk
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Dine Sheffield returns to the city centre for the third time from 18 October – 1 November. This two-week celebration of the city’s food scene will see a wide range of pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants offer bespoke set menus priced at £5, £10 and £15. Whether you’re fancying sushi at Sakushi, pies at the Devonshire, tapas at Cubana, a Bloo88 pizza or something else, you’ll be able to indulge your tastebuds accordingly without the usual price tag. There are deals for both lunch time and tea time menus, offering prices to suits all budgets, If you’re looking to take in a film before or after your meal, both the Showroom and The Light Cinema will be accepting Dine Sheffield vouchers in exchange for discounted entry. Sound good? Get stuck in by heading to dinesheffield.co.uk, browsing the deals and downloading the vouchers – it’s all entirely free! For the latest updates and offers, follow @sheffafter5 or search #DineSheffield.
Just a few of the deal on offer this month Bungalows and Bears Burger and fries and a drink for £10 Fresh Choice Noodle Bar Any regular noodle box for £5 Sakushi Two noodle or rice dishes for £10 Unit Sheffield Burger, fries and soft drink for £10 Craft and Dough (Campo Lane) Pizza or cured meat and a dessert for £10 Common Room Two Chicken or Mockin’ Bird Plates for £15 Burger and a shake for £10 The Devonshire Pie and a pint for £10 Three courses for £15 Revolution De Cuba Three tapas dishes for £10 Pieminister Classic pie, side and a sundae for £10
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At 94 Division Street, a traditional boozer has been a Sheffield feature for well over 300 years now. It once housing the world’s strongest beer, and was the place where soul legend Joe Cocker signed his first record deal. Steeped in a wealth of local history, The Frog and Parrot is nothing short of a city institution and continues to provide a haven for locals and students alike to get their kicks. We spoke to manager Nick Simmonite about the importance of providing safe, inclusive venues in Sheffield, the return of a particularly special brew and got to the bottom of a few of the venue’s local legends while we were at it. In one guise or another, The Frog’s been a constant fixture on the Sheffield pub scene. What do you think the secret is to its popularity? We’ve always been a safe place and pride ourselves on that. The Frog has a good reputation for looking after its guests. We’re proud to be part of the ‘Ask for Angela’ scheme, which means we can help any visitors who feel unsafe or violated. We also work very closely with the LGBTQ+ community, Melanin Fest and various other communities – we probably have one of the most eclectic crowds you’ll see and I think people appreciate that. Someone
once posted a TripAdvisor review saying: “If you act like a twat in the Frog, you’ll get treated like one” – and I think that sums it up nicely. Talk to us about the food and drink, something which has proved to be particularly popular amongst students during the day. Drinks-wise, we have the usual varied mix of craft beers and ales. Dead Parrot is our de facto brewery and we’re currently selling its popular Kato Nwar stout and Jarvis blonde ale. We’re the House of 100 Gins, the best selection in town, and our staff are really passionate about serving those – especially the selection of Japanese gins we have in. The food is well-priced, humble traditional pub
fare. We can cater for specific dietary requirements, have a five-star health rating and offer great vegan and vegetarian options, which, crucially, are prepared in their own separate workstations. I must say, we sell a vast amount of burgers and a phenomenal amount of fish and chips! We’ve heard a whisper that a certain famous beer might be returning … Yes! We’re currently working with Dead Parrot Brewery at doing a full brew of Roger and Out, which for those who don’t know was the world’s strongest beer when we served it back in the day and a real local legend. We’ll be making sure we get the brew right and then we’ll release it back to the city. Hopefully we can have it finished by Christmas time. Huge news! Sticking with local legends, a huge number of famous Sheffield names have either played here or passed through the doors at some point. Is it right that you lot
discovered the Arctic Monkeys? Yeah, discovered them drinking underage! No, they’d regularly come in at 17-years-old for a few pints with some food, which means it was all entirely legal. Turn over the back of their debut album and you’ll see a picture of Chris McClure stumbling out of The Frog & Parrot after a few drinks at our secret upstairs bar The Parrot’s Beak – another place that gets a namecheck from the band in the ‘Cornerstone’ track. But Joe Cocker was definitely discovered here, not to mention the number of musicians that you’ve had working behind the bar. He signed his first record deal here, and you’ll see a nod or two to him hung on the wall. But yeah, music has always been a huge part of our identity – from regularly hosting Catfish and the Bottlemen for drinks and gigs to having artists from bands such as Wet Nuns and Alvarez Kings working behind the bar, it’s what we’re about. DJ-wise, we have the likes of Hope Works owner and No Bounds curator Liam O’Shea in residency, rock ‘n’ roll from Jim McGuinn – who also has a Glastonbury residency – plus the godfather of northern soul Stev Stevlor. We’ve had a few standout punters over the years, whether that’s Jon McClure bringing in Pete Doherty in for a few drinks, or Steve Lamacq taking an elbow to the face during a Tramlines moshpit – it’s just a normal occurrence at The Frog! facebook.com/frogandparrot // @FrogandParrot
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No longer just a popular gig hotspot, the recent Café Totem transformation has seen it become a bustling social hub where you can eat, drink, work and play throughout the week. From evening pizza dates to late-night DJs, we take a look at what’s on offer at the city centre venue ever-committed to promoting the local music and creative scenes in Sheffield. Fancy a brew? Open from midday on weekdays and Saturdays, the spacious upstairs area provides a perfect spot for working or unwinding during the day. USB ports and charging points are available beneath the table and ethically-sourced barista coffee from local supplier Roastology on-hand. A Slice of the Action Between 12-2pm and 5-7pm daily you can choose from a selection of fresh stonebaked pizzas (vegan and vegetarian options available) with locally-sourced ingredients and the option to go halves with 50/50 toppings – perfect for sharing with a pal. Undercutting many of the big chains considerably, you can get one of these beauts with a drink for a mere fiver. Sorted. The Music The team at Totem pride themselves on providing a vital stepping stone for artists on the local music scene, and they are keen to make sure bands get a fair deal. Bands can book their own gigs at a very competitive rate and keep the ticket money for themselves. As well as putting on regular local gigs, the recently extended stage area and upgraded soundsytem will host some of the finest UK touring acts each month.
Nights Out Open until 2am on weekends with rotating resident DJs and drink offers such as two drinks (Strongbow, Budweiser or Red Stripe) for a fiver, it’s one of the most affordable, lively nights out you’ll find in the city. G&T fan? Create your own with a choice of selected gins and tonics available. There’s a range of themed nights to get stuck into: from the post-punk, dark wave hits of Unknown Pleasures to time-travelling through psychedelic indie classics at an All Tomorrow’s Parties night, a wide range of genres are covered and a welcoming atmosphere guaranteed. Go VIP Keen to look after their regulars, the venue offer Café Totem VIP cards which can be purchased at the bar and provide a year’s-worth of drink discounts and other special offers. You’ll make your money back in one round, so it’s a no-brainer really. Book In! There’s everything in place for the upstairs or downstairs room to be booked out for an event of your choice – whether that’s a birthday party, Xmas do or work meeting, it can all be catered for at an affordable price. Drop a line to bookings@ cafetotem.com and get the ball rolling.
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What’s on this month:
FRIDAY 5TH - ELECTRIC DREAMS // NEW ROMANTIC CLUB NIGHT FRIDAY 5TH - SOTN PRESENTS // DEMONS OF RUBY MAE + SPIDERS EAT VINYL FRIDAY 12TH - ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES FREE ENTRY CLUB NIGHT SATURDAY 6TH - TWO BIRDS PRESENT // IDOLISING NOVA + SPECIAL GUESTS THURSDAY 11TH MODERN AGE SHEFFIELD PRESENTS SISTERAY FRIDAY 12TH - SIOBHAN MAZZEI, THE LEVIS, LATE NIGHT LEGACY + KOTA SATURDAY 13TH - AMP LIVE PRESENTS // RED RUM CLUB + SPECIAL GUESTS TUESDAY 16TH - DPP PRESENTS // RISCAS + LLOVERS FRIDAY 19TH - NORTHERN EXPOSURE PRESENTS BRING IT ON DOWN SATURDAY 20TH - THIS FEELING LIVE MUSIC SHOWCASE // THE KICKLIPS THURSDAY 25TH - THE CLAUSE // FLOWVERS // THE MANATEES FRIDAY 26TH - PLASTIC HOUSE // VEGA BAY // EXILED WEDNESDAY 31ST - DEEP SLEEP // FARGATE // THE MOTHER OF CROWS
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Muzik with Loco Dice, Yaya + L&F Projekt The Foundry // 12 October // £22 Muzik Events brings one of its biggest names to date to the Foundry in the shape of a deep-house giant who’s been on the cutting edge of progressive sounds for nearly two decades. His influence in the early noughties house into the tech-ier realms of today’s tech-house world, make him one of the most important names in the scene. foundrysu.com NLR x FNJ Bradley Zero b2b Powder Theatre Deli // 12 October // £10 Nice Like Rice team up with Fruit ’n Juice for the first time bringing together a Sheffield favourite and a debut for an all night long b2b special with Bradley Zero playing alongside Japanese techno innovator Powder. theatredeli.co.uk
Recovered from Freshers Week? Hopefully you have because October’s a good ‘un, kids. With Sheff’s finest Top Picks venues firing on all cylinders, you can catch some of the
finest disc jockeys in the world doing their thing – from the likes of Dimitri to Mr Scruff and plenty in-between.
The Tuesday Club: Mall Grab Foundry // 2 October // £12 First up this month is lo-fi house superstar Mall Grab, who’s gone from internet cult hero to world famous DJ in just a few years. He played The Tuesday Club last year when a vast number of Patagonia t-shirts and top knots graced the Foundry – a sure sign of his influence on a generation and scene he’s spearheaded. Catch the man himself on his Looking for Trouble tour. foundrysu.com Hot Wax presents Hidden Spheres Forum // 3 October // £4 The Forum is back with another highly credible booking following its Tom Blip and Cervo parties. Rhythm Section and Lobster Theremin’s Hidden Spheres take to the decks for a night of jazzy house and effervescent synths. forumsheffield.co.uk
Global Roots: Thris Tian, Skinny Pelembe (live) The Harley // 4 October // £4 This new club night sees Worldwide FM resident and original Boiler Room creator Thris Tian collaborate with Pretty Pretty Good founder Kudan. Local talent will warm up the Harley from 9pm before Gilles Peterson export and Brownswood Recordings signee Skinny Pelembe takes to the stage from midnight onwards. theharley.co.uk Hunie presents Dimitri From Paris Southbank Warehouse // 5 October // £20 Hunie’s biggest booking to date sees disco royalty Dimitri from Paris grace the decks at Southbank. With his long-awaited Chic remix album just released, Dimitri is still at the top of the game when it comes to disco. southbank-warehouse.co.uk
History of Jungle: Kenny Ken The Harley // 11 October // £6 Legendary jungle and drum and bass DJ Kenny Ken hits the Harley bringing more than 20 years of experience in selection to town. Known for his playful personality behind the decks and ruthless energy, Ken is widely regarded as one of the original badman selectors in the game. theharley.co.uk No Bounds Various venues // 12 – 14 October // From £15 Hope Works’ annual art, music and technology festival returns for a three day extravaganza of workshops, film screenings, poetry, art installations, underwater sonic experiences and raves. Taking place at eight venues and with stages hosted by Resident Advisor, Crack, Fact, Off Me Nut and Algorave, the festival is one of the most ambitious of its kind in the UK. noboundsfestival.co.uk
The Tuesday Club’s 20th Birthday: Mr Scruff, Mr Thing, Andy H The Foundry // 19 October // £9 The Tuesday Club begin their 20th birthday celebrations with Manchester cult hero Mr Scruff, a true master of eclecticism. No other DJ is known for playing be-bop jazz alongside dub, house and afro-beat. He’s joined by hip-hop producer Mr Thing, former member of turntablists collective Scratch Perverts and TTC resident Andy H. foundrysu.com BHAUS: Eli Escobar and Demuja Theatre Deli // 19 October // From £11.25 BHAUS make their Theatre Deli debut in the newly rebranded Umbrella Factory room for a night of deep, soulful house with stalwart of the New York house and disco scene Eli Escobar and Austria’s Demuja, whose lo-fi Toy Tonics productions caused quite the stir last year. theatredeli.co.uk
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Molly Malone’s Since West Street’s newest bar Molly Malone’s opened last month, the Irish tavern has been rammed almost every night. Here are a few reasons to check it out for yourself. The Drink Styled as an authentic Irish tavern, it’s only right that the staff at Molly Malone’s know exactly how to pour a proper pint of Guinness. With that said, the beer fridge at Molly’s features a huge range of bottles from all over the world, and a spirit selection which spans the length of the bar. Slainte! The Offers With an exclusive ‘Spirit Of Doublin’ student card, all pints and house doubles are £2.50 - all day, every day. The Music There’s live music every Wednesday and Friday, Saturday at Molly Malone’s. Belt out classic Irish songs like ‘Whiskey in the Jar’, ‘The Irish Rover’ and the famous old ballad which the bar is named after. The Sports Whether it’s football, UFC, boxing or the GAA, the place is a winner when it comes to sports. Flanked by the multiple TVs around the bar, there’s a huge HD projector screen at one end so everyone can have a great view of Gary Neville on Monday nights. Marketing manager Simon Tomlinson said: “We’re delighted at the public response. We’ve worked hard to ensure it has an authentic Irish tavern feel and the feedback from customers and musicians has been brilliant. We’ve extended our opening hours due to the demand, now opening from midday every day.”
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When it comes to worshipping at the city’s finest late-night music boozer, there are just a few small rules to follow… Thou shalt always be open-minded and respectful The Washy prides itself on being a broad church. Dickheads aside, everyone’s welcome to come down, express who they are and enjoy themselves without fear of judgement. It can be a tough ol’ world out there – love one another. Thou shalt support local music Seasoned Washy-goers should endeavour to supporting the Sheff music scene, as you can guarantee cracking gigs showcasing the very best of what this city has to offer on a monthly basis. Get involved. Thou shalt not repeatedly ask the DJ to play ‘Africa’ by Toto on a Friday night. We like a nice mix of stuff in ‘ere. And you’ll probably be ignored anyway. Beware of false idols If you’re going to drink somewhere else in Sheffield, make it an independent venue. We’re proud to offer an alternative to the sterile, soulless, run-of-the-mill chain bars sucking character from city centres throughout the country. You’ll never discover your next favourite band at a Wetherspoons, will yer? Thou shalt not get stingy when it’s your round We’re all a bit skint these days, granted, but if you’re switching onto the cheap stuff when others have been buying the premium lagers all night, let’s be reyt: you need to have to a word with yourself. Keep the Sabbath Day holy We’re closed on Sundays. Rest, recuperate and make sure you’re on top form for your next visit. Honour thy mother and father We’re open until 3am on weekends and actively encourage late-night revelry – but pace yourselves, yeah? You know it make sense. Thou shalt study hard for the monthly quiz Assemble a good enough team of pals and you could bag a £40 bar tab plus themed prizes. Taking place the second Tuesday of every month, first up is a Rick and Morty special taking place on 9 October. Thou shalt visit us during Happy Hour and save dosh Mon-Fri until 9pm: £2.50 house lager, £2.50 house ale, double up for free on house spirits, £10 for a bottle of wine and three selected shots for £5. Thou shalt not bore fellow punters in the smoking area with tales of how good your band is Yep, the new EP sounds swell. Gonna head inside for a boogie at any point?
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Meet the Regulars The monthly nights you need to know about.
Louder than Bombs
When: 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month / 2nd and 1st Sunday Expect to hear an eclectic collection of soul, indie, Motown, ska, mod anthems and Britpop from resident DJ Alex Cooper.
House of the Rising Soul
When: 1st and 3rd Thurs of the month A heady mix of Motown, rock & roll, alt-rock, indie funk, disco, 60s and 70s.
Please Ban Music
When: 2nd Friday of the month On 21 September 1991, to promote their Rock ‘til You Drop LP, Status Quo played four concerts, in four UK cities, in one day. Please Ban Music aims to pull off a similarly audacious plan which, if successful, will culminate in drinking a pint in the Washington, Sheffield, at 10pm, followed by an evening of disco-dancing until 3am.
Asbo a Gogo
When: 4th Friday of the month Disk jockette Jo Storey takes to The Washington’s decks, playing a mix tape riot of rock ‘n’ roll, RnB, punk, reggae, ragga, dirty indie, council pop, power ballads, hip hop, and metaaaaaaaaaaal. Plus pretty much owt else you can think of.
Glitz
When: Every 1st Friday and 4th Saturday of the month
Resident DJ D’lear spinning rock party anthems, credible pop, 80s cheese, indie and a generous helping of not-so-guilty pleasures.
Soulrocka
When: 2nd Saturday of the month
Serving up your soundtrack of the best indie/soul/rock/ disco and funk all the way ‘til 3am.
Shimmy Shimmy Rock
When: 3rd Friday of the month
DJ Andrew Smith – a gent with impeccable musical taste – comes down to spin 100% vinyl ska/punk/reggae/ garage. thewashington.pub facebook.com/washingtonsheffield @washingtonsheff
A lick of paint PS: Keep an eye out for the brand new paintjob coming to pub exterior. “It’s gonna look reyt good,” an unamed source at The Washington exclusively told Exposed.
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Arctic Monkeys @ Sheffield Arena Just over fifteen years ago, in the upstairs room of a backstreet Irish boozer on Trippet Lane, four spotty teenagers nervously stepped onstage to play a selection of covers and selfpenned songs practised over the summer in their lead singer’s garage. Roughly 30-40 people were actually in attendance on the night, but over the years many more Sheffielders would claim to have borne witness to a momentous occasion in the city’s musical history, an evening which saw Arctic Monkeys performing live for the first time. A whirlwind of Brit Awards, Grammies, Mercury Prize nominations, Glasto headline slots, multi-platinum selling records and more than a few suspect haircuts later, the lads from High Green can safely claim to be one of the biggest bands in the world. And despite an ongoing and natural diversion away from their early influences, a circumstantial shift from latenight frivolities on Division Street to building luxury hotels on the moon, there is still a palatable sense of local pride on the opening night of their four shows at Sheffield’s FLY DSA Arena. From the throng below intermittent chants of “Yorkshire! Yorkshire!” add nicely to the fevered atmosphere of a grand homecoming.
“We ‘ant see you lot for while,” a besuited, buzzcutted Turner says to the gathered masses once the initial furore dies down. The stage is set up to reflect the space-age surroundings of his imagined “prophetic esplanade”, while a hexagonal outline of the Tranqulity Base Hotel & Casino is lowered each time a song from their critically-lauded sixth album is introduced. It descends for the first track of the night, a banker from the new record in ‘Four out of Five’, beginning proceedings in funky, groove-laden fashion as fans loosen
up and check in for a memorable evening. The crowd have barely finished bellowing back the final line of the opener when they are upended and thrown headfirst into the roaring riffs of 2007’s ‘Brianstorm’, next launching into the preposterously slick rock and roll ballad ‘Arabella’. Any concerns from some that the evening would largely involve strolling leisurely through the corridors of Turner’s space-age establishment are quickly assuaged. Instead, a well-balanced journey through the band’s development is what follows. Over the course of
the set homage is paid to the spiky indie rock of the early days (I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, Dancing Shoes); the brash, angstridden melodies of their sophomore effort (505, Fluorescent Adolescent); the Homme-inspired Humbug collection (Crying Lightning, Pretty Visitors); some of the more riotous elements of the metaphor-laden Suck it and See (Library Pictures, Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I Moved Your Chair), and their simple but effective consummation as fully-fledged rockstars with AM (Snap Out of It, Do I Wanna Know, Knee Socks). In his own inimitable style – it’s cool dad dancing, basically – Turner shakes and struts around the stage, clearly indulging himself the most in tracks from Tranquility Base, especially when he gets the chance to tickle the ivories in reflective fashion for ‘Star Treatment’ during the encore. Like him or loathe him, it cannot be denied that he has grown into an incredible performer. The final goodbyes ensure pandemonium through spirited airings of ‘View from the Afternoon’ and entirely flawless rock anthem ‘R U Mine?’. The din eventually subsides and the fully satiated hometown crowd are given a parting line to take into the pouring rain outside… “We are the Arctic Monkeys from High Green, baby, and we love you very much.” JF
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Before they departed Sheff for a UK-wide tour, we spent the day milling around Kelham Island with dark pop peddlers Vuromantics to talk new music, fresh tracks and big plans in the not-so-distant future. Photography : Jamie Heawood
You’ve got a big month ahead supporting Smokey Brights on their tour. How are things shaping up? Sam: We’re buzzing about these tour dates. Over the last year or so we’ve really been racking up the miles, taking our show to every backwater boozer that would have us, and we’ve been lucky really to be able to play live all over the country. I guess being invited to be special guests on the Smokey Brights UK tour feels like recognition for all that time served. They are an incredible band from the States, well worth checking out. The whole thing came around quite organically as we’re both in touch with this American management agency who kinda bumped our heads together and it all fell in place. We’re also thrilled to have a string of headline shows ourselves to see this year out in style. There’s also been a whisper that we’ll have some new tunes dropping shortly too. What can we expect? Callum: I’m more excited about getting these tracks out than ever before! I feel like we’ve grown up quite a lot. The previous EPs were comprised of material for us to take on the road and were mostly written before we’d done a show. The gigs have given us a lot of experience and now when we write together, we work as a team. There are ideas bouncing off everyone. I feel the new tracks have a freshness to them, but they’ve also got the unmistakable Vu sound. Expect smooth and groovy pop with a sprinkling of madness. Jake: We’ve upgraded, this is Vu 2.0, which is going amazing, James joined the band and we are currently enjoying a revitalised focus and flow. We’re recording with Alan Smyth this month amd can’t wait for people to hear our new songs. How’s the addition of James helped the band, musically or otherwise? Most importantly: can you still fit everyone and everything in one yellow Fiat Panda? Callum: James is great. His old band The Sky Moguls supported us last year at the Leadmill and I remember watching them and thinking, ‘man, we could use a bassist like that.’ I couldn’t be happier that my wish has come true. James: Callum did an excellent job on bass. Vuromantics already had a rep for the groove, so I have huge boots to fill. Callum: Me and Jake had a lot on our plate as we were both playing synths and guitars simultaneously, but now we’re feeling more relaxed and able to concentrate on just the one instrument at a time. James: Also, I have a van. I think that’s the reason they wanted me in the band! I just really, really hate driving around London, so might need the Panda back for that! 2018 is on its way out, and you’re finishing off with a bang. Beyond the new music, what’s the roadmap for next year? Sam: We’d like to focus on more tour supports and just getting out there. We’re big fans of adventuring into the unknown, so maybe we’ll take our first tentative ‘baby steps’ on the mainland. I think we’re well positioned to have a strong festival season, fingers in pies, eyes on the prize and all that. It’s looking like we’ll release a lot of music in 2019 but we’ve also been brainstorming ideas for what else we can put out there: videos, interviews with other acts or perhaps a video web series of some kind. Hey, maybe we’ll start a free magazine in Sheffield to give you guys a run for your money! 78 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
The Vuromantics tour finishes with a headline performance at The Leadmill on 1 December. Head to musicglue.com/vuromantics for more.
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Alt-J reduxer Pale Waves My Mind Makes Noises Eldritch’s law states: if it looks like goth it is goth. And Pale Waves look EXACTLY like goths, from the tops of their blacker than black backcombed barnets to the tippy-tips of their pointy boots. Goth goth goth GOTH. But if there’s one thing besides coiffure and costumery that goths take dead seriously, it’s the music: lashings of drum machines, dry ice, spindly guitar lines, preferably fronted by spindly-legged proto-consumptive poète maudits. It’s kind of their thing. Well, it turns out that, while Pale Waves have all the visual accoutrements of gothdom, there is little of its musical commitment. In fact, the band seem gravely serious about making a perfect pop record. This album is fatally hooky, catchier than Robert Smith’s hair in a balloon museum; ‘Drive’ is a 1000 miles an hour pop rush, all twinkly synth lines and huge guitar lines polished to a highly expensive sheen, until you can see your face in them. ‘Kiss’ boasts a deliciously chunky bass topped with a sumptuously whipped Heather Baron-Gracie vocal. The whole record is liberally sprinkled with top flight producer EDM ear candy, techno vocal nips and tucks, little risers that lead into machine-tooled choruses, echoes that go on to infinity, finity, finity, finity… Okay. So maybe the album’s 50-minute run time is a little long, and some of the songs might be a little bit samey, leaving you feeling a bit queasy like you’ve scarfed down a huge carrier bag full of pink candy floss. In one go. And washed it down with a bucket of neon-glowing energy drink. Basically, this album bratishly demands that you put aside any gothic aspirations and just surrender to the gloss. If you don’t collapse dramatically into Pale Waves’ open arms, you’ve probably never lived or loved or lost, or don’t feel like celebrating that fact with a super-saturated high-pop glossy sheen. If this is the case, maybe you should just put down the hairspray and crimpers and go out into the sunlight and meet some (hyper) real people. Y’know, start living a bit. I’m trying to resist the temptation to award this album 666, so I’ll give it a highly addictive 9. 9/10 Julian Crockford 9/10
Alt-J’s declaration that ‘It’s no secret that we love and are influenced by hip hop’ can’t help bring to mind the guitar-botherers in the 1980s who, after slapping a baggy beat onto their bog-standard indie music, declared that ‘there’s always been a dance music element to our music’. Yeah, right ... genre mashups are usually the last resort of bands who have totally lost their way. So the news that Alt-J have handed over their last album, Relaxer, to a range of hip-hop luminaries to do with what they will does not inspire optimism. Luckily, many collaborators clearly felt feel free to take liberties with the source material. Terrace Martin and Goldlink transport the original vocal of ‘Last Year’ and drop it off into a smokey downtempo jam before veering off into trip-hop territory, while Tuka re-imagines the Alt-J boys’ already downcast reimagining of ‘The House of the Rising Sun’ and takes it to an even darker place. Elsewhere, Lomepal pours laconic Gallic verse all over the album’s second take on ‘3WW’, before Kontra K efficiently interlocks his Teutonic flow with ‘In Cold Blood’ vocal hooks to build a streamlined pop machine. All the same, it’s not clear who this record will really appeal to - it’s possibly not Alt-Jy enough for fans of the band, but at the same time some tracks don’t venture far enough from the indie path mapped by the source material to break new ground. So, possibly not the departure the band had hoped for, but sometimes it’s all about the journey rather than the destination and there’s plenty to enjoy along the way. 9/10 Julian Crockford
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As soon as the lead single ‘Girlfriend’ dropped, any fears that this would be a “difficult second album” for French pop star Heloise Letissier (aka Christine and the Queens) went out the window. Very quickly. With smoother, sleeker production than before, Chris sees her level graduate to full-on pop star, without losing any of the personality that drew people to her the first time around. A highlight on the album for me is ‘The Walker’, a vulnerable account of her experiences of going out at night from the perspective of someone with deep anxieties about who they are. These poignant lyrics are set to a really beautiful, almost haunting melody. ‘Doesn’t Matter’ is another brilliant, infectious track with crisp, Princeesque production. Its punchy drum machine beat fits Letissier’s voice perfectly, its sharpness complimenting it in a beautiful way. The whole thing manages to be varied while maintaining a consistent sound and feel throughout. Upbeat, synth-driven tracks such as ‘Damn (What Must a Woman Do)’ really contrast cuts like the dramatic ballad of ‘What’s-Her-Face’, but still Chris stays consistently on top form, with each track effortlessly flowing into each other. This record sees the artist building on themes and ideas such as sexuality and religion she hinted at on her debut, and blowing them wide open fearlessly, making for an inspired and revealing listen. 9/10 Will Walsh
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Growing up R1: I grew up around S9 Wincobank, then Fife Street … I went to King Edwards and got my GCSEs. Didn’t get very good grades but I still got them! Ended up going to the bad side instead of the good side. Shit happened, but I survived, I’m still here doing my ting. Dukz: I grew up in Arbourthorne (S2). We’re kind of mad up there still. When I first moved up there, I was the only black kid. It was kind of hard. Man survived though. I loved football, people like Ronaldinho, Ryan Giggs. Football was my life. Trying to break through in the north R1: It’s kind of hard. People don’t wanna pay as much attention as they do to the artists down south. That doesn’t bother me, man. Either way, I’m still gonna do my ting and just try and cut through. Just try and do my music and let people hear my music and my voice, let them know what I’ve been through and where I’ve been. R1 & DUKZ R1: The sound is mad different, fam, some next shit. I can’t put a finger on it. I wouldn’t call it grime anyway, that’s for certain. Dukz: He’s the hot-headed one. I’m calm, laidback. Family Dukz: Shout out to my momma. Man’s a big man now, man’s got responsibilities. All the stuff I couldn’t have, all the mistakes I see get made ... I’m trying not to do that, I’m trying to do things differently for my kids, point them in a different direction to mine. Leaving a legacy Dukz: I’m just looking to make a stamp in this game. Try and influence as many people as I can, show them where we come from. I’ve come from a crap place, so if we can get up and get out of there, anyone can get up and get out of there.
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The Coral The Leadmill // 7 October // £22 Following the release of the band’s ninth studio album Move Through the Dawn, the Coral head out on their first headline UK tour in two years. Support comes from the acclaimed scouse quartet She Drew The Gun from Coral frontman James Skelly’s Skeleton Key label. leadmill.co.uk Avalanche Party and Canshaker Pi Picture House Social // 9 October // £9 North Yorkshire band Avalanche Party head out on a special vs tour with Amsterdam-based quartet Canshaker Pi. Expect high-octane sets from both bands. picture-house-social.com Patawawa Yellow Arch Studios // 11 October // £7.70 From festival appearances to seven-figure streams and dropping a debut EP, there aren’t many up-and-coming bands who’ve had a better year than Patawawa. Head down Yellow Arch this month to understand the hype around the Matlock band. yellowarch.com The Blinders Plug // 26 October // £8.80 In support of the release of the band’s debut album, expect an aggressive, grungy blitz through Columbia, and a night of defiant punk rock from the three-piece. the-plug.com Menace Beach Picture House Social // 27 October // £9.50 Leeds-based Menace Beach return to Sheffield in support of their third album Black Rainbow Sound. Despite a slight shift in tone musically, Menace Beach are still a force to be reckoned with live. picture-house-social.com
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It’s the way of all life-changing moments, I suppose, but I certainly didn’t spot this one coming. I wasn’t even intending to listen to any music that night; I was waiting for a film to start in the Leeds Playhouse. It was always a bit ‘alternative’ in there, and I’d got the idea previously that they seemed to let the projectionist choose what music to play before the film started. The music playing that night was like nothing I’d ever heard. It may be hard now to imagine a world where you could hear music once, not know what it was, and never hear it again, but this was the seventies. Thankfully the projectionist, just before the film started, put up a frame he had clearly scratched himself onto a slide. I can see it now. In scrawled, barely readable script, I finally made out the words “Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star”. I knew I just had to have this album. I need to pause and put all this in some sort of context. At this time, Slade were saying ‘Gudbuy T’ Jane’, Elton John was ‘Crocodile Rocking’ and Cat Stevens ‘Couldn’t Keep It In’. The charts, and Top Of The Pops dominated my teenage life. Taping the charts on a cassette recorder was often as good as it got, so to buy an album, with the meagre pocket money I’d saved up, was a big risk, but I took a chance and bought it. As the needle connected with the groove, and my headphones came to life, the music was even more impressive than I’d remembered. Reading from the sleeve notes I learnt that Todd was a multi-instrumentalist, and most of the music was played and sung by him, using multi-track recording, with just a few friends drafted in here and there. As I sat listening on my dad’s new stereo system, on a pair of heavy duty headphones, it soon became clear had Todd was using the studio in a way no-one else had, and was creating a landscape of sounds no-one else had ever made before. It was an LP with two very distinct sides. The first had an unprecedented twelve tracks, half of which were less than two minutes long, some had no chorus, or no verse, or even no words and most of the tracks segued into each other. The whole of side one was one long magical stream of consciousness. The opening track, ‘International Feel’, was reworked as the closing track, and gave the whole of side one a feeling of completeness and closure. (Note to our younger readers; we often used to just sit down and listen to all the tracks, in the order that the artist intended us to, from start to finish. Yes. I know. We were weird.) But of course there was also the second side to listen to. This was a much more like a traditional album, or at least it was from the outset. The opening track, ‘Sometimes I Don’t Know How To Feel’, spoke to my teenage angst, as Todd sung of his insecurity and tried to tell himself that no-one else has it made. But a few tracks in, he was back to one track running into another with a medley of soul and RnB tunes he’d presumably grown up with, by artists like Smokey Robinson or The Delphonics. Just when it might have started to get a bit mellow
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and comfortable, he hit us with some power pop, a solo piano ballad, a heavy metal thrash and then to finish the whole experience off, an anthemic ending. ‘Just One Victory’ is the sing-along song to end all sing-alongs, telling us never to give up, and to keep on through any adversity – Todd will look after us if we keep the faith, and believe in each other. Even listening again now, as I type this, I’m astonished how much he fitted into one album. There was actually more music on the album than had regularly been put on vinyl, so the volume of the record was lower, to enable it to fit in those much-missed vinyl grooves; so it wasn’t until digital versions were released in recent years that the true glories of the music were revealed. It was that far ahead of its time. I’m looking at the cover right now, and it still has a magical, other-worldly, feel to it. It was a gate-fold sleeve, but the album was just a single disc. There were no tracks listed on either the outside or the inside, which itself was just a kaleidoscope of weird objects and image including Todd himself, reflected in a series of mirrors. The inner sleeve had handwritten lyrics and notes on the making of the album, and, if you were lucky enough to buy an early release of the album, included was a postcard to send in your name, and you’d get a name check on a poster included with the next LP (which did happen). I was hooked. I played it over and over, learned ever note and tried to find and listen to everything I could by Todd Rundgren. He’d already made a few albums which could not have been more different. AWATS, as us fans now call it, was partly a reaction to reviews which had starting painting Todd as a pop artist and balladeer. One reviewer said he was the male Carole King. The album’s reputation has steadily grown over the years, and in 2013 he hit the road and performed it live, in its entirety. Reproducing it live wasn’t an option in the 70s, but with modern technology, it has now become much more achievable. I was there at the Hammersmith Odeon, in the second row, when he played it for the one and only time in the UK. I’m not kidding, grown men cried. It was the climax of a 40-year relationship with an album that we’d all come to in different ways, but all adored as one. We were there to pay our respects to Todd Rundgren’s greatest achievement. In 2010, I was stranded in New York by the ash-cloud – there are worse places to be, I know. I had several days to kill, so I took myself off on a walk to the location of the Secret Sound Studio where he recorded the album, at 147 W 24th Street. It’s long-gone now, but used to be in a loft apartment of a tenement building. I just stood by the entrance door and asked a passing stranger to take my photo, and tried to explain why I was there, but he didn’t seem to catch on. “Have you heard of Todd Rundgren?” I asked. He replied “Isn’t he that weird music guy?” OK, I’ll take that. I’m happy with that. A weird music guy, who has influenced what I listen to, and the way I listen to it, ever since.
There was actually more music on the album than had regularly been put on vinyl, so the volume of the record was lower, to enable it to fit in those muchmissed vinyl grooves; so it wasn’t until digital versions were released in recent years that the true glories of the music were revealed.
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No Fame, No Gimmicks… Obie Trice + Swifty Mcvay of D12 // Nov 19 // £20 The Detroit-born rap veteran heads to the Steel City for a celebration as part of his 15th anniversary tour. Trice has had a standout career; originally signing with Eminem’s Shady Records, regularly collaborating with the man himself while releasing hits such as ‘Got Some Teeth’ and ‘Snitch’. Support comes from D12 member Swifty Mcvay.
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The chilly winter months may be closing in, but the Corporation team aren’t heading into hibernation any time soon and recently announced some colossal gigs as well as the return of their very own rock festival at the Milton Street venue. Have a butcher’s at this lot…
Lordi + Silver Dust + Ego Kills // Oct 22 // £20 Cult phenomenon Lordi are on the road again, promoting their ninth album release, Sexorcism. The Finnish heavy metal outfit, best known for their record-breaking Eurovision victory in 2006, have been around for over two decades, always decked out in the same distinctive costumes and playing the same melodic monster metal.
Rock On Winter Rocks Festival // Dec 1 // £30/£40 Corp’s very own one-day festival of rock returns in December, mixing up the predictable Sheffield event calendar with some underrepresented music. Welsh metal heavyweights Skindred headline off the back of their latest album, with the likes of Stone Broken and Gorilla Riot rounding out a packed day of bangers across two stages (more acts to be announced). Food and drink will be available from stalls and vendors for those breathers between high-octane rock sets. Tickets are £30 or £40 for VIP, which nets you a Winter Rocks tee and access to a special VIP bar.
AoniaFest // Oct 6 // £10 The second outing for last year’s successful one-day metal festival, headlined by Aonia and supported by the likes of Miscreant and Dakesis. Doors open at 1pm. Gus G + Maverick + Epitaph + Soul Shredder // Oct 16 // £15 The guitarist and heavy metal legend leads a packed line up on this unmissable midOctober night out. Kakkmaddafakka // Oct 30 // £15 This cult Norwegian outfit have a reputation for excellent live shows full of indie rock goodness. A great way to spend that allimportant Halloween Eve. Tickets and full listings available at corporation.org.uk
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Is it really autumn already? Summer certainly seems a long time ago, but if the gloomy weather is getting you down, fear not! We have a fun-filled month of queer happenings on-hand in Sheffield to cheer you up. First up, head to the Leadmill on 4 October for Zoe Lyons show, ‘Entry Level Human’. She’s a regular on Mock the Week and Live At The Apollo, as well as being all over Radio 4 – a station she will be making her very own series on in 2018. All this makes it sound like Zoe has some sort of idea what she’s doing in life. But does she? Or is she the perfect example of an Entry Level Human? Decide for yourself, as the popular comic returns with a fresh crop of quick-fire observational gags, delivered with utter conviction, and proper laugh-out-loud one-liners. Bringing more laughter to the Steel City, Joe Lycett takes to the stage at City Hall on 23 October in his brand new stand-up tour, where he’ll be sharing jokes, paintings and some of the pathetic internet trolling he’s been up to recently. There are lots of opportunities to get social this month and meet up with friends old and new. LGBTQplus Social is holding its first event at Ben’s Centre on 6 October, promising an all-inclusive social space where everyone is welcome and an opportunity to share your views on issues affecting the LGBTQ community. One such issue you may want to have your say on is the current Gender Recognition Act Consultation; if so, head to SAYiT on 10 October where they will be holding a session open to those of all genders and none, where you can drop in, eat cake and complete the GRA consultation in a way that supports and shows solidarity with trans people. Trans Active will be holding its regular fortnightly swimming sessions at Heeley Pool on 6 and 20 October, open to any trans/nonbinary/gender-questioning people of all fitness levels. There’s a relaxed atmosphere with no pressure to push yourself more than you want
to: the focus is on meeting new people and having fun. They have private use of the pool area and there are individual changing cubicles as well as communal gendered changing rooms and showers. The lifeguards have been trained to be sensitive to trans people’s needs. You can wear whatever makes you feel comfortable as long as it’s safe to swim in. Sheffield Action for Trans Health will be hosting its monthly get together on 13 October at Union Street, where you can get involved in planning campaigns and organising upcoming events. There will also be a session in letter writing to trans prisoners after. Rainbow Gamers returns to the Treehouse Café on 21 October welcoming all LGBTIQA+ board gamers! Just drop in and say hello from 6pm onwards for some laidback social gaming fun. Film Unit is screening Love, Simon on 21 October, a film about Simon Spier, a normal high school senior...Except, he has one big secret – Simon Spier is gay. Following an anonymous confession from another closeted gay boy, the film follows a budding email romance between the pair. An easy-going but emotional coming-of-age story – Love, Simon is a modern teen rom-com for the generation of today. Film Unit will also joining forces with Sheffield Horror Society on 27 October for an immersive screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Stranded on an isolated stretch of road, a young couple try to find shelter for the night. Instead, they discover the lair of the mad transvestite scientist Dr Frank-N-Furter, who is just about to reveal his latest creation, Rocky Horror, the ultimate man. Initially seduced by the doctor’s strange sexual magnetism, they are freed when the mansion’s servants take control. And that’s your lot for this month!
Sat 6 Oct LGBTQplus Social’s First Event Ben’s Centre facebook.com/lgbtqplussocial Sat 6 & 20 Oct Trans Active Swimming Heeley Pool trans-active.co.uk Wed 10 Oct Filling out the Gender Recognition Act Consultation - with cake! SAYiT sayit.org.uk Sat 13 Oct Sheffield ATH Meeting Union St sheffieldact4transhealth.wordpress.com Sun 21 Oct Rainbow Gamers Treehouse Café treehousesheffield.com Sun 21 Oct Film Unit: Love, Simon Film Unit filmunit.union.shef.ac.uk Tue 23 Oct Joe Lycett City Hall sheffieldcityhall.co.uk Sat 27 Oct Immersive Screening: Rocky Horror Picture Show Film Unit filmunit.union.shef.ac.uk
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BlacKkKlansman BlackkKlansman is director Spike Lee’s take on a very bizarre and almost unbelievable story. Based on the book of the same name by the real-life undercover police officer Ron Stallworth (John David Washington in the film), Lee’s film depicts a black policeman’s attempts to infiltrate the Colorado Springs branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Communicating with Klan members and former Grand Wizard David Duke over the phone, and sending a fellow white officer, played by Adam Driver, to build up trust with the group in person. It works both as a comedy and a tense thriller with equal effectiveness. The fictional elements
of the story blend exceptionally well into the real-life aspects. Often in films of this nature, such as last year’s ‘Darkest Hour’, the fictional scenes stand out from the rest of the film due to either poor writing or sheer preposterousness. Lee’s wonderful direction of the story is so engaging you don’t question any of the story’s more fantastical elements during its running time. Historically speaking, the film is quite a good exercise in cultural and pop-cultural education. The role of the media in influencing hatred towards African-Americans is stressed upon throughout. During Alec Baldwin’s opening racist monologue, we are shown footage
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from D.W. Griffith’s repugnant 1915 epic ‘The Birth of a Nation’. The importance of this horrific film is mentioned in a crucial scene later on, along with more sequences from the film which are disgusting to say the least, but forgotten it should not be. Lee stresses upon the importance of depicting African-American’s negatively by showing us this footage, played over a monologue delivered by the great Harry Belafonte about the true story of Jesse Washington. I won’t reveal the particulars of that story, since it has to be heard to be believed and is arguably the most powerful and poignant moment in the film. The entire piece is taking an
aggressive stab at the current political climate in America. An opening rant by Alec Baldwin’s Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard invokes images of another slicked-back haired and suit-wearing tyrant. In one scene Stallworth and another officer discuss David Duke, and
the possibility of him ending up in congress. Stallworth comments to his superior that ‘it could never happen’ … sound familiar? It’s very on-the-nose stuff, and kind of beats the audience with its ideology, but as the Trump-poking scenes demonstrate, an overt and to-the-point approach in political filmmaking is probably what we all need in these times. And nothing beats political filmmaking of this calibre. As someone who hasn’t been the biggest fan of Spike Lee in the past (‘Bamboozled’ being one of my least favourite viewing experiences), it’s always nice when a filmmaker presents you with something you can really love. 5/5 Special thanks to the Curzon Cinema Sheffield for screening this film for Exposed.
One of the most beautiful films of our time, this 2018 Palme d’Or winner is a sensual and provocative exploration of a tempestuous relationship that unfolds over fifteen years on both sides of the iron curtain. The story concerns Zula and Wiktor, a singer/dancer and a composer thrown together during the formulation of a touring musical group in 1949 Poland. We follow their progress through the 50s and early 60s where both lead separate lives on either side of the iron curtain. Wiktor emigrates to Paris to work in the booming jazz clubs as a piano player, and eventually as a composer for French motion pictures. Zula remains with the musical group she auditioned for in 1949, touring various parts of communist Eastern Europe. Every few years, the lovers come back into each other’s lives and they pick up exactly where they’d left off, despite all the changes to their lives as the years progress. Although magnetically drawn to each other across time and space, the couple are wholly unsuited, which becomes painfully apparent for both us the audience, and the characters. Their difficulty to maintain a healthy relationship is reflected in the way each deal with the differences in western and eastern culture. Zula despises the pretentiousness and falsehoods of the west, whilst
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Tom Hardy stars as Marvel’s favourite anti-hero/villain, the alien-symbiote Venom. This popular Spiderman baddy has been given his own feature in a bold move to create a franchise around each of Spidey’s foes. A character comic book fans have been yearning to see done properly on screen for years, this promises to be a big audience draw.
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Wiktor loves the creative freedoms offered in Paris, hating the constricting confines of the Eastern Bloc. When either spends too much time in the other’s environment, they begin to grow more distant from each other and long for the familiarity of their own world. The film is dominated by music, both diegetic and non-diegetic, using it to convey more of the characters’ emotions to the audience rather than through dialogue. It reaches its most entrancing once we catch up with Wiktor in Paris, bathing us in fabulous jazz alongside noir-like nightclubs filled with cigarette smoke and neon signs. Shots of Zula and Wiktor dressed in black strolling the empty streets of Paris evoke memories of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. In fact, most of the film has a very retro feel, almost like watching a piece of Italian Neo-Realism or French New Wave. Visually, the film is unparalleled in its beauty. Not since the days of Touch of Evil or The Third Man has black and white film been shot so elegantly or expertly. Each shot is almost like a piece of wonderfully composed still photography. If there is any film to see this year, Cold War should certainly be top of the list. There is no finer example of a simple story told with such genuine emotion and grace. 5/5
Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode, the target of merciless killer Michael Myers from John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher classic. Picking many years after the events of the first film (and ignoring all other entries), Strode readies herself to do battle with the most terrifying of the slasher killers, to finish him once and for all.
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Ryan Gosling reaches for the sky as Neil Armstrong in this biopic that depicts the years leading up to the pivotal Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Having premiered to significant praise at the Venice Film Festival, Damien Chazelle’s film is tipped as a must-see for October.
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In an effort to overcome his chronic overthinking, Sheffield-born filmmaker and creative CK Goldiing put his ingrained fears of rejection to the test with latest project 61 Hugs. Nick Burke spoke to man himself about the inspirations behind the experiment and his fascination with strangers. CK Goldiing isn’t afraid to take risks. The relentless creator juggles developing content for bands and startups with exciting side-projects, most recently the acclaimed 61 HUGS. “100 Musicians, which was in 2015, was when it first developed. I was living in Sheffield, feeling claustrophobic...I wanted to see something else, go on a mini adventure,” he explains. “I was always fascinated by what I now call ‘hero stories’ – you know how the founders of things always have that defining moment? I didn’t have that, and I thought it would be really cool to have the ‘Mark Zuckerberg moment’, tinkering in his room and creating Facebook. I wanted something that people will look back on in 20-years time and go ‘you know, that was when it fucking started!’” This drive to explore and find his moment took CK to London, armed only with a bag of clothes, £100 and his camera. “I left everything else
at home”, he says. “I wanted to find 100 emerging unsigned musicians that needed me for what I do for musicians, but the hook was they contacted me on social media, commissioned me for a shoot and then paid me whatever they wanted. “I was at the mercy of human’s goodwill!” And while the plan was to be there for two months at most, things never quite go to plan. “Six months later there I was! It was 95% living in hostels, but for the most part I was out shooting, travelling, walking.” Though 100 Musicians was successful, the experience of working with strangers would change the focus of CK’s future work. That feeling of relying on others, making new connections, and exploring a new side to humanity clearly left an impact on the creator. His plight seemed to bring out the best in others, too. “There’s something seductive about having warmth from people you don’t know. Strangers
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helped me during 100 Musicians are three components that will who didn’t even need a photoshoot; make one of my videos hit,” he says. they just discovered me online, this “Firstly, am I vulnerable; vulnerable crazy guy doing this mad challenge! to the universe, financial resources. When you experience that kind Sadistically, people love watching of altruism and humanity...I never vulnerability! The second one is thought humans were dicks, but parameters. I have to get from A to it amplified that goodwill was out B. 61 HUGS: zero to 61, the focus is there.” on what happens in-between. The All of this leads to 61 HUGS, third one would be unpredictability CK’s most intimate video to date. – i.e. unscripted. I don’t design It begins in his flat, wrestling with [my content] around that, they just overthinking and anxiety, before happen to be the components that leaving the house with one goal: to are in my DNA… and I’m fascinated hug 61 strangers. As the journey by unscripted content.” through Sheffield continues it The IndieFlix appearance was becomes increasingly apparent that an incredible experience for the this encapsulates the humanity seen filmmaker. “It was daunting and in 100 Musicians. Despite this, the beautiful! [The audience] just found intensity of the reaction came as a it charming and hugely amusing surprise. “That’s the greatest irony; at points. That’s the first time I’ve I expected a positive reaction, but I watched one of my films in a room didn’t expect the degree of positivity. with people, it was extraordinary. I was still shitting myself!” By the end I don’t remember much of it, but of the video, the anxiety disappears, my friend told me I could not have replaced with clear euphoria. “It wished for a better evening. Huge was essentially an hourthanks to Indieflix long hit of dopamine”, for inviting me.” he describes eloquently. Where to “It’s content for other next? By his own humans and content for admission, CK’s my heart and soul.” mind is always Following a positive racing with reception at IndieFlix ideas. “It can get Film Festival, more boring – just give stranger-focused me a day off!” To learn more about 61 content seems assured. he laughs. With HUGS visit the official But why does 61 HUGS more innovative website for special resonate with so many projects in the content, free downloads people? It’s a question works, we can’t and more at 61hugs. that CK himself is wait for the the com. fascinated by. “There next hit.
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Dan Gillespie Sells is known in the music industry as lead singer of indie-pop band The Feeling, but it’s in the world of theatre where he’s been making huge strides recently after writing the music for the smash-hit Sheffield Theatres show Everybody Loves Jamie. After returning to composing duties at the Crucible for a reimagining of Shakepeare’s greatest comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he reflected with Exposed on a rollercoaster year. It’s not often a musician makes By contrast, the world of pop the leap to a new medium. For music is more… skin-deep. “In a Dan Gillespie Sells, though, that pop song you throw all kinds of stuff move paid dividends. The pop in to help it rhyme and flow – some star has seen massive success in of those things are just in there to recent times as the co-creator of sound cool!” he laughs. “[Theatre’s] heartfelt and electrifying musical a more precise art form.” Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Like many creatives whose Now performing on the West End, stardoms were forged in the the show originated at Sheffield’s Crucible, Sells already finds himself Crucible in a sell-out run that returning as part of A Midsummer garnered national praise. Jamie’s Night’s Dream. “I kind of love it true story, of a boy barred from his there!” he professes. “I had such a prom for dressing in drag, is both great experience working there with recent and relevant, giving the show Jamie… it felt like home to me. It’s a a cultural power that few comfortable, professional, others have. exciting, vibrant place.” The Feeling frontman While planning the hit A Midsummer Night’s Dream may have honed his craft musical, the creative runs at the Crucible Theatre in the music industry, but team were struck by the from 28 September – 20 songwriting for the stage theatre’s connection to its October. Tickets and more requires something extra. city. “We got a real sense information available at “Precision”, he repeats, of the community. The sheffieldtheatres.co.uk like a mantra. “A lot more Crucible does a really precision is required. good job of reaching out.” You’re holding a narrative, Shakespeare’s classic your audience is sat in comedy joins Chris a theatre and they’re focused, so Bush’s Steel in a new wave of quality you’ve got to keep telling them a theatre coming to the Crucible this story. You don’t want the audience to autumn. The production boasts a get ahead of you, but you also don’t star-studded cast, including faces want to leave them behind.” This familiar to Crucible-goers in Daniel balancing act is what keeps a show Rigby (Frost/Nixon) and Pandora feeling pacy and fresh, especially one Colin (Julius Caesar). Sells has lent with an important message. “There’s his hand to transforming the play by precision in every line and word you writing original music. In his words, write, every melody. It all has to have audiences are in for a “cosmic” a purpose, because if it doesn’t then experience. “I think this is a version you lose your audience. They can that’s going to speak to young people think, ‘Was I supposed to remember rather well – it’s not specifically for that detail?’” young people, but I think it feels 96 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
Top Picks fresh. We’ve not set it in any specific time or place; we’ve deliberately kept it about the story.” Writing an original musical is one thing, but making music for one of the most revered comedies of all time is a completely different challenge. “It’s been fantastic, but different,” Sells explains. “There’s no question over the lyrics – no one’s going to say ‘should we change that around?’” That being said, the team weren’t afraid of making changes if they felt necessary. “It’s so rare that you need to with Shakespeare though, because it’s so beautifully written in the first place! Also, for me, rhythmically the music’s half there already. There’s music representing the magic of the fairy forest, which influences Bottom to go back and turn the playwithin-a-play into a musical-withina-play, and at that point it gets really crazy.” By adding music, actors have a natural rhythmic framework to bounce off inspired by Shakespeare’s original meter. Sells admits this helps him too, often struggling (like most of us) to follow the complex language. “The introduction of music can really help; it means that we’re working sympathetically with Shakespeare’s sense of rhythm. That really helps with the storytelling, it makes it clearer. His language doesn’t come particularly easily for me, but I follow the story best when the rhythm is intact. It’s a lovely thing to work with.” It’s almost like Shakespeare’s language and writing is innately musical. “Yeah it is, and it needs to be”, he agrees. “When you keep it as musical as possible, somehow the meaning is less complex than if you pull it around too much. But really that’s the actor’s choice sometimes, and I think they can make the right choice in making it sound more natural.” Due to the phenomenal success of Jamie, however, Sells’ career has followed a near-vertical trajectory. “I will be back in Sheffield to work on the film production of Jamie”, he says. “I’m doing all the music for the film. We’re shooting it in Sheffield, it’s with Warp Films, who are a Sheffield-based company, alongside Film4.” Will we be seeing Sells again after Midsummer? “I’m gonna be back in no time … I really do love Sheffield. Culturally, it’s a really lovely place and I won’t stay away for too long.”
Extracurricular Activities: James Green and Jonathan Wilkinson (Hosted by Pete McKee A Month of Sundays // 22 September – 20 October // Free Esteemed Sheffield artists James Green and Jonathan Wilkinson have united to produce a new exhibition, Extracurricular Activities. The exhibition is outside the realm of their usual styles of figurative art and has seen both artists experiment with the concept of abstract expression through print and painting. facebook.com Fame the Musical Lyceum Theatre // 9 – 13 October // From £23 Based on the 1980 film of the same name, Fame The Musical follows the lives of students at New York’s High School For The Performing Arts as they navigate their way through the highs and lows of life. sheffieldtheatres.co.uk Exploring world conspiracy theories Yellow Arch Studios // 22 October // £12 Discuss and investigate some of the most controversial and polarizing conspiracy theories with successful author and researcher on mysteries and conspiracies, Andy Thomas. Thomas’ provoking lecture questions everything from the Moon Landings and 9/11 to Princess Diana and even the Roman Empire. funzing.com The Three Musketeers Lyceum Theatre // 24 – 27 October // From £12 A rip-roaring ballet with a classic love story at its heart, see the tale of the Three Musketeers unfold in a whirlwind of adventure, romance and intrigue, accompanied by Sir Malcolm Arnold’s live score. sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
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Steel @ Studio Theatre A big question facing the Labour Party in a post-Blair, post-Brexit era under Jeremy Corbyn has been one of modernisation. How do they continue representing the deeply embedded traditional values of their industrial heartlands while remaining forward-thinking and electorally viable? Fuelling the fire for this conflict are wider issues of belonging, gender parity and class – all of which are examined considerately, and supplemented with good dollops of humour, by Sheffield-born writer Chris Bush in Steel. It follows the fortunes of two party members, Vanessa and Josie (Rebecca Scroggs), the former running for metro mayor of Sheffield in 2018 and the latter standing for the council in 1988. The play seamlessly flits between the two storylines, each shift in context heralded by ghostly, female-led reimaginings of Arctic Monkeys and Human League tracks. Although born up north, Vanessa moved to London for education and career prospects, which helped to cultivate a political outlook often at odds with the hard-left sentiment espoused by many of the local party members. This, combined with being a woman of colour and having a penchant for the odd soya latte, arouses suspicion and eventually allout revolt amongst the more traditionalist, overwhelmingly male sector of the party. Ian, a battle-hardened election officer (Nigel Betts), is faced with toning down any signifiers of liberal elitism and ensuring that she falls in line with what history demands from Labour representatives in a city built on socialist values. Back in the late-eighties and steelwork engineer Josie has been persuaded by councillor Dai (also Betts) – a similarly dominant male figure to Ian – to stand for election, telling her of his desire to change the “pale, male and stale” culture of the party. As the play progresses, the spirited Josie is required to face up to a number of prejudices and the mentor-style relationship forged with Dai reveals a sinister undertone.
Unsurprisingly, the steel industry itself serves as an important reference point throughout. Each character has a differing view and the contextual weight of the city’s industrial history hangs over proceedings. “It’s a trade, it’s an identity,” Ian pleads against Vanessa’s rationalisations and focus on changing the record; whereas Dai sees the steel industry as “something of an albatross” until Josie, whose working experience has given her the empathy to see the people behind the figures, explains ways in which things could be improved. Frequently switching between two characters and taking on entirely different accents, personalities and mannerisms in the process is no mean feat, but Betts and Scroogs are faultless throughout. Rousing speeches and caustic quips that wouldn’t feel out of place in an episode of The Thick of It are particular highlights, while an electrifying cards on the table showdown between the old and new guard manages to be both hilarious and a worryingly accurate representation of today’s generational divide. And that’s just it: the strength of this production lies in its contemporary relevance. Hopefully you’ll leave questioning the role of women in politics today, the damaging effects of political dogma and, on a more local level, how Sheffield can progress as a major city while remaining true to its roots – all of which is tied together by a superb script and commanding performances. 4/5 JF
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Mixposed #1: Tino @ The Foundry
A brand new series showcasing the hottest DJs and producers from all corners of dance music filmed live at our favourite Steel City venues, the inaugural instalment of Mixposed launched last month. To set the bar accordingly, we collared one of the most exciting names in grime, dubstep and UK Funky, Tino, to play an exclusive mix at the home of renowned underground club night The Tuesday Club. tinyurl.com/yc3gy3ua
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