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30 30: The Magid Man Sheffield’s youngest Lord Mayor and all-round nice bloke on his journey so far and the importance of sticking to principles.
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#BeMoreNulty Despite a hugely successful festival weekend, Tramlines 2018 was tinged with sadness following the passing of inspirational festival director and co-founder Sarah Nulty. After the news broke, a hashtag - #BeMoreNulty - soon started to surface across various social media platforms reminding us
to take heed of her wholehearted approach to life. In tribute to Sarah, a selection of t-shirts and tote bags featuring two designs from local artists are available online at dropdead.co.uk. All Profits will be donated to Weston Park Cancer Charity and Cavendish Cancer Care.
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Thank you Sarah!
ÂŁ9,000,000 3 The worth of The amount of minutes it Tramlines to the
took for 2019 Early Bird tickets to sell out. Weekend Tier 1 tickets also sold out a few days later.
local economy, according to a report published by Sheffield Hallam in 2016.
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The amount of people who turned out to the very first Tramlines in 2009
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the perfect 10
Look at Tramlines Festival, eh? All grown up! Sheff ’s biggest inner-city bash took the gamble of celebrating its 10th birthday bash at a brand new venue in Hillsborough Park – and it all went down an absolute treat. Headline slots from Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Craig David were just a few highlights of a largely sun-kissed weekend which will live long in the memory Pic: Giles Smith
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The Children’s Hospital Charity to host race at Rother Valley The Children’s Hospital Charity is bringing a 5K inflatable race course to Rother Valley Country Park next month. Theo’s Inflatable 5K race, which features ten obstacles and the scenic views of Rother Valley, takes over the park on Saturday 18 August. The price for the event is £20 for adults and £14 for children. Though it isn’t a requirement, The Children’s Hospital Charity is suggesting that entrants raise £30 in sponsorship, with every penny going towards changing the lives of the hospital’s patients and families. Family tickets are also available, head over to tchc.org.uk for more details.
Building a better future: Why TCHC needs your help! The Children’s Hospital Charity aids 200 children a day in the Emergency Department at its Major Trauma Centre. Originally designed to see 32,000 patients a year, it now exceeds 60,000. With the help of the people of Sheffield, the charity is aiming to redevelop the Emergency Department, Child Assessment Unit and Ward 6. There are plans to build a brand new helipad to allow quicker access to the hospital for patients transported by helicopter. The new helipad will be integral in saving the lives of children involved in accidents where every precious second counts. Currently, helicopters have to land in Weston Park and then patients must be escorted across the road. Wasting precious time, a new helipad would eliminate this extra complication to the journey. 90 children a year are cared for on the Cancer and Leukaemia ward. This fundraising campaign has been launched with the aim of increasing the number of beds on the ward from 14 to 16. It also hopes to create a more pleasant environment for patients and their parents and carers. How can you help? Numbers wise, the Children’s Hospital will require £14.25 million to make all the necessary changes. That’s where you come in. If you can donate to this great cause, head over to tchc.org.uk for more details on how you can help the cause.
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Painting by Kenneth Steel
Food Hall to open in Castle House building
Sheffield Castle Excavation Gets GoAhead An investigation to uncover the remains of Sheffield Castle has been given the green light by Sheffield city council with work beginning this month over a nine-week period. The medieval building which once stood in Castlegate dates back to the century after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, even housing Mary, Queen of Scots as a prisoner in between 15701584. The castle was destroyed in the 1600s and the demolition of Castle Market, which was built over the remains and then demolished in 2016, paved
Old Town Hall on National Risk List Sheffield’s Old Town hall on Waingate has found itself on SAVE Britain’s National Buildings at Risk Register for the first time. SAVE Britain’s Heritage, a charity which publishes the list every year, works to find practical ways to raise awareness and restore historic structures in dire need of renovation. The building has been disused since 1997, and has fallen into a state of disrepair ever since. The Friends of the Old Town Hall group is currently campaigning to rescue the Grade II-listed building and have suggested it could be used as a workspace, meeting and conference
the way for excavations to take place following a campaign from the Friends of Sheffield Castle group. Martin Gorman, chair of Friends of Sheffield Castle, told us: “The Friends have been campaigning for several years for this and we are looking forward to working with the archaeological team to see what remains of this rich historic site. By examining the past in this way, we can help ensure Castlegate can have a thriving future.” Tours for schools, community groups and the general public will soon be announced and a detailed computer visualisation of the castle will be unveiled at the Festival of the Mind in September. Head to friendsofsheffieldcastle.org.uk for the latest information.
centre or drink and performance/ rehearsal space. Joint honorary secretary Brian Holmshaw summed up the issue: “We’re pleased to see the Old Town Hall on SAVE’s list, but sad for the reasons it got there. This backs up what we’ve been saying for the past
three years, that the building can have a future if it’s restored before it falls to pieces. We know from our architect who carried out a condition survey that the repair cost is so big that we can’t see any commercial future. A developer might just be able to make the numbers work if they were allowed to strip out all the historic features inside and radically alter the look of the place – basically, ruin it. If that happens the city will have lost a major historic asset.” The building is currently owned by a London-based property developer and has been vacant since the late 1990s. The Friends group is looking to offer the community shares to raise money and buy the building.
Some of Sheffield’s best-loved independent cafes and street food vendors are joining forces for a new food hall concept in the former Coop building on Castlegate. The project, Kollider Social, is part of a huge transformation of the Castle House building and Sheffieldbased company Kollider Projects is in charge of the regeneration, with a digital tech hub also at the forefront of the plans. Kollider have linked up with the people behind well-known local businesses Peddler, Tamper Coffee and Depot Bakery. The food hall will be home to several street food vendors hand-picked from around the country, a bar serving craft beer, wine and cocktails, an area for private dining and a unique work and social events space. Ben Smith from Peddler said of the project: “Kollider Social represents a natural evolution for Sheffield’s increasingly exciting independent food scene. This will be a place for emerging food brands from within Sheffield and outside of the city to take risks, innovate, grow their audience reach, and in doing so, they are able to mature their brands into sustainable food businesses within an area of the city that promises to be an increasingly creative, vibrant and dynamic part of Sheffield’s cultural offer.” kollider.co
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Next Park Hill phase could bring £2million to Sheffield economy As Sheffield city council approves the third Park Hill regeneration phase, details have been revealed of the gym, cafe, and student flat proposals for the famous Grade II-listed building. The latest phase, the third of five, includes plans for 356 student bedrooms and 3,767 sq ft of commercial space for shops, cafes and a gym. It is expected once the flats are filled, the students will bring £2million to the local economy per year. A further £20million of investment and 100 jobs in construction and design are expected to be created. Councillor Jack Scott, cabinet member for transport and development at Sheffield city council, said: “Park Hill is quite simply one of the most iconic places to be in Sheffield, and can hold its own with any architectural landmark in the whole of Europe. These phased plans are a further sign of progress and confidence in the area, which is now thriving with an active community hosting regular events, a new cafe, businesses and the home of S1 Artspace which attracts visitors from all over the city with its ongoing exhibition and events programme.” Award-winning regeneration company Urban Splash acquired Park Hill in 2004 and has so far completed one phase of redevelopment, with planning permission granted for phase two in December 2017. Head over to urbansplash.co.uk for more details on the regeneration project.
Shaun Doane – Everly Pregnant Brothers Old Horns Inn, High Bradfield If you want to find somewhere special in Sheffield, you’re usually best off heading to the top of a hill. And we’ve got plenty to choose from. Whether you’re in Meersbrook Park, Stannington, Ringinglow, Dungworth, or wherever else, you’re always going to find an incredible view. From this spot you can look out over Loxley Valley, you can see down to Lower Bradfield, Agden Reservoir, and there’s Strines moor out in the distance too. Although Sheffield has a strong industrial past, and you can still see that history displayed in the city centre, we also have all of this natural beauty on our doorstep – I mean, literally right on our doorstep. We are an undiscovered jewel. The thing about Sheffield people, and I think it’s a very Sheffield thing, is that we’re brought up being told to be good at what we do, to be proud of what we do, but not to big ourselves up. Bigheads don’t fare so well in this city. We keep our feet on the ground because no matter how successful or famous a Sheffielder will get, they will still go
We should really be shouting it from the rooftops: “We are ace, this is beautiful, and you need to get here.”
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home and get told off by their mum. Alex Turner will still get bollocked by his mum when he goes home, and so will Jarvis Cocker, and so will Richard Hawley. It’s a nice, modest attitude to have, but the downside of it is that as a whole we don’t push ourselves and trumpet ourselves to the world enough. We should really be shouting it from the rooftops: “We are ace, this is beautiful, and you need to get here.” The industrial heart of the city tends to stimulate creatives around here. Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 used to talk about the rhythm of Sheffield, the beat of the factory hammers thudding throughout the night, and how that would inspire musicians. It runs through you and becomes ingrained. But places like this is where you come for an escape, when you’ve grafted all week and have a reyt headache from it all, you can come up here to take in this view and think to yourself, ‘That’s all mine, that is. There’s nobody who can take that away from me.’
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aqua park This month on the Exposed VS page, Team Exposed don their swimming trunks and fling their lithe, fish-like bodies into the waters of Rother Valley Country Park to do battle at the fiendish Aqua Park assault course. No armbands or nuffink. Words: Paul ‘Flipper’ Stimpson
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Ever seen that Total Wipeout programme on the telly? A load of heads bounce around on an inflatable water park, trying not to get taken out by a rotating pole? Well, Sheffield’s Aqua Park is exactly like that, but better, and without Richard Hammond. The Exposed team went down to Rother Valley Country Park to have a go at the Aqua Park’s ninja assault course and yes, to your sadistic enjoyment, we did fall off every single obstacle. More than 20 of them, actually. In many ways, I was the perfect person to write this feature, falling at the first hurdle and spending a lot of the time hopelessly floating along in the water watching the Exposed team tackle the course. Regular Exposed readers will know we’ve had some tough challenges over the years, and when presented with the challenge of simply completing the assault course without falling in the water, we were fully confident of a victory. Almost arrogant, actually. It was human vs inanimate object. Of course we were going to nail it. So, here’s how it worked. For each member of the team that made it round the course without falling in, team Exposed gets one point. For each member that stacks it into the water, Aqua Park gets one point. Goddit? We all started at different points on the course; Leo on the Jungle Joe, Amy on the climbing wall, and your man on the balance beam. As the others bolted over their first obstacle, a feeling of dread came over me as I lost my balance without even taking a step forward. After some words of encouragement from the owner of the Aqua Park, Andy, I took a leap of faith. One step, yes! Second step… SPLAT. Ol’ Salmon Feet was straight in the water and out of the game, 1-0 Aqua Park. As I surfaced, I could see Leo scampering around the
course like a man possessed. The Jungle Joe and the climbing wall both lay in his wake. He had just one more to go – the balance beam. It was here that he met his match, though to bend the rules slightly and even the scores, Leo eventually made it across at the third attempt to complete the course. 1-1! Now it was down to the tie-breaker, Amy on the blast bag. The aim of the game was for one person to sit on one end of the blast bag and for someone else to make the 10ft drop from the climbing wall onto the other end of the bag to propel the other person high into the air. Whoever blasted Amy in the air the highest out of Leo and a member of the Aqua Park team got the all-important point. Our tactics were simple, stick Amy – who is almost small enough to put in your pocket – on one end and have our man Leo unleash an almighty Leg Drop onto the other end of the bag. Unfortunately, Leo, perhaps suffering from fatigue, couldn’t land the blow needed. A couple of attempts later, she was mildly unsettled. Step up team Aqua Park. Could they bag the winner in this weird penalty shootout type scenario? The member of Aqua Park’s team, whose name I didn’t catch and now feel really bad about, leapt like a fish out of water. Time stood still as he landed a perfect People’s Elbow onto the blast bag, sending poor Amy about a mile into in the air. No VAR needed on this one, Aqua Park claimed the victory 2-1.
Results
Exposed: 31 Challengers: 42 Draws: 3
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After its relocation to larger premises at Park Hill, S1 Artspace reopened last month with an exhibition documenting the lives of residents living on the estate and nearby Hyde Park complex at separate eras in the early-60s and late-80s.
Words: Joseph Food
Love Among the Ruins is obviously a hugely relevant exhibition to reopen with, featuring archival photography from 1960s Park Hill after the first residents moved in and the nearby Hyde Park flats during the 1980s. Yes, we thought it was fitting and it’s really important to us that we can celebrate the people who originally built the Park Hill community. A photographer called Roger Mayne was commissioned by the BBC for the Landmarks documentary series they produced, which basically looked at the changing landscapes, architecture and ways of life in post-war Britain. The episode, called ‘Fortress’, aired around 1965 and people will also be able to watch that in full at the exhibition.
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The 60s Park Hill images obviously feel iconic, but it was the 80s Hyde Park shots which really grabbed me – there’s that huge splash of colour and a sense of intimacy which really stands out. A lot of Bill Stephenson’s Hyde Park photographs were taken in Block B, an 18-storey tower which was built using the same set of design principles as Park Hill and eventually demolished. Since a lot of the images were taken during the summer, the tone of light in the evening sunshine really helps to get a sense of the building’s scale. Bill’s work was more politically-motivated, too, as at the time residents were essentially being removed and displaced to other social housing projects ahead of the block’s demolishment. I think Block D of Hyde Park was also demolished and other blocks were turned into temporary accommodation for the World Student Games, so it’s another place with an interesting and often controversial history. There’s a clear juxtaposition in the two bodies of work – the thriving post-war social housing ideals of the 60s and then the degradation suffered by places like Park Hill and Hyde Park during the 80s. I think the distinct styles between the photographers show it well. Roger Mayne was very much a photographer of his era: remaining fairly distant from the subjects and capturing life almost as a fly on the wall, as that’s what he was commissioned to do at the end of the day. Bill Stephenson’s work was a bit more personal; he wanted to get to know the people, to find the personal narrative and really capture how they felt.
Photo: Bill Stephenson
Inside the new venue, situated in a renovated garage block overlooking the sculpture park, Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future will feature rare archival photography and film from social documentarians Roger Mayne and Bill Stephenson, whose work focused on the original Park Hill community from 1961-65 and the last remaining residents of its sister building in 1988. We spoke to S1 curator Laura Clarke about what the newly-opened venue will bring to the city’s cultural scene and how the inaugural exhibition shines a light on the success, failure and potential rebirth of one of Sheffield’s most iconic buildings.
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On a contextual level, there’s also the interesting shift in wider attitudes towards social housing which took place between the two eras. You can see the pride felt by the original Park Hill residents in Roger Mayne’s work. Projects like Park Hill were built for working people, to eradicate the condemned slums which had no sanitation and were just in a terrible state. They were built as social spaces, not just somewhere to house people, so there were a number of pubs, shops and other facilities to make life easier for the residents. There was even a pretty innovative waste disposal system, the “Garchey”, built into each flat so people could dispose of rubbish easily. You can listen to a good cross-section of interviews on ‘The Fortress’ documentary with the original residents boasting about the flats, because some of it was actually quite revolutionary considering this was the early60s. Sometimes, largely due to the problems they faced in later years, people forget about the initial success of Park Hill and Hyde Park and how they were built on fundamentally good principles. Yeah, I think that’s true – both in terms of architects’ intentions behind the design and the practicality of the decision to build the buildings. It was basically the best way to rehouse a lot of people living in squalor so they could get on with their lives in the quickest way possible and make it cost-effective. Concrete became the new radical material; buildings could be thrown up a lot quicker and at a much lesser cost. Then there’s the fact that Park Hill is so prominent on the Sheffield skyline, it’s pretty inescapable and some were ashamed of what they saw to be a bit of a crumbling eyesore when it became derelict. The estate took on a whole new definition in its later era; the building itself took the flack. I guess its fate was sealed when it became listed in that respect. From what I understand, the council couldn’t afford to keep up the repairs, which is why it devolved into this state of disrepair. In the archives there are some amazing reports on Hyde Park which can be seen in the exhibition. We have materials from the Sheffield Archives and Local Studies Library, who have been amazing at facilitating a lot of the research, and they’ve composed this
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compendium of information on Park Hill and Hyde Park. We came across a kind of council housing survey from the 80s that listed the scale of the repairs which needed doing and you could see how problematic the concrete material was for the building. Acid rain water would seep in underneath, the steel framework would rust and chunks would start falling off. All of this in combination with growing unemployment and homelessness under Thatcher’s government really put a huge strain on Park Hill and Hyde Park.
The current exhibition is a rethinking of Streets in the Sky, which was an earlier exhibition from 1988 featuring Mayne and Stephenson’s work. How does Love Among the Ruins add to it? Streets in the Sky wasn’t just Roger Mayne and Bill Stephenson; there were other photographers who were involved with that exhibition. The change of context involved with Love Among the Ruins is the big thing. Bill’s body of work on Hyde Park was made during the 80s as Sheffield city council was about to start its city-wide demolition programme. Between the late-80s and early-90s the Kelvin Flats, Norfolk Park high-rises, Broomhall flats, and of course parts of Hyde Park were all demolished. A lot of the types of buildings built in the 60s were starting to be considered failed social experiments and getting demolished in favour of small terraced housing. It’s more about looking at the contrasts between those periods – and, just as importantly, thinking about the present and future of Park Hill. Which moves us nicely onto the reopening of S1 Artspace in what was once the estate’s garage block. How are you settling in? Really well! We’re excited to get going because we haven’t been open to the public since our pilot programme in the Scottish Queen ended two years ago, so the renovation of the garage block to be public-facing again is really important to us. Another massive part of what we offer is affordable studio space. We’ve got ten artists at the moment, but the new building will allow us to provide five more spaces to artists working in Sheffield. We’re nestled right inside the estate and can extend the new gallery space out into the landscape. We want to become an accessible space for everyone, a place where people from all over the city will come and spend time in. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near
9-30 August / 11am An opportunity for local residents both past and present to share stories about Park Hill or Hyde Park and contribute towards a growing showreel of personal photographs, presented in the entrance to the new gallery. Free
Exhibition Tours
Led by individuals focusing on different perspectives of Park Hill including history, documentary photography and post-war architecture. 15 August / 2pm Russell Light, Sheffield School of Architecture 23 August / 2pm Dr Helen Smith, social and cultural historian Free
Park Hill Architecture Tours
A series of tours led by architectural historians and a range of specialists. 4 August / 11am Mark Latham, regeneration director at Urban Splash, will discuss the process of redeveloping the Park Hill estate. 4 August / 2pm Andrew Jackson, chair of the Twentieth Century Society in Yorkshire and founder of Sheffield Modernist Society. 1 September / 11am Andrew Lees, architect and Park Hill resident. 1 September / 2pm Emma Sharpe, inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas at Historic England. £2-4. Tickets available at s1artspace.org/events
Experiments in Living
15 September / 2–4pm Architectural historian and author of Estates: An Intimate History arrives for a talk on the history and legacy of Britain’s post-war social housing projects and the controversial repurposing of landmark buildings, including Park Hill. £4-6. Tickets available at s1artspace.org/events
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Words: Joe Tryner // Pictures: Duncan Stafford
Attempt at your own peril to define the musical stylings of the Life Aquatic Band. Try to shoe-horn them into a neat little category and they’ll rebel against the label in glorious fashion. What I can dare to describe about this group is that their music fuses disco, jazz, groove, soul, indie and reggae styles into a sumptuous and evocative soundtrack that smoothly navigates all of these stylings with ease, sometimes even within the same tune. As a collective they are a bundle of youthful enthusiasm - basically a group of kids messing around in a studio, brandishing painted fingernails, ludicrous hats and loud t-shirts, chuckling and giggling between takes. They make little or no attempt at being serious. This banterous rabble is a perplexing juxtaposition to the tight and mature composition of their music, which is vibrant and remarkably innovative. I managed to grab six members of this kooky septet on a sun-kissed but mercifully cool Tuesday evening at Yellow Arch Studios. Ben Allen (vocals, guitarist and cow-bell aficionado), Henry Tufton (synth, keyboards and guitar), Jazmine Kelly (vocals, vibraslap), Will Shaw (drums), Tim Peters (trombone, vocals) talked to me about their style, starting out in Sheffield, and their aspirations. First things first, what on earth is a vibraslap? Henry: They used to be a horse’s jawbone with rattling teeth, but they don’t do that anymore, which we support! It’s a percussion instrument that gives out a unique little sound.
Next, the name – a reference to Wes Anderson’s film. What does this film mean to you guys? Ben: I guess I’m very obsessed with sealife. Bill Murray is my favourite actor, and Wes Anderson is my favourite director. He has an aesthetic quality that I don’t think others have. And I was stuck for a band name and that sounded pretty good. Will: I’ve got to be honest, I haven’t seen it! Ben: When you get home you have to watch it now! Is the stylistic approach of a Wes Anderson film something you think about in your music? Ben: I guess the first EP has five different genres on it and it was sort of a project I set for myself, to try and write very different songs. In the very nature of that I’m trying to push my ability to stay in one genre, and the music becomes very experimental because of that. And because everyone in the band are such fantastic musicians, they know how to play genres and take various stylistic traits. Tim, for example is a classically trained singer. How would you describe your music to people that are reading about you for the first time in Exposed? Henry: I think more and more we try to focus on groove-orientated music. Disco, reggae, afro-beat influences and electronic influences, having originally come from guitar-based roots. Ben: What we want to do is make people
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dance – it’s dance music with real instruments. We wanna play gigs that are like a big party, where everyone is having a great time. Henry: Having said that, we are also throwing back to some traditional styles. One of the tracks we’ve just been recording has much more of a 50s and 60s kind of feel. One of the reasons we wanted to record that is because it shows a contrast to some of the more electro-punk and disco-influenced songs we’re doing. We don’t want every song to sound the same. So you don’t want to settle into any given genre? Tim: We don’t want to settle, but we always work within the same sound-world. The same colours, lots of brass, eclectic jazz-influence styles, and folky vocals over a disco backdrop. The single from the first EP ‘Sassy’s Revenge’ meanders into different genres seamlessly. Where are you pulling inspiration from as a collective? Henry: A big one for me would be psych-rock, neo-psychedelia such as Tame Impala. I’m trying to channel that kind of thing with my synth-playing, but we have different influences from different members so we aren’t ripping anybody off too much! Ben: For me it’s LCD Soundsystem and Talking Heads. I’m also weirdly into Nick Drake, Laura Marling and those nice, soft vocal melodies that we try to mix in. Henry: Jaz, me and Ben saw David Byrne in Madrid last week and it was amazing! He had a 12-piece band that moved around. I want us to get dance routines involved in our live gigs! Will: Am I safe sat on the drum-kit from these routines? Henry: No way! We’d rather you were dancing than drumming! We have to give a shout-out to our trumpet player Emily, who isn’t here. She’s infectious on stage and really sends those vibes out to the crowds. Ben: We also have a mystery man called Gonk who appears at some of our gigs and dances around. But no-one knows who he is! Always good to have die-hard fans! How have you found life starting out on the Sheffield music-scene? Henry: It’s been great - we’ve had a really positive experience. The other bands are all really supportive, it’s been friendly and welcoming. And it seems to be in good health! Ben: You suddenly realise how many good bands are around. Like at Tramlines, there were so many amazing bands around the fringe. Henry: We had a great gig recently at Cafe Totem where people were singing the words back to us - that felt like a breakthrough moment! Our favourite gigs have to be at Foodhall though, those guys are doing amazing work for the community. You’ve also had a busy Tramlines weekend. How was that? Ben: Tramlines was great. Jaz’s other band Surf Jaz and the Beached Boys played a gig at DINA 26 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
and it was great! Henry: Surf Jaz is really chilled out and it was super fun to do something different. There is only three of us in that band, rather than seven. The sound engineers will have breathed a sigh of relief with that! Do you think the music industry at the moment is more daunting to start out in? Henry: Well, we talk about this. We all love to listen to albums. But there is a reason every band is bringing out loads of singles. From a small band’s point of view it’s probably better to have small separate releases. But we really want to make a new EP at the minute, so watch out for that. Ben: You have to bring out a lot of singles to build up an audience, so realistically if we brought out an album now we’d be wasting a lot of material. We have loads of stuff, but we’re limited to what we can put out. Other than the EP what’s next in your schedule? Will: We’ve got a gig at the Lescar soon. In fact Jez, the guy who runs it, was brought to tears at our gig at The Leadmill, which is incredible coming from someone who knows his stuff! So where do you want to go with this group? Henry: We’re really enjoying making music at the minute, so we want to carry on doing that and make it really sustainable. Gigging and getting loads of experience and keep bouncing off each other. Ben: It might be a cliché but there are no egos here. No one is vying to be a rock star. We just want to gig in different cities, meet loads of people and collaborate. To round off then, who would be your dream
person to collaborate with? Ben: For me, it would be James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem. Henry: Mine would be Kevin Parker from Tame Impala, I’d love to have a jam with him” Jaz: I think I’d be too scared to collaborate with them, but King Gizzard and Big Lizzard. Henry: Yeah, they’re all crazy as well! Will: If I could pick anyone it would be Shabaka Hutchins. Saxophone is the one thing missing in our group, and he’s incredible, lively and aggressive. Henry: We’d also love to work with rappers and go into some hip-hop vibes. Otis Mensah would be amazing! Life Aquatic Band’s latest EP ‘Dog-Weekend Party’, a concept album worked around a dogthemed party, and their latest single, ‘Keep the Rain Away’, an ode to enjoying the good times, are on Spotify now.
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The usually sprightly Magid Magid is looking tired today. He arrives in exuberant enough fashion, half-jogging into the Lord Mayor’s Parlour with a beaming smile followed by eager handshakes and repeated apologies for a slight delay that left Exposed idle for ten minutes or so while he made his way back from other civic duties. Suffice to say, he’s certainly a man in high-demand and these days it’s probably worth getting in touch a bit in advance if you are to join the long line of hopefuls looking to secure his presence at some form of occasion or event. Waiting is no problem on our part, however, as there are many far less interesting places to be left twiddling thumbs before an interview. The grand old room we’re in, which over the years has provided a workspace to 121 Lord Mayors prior to 28-year-old Magid entering the post in May, offers plenty of intriguing local eye-candy to ogle: from a commemorative sword awarded to the city following the decommission of HMS Sheffield to stunning pieces of centuries-old silverware and crockery locked inside large ornate cabinets. But if you take a closer look, you’ll find a few small hints hidden amongst the pomp and grandeur suggesting that the office’s current incumbent does things a little bit differently – or at least is not afraid to add a dashing of personality to proceedings. A few inches from a framed telegram sent by former Lord Mayor Winifred Golding to congratulate the Queen on her Silver Jubilee lies a pair of purple-rimmed aviators which wouldn’t look out of place at a Leadmill Freshers Party. A further glance to the right and you’ll see the now-famous sombrero hanging in the
corner. Back in June it grabbed worldwide headlines after Magid paired it with a t-shirt reading ‘Donald Trump is a Wasteman’ and proclaimed that the US President’s distasteful policies – namely his Muslim travel ban, withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, moving a US Embassy to Jerusalem, enforcing the imprisonment of children at borders and defending white supremacists – had rendered him no longer welcome in Sheffield. ▶
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▶ It’s one example of the refreshing, no-bullshit approach that has endeared vast swathes of the city’s populace – particularly the young and formerly disillusioned – to the new Lord Mayor, a Somali-born Muslim refugee who arrived in the Steel City seeking a better life with his family at the age of five-years-old. But this isn’t to say that such levels of popularity, especially those of an entirely unprecedented type when it comes to local politics, don’t come without creating some difficulties. I’d strongly wager that the slight bleariness in his eyes is partly due to an extremely hectic Tramlines weekend spent doing speeches (and a bit of singing) on festival stages, attending a wide variety of engagements right through to the early hours of the morning and clocking up a selfie count which he estimates would be well into the hundreds. As if to confirm this hypothesis, there are still some small remnants of gold beard glitter visible as he settles down into an armchair opposite before waving away my rough explanation of what’s on the agenda topic-wise and opening up our interview in characteristically laidback fashion. “Ask me what you want, man. I’m happy to talk about anything.” Right you are. I clocked you a couple of times at Tramlines Festival at the weekend, often being mobbed for pictures. How did you find the experience? Yeah, Tramlines was amazing and I think it was great to see how brilliant Hillsborough Park looked because I know a few were cynical about the move. Some people just don’t like change really – I know all about that – but it definitely worked and everyone came together to celebrate. I was also really pleased to see the 10 Sheffield Commandments posters around the festival site. You brought it up before I could. Those posters divided opinion a bit. Many lapped it up and were taking pictures with them all weekend, but you did get a fair bit of grief online too. What do you say to the people who were upset by the whole ‘Don’t kiss a Tory’ thing? *Exhales loudly* You want to know the actual story behind the posters? Basically, a couple of weeks back I got an Instagram message from someone who worked at the company designing the Tramlines posters. He’d seen the ‘Trump is a Wasteman’ posters around London and was wondering if there were any other messages I’d like to put out there, so I said yes. I kind of forgot about it and he got back in touch weeks later saying I had half an hour to come up with something. So I had to think fast and since it was Tramlines Festival’s ten-year anniversary I thought the Sheffield Ten Commandments thing worked well. In hindsight, there were a few other things I should have got in there – something about looking after our trees would have worked better perhaps – but it was all a bit rushed.
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“Take the whole ‘Don’t kiss a Tory’ thing. I’ll be honest: I’m proud that there isn’t a single elected Tory councillor in Sheffield. But people have been claiming that I’m actually instructing them who to kiss. Like, really?” Were you surprised that it really wound some people up? I was a little bit surprised some people didn’t get the tongue-in-cheek nature of the joke. Take the whole ‘Don’t kiss a Tory’ thing for example. I’ll be honest: I’m proud that there isn’t a single elected Tory councillor in Sheffield. But people have been trying to claim that I’m actually instructing them who to kiss. Like, really? Kiss who you want! It was a bit of fun at a festival and really not that deep.
It’s obviously not the first time you’ve flirted with some controversy. Have you developed a thicker skin over the last couple of months? Sticking with the poster thing, a lot of the people who were giving me grief were people who didn’t like me anyway. I’d go on some profiles that were dishing out abuse and saw that many A: weren’t even Sheffield-based; and B: I’d scroll through and see #FreeTommy tweets on some. I’m never going to please everyone! The amount of positivity outweighs
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that sort of stuff anyway. I would say I have developed a thicker skin and I’ve got to the point where I’m not interested. Don’t get me wrong, it is scary to stick your neck out and say what you think. But what scares me a lot more is the idea of getting to the end of my time and realising I’d not been honest and held back on what I wanted to say. Did I ever think I’d get this far? Did I ever think I’d be doing interviews like this? One-hundred percent not! So I’m going to carry on being myself. Some people do want me to shut up and stick to the status quo, but sorry, that’s not what I’m about. You mentioned jokingly about sheer amount of pictures taken. Does it ever get a bit much? I think people are just excited and want to say hi. Nobody is ever rude or negative; it’s people coming up with positive messages and it’s lovely. I’ll be honest, it is still is a bit weird in the sense that people are queuing to take a picture with me sometimes and I don’t think I ever will get used to that. It was strange enough the first time someone asked me for one. When was that? It was outside the Town Hall not long before I became Lord Mayor. My instant reaction was to just look at him and say “why?” – not in a mean way, but I was just genuinely confused by the whole thing. I think even when it does get a bit much I’ve got to take it as a compliment because it shows I’m approachable, and that’s what this role should be about.
“Don’t get me wrong, it is scary to stick your neck out and say what you think. But what scares me a lot more is the idea of getting to the end of my time and realising I’d not been honest and held back on what I wanted to say.” Do you think you could draw wider parallels with the rise of Corbynism? I say that in the sense that you’ve become a figure offering something different to the status quo and it excites people. There was the comment made by David Cameron in the House of Commons – “Put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem” – it’s like that traditional establishment throwback
up against something completely new, and it divides people. People do just want change; they want something to give them hope. The reason I’ve had some popularity is largely down to failed democracy, regardless of whether we’re talking about local or national government here. We’ve got a group of people in power who represent us and they don’t reflect the people they claim to represent. How can a cabinet of millionaires genuinely understand poverty? How can such a closed social group claim to understand such a diverse country? If we had a broader representation of people in power, people wouldn’t be as interested in me – I wouldn’t bring that novelty factor. What do you think are the greatest political issues facing the UK today? Obviously Brexit is the biggest current issue which needs tackling. I do also think we live in a polarised country, even here in Sheffield 51% voted to leave, and we need to look at ways of bringing people back together regardless of class, colour or background. Celebrating difference is always important, but we also need to look at promoting the things we have in common. That’s very important. You’ve been in the post for just over two months and you’ve really launched yourself into the role. You seem to be everywhere. Is there any exhaustion creeping in yet? Man, I am tired today because I got in at 6am from Tramlines this morning and I probably slept until 7.30am. I’ve been fine so far but I do need to be careful as I don’t want to burn myself out – there has to be a bit of self-care involved and learning not to say yes to absolutely everything. I’m a fairly energetic person though, so I should be able to manage.
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“I’m not the type to sit down and plan out the next five years. I’m happy as long as I take opportunities and keep pushing myself to make a difference, to leave my comfort zone and to try and make a positive contribution to people around me.” Looking back, what are your recollections of growing up in Sheffield and how that might have shaped you? I grew up in a very diverse community in Burngreave, and as a young kid you just play with other kids and don’t think much of anything else. I went to an equally diverse school in Fir Vale and spent most of my time around there or the city centre – I never ventured much further out. I remember for sixth form feeling the need to branch out a bit so I chose to study at Tapton, which was obviously different – they had this mad game 36 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
called lacrosse played with sticks! But it was a good experience because I could meet and mix with more people from different backgrounds, which probably helped to shape me as a person. When did your political conscience first start to develop? When I went to university I was really interested in sports so I founded an MMA Club and wanted to represent them, then eventually I got involved with the sports union. That led to me going for student union president and that was another big step – I didn’t even know what the heck a picket line was! I couldn’t even tell you
the difference between left and right, but I knew there were issues I cared about to campaign on. I think the fact that I didn’t come from a politics background like most other candidates helped me win it. I was able to engage with people. Would you say the ability to engage with people is your biggest asset? I would definitely say it’s one of my main strengths. It’s what I enjoy doing. And it was only when I left university that I started to teach myself about politics: everything from reading books, watching YouTube, forcing myself to watch the Daily Politics – I did it and became a bit more savvy. When you eventually became Lord Mayor, was there a moment where you sat down and planned out what you wanted to achieve? Or was the idea again to go for it and take it as it comes? Mate, I’m not the type to sit down and plan out the next five years. I’m happy as long as I take opportunities and keep pushing myself to make a difference, to leave my comfort zone and to try and make a positive contribution to people around me. I’ll take it that means you have no idea what you’ll be moving into after your one-year term finishes? Absolutely no idea! I honestly couldn’t tell you. There’s no year-long PR strategy or ways of looking into what I might go into afterwards. I’ll just keep taking the opportunities I get and try to make the most of them. What are your thoughts about Sheffield at the moment? There’s a lot of development going on and at it feels like we’re moving forward. There does seem to be a bit of a buzz here at the moment. I’m not sure I understand about trying to constantly compete with places like Leeds and Manchester on a commercial basis. You can talk about business rates all day, but I think we should be celebrating what makes this place unique – the people, the independent businesses, and the fact it’s not dominated by chains. They’re the things that make a place special and make people want to come and visit. Finally, how would you like to be remembered by the Sheffield public when your time as Lord Mayor finishes? Wow. Someone who came stood up for what they believed in and did things a bit differently I suppose. That’ll do.
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park and the upcoming release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Sheffield clothing brand Drop Dead has released a new collection inspired by the iconic film series. The various pieces contain references to characters and events from the storylines, including padded bomber jackets with large reversible warning signs attached, bags with hazard stripe straps, classic park macs and a “Nedry” two-piece. Oliver Sykes, lead singer of Bring Me The Horizon and founder of Drop Dead, told Exposed: “Jurassic Park has been my favourite film of all time since I saw it in 1993. I was always into dinosaurs as a kid but Jurassic Park truly sent me into obsession. To be able to do a collaboration with the franchise has been a lifelong goal and dream. After producing many designs influenced by Jurassic Park for Drop Dead, being able to use the actual material for real has been amazing and I couldn’t be more stoked on what we’ve produced.” The full collection can be viewed at dropdead.co
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Last month was another biggie for the Sheffield food and drink scene with a number of fresh additions popping up in and around the city centre. Just in case you blinked and missed ‘em, here’s a little round-up of what’s new…
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Popular street food restaurant KerbEdge opened its Fox Valley venue – now it’s second in Sheffield – in the north of the city last month. Inspired by traditional New York burger joints, they keep it simple with a key focus on burgers, beers and cocktails – but they’re also good for wings and indulgent breakfast options. Fox Valley Retail Park kerbedge.co.uk
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FirePit BBQ has been a popular haunt for meat lovers since opening in May last year, but they recently decided on a fresh rebrand for the summer month. Following a thorough refurb the West Street venue now aims to channel the classic US-inspired dive bar experiences – loud rock ‘n’ roll, sports on TV, quality beers, casual dining, and late opening hours complete with DJs. 138 West Street firepit.rocks
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Pan-fried cod with sag aloo, courgette fritters, cherry tomato and cumin sauce A mix of spices is used with delicate fresh cod in this lovely dish from Andy Gabbitas. Garnished with some micro herbs, it makes a beautiful plateful to create at home. Preparation time: 30 minutes | Cooking time: 20 minutes | Serves 4 Ingredients ]For the tomato and cumin sauce: ½ onion, finely diced 2 tsp cumin seeds 1 tbsp olive oil 50ml white wine 200g cherry tomatoes, halved Salt For the sag aloo: 200ml coconut milk 1 tsp ground turmeric 200g new potatoes, cooked and lightly crushed 150g baby spinach leaves For the cod: 4 x 150g cod fillets For the courgette fritters: 2 tsp coriander seed 2 tsp cumin seed ½ tsp chilli flakes 1 tsp chopped coriander 4 tbsp gram flour Salt, to season 1 courgette, sliced To serve: Micro coriander (optional)
Method For the tomato and cumin sauce Sauté the onion and cumin seeds in the olive oil until cooked. Add the white wine, reduce by one-third and add the cherry tomatoes. Continue cooking until the tomatoes are soft but still keeping their shape, season with salt and set aside. For the sag aloo Warm the coconut milk and turmeric in a pan and add the crushed potatoes. Stir until the potatoes are hot, add the spinach and take off the heat. Stir in the spinach. For the cod Preheat the oven to 180°c. Pan-fry the cod fillets, season and cook in the oven for about 5 minutes. For the courgette fritters Mix all the ingredients except the courgette with enough water to make a batter. Add the courgettes and deep-fry until golden. Drain. To serve Plate the sag aloo with the cod fillet on top, spoon over the tomato sauce, arrange the fritters on the plate and finish with some micro coriander (optional).
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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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fancy a cold ‘un? I normally start off our monthly beer column with a reference to the weather, a nice link to what we might all be drinking. The temperatures often influences what many of us drink, and it’s an appropriate way of kicking things off – but, as I write this in late-July, it’s just TOO HOT, so BLOODY SCORCHING, and I’m sick and tired of everyone talking about the weather! So, instead, let’s talk beer! If you’re a lover of beer and like to travel, then you’ve probably made it all the way up to Leeds in the last few years! If you have, then you’ve probably paid a visit to one of the UK’s best drinking holes – North Bar. Situated just off The Headrow, it’s a legendary place that’s been going since July 1997 and is the place to visit in Leeds for a consistent top selection of damn fine beers, and a bar that has been ahead of the game for over twenty years. Back at the very beginning the initial offerings were Kronenbourg, Beamish Red, Guinness and Fosters, but an early addition of some Belgian classics and Anchor Liberty Ale from the USA really got things moving and North Bar became the first venue to offer Erdinger, Sierra Nevada & Brooklyn Lager on draught in the UK. Back in 2015 they decided their obvious expertise at sourcing & selling beer and food should be employed in brewing beer too – so North Brewing Co was born! It’s been a superb three years for them and North a brewery to watch for 2018/2019. Here are three drinks to get you excited…
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With now in excess of 40 venues dotted around the UK, it was surely only a matter of time before Caribbean-themed restaurant Turtle Bay set up shop in the ever-expanding Sheffield city centre, taking residence in a newly-built unit as part of the redevelopment of the old NUM headquarters next to Barker’s Pool. Inside is exactly what you would want and expect from any Caribbean restaurant worth its saltfish – an array of bright colours, lively vibes and chilled reggae sounds playing through the speakers. Stepping inside at around 6pm on a Thursday evening, there was a good mix of post-work drinkers propping up the beach hut-style bar towards the left-hand side of the room and evening diners seated on the right by an open kitchen from which some tempting spicy scents were emanating.
The popular Neapolitan pizza restaurant Proove has announced it will open a second Sheffield restaurant at Centertainment Leisure Park in late-August. The vacant Centertainment unit has undergone a £150K investment to create a 170-seater restaurant complete with two handcrafted, authentic pizza ovens made bespoke by Stefano Ferrara and shipped directly from Naples. The director at Proove Deepak Jaiswal told Exposed: “We can’t
wait to open our new restaurant at Centertainment – this is a big new chapter for us as we spread our wings into such an exciting, fast paced destination. We’re proud to be an independent brand in this amazing destination.” proove.co.uk
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After being welcomed warmly and shown to our seats it was time to kick things off with a cocktail from the fairly extensive drinks list. With rum negronis eventually in hand, my dining partner Tom and I turned our attentions to the menu, eventually deciding to order four starter dishes (or ‘cutters’) to share amongst ourselves. Feeling pretty ravenous, we opted for a rich, meaty selection of food to begin with, all of which arrived in good time just as we getting onto our second cocktail of the evening. The traditional Caribbean beef patties, which thankfully were big enough to halve, could’ve done with a tad more spice but there was enough ground beef packed inside to save it. The garlic and chilli pit-grilled prawns were also gratifyingly hefty and handily came with a roti flatbread perfect for mopping up. The final two dishes were the duck rolls, which had some tasty sour orange chutney to counteract the spicy chilli, and the moreish crispy whitebait under a light crusting of panko covered in Turtle Bay’s trademark jerk mayo. Appetites sharpened, it was time for the mains. My eyes were drawn straight to the jerk pit BBQ section and settled upon the jerk lamb rump steak, medium-rare, served with coconut rice ‘n’ peas, pork rind, pineapple chow and green seasoning. Tom went for the two-way chicken burger with spiced fries and Caribbean slaw to accompany. The steak was full of flavour and cooked to perfection, again absolutely no skimping on portion size, with the bit of heat coming from the green seasoning and classic jerk glaze offset nicely against the fresh fruitiness of the chow. Tom’s burger was filled generously with spicy panko crumb chicken fillet and pulled jerk chicken, topped with crisp gem lettuce, pineapple chow and herb mayo. Zero complaints from his end. We were stuffed, but you can always find some room for dessert if you try hard enough, so we ordered a dark chocolate brownie and banana and toffee cheesecake wondering if it was against our best judgement. But despite our food stamina levels flagging, both desserts provided an indulgent, rich end to proceedings and necessitated a coffee before we could drag ourselves out of our seats.
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Sheffield might have arrived a few years late on the Turtle Bay hype, but there’s now another solid option on the table for some fun, casual dining with prices that won’t break the bank.
Pitcher and Piano gets opening date The long-awaited opening of Pitcher and Piano in Sheffield has been confirmed for September 2018. The Marston’s-owned chain, which specialises in opening bars in historic buildings, was confirmed to be opening in the NUM building in Sheffield city centre more than a year ago, but has since gone quiet. A planning application has now been lodged with Sheffield city council for the arrangement of
outdoor seating at the restaurant, using examples of its Southampton venue (pictured) to support the application. A statement released by the company read: “The redevelopment of this prominent building would add to its distinctiveness and character as a destination.” The bar also plans to open from 7am to midnight, seven days a week. pitcherandpiano.com
Sheffield’s Gay Quarter opens first bar The highly-anticipated Gay Quarter in Sheffield has opened its first new venue, Queer Junction. Plans were announced earlier this year for a Gay Quarter to be brought to the city, with attempts to rival Manchester, Leeds and London’s LGBT+ scenes. After work was completed on the bar, Queer Junction opened its doors to the public alongside the
already-established Dempsey’s Bar. Taking to Facebook following the bar’s soft opening at the weekend, Queer Junction said: “Thank you very much for everyone who came to our soft opening weekend, we had a blast, both DJ Brooke and DJ Blaq Ivory commented afterwards what a great crowd you are.”
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Lillet & Tonic Barely even a cocktail but the beauty is in its simplicity: Lillet Rose Vermouth topped with Franklin & Sons Sicilian Tonic. It’s simple, refreshing and the perfect summer aperitivo which, as an added bonus, is available for just five pounds between 4-7pm, Monday to Friday at Public. 23-55 Surrey St, S1 2LG
Make No Bones One from Picture House’s current collaborative menu where they designed drinks for 16 local businesses, this one for their pals at Make No Bones. For everyone’s favourite purveyors of vegan delights, they used Japanese whisky with a homemade seaweed tonic and topped it with soda – a balance between sweet and umami and a showcase for how whisky, contrary to popular perception, can indeed be a summer spirit. 383 Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FS
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Boe Violet Gin There are not many finer things in life than an afternoon spent summertime gin drinking with yer pals – and the cosy Gin Bar at Vintedge has over 50 types of the spirit for you to browse through. Perfect for the warmer days, the stylish Boe Violet gin provides light, floral notes of violet and lavender and a beautiful colour and aroma. Pick a tonic, throw in some summer fruits to garnish and you’re ready to go. 444 Abbeydale Rd, S7 1FR
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Siren Craft Brewing - Affogato, 6.0% coffee and ice cream ale. This style-defying beer is their take on the classic Italian Affogato. Quarter Horse coffee deliberately over-roasted the Brazilian beans here to push intense coffee, chocolate and roasted notes through the beer. It has the taste of ice cream and is very drinkable.
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Touch the Sun & Tonic A collaboration between Steam Yard and the cocktail connoisseurs at Public, this boozy caffeine kick features Sandows cold brew (single origin Brazilian coffee), tonic water, agave nectar, lime and fresh mint. Serve it over ice in a chilled glass and take a seat in the sun-bathed courtyard out front. Bish, bash, bosh. Aberdeen Court, 95-101 Division St, S1 4GE
Magic Rock Brewing - High Wire Grapefruit, 5.5% grapefruit pale ale. Magic Rock’s tribute to the pale ales of the West Coast, these beers are unapologetically hop-forward in character. Let your taste buds walk this test of balance. Cloudwater - DDH Pale Centennial Mosaic, 5.5% American pale ale Hugely hop-forward APA made with two of the most flavourful hops to come from the States. Expect plenty of citrus fruity flavour followed by bitterness from the centennial. 146-148 Gibraltar St, S3 8UA www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 51
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Peddler #33 92 Burton Road //3-4 August // Free You know the drill by now. Craft beers, live music and some of the UK’s best street food including some of Sheffield’s favourite vendors. peddlermarket.co.uk Funk Fest Abbeydale Brewery // 25 August // From £7 Abbeydale Brewery’s first Funk Fest – there’ll be street food, music and 30 keg lines featuring some exclusive as well as some of the more experimental beers from breweries around the UK. abbeydalebrewery.co.uk Common People - The Best of Brit Pop The Leadmill // 26 August // £6 A staple of Bank Holiday weekend in Sheffield, The Leadmill’s Common People night sees Britpop fans young and old get together for a night of indie classics. leadmill.co.uk Cirque du Soleil presents OVO Fly DSA Arena // 22-26 August // From £45.80 Cirque du Soleil brings its brand-new UK arena tour with OVO to Sheffield. This completely captivating live show features spectacular, wall to wall gymnastics telling a compelling narrative. flydsaarena.co.uk Sheffield by the seaside Peace Gardens // 1-28 August // Free Perfect for the young’uns, grab a bucket and spade before heading to the Peace Gardens, which will have been transformed into a sandy beach complete joy rides, mini golf, character appearances, fountains and an inflatable slide. flydsaarena.co.uk
Brick by Brick: Lego Festival comes to Sheffield Lego lovers unite as Sheffield centre is set to be transformed into a “Bricktopolis”, which will see a trail showcasing marvellous brick-based creations dotted around the city. Taking place 4-17 August, Sheffield BID has announced it will feature 21 world landmarks as well as some famous Steel City sites. From skyscrapers to Sheffield City Hall, you will be able to explore using a trail map and app to locate each feature. The man behind the Brick Architecture display is Duncan Titmarsh of Bright Bricks, the only certified LEGO builder in the UK. Micheal LeCount, building expert and Sheffielder, has been in charge of designing the regional Sheffield creations. LEGO Skyscrapers Sheffield BricktopolisThe Willis Tower in Chicago and the Gran Torre
Santiago in Chile and the CN Tower in Ontario As well as the trail, there will also be an interactive building zone for children over the age of 4 to enjoy workshops. These workshops will see youngsters given the chance to design cities, transport, gardens and space bases. Sheffield Bricktopolis is all about using the imagination, whether that be observing other’s creations or making their own. There will also be competitions, such as who can build the tallest building or the fastest car. T There’s plenty for grown-ups enjoy too, with Bricktopolis sparking a number of fringe events such as Bricks and Beer (bricksandbeers.com) allowing adult LEGO lovers to socialise over a drink. Head to bricksandbeers.com for more information.
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Bank Hol Swing & Jazz @ Leopold Square There are few better places in Sheffield for a few bevs in the sun than Leopold Square, particularly over Bank Holiday weekend. With the warm weather seemingly here for eternity, Leopold Square has put together a stellar line-up of awardwinning acts and local musicians. First up, soul legend and former member of Grammy Award-winning Minnesota ensemble Sound of Blackness, Aaron Casserly Stewart kicks off the weekend on Friday evening performing soul hits from then and now. Saturday afternoon sees Sheffield talent Charlotte Branson will be performing funk, soul and blues tracks with her backing band of deep grooving session players. Capping off the weekend is Sheffield musician Nicola Farnon with her double bass and iridescent jazz vocals. She’ll be rounding off the Bank Holiday weekend in style with big swing tunes, backed up by the immensely talented Piero Tucci on piano/sax and Phil Johnson on the drums. 24-26 August // leopoldsquare.com/events www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 53
It’s been a busy ol’ few months in terms of big dos and we all know how forking out for tickets can place a fair dent into the bank balance before you’ve even got there. With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of free entry events taking place this month – just take yourself and, if needed, a bit of pocket money to tide you over. RiteTrax Festival
Bole Hills Saturday 4 August RiteTrax is a one-day community festival and market, which aims to showcase local artists, musicians and and independent businesses. Taking place in the surrounds of the Bole Hill Recreation Ground, Crookes, there will be a combination of live music, art installations, poetry, street food and interactive activities/ workshops for children and adults alike to take part in. ritetrax.co.uk
South Yorkshire Festival
Wortley Hall Saturday 12 August An annual summer event providing free fun for all the family, there’s a programme of
entertainment on offer including live music, amusements, donkey rides, face-paints, outdoor activities, bouncy castle and more – all entirely free of charge. The grand 18th century mansion will open its doors with a range of stalls to browse and outside there will be BBQ, fish & chips and an outdoor marquee bar for refreshments. tinyurl.com/y98x952z
Canalside Night Market
Southbank Warehouse Saturday 25 August Situated on the bank of the River Don, this industrial street market offers a relaxed party atmosphere with a carefully selected food and drink traders. Expect award-winning snap to cater for every taste alongside drinks, live music, DJs and artists taking you through the night. facebook.com/canalsidenightmarkets
Circus! Show of Shows!
Weston Park Museum Wednesday 25 July – Sunday 4 November Celebrating 250 years of circus in Great Britain, this new national exhibition created in collaboration with one of the UK’s foremost circus experts, Professor Vanessa Toulmin
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from the University of Sheffield’s, will shines a spotlight on the remarkable stories and culture behind the much-loved spectacle. museums-sheffield.org.uk
Café Sessions
Yellow Arch Wednesday 29 August Following the success of the Neepsend venue’s previous Cafe Sessions, Yellow Arch is back for café (mambo) number five. On the bill this time round is dream-pop purveyors Heavy Lids, stripping back their ethereal sounds for a acoustic sesh. Singer-songwriter Zander Sharp will be making the pilgrimage up north from That There London to perform. Rev and the Makers’ ex-percussionist will also be throwing down some back-to-front guitar vibes. yellowarch.com
Summer Craft Fayre
Tapton Hall Sunday 5 August One of Sheffield’s most-loved wedding and events venues is hosting its first summer craft fayre on 5 August. The fayre will feature a host of craft stalls from local makers and beyond, with some perfect gifts for friends and fam. taptonhall.com
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Words: Joe Tryner The moment you say “hello” to The Coral’s James Skelly over the phone, you can tell he’s a talker. The Wirral-born frontman is incredibly warm, friendly and with a self-deprecating sense of irony, he’s comedic. He also brings that gusto of impassioned opinion and incisive, yet sardonic, social commentary that seems so characteristic of the longstanding indie champions. In my chat with James, he deployed such character evaluations of his own career, on how music has changed since The Coral’s initial rise, and even on the state of politics today - he’s a brave man and doesn’t dilute his opinions. His nuanced approach to all topics is evident throughout, but when talking about his own career, it’s easy to get the impression that initial fame left a bitter taste in his mouth. It was not something he could handle in the shaky, misguided psychology of his youth - as Skelly told Exposed on a balmy Wednesday morning last month. It’s been 16 years since The Coral were first launched into the limelight with the band’s debut album. How do you assess your own career? I don’t look back too often, especially not at the bad stuff. I don’t really spend time looking back at it and it’s not something, as a career, I can separate out – it is just my life. Would you do anything differently? Some things absolutely but then again, I might not be where I am now if I did. It can always be better, I’m one of those who strives, but I also don’t think that it’s the end of the world. If I’m with my mates, and my family’s healthy, then I’m alright. What about the highlights? I look back at loads of good stuff, but I knew I was lying to myself. Right at the beginning, and with Distance in Between, those are my two favourite periods as a band. But when we got bigger, the record companies didn’t know how to handle us, and we didn’t know what to do. I don’t think it was until I was about 30 that I was content, before that I was depressed and never happy. Was it difficult to adjust with the quick rise to fame you all experienced? Yeah, I was too young and insecure. Those labels of me being a spokesman for a generation – I wouldn’t want to be a spokesman for anyone! I was always really grateful, but on a personal level I always criticise myself – it’s the default setting
of my brain. None of us have been to university, so maybe we’re not so erudite, and you’re thrust into that limelight, you say stupid things. But I think people trust bands that fuck it up. I’ve never trusted bands that make perfect moves. I’m sure that means you’ll always critically assess your own production, and that’s a good thing? Absolutely, but at some point I think I had to admit that I’ll never be the best. It means I’m enjoying it a lot more, and I don’t take it as seriously anymore. I used to think I could redefine ‘the game’, but I was very wrong! I think now we accept it, and we play it in our own way. You can either go to the party and get involved, or go there and sulk – you’ll just make a prick of yourself that way. What about live music and the industry at the moment? We’ve learnt to think seriously about how our songs will translate from the studio. It’s about live music now; albums are almost like promotional tools for live performances. I don’t think albums are necessarily cherished like they used to be. Stuff like Spotify is flawed, but there are definite benefits. I like the way it cuts straight to the people, but I’ve definitely started approaching music differently since I’ve accepted streaming. In what way have you changed your approach? The way people are listening to music at the minute is mainly mono, it’s almost like the 50s, it’s all about singles and it’s condensed and compressed. I can understand that, but I try to take the positives. For example, now, when we’re playing live, people know more of the tunes. You can get setlists on playlists. We did a gig in Hull for areas
where people can’t afford to get to many gigs, and they knew every tune in the set probably the best crowd we’ve had in years. Nobody’s gonna give a fuck if I take The Coral off Spotify though, I’ll leave that to Taylor Swift. Is there any particular concept built into your next album? I wanted to do something uplifting in a way. The last couple of albums were quite heavy, minor chords with a level of resistance. But I almost wanted a classic pop record on the surface, built on melodies, but with a deeper level there if you want it. I suppose it’s about trying to find something real and tangible in this world. The birds are in the sky, the sun is up there, they’re good and bad things, same as ever. Sometimes you can miss these things messing around on your phone. Will it contain any sort of political commentary? I envy those who can pin down some social commentary in neat lyrics but I don’t have a horse in any race. I don’t have any faith in the system, but I believe, fundamentally, that people are good. We’ve got to sort it out between ourselves and accept differences. When’s the government sorted anything out really? Maybe the people need to show them how it’s done. Being personally responsible is a great ethos to have, and could go some way to explaining your longevity as an artist? Every time in my life I’ve felt like I’ve been done over, I’ve thought what can I do about it? I’ve sat there with nothing in the bank, everything was fucked, the band was gone, at that point, you look at yourself and go ‘Well, I got myself here, noone else’, it was a big wake-up call for me. What about the secret to sustaining a career as long as yours, and the success you’ve had? I’m not gonna be the one who’s telling anyone how to do anything - I’ve made plenty of fuck-ups, y’know? We’ve survived as a group, though, through friendship and even blind-faith half of the time! We’ve also never been able to do anything else, if we could, would we even survive? They do say that necessity is the mother of invention, don’t they?
“When’s the government sorted anything out really? Maybe the people need to show them how it’s done.”
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Prepare yourselves, classical music fans, for some good oldfashioned acid-house tunes may soon become favourites in your music library. Ahead of the arrival of Haçienda Classical at Sheffield’s Don Valley Bowl on August 17th, I spoke to executive producer Peter Hook of Joy Divison and New Order fame about the intrigue, and the challenges, of bringing the Manchester club scene back to life on stage through the city’s Camerata Orchestra. For those too young to have been initiated, the Haçienda nightclub opened back in 1982. It was built upon “grand delusions” and funded throughout its lifetime by both New Order and Joy Division until its closure in 1997. Despite its relatively short existence, Hook takes pride in the definitive legacy it left behind. “It begat genres,” he says. “What we’re celebrating here is the birth of acid house, with the Haçienda becoming the church where everybody went to worship. The songs were well known, and they were there when people met their partner, when they got engaged, when they had kids, when they split up, when they had their mid-life crisis; these songs were a constant. Many of them were also one-hit wonders, so most people have never heard them performed. The magic seems to come from the performance, the
songs are performed with the same passion that we had at the Haçienda, and the response so far has been that it’s worked.” Regardless of Hook’s passion for the songs, when it was suggested to resurrect them by way of an orchestra, his initial expectations hung as low as one of his bass guitars. “I admit that I was sceptical. It seemed absolutely ridiculous, putting acid house together with a live orchestra. It was Graeme Park who finally persuaded me. He was one of the people who taught me how to DJ, and I have great respect for him. He told me “It’s gonna be great”, but I couldn’t fathom it at first. But when you go into the makeup of the music, most of the records were made with artificial orchestras, and so it actually started to make sense. It’s spawned a lot of imitators, and there’s now this glut on the market of this interpretation of music, which is quite a compliment actually.” The next task was to choose an orchestra up to the task, and it was the innovative Manchester Camerata who received the nod. “The Camerata is a charitable organisation, and we knew the people who ran it. It had been suggested to me before, from a musical point of view, to do a collaboration with them, and obviously I love that it’s a Manchester-based orchestra. They were very helpful in getting
“Precision combined with a wonderful bit of anarchy”
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the project going, and obviously you want the grandiosity of it to meet the responsibility of making sure that it’s good. It’s interesting when these two worlds collide. You’ve got the disciplined alongside an unruly bunch of lunatics, which is what brings the edge. The Haçienda was all about expression, and about madness, so it’s nice to keep the wackiness in the show.” Obviously, the music of New Order and acid house is a world
away from what would most naturally fit alongside with classical arrangements, and I wondered how Hook’s fame had affected the response to the project. His answer is rather poetic: “It’s a bit like social media; if fifty percent are telling you to fuck off and that you’re a bastard, and fifty percent love what you do, you’re okay. I was the manager of the Haçienda, and now the only one left who managed it, so I’m the only one who’s carrying that legacy on, and I hope that I’m keeping the original premise of it, which was to be a bit mad, and to do things for people as opposed to being fixated on money. We’ve done this despite all of the doubters. We’ve shown that we can do it with the right amount of passion, enthusiasm, heart and soul, and I’m very proud of it”.
The Leadmill brings Hacienda Classical with Manchester Camerata to Don Valley Bowl on Friday 17 August. Tickets and more info available from leadmill.co.uk.
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Inviting you to open your mind and expect the unexpected, ‘Kill Your Darlings’ is the debut EP from self-described “peyote punk” band Children of the State. Your debut EP seems to be opening a new door in Sheff music rather than just mindfully trying to fill a gap on the scene or following a crowd. What are the inspirations behind your sound? In all our previous projects I think we’ve made music that we though other people would like, sort of an emulation instead of an ejaculation of streams of consciousness. In this project we’re making music that we want to listen to instead of just making tunes with hooky choruses. What was it like working alongside Nathan Saoudi (Fat White Family), Dean Honer (The Moonlandingz) and Jack Howorth (Mysteron) to create ‘Kill Your Darlings’? Jack and Nathan were fantastic producers over at ChampZone Studios. They really pushed us out of our comfort zone and that allowed us to experiment with drum machines, xylophones and vocoders. Dean at The Bowling Green is a mastering wizard. Anybody in Sheffield who doesn’t send their tracks to him is daft! This EP is the perfect soundtrack to a Tarantino-esque American road trip. If you were to go on a road trip together which songs would make the cut? It’s got to be ‘Kill Your Darlings’, in the desert sun with a Colt 45 in your back pocket, a Stetson and a bottle of moonshine. Fuck ’em. The ‘Kill Your Darlings’ EP is out now. 60 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
Bugzy Malone Tank // 11 August // £15 Manchester grime king and MOBO-nominated artist Bugzy Malone takes the headline slot after a selection of high-calibre DJs such as Jamie Duggan and Corrupt get the crowd warmed up. tanksheffield.co.uk DC Presents: Crumbs / All Girls Arson Club / Precious Metals Delicious Clam Records // 10 August // £6 Suggested Donation Another evening showcasing the finest in DIY music down at DC. Expect post-punk party bangers from north Yorkshire four-piece Crumbs, tunes about curry and washing machines from girl pop/weed rock trio All Girls Arson Club and surf pop from new band Precious Metals. facebook.com/deliciousclamrecords OMNI / Cowtown / Ganglions Picture House Social // 21 August // £9 One of the finest post-punk bands in recent memory and long overdue a Sheffield debut, OMNI head to town for the very first time, backed by an all-star lineup of TAAE favourites. theaudaciousartexperiment.com Wilko Johnson Leadmill // 23 August // £27.50 The original Dr Feelgood guitarist is known for his incredible distinctive chopping guitar style. The Wilko Johnson Band was formed with ex-Blockhead Norman Watt-Roy on bass and Dylan Howe on drums, adding up to one of the most exciting R&B bands in the world today. leadmill.co.uk
Shakespeares forthcoming events
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Mon 17th Byronic Sex & Exile, Gothism Tour – Supported by AMereKat. With tongue firmly planted in cheek Byronic Sex & Exile crawl out of the aristocratic netherworld of trad goth to drag you back to their dilapidated opium den on a (dark) wave of steady mechanical beats, old school guitars, synths and melancholic vocals. Doors at 8pm. £5 OTD.
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An Evening With Billy Pearce Friday 21st September Doors: 7:00pm | Tickets From £15
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Words: Lewis Budden // Pics: Molly Yates
The Guildford four-piece and adopted sons of Sheffield, BlackWaters, release their EP in the punkest way possible… Just off Eccy Road, concealed by an old curtain we found the DIY wonderland of BlackWaters. This student house courtyard is lavishly decorated with fairy lights, a stolen ice cream sign and even a precariously balanced bicycle, draped over the wall to add the final decorative touches to this pop-up punk venue and Friday night’s best-kept secret. Opening up with the electro nonsense of Joey Mojito’s Them Sardines, the sleazy techno-pop/rock trio provide disturbing renditions of 80s pop hits in a brooding, lo-fi fashion in order to set the mood. Hometown heroes RedFaces follow to deliver a punchy set of indie-pop brilliance, proving why they are taking the UK scene by storm following a tour with DMA’s. Next up are tonight’s hosts, BlackWaters, who waste no time in getting the crowd moving with vocalist Max diving straight into the chaos. As lager rains from a lobbed tinny, smoke fills the air and the crowd mosh into the musicians; it’s easy to forget you’re in a garden in South Yorkshire and not at Britain’s best new underground festival. They keep the energy high with well-crafted indie punk anthems. From ‘Fuck Yeah’ to ‘Down’ and ‘Help Me’, a track from their new EP, the energy never dips as every single band member is crowdsurfed across the yard. The sound is impeccable considering the environment: the sound tech is perched in the living room, bed sheets hide the PA and socks cover the microphones. It takes a lot of effort to make an event this good look this casual. With a UK tour and more new music on the horizon, BlackWaters are well on their way to becoming one of the UK’s brightest young bands. If tonight’s garden bash is anything to go by, this band is building a cult following from the grassroots – literally.
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david bowie – reality Words: Joe Tryner
In 2003 I had little conception of who David Bowie was, or the significance that his career and legacy would have on music and British culture – this would only fully dawn on me a little over a decade after the release of Reality. It certainly wasn’t his best piece of work (nor anywhere near his worst) but it was the album that I first recall learning the lyrics to from start to finish with distinctive, animeinspired artwork further embedding it into my recollections. There were obviously other albums I knew of, but thankfully they have since faded into the obscurity of no-name indie groups and terrible schoolground chart-toppers – many of these probably too embarrassing to remember and so remain pushed back into the recesses of memory, where they will hopefully remain arrested. Reality was the soundtrack to driving with my dad in the early 2000s, gliding along in his old silver Audi and, ironically, likely asking him to put something else on after its umpteenth run-through. But I’m glad he persisted. You can quickly run out of adjectives and superlatives when attempting to summarise Bowie’s career, nor can you really say anything that hasn’t been said before: a master, a chameleon, ground-breaking, everchanging, ever-influential. His influence should certainly never be underestimated, or his peculiarity questioned, despite delivering his fair share of clangers within an expansive soundscape, even by his own admission. His death in 2014, however, really did rock the nation and the subsequent outpouring of affection was remarkable, to the point that murals of his likeness are now protected shrines and statues designed to imitate this monolith of culture continue to be pulled up – perhaps, dare I say, he was this generation’s Elvis. I clearly remember the dreariness of ‘Looking for Water’ on Reality, touting such moribund lines as “I lost God in a New York minute”, which only made their references known when I began to appreciate the potential of lyrics to mix solid events with artistic ambiguity. Bowie’s career was similarly as contradictory, indefinable, and euphemistic as his words and fundamental to his records was the space to interpret their inevitable vagaries, even though Reality is arguably the most forward-speaking album in his discography. It’s a comment on the uncertainty of truths in a post-modern world, while at the same time, and even more pressing in my interpretation, it is also the words of a post-middle-age bloke who continued to wrestle with that familiar and ever-looming spectre of finality, the phantom who classically wields a scythe that pricks our conscience with increasing tenacity as we get older. Even ‘Never Get Old’s’ defiance is flecked with awareness that there will never be enough time (a song that would sadly foreshadow the on-stage heart attack that would compel Bowie to take up a life of relative anonymity up until his death).
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The debut of 90s track ‘Bring Me The Disco King’ only underlined the ultimate certainty of ends to all things, and compliments Jacques Brel’s oft-covered ‘My Death’ by Bowie, or the poetic brilliance of ‘Time’ from earlier years. Despite such long-running feuds with the insouciant persona of time and the room beyond the door, Bowie was also relishing life and wrestling with those muses with more vivacity than ever before in 2003. This, for me, was Bowie at his coolest, and by the testimony of his long-running band members, saw him at his most content, most controlled, but no less contemplative or searching. His live shows from 2003 were as lively and celebratory as they were sombre, and reflective: this was an artist whose range refused to contract, and whose hair refused to conform to middle-aged mediocrity. Similarly, Reality delivered an uplifting sound, this time more rock ‘n’ roll than usually expressed, but still remained tinged with tragedy. ‘She’ll Drive the Big Car’ seems like a self-referential nod to ‘Life on Mars’, and even to the big red car’s final flash of colour before the eviscerating blast of the apocalypse in ‘Schute’s On the Beach’. This is countered by the thunderous sounds of tragic youth in the album’s title track, and the funky, comical tones of ‘Pablo Picasso’ – an exquisite cover of The Modern Lovers’ original tune. Perhaps what unifies this record the most is the excellence of the band Bowie had assembled. This was a long-running unit comprised of Mike Garson, whose avantgarde jazz had defined Bowie’s career for decades, the cool-bass of the multi-talented Gail Anne-Dorsey, the edgy, masterful wielding of guitarists Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard and the ceaseless brilliance of Sterling Campbell on drums. I unfortunately never had the opportunity to witness these modern masters as a collective live, though I have caught Mike Garson’s excellent ensemble that is currently touring the Bowie discography around the world in ode to the central figure that brought them all together. So, while this album may not be a fan favourite for most, nor was it a record that I personally grasped hold of with genuine enthusiasm on first-listen, it has since cemented its own importance for several reasons. It was, first and foremost, my doorway into the Bowie phenomenon and while not reaching the creative heights of some of his most influential sounds and visions, it is a great rock ‘n’ roll record with a pertinent theme. It is also a record that I’ll long associate with my old man, and will most likely be a soundtrack to which I will repeatedly refer when he moves over and, as the oft-quoted, fleeting nature of time inevitably wraps itself tighter around my own life with ensuing years, I believe Bowie’s work will only make its relevance more apparent; just don’t let me know when you’re opening that door.
This, for me, was Bowie at his coolest, and by the testimony of his long-running band members, saw him at his most content, most controlled, but no less contemplative or searching.
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Join the Corporation The much-loved alternative Milton Street venue is serving up a number of unique acts over the next month or two. Here are a few top shouts.
Soulfly 7 August // £16 More than two decades into their career, Phoenix, Arizona’s Soulfly (above) are now big boys on the metal scene. Having stretched across genres of nu-metal, groove metal, thrash metal and further into the recesses of death metal, Soulfly are a highlight for discerning head-thrashers at Corporation this summer.
Kurt Travis 16 August // £10 Kurt Travis (left) delivers a far slighter sound than the acts mentioned above. Best known for his work in the post-hardcore genre, Travis’ solo career is instead pensive, melancholic and melodic. Although his recent release, 2017’s No Apologies in collaboration with the Strawberry Girls, exploits indie electronic pop/R&B stylings.
Mest 20 August // £15 Mest are still going strong two decades into their career. After a brief split in 2006 they announced their comeback with 2013’s Not What You Expected. The pop-punk outfit is carrying their energetic style into 2018 in
homage to the era of this genre’s American youth, which similarly christened Blink-182, Green Day and other giants of international pop-punk mainstream success.
Saving Abel 26 August // £15 Saving Abel have had a prolific career producing heavy, Mississippi-infused American rock sounds. They feed the sound of the whiskey-rich south with easy listening, up-beat alternative-rock. For those who like Nickelback, images of Miss America draped in the stars and stripes, big old Levis and questionable soul patches.
Puppy 8 September // £8 Whilst Puppy pay homage to crunching guitars and drums, the vocal styling of this Londonbased trio throw out tips-of-the-hat to the likes of Weezer and The Pixies.
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Thu 2 Aug: LASS Turns 1 City of Sanctuary lassheffield.org.uk Sat 4 –Wed 29 Aug: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Showroom Cinema showroomworkstation.org.uk Sat 11-25 Aug: Trans Active Swimming Heeley Pool facebook.com/TransActive Image from ‘Obscuro Barroco’
Sat 11 Aug: Lion’s Lair Reunion Huttons Bar, West St facebook.com/lionslairsheffield
So summer is well and truly upon us and what a scorcher! And we have an equally hot lineup of queer events lined up this month. First up, the LASS (Lesbian Asylum Support Sheffield) is celebrating its first birthday on 2 August at the City of Sanctuary with an evening of amazing food (cooked by its members) plus music, speeches and showings of solidarity with LGBTQ+ asylum seekers and refugees. For those looking to cool down, Trans Active hosts fortnightly swimming sessions at Heeley Pool. Open to any trans/non-binary/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. There’s another opportunity to meet some new people for LGBTQ+ Christians at the now-regular Open Sheffield Open Communion at St Mark’s Church, Broomhill. Taking place this month on 12 August, the service will be a safe and sacred space where everyone is completely welcome after which there will be time for tea, coffee and quite possibly cake. For those of you who want to catch up with some old faces, for one night only on 11 August the legendary Lion’s Lair returns for a reunion at Huttons Bar on West Street, with a DJ line-up including John Dixon, Rich Williams, Adam Dickinson, Michael Boot and Kyle Robertson showcasing the classic house music of Lion’s best years. For those who feel like dancing, multi-platinum-selling glam rock band Scissor Sisters’ front man Jake Shears heads to The Leadmill on 19 August. If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, then there are a few more screenings of award-winning musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ throughout
Sun 12 Aug: Open Sheffield Open Communion Church of St Mark, Broomhill facebook.com/groups/OpenSheffield
August at the Showroom. Inspired by a true story, Jamie is 16 and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in and is terrified about the future. Supported by his loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness and into the spotlight. On 25 August, head to Showroom Workstation for Sheffield’s Alternative Pride event. Putting the politics and protest back into Pride with talks from UK Black Pride, London Latinxs, Lily Madigan, and workshops with Action for Trans Health. This event aims to educate on how to be a better ally to support everyone in our community, to publicise the radical history of Pride and focus on how marginalised people have made our community what it is today. There’s still a chance to meet the team and get involved with this year’s Diversity Fest at their penultimate planning meeting at Hagglers Corner on 19 August. Or if you just want to find out what’s in store for this year’s festival, tune in to the Diversity Fest radio show fortnightly on Tuesdays at 10-11am on Sheffield Live. The Funky Beaver Show is back on 31 August at The Montgomery with another major production called West End Beavers. Based on West End Musicals, this show will get you up singing and dancing to the best loved hits! This year’s show is promised to be bigger and better with new queens, new dancers, new costumes, new songs and a new venue. And last but by no means least, head down to the newest addition to Sheffield’s scene, the first bar to open in the new Gay Quarter development, Queer Junction. That’s your lot for this month, until next time, love and sunscreen!
Sun 19 Aug: Diversity Fest Planning Meeting Hagglers Corner diversityfest.wordpress.com Sun 19 Aug: Jake Shears The Leadmill leadmill.co.uk Sat 25 Aug: Alternative Pride Sheffield Showroom Workstation facebook.com/altpridesheffield Fri 31 Aug: West End Beavers The Montgomery funkybeavershow.co.uk Queer Junction thegayquarter.co.uk
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Exposed gaming blogger Nathan Warby wiggles his joystick enthusiastically as he tells us what titles to be keeping a keen eye out for in the second half of 2018.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar is in that oh-so-special category of developers that need absolutely no introduction to its games. After releasing the unstoppable GTA 5 what feels like a lifetime ago, we’ve been craving a new title to succeed the fastest-selling entertainment product of all-time; and we finally get the reward for our patience this October. In typical Rockstar fashion, we actually know very little about the prequel to 2010’s generation-defining Red Dead Redemption, other than a few story clues from the trailers. RDR2 places you in the boots of Arthur Morgan, a member the Dutch Van der Linde gang in 1899 America, where the Wild West is slowly dying. If past games are anything to go by, we can expect a rich, deep world to get stuck into; tinged with the studios trademark quirky characters and poignant social commentary.
Spyro: The Reignited Trilogy
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Ah, the nostalgia is almost to much to handle. Any self-respecting 90s kid will remember the Spyro, otherwise, frankly, your childhood fully sucked. The remaster of the beloved purple dragon’s original trilogy of adventures is coming this September, and it looks set to warm even the stoniest of hearts. The colourful sheep-hunter was a cherished part of many childhoods; I spent many summer days locked in my room flying around in the search of gems (which tells you all you need to know about me) and I, along with millions of others, can’t wait to jump back in. The platformers have been gorgeously remade from the ground-up, bringing these three unforgettable PS1 titles to their new home on current-gen hardware. It’s going to be beautiful.
Comic book fans are in for one heck of a treat when they get their mits on this highly-anticipated adaptation of an iconic hero. Marvel supporters have been left in the dark by a number of lacklustre film tie-ins so far. In fact, we haven’t had a truly good Spider-Man game since Spiderman 2 gave us a beautiful map of New-York to explore – and pizza delivery missions. From what we’ve seen until now, Insomniac have nailed the essence of what makes the web-slinger so fun to begin with. Traversal looks fast and fluid, Peter Parker has quips up the wazoo and there’s enough villains to choke a giant mutated lizard. Best of all, mercifully, the story is completely original and not tied to any of the MCU movies. It brings a tear to my eye.
Two things in life are certain: taxes and a new COD release. Every. Single. Year. But while the base formula has certainly remained similar, you can’t accuse industry juggernauts Activision of standing still. The FPS gold standard has turned its attention to a trend that’s sweeping the industry – battle royale modes. The thought of a massive battle royale mode with the Call of Duty level of polish is mouthwatering. Obviously, the real draw here is the legendary multiplayer which is sure to be packed full of the usual fast-paced combat. Gameplay wise, it appears they’re going for a more ‘boots-on-the-ground’ approach; shying away from the outrageous mobility that jetpacks and wall-running previously brought to the Black Ops sub-series. One things for sure, it’s going to make some serious dosh.
This is something of a gamer’s wet dream. In what is quite simply the medium’s biggest ever cross-over, the new iteration of the popular brawler brings together EVERY fighter who has ever appeared in a Smash Bros. title – plus new additions. To name just a few, there are playable characters from staples such as Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, MegaMan and Metroid – now, take a moment to breathe. On top of the insane roster, all characters have subtle features which make them truer to their original games. This comes in the form of sound effects, maps and special moves plucked straight out of their individual titles. Ultimate looks set to be the definitive couch competitive game; and more importantly – an essential part of my future uni-house boozeups, of which there will be many.
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Plans revealed for Sheffield’s abandoned ski village
The annual Night Strider marathon is back for its fourth year this October in aid of St Luke’s Hospice. The event, sponsored by Gripple and Pricecheck, encourages Sheffielders to take part in a 10k walking challenge to raise money for patient care, with this year’s target being upwards of £130,000. Last year, 1,000 illuminated supporters walked through the city centre together in aid of the charity. Night Strider will begin at Tudor Square, continue to Ecclesall Road and loop back (taking in all the sights) to Tudor Square for the finish. St Luke’s encourage anybody over the age of 10 to get involved for what is set to be the biggest Night Strider yet. Those aged 10-17 must be accompanied by an over 18 for the duration of Night Strider. Wheelchair users are encouraged to take part, but are advised they should organise appropriate assistance where necessary. Joasia Lesniak, St Luke’s senior corporate fundraising manager, told us: “It will be a magical spectacle, with hundreds of people illuminated with lights striding together under the Sheffield night sky, with every step helping us raise the vital funds needed to ensure we can continue providing the very best care for all our patients and their families.” Night Strider 2018 will take place on 6 October. For more information visit the St Luke’s website. Individual entry costs £25.
These boots are made for walking The annual Sheffield Walking Festival returns to the city next month with more than 30 varying routes to get stuck into over a ten day period. Between 7–16 September, the festival hosts adventurous walks for people of all abilities, with plenty to see and discover along the way. Whether it’s the Norfolk Heritage Trail, the High Bradfield Milestone Walk or the Heritage Pub Walk, there are plenty of routes to choose from and better yet, each one is hosted by a seasoned professional and costs absolutely nowt! Strap on them boots and get stompin’.
Best of the walking fest Friday 7 September Norfolk Heritage Trail Saturday 8 September High Bradfield Milestone Walk Sunday 9 September The Sheffield Round Walk Challenge Wednesday 12 September Loxley Valley Round Walk Thursday 13 September Sheffield Old Town: Echoes of the Friday 14 September Sheffield Heaitage Pub Walk Sunday 16 September Mosborough Country Walk Sheffield Home of Football Walking Tour Our Cow Molly Ice Cream Walk
The first images of Sheffield’s multimillion pound ski village renovation were recently unveiled by Sheffield city council. With EXTREME Destinations and AAD Architects, the council has released a map showing how the new site could look, including details of a new ski lodge and mountain bike trail for the Parkwood site. Councillor Mazher Iqbal, cabinet member for business and investment at Sheffield city council, said: “It’s great to see EXTREME’s plans talking shape after many months of hard work by themselves and the council to get to this point. “These plans show the huge potential of the former ski village site as a major destination and large visitor attraction. It shows how they can carry out a phased delivery plan which brings the ski village back into use alongside many other outdoor pursuits. Chris Lewis, from EXTREME, said: “Our discussions to date have shown the very real potential of this site. We have had many interesting discussions about bringing adventure sports to Parkwood. We are developing a bid for Sheffield City Region funding and having highly positive discussions to bring our plans closer to reality.” Further plans for the wider Parkwood Springs area will be revealed later in the year. Head to extremesportscompany.com for more information.
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Going Underground Sheffield’s latest arts and performance space, The Cellar at DINA Arts Centre, opened its doors last month on Cambridge Street following a significant renovation period. The project started out when Miriam Schechter of Dear Hunter Theatre co-wrote Club Bazaar with Ben Price and Emily Compton. The trio were looking for an underground venue for their dystopian play, set in a world where all art has been banned and driven underground. They hastily modified the space below DINA and saw their show sell out for six nights in a row. Miriam Told Exposed: “Club Bazaar was set in a cellar, so when we found out that DINA had one we had a look inside and, despite it being cluttered, we quickly became adamant that this was where we would stage the show. We
Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography Millennium Gallery // 30 Jun - 23 Sep // Free Bringing together the works of four renowned figures in art photography, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Rejlander, and Clementina Hawarden, this touring exhibition explores the impact these photographers made on the British art landscape and the relationship between them. museums-sheffield.org.uk
hastily created a space to rehearse, perform and accommodate an audience and after that we did not think we would use the cellar again, but it naturally became ours as DINA were happy for us to take it on as a project.” Fast forward eight months, and after 600 voluntary hours of hard graft, the cellar is now a safe, fully-functioning theatre space. They’ve wasted no times in organising a programme packed with artists, all-ability workshops and cultural discussion. The Cellar has received grants from UnLtd Spaces 4 Change fund to help with renovation costs, plus an exhibition by Sheffield artist Barbara Brookes has been awarded funding by the Arts Council to go ahead in the venue later this summer.
Flashdance: The Musical Lyceum Theatre // 7-11 Aug // £24£38 The inspiring story of Alex, who dreams of getting into the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy. Starring Strictly Come Dancing’s Joanne Clifton and singer-songwriter Ben Adams. sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
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Review: Love Among the Ruins @ S1 Artspace
Photo: Bill Stephenson
S1 Artspace’s latest exhibition splits the life of Park Hill straight down the middle, with half the exhibition showcasing the residents during 1961–65 (with images taken by Roger Mayne), and the other half in 1988 when the final residents were living in the iconic estate (taken by Bill Stephenson). Both sets of images have been restored and are proudly showcased in their full glory. The walls of what was once an old garage (where young people on the estate would rollerblade on the roof) are adorned with images of the lives of times gone by: you’ll find news articles, flyers, newsletters and notices from Park Hill’s lifetime appearing on walls and in cabinets, and rare archival material projected onto a blank wall. Sitting in glorious sunshine looking towards the exhibition, set against a back-drop of the former ‘housing Utopia’ that was Park Hill you can’t help but reflect on the lives that once were, and those that are still to be lived there in years to come. Words: Ellie Greenfield
West End Beavers The Montgomery Theatre // 31 Aug // From £10 Funky Beaver Show Productions presents its own take on the classic West End musicals, designed to get the crowd up and dancing all neyt. Organisers have promised new dancers, new costumes and new tunes, enough said! themontgomery.org.uk Urban Astronaut The South Street Amphitheatre // 4-5 August // Pay as you feel As part of the Theatre Deli’s Rain or Shine Festival, the Urban Astronaut provides a glimpse of a dystopian future that we might not be too far from. Unable to find a solution, the astronaut meets a young girl who provides hope – the one thing the astronaut had lost. Nice that, innit? Theatredeli.co.uk www.exposedmagazine.co.uk | 75
Jo Peel
Capturing the Everyday Sheffield-based artist Jo Peel spends her time documenting in great detail a fascination with everyday scenes and scenarios. From abandoned east London construction sites to the streets of Tokyo and Pittsburgh, all are captured in her well observed and uniquely executed style – suggesting that such cityscapes are as important to the topographic psyche as the natural beauty of the nature that surrounds it. This exploration of the urban metamorphosis is executed in a variety of mediums, ranging from huge public murals and hand-painted animations to canvas and fine-art editions. See more at jopeel.com
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“This is not finding beauty in the dust; this is offering a new language to understand what is beautiful.”
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Theatre Review: Dusty
“Whilst the production values overall require some spit and polish, the enthusiasm of the cast and some outstanding performances elevate Dusty to a suitable, heartfelt and, ultimately, very enjoyable tribute to a classic artist.” tinyurl.com/ycovbw4y
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
Hundreds of Kate Bush fans descended onto Sheffield’s South Street Amphitheatre to mark the 40th anniversary of ‘Wuthering Heights’ with a mass re-enactment of the song’s video. Why? Who cares. it looked glorious. tinyurl.com/y9z2yon6
Gatecrasher in talks to take over city centre venue
Some big news for the city’s ravers young and old. Famous Sheffield club night Gatecrasher is in talks to take over city centre venue Area, with the Burgess Street nightclub taking to Facebook to announce the news. See more below. tinyurl.com/y83t7nrz
Our Bad.
Last month we ran this great pic of Sheffield Pride without due credit to Shane Rounce. Check out shanerounce.com for futher examples of his photography and design work. 78 | www.exposedmagazine.co.uk
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