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Hot Stuff

Widely acknowledged as Sheffield’s most famed cinematic export, The Full Monty came home last month to launch a brand new series now available on Disney+. Before the premiere at Showroom Cinema, Exposed caught up with the original cast to reflect on the film's legacy.

10:

VIA HILLSBOROUGH, PLEASE

That rock'n'roll, eh? Relive a memorable weekend with the Arctic Monkeys at Hillsborough Park.

13:

THAT'S A WRAP!

International premieres, groundbreaking documentaries, theatre productions, live Q+As with famous faces, immersive alternate reality exhibitions, and an abundance of parties spread across the city - Mark Perkins reports back from this year's DocFest.

18:

Hoppy Days

With a ten-year celebration just around the corner, we caught up with Hop Hideout founder Jules Gray to discuss the evolution of her Steel City craft beer haven.

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IT'S PARTY TIME!

It's back, babbeh! The 15th edition of Tramlines Festival takes place from 21st-23rd July and we've rounded up all you need to know about what's going on.

58: DRASTIC TIMES CALL FOR...

Off the back of an electrifying Get Together performance, Exposed’s Ash Birch caught up with Sheffield noise punks Drastic Automatic to talk house fires, nuclear war and Sheffield's DIY scene.

76:

Donkey Nonsense

Following the opening of a new exhibition, we spoke to celebrated printmaker James Green about his career and much-loved donkey prints.

Synchronised hip thrusts in the job centre on West Street, Robert Carlyle stranded atop a sinking car in an Attercliffe canal and a risqué finale down at Shiregreen WMC which entered British cult cinema history – all iconic scenes engraved into the minds of Sheffielders across the generations.

Last month, a quarter of a century down the line, the original cast of The Full Monty came back to the city for the premiere of a new eight-part series exploring what happened to the gang after they put their kit back on.

Reader, it was some do. The Showroom rolled out the red carpet for an exclusive screening of the first two episodes, The Leadmill hosted a lively afterparty with the cast and even The Lord Nelson (AKA Fanny’s) got involved as ‘The Full Monty Experience’ hosting brass bands, live events and decorated with an abundance of garden gnomes.

Prior to the screening, I had the pleasure of interviewing the original Full Monty cast – a giant *tick* on the Sheffield journo bucket list – and you can read on pages 22-26 what they had to say about revisiting their respective characters, returning to the Steel City and the depressing similarities of where we find ourselves politically 25 years down the line. Of course, that wasn’t the only homecoming in June worth talking about. High Green’s finest rocked up in Hillsborough Park for two nights, playing their first shows around these parts in over five years. You can have a nosey at my review of the Monkeys in S6 (yes, I’ve been fully dosing up on Sheffield this month) over on pages 10-11, an event captured brilliantly by our snapper Jacob Flannery.

Also back in town was our very own international film festival, Sheffield DocFest, celebrating its 30th edition with cutting-edge documentaries from around the world and welcoming thousands of delegates from more than 60 countries to the five-day event, which, in addition to films, included a theatre production, live podcast events, premieres of TV series and virtual reality exhibitions. Our writer Mark Perkins hasn’t missed a single DocFest in well over a decade, and he certainly wasn’t going to start this year. Find what he got up to on pages 14-16.

It’s certainly been a memorable start to the summer, but we’re just getting warmed up! We’ve got the city’s biggest annual shindig heading our way this month (p30), plus plenty of interesting bits including beer festivals, all-day raves, art exhibitions, innovative theatre, circus-themed live music extravaganzas and much more.

Why not discover it all in this month’s friendly neighbourhood Exposed Mag?

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Shot Of The Month

Arctic Monkeys

Sheffield’s summer of big homecoming gigs continued last month, as Sheffield’s prodigal songs Arctic Monkeys played two sellout dates at Hillsborough Park. Jacob Flannery caught frontman Alex Turner getting into the groove as he delivered a blend of nostalgic classics and tracks taken from the band's latest album, The Car, to 35,000 gigoers in attendance.