Congradulations. Issue 109
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Contents 4 - 5.....................................2014/15 Look Back 6 - 7.....................................2015/16 Look Back 8 - 9.....................................2016/17 Look Back 10...................................Forge Post Grad Guide 12 - 13................................SU Graduation Map 15...................Your Students’ Union: The Facts 16-17...............................................What’s On? 18.......................................................Uni Bingo
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or many of us there’s an underlying sadness that comes with graduating, as if it’s the final nail in the coffin of your childhood as you take the plunge into the adulthood and all the responsibility that comes with it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Yes, it’s the end of an era but today is the beginning of a whole new chapter of your life. A chapter where you can truly do or be anything you want. You are still at the very beginning of your own personal journey, so don’t view your time at Sheffield with regret over the opportunities you missed or remorse over the memories you will leave behind. Instead build on your experiences here; they are the key to you going into the world and making the most of what it has to offer. You finally have the ability to shape your own life and pursue your dreams (or at the very least you’ll probably have a bit more spare cash). As Ian Brown recently said, “Don’t be sad that it’s over, be glad that it happened”. For others, graduation will be marred by disappointing grades. At a time of such excitement and celebration, it’s a hard to carry such a burden on your shoulders. But remember, there’s so much more to university than your grades. University is about the experiences you’ve had over the past few years, and the things you’ve learnt about yourself. What happens at university defines you as a person and
gives you a clear understanding of who you want to be. Can anyone look back to their first Freshers’ Week and honestly say they haven’t changed considerably? A huge turning point for me was finding Forge, which I have loved from day one and as a result have gone from having no experience in journalism and no clear direction or ambition to running one of the biggest student newspapers and knowing with absolute certainty that I want to be a journalist. I’m sure there are many of you out there who know the societies they have taken part in have had a profound effect on them. Even more importantly to us, and I’m sure all students can relate to this, are the people we’ve met along the way. People who we care about and we know will be lifelong friends. I cherish the moments I’ve shared with them far more than any certificate with a number on or skill I’ve learnt, regardless of how “employable” they make me. No two people epitomise this more for me than my two flatmates Hector and Sam, who I have been fortunate enough to live with since first year and are both graduating this week. I couldn’t ask for better friends these past three years and I sincerely wish I was graduating with them as I dread to imagine uni without them next year. If there’s one thing I recommend you do this week, it’s spend as much time as possible with those who’ve meant the most to you since you
arrived here. Whether you spent your time campaigning for a cause that’s close to your heart, playing in a sports team or just getting drunk with people who you’ve grown to love, as long as you enjoyed yourself along the way, it was all worthwhile. So take any anger or resentment you might have over your grade and use it to make sure you don’t fall short again. With hard work and perseverance, there’s no reason you can’t achieve the same level of success as those who got higher marks. Regardless of how well you did in terms of grades, congratulations to all of you for sticking it out until the end, you should be incredibly proud of what you’ve achieved. And I hope that whatever life you lead after university is one that fills you with pride and happiness. But for now, you still have a bit more time left to be a student, so go celebrate!
Credits Editor
editor@forgetoday.com
Luke Baldwin
Deputy Editors editor@forgetoday.com Nick Burke Michael Chilton
Managing Editor Freyja Gillard
Music Editors press.music@forgetoday.com Ben Kempton Florence Mooney
Additional contributors Ben Warner Connie Coombs Matt Wickens
Chloe Coleman Jamie Blakeman Charlotte Knowles-Cutler Tom Mason
Competition Are you looking forward to Grad Week and more importantly Grad nights out? Forge Press are running an exclusive competition: just tweet a photo of you posing with this paper to @ForgePress, and you could win free entry to that night’s SU event (more info on Nights Out at the Students’ Union in the What’s On section). Crazy locations and ideas are encouraged! The more creative you are with your photo, the better. We’ll be running it every night, meaning FIVE chances to win!
Competition closes at 6pm every night, at which time the winner will be contacted
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2014 A busy three years The year (most of us) started our Sheffield journey. Moving in on that unusually hot and summery Freshers’ Week in September with no knowledge of what Sheffield university life would hold was all quite daunting. Fast forward three years and it’s all over. Had we been told that over the next three years we would face two General Elections, a national referendum, naked BNOCs running around campus, monumental amounts of snow, and club night roofs falling down we would have been sceptical. That and more has happened and to top it all off we have come out the other end with a degree to boot. Let the next six pages serve as a nostalgia trip of all that has characterised the class of 2017 and our time at the University of Sheffield.
This year’s BNOC (Big Name On Campus) nominee made the promise that if she was elected as BNOC she would run naked around the Students’ Union. Over 500 votes later and Caitlin Ward found herself a BNOC with a promise to keep. And keep it she did, biking down to the SU to then lap it stark naked for all her die hard voters. Known for being able to bench-press you and offering Haribo in exchange for a vote at her workplace in the Edge Village Store, she filmed her run with a GoPro strategically strapped across her chest.
Naked BNOC
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2015 State of Sheffield Yet another scheme courtesy of the University to ‘enrich’ our time at Sheffield. We were the unwitting guinea pigs for this all round car crash of a week. Being dragged out of bed during the ice and snow to go all over the city, attending pointless and bizarre talks was certainly a character building experience but probably not in the way the Uni intended. Arts and Humanities students faced ‘ThinkCreate’ at Ponds Forge where students endured a talk on what shape they were most like and how that affected how they worked in a group. Social Sciences had it even worse with ‘State of Sheffield’, featuring a bizarre introduction ceremony containing an accordion and poet. Only the Engineers seemed to get away (nearly) scot free with the ‘Global Engineering Challenge’, which rather than being downright awful was just tedious and boring. Don’t worry, though. Students fought back online with some Twitter gems resulting in the hashtag trending second across the UK, and unanimously deciding to go to Wednesday Corp, resulting in the organisers allowing Thursday off for ThinkCreate. Student solidarity at its best.
The first (and let’s be honest) only time it snowed properly in Sheffield over the last three years. Yes, there were the treacherous slopes of Conduit Road and Springvale Road that were not so much a problem going into uni but more than a challenge on the way back. But let’s not pretend we are all too cynical and jaded for the sheer childish joy of awaking in the morning to snow coated streets. We all remember people sledging and even skiing down roads that were now empty of cars… and maybe even joining in.
The field behind the Edge proved the pièce de résistance, covered with student snow art. Of course we had the engineers flexing their egos with an actual igloo constructed before our very eyes and from the less structurally competent there were snowmen aplenty. Though most of all it was the sheer amount of cock and balls moulded from snow that won the day and proved what university students do best when faced with an apocalypse of snow.
It’s snow joke
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2015 Morgazoid
Brexit sad times
President McMorrow
This day was firmly in our calendars months before it came to vote but having only had a General Election a year before it all came too quickly. It will go down as a vote that saw the young, predominantly student, population shafted by older generations. There was no Bar One viewing party to watch the results come in, with the vote being just outside of term time, but that did not mean there was any calmer campaigning around the University.
Legend or fool, the Morgazoid saga captivated us over the summer exam period as we frantically discussed the plight of this fellow student and his quest to submit all his coursework (including a dissertation) to get himself a degree. Alex Morgan entered the student consciousness after his friends decided to document the plight of this Engineering student as he battled a horrific word count in just two days. Some argued he deserved his fate for failing to get the work done sooner while others identified with his predicament and had every sympathy for a fellow student caught up in deadlines. Facebook was alight with speculation and updates from those close to Morgan updating us all on his progress. In the end he succeeded in submitting everything (albeit a few days late) and managed to avoid the penalties from costing him a degree. To celebrate he was recorded running into the local pond, where much like his degree he slipped up and fell into the cold, tepid waters much to everyone else’s enjoyment.
Both camps were out in force with fierce debate taking place in the weeks leading up to the day. On the nicer side there was free pick ’n’ mix for everyone who had registered to vote which students took full advantage of. In the end however Sheffield narrowly voted to leave by 2% leaving many students in shock. The class of 2017 may well be known as one of the last cohorts of students who could do a year abroad in the continent relatively hassle free. Another tale to tell your grandchildren.
“In my year as SU President, the thing that struck me most was the ability of students to fight back against almost constant challenges from government. When faced with unfair and unsafe contract proposals, our medical students were at the heart of supporting the junior doctors strike that won major concessions. With the introduction of PREVENT legislation, Muslim students in Sheffield worked hard to ensure the University was held to account in not using the legislation to make our students into suspects. When plans to raise fees and abolish grants were announced, huge numbers of students came with the SU to the National Demo in London. When the EU referendum came around, students from across the world united to make sure that their voices were heard, making sure that our EU friends and colleagues felt accepted and safe in Sheffield. There were outright victories too. Student activists in People & Planet ensured the University commit to divestment from fossil fuels. Lobbying from students and officers saw an increase too in refugee scholarships. Supporting the students who made all this possible, and helping to magnify their voices, is the greatest privilege any SU President can have.”
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2016 ROAR roof
DQ Closed
The Diamond
2016 was not all fun and games however. We mourned the closure of DQ, known for thumping R’n’B and the occasional pop punk nights, this club was always a favourite for many students, though evidently not favoured enough. With the mighty Corp only just down the road it could not compete and during the cold winter months it closed for good to become a fond memory for us to tell the 2016 Freshers with nostalgic wistfulness. Every night in Sheffield has its go to club - whether it’s Corp on a Wednesday, Leadmill on a Friday or Tuesday Club on (shockingly) a Tuesday. Every Monday DQ was the place to be, and its closing has left has an early week void that no other club is yet to fill.
Roar Wednesdays are always popular, making it one of the best nights out in Sheffield on a weekly basis. Testament to this was when, halfway through a heaving night of students, part of the roof collapsed and had to be held aloft by security. Fortunately, no one was injured, far from it in fact as the night continued as usual with students only stopping to take pictures of the security holding up the roof. Definitive proof that students can really bring the roof down on nights out.
The construction site that had been inconveniencing our journey into uni everyday was finally finished in September with the opening of the Diamond (well, nearly). The building opened with the start of the academic year but was still lacking in some crucial functions such as air-con, which was noticed by sweaty students in the first few weeks. It only took till the Christmas holidays for it to be installed, obviously the time when it was needed most. Aside from a few hiccups the Diamond provided new shiny facilities for the Engineering faculty for the other departments to envy. Obviously though the main debate over this building is how it looks: after all, it won ugliest building in the UK with its obtuse quadrilateral design. Those that didn’t mind its unique composition were immediately faced with another issue: despite being an Engineering building it seemed incredibly space inefficient. While arty and stylish, the gaping holes in the middle of the building denied coveted study space leading to a student petition to fix the problem.
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2016 John’s Van vegan prank The bastion of the University of Sheffield campus that is John’s Van caused a ripple among the entire student population in April when he announced that the menu was to become completely vegan following a petition. Thankfully, he quickly revealed that this was a rather elaborate and thought-out April Fool’s Jokes – and as he did, you could feel the normal balance being restored to the world. John’s Van acts as a beacon to many after a long night at Corp or Roar, with the smell of grilled sausages and bacon helping many to make those mid-morning/early afternoon lectures with a small amount of decorum. Jez, the man who runs the van – not John, a fact which slips past many – has gained a status of royalty among many thanks to the greasy goodness he serves up on a daily basis. Earlier this year he became the popular source of several Sheffield-based memes, which highlighted how integral a part of the campus he has become. We rejoice and look forward to many more years of joyous sausage and egg sandwiches.
NSS boycott successful The Students’ Union’s ‘Boycott the NSS’ campaign proved to finally be a success in May – with the majority of departing third-year students doing just that. Students were asked by the SU to boycott the annual National Students Survey, in a protest against the potential rise in tuition fees. The survey uses the data from finishing students to rank universities, and it was feared this would be used to tell good universities how much they could raise fees by. In order for the results of a survey to be binding, there must be a 50% response rate – outgoing education officer Ali Day confirmed in May that only 48% had, rendering the results unusable and proving the campaign successful. Tuition fees is an issue which has once again reared its head in the last year, thanks to the Teaching Excellence Framework controversy and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn pledging to scrap fees if elected.
SU top in the country For the ninth year in a row, Sheffield has the best Students’ Union in the country. As if it was ever in doubt. The results were confirmed in the Times Higher Education Student Experience survey for the year, which also had some very good awards for the university as a whole – best Russell Group university, and third-best in the country. The SU does great work, being open almost constantly for the students of our university. It provides fantastic food, space to work, a shop to rival the likes of Morrison’s in Broomhill, and most importantly, facilities for our frankly brilliant student media. But more importantly, the SU is also home to the elected SU officers, who represent the interests of students in the university and the community, and with their help the union has held several campaigns this year including ‘Shef>TEF’ and ‘Boycott the NSS’.
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2017 Eduroam down Eduroam is renowned at universities around the country for being mildly unreliable in certain areas on extremely rare occasions. Exam season proved to be one of these times, when the university’s Wi-Fi network went down for a couple of hours with no explanation, sending Sheffield into anarchy. Students were in uproar over the fact that they could no longer procrastinate reading their textbooks by tagging their mates in memes and looking at cat videos on YouTube. Thankfully, they were calmed by the fact they could take to Twitter to complain about this minor inconvenience. For the students who revise (we think they probably aren’t in Sheffield) they had to crack open real-life books for their info in that terrible couple of hours at the end of May. Levels of noise pollution were at unprecedented levels as previously untouched books had their spines tested for the first time.
Clegg kicked out Nick Clegg was voted out of his Sheffield Hallam seat thanks to huge student turnout, electing Labour’s Jared O’Mara instead. The former Deputy Prime Minister and student pariah Clegg had been the Member of Parliament for Hallam since 2005, and has always looked reasonable safe, even retaining his seat during the Lib Dems’ nadir in 2015, when they were left with just eight seats. The former Lib Dem MP was controversial in the city and around the country for pledging to scrap tuition fees ahead of the 2010 general election before reneging on that after joining a coalition with the Conservatives. There were fears he could lose his seat two years ago, but he hung on. But this time, students turned out in huge numbers to replace him with a Labour MP – West Street Live’s very own Jared O’Mara. The turnout of young people reflected the huge increase among youngsters around the country. Quite what Nick Clegg will do next is uncertain – he has been offered a DJing job at WSL.
Another Varsity win In a shock twist that absolutely no-one expected, the University of Sheffield won Varsity. Again. For the fifth year running. After a scare early in the event when Hallam managed to squeeze out a victory in Boxing at the Octagon, Uni Of recovered to win pretty comfortably in the end – 45-35 in the end. The weeks of sport culminated in the sell-out Ice Hockey 1sts at Sheffield Arena, which Hallam unfortunately managed to get a victory in, but by that point it was all over. For a fifth year running, the title was coming back to Uni Of, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who said it wasn’t deserved.
Post Grad Guide You’ve only gone and done it. You’ve got a degree and proved your entire extended family (including your cousin’s gerbil) wrong: you can commit to something more than all five seasons of Breaking Bad. Congratulations. It’s all been worth it. Now that you’re wearing your hired gown, cape and cap, hoping the previous graduate didn’t have any nits, you may start thinking about how you’re going to live now you’ve finished your degree. Well, we have no clue. Scientists and priests have postulated what life after a degree is, and some graduates have claimed to have near post-university experiences, but nobody really knows.
1. Finances
4. Relationships
This is a curious topic. You have no finances and yet you suddenly have thousands of financial obligations. We’re not going to lie to you. You’re up shit creek and you have to sell a kidney to get a paddle. The only piece of good news is that everyone else is up that creek with you. Forge’s advice? Canary Islands. If you can’t afford that? Kettering.
Bad news. You’re outside of the university bubble now, which means no-one is ever going to be drunk enough to sleep with you again (see Alcohol). You’re only going to get more unattractive as the stress of daily life seeps in, and telling your parents that “we met at Corp” is going to suddenly become socially unacceptable. On the plus side, you can get rid of that beer belly and turn it into an M&S-takeaway-meal-for-one belly.
2. Jobs
5. Friendships
If you didn’t do a vocational degree (we didn’t), not only have you disappointed your family full of medics and engineers, you’ve now got to answer the timeless question. What came first: the job or the job experience? If you’re really struggling, type “join the army” into Google. Or accountancy.
You’ve probably never built a friendship before to improve your salary (unless you’re in the Business School), but that’s about to suddenly change. Our advice is to find an accountant. Their company will put you on the right track to succeeding in this capitalist hellscape we call 21st century Earth. Some of you might have been ahead of the curve and been making tactical friendships already at university. If you look in the dictionary under ‘lecherous’, you’ll find your passport photo sitting there.
3. Alcohol
6. Masters students
We know. Ever since that first swig of vodka after your parents had unpacked your room in first year, you’ve got used to the taste of the old moonshine. Just remember that out there, drinking isn’t seen as an achievement. It’s seen a vice. Perhaps it’s time to think about getting another hobby. If you’re going into the banking sector, try hard drugs and prostitutes – at different times if you like, or together. If you’re looking for a hobby more in budget, try pom-pom making. Or trainspotting.
Degenerates unable to face reality – hello. We hadn’t forgotten about you. You’re both lucky and unlucky. In many ways, this horrific experience of post-graduation life is yet to happen. In other ways, you’ve just paid another £10,000 to cheat graduation, but it’s still coming for you. Plus, you have the joyful experience of mumbling once again into your new potatoes as your grandmother asks you what exactly it is that you’re doing with yourself now and swallow sadness when she tells you about your cousin’s job as a brain surgeon.
All joking aside, you should not worry so much about what lies ahead, or what you are leaving behind. You can graduate and begin the next chapter in your life with great memories and an even better degree. The world is now your proverbial oyster and you’re able to eat that oyster. Although you’d probably have even more oysters if you hadn’t just spent £27,000 on a piece of paper. Swings and roundabouts.
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WHAT’S ON? at the
We look at all the ways your favourite Students’ Union is helping you celebrate Grad Week.
29 July - from 19:00 | the SU
climax
The Official Sheffield Pride Afterparty, with karaoke and themed cocktails. What’s not to love?
18 July - 19:00 | Bar One The University of Sheffield’s premier improv group wave farewell to their graduating members with one last planned night of comic spontaneity.
The shrimps
17 July - 19:30 | Film Unit Cinema A free screening of
the graduate at our student-run cinema
University Experience
Attempted the Rainbow Challenge at Corp
Taken a trip to the Peaks*
Gone to see a SUTCo performance
Had a designated pair of “Corp Shoes”
Passive aggresively refused to take the bins out
Nearly passed out at the top of Conduit
Went to Tramlines*
Got involved in World Week
Listened to Forge Radio*
Gone to a Varsity event #bleedblackandgold
Actually read an issue of Forge Press*
Agressively searched for a seat in the IC or Diamond during exam period
Had a token weird flatmate
Had a Bar One burger*
Spent too much money in Meadowhall*
Stayed at Pop Tarts until they played Robbie’s “Angels”
Been to the Alpaca Farm*
Rode the Paternoster all the way round*
Had a Notty Pie*
Dressed up vintage for Itchy Feet
Had a Chuck Norris from WSL*
Turned up to a lecture still drunk
Left your washing up so long it became a biological hazard
Seen a movie at Film Unit
Trekked all the way to Hillsborough for an exam
*don’t worry, you’ve still got time to do these!
Inter view.
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Sobriquet
Forge Press interviews local post-hardcore student band Sobriquet. Where: Friday 20:00 - late @ Mulberry Tavern Throat-shredding screams and arena-ready chorus, this post-hardcore outfit are as thrilling to witness as they are bizarre to look at. Having built up a dedicated following in the Sheffield heavy music scene over the past six months while playing alongside acts such as HED (PE) and Palm Reader they are now taking the next step in their careers having just spent time recording in the studio. With an utterly unhinged-looking vocalist switching between angelic melody and demonic roars on the turn of a dime – and unquestionably the sharpest-dressed bassist you’re likely to see all festival – no one knows what will happen next with this band. Whatever it is expect, it to be big and incredibly loud.
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Saturday 12:50 @ Tiger Works
Has to be Mulberry Tavern. Not only is it a great venue to play sound-wise (you can actually hear what you’re playing!), but the guys that run it are awesome. Jake Eckhart has singlehandedly revived the heavy music scene in Sheffield and put Mulberry at the centre of it. Also Craig, an amazing sound engineer, who despite our constant nagging has persevered and made us sound half-good. In short, we couldn’t recommend the Mulberry enough. It’s our second home – until we irritate Jake too much.
You never know what kind of bill you're gonna be put on! Imagine the surprise of the audience when we were the next band on after an electrohurdy-gurdy act. That and the sheer number and diversity of the local music scene shows Sheffield is still a massive producer of music. Everyone focuses on Arctic Monkeys and they are great but in doing so they forget this diversity of bands. While She Sleeps, The Sherlocks, Bring Me The Horizon are just a few of the bands that Sheffield is constantly producing that go on to take the nation and world by storm.
What is your favourite venue to play in the Steel City?
What do you enjoy most about Sheffield's music scene?
What do you enjoy most about Tramlines? It's really cool to see the diversity of styles of music across the whole city. You certainly don't get that at T in the Park, that's for sure. No one can say that there isn't a genre for them over this weekend. Only Tramlines would have Oathbreaker in the City Hall and Libertines and Lady Leshyrr in the park next door. We've heard about your live shows, what motivates you to put on such an unpredictable live performance? It kinda just happens? Like, your body becomes a living, breathing conduct for the music and before you know it you wake up the next morning with a microphone shaped bruise on your forehead. Also for us we think it is important for a live show to be more than just playing your music with nothing else. Live shows are a unique opportunity to express yourself and captivate an audience and one we do not want to pass up, even if that does mean a few cuts and bruises from jumping of raised surfaces.
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10 bands to see at Tramlines Florence Mooney’s top five bands to see at Tramlines 2017
THE BIG MOON DEVONSHIRE GREEN, SUNDAY, 18:15 Indie music can be a tough scene for a band of four women to break into, so when a new allfemale indie guitar band enters the scene, it is worth taking note. The Big Moon released their debut album Love in the 4th Dimension in April of this year, to positive reviews. Their music is full of energy and is reminiscent of Tramlines headliners The Libertines. A combination of infectious melodies and the soaring vocals of Juliette Jackson means the Big Moon is bound to take off, so grab this opportunity to catch them on the smaller Devonshire Green on Sunday afternoon.
METRONOMY MAIN STAGE, SUNDAY, 19:45 After years together, Metronomy first enjoyed real success in 2011 with the release of their Mercury Prize nominated album The English Riviera. Since 2011, Metronomy have stepped up as heavy-weights in the indie scene, releasing their most recent album Summer 08 last July. Perfectly merging soothing electronic beats with funk grooves, Metronomy provides the perfect soundtrack to an English summer day, the ideal act to spend your final Tramlines evening with.
ALL SAINTS DEVONSHIRE GREEN, SUNDAY, 19:45 You may be surprised seeing this late-nineties/early-noughties girl group on the line-up, but never underestimate the enjoyment a little nostalgia can provide. Hitting the big time with their self-titled debut in 1997, All Saints were hugely successful, following the rise of other girl groups such as Spice Girls in the late nineties. With throwback sing along hits such as ‘Never Ever’ and ‘Pure Shores’, All Saints will be sure to give a good show when they play the Devonshire Green on Sunday night.
LADY LESHURR MAIN STAGE, SUNDAY, 17:15 As a loud and proud Brummie myself, Birmingham grime queen Lady Leshurr is a particularly exciting act to catch at Tramlines. After storming Outlines festival earlier this year, Lady Leshurr is back to take on a bigger audience with her witty quips and sharp beats. Since she dropped her Queen Speech EP in 2015, she has gained quite an online following, with ‘Queen Speech 4’ gaining over 43 million views on YouTube. Be ready for an energetic show with surprises at every corner.
SPRING KING DEVONSHIRE GREEN, SATURDAY, 18:00 With the release of their critically acclaimed debut Tell Me If You Like To in 2016, Spring King prove that guitar music can still be exciting and fresh. In 2015, their track ‘City’ was the first song played by Zane Lowe on Beats 1. If there is someone who knows something about fresh new music, it is Zane Lowe, so this is a fact worth taking note of. Charging guitars and big choruses dominate their album and will be sure to an excite the Tramlines audience when they take to the stage at Devonshire Green on Saturday evening.
THE LIBERTINES MAIN STAGE, FRIDAY, 20:45 This is the big one. They have headlined Reading and Leeds Festival before, and now The Libertines are performing in our very own Sheffield. After their success in the early 2000’s with albums Up The Bracket (2002) and The Libertines (2004), The Libertines dismantled as the larger-than-life frontman, Pete Doherty, became notorious for his heroin and crack cocaine addiction. After a successful stint in rehab, The Libertines reformed in 2015 and released Anthems For Doomed Youth. The band epitomise the revival of garage rock and will be sure to throw a head-banging, thrashing set.
PRIMAL SCREAM MAIN STAGE, SATURDAY, 20:45 Get your rocks on for Primal Scream, the band which combines an eclectic mixture of acid house, pop and rock. The band coincided with the likes of The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays in the early 90’s and after locking themselves in a recording studio with an endless supply of drugs, they produced the ground-breaking album Screamadelica (1991). Tracks like ‘Movin’ On Up’, ‘Loaded’ and ‘Come Together’ are the perfect feel-good festival tunes to get Tramlines grooving.
LOYLE CARNER MAIN STAGE, SUNDAY, 16:45 Creating a new wave in alternative Hip Hop, South London’s Loyle Carner is bursting through the scene at the moment and is proving to be a huge prospect for the future. After the massive initial success from his singles ‘Tierney Terrace’ and ‘Florence’, he released his critically acclaimed album Yesterday’s Gone in January this year which was described by the Guardian as a ‘startling debut’. Sometimes sombre, sometimes upbeat, Carner’s lyrics have an astonishingly truthful depth to them. Seeing Loyle Carner at Tramlines is seeing the future of Hip Hop.
THE PHARCYDE DEVONSHIRE GREEN, FRIDAY, 19:15 Loyle Carner may provide the future of rap, but The Pharcyde provide an old-school Hip Hop throwback. The influential quartet boast one of the most praised hip hop albums of the 1990s, the certified Gold Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. Having toured with A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul and rapping on Gorillaz’ ‘Dirty Harry’, The Pharycde will provide a masterclass in old skool flow.
FAITHLESS – AFTER PARTY OCTAGON, FRIDAY, 22:00 When the (fingers crossed) sun goes down in Sheffield and the day-time Tramlines comes to an end, there is only one place you want to be for the Tramlines After Party. 90s rave royalty Faithless are best known for their monumental club floor filler ‘Insomnia’ - in my opinion, the best dance song ever made. They also possess a catalogue of huge dance hits such as ‘God is a DJ’, ‘We Come 1’ and ‘Mass Destruction’. Faithless are sure to get Tramlines raving. Benjamin Kempton’s top five bands to see at Tramlines 2017
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Tramlines is without question my favourite weekend of the year. I love that Tramlines has such a diverse line-up of different music genres - everyone is catered for.
One of the things that makes Tramlines so unique is the fact it is an inner city music festival. Sheffield springs into full-on party mode, the whole city comes to life, and the music community in Sheffield really pulls together to make something truly special. - Alex Cooper, Tramlines DJ.
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