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Tramlines news has got us in the mood for Sheffield music and from thronging Leadmill dancefloors to history-making gigs in cosy Irish boozers, Edie McQueen takes a tuneful tour of the Steel City, pausing to explore some of the most influential spots on the city’s musical heritage map.
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We also speak to Steel City snapper Ben Hargreaves (@ deep_nxrth) about his journey into photography, lessons learned along the way and why seals make the best shoot buddies.
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Painting her own picture Cupola Gallery’s owner turns artist this month with a new exhibition of her work titled ‘Of No Places in Particular’ on display until 17 July. Whilst many people know Karen Sherwood as founder and director of Cupola Gallery on Middlewood Road, fewer know her as a painter in her own right. But before setting up the gallery between a betting shop and a launderette round the corner from the Sheffield Wednesday football ground in 1991, Karen graduated from Psalter Lane Art College. Running the gallery occupied much of Karen’s time and energy, and as a result her own painting endeavours were put on the back burner for several years. That is, until an opportunity arose through a generous customer. Karen recalls: “In 2014 one of my customers kindly lent me and my family their caravan in Seahouses on the North East coast for a holiday and I was blown away by the fabulous coastline
and atmosphere of the place. “Inspired by this experience I started painting again in earnest and I have not looked back.” Whilst Karen’s paintings were initially inspired by the coastline, they have recently become more of a reflection of her own lived experience, taking a deeper interest in the connection between ourselves and the landscape. The name of the exhibition, ‘Of No Places In Particular’, references the way her paintings draw on elements of her experiences in the landscape, coupled with a desire to evoke a specific mood or feeling not rooted in a particular place. The landscape painting has become a vehicle for communicating the artist’s every day, primarily subconscious, emotional journeys. Especially now, when life is full of change and uncertain emotions; and these paintings depict a small aspect of this artist’s response to
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the last 12 months. “I make no plans when I begin a painting and simply apply paint to board, card, paper or canvas and see where the muse takes me.” adds Karen, “I work quickly and intuitively and work and re-work paintings many, many times over before finally finding a finished piece.” “The many layered process is part of the piece: traces, mistakes, early marks, scratches mark the journey and the changes, and without them the painting lacks character and struggle.” “I am rarely satisfied and find it often difficult to leave a painting, but when the process reaches a conclusion there is often a sense of relief or catharsis. Painting is both a huge pleasure and a difficult and frustrating activity, but one I would no longer be without.” The exhibition is on display now until 17 July in Cupola Gallery, 178a Middlewood Road, S6 1SB
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Local school beats the street
Beat the Street Sheffield, which has turned the entire city into a physical activity game, is off to a record-breaking start this year with Hillsborough’s Marlcliffe Primary School leading the way at the top of the schools total points leaderboard. The school has already racked up over 200,000 points in the opening weeks, which is the fastest that any team has scored this number of points across the previous 103 Beat the Street games. Fiona Turner, Deputy Head at Marlcliffe Primary School, said: “The children, staff and parents have all been really enthusiastic about the initiative; there’s a real buzz around school! It’s such a fun way of engaging the local community in a shared goal, we’re really proud of everyone taking part.” Taking place until July 28, Beat the Street is transforming Sheffield into a real-life game with players tapping special sensors called Beat Boxes dotted across the town. Beat the Street Sheffield is brought to you by Move More and Sheffield City Council. It is delivered by Intelligent Health, with
funding from the National Lottery, Sport England and local partners. Sheffield City Trust chief executive Andrew Snelling said: “We’re pleased to be working with Move More and Beat the Street this summer to help transform Sheffield into a giant game. “Improving the health and wellbeing of the people of our city is at the very heart of what Sheffield City Trust is all about, so being part of this great initiative is something we are very proud of. I’m sure it’s lots of fun for everyone who takes part.” It’s not too late to get involved in the free physical activity game that encourages players of all ages to get active and to ditch the car and walk, scoot, wheel, cycle or run instead. Collect a card and map from one of the distribution points listed on the Beat the Street Sheffield website, join a team and start playing! To find out more about the Beat the Street game, including where to collect a card, visit www.beaththestreet.me/sheffield or follow @ BTSSheffield on social media.
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Slam Dunk
A Dunkin Donuts and a Chopstix Noodle Bar are set to take over at the former Pizza Hut restaurant site on Penistone Road this summer Opening dates haven’t yet been confirmed for the US donut institution, which already has venues at Berkeley Precinct, Valley Centertainment and Devonshire Street, or for the new noodle restaurant, which is opening its second branch after recently opening its first at Berkeley Precinct on Ecclesall Road. A spokesman for Chopstix said: “Sheffield will look to bring a host of Pan-Asian flavours including Salt ‘N’ Pepper Chicken, as well as Chopstix favourites Chicken Katsu Curry and Caramel Drizzle Chicken. “Chopstix is focused on delivering a faster, fresher, tastier alternative to the high street. Wok Master chefs deliver nourishing noodles, wholesome chicken, beautiful beef and perfect prawns with fresh vegetables and superb sauces to make Chopstix the go to guys for boxed fresh flavour.” The Pizza Hut building, which closed last November, was recently advertised to let for £60,000 per year. 8 | www.NorthBoundmagazine.co.uk
The famous chain, launched in 1973, announced last September that its Penistone Road and High Street branches would close for good along with 27 others nationwide. The chain said it was part of major restructuring with the expected loss of about 450 nationwide following the “significant disruption” of the pandemic and fears the market would not recover until well into 2021. Penistone Road already has a McDonalds and KFC and councillors have also given permission for an Aldi and a Costa Coffee drivethru and takeaway to open. These will be on a new complex, opposite the entrance to the Kop at Sheffield Wednesday’s ground, which will also include eight trade units for businesses, including a builders merchants, a vehicle repair garage and parking for 270 cars. The new Aldi would be in addition to the one on Flora Street, which Aldi says is massively overtrading with customers often struggling to find parking.
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LoggingOn Right on track! An 11-year-old Sheffield-based racing cadet has big dreams of becoming the first ever woman to win Le Mans. Despite having only been racing for three years, racing hot shot Maisy Creed already boasts a range of achievements, including being the track record holder at TeamSport Sheffield and finishing in third place at the BIKC Cadet Semi Finals 2020, and now has her sights set firmly on top spot. It only took one visit to TeamSport Sheffield to ignite her passion for racing, an enthusiasm which seems to run in the family as Maisy’s dad also used to race for Lotus. She has no intention of slowing down and aims to get as many podiums and wins as possible in 2021/22 with her new team in preparation for a full attempt to win TeamSport’s British Karting Championship in 2023. Let’s all get cheering for Team Maisy. www.NorthBoundmagazine.co.uk | 9
IN BLOOM Now’s the time to get cracking with your garden! Here’s five tips to make sure your yard will blossom this summer… Tidy your borders Before doing anything, an idea to get you into the swing of things is to have a general tidy up and get rid of any leaves and debris from flower beds and borders leaving bare soil. Dispose of any weeds you can see instead of composting them as the seeds will germinate and cause you more problems later on. Before you start the next step, dig a 5cm layer of compost.
Start planting now It’s an easy mistake to make to think that the best time to start planting is in May, just before the summer. In actual fact, you can start much earlier than that. At this time of year you could add plants such as tulips for a nice bit of colour in your garden. If you prefer something a little different then you can chuck in some vegetables like lettuce or peas. Starting now will ensure your garden will be flourishing within two months.
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Sort your Lawn Your lawn will have been neglected over the winter months, the poor old chap. Now’s the time to blow the dust of the mower and give it some much needed TLC. Begin with the blades lower for a shorter cut to make sure the grass stays sturdy and grows out healthy. If you’re starting out with a new lawn, now’s the time to sow grow seedlings or lay turf. Prune the shrubs Remove dead, damaged, and diseased branches from plants or shrubbery. You can cut back the old dead growth of deciduous grasses and herbaceous perennials now, although, if you’d like to be wildlife friendly, it’s best to leave these until early spring. Plants from last year that survived the winter will need to be trimmed, too.
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Wildlife friendly Birds help control pests, balance the ecosystem and add ambience. You can build nesting boxes with to attract particular birds, and help to provide a consistent and clean water source. Plant natives that offer food sources and make sure there are trees nearby for nesting and shelter.
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Life Through a Lens
Through The Lens For this month’s spotlight on Steel City snappers, we speak to Ben Hargreaves (@deep_nxrth) about his journey into photography, lessons learned along the way and why seals make the best shoot buddies. How did you get into photography? Well, I didn’t pick up a camera until I was, say, maybe 19/20 years old. Before that I just used my phone. I remember when I first bought an iPhone, I was obsessed with how sharp the images looked and started playing around taking images of anything and everything. From flowers, the bumps on my basketball to water droplets on my window after it had rained. I was pretty content with that. One day, I was browsing through the app store and saw an app called VSCOcam, now called VSCO. It’s an app that allows you to edit photos on your phone. So, I downloaded it, edited some of the photos I’d taken and that was all she wrote. I was hooked. What sort of picture catches your eye? This is a hard question as there are so many types of photographs that catch my eye. I can honestly say I enjoy most types of photography. I do tend to go through phases though. Recently I have been searching for car photography and any type of film photography. I do not know the first thing about cars, but when I see a photoset of a nice car, especially the interior and all the fine details, it really catches my eye. With film, it could even be a bad film photo that’s blurry, super grainy, overexposed – I still love it! Do you have a favourite location to shoot? The Lake District. Hands down. I’ve been to quite a few places around the world, but the Lake District is my favourite, so far anyway. It has everything a landscape photographer would want: mountains, lakes, rustic villages, HIGHLAND COWS!
I remember at one time, my goal for around a year or two was to get one decent image of a Highland Cow, and the Lake District, Buttermere specifically, was the first place I got an image of one! I took around 60 photos in the space of two minutes and dipped as I thought I was going to get charged at. What advice would you give budding photographers? Honestly, I’m still a budding photographer myself. There are so many goals I want to hit so
I’m probably not the best to give advice. But I would say two things. Firstly, don’t get yourself down for not having the best equipment. I currently use an old second-hand Canon 6D with a 50mm 1.8 aperture lens that cost me, I believe, £120. The equipment does not make your art: you do. Cheesy to say but its true. Obviously, as your skills improve and want to start making money, upgrades are great, but it all comes with time. Don’t rush. Use what you have and be happy with it until you can upgrade your equipment. The second bit of advice is not really to do with the act of taking photos, but with social media. DO NOT GET OBSESSED WITH THE NUMBERS! If you allow yourself to only take photos to post so people like them on Instagram or Twitter or whatever platform you use, you’ll find yourself falling out of love with photography if your engagement isn’t great. I was, for a solid year at least, obsessed with the amount of likes I would get on a post. Social media is great from growth and getting www.NorthBoundmagazine.co.uk | 15
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noticed and when it goes well and you get a lot of engagement, it’s amazing. But when it doesn’t go well and you’re not hitting as many likes as you expected, as many comments as you thought you would or you lose followers, then you can go to a bad place. Your mental health comes first. Do you have a favourite image/shoot to date? There are two that come to mind when I am asked this question. The first is when me and a few friends took a trip up to Ravenscar Cliffs and we saw a colony of seals. They were everywhere and I was in awe. It was honestly like watching a David Attenborough documentary. The image is of a lone seal on its side. I walked up to him – he was super chill – snapped a few photos, said cheers, and went on my way. The second image and possibly my favourite of all time was taken on the outskirts of Mount Snowden. It’s just a simple house at the far end of a huge field surrounded by trees. It was a cold winter morning, and the field and roof of the house was covered in frost, so it looked like a blanket of snow. The house had a single light on in the upstairs window, giving the hint of someone starting their days. I just thing it tells a subtle story and I’m in love with it! What motivates you creatively? Honestly, I don’t know. When most people answer this question, they have some profound reason on why they are creative and what makes them motivated to create something. With myself, I just enjoy being creative. @deep_nxrth
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Pangolin Beer Column In his column this month, Pangolin Craft Beer and Bottle Shop chief Nick Davy (bottom right) takes us through what we should be drinking this July, regardless of whether we’re celebrating it coming home or drowning our sorrows in glorious failure! Hopefully, when you read this England will still be in the Euros, restrictions will be mere days from being lifted and the summer sunshine will be beating down. Alternatively, Thomas Muller will have scored the winning penalty, steady rain has set in and the kids are off school for six freaking weeks. Either way, it’s definitely time for a beer or two! With that in mind, we’ve picked out four of our current favourites to come and enjoy with us or pick up to take home with you. St Mars of the Desert – Mole 4.3% St Mars of the Desert (or SMOD as they’re known locally) have been twice voted in the Top Ten New Breweries in the World, and Best in South Yorkshire by Ratebeer.com. Their fantastic brewery and taproom in Attercliffe is a must to visit for anyone who loves craft beer. This particular beer is a delightfully light, easygoing hazy Session IPA. The hop combination brings a wonderful fruity aroma with a clean slightly dry bitterness in the aftertaste for balance. Perfect to enjoy again and again. North Brewing Co. x Donzoko – Dark Lager – 4.5% Based in Leeds, North Brewing Co. are one of the best in the UK and keep going from strength to strength. Excelling in a range of styles, this beer sees them collaborate with Donzoko – one of the UK’s best craft Lager producers. The mix of Pilsner, Vienna and Cara malts give it a robust yet light body giving the darker coffee flavours associated with porters or stouts, whilst the Mittlefruh hops provide the classic fruity flavours of a pilsner.
Turning Point Brew Co. – It’s Me or The Solar Farm – 5.8% These guys are one of our favourite breweries currently. Whether it’s their flavourful pales and IPA’s or their fantastic sours we love drinking them. This beauty is a Mango Sorbet Sour – beautifully thick in its texture with 800kg of Mangoes used in the brewing process this is like drinking a luxurious Solero! Their taproom in Knaresborough is definitely on our list of places to visit and should be on yours too. Also we have a keg of this one waiting to go on our bar soon! Rock Leopard Brewing Co. – Hops of Ages – 6.8% Based in South-East London, Rock Leopard are fast becoming one to watch out for. This delicious (we had one last week) New England IPA is both packed with flavour and ridiculously easy drinking for its ABV. As any good beer of this style should, Hops of Ages delivers with punchy stone fruit flavours including plum, mango and pineapple. Coupled with a cloud like softness in the mouthfeel it’s a beer we very much enjoyed sampling!
“Hopefully when you read this England will still be in the Euros, restrictions will be mere days from being lifted and the summer sunshine will be beating down. Alternatively, Thomas Muller will have scored the winning penalty, steady rain has set in, and the kids are off school for six freaking weeks. ”
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Tramlines 23-25th July 2021
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Tramlines has been told it can go ahead this year as part of the Government’s Events Research Programme pilot scheme, so here’s a look at everything you need to know about the changes to this year’s Hillsborough Park festival.
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Well, it wasn’t looking good for a while, was it? The Government’s announcement on 14 June, delaying the easing of current restrictions until at least 19 July had thrown this year’s event into serious doubt. Thankfully, following a heavy amount of speculation, Tramlines’ organisers confirmed the event will go ahead as scheduled and at full capacity from 23-25 July as part of the Government’s third phase of the Events Research Programme (ERP) pilot scheme. Tramlines’ participation in the programme means the festival can go ahead independently of national reopening dates and the audience will be able to enjoy the event without compulsory social distancing or masks. At the entrance to the festival, ticket holders (except children under 11) will be asked for proof of EITHER: • A negative COVID result from a lateral flow test taken within the previous 48 hours. • Two vaccination doses, with the second received at least 14 days before 22 | www.NorthBoundmagazine.co.uk
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Tramlines Operations Director, Timm Cleasby said: “We are absolutely delighted to be able to confirm that Tramlines 2021 is going ahead, having accepted the government’s invitation to join the Events Research Programme. “This means we have a proven framework to follow, which at previous events has shown that festivals can be enjoyed at no more risk than other activities. Once inside, there will be no need for social distancing, and no one will have to wear a mask if they don’t want to.” “We would like to express our solidarity with those festivals which have not been able to go ahead this year and those which are still seeking clarity. It is very important to us that clear guidance is made available quickly to the entire event community so that as many festivals as possible can go ahead with confidence this summer. “ “Huge ticket sales across the sector show how keen fans are to come to our events and we want to help reassure them that we can welcome them back safely.” Sheffield Director of Public Health Greg Fell added: “Sheffield is once again playing a significant and important role in the Government’s Events Research Programme with Tramlines Festival
2021. “Helping cultural events to be staged safely is an essential part of our return to life where we can freely enjo¬y the things we love, and the findings so far have shown positive outcomes that allow us to take these next steps towards normality. We’re working closely with the DCMS and the Tramlines team to support this milestone event for the city and our music fans. My advice to ticket holders is get your vaccines and, as hard as it might be, if you’ve got symptoms please stay at home.” All ticket holders should have been contacted by Tramlines’ event ticketing partner Gigantic via email by Thursday 1st July with further details. Ahead of the event, ticket holders will also be emailed to provide contact information for themselves and anyone they have bought tickets for. Anyone who has purchased a ticket but does not wish to take part will be able to roll over their ticket to Tramlines 2022 at no extra cost or receive a refund for the face value of their ticket. More information, including how to show proof of vaccination or a negative test, is available at www.tramlines.org. uk/info/faqs.
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40,00 This year’s full capacity - it’s gonna be a big ‘un!
115 The number of acts booked for 2021
5 The number of stages packed full of music, art, comedy and performance at this year’s event
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line-up news Following the initial excitement of news that we’d all be having a boogie in the park, thoughts quickly turned to who we’d be dancing to, and whether the stellar line-up organisers had assembled would be kept intact. While there are a few changes to the bill, The Streets, Royal Blood and Richard Ashcroft will still headline a world-class lineup of music and culture. Here’s a look at what else is in store across the weekend. Fans of DMAs, Biig Piig and Pale Waves will be disappointed to learn that they are no longer able join us in the park due to travel restrictions; however, they have been adequately replaced by a host of new acts, including Circa Waves, R.A.E, Billy Nomates, Saint Raymond, Otis Mensah, Sophie and The Giants and Talk Show. BBC Introducing Sheffield have also curated The Leadmill stage featuring sets from the best up and coming talent Yorkshire has to offer, artists include Holly Redford Jones, Chloe Cattell, Weedipus, Yusuf Yellow. The Apply to Play winners, who will be playing across 11 slots on The Library Stage and The Leadmill Stage, have also been announced. Panellists included The Sarah Nulty Power of Music Foundation, Pattern + Push, BBC Introducing Sheffield, The Leadmill, the Tramlines team and our very own sister publication Exposed Magazine. All of them had the tough job of handpicking from over 800 applicants and the full list of winners can be found here:
tramlines.org.uk/final-2021-lineup/ We could all do with a good laugh this year and Tramlines’ comedy lineup is also particularly strong this year, featuring Joel Dommett, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi, Emmanuel Sonubi, Jojo Sutherland, Ivo Graham and Tom Ward on the T’Other stage Comedy takeover. The stage will be hosted by Compere Matt Reed. It’s not just new music and comedy either, as 2021 sees the unveiling of a new venue ‘The Open Arms’, Tramlines very own pub! Featuring, booze, food, good times, spoken word, poetry, cabaret and DJs, it looks set to be the perfect place to grab a pint and discover some of the best talent from Sheffield and beyond. Billed as ‘no frills, all fun’, highlights include, spoken word and poetry sets curated by Otis Mensah and hosted by Sile Sibanda,with artists including Warda Yassin (Sheffield’s Poet Laureate), Miss Yankey, MA.MOYO and much more. Under the Stars will also be opening the stage for Saturday, showcasing a completely original composition. On top of all that, weird and wonderful evening entertainment includes Hip Hop Karaoke, Rhythm of the 90s, Gospeloke, Barrioke with Shaun Williamson (yes that’s Barry from Eastenders), Sing it Back, Vinegar Strokes, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer and the Mariachis. The Leadmill are also heading up late night shenanigans with DJ sets from Club Tropicana, Abba Party and The Beat Club.
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A Lasting Legacy
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It’s been three years since Tramlines’ Festival Director Sarah Nulty sadly passed away, and she remains to this day a constant source of inspiration to the Tramlines team, the wider music industry and pretty much everyone that knew her. Sarah was totally passionate about music. Promoting events, running venues and becoming the driving force behind Tramlines is the legacy she left behind, and in order to continue that legacy The Sarah Nulty Power of Music Foundation was created. The aim of the charity is to help bring happiness and spread joy to people across the city. This year the foundation has been chosen by Tramlines as its official charity partner. Since its inception in 2020, The Power of Music Foundation has supported four projects, the most recent being their grant to Mossbrook Primary School who received a grant to purchase a new keyboard. The school, in Norton, provides specialist education for 134 children aged between 4 and 11-years-old. Much time
is devoted to ensuring that barriers to learning are reduced for pupils as far as possible, focusing on sensory processing activities. The Mossbrook School Team explained: “Music is an integral part of our children’s experience and learning. Many children recall language from songs, and we use music to support transition throughout school, for example, lunchtime songs, singing the timetable/register and home time songs. This allows the children to understand what is happening now and next as the songs used are repeated throughout the week.” Music has a life-changing impact on the pupils of Mossbrook School and so many other children across Sheffield. Sarah’s passion for music brought people together, created opportunities and ultimately, made people happy, just as the foundation sets out to do. The Power of Music Foundation have also been supporting Sheffield Care with acousmatic storytelling, combining the memories of a group of older women from
Sheffield with music and sounds. The recorded sessions were multisensory with images, sounds and poetry used to stimulate conversations and shared thoughts, opinions and memories. Electroacoustic composer Julia Schauerman said: “It was wonderful to listen to the voices of these older women of Sheffield; the sharing and comparing of their experiences. They talk with wonder, stoicism and good humour, it is both engaging and moving” You can listen to a snippet of the storytelling here: https://tramlines. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ POM-V2.wav To directly support the foundation and their work you can grab a piece of their Merch! Tom J Newell recently gave the Be More Nulty heart a revamp and we’re loving the new colours. These are available to order on their website now: theesarahnultypowerofmusicfoundation. co.uk/shop
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Do you remember the first time?
2009 ·People from all over the UK flock to Sheffield city centre for the first Tramlines. ·Some huge Sheffield artists lend their support to the festival including Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders, who flew in from recording in the States to help with the launch. ·Artists are announced for the first Tramlines instalment, including Reverend and the Makers, Toddla T, Just Jack, Pixie Lott, Example and Little Boots. ·The XX perform at The Harley a month before their self-titled LP drops to universal acclaim. ·Figures reveal 35,000 people attend the festival over the weekend. 2010 ·Tramlines announce it will be expanding the festival to include new venues, including Sheffield University’s Octagon Centre, Tudor Square, The Leadmill, O2 Academy Sheffield and Winter Gardens. ·Acts are announced for the second instalment of Tramlines, including Echo and the Bunnymen, Mystery Jets, Simian Mobile Disco DJ set, Professor Green, Tinchy Stryder, The Hoosiers, Toddla T and Annie Mac. ·In total, 250 artists appear across the event’s many stages. The Buskers Bus is launched, featuring acoustic sets from breaking artists while transporting festival-goers from
one venue to another. · The attendance of the festival almost doubles with 65,000 people coming along. 2011 ·The hugely popular Folk Forest area is launched. ·Acts announced for the third edition of Tramlines include Ash, Olly Murs, Pixie Lott, The Futureheads and Heaven 17. ·Under The Stars join the Tramlines party, organising a large event for adults with learning difficulties. ·The festival wins ‘Best Local Event’ at the Exposed Awards and ‘Best Metropolitan Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards. 2012 ·Alt-J, already on course for global stardom, play for free in The Bowery. ·The likes of Roots Manuva, We Are Scientists, Ms Dynamite, Julio Bashmore, and Spector all play the festival. ·95,000 people attend over the weekend. ·The Leadmill host ‘Tramlines People’s Choice’, where eight bands compete for an opening slot on the Tramlines main stage. Blue Lip Feel win. 2013 Tramlines announce they plan to get over 700 acts for 2013’s festival. ·Catfish and the Bottlemen bring down the house (and a disco ball) at a packed Soyo.
·The Selecter hit the main stage and lead the crowd into a mass skank. 2014 ·Hip-hop royalty Public Enemy join fellow headliners Katy B, The Cribs and Annie Mac on the main stage. ·Sister Sledge lead the crowd in a disco singalong a sunny Saturday evening. ·Tramlines’ first wedding proposal takes place! Thanfully, it’s a yes. 2015 ·Tramlines announce that the main stage will move to the much larger Ponderosa Park. ·Wu-Tang Clan, Basement Jaxx, The Charlatans, Buzzcocks and Sugarhill Gang are announced as main acts. ·The Exposed In Session Stage, which showcases the best of local talent, debuts on Devonshire Green. 2016 ·Dizzee Rascal tops a diverse lineup including Kelis, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Jurassic 5. ·Funk legend George Clinton brings seamless party grooves to the main stage. ·Spanish rockers Hinds play with borrowed instruments after having their gear stolen a few days before the show. 2017 ·The official festival becomes an exclusively outdoor event,
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with the Devonshire Green stage making a return. ·The Libertines, Metronomy and All Saints are announced as festival headliners. ·A petition is launched to make the Monday after Tramlines a bank holiday. It fails. 2018 ·Tramlines moves to Hillsborough Park, increasing the capacity of the festival to 30,000. ·Noel Gallagher, Stereophonics and Craig David headline. The weekend is widely regarded as the best yet. ·Hundreds of people got involved in an early Sunday afternoon aerobics class with Mr Motivator. ·Tributes to the late festival director Sarah Nulty are made across the weekend, including a number of artists wearing the #BeMoreNulty t-shirts. 2019 ·Early bird and tier 1 tickets sell out in minutes, smashing all previous records. ·Courteeners, Two Door Cinema Club, Manic Street Preachers, Doves and Nile Rodgers and Chic are announced for Tramlines 2019. ·The festival donates more than £30k to Weston Park Cancer Charity, Cavendish Cancer Care and Crohn’s & Colitis UK.
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Bradfield
Chairman’s
Parish Council
Welcome At the Annual Meeting on 5th May I am delighted to announce I was re-elected for a further year as Chairman. I’d like to say a big thank you to my fellow Councillors for the confidence and support they have shown to me. I have had the honor of serving as Chair of Bradfield Parish Council for the past two years. It has been a great privilege to hold this prestigious office. I would like to thank my fellow Councillors again for their supportive and active involvement during these years, particularly as 2020 with its lockdown was so challenging for the continuity of Council responsibilities and workloads. The staff have all been brilliant, all going the extra mile to ensure as much as possible was covered during this pandemic. Special thanks must go to Teresa and Pam from the office (AND home during 2020) always available for help, support and advice. They are the face (and voice) of Bradfield Parish Council - very professional, knowledgeable and always supportive. The maintenance staff, during this difficult time, brilliant, keeping as much as possible ‘normal’ during this very challenging year. Pam and Stuart for their caretaking duties. Malcolm Nunn for his archivist duties and support of so many projects preserving the history of the Parish. A brilliant team which I have been honored to be part of, thank you all. The pandemic has resulted in the suspension of some regular annual Parish events such as the Citizens Awards, children’s Christmas party, all the usual community festivals, galas and celebrations. Some projects were put on hold, however, we continued with the annual Christmas card competition and worked with Loxley school to begin the bus shelter painting project,
which will be continued by other schools. We renovated our website, putting together video introductions to the various villages and hamlets within the Parish, also redesigning sections of the website, including the new ‘special interest’ section which we replicated in our newsletters. The Parish Council is usually run with full Council meetings once each month and Committee meetings also once each month. We have two Committees, the Finance & Personal Committee and the Assets, Community and Environment (ACE) Committee. During this Covid year, when everything has been in various stages or in total lockdown, the Council has had to devolve power and following Government rules continued with full Council meetings each month using Zoom. There was a brief time earlier this year when the UK weather resembled that of the Alps - blue skies and brilliant sunshine and did it bring the visitors out? I usually ride out around Bradfield several times a week and I met cyclists, walkers, joggers and families, all out enjoying our beautiful Parish, many making upbeat remarks about how lucky we are to live in this fabulous place. There is a downside to all these visitors, traffic, bad parking and litter! How pleasing to me then, after decades of litter-picking along the lanes and verges, always trying to involve as many people as possible, to see a lady with two dogs on leads ‘’slowly’’ descend Lumb Lane. The closer I came to her, the more pleased I was, she was litter-picking the verges as she walked down the hill with her dogs, I was even more pleased when ten minutes later, more litter-pickers were seen. All this, and beautiful Alpine weather. When spring arrives in Bradfield Parish,
it explodes; verges, gardens, parks, moorlands and miles of farmland – a kaleidoscope of color, so we decided to capture these images, flower banks, spring lambs and signs of spring from around the Parish, to display in a collage of color on our website and Facebook page. As we welcome in the new beginning. Unfortunately, one of our longest serving Councillors has had to stand down through ill health. Peter Butler will be sadly missed from Council discussions and business. He has been a steady, experienced Councillor with vast knowledge, who was always available for help and advice. Peter, we wish you a speedy recovery and hope things improve for you, you will be missed by all at the Council. The Council has sent condolences to the Queen and the Royal family at the country’s great loss of Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Thank you once again to everyone for your help during my time as Chair, particularly in the very difficult year of 2020. Thank you also for reelecting me for a further year as Chairman. Let us all work with this new beginning, as the country gradually reopens and returns to some form of normality.
Chairman Councillor Stephen Bennett Bradfield Parish Council, Mill Lee Rd, Low Bradfield, Sheffield, S6 6LB t: 0114 285 1375 // www.bradfield-yorks-pc.gov.uk // admin@bradfield-yorks-pc.gov.uk
Bradfield
Parish Council
Due to ill health, Peter is having to stand down from Bradfield Parish Council at The Annual Assembly 5/5/21 after eighteen years as Councillor representing the Stannington Ward. Peter became a parish Councillor in 2003 and served as chairman from 2005 to 2006, which he enjoyed enormously. He has represented the Council as delegate on many committees and groups throughout his eighteen years, and has also chaired sub committees for the Parish Council. During his time as Councillor, he has been very active in many community groups and organizations including
Peter Butler
serving as chairman for Stannington Carnival Committee and Stannington Scout Group. Peter has been of tremendous value as a member of the Council for all these years, always available to help or advise Council members in a friendly, open manner and he will be missed by all on the Council for his valuable input at Council meetings and discussions. He is sorry to be standing down but feels he is unable to continue. He would like to send his thanks to the staff and Councillors at Bradfield Parish Council for their good wishes and support.
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Bradfield
Financial Report
Parish Council
The Parish Council approved expenditure for the financial year 2020/2021 of £260,522. The Council’s expenditure relates to services carried out in the area, enhancing the work of Sheffield City Council and local community groups, maintenance of its assets, which include Council offices, Coronation Park, Birtin Cemetery, Low Bradfield public toilets, several stone built bus shelters, vehicles and equipment, numerous wayside seats and noticeboards, and provision of illuminated Christmas trees throughout the Parish. An amount is also set aside each year for grants to local organisations. Due to the Covid Pandemic very few grants were given but the unspent grants budget has been carried forward to 2021/2022. The list of grants awarded during 2020/2021 can be found on the website. The precept collected from the local taxpayers amounted to £253,640. The balance was met from reserves, income from Birtin Cemetery, rental income, Community Infrastructure Levy and other miscellaneous income. The Council’s accounts are subject to external audit. The external audit will be undertaken in July 2021 and the accounts will be made available to the public during July 2021. The final audit report will be displayed after completion of the external audit. For the current year 2021/22 budgeted expenditure amounts to £285,595 with a precept of £248,829.
New Councillor
Following a Casual Vacancy, Councillors at their meeting on the 30th June 2021, co-opted Stuart Shepherd from Dungworth to the vacant seat in the Stannington Ward. Stuart was selected from several very good submissions. Councillors were pleased to see such interest in the Parish Council role.
2020/21 Councillors Stannington Ward
Penny Baker
Mavis Butler
Wharncliffe Side Ward
Peter Butler
Oughtibridge Ward
Miriam Cates
Terry Barrow
Matthew Gray
Chris Carter
Stephen Bennett
Worrall Ward
Nigel Clark
Peter Shaw
Keven Habeshaw
Vickie Priestley
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Putting Sheffield Music on the Map
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Sheffield Music Landmarks
Edie McQueen takes a melodic tour of the Steel City’s musical heritage, picking out some iconic landmarks and discovering the intriguing tales behind them. Like Jarvis Cocker’s sultry delineation of local neighbourhoods in ‘Sheffield: Sex City’, the Steel City has shown itself to contain many hubs of artistic inspiration hidden in its various nooks and crannies – a veritable treasure map of musical landmarks spread throughout the place. From the historic status of The Leadmill to the thick mass of talent converging on the Grapes throughout the noughties, or the breeding ground of creativity that Park Hill has nurtured over the years, music is ingrained into practically every contour line of Sheffield’s seven hills. Let’s start with an obvious one, shall we? The Leadmill first opened its doors in 1980, born into the early years of Thatcherism during a time of recession and economic hardship. However, the bleak political and economic backdrop proved a stark contrast to the buzzing synths and burgeoning indie scene of the 80s, a colourful interior world set apart from the tensions and trouble brewing across the country. The Leadmill quickly became a staple of that exciting world, its bright neon sign a fixture of a space that welcomed anyone in for a good night. The venue’s former promoter, Sam Feeley, shared some stories of what it was like to be a part of The Leadmill. “The place has been
home to so many ‘I was there moments’ – whether it’s a Jarvis Cocker panto, Bombay Bicycle Club’s triumphant return or a Millburn midnight set, going to a gig at The Leadmill always feels like you’re a part of something.” “Behind the scenes you have some absolutely wild stories: Jarvis breaking in to watch bands, Courtney Love doing a shift in the office because she was bored and the Scissor Sisters guitarist who had such a mad one that he fell asleep upstairs as their tour bus left without him.” “While I think The Leadmill is often seen as an indie venue, the place has been firmly rooted in the city’s alternative scene, too. I remember Bring Me The Horizon debuting Sempiternal there back in the day, and Loz from While She Sleeps leaping from the DJ booth – he also went on to host [heavy metal and rock event] Festivile there.” “It’s hard to say, but I do feel if The Leadmill didn’t exist, we wouldn’t have had half the wonderful bands this city has produced. Bands will say it’s a rite of passage to play there, but it’s even more important in guiding and inspiring the next generation to pick up an instrument.”
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Throughout the noughties, Sheffield cemented itself as a staple of the country’s rising indie scene, with bands like Arctic Monkeys, Milburn and Reverend and the Makers making names for themselves as stars. Though now consigned to history, The Bowery was a regular feature of this surge of indie talent. Situated below a shop owned by Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders, it hosted hectic nights under its youthful management team. Former owner James O’Hara reflected on its heyday: “We – that’s me, Deano and Andy – opened the Bowery in September 2008 in a whirlwind of big dreams and naivety. Throw in Matt’s clothes shop upstairs and it was basically four lads, all 26 or under, doing something incredibly ambitious that ultimately didn’t make any sense as a business at all!” “Some highlights? Alt-J playing to 150 people (inset left) the week before their album came out, Django Django topping a weekender we did with Uneven Blonde called 312, the Monkeys even ended up playing our mates dads 50th!” “The ultimate night is probably David Rodigan doing a secret DJ set at the end of Tramlines; there’s a few photos and videos still knocking about on YouTube. To give you an idea of how mad it was we tried to do the night again the year after, got shut
down by the police and had to move the whole thing to DQ down the road at the last minute.” “Like I said, wonderfully naive. Whilst it burned only briefly, I don’t think any of us involved with the place will ever forget it. It was an absolute baptism of fire in owning a venue too and I’ll always be thankful to the other lads for being as daft as me and just having a punt. Some things aren’t meant to last.” Five minutes
away from that busy corner of West Street and Division Street, you reach the more sedate surrounds of Trippet Lane. Forever steeped in legend as the site of Arctic Monkeys’ first ever gig (inset right), The Grapes is a unapologetically traditional Irish pub which had a live room upstairs that proved a magnet for young talent through the noughties. This gave rise
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to a unique regulars crowd of sprightly indie upstarts and slightly grouchy older gentlemen, coming together to form a memorable community. Paul ‘Tufty’ Tuffs – sound engineer, music promoter and musical jack-of-all-trades – was part of the team in the halcyon days. “I was very young when I started there. It used to be a bit of an old man’s pub – I wouldn’t say rough, but there were a few characters in there. It was an interesting mixture; you’d get these sixteen/ seventeen-year-old boys in bands, then these old pensioners who’d come in and drink all day. They all seemed to get along with each other, though.” “Jon McClure [Reverend & The Makers] always says if everyone who said they were at the first Monkeys gig were actually there, it could have filled out Sheffield Arena. In reality, I think there were about twenty or thirty people there. I can’t really remember it. The actual first show they ever did, they supported a pal of mine’s band. They wanted to record the set, and they’d spent all day setting it up – this was the headline band, I think they were called Seven Hills – so this band had spent all day setting up recording equipment. This was before you could just chuck it all on a laptop, it was a real effort.
Image: Philippa Willitts
Image: Paolo Margari
Sheffield Music Landmarks
They tested it out in the hope of recording their own set, and of course Arctic Monkeys were the first band on. So they actually recorded the first ever Arctic Monkeys gig. And then the headline band tried to record their own set, and either something broke or they’d ran out of space, but it didn’t record! But what a bizarre coincidence, that a band that went on to be as big as they have, their first ever live show got recorded.” “For a scruffy backstreet boozer, The Grapes would have a lot of bands doing their first UK tour, or the like. I remember once the NME called up to see if they could use the pub to do an interview. I don’t think I even asked what the band were. I went down early to open up, and we had this band in. Really nice guys, I asked them if they wanted some beers, but they said they didn’t drink. They were from Mormon families – not very rock and roll, I thought, but if you’re gonna invest money in a new band probably quite smart to invest in someone like that. It turned out it were The Killers.” Overlooking goings on in the city centre for what seems like an eternity is the iconic Park Hill flats structure. The brutalist estate has been a feature of the Sheffield skyline since it was built in the sixties, but behind the mythology of the building is a community of real, remarkably diverse people. The recently removed ‘I Love You, Will You Marry Me?’ graffiti is Sheffield folklore in itself, turned capitalist venture by Urban Splash in their redevelopment of the blocks.
It was even turned it into a t-shirt – Alex Turner wore it on stage with Arctic Monkeys (above). In the wild mythology that has grown like brambles around the graffiti, the truth has been somewhat obscured. It’s been claimed that the man who wrote it was rejected and threw himself to his death from the same bridge he scrawled the message on (this was later proven to be false). Others have shared stories of a vicious love triangle, and a flat burned down in rage. The real recipient, Clare Middleton, is a figure who has faded against the scandalous brilliance of the city’s whispers. Her troubled romance didn’t have the Hollywood ending many lovers of the graffiti hoped for, and she died of cancer at just thirty. The graffiti has inspired a host of artists in their own way. In 2018, YUNGBLUD included a track on his debut album called ‘I Love You Will You Marry Me’, bringing the story to a new audience and further solidifying its status as a kind of fantastical ‘Romeo and Juliet’ fable, far removed from the sombre truth. Another structure that has stood the test of time – over 300 years, to be precise – is The Frog and Parrot on Division Street, a wellknown city centre boozer and the site of a myriad of intriguing musical milestones and mishaps over the years. It’s been immortalised on the inner sleeve of the Arctic Monkey’s www.NorthBoundmagazine.co.uk | 39
Image: Frog & Parrot
Sheffield Music Landmarks
debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, with a picture of Chris McClure “staggering out of the pub, bleary eyed, at four o’clock on a Sunday morning,” as the venue’s manager Nick Simmonite puts it. According to Nick, the Frog’s musical heritage extends far beyond that though. “What we’re passionate about is live music. And music generally – we’ve got a good cohort of DJs that we work with. We’ve had a lot of significant occurrences – I’m not sure if you’d call them gigs or not! We had a famous upstairs room that was once occupied by Boyzone for some filming for a day, that was fun. It was the Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins Saturday Night Live Show, and they were the guest editors for that week. That put that space in a different arena – previously, before my arrival, that had been occupied by Joe Cocker, who gigged up there. One of those oversubscribed gigs, so he had to play to the street below. He actually signed his
Part recording studio, part music venue, part bar, part club – Yellow Arch has proven a haven for lovers of everything from classic rock and roll, to pounding drum and bass, to champagne sweet jazz. Bridging the gap between the musical and industrial elements of the city’s identity, the venue is the site of a former nuts and bolts factory, now with bright yellow accents of colour interspersing the Edwardian red brick. It’s nurtured albums from acts like Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Kylie Minogue, and many more, and hosted the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Milburn in their rehearsal space countless times.
‘Oddball pop’ artist Tzarsi is part of a new generation of musicians who have found a home in the Burton Road venue. “Yellow Arch has been a fixture of the Sheffield creative scene for decades. It’s been around since long before Kelham became cool, but now it’s more vibrant than ever. Having a studio there is so much fun, because you’re part of a bigger community of artists and musicians – there’s always something happening and interesting conversations going on. It embodies the creativity and industriousness of the city, which is what drew me to Sheffield in the first place.”
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first album deal downstairs. More latterly The Violet May, a band that aren’t really around anymore – fronted by Chris McClure, younger brother of Jon McClure, the Reverend. There was a areference in Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Cornerstone’ single: ‘I thought I saw you at the parrot’s beak, messing with the smoke alarm.’ We all know what Chris was doing. I can’t go into too much detail!” “Most Sheffield bands have played the Frog; we’re really keen on pushing the South Yorkshire agenda. Bang Bang Romeo went down incredibly well. For a little while, bizarrely, we had a residency from Catfish and the Bottlemen. I think to this day Little Comets talk about the show they did with Catfish at the Frog – heavily oversubscribed, packed to the rafters. So we can punch above our weight. Little Comets and Catfish and the Bottlemen? Yeah, we’ll have that. We’ve got a fair old bunch, and when you roll it all together there’s something magical. It must be something in the beer.”
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it’ll b’ reyt We’d had Andy Slater, founder of Reyt Good Illustration, in our sights for a feature ever since he moved into new digs around the corner from NorthBound HQ, taking up shop and studio at Kelham Arcade’s cosy hub of independents. This was around the beginning of 2020, and just as we were planning to contact Andy to see how we was settling in and whether he’d be up for featuring in our July issue, a little thing called Covid-19 began making itself known in the UK. We parked the idea as the magazine went on a pandemicinduced hiatus, but later established contact with the Sheffield artist around November time to see if he’d be up for designing a cover for our January 2021 comeback issue – a publication dedicated to raising spirits and looking ahead to all the wonderful things that’d hopefully be heading our way soon. However, the virus scuppered plans again: a fresh wave of cases and the discovery of a new variant meant another national lockdown was imminent and forced us to call off printing that issue. But finally, almost a year after life as we knew it was shattered then slowly, delicately began its rebuild, we were able to get Andy into NorthBound Magazine, put his mood-lifting artwork to good use and discuss his journey from frustrated staffer to becoming one of the city’s most in-demand artists. All in good time, eh? So, let’s start from the beginning. How did you get into illustration? I was never very academic at all, and I left school wondering what the hell I was going to do. I remember going to get careers advice at school and just telling them that I like drawing. They mentioned graphic design and I had no idea what that was, so they suggested that I do an art and design course first. I did that for two years at Norton College, which I absolutely loved. I remember thinking at the time that I was supposed to do proper job, rather than just be creative and find your way; I thought the closest thing to that for me was to be a Graphic Designer. I went to Manchester to study Graphic Design, then I worked in the warehouse my dad worked at in the summer just to keep me going. This company employed a Marketing Manager and asked me to help, and then after three to four months they asked me if I wanted to be Marketing Assistant. Of course, I said yes! The Marketing Manager left around 3 years later, and so they asked me if I wanted to fill the role. Five or six years later I’d worked in the same company for ten years – still wanting to be a graphic designer, but realising that all my experience was in something I hadn’t studied. Was there a bit of a Eureka moment where you realised how you were going to break out of that? Not as much, but I definitely grew sick of doing something that I’d just fallen into. To be honest, I had a bit of a mental breakdown. I eventually decided that life was too short and took the plunge: handed in my notice, moved back in with
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my parents, and knowing that ultimately I wanted to do something in drawing and illustration, I set up an Etsy and Instagram page and just went for it. What were the first illustrations you put out there? I’d created a few designs that I really loved, and because of my graphic design background I liked to include wording into my designs. I did a few of these, and the idea really stuck in my mind. I was playing around with greeting cards, got them into a few shops in Sheffield, but it just didn’t feel right. Then I remember one day I sat and created the Sheffield cityscape, and it was then that it just clicked: I enjoy drawing buildings and cities, I’m more into urban than countryside, I like to be lost in a big city. That was a bit of a lightbulb moment for me, and it helped me to find my niche. Your output has increased loads recently, and it feels like you’ve reached a point where you’re really comfortable in your own skin. Would you say this is true? It’s still really scary to put yourself out there, a very personal thing to do, and if someone doesn’t like something you’ve done, there’s no way of deflecting from that. It’s not like when you just show your mum and dad and they tell you it’s lovely. It’s still quite personal, but you do get over it a bit and begin to put trust in doing what you enjoy. I think if you don’t enjoy it, you might as well just be sat behind a desk; you have to have some confidence in yourself to do illustration. Even though I’ve only just started, I’ve learnt that you can say no to things, too, and there’s strength in that: finding the thing you really want to do as an artist. If I didn’t do that, I’d eventually find myself back in a job that I didn’t want to be doing. There’s a recurrent thread of nostalgia running through your work. Is a lot of it linked to personal stories and influences? It is. There has to be something behind it. A lot of the time people ask me to draw something, but if there’s no passion or history behind it then I can’t. I don’t want to put something out there as me if it’s really not, just for the sake of it being popular. Sometimes people have asked me to draw certain music venue, for example, and if it’s somewhere I didn’t go or feel close to, I’d rather see someone else who had a connection to that place do it. I think Sheffield, with its quirky buildings and sometimes quite strange local icons, lends itself to that style of art nicely. Sheffield’s a bit of an enigma as a city, isn’t it? People move here and usually stay, and they don’t quite know why.
Sheffield’s a bit of an t enigma as a city, isn’ it? People move here and usually stay, and they don’t quite know why. I think that as e Sheffielders we quit like that we can’t put our finger on it, because then it can’t be lost.
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Reyt Good I think that as Sheffielders we quite like that we can’t put our finger on it, because then it can’t be lost. It’s a city full of hidden gems and people are proud of them, but in a reserved way. For example, (*pointing at illustration on the wall*) look at somewhere like Yellow Arch Studios and the albums that have been recorded there. It should be famous, but you go outside of Sheffield and no one knows. We quite like the fact it’s on a backstreet in Neepsend; we know what albums were recorded there and that’s enough. Yeah, and iconic things like Tinsley Towers, which are just very connected to Sheffielders. There are other nostalgic memories that inspire me: heading down to Castle Market on a Saturday whenever we needed jeans or trainers and going into the fish market so my mum could bring my Granny back a bag of cockles. All I remember is how much it stank! My Granny used to live in Chapeltown, and we always caught the same bus, this actually features in one of my illustrations, so there are always little personal touches dotted throughout my work. Reyt Good Illustration has recently taken things up a notch, moving to this lovely new studio and shop space in Kelham Arcade. How has the move been? It’s great to have my own professional
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space. I was at Abbeydale Picture House before, which was great for allowing me to have my own space to be creative, but I knew I needed a new place of my own to make me feel like I was doing something for myself. I saw this place in Kelham, and I looked at first thinking I really couldn’t afford it, but a couple of weeks later I just decided to go for it. Then Covid-19 happened… Perfect timing. How have you managed work-wise throughout the pandemic? When it first hit I’d only just got myself sorted, having built my website right at the end of 2019. It ended up being the website that kept me going, which was so fortunate, and it just grew and grew through social media, local collaborations and people seeing things around. I’ve worked on a couple of collaborations which have been really fun, and obviously help build your profile, it’s great to help people visualise what their brand means to them. I look forward to working on more collaborations as it means meeting more people doing amazing things around the local area. How’s the rest of 2021 shaping up for Reyt Good Illustration? I guess it’s just more of the same. Printed By Us have asked me to work with them, so that’s in the pipeline, and I have to get that just right without rushing. I’m really keen to do something that fits in with what they do and suits their style. I also have a few more commissions to get on with, and want to work on some bigger pieces myself just in terms of size. I’ve also got a mural I’m working on. I’ve done a couple in the past, like one for Nether Edge Pizza on Abbeydale Road, so I’m excited to get that finished. Hopefully I’ll continue being busy and more interesting projects will come this way. www.reytgoodillustration.co.uk
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Bole Hills One from us this month, taken from the best place in the city to watch the sunset, and we’ll fight anyone who disagrees (or our two nippers in the snap will, don’t be fooled by their cuteness here!). As we’re expecting a bit of a heatwave over the coming weeks (we’re keeping everything crossed), you’d do a lot worse than to grab yourself a blanket, some cans, or a nice bottle of wine, and take in that view. A budding snapper yourself? Send your Shot of the Month over to paul@northboundmagazine. co.uk and you might just be next month’s featured photographer!
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The Culinary Arts A couple of years back, Sheffield-based illustrator and designer Jack Martindale decided to combine his two great passions of drawing and sampling the wares of independent eateries around the city. Today his online portfolio resembles something of a homage to the local food scene, a colourful burst of sumptuous treats and iconic venues. How did food become such an influential part of your illustration? When I was at home my mum didn’t really let me use the kitchen; that was pretty much her domain. So, when I went to university and had the freedom of a halls kitchen, well, I just went crazy. I was the guy baking scones when everyone else was doing pre-drinks! One way I decided to discover Sheffield, to help make it feel like my city, was to go and visit all the best foodie places. I later went on a university trip to Japan, and while eating out one day, I realised that what I wanted to do with my personal life was to draw all the memorable stuff I’d eaten, sort of in a reflective way, as a form of reportage. I brought this idea back to Sheffield and it started from there.
like those hidden bars you can discover, and it’ll feel full just with a few people inside. I really missed those sorts of environments during lockdown, the hustle and bustle you get in those bars.
Considering all the restaurants were closed for eating in, was lockdown tough for you creatively? Yes and no. I feel like we all had blocks, but a lot of the time I drew my own bakes instead of the eating out drawings. One of the most recent posts I did was of one of Eve’s Kitchen’s doughnuts, where I took one out into the wild and took a photo of the food with an outdoor backdrop – it changed things up a bit. I do sometimes deviate from the photos; I draw things that aren’t always there. That’s why they are so overly detailed Can you remember the first dish you sometimes. sketched? I think it was pancakes at The Cabin – I’ve Do you have any projects that you’d sketched them a few times. It’s a nice way like to work on in the future? to work because if I’m ever having a block I’d love to do a food menu. All these in my creative work, I can go out for some independents that I go to regularly are close food, make myself feel better, and then try to my heart: Eve’s Kitchen, Pom Kitchen, to draw that food. It’s a bit of a ‘two birds, Motore Café – all are pretty much on my doorstep. I really missed the conversation one stone’ scenario. you’d have with the team behind these What are the best places and dishes to businesses. But in terms of other creative projects, I’d like to make a more tangible sketch? I always have fun when I go to piña because thing eventually, maybe like a book that they have such a wide, colourful range of could showcase all of these independents. food. It’s very typically Mexican in that way. At the moment though, it’s just a pleasure to The venue itself is also an interesting space, be able to get back out there and see places and I draw the whole scene, not just the open and thriving again. food, so that’s a bonus for me. Barrow Boy is @mdale_art pretty cool as well; I like how it’s quite small, Etsy: MdaleArt
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Dining Fine
Paying tribute to Rafters – a Sheffield fine-dining institution. Rafters is a Steel City icon. Guided by the Bosworth brothers, it burst onto the restaurant scene here in the 90s, and has long since been the go-to venue for that special occasion. Good friends Tom and Al bought the restaurant back in 2013 from Marcus Lane, who had previously built up the Rafters name for 10 years. After starting out in the industry when they were just 16, the pair was eager to run a business for themselves, committed to bringing the finest European and British cuisine to Sheffield’s hungry locals. Rafters co-owners Alistair Myers and Tom Lawson. Today the restaurant holds 2 AA Rosettes and listings in the Michelin Guide, Waitrose Good Food Guide and Harden’s Guide. The restaurant focuses on the complete package: food, service and drink. For Tom and Al, a good meal is simply not enough; it requires excellent service and quality drinks as an accompaniment, and their goal is to consistently
deliver the best of the best. The kitchen brings a range of seasonal surprises, changing up their dazzling six-course menu in line with the times to add an element of curiosity every time customers return. In recent years, the restaurant has been given a makeover, with new solid oak tables made in the area and adorned with Sheffield cutlery from Carrs, fusing Steel City heritage with the art of fine-dining. Towards the end of 2019, Rafters extended their offering to the local community by opening Rafters Neighbourhood Bar, an elegant cocktail lounge located at 212 Oakbrook Road, just a few doors down from the restaurant. Perfect for pre/post-dinner drinks and specialising in cocktails and wines, the seated service bar has now reopened following lockdown. Reservations are open at raftersrestaurant.co.uk/ reservations.
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Rafters loves to work with local suppliers and during lockdown a collaboration with Sheffield favourites Locksley Distilling and Bullion Chocolate led to the creation of their newest signature cocktail: The Bullion Chocolate Orange Martini. The key ingredient is a chocolate liqueur, served both in the restaurant and Rafters Neighbourhood Bar. Looking for a boozy treat at the end of a busy day? Here’s a quick and easy guide on how you can make your own!
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Flying high in
hillsborough Keep it under you hat, but a little (orange) birdie told us there’s a new restaurant with a very bright future in Hillsborough and it’s just a stone’s throw (if you’ve got a really good arm) from our editor’s gaff, so we sent him along to The Orange Bird to find out what all the fuss is about. Words: Ashley Birch I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for the opening of a new Hillsborough restaurant, and I wasn’t the only one. Residents waiting for the tram at the Hillsborough Park stop could be found pretty much drooling as they scanned the menu in the restaurant’s window, so the new eatery had a lot to live up to when it was finally able to open. Expectations were high indeed, thanks in part to events of the previous six months which had seen the restaurant operate as a takeaway due to the opening restrictions enforced by the pandemic. This quirk of circumstances allowed just a glimpse of what they could produce once the restrictions were eased and it was more than a bit promising. Not only that – they’ve got pedigree. Owners Anne Horner, who has lived in the area for 20 years, and Matthew Duggan-Jones both cut their teeth at popular Sheffield city-centre café Marmadukes, with Matthew also gaining experience cooking in two different Michelin star establishments along the way. The hype train was in danger of coming off the tracks. A wise man from just up the road in High Green once told us all, ‘don’t believe the hype’, but did The Orange Bird actually mange to live up to it? To answer that, let’s just say my wife has already been back once and we’re already planning another visit with family members in the hopefully not too distant future. In short – it’s bloody great! The cosy space doesn’t become intrusive and you don’t feel like you’re tagging along on other people’s dates. The service is knowledgeable, friendly, and attentive without feeling like it’s on top and an open kitchen is always a plus in our book. But of course, the main take away is the food. Head chef Matt loves to take inspiration from his South African heritage and creates beautiful BBQ dishes cooked over charcoal fires, which adds a nice bit of drama if you have a nosey towards the kitchen. You won’t find a menu with starters, mains and desserts in the traditional sense either, instead you’re greeted with a menu of small and 56 | www.NorthBoundmagazine.co.uk
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medium plates. The small plates section includes fired up dishes of lamb skewers, apricot marinade, wild garlic oil and curds and whey (£8), as well as BBQ scallops, celeriac remoulade and purée, strawberry vinegar and peanut crumble (£12), while the medium plates section delivers with BBQ artichoke kebab, Jerusalem artichoke and miso puree, pickled red cabbage, golden raisins in carrot juice, and souvlaki sauce (£9), and Swaledale merguez kebab, slaw, black garlic, curry butter chips, pickled peppers, on nigella seed flatbread (£11). All sounds good, right? My wife and I plumped for the vegan options of Isle of Wight tomatoes, grilled mosbolletjies (a sweet bread made with grape juice), black garlic, fig leaf oil and basil (£6) and BBQ asparagus, shaved asparagus, pickled maitake mushroom, green goddess, blackcurrant leaf oil and cucumber ash (£7) from the small plates section, followed by BBQ cauliflower, curry sauce, fried okra, turmeric potatoes and fig chutney (£9) from the medium plates. The lovely thing about the way the food arrives is that it makes it easy if you all want to share the dishes, but equally, everyone can quite happily tuck into their own dishes, and we sort of did a bit of both as everything looked so good. We even managed to drag our teenage son along for the evening, and he opted for the Half BBQ Peri Peri chicken, cucumber and cabbage slaw, black garlic ketchup (£12). We all shared the curry butter triple cooked chips (4) and the nigella seed flatbreads with coriander dip (£4) and thankfully, co-owner Anne insisted that we have the chocolate sorbet for dessert, the name of which totally doesn’t do justice to the creamy, almost mousselike indulgence we were presented with to cap off a great feed. The food is honestly outstanding and clearly a cut above what else is going on in the area in terms of refinement. Hillsborough is very lucky to have this fab new addition and we can’t wait to do the two minute trip up the road again.
The Orange Bird 78 Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, S6 4HA
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A new-family run café has flicked a switch with Hillsborough locals since opening in a former Middlewood Road electrician’s office last month... Words by Ashley Birch School runs for parents with kids at either Marlcliffe or Hillsborough have just become a little more bougie with the addition of Clayton’s Coffee Shop, on Middlewood Road, and we are here for it. The new café popped up next door to the Catch Bar Lane Asda last month, and offers delicious coffee from local roasters Forge, homemade sweet treats and bakes and a lunch offering of Quesadillas, which we’re told include the beautsounding Henderson’s baked beans. The driving force behind the project is Charlotte Clayton, who has ‘a strong passion for good food and locally sourced and sustainable products, including ethical packaging,’ ideals that she has fostered while gaining experience in various hospitality sector roles over the years. Circumstances have meant that in recent years she has moved away from the industry, but her course was steered back towards her vocation when the pandemic hit and Charlotte, along with the rest of us, was faced with the prospect of working from home. Confronted with the challenge of adapting to life at home with four kids, Charlotte explains how her reflections in that period led to a whole new career path as restrictions began to ease: “I began thinking back to my passion in food and offered to cater for a friend’s party. The feedback was unreal. People loved my food. The food we
had just come to think of as normal, our daily meals, people were really raving about. “My passion and belief in myself were ignited. Most people at that first party asked for my details and bookings have snowballed from there.” Charlotte went on to create Clayton’s Catering, specialising in feasting boards using beautiful handmade 1.5 metre long boards made by Sheffield company Pug ii Pug, and has gone from strength to strength. Their charcuterie boards, decadent meat feast boards and celebration cakes have gone down a storm and Charlotte began to love her new role. The only thing she didn’t enjoy was working from home. However, the solution to this soon became apparent as when Covid restriction were put in place, her husband’s family firm, AW Electric’s offices were also forced to close, and they decided they actually preferred to work from home. Left with the empty space, Charlotte had the perfect plan for what to do with it. She said: “It made total sense to transform the space into a kitchen and cafe. The space was small, and I liked the continental idea of having a micro cafe. “It has been a long year to get to opening point and we have totally self-funded the project, selling our house in the process, so we couldn’t be any more invested in it. If it looks a bit organic and rough around the edges it’s because we have done it on this shoestring.
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“However, we couldn’t be happier with how we have been received by the lovely folk of S6. We run Clayton’s as a real family affair. My daughters Amber, Poppy and sometimes Jasmine, when not at school, run front of house and I do all things kitchen based. “In our vision for our micro cafe we wanted to offer a really welcoming atmosphere and people are really enjoying sitting outside and watching the busy corner.” Alongside the great coffee, iced coffee and cake they have also started to offer baked goods from Broomhill’s Cawa bakery, including ‘croissants as big as your face’ filled with chocolate and banana or croque monsoir style and they are also trying, where possible, to use vegan products as standard with plenty of veganand gluten free options on the menu. They plan to expand the menu as the business grows, as well as growing the businesses’ social impact with several enterprising projects. Charlotte explains: “We have loads of dreams for Clayton’s. We want to develop supportive work placements for people struggling to find work. We want to be able to sustain ‘Clayton’s Cake Donate’, a small charitable project that started last year, where we give birthday cakes to children who wouldn’t get one for whatever reason. “Wherever the future takes us in this everuncertain world we believe people are really understanding the importance of supporting local. We will always endeavour to support other local businesses and bring together a quality experience of not just good food and coffee, but a supportive and responsive working environment that actually enriches the local community.”
Clayton’s Coffee Shop 93 Middlewood Road, Hillsborough, S6 4GX
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ROFL Sheffield’s newest comedy club has got off to a flying start, receiving rave reviews from audiences and regularly packing (socially distanced) bums on seats. However, not only has ROFL been bringing belly laughs aplenty to Division Street, it’s also provided a welcome addition to the city centre bar scene with Hemingways – a classy cocktail venue situated on the venue’s ground floor. Open seven nights a week, the bar is separate from the comedy club, meaning you don’t need to be attending a ROFL night to get in (although it’s the perfect shout for a pre/post-gig tipple). Inside the cosy space you can book a booth with pals and enjoy live music on weekends, while Wednesday evenings have recently seen the launch of an open mic night, enticing some of the city’s finest musical talent in for a jam. Based in the former Pizza Express premises on Division Street, the team who took on the building carried out a £170,000 – £200,000 refurb project to make sure the whole venue looks the part. ROFL’s founder Lee Jones told us that with restrictions soon scheduled to be lifted entirely, they’re excited about what Hemingways in particular can provide for Sheffield. “It’s great to have Hemingways open seven days a week here on Division Street,” says Lee. “It’s a cocktail bar with a relaxed vibe and regular live music after the comedy finishes upstairs. Once restrictions are lifted, there’ll be live music every night, and the hot stone cooking menu will be arriving soon too. It’s a friendly, welcoming environment and we’re looking forward to people joining us and trying the food and drinks on offer.” Hemingways is also open for cake and coffee during the day and bottomless brunch at weekends, but if you’re looking for a thrifty tipple or two the drinks offers are certainly attractive: two for £10 cocktails from 5pm Sunday to Thursday, and 5-7pm Friday and Saturday. Can’t argue with that, can you? Booths and tables available to book now at ernesthemingways.com. Keep up to date by following the bar on their Facebook (facebook.com/HemingwaysSheffield) and Instagram pages (hemingwayssheffield).
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ROFL brought Sheffield’s first purpose-built comedy club to the city centre back in May. But as well as providing the laughs, they know how to knock up a decent cocktail at their onsite Hemingways bar, a welcome addition to Division Street. YOU HAVING A LAUGH? What’s on at ROFL Comedy Club this month: July 2-3 Resident MC Joe Zalias will welcome Dave Fulton, a highlyrated globetrotting comedian from the US who has gigged all over the world. You may have seen him on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The World Stands Up or They Think It’s All Over. Also joining the fun will be Troy Hawke, a home-schooled, 1930s throwback who doesn’t see the world in quite the same way as you or I. He has been named in GQ’s top ten acts of the Edinburgh Festival and sold out tour shows across Britain and Australia.
July 9-10 Joe Zalis introduces comedy scene veteran Gavin Webster, the hilarious Geordie Gavin who has enjoyed critical acclaim with his Edinburgh Festival shows, as well as a number of TV appearances including Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The 11 O’Clock Show and The World Stands Up. Elsewhere on the bill you’ve got Glenn Wool, an award-winning Canadian comedian and regular performer at highprofile events such as Edinburgh Festival and even Glastonbury! More acts to be announced soon – check roflcomedy.com for updated listings!
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