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6 Evolution, by Liz von Graevenitz
Welcome to CityMag... THIS month we’re all about the beer. Pale ales, stouts, IPAs… you name it. If it’s got a frothy head, we’re on it. My colleague, Mel, will tell you a little bit more but with not one but two festivals taking place in the coming weeks, there’s plenty to quench your thirst. Our cover star this month is internationally-renowned Sheffield-based artist Liz von Graevenitz. She’ll be the first to admit that her work is a little ‘unusual’ but striking all the same. She designed this month’s cover – Play On – especially for us, for which we are very grateful. Elsewhere I caught up with Sheffield native now London luvvie Jonathan Butterell who, along with The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae, is responsible for creating the new play currently starring at The Crucible, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. It’s fabulous – go see it.
BEER, beer we want more beer! Well, March is going to be the month for it with the SIBA Beer X festival and Sheffield Beer Week coming up from 13-19 March – you can read all about it this issue. I, for one, will be looking forward to a swift one, two or maybe three! Also the beloved Forum has had a facelift and by all accounts the surgeon has done a fantastic job. Great work indeed, we take a closer look inside. We also preview Outlines Festival, speak to Stone Foundation and tuck into some tasty snap at Urban Choola. And no doubt you’ve seen the Tramlines line-up… one word. Wow! We can’t wait to see The Libertines et al. Bring on summer. Enjoy this issue with not too blurry eyes. RIP Grosvenor Hotel too! Onwards and upwards and keep shouting about Sheffield! Melanie Jackson Publishing Manager
Richard Abbey Editor
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8 WHAT’S GOING ON
Arts, culture, film... the things to look out for in Sheffield this month
10 BOOZE&GRUB Find inspiration for food and drink from Sheffield’s finest independents, plus we visit Urban Choola for some cool Indian street food
14 HAGGLERS CORNER
Molly McGreevy spoke to the guys about their new bar
20 MUSIC
We preview Outlines Festival and speak to Clean Cut Kid and Stone Foundation
24 SHEFFIELD BEER WEEK We look at everything that’s going on during Sheffield Beer Week, plus speak to founder and Hop Hideout proprietor, Jules Gray
36 NEWS What’s happening around the city?
42 INTERVIEW
It’s a big thing for a regional theatre to commission a brand new project, says Jonathan Butterell. But Sheffield Theatres’ gamble looks to set to pay off – in some style
48 COVER STAR We have good vibrations about this month’s masterpiece, courtesy of Sheffield artist, Liz von Graevenitz FRONT COVER ‘Play On’, by Liz Von Graevenitz A SPECIAL THANKS TO THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS Paul Widdowson, Sean Clarke, Russell Cutts, Becca Linnard
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EDITOR Richard Abbey SUB EDITOR Richard Smith CONTRIBUTORS Phoebe Seymour, Rachel Martin DIGITAL EDITOR Molly McGreevy STUDIO MANAGER Chris Brierley DESIGN Dan Wray, Steve Levers, Charles Bradshaw OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Jillion Wood PUBLISHING MANAGER Melanie Jackson SALES EXECUTIVE Jessica Slaughter DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Chris Clayton ACCOUNTS Paul Barrett, Kelly Mann Published by: RMC Media 6 Broadfield Court, Broadfield Business Park, Sheffield, S8 0XF. Tel: 0114 250 6300 www.rmcmedia.co.uk Not connected with any other company or group. All material is the copyright of the RMC Media and is not to be reproduced without permission. The placing of an order for the insertion of an advertisement in this publication shall amount to an acceptance of our terms and conditions, copies of which are available on request.
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EVENTS… SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS 22 February Sheffield City Hall www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk A fun Q&A session with Ben Garrod, the TV scientist from ‘Attenborough’s Giant Dinosaur’ – perfect for kids large and small. Did dinosaurs eat their own families? Was every Tyrannosaurus Rex a fearsome carnivore? Why did Allosaurus headbutt its prey to death? With the help of TV film footage and photos of his own palaeontological dinosaur digs, Ben will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about dinosaurs and more!
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LEADMILL CINEMATIC 14 February Leadmill www.leadmill.co.uk Valentine’s Day is a little different at The Leadmill this year as they host a special screening of ’10 Things I Hate About You’. A modernisation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, this late 1990s romantic comedy set in an American high school has now become a bonafide classic. It stars the late Heath Ledger as the new mysterious kid at school who just might win the heart over the misanthropic but beautiful Julie Stiles. As well as the film they’ll be cocktails, tattoos, popcorn, candyfloss followed by a Valentines Silent Disco. Tickets are £6 or £9 including silent disco entry.
TIM ETCHELLS & VLATKA HORVAT: WHAT CAN BE SEEN 8 February - 7 May / Millennium Gallery www.museums-sheffield.org.uk This is a brand new exhibition by artists Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat. The exhibition will explore how we attempt to understand the world through history, science, art, narrative and the act of collecting itself; through playful, unexpected associations and everyday will be reframed in each other’s company, inviting viewers to see them anew.
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ON STAGE… JACK WHITEHALL 15 February Sheffield Arena www.sheffieldarena.co.uk February 2017 sees one of the UK’s brightest comedic talents return to the stand-up stage as Jack Whitehall embarks on his biggest ever tour. Brand new show At Large will again see Jack perform in some of the largest venues in the land, bringing his unique brand of high-intensity silliness to thousands of fans.
X FACTOR LIVE 3 March Sheffield Arena www.sheffieldarena.co.uk
JONATHAN PIE LIVE 19 February Sheffield City Hall www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk
You’ve seen them week after week compete for your vote, and now you can see them live. Confirmed acts include 5 After Midnight, Emily Middlemas, Four of Diamonds, Ryan Lawrie, Saara Aalto, Sam Lavery and Honey G, along with overall winner Matt Terry.
Jonathan Pie is a respected news reporter for a respected news broadcaster but he has a problem. He has several problems. He hates his job. He hates his colleagues. But mainly he hates the f***ing news. Join him for this live show where he hilariously reveals the truth behind recent news events both home and abroad.
GASLIGHT 20-25 February Lyceum www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk This masterpiece of suspenseful playwriting, by writer Patrick Hamilton, will have you on the edge of your seat and is a superb mystery thriller. It stars Kara Tointon, Rupert Young and Keith Allen and is regarded as one of the greatest thrillers of all time. As the story goes, while Jack Manningham (Young) is on the town each evening his wife Bella (Tointon) is home alone. She can’t explain the disappearance of familiar objects, the mysterious footsteps overhead or the ghostly flickering of living room gaslight - is she losing her mind? Does the terror exist in her imagination or are dark secrets living in her home? The surprise arrival of a retired detective (Allen) leads to a shocking discovery that will shake her respectable Victorian marriage to its core.
MUSIC…
ON SCREEN… international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome, where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers. On the plus side he does have a new dog.
LEGO BATMAN 3D 10 February One of the stand-out characters from the original Lego Movie gets his own film and must not only deal with the criminals of Gotham City, but also the responsibility of raising a boy he adopted. Awesome.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 17 February Keanu Reeves reprises his role as the former hitman who is forced out of retirement (again) by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy
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MOONLIGHT 17 February With the awards season in full swing, this contender finally gets its UK release. Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.
10 Noa landing into Sheffield early March. Watch out for that cheeky smile, what lies within is wondrous. This is an 11% Pecan Pie in a bottle with a chocolatey twist and has to be tasted to be believed.
Beer Central’s Sean Clarke is excited about Sheff Beer Week. Why wouldn’t you be? WHERE did Christmas go? What happened to January? It must be nearly summer? Not quite… but how time flies when the beers are flowing eh? With Sheff Beer Week just around the corner, what better time to enjoy a quality tipple or two. The dates for your diary are 13-19 March and over that week Sheffield goes beer mad with events all over the city. Meet the Brewers, Tap Takeovers, Bottle Share nights… it’ll be a fantastic week of beer and you can find everything you need to know at www.sheffbeerweek.co.uk But what might we drink before then? Let’s take a look at three beauties – grab one of these and enjoy the ride.
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OMNIPOLLO – Noa Pecan Mud Cake 330ml bottle
Arguably this Swedish outfit are ‘Masters of the Craft Beer Universe’ at the moment, with almost everything they touch turning into an instant flavour sensation. Omnipollo are gypsy brewers, creating their stunning brews with friends across the globe. We’ve gone for one of their classics and you should find
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TINY REBEL BREWING CO – Clwb Tropicana IPA 330ml can
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BRADFIELD BREWERY – Farmers Blonde 500ml bottle
After a good few years of smart home-brewing, Tiny Rebel finally got rolling in 2012 and quickly established themselves as the stars of the South Wales brewing scene. It’s been non-stop success ever since and they really hit the heights in 2015 when they won CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain with their Welsh Red Ale, Cwtch. Our personal fave is this one though… Clwb Tropicana is hitting the streets of Sheffield in brand new cans in the next few weeks. As the name suggests, this is one is a super tropical IPA. Not too strong at 5.5%, this means that the US hops really get to do their magic with peach, passion fruit, pineapple and mango filling every slurp. A brilliantly refreshing beer.
Sheff Beer Week is on the way and perhaps it’s time we looked at Sheffield’s most popular beer. Bradfield started brewing high up in the hills above Sheffield in 2005 and they’ve developed a range of beers that many Sheffielders are totally devoted to. Star of the show is Farmer’s Blonde, a 4% extra pale beer with citrus and summer fruit aromas, making it an extremely refreshing ale. This is Bradfield’s most popular beer, it’s the beer we’ve sold the most in the last three years. I suppose we should listen to the people of Sheffield…
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11 Spread the Yorkshire love this Valentine’s Day with Mr Pickles’
WHETHER you like to celebrate Valentine’s Day or not, there’s no denying it’s a great excuse to cook up something special and treat yourself to a tasty meal. And why not spread the Yorkshire love by using produce from our own county? Steak has become a go-to choice for Valentine’s Day and all our beef is very locally sourced as it comes from Sheffield-based Firs Farm on Ringinglow Road. We always have the prime cuts such as fillet and sirloin available, along with some great budget friendly alternatives. Take featherblade, chuck eye and flank for instance. Although they’re less than half the price of fillet, these cuts are delicious served medium rare with all your favourite sides. Lamb is also a tasty option and our chops and steaks are sweet and tender, but also quick and easy to prepare. Just serve with seasonal greens and buttery potatoes. Chicken is also popular, especially chicken breasts which can be encased in pastry and served as en croute or stuffed and wrapped with bacon. But if you’re celebrating with family and friends, you might
want to spread the Yorkshire love a little further with a big sharing dish. Short rib chilli, lamb curry, pulled pork, macaroni cheese and hot and spicy chicken wings all spring to mind. Simply serve in one big pot and let everyone dig in. Of course, spreading the Yorkshire love doesn’t stop and start at the dinner table and we have a lot of love for our suppliers, as do our customers, which is why we always believe in paying a fair price. A lot of our food and drink is made by small family businesses; people who depend on retailers like Mr Pickles’ to stock them in their stores. So, if you are cooking a special meal for Valentine’s Day this year, why not use Yorkshire produce? Your meal will taste amazing and you’ll be supporting local family businesses too. Whether you’re cooking steak, lamb, chicken or pork this Valentine’s Day, pop into Mr Pickles’ on Abbeydale Road for our great range of Yorkshire produce including tasty cheese, cooked meats, sumptuous desserts and seasonal vegetables. We’re open 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
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Make a date
Molly McGreevy caught up with the Sheffield doctor who has started his own smoothie empire. We’ve all been there.You’re rushing out of the house, or on to a train, or between meetings and before you know it you’re shoving a chocolate bar down your throat to keep you going until lunch – not exactly the best way to keep up those new year, new me resolutions. But now, a Sheffield doctor has created a new smoothie that he claims can keep people going for eight hours. Asif Munaf and his wife Aneesa launched DATE Smoothie at the start of January, just in time for the health and fitness season. Instead of the usual blended fruit concoctions we are used to seeing on our shelves, DATE Smoothie use dates (obviously), seeds and nuts to create filling and flavoursome drinks which are vegan, gluten free and generally full of goodness. Where did the idea for DATE Smoothie come from?
We went to Thailand and I was at the airport and there was nothing healthy available, there was nothing substantial in a bottle that would tide me over for the journey. Everything was chocolate, crisps or a syrupy smoothie, and I really wanted to change that. And being a junior doctor, you’re doing 14 days in a row and seven of them are 12 hours shifts, you need something like our smoothies. I don’t get time to eat, I used to carry a packet of nuts with me, but that soon became dry and bland. I needed something nourishing that would satisfy me for a long time.
What’s the secret behind DATE Smoothies?
We’re trying to bring the artisan process to smoothie making. It’s a three-step process that I don’t want to reveal too much of, but we’ve turned it into an art. We’re using seeds, nuts and dates where as other smoothie brands just press juice. Each bottle has up to two dates, which provides natural fructose, and they’re soaked overnight with almonds in almond milk for extra creaminess. How are you different from other smoothie brands?
A lot of smoothies are mass produced in factories, there’s no art behind it, it’s a huge blender, some preservatives and some stabilisers and they brand it as healthy, how is that healthy? I’m medically qualified, you can’t say that’s healthy, it’s part of a fad industry, people are using #cleaneating, #superfood… all this kind of stuff. As a doctor it’s really frustrating, these people don’t come from a medical background so they can’t be making such claims, I don’t want to sell this as a medicine, but I want to sell it as a healthy alternative to what currently is available. Other smoothies are very syrupy, DATE Smoothies are substantial, it fills you up, it’s got the grains from the flax seeds and fibre, if you have this, you don’t need to eat for eight hours, trust me I’m a working man.
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Bhel puri
Thali with chicken palak
‘Authentic’ is a word often overused in foodie circles but couldn’t be more apt for Indian street food specialists, Urban Choola. ‘STREET food’ has become one of the buzz words in foodie circles over the last few years – and Sheffield is no exception. You only have to look at the night markets Peddler and Street City to look just how popular it has become. And that’s only the start. Way ahead of the curve when they opened way back in 2013 was Urban Choola, a delightful yet small ‘kitchen’ at the junction of Sharrow Lane and London Road serving up authentic Indian street food – think puris, samosas and thalis. It was well-loved, to the point where owners Rohan Karkhanis and Khalid Wani couldn’t accommodate everyone, so they joined forces with Anurag Singh
Gol guppa
and relocated the premises to Ecclesall Road, next door to Napoleons. It was a bold move but one that seems to be quickly paying off. I drive past on a regular basis and it’s always busy. The Thursday night of our visit was no exception; there were a couple of large parties in as well as families and couples. They operate a ‘bring your own’ policy for the very reasonable charge of £1 per person. “We have people bring wine, beer, real ales are very popular and we’ve even had someone bring their own homebrew,” explains chef Rohan Karkhanis, who was working front of house on this occasion. We stuck to the sparkling
water (it was still Dryanuary) and allowed Rohan to steer us through a varied menu which included street bites, thalis, kebabs, curries and tandoori sizzlers. It all sounded so good. He recommended starting with small plates of gol guppa (£3.75), bhel puri (£3.75) and ragda patties (£4.95) before tucking into a thali, a traditional Indian dish that is supposed to consist of the different flavours of sweet, salt, bitter, sour, astringent and spicy on one single plate, but more of that later. Bhel puri, a tangy puffed rice salad, was sweet and sour with plenty of chilli kick while the ragda spiced potato cakes, smothered with a selection of chutneys were just delicious. Hot, cold, crispy, soft, spicy, light… I could go on. But the star, and with plenty of theatre thrown in for good measure, was the gol guppa, little cripsy puris served with a chickpea chutney and spiced herb juice. The idea was to place a little bit of chutney in the puri, drizzle over the juice and then pop it into your mouth and then let the flavours explode over your tongue – fantastic. We both had a thali to
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follow, each choosing a curry to accompany the small bowls of chick peas, raita, naan, boiled rice, dal makhani, salad and – make sure you save this for last – rice pudding. I opted for the chicken palak (£12.50), served in a thick tomato and spinach gravy with garam masala, while my wife chose the lamb karahi (£13.50), accentuated with bell peppers and a spicy onion and tomato sauce. Both were as good as you’ll find and we really enjoyed being able to dip into the different flavours and textures. Be warned though, it’s more filling than you think. The creamy rice pudding was too good to ignore but we had little room for anything else, a coffee was suffice. Urban Choola maybe bigger and bolder but still achieves what it set out to do and that’s to satisfy Sheffield appetites for authentic Indian street food. We’ll drink a sparkling water to that (and must remember to bring a bottle next time). Urban Choola 842 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, S11 8TD Tel: 0114 266 6681 www.urbanchoola.co.uk
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IT’S been six years since the doors at Hagglers Corner on Queens Road opened. First came a yoga studio, then a café, an events space and now the Hagglers bar, a cosy little home from home drinking den – that is if your home serves up delicious Espresso Martinis. Pre-2010, the then derelict factory had become somewhat of an eyesore, with many previous lives – it had been a sweet factory, a coal merchants, a dairy and a cattle dealer in the couple of hundred years it’s been around – the building was ready for a new chapter. At the same time, carpenter Dave Knott was looking for a bigger workshop and stumbled upon 586 Queens Road. Seeing the place’s potential, Dave asked the landlord for a chance, and got partner Sarah Ingolfsdottir on board with the project.
Carpenter Dave Knott stumbled upon 586 Queens Road. Seeing the place’s potential, he asked the landlord for a chance.
Molly McGreevy spoke to the guys at Hagglers Corner about their new bar.
“We chatted,” said Dave. “I asked him to give me a chance, and I’ll turn the whole building around and get loads of tenants in.” Two years and an incredible amount of hard work later and the Hagglers Corner yoga studio was opened, followed by the café – Hagglers Kaffihus – and the events space, which soon became home to live music and parties. “It was originally going to be a showroom for my carpentry but it worked better as a hired space,” said Dave. “We had a few little parties and music events in the courtyard, we had bands on and that went really well and we realised people would rent the space.” With the granting of an alcohol licence in 2013, Hagglers Corner became a venue for weddings and birthday parties. With space for 200 guests, and the freedom to transform the courtyard to fit any theme – there have been woodland and Alice in Wonderland themed nuptials held over the years – many a happy couple have celebrated with Hagglers. Having now bought the building from the landlord, the latest project for Dave and Sarah is the Hagglers Corner bar, managed by Jake Shallow. Like much of Hagglers, Dave sourced building materials and crafted a lot of the bar himself, a project that started more than a year ago. “I started collecting things to build the bar – the corrugated steel was very hard to find, we had to get the right shade of rust,” said Dave. “A lot of it I’ve made myself, trying to create the right atmosphere as well as something different. It’s not finished yet – we want to have some big, silver birch
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trees growing through the bar, I just need to find some.” And they’ve certainly got the atmosphere right – when CityMag popped in on a Friday night the cocktails were flowing and a DJ played in the corner – sitting in the bar is more like being at a friend’s chilled house party; all comfy sofas and friendly faces. Drinks wise, expect local beers and a small but perfectly formed cocktail menu, designed by Jake, featuring classics like the Pornstar Martini. With so much going on, the best way to find out about Hagglers Corner is to go and explore for yourself. As well as the yoga studio, events space, café and bar, a whole host of independent businesses have taken up residence in Hagglers’ retail units.
Meet the residents: The Light Room Yoga Studio One of the city’s most striking and idyllic yoga spaces with multiple yoga styles practised every week. You’ll be spoilt with the number of teachers and different disciplines they have available. Balance Holistic Healing A team of skilled and dedicated practitioners offering a wide range of treatments from massage, deep tissue, aromatherapy, sports massage through to shamanic and energetic bodywork. Running With Scissors Workshops for crafty individuals. Some are run by staff tutors and some by guest tutors, who are specialists in their craft.
Orchis Floral Design Classically trained with over 15 years experience in floristry, Emma ran her own floral boutique for nine years and then in 2011 opened her first studio. Having a dedicated studio gives Emma and her team the creative space to focus on producing top quality event floristry in a relaxed atmosphere. Emma specialises in wedding flowers, events and sympathy floristry throughout Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Cheshire and has created stunning pieces for celebrities including Rihanna. She has also supplied flowers for events including The World Snooker at the Sheffield Crucible and has been featured in publications including OK Magazine and Cosmo Bride. Piano & Keyboard Lessons Friendly and personal lessons with Madge Woollard BA PGCE CTABRSM, tailored to your individual needs. Age 6-adult, BeginnerGrade 8, classical/jazz/pop. Annual student concerts. Students may work towards ABRSM or London College exams if they wish.
Copperbelle A haven for those with a sense of interior adventure. Selling contemporary furniture and interior pieces, the shop specialises in finding pieces with an industrial chic feel. Whether you’re looking for eye-catching furniture or pieces to bring character to a room, Copperbelle can help. Copperbelle also have a range created by local artists and designers as well as those from further afield. Dr Viper Tattoos Max Charles has created one of Sheffield’s most exciting and unique tattoo studios. He trained in the North East and over the last six years has continued to experiment and innovate, establishing a broad range of styles and approaches. His work has developed from a traditional Oriental form into a fusion of modern styles that is fluid and abstract, with elements of watercolour and dynamic brushstrokes. He frequently includes animalistic and shamanic characters, and his work conveys energy, freedom, and passion. Hagglers Music School Whether you want to learn piano, guitar, violin, fiddle, harmonica, Mandolin or the banjo, Hagglers Music School can help. All the tutors are regular performers as well as teachers.
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GURU
A hill is just a state of mind, says Russell Cutts. Just make sure you have the right bike for the job.
Sip. Paint. Party. PAINT NIGHT
STARRY NIGHT – VAN GOGH 08 M arch / 7.30–9.30 @ Pointing Dog Tickets £20 from www.eventbrite.co.uk See our event page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/1827181750826893
SERIOUSLY, if you cycle anywhere in Sheffield you’ll have cycled up and down a hill, it’s hard not to. It’s one of the biggest reasons we hear in the shop why people don’t want to cycle in Sheffield, who’d blame them! But we know ways to help. Bicycles are not all equal, just like cities are not all the same. In London you’ll see single-geared fixies speeding around the pancake flat environs, in Cambridge the classic heavy Dutch Bike wins hands down but in a city like Sheffield you need something different, something strong yet lightweight, something with a wider choice of gears and something with decent brakes. A customer who had moved here from Cambridge was amazed at how frequently they were changing their brake pads. If you want to ride in a hilly city you need a good range of gears, two or three choices at the front and a range of 11 teeth to 32 teeth at the back. This should cover all the inclines Sheffield has to offer including Blake Street. The frame needs to be lightweight; aluminium and good quality steel is what we recommend to take the bangs and bashes from parking your bike on public stands. Rim brakes are great but you’ll go through a few pads and even wheels over the course of your cycling life. Disc brakes are better and can be cheaper in the long term. Need more advice then get yourself along to Russell’s Bicycle Shed at Sheffield Railway Station or 92 Burton Road.
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Sports massage or chiropractor? Shak Jackson, answers a recurring question. I OFTEN get asked which is the best option between a sports massage or a chiropractor. This all depends on the nature of the problem and whether it is muscular or skeletal. Here is my take on things to hopefully help you choose the best option for you. Massage Therapy Massage therapy targets problems that are muscular in nature. Muscle spasms and areas of tension and knots can benefit from massage as well as pulled or strained muscles. Massage therapy isn’t just a pampering treatment. It has legitimate medical properties, effective in aiding in pain management and speeding the recovery process. Massages also affect the nervous system through the manipulation of soft tissue. The top layers of muscles benefit from applied massage because it encourages the free flow of fluids and energy.
There are many massage techniques used in healing including Swedish, Sports, Deep Tissue and Trigger Point Therapy. All help with pain management and all help with the recovery process. Massage therapy boasts benefits ranging from: • Boosts immunity • Improves skin condition • Increases blood flow • Reduces anxiety • Aids athletes • Improves sleep Chiropractor Chiropractic care specifically addresses the disorders of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Unlike massage therapy, chiropractic care focuses on the hard tissue; the spine and joints. Chiropractors are trained to recommend rehabilitative exercises and might even use massage in their course of treatment. A spinal manipulation or
adjustment is the most common technique used to treat issues like back pain or neck pain. Other issues can be treated effectively with chiropractic care including: • Joint pain • Headaches • Tendonitis • Tension Working together Perhaps the choice is not between needing a chiropractor or a massage, but a balance of the two to help your pain. Massage therapy can aid in chiropractic care, acting like a “warm-up” for the body prior to the adjustment. Adjustments last longer when muscle tension is eased. Tight muscles pull joints out of alignment, and massage therapy would address that issue directly. In turn, chiropractic care addresses misalignments which gives relief to the soft tissues. Soft tissue heals quicker once the joints have been restored to their proper position.
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Your winter wardrobe doesn’t have to mirror the miserable weather, says Brag Vintage’s Becca Linnard. OK‌ so winter’s nearly over, right? Does that mean we get to stop wearing dreary greys, blacks and browns? I strongly feel that there should be a campaign to inject more colour into the winter months. The sun is out less so we need all the bright shades we can gather. I find that going shopping as winter begins to set in tends to mean staring at rails and rails of dim, dull tones. Except for Christmastime when its all out metallics, glitters, sequins... You name it, if it’s dazzling and garish it’ll be there, spangling away. But that’s just two polar opposites, isn’t it? Well, we need the in-between options. The lively contrasting colours, the daring prints and all the rest of it during the cooler months too, not just the spring/summer season. I Brag Vintage think it’s important go out of your way to make bold 33 High Street colour choices. So many of us too easily accept that Sheffield, S1 2GA winter layers have to be muted, neutral shades of Tel: 0114 275 9974 cardigan. It is possible to be cosy and vibrant at the Instagram: same time. Go against the grain and refuse to be @bragvintage dictated by the high street seasonal wear. Don’t wait for summer to break in before you start wearing colour again!
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From Ben Wheatley to Bowie: March at the Showroom. It’s almost March at the Showroom and we have another month of indie hits, stunning world cinema and events to fill your calendar. It’s still too cold to be outside, so support your local independent cinema and take your pick from the selection below. Last year, acclaimed director Ben Wheatley popped in for a sold-out Q&A event to promote High-Rise. He is back again on 8 March to promote his latest film Free Fire. Set in late seventies Massachusetts, expect guns, gun fights and more guns as a gang of criminals meet in a disused warehouse in order to purchase arms, but a disagreement turns into a shootout between the two parties.
The Final Girls are a film collective who focus on exploring the intersections of feminism and horror cinema. We’ve teamed up with them for a special screening of Love Witch – a spellbinding homage to 1970s sexploitation films and technicolour melodramas of the 1960s on 5 March. After the film, you can join them in the bar for a bloody tea party! Sheffield’s very own Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF) returns from 17-19 March, bringing the wild outdoors into the heart of the city for three days of jawdropping spectacle and heartstopping adventure. Expect a packed programme of carefully curated films from the world’s best outdoor filmmakers.
Featuring top athletes, aweinspiring locations and the whole spectrum of outdoor sports, with films on running, climbing, biking, skiing, surfing, kayaking and everything in between. Rammstein: Paris (23 March) is a fast-paced feast for all senses that takes a radical new approach to capture the emotion and thrill of Rammstein’s one-of-a-kind live performance. A dark and spectacular fairytale, a technical tour de force that captivates you even before the music has started. He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar, David Bowie performed his last ever concert as Ziggy Stardust on 23 July at the
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Hammersmith Odeon and we have a one-off screening of concert film on 7 March, accompanied by a new film produced by MOJO magazine which features MOJO’s EditorIn-Chief Phil Alexander in conversation with The Spiders From Mars drummer Woody Woodmansey – a must for fans of Bowie, his music and his legacy. To find out more, visit www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/ guide
A glimpse of what to expect at Sheffield Adventure Film Festival
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TWO days of Outlines this year? Don’t mind if we do. Slow Club Picture © Carolina Faruolo www.cfaruolo.com
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THEY came, they conquered and now they’re doubling their offering for 2017. Yes, Outlines Festival is back and is now running over two days (3-4 March) rather than the single day it debuted with last year. That must mean they’ve got some cracking acts lined up then, right? Indeed, they do. One-hundred of them to be precise. Top of the bill is Australian psych rock outfit Jagwar Ma, who will be playing Outlines as part of a headline UK tour. Adding worthy support will be The Selecter, MOBO winners Lady Leshurr and Nadia Rose and indie band Clean Cut Kid, who we caught up with for a quick chat (see opposite). Our local music scene will be also on show, with the recentlyadded Alvarez Kings and These Gangs joining the likes of The Crookes, Slow Club, Bloodsport and The Seamonsters. Recent additions also include iconic punk outfit The Membranes, psych band Flamingods, LA soul singer Kadhja Bonet, rapidly rising punk quintet Shame and alt-pop trio Our Girl. The Leadmill, Queens Social Club, Plug, The Harley and Bloc Projects will be hosting the gigs over the weekend and there’ll be after parties hosted by a selection of Sheffield’s most well regarded club night promoters, including Nice Like Rice, Banana Hill, Souljam and Pretty Pretty Good. Weekend tickets for the event, which is programmed and promoted by the team behind Tramlines, are available now for £20 while stocks last.
GET YOUR TEETH INTO THIS LOT: JAGWAR MA / THE SELECTER / SLOW CLUB / THE CROOKES / LADY LESHURR / CLEAN CUT KID / FLAMINGODS / THE MEMBRANES / ALVAREZ KINGS / AZUSENA / BANFI / BRUISING / BABE PUNCH / BLIND SAINTS / BLOOD SPORT / EYRE / LLEW / FEAR OF MEN / GIRL20 / GIRL RAY / HANNAH PEEL / HARKIN / HEJIRA / INDIAN QUEENS / ISLET / JODIE ABACUS / KADJHA BONET / LAUREL / LIBERTY SHIP / LUXURY DEATH / MI MYE / MATIC MOUTH / NACHTHEXEN / NOVELLA / THE ORIELLES / OUR GIRL / ROCKY NTI / ROZELLE / SHAME / THESE GANGS / YASSASSIN
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21 ONE of Liverpool’s most recent exports – Clean Cut Kid – are in for another whirlwind year and one of their first ports of call in 2017 is Outlines. You lucky things. Alongside the release of their debut EP We Used To Be In Love, the four-piece played almost 100 gigs and more than 30 festivals in 2016, spreading their infectious, at times experimental, and all round feel good indie-pop sound to every corner of the UK. This year looks like being no different. We caught up with bassist Saul Godman to talk Outlines, new albums and the support slot of a lifetime.
vocal, which is different from what we’ve done before and it sounds amazing, everyone is really excited about it. Then the album will come out in the spring and we’ll have our own tour and a homecoming gig in Liverpool after that. We’ve just booked a super huge support tour, which we cannot believe, the ultimate gig is one of the dates. We can’t say who just yet, but it’s someone who’s just had a number one album. It’s huge, it’s so big, it’s unbelievable. We had to have a little celebration just because it was so crazy, we were ringing our mums. That’s in May.
CLEAN CUT KID An interview (by Molly McGreevy)
How did Clean Cut Kid get together? Mike and Evelyn are married, I met Mike years ago and since they started doing music he wanted to get me in the band, but because I didn’t have a phone he couldn’t get in touch. Then he saw me busking in town and was able to ask me and I was in. Then we were looking for a drummer, everyone suggested Ross, Mike asked him and he was in too. Last year was a busy one for you, what was the highlight? It’s hard to pin point one moment but Glastonbury was a high point. To be honest we had some great moments between the four of us just in the practice room; playing live is a high point but when we’re recording you have high points in different ways. It’s been the four of us, all year round, we’ve not had any distractions from the music, it’s been really exciting. What about the year ahead, what have you got planned for 2017? We’ve got the single coming out in February. We cannot tell you the name yet but it was written on tour last year – it’s been recorded in London and mixed in LA – it doesn’t sound as garage band as before, I think it sounds more professional. Evelyn does the main
What can we expect from the album, what is influencing the Clean Cut Kid sound at the moment? Everyone has been listening to the new Bon Iver album and Michael Kiwanuka’s latest album. Mainly, we’re listening to Radio 1 just to see what’s happening in the charts. Mike, who writes our songs, has been revisiting classic bands, that’s a bit of a plan for our sound, to have the rhythm section of a classic rock band and then add all those Clean Cut Kid elements over the top. Evelyn sings, plays keyboard with one hand, synth with the other hand and then she’s also doing pedals for the keyboard – she’s doing about six things at once! She’s like the icing, and we’re the cake. What can we expect from your Outlines show? We’ve played Sheffield before – we did a gig at The Harley in 2015. This time we’re going to be playing songs from the album, I know people who are going to Outlines, it looks like it’s going to be a belter.
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Counting Paul Weller as one of their biggest fans, sixties soulinspired Stone Foundation will be playing a special gig at Yellow Arch Studios to mark the launch of their new album. Phoebe Seymour caught up with singer Neil Jones. BACK in the soulful sixties and seventies, the music was sweet and the lyrics were revolutionary. You’d be surprised by just how many modern day musicians sample or try to recapture the sound of this time. However, very few of them manage to emulate the strong social messages of predecessors. Midlands-based, eight-piece band, Stone Foundation are a return to form. What’s more, their new album Street Rituals (due for release on 31 March) has particularly socially conscious lyrics to match. They’ll be dropping into Yellow Arch Studios to give us lucky Sheffielders the first ever live performance of their new album on 4 March, before setting off on a UK tour, which will kick off with a support slot for Paul Weller at his Teenage Cancer Trust headline show at The Royal Albert Hall. We caught up with lead vocalist, Neil Jones to talk about their gig at Yellow Arch, the inspiration behind their new album and their exciting collaborations with Paul Weller. Why did you choose Sheffield as the first stop on your tour?
It’s going to be the first time we’ve ever played in Sheffield, which is really bizarre because Sheffield has always been known as a good gigging city. So it’s been a long time coming and it fitted in quite well. We’re playing all over the country in Scotland, Bristol, Brighton, London, then a big show in Coventry, but this was something we held back to give fans a chance to come and listen to the album live before it’s released. So it should be exciting. I’m looking forward to it. I’ve heard Yellow Arch is a good venue. What else can we expect from your Sheffield gig?
We’re an eight-piece band with a brass section, keys… We’re basically the Von Trapp family [laughs].
It’s been a slow but sure rise for the band. How did it all begin?
It’s been nearly 20 years since myself and Neil Sheasby started writing songs together. It’s a weird story for us really because everyone always tells you, “You’ve got to make it when you’re young” and with us, it’s been the opposite way. We had lots of false starts – sessions on Radio 2 and all sorts of things that would make you think, “That’s it now”, then band members would leave or certain things would go astray and put us back to square one. Then as luck would have it, in 2011, we were playing a pub down the road from where John Bradbury from The Specials lived in London. John had heard of the band and had come to see us. The following week, he offered us a support slot on The Specials arena tour. John, bless him, passed away last year, but he said, “This will be the start of bigger things” and as it happens, it was. We’ve had different guests on our records like Carleen Anderson and Andy Fairweather Low, so the story every year since then got stronger and stronger. We ended up going to Japan and we seem to have a good following out there now. Then it’s led us up to working with Paul Weller, which was like a right bolt out the blue. How did that come about?
There was a guy in London, who follows the band, who passed Paul a couple of our old records and Paul obviously liked what he heard. He’d started working on a song that he had the bare bones for. So he sent us the track, we sat down had a play with it, came up with a chorus and some extra lyrics, sent it back with the Stone Foundation treatment, with the brass section and everything and he loved it. He gave me a call to say how much he loved the track, one thing led to another and he invited us down to Black Barn studio to play with him. That song was called The Limit of the Man. That will be a single released in mid-March.
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He’s so on form at the moment. He’s so creative, coming up with so much new stuff and it’s so much in that soul sort of vein. We went down to the studio and I think we’d only been playing for about a day and by the end of that day we’d ended up with about six or seven tunes on the desk and we were looking at each other going, “We’ve got a record!” Paul Weller features on your new single, Your Balloon Is Rising. That has a strong soul sound…
Yeah, definitely. I think a lot of the influence on this record has come from that early seventies thing. It’s that Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye [sound]. We really wanted a record that had a social commentary, so all ten tracks have a social element to them. Obviously, we’re living in really troubled times right now and it seems that everyone’s either divided or everything’s really divisive. We wanted to write a record that spoke of communities coming together. How did you get into that kind of music?
I came to soul through an unconventional route. When I was younger, I was listening to old school hip-hop like Public Enemy and De La Soul… I used to think, “Where do all these incredible samples come from?” Then as soon as you start digging into samples you realise that they’re pulling from people like James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, all these incredible artists. A lot of the songs on the record struck a chord with Paul as well. He essentially loves the music that we love and I think Paul said to us, “You see very little of that these days” and that’s why it was nice to make a record like that. There are some great songs out there – don’t get me wrong. But it just seems there’s not as much weight to music as there used to be.
If we can make people think a little bit about the people around them, and they take a little something more than the music from this album, then that’s quite nice.
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COMPETITION WIN TICKETS! Stone Foundation are giving away two tickets to see them live at Yellow Arch Studios on 4 March, where they will be performing songs from their brand new album, Street Rituals. To enter, visit www.rmcmedia.co.uk/ competitions and answer the following question: Which famous singersongwriter featured on their new single, Your Balloon is Rising? Competition closes Friday 24 February.
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From 13-19 March, the city will be overflowing with ale as it celebrates Sheffield Beer Week. And at the heart of it will be Beer X 2017.
Beer X 2017
SHEFFIELD’S growing reputation as the real ale capital of the world will come under scrutiny as the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) return to the city for their annual festival, Beer X 2017. Held at iceSheffield between 16-19 March, it will take on an extra slant this year with a specially constructed pop-up beer hall overlooking Don Valley Bowl and will be called BeerAlive!. Nick Stafford, operations director for SIBA, said: “Beer Alive! is different to most beer festivals as this is organised by the brewers – therefore they demand that every beer poured is served from a fresh glass so visitors can enjoy each beer in the very best condition.” The beers on sale will be SIBA award-winning brews from all regions of the UK, which means the very best independently brewed beer can be enjoyed under one roof. The BeerAlive! pop-up beer hall, which will be fully heated and lit with proper flooring, will be open from 17-19 March and will feature eight regional bars serving over 120 gold-winning cask and keg beers plus hundreds of additional bottles and cans. Live music from soulful Sheffield crooner Vernon Lewis & EMaculate will take centre stage on the Friday evening, followed by We spoke to the all final Six Nations rugby matches live on a giant screen on the Hop Hideout’s Saturday and upbeat cover songs from local lads Skudoo. Jules Gray, Eat Street will return with food from local specialist street food Sheffield Beer traders Percy & Lily’s, Fancy an Indian?, Pie Eyed, Meltworks and Tell us about Sheffield Beer Week founder Caribou Poutine. There will also be snack offerings from Karkli, Week? Smo Fo, Barmies and Corkers. It started as an idea that if all the Sunday brings a new event, Brunch at BeerAlive, with a relaxed beery businesses of Sheffield joined family-friendly atmosphere and music from five exciting local forces we could beat a unified drum together to have more acoustic acts curated by Sheffield’s Sofar Sounds. force. It’s all about raising Sheffield’s profile and sharing all Nick Stafford said: “The Sunday is a more relaxed day with brunch the good beer related things that are happening here and offerings from our street food traders, fresh artisan coffee, fantastic bringing more cultural visitors to the city. music and the chance to unwind before the week ahead. It’s a nice I was inspired by beer weeks over in the US and events like event for families too as we’re giving free entry to under 18s.” Norwich’s City of Ale. The first year of launch was 2015 and a Visitors can reach the venue via tram or on the BeerAlive! good friend of mine, Claire Tollick, supported that idea and really vintage Routemaster, which will run on a loop from Sheffield City made the week happen. Now in its third year it’s really testament Centre, via the Fat Cat at Kelham Island and out to Don Valley to those who get involved and put events on across the city, each Bowl. Travel on the bus is free but donations for Sheffield year it’s gained traction from its very grassroots beginnings. Children’s Hospital Charity are welcomed and the timetable will be In 2016 there was over 30 venues hosting more than 60 available on the website closer to the event. different events. We are even collaborating with Norwich City Real capital of the world? Surely it’s in the bag.
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Tickets for BeerAlive are on sale now at beerx.org, priced at £7, including a free commemorative glass.Visit www.beerx.org for more.
of Ale organisers this year, which is a nice build. I found out last year on a visit to Norwich’s launch event that they have a Fat Cat pub and brewery inspired by Sheffield’s namesake pub. It just felt like a very natural way to evolve.
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Sheffield is a big cask ale city, you can see that from the number and output of the breweries in the Sheffield city region. I love cask ale – its heritage, delicate carbonation and beauty. The new ‘Beer Alive’ tent at Beer X
What’s in store for this year? Again it’s city-wide so venues up in areas like Crookes, Abbeydale, Kelham and, of course, the city centre are all getting involved. From New Barrack Tavern to The Broadfield to the Devonshire Cat, the Beer Engine and the Red Deer and more. There’s local breweries like Lost Industry to international Belgian breweries and UK stalwarts like Wild Beer Co hosting events in collaboration with Sheffield venues. We’ll also be hosting the ‘Twitter Hours’ again this year which proved popular – covering topics like sour beer, coffee and beer, home brewing, with more to be added. It’s a way for people to join in from all over the world. There’s lots of local collaboration beers planned – look out for Thornbridge, Little Critters, HopJacker, Lost Industry, Abbeydale, Welbeck, True North, Sentinel, Steel City and more releasing new beers during the week. Any special events? I think there’ll be lots of people very excited to attend the Beavertown Brewery event up at the Hallamshire House pub.
What do you make of Sheffield being referred to as the ‘real ale capital’? Sheffield is a big cask ale city, you can see that from the number and output of the breweries in the Sheffield city region. I love cask ale – its heritage, delicate carbonation and beauty. There is a whole beer landscape though and there’s lots of different styles and inspiration to be taken from all around the globe. I’d like to see more experimentation and diversity in the city. What can we do more as a city to promote our beers/brewing? It’s difficult for me to say, I’m just trying to do my bit and bring people together. Beer’s a great social builder. The city must be doing something right as this year not only do the Society of Independent Brewers‘ (SIBA) Beer X festival return but there’s a new Beer Now conference launching alongside. Will there be a new ‘Beery Map’? I would like it to be an ever-evolving project, so yes, but maybe for 2018! Currently I’ve a few copies of the existing map to distribute out around venues for this year; so please pick up and buy one on your beery journey (and then we can produce another).
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VOTED SHEFFIELD CAMRA PUB OF THE YEAR 2013 Cask ales on rotation (over 3,500 beers sold in just over 4 years!) Over 125 whiskies, wide range of rums, gins, vodkas and ciders.
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A new trio of voice, fiddle and guitar, made up of graduates of the Newcastle folk music degree whose paths never crossed during their studies. '...the three of them, I think, are probably amongst the best exponents of English traditional music there are...' Mike Harding, The Mike Harding Folk Show. SATURDAY 25TH | Starts at 5:00pm
DAVE ROSSER CHARITY GIG
Charitable gig in aid of raising money for the American guitarist, Dave Rosser (Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers) to combat cancer. With the acts, THE LETTER, Dave Woodcock & The Dead Comedians, Pilosa, My Girl The River, The Electric Luddites, The Twisted Dolls, The Hill People and The Farewell State. It will be an evening of fantastic live music.
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Reg & Friends Open Acoustic Night. Come along and play, sing or just watch. FREE ENTRY
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Peak Ales’ new range is perfect for the months ahead. AS an antidote to the cold weather, wrap your lips around a glass of Peak Ales’ Paxton, a 4.4% full-bodied ruby-red beer, which was awarded the Sheffield City Beer Festival 2016 – Best Bitter overall Champion, and overall Silver of the competition. If you fancy trying something different, new for 2017 is a brand new bold and hoppy 6% IPA, similar in strength to the original beers exported to India, with a modern citrus twist. Following a move to a brand new purpose-built 20-barrel brewery in October 2014, Peak Ales are planning to have their original brewery on the Chatsworth Estate open by Easter this year. This will be home a new visitor centre, holding a small twobarrel brewery and will be open for ‘brew your own days’ as well as allowing them to experiment with brand new brews to add to the Peak Ales range.
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Difficult to say but we’re big champions of Buxton Brewery and Axe Edge is just an absolute classic IPA. Jules is a big fan of sours and loves the geuze from Cantillon Brewery. Will is more of a big stout fan and a favourite of his is Oskar Blues Ten Fidy (though anything dark from Omnipollo and Buxton hit the spot). Your best-sellers?
We sell lots of local beers such as Kelham Island Brewery plus Yorkshire breweries like Magic Rock – their High Wire hopped up pale ale is probably one of our biggest sellers. Tell us about the tastings.
Abbeydale Road’s Hop Hideout has quickly established itself as the go-to beer stop at that side of town. We take a closer look. Tell us about your business.
Hop Hideout is a specialist beer shop and tasting room with 300400 different beers, five draught beers on tap (for take out growler fills and sit in drinking) plus a variety of ciders and spirits. We (Jules and Will) started around November 2013 and have since gone on to win two national awards (as presented at the House of Commons!). Jules used to work at a brewery for over seven years and Will has a background in photography and websites – so we looked to bring the things we knew about together as a whole. We’re sort of a cross between a beer shop and a micro-pub where you can sit in and enjoy a beer or two. We have a lovely garden area, that opens in the summer and do lots of events, from a monthly Mikkeller chapter running club (with beer and cake afterwards) and a home brew club. What is your ethos?
Friendly, welcoming, good beer and good times.
We’re very social and try to host something at least once a month, usually after the shop shuts on an evening. Anything from meet the brewers to beer and cheese nights. Last year we celebrated our third birthday and had a whole host of great breweries over from Cloudwater to Left Hand Brewing. We’ve also hosted tastings at other venues – our Pete Brown ‘The Pub’ event as part of Off The Shelf literature festival was a big 90people beer tasting event at the main Sheffield Hallam campus. What events do you have coming up?
There’s lots planned for Sheffield Beer Week this year including a Magic Rock Brewing meet the brewer Friday 10 March. We’ll be hosting a beer photography exhibition, there’s a Belgian brewery – De Bradandere – hosting a sour beer (Petrus) blending masterclass and we have a double hitter with Elusive Brewing and Siren joining forces to host an event too. It’s going to be a most excellent week. Later on in the year we’ve got a cider and sour beer event with Hogan’s, North Brewing Co are coming up and we’ve an August bank holiday beer and barbecue weekend with Sheffield slow cook masters the BBQ Collective. What’s in store for the future?
There’s a big focus on developing our website – we launched it in September 2015 and we’ve been shipping beer all across the UK. There’s so many people that you can connect with via social media, it’s a great unifying force. Otherwise just more events and bringing great beers to Hop Hideout for people to enjoy!
What brought you to Abbeydale Road?
We used to live up the road from the shop and really liked the area. It had a nice neighbourhood spirit to it and lots of great independents and it felt like a very creative area. A chance introduction to the owners of the vintage shop next door to us kind of brought the whole idea to inception. How many beers do you have available?
Anywhere between 300 to 400 from local (lots of Yorkshire beers!) to the rest of the UK to Japan to Scandinavia, Belgium and America. It’s a great time to be a beer drinker, with the choice, quality and range of different styles out there. We try to touch the base on different areas – local, traditional ales, stouts, pilsners, classic Belgian beers and sours like Gose, Berliner Weisse and Geuze.
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Our good friends at Ashoka trace the origins of India Pale Ale – the perfect accompaniment to one of their cracking curries. A DECADE ago if you’d asked a bartender for an IPA it is more than likely you’d receive a vacant stare in return. You may have been served a pint of the Green King IPA but this is now a million miles away from what we have become accustomed to. A lot has changed since I was a student when we happily drank Stella, Boddington’s, Caffreys or copious amounts of VodBull if we were out-out. Beer is so much better today and Sheffield has been blessed with some brilliant breweries. Dave Wicket was instrumental in the embryonic stages with Kelham Island and helping steer Thornbridge in the early days. We now have Bradfield, Sentinel, True North, Welbeck, Abbeydale and Neepsend brewery amongst lots of other micro-brewery operations in Sheffield. So what is IPA and why is great with an Ashoka curry?
IPA stands for India Pale Ale. British officers and civil servants stationed in the Colony were missing their beer and due to the heat it was difficult to brew in India. Brewers needed a solution for how to keep the beer brewed in British fresh so when it arrived in India it was deliciously drinkable. In the 1780s, a London brewer called Hodgson answered the call by sending out a strong, heavily hopped beer called October ale that would normally be aged like wine before drinking. The beer not only survived the journey, but was found to have improved immeasurably. This was the prototype IPA; the beer gradually became paler and more refreshing to suit the Indian climate. Hodgson’s beer was imitated by bigger brewers, such as Bass. It evolved into something weaker, just plain old pale ale,
for the home market. With the coming of refrigeration, proper IPA itself began to die out. Until that is the Americans rediscovered their love of brewing some time around 1976. The craft brewers in the States merrily set about
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recreating forgotten British styles – including IPA. Being American, they didn’t do things by halves. These new ales were packed with alcohol and hops. From America, IPA returned home across the Atlantic. It’s been a funny old journey: a beer that was invented in Britain for the Indian market, was revived by Americans and then copied by brewers in Britain. A fine example of the reborn IPA is Jaipur (which we sell). It positively zings with citric hoppiness, though I imagine it would taste even better after six months mellowing on a slow boat to India. Our recommended pairing is our Karamelised Kashmiri Lamb dish with a Thornbridge Jaipur or the Farmers Blonde from Bradfield Brewery. Source: Empire of Booze, Henry Jeffreys.
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LOSEHILL House Hotel is a spectacular location for a civil ceremony or wedding reception in the heart of the Peak District. They have a number of 2017 packages to suit every style and budget and can tailor the day to your needs. Saturday Exclusive This package will offer you and your guests sole use of the hotel and Orangery restaurant and grounds for the duration of your stay for a minimum of 75 guests. A reception drink will be included as well as canapés, three-course wedding breakfast, coffee and petit fours, a half bottle of house wine for each guest and hot roast sandwich evening buffet. This package also includes the use of 22 rooms on a bed and breakfast basis. The inclusive price for up to 75 guests is £12,850. Friday/Sunday Exclusive This package will offer you and your guests sole use of the hotel and Orangery restaurant and grounds for the duration of your stay for a minimum of 70 guests. This package includes the use of 22 rooms on a bed and breakfast basis with check-in at 2pm and departure at 11am the next day. Mid-week Exclusive This package will offer you and your guests sole use of the hotel and Orangery restaurant and grounds for the duration of your stay. Available every Monday to Thursday from 1pm subject to availability. This package includes the use of 22 rooms on a bed and breakfast basis. Non-exclusive package This package will offer you and your guests private use of the Moorgate Suite or private dining room to hold your civil ceremony and wedding breakfast. Up to 40 guests can be accommodated in the Moorgate Suite, and up to ten guests in the private dining room. Available 12-4pm subject to availability.
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35 You can personalise every last detail at The Old Rectory, a unique and historic wedding venue. STEEPED in history, The Old Rectory is one of South Yorkshire’s most striking wedding venues. The beautiful grade II-listed stone building in Handsworth is tucked away in its own quiet grounds and could be mistaken for being in the middle of beautiful countryside, yet it’s conveniently just a short distance from the motorway and the city centre. From the moment you pass under the stone arch of the old coach house to the front of the fine old Georgian rectory, which looks out across the lawn and garden, you will know you have found your perfect wedding venue. Their personal approach means you can create a bespoke day. Centre manager and events co-ordinator, Tim Schafer, says: “We take a no-package approach. Every element, from chair covers and centrepieces to food and drinks, are priced individually. We work with you to pick and choose only the elements you want, to fit your budget and taste.” They can cater for anything from two to 200 guests and have a sit-down meal capacity for up to 140, although there is also an option to have a more informal buffet for up to 200 people. With a choice of fine old Georgian rooms, there is also plenty of choice for the more intimate gatherings. You can greet your guests on the red carpet, come through the
French windows into the fine Georgian Bramley lounge, with its magnificent fireplace, and mingle with your guests over a glass of bucks fizz or Pimm’s in the large Ballifield drawing room. Then settle down to eat in the spacious main hall, which can later become the perfect place for a band, alongside their well-stocked bar. The Old Rectory hosts around 50 weddings a year and possesses a history that stretches back 60 years, to the time it was converted from a private house. 402b Handsworth Road, Handsworth, Sheffield, S13 9BZ Tel: 0114 269 2537 www.orh.org.uk
THE OLD RECTORY UNIQUE OCCASIONS Large Dance Floor Licensed Bar Beautiful Surroundings Excellent Catering Packages
EASTER MARKET & FUN DAY Monday 17th April 11am to 4pm Craft stalls, BBQ, meet Princess Elsa and hear her sing, bouncy castle, children’s ride, magical dressing up area and story teller, circus skills workshop and more £3 a ticket in advance.
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36 Macmillan Cancer Support is looking for quizmasters to sign up for The Macmillan Mammoth Quiz to support local people affected by cancer. And it’s much easier than you think… simply sign up to receive a fundrasing pack, which includes the questions, quiz sheet and some ideas of how to raise money at your quiz. Rob Turner, Senior Fundraising Manager for Macmillan in Sheffield said, “We are looking for local groups and businesses including local pubs to host a quiz night during February to support Macmillan. Many places host one already so it’s really easy to organise and great fun to take part whilst knowing the money you raising is supporting local people affected by cancer in South Yorkshire.” To register for your 2017 quiz pack, find out more about the Mammoth Quiz and start downloading sample questions and fundraising materials, please log on to www.macmillan.org.uk/mammo th or email fundraising@macmillan.org.uk
New West Street venue Stone & Taps does exactly what it says on the tin – stone-baked pizzas and craft beer, cask ales and frizzanti (chilled prosecco) straight from the tap. Part of Hawthorn Leisure, the bar replaces the former Wetherspoon’s-owned Swim Inn and has been given a £140,000 makeover to feature stylish reclaimed wood, quirky décor and a ‘secret garden’. They’ll also be serving 21-day aged burgers, street food and have happy hour everyday from 5-8pm.
Sheffield Theatres is celebrating after being named as Regional Theatre of the Year for the third time at The Stage Awards 2017. Sheffield Theatres was praised for its outstanding work in theatre during the past year, including two new productions; Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff ’s awardwinning musical Flowers for Mrs Harris and The Nap, a new comedy by Richard Bean. Classic productions Showboat and Annie Get Your Gun were also recognised by industry judges. Dan Bates, Sheffield Theatres’ chief executive, said: “We were delighted to have been nominated, but to have won the title again is quite overwhelming and tops off a fantastic 12 months. The award recognises not only the incredible achievements of our outgoing artistic director Daniel Evans but also the initiatives introduced by our new artistic director Robert Hastie.”
Coffee lovers of Broomhill rejoice! Nam Song, a new Vietnamese coffee house, is opening on 18 February on Fulwood Road. The coffee shop will offer classic Vietnamese dishes such as pho, bánh mì and distinctive vietnamese coffee. For those in need of work, the coffee house is currently hiring both full-time and part-time chefs, baristas and front of house staff.
SHOWROOM WEDDINGS Dust off your best Stormtrooper outfit because Sheffield Arena has announced that it will be hosting this year’s Sheffield Film and Comic Con event on 12 and 13 August. Sylvester McCoy from Doctor Who and Jenette Goldstein from Aliens and Terminator 2 have already been confirmed as guests, with more to be announced in the run up to the event. Guest talks, comic masterclasses and rare merchandise stalls – grab your tickets early to guarantee entry to THE film and comic event of the year. There are a limited number of early entry tickets on sale now. For ticket details and event updates head to www.sheffieldarena.co.uk
From intimate gatherings to extravagant weddings, The Showrom can accommodate up to 200 of your nearest and dearest, with the professional events team working with you to plan and support every detail of your booking, from beginning to end. They have experience of working within a wide range of budgets and will ensure that your event is tailored to you. Having established relationships with many local businesses, including hotels, entertainment agencies and breweries, they have a wealth of services to share with you. The talented head chef and his team can create a unique menu to your taste as part of our bespoke package.
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A secret is best shared and lips have finally been loosened over the official 2017 Tramlines line-up – and it looks like a cracker. The exclusively outdoor festival will span three park spaces – Ponderosa, Devonshire Green and Endcliffe Park (Folk Forest) – and will feature the likes of The Libertines, Toots and the Maytals, All Saints, Metronomy, The Coral, The Pharcyde and Twin Atlantic. The decision to tweak the format came in response to feedback from festival goers. Tramlines festival director Sarah Nulty explains: “After each festival, we turn to our audience to find out what they’d like to see at the next event. The overwhelming feedback was that people wanted to see bigger acts on the Tramlines stages. By streamlining Tramlines to three outdoor stages, it’s meant we could deliver something really special.” Weekend tickets, from just £38 (plus booking fee) are on sale now at www.tramlines.org.uk
New Indian on the menu
They’ve been roasting their own coffee for five years, and now Foundry Coffee Roasters have set up their own café on Bank Street in Sheffield city centre. As well as great coffee, the new cafe has tasty sounding breakfast and lunch menus featuring fresh dishes including kale and apple salad, vegan masoor dal and the ultimate cheese toastie. For coffee geeks the cafe stocks Foundry Coffee Roasters’ own beans, plus a host of coffee and brewing equipment – perfect for the home barista.
Turtle Bay – the Caribbeaninspired restaurant chain – has been given the go ahead to press ahead with plans to open in the former NUM building opposite Sheffield City Hall. The restaurant will join a Pitcher & Piano bar and new office space to be occupied by Grant Thornton.
Comedy at Sheffield Theatres International touring theatre company, Third Angel, in collaboration with Warp Films, is supporting local Sheffield talent with FREE workshops. Future Makers is for creative 14-19 year olds who would like to get under the skin of careers in theatre and film, from behind the scenes art work to technical areas like lighting, to acting. Third Angel is committed to removing barriers to creative education, and would particularly encourage applicants from those who live in Darnall, Shire Green, Sheffield Lane Top, Firth Park, Ecclesfield and Burngreave areas. There may be the possibility for travel bursaries, please contact Ellie Whittaker ellie@thirdangel.co.uk for more information or head to thirdangel.co.uk/blog and scroll to the Future Makers blog post.
Multi-award winning duo Sh!t Theatre bring their Fringe First winning show Letters to Windsor House to the Studio on Friday 24 February. Taking a satirical, personal and very human look at the housing crisis, this show for ‘Generation Rent’ makes a song and dance about the state of the nation (with some politics, dodgy landlords and detective work thrown in for good measure). Fringe First winner Kieran Hurley also asks, ‘what we would do if we found ourselves at the end of the world as we know it?’, in his acutely observed, witty and ferociously powerful show, Heads Up, on Thursday 16 March. Visit www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk for further details. Image courtesy Paul White
Grime’s man of the moment Stormzy is heading to Sheffield’s 02 Academy on Arundel Gate on 30 April. Having won Best Grime Act at the MOBO Awards in both 2014 and 2015, Stormzy smashed into the mainstream with Shut Up in 2015 and has since been hailed as a pioneer of the grime scene. His debut album Gang Signs & Prayer is set to be released on 24 February.
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My Fathers Heart celebrates aspiration and excellence in art and design An exhibition of fine art with a touch of dance and music, by some of Sheffield's promising young artists, opens its doors to the public throughout March. The exciting pop up event - A Celebration of the Arts - is part of a new creative venture between Sheffield High School for Girls and my fathers heart - designers and makers of the region's finest bespoke kitchens and furniture. Throughout March, the first floor of the state-of-the-art showroom, at Broadfield Court, will be transformed into a gallery, showcasing the remarkable artistic talents of students from Sheffield Girls’ Junior and Senior School and Ashdell Preparatory School. The exhibition is open to the public from 1-31 March, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm at My Fathers Heart, Unit 3a Broadfield Court, S8 0XF. For more information contact Harriet on 07557 851201 or visit www.myfathersheart.com
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From quizzes to gigs, you can catch it all at the Picture House Social over coming weeks. First up is the Simpsons pub quiz on Tuesday 21 February followed by Burn the Witch (10 March), Weirds (17 March) and Bloody Knives (25 March). Throw in some pingpong, pizza, craft ales and cocktails and you’re in for a great night.
The third Sharrow Folk Festival will take place at Hagglers Corner on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March. It will feature a range of folk, roots and acoustic music plus folk dance across the two days. Chris “Treebeard” McMahon will be providing the PA and sound engineering The event will be a fundraiser for the Sharrow Festival 2017 which takes place on Sunday 1 July.
The Lightning Seeds have been announced as the final headliner for June’s Mosborough Music Festival, which for the first time will be held at Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield. The band will be joined by Brit-poppers Cast and From the Jam at the festival, which will take place on 203 June. Also on the bill are: The Dualers, who will belt out their infectious SKA/Reggae set, Essex based Missing Andy plus John Reilly and Boy on a Dolphin. Sheffield’s best upcoming bands also feature on the line-up, including The SSS, Sundance, The Velcro Teddy Bears, The Wired, Spears, Sweet Little Machine and Milane. On the Friday night, Sheffield’s own music legends Milburn will kick off the festival alongside Reverend and the Makers and Manchester’s post-punk band Cabbage. Steve Cowens, festival organiser, said: “As a local lad I’m proud of what we have done in Mosborough and brought so many household names in music to the village but I suppose all good things come to an end. “I’m a proud Sheffield lad and I really wanted to keep the festival in Sheffield, plus I’d still be dealing with the local authorities who I have to say have been brilliant in their support and advise. So we decided that Don Valley Bowl was to be our new home, it has great transport links, it’s a great venue and it’s also two minutes from the M1 and surrounded by good hotels, it’s perfect really.”
KINGS FOR A DAY After the release of their seventh album WALLS last year, which went to #1 in the UK chart, Kings of Leon are embarking on an arena tour, playing Sheffield Arena on 10 June. Tickets are on sale now, priced £50.40-£72.80 (including booking fee) in person at the Arena Box Office, by phone on 0114 256 5656 or online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk
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ALL GROWN-UP The Forum has finally reopened its doors and it looks, well, almost ‘grown-up’. The once industrial theme has been pared back to make way for new parquet flooring, new seating and lighting and an injection of colour. A new ‘Slice Bar’ serves up craft beers and pizza by the slice as well as their very own Sheffield Dry Gin.
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Something smells good in Crookes... SHEFFIELD Skincare Company is a wonderful smelling haven on Crookes high street and was started in 2014. The brand creator and product maker Megan Beardsmore has brought together the finest natural and organic ingredients to create a truly special 100 per cent natural range of artisan skincare products. The shop also stocks a large range of base ingredients and packaging to allow you to have a go at creating your own soaps and balms, lotions and potions. If you don’t know where to start why not book on to one of Megan’s monthly skincare classes where you can learn the basics of skin care making and the art of creating personalised skincare to suit your skincare needs.
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It’s a big thing for a regional theatre to commission a brand new project, says Mr Butterell. But Sheffield Theatres’ gamble looks to set to pay off – in some style. GOD bless BBC3. If it wasn’t for this much-loved – but now digital-only – television channel, I probably wouldn’t be sat here, in The Crucible bar, talking to renowned director and choreographer Jonathan Butterell. It’s a cold winter’s day and Jonathan has taken a break in rehearsals to discuss Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, a project he initiated three years ago after being inspired by a documentary shown by the Beeb. “It was about this kid, Jamie Campbell, who lived in County Durham.” Jonathan explains. “He’s what I’d call a beautiful creature, an amazing young man. He wants to go to the school in a prom dress and it was the story of him trying to get there. “So I watched this and I went, this is such a story. It’s about a 16-year-old lad and, oddly, although it seems rather niche, it’s really rather universal. It’s about identity. It’s about who we want to be.” It soon clicked that this would be a perfect fit for the stage and where better to start than in Jonathan’s home city of Sheffield and a meeting with his friend, and then artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, Daniel Evans. “I spoke to Daniel and said I’d like to do something new and had an idea,” Jonathan continues. “He said ‘I’m interested’ so I said ‘what about commissioning it?’, which is a massive thing for a regional theatre to do. The theatre gave the go ahead.” Getting the green light from Sheffield Theatres was just the start; there was no writer attached to the project. Jonathan’s vast contacts in the business – he spent ten years working in New York before settling in London – obviously helped and it wasn’t long before he found what he was looking for. “I was introduced to Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae via Michael Ball. [Michael] rang me up one day and said ‘can you go and meet these guys, they’re trying to write a piece, they’ve never
written any theatre before and need your help’.” After meeting the pair at Dan Gillespie Sells’ house – yes, him from The Feeling in case you were wondering – Jonathan listened to what they had to say, quickly discounted it and presented them his own idea, which was ‘Jamie’. “I said to these guys, ‘look, what you’re writing at the moment is really a kind of trial piece. I’m not sure it’s what I’d want to pick up with you but I’ve got another idea…” It snowballed from there – literally – and now opening night is just around the corner. “Three years is quite short for the development of a new piece and a new musical,” explains Jonathan. “We’ve been through workshops in order to get here. It’s always maintained the same story but it’s changed; actually, in three years the world has changed. In terms of identity and where people see themselves, in terms of gender identity… Jamie is a boy who wants to wear a dress. He has no gender issues, he doesn’t want to be a girl, he just wants to be a drag queen. And fabulous.” The writers set out to create ‘something your nan would like’ and the result is everything you would expect from a modern day musical. It’s happy, it’s sad, it’s funny – all to the tune of a great pop score. But Jonathan is quick to play down that this is not a ‘coming out’ story, more a coming of age. “Jamie is gay on page one, he doesn’t even announce it, the whole school knows it. Really, it’s about a 16-yearold’s relationship with his parents.
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Jonathan in rehearsals with Dan Gillespie Sells
“The deepest relationship in the play is Jamie and his mum. His mum and dad are divorced and he has a very complex relationship with his dad, who doesn’t really approve of what he’s doing. His mum, on the other hand, is doing everything in the world to affirm that what he’s doing is ok as long as he’s being himself. That’s the story, about trying to understand what you are at 16.” Although the original Jamie was from County Durham, Jonathan has centred the play around an area he knows so well – the place where he grew up. Despite his travels to New York and London, he still calls Sheffield home and returns whenever he can: “All my family are here, no-one else moved away. My brother got as far as Broomhill.” Jonathan was keen to play on the city’s strength of community and the working classness of areas like Parson Cross and Firth Park, which form a huge part of the story. At the heart of every good musical is a fantastic, memorable score and in Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae, Jonathan feels they have really hit the jackpot. “Dan’s writing is that easy, it’s a score you can go ‘I know this’ before it’s even started. It’s immediate. “But it’s also not without its challenges. You think it’s about niche issues but what it isn’t is a kind of niche piece. It’s a popular piece, a piece that your gran would go and say ‘I’ve enjoyed that and I’ve had a laugh and I’ve cried my eyes out’. It’s unashamedly popular in the best sense.” Sheffield Theatres’ reputation is growing all the time, not least because they are willing to take a risk and try something new. But in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie they are breaking boundaries even further – and producing stunning theatre at the heart of it. It’s probably why they’ve just been voted Regional Theatre of the Year at The Stage Awards for the third time. Jonathan’s investment and enthusiasm, and of course talent, should make this a memorable show and who knows, this is a story that could run and run… “Stories like this need telling. It’s a scary world when legislation has been written to undo people’s rights and rights that people have fought hard for. That’s why I want Jamie to go out into the world, because it’s part of a bigger story. It’s a young boy trying to find himself and there’s complete love and empathy at the centre of it. I defy anybody not to relate to it.” Everybody’s Talking About Jamie runs at The Crucible from 9-25 February. For ticket information and show times, visit www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
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music Festival season will soon be upon us. If you don’t get your ticket now, you could be in for a major disappointment. IT’S that time of year when thoughts start drifting to summer, to holidays, to adventures and… festival line-ups. It looks like the people of Sheffield and the surrounding areas are in for a treat with three great local festivals taking place right on your doorstep. Even at this early stage, the recently-announced headliners are more than impressive. Make sure you get your tickets now. That’s NOW!
TRAMLINES The Libertines, All Saints and Metronomy are amongst the first acts announced for Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival 2017, which will take place from 21-23 July. Also joining the line-up are ska favourites Toots and The Maytals, The Coral, We Are Scientists, Twin Atlantic, The Pharcyde, Hot 8 Brass Band, M.O, Omar Souleyman, Cate Le Bon, Nadia Rose and Akala. Now in its ninth year, this summer Tramlines will become an exclusively outdoor event, with the line-up spread out across three key stages at Ponderosa Park, Devonshire Green and Endcliffe Park’s Folk Forest. Sarah Nulty, festival director, said: “After each festival, we turn to our audience to find out what they’d like to see at the next event. The overwhelming feedback was that people wanted to see bigger acts on the Tramlines stages. By streamlining Tramlines to three outdoor stages, it’s meant we could deliver something really special. “Sheffield is often hailed as an ‘Outdoor City’, and has a ton of public parks, and a third of it sits within the glorious Peak District National Park. It is the UK’s leading destination for people seeking outdoor adventure, and we are excited to present an exclusively outdoor event for 2017.” Fingers crossed the sun’s out then! Earlybird and first release tickets for Tramlines Festival 2017 sold out in record time, but second release weekend tickets are now on sale for £38 plus booking fee. Tickets can be purchased from www.tramlines.org.uk
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The Lightning Seeds
Y NOT FESTIVAL Stereophonics, Two Door Cinema Club and The Vaccines will play Y Not Festival, happening 27-30 July at Pikehall, Derbyshire. The headliners will be joined by an eclectic line-up featuring Clean Bandit, Jake Bugg, Salves and Y Not favourite Beans on Toast. Now in its 11th year, the Derbyshire festival has grown with huge momentum since 2006, winning Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards in 2012, and the accolade for Best Medium Festival at the same awards in 2015. Since the announcement, tickets have been flying out, with only tier four tickets available – see www.ynotfestivals.co.uk for more.
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Vibe wants to see your favourite pictures of the people and places of Sheffield. THERE'S no denying that Sheffield is one of the country's most picturesque cities. Okay, so we may be a little biased, but the combination of the city's industrial past, the abundance of parks and green spaces and the Peak District provide many an Insta-moment. Vibe has gathered some of our favourites but we are always on the lookout for more! If you're a budding photographer, or have snapped a picture of the city looking fab, please get in touch!
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Comba chameleon [ The ever-changing history of the men’s comb. ] COMB with us on a brief journey recounting the history of one of the most revered and, more importantly, useful grooming inventions of the ages. A tool which we now take for granted to be present in our every day lives was first formed over 5,000 years ago, or so we assume through findings of it in its refined forms at early Persian settlements. Historically, the main purpose of a comb was to secure long hair in place or to matte sections of dreadlocks but had many other uses also; decorating the hair, for a festival or celebration and keeping a kippah or skullcap in place, often in religious communes or settlements. Consisting of a single shaft and teeth running perpendicular to it, most common combs are made from plastic, wood or metal. We at Savills however are currently favouring more exotic material combs such as the Ox horn tools made by Copacetic Gent, which are bespoke handmade and polished. There are four varieties in the Copacetic comb collection: A beard comb shaped like a knuckle duster (£15.50), a folding hair comb (£10), a straight edge comb and a slant edged hair comb (both £10) and all look great in the leather case holsters (£13). Without a comb, a barber will struggle to create those classic styles such as the pompadour and slick back. The fine teeth help to part the hair in thinner increments than what a standard hair brush can do, helping to keep the straightness, give less wave and lift to the roots. Hand finished combs often have no rough joins between the teeth, which are great for beards as they don’t tug or pull the facial hair and instead, glide right through. The plastic
varieties of comb, primarily used for hair, however do have a ridge that can catch the hair and help to lift it from the scalp, which is necessary for barbers and allow for ease of cutting. Used combs are treated in the barbershop in a glass cylinder filled with barbicide, a disinfectant and fungicide solution between cuts. This is to avoid passing any skin, scalp residue, or bodily fluids from client to client via what attaches to the combs teeth. A clean barbershop is a healthy and hepatitis free barbershop! It’s safe to say that without a comb, many traditions and trades would not be where they are today; a world without glamorous ceremonies, without salons and barbershops, all that would be, a population of disheveled and disgruntled humans, all tangled up in their own hair and desperately crying out for something to tame the locks. Cheers to our ancestors and their ingenuity, our barnets will forever be thankful!
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48 We have good vibrations about this month’s masterpiece, courtesy of esteemed Sheffield artist, Liz von Graevenitz.
IT seems only appropriate that February, the month of love, has a cover to suit the mood and, without being too modest, we think we’ve excelled ourselves this month. Liz von Graevenitz maybe known to some of you, but not to others. Born in London and raised in Spain and Sheffield, she is currently based at Bloc Studios on Arundel Street, where she both creates her striking artwork and runs regular workshops for those keen to expand their repertoire. She’s the first to admit that her work ‘is a little bit unusual’ and a ‘little dark’ but has won her an army of fans, not here just here but also abroad, particularly in Slovakia where she has built lasting friendships. It’s hard to pigeon-hole her style; she uses different medias throughout her work but one consistent theme is the love for exacting technical ability mixed with a passion for imperfection. If those two things can go hand in hand. Liz’s fine art background is enhanced with skills in ceramics, brick-laying and 3D installation. She’s hands-on and happy to do all the hard work herself, however intricate it may be. Take this month’s cover for example – which she has designed specifically for us – it continues a theme from her recent ‘Pulsations’ exhibition, which combines hand-cut vintage musical scores with collage, anatomy and one of her biggest passions, music. “It’s about vibrations,” she explains. “The one thing that links us all, animal, human and machine. The vintage music scores are from the thirties or forties. You imagine what was happening culturally at that time; none of the technological influences of the day, how were people communicating with each other and integrating? I purposely leave in all of the pencil marks and fingerprints of the people who once touched the paper I use to bring the past into the present. “The actual piece of music is from 1940 and called ‘Voices of Spring’ [by Johann Strauss], which is really nice because it’s like a new beginning. You can see the heart is almost sacrificial, but it’s still beating.” Like all art, it’s open to interpretation but we feel it’s like nothing we’ve had before. Liz entitled the piece ‘Play On’ based on the famous quote from Shakespeare’s Tweflth Night. Everything is drawn by hand, cut by hand, it’s all Liz. “People have asked me many a time, ‘why don’t you use a laser cutter?’, my response is ‘because that’s actually the point.
Liz in her workshop at Bloc Studios
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49 Using the pencil marks, the imperfections… the technical ability to do something with your hands is really important. “This body of work has come from a seed in my mind then becomes a series of sketches; a lot of working out and planning is involved in the process. You’re problem-solving the whole way through. This attention to detail is evident in her recent collection of work from the aforementioned Pulsations exhibition at The Holt – her first solo exhibition in the city for eight years. The exhibition showed a collection of large paintings and intricate ink drawings with the common running theme of hand-cut paper collage. The alternation between organic or ‘robot’ brains (hence the circuit boards) is said to illustrate how technology has affected – and inhibited – the development of the mind. This duality is also represented by Liz’s consistent use of conjoined twins in her work. “I like that dark, crazy element in thinking about the balance,” she explains. “It’s not necessarily good and bad but I like the idea of two minds in one body.” Liz is the first to admit her work is constantly evolving – “Inspiration comes from your mood, your environment and what’s happening in your life, it’s subconscious. You’ve just got to get it out and see what happens.” After an invitation to produce a video installation for The 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at The Florrie in Liverpool in April, she’s hoping to travel and revisit some familiar territory. “I really want to go and do a painting residency in Slovakia, get away from the city, from the bubble of my world and just go and paint. I’ve travelled around the country a lot over the years and it does seem like my second home. You’ve got the mountains, the lakes, the flowers… it’s just gorgeous and I just feel at peace there.” Sounds good to us. Prints of the cover will be available in limited edition for £25 (A3 print). Prints from the Pulsations exhibition are also still available as well as screenprint with handcut paper collage ‘The Universe Music and Me’ (see below). For more information, email lizvongraevenitz@gmail.com, visit www.lizvongraevenitz.co.uk, or Tweet her @lizvongee Liz also undertakes commissions, not only for visual art but also bespoke décor for events and weddings.
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