Tag: Psalter Lane
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The Black Dog – Sheffield Favourites
I’m a strange mongrel, one foot in Manchester and the other in Sheffield (appropriate metaphor since it’s always pissing on the Pennines). My family come from Sheffield so I have a particular fondness for the grey and damp rainy city (more overgrown village), it’s seven hills ‘just like Rome!’ and it’s put upon citizens. So…
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Bar 2, Psalter Lane 1980
Didn’t know there was ANY footage of Bar 2, at Psalter Lane, the Art College in Sheffield where Pulp had their second ever gig, Human League had their first along with a band called Vice Versa. Two years after this they were on the top of the charts with Lexicon of Love…yes this is ABC…
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Bus Rides – Sheffield
An unfinished degree piece from 1994 filmed on buses around Sheffield – partly filmed around the Meadowhall area which I know has totally changed now, a lot of those warehouses and old mesters have gone. I love the sound in this – how loud those buses were! And although not edited per se, I love…
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Synth Britannia
People have been mentioning this for AGES saying ‘Have you seen Synth Britannia?’ and I was wary since I thought it might be another 80’s nostalgia fest with the usual faces. Not at all – and I was blown away how indepth they went, even visiting my old alma-mater at Psalter Lane (my claim to…