Los Campesinos!: Leadmill, Sheffield
It’s the last night in the UK for Los Campesinos!’s tour, but the energy tonight is so great it could just as easily be the first. Support comes from the fantastic Tall Ships, whose…
Local Churches and Hyde and Beast: The Harley, Sheffield
Local band Empty Churches play to a near-empty Harley, setting a grim standard for the evening. They’re impressively loud, if a little unpolished, but excuse themselves by noting before their last song that…
Starlings and Polarsets: Forum, Sheffield
With their dapper white shirts and slightly silly but presumably fashionable tapered trousers, Starlings cut an impressive figure once they take to the stage at The Forum. Frontman Justin Robson looks a little…
Jack Daniels Live featuring The Whip, The Crookes and others: Sheffield University
Mabel Love face the unenviable task of keeping a growing crowd entertained between the surprisingly good unknowns, The Velotones, and the band that everyone’s actually here for, local boy wonders The Crookes. It’s…
Is Tropical: The Harley, Sheffield
Is it wrong to irrationally dislike acts that have a laptop as their primary instrument? No? Good. First supports DreamGarden improve half way through their set, once a vocalist joins our lone laptop-user…
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Queens Social Club, Sheffield
Though from the outside, Queens Social Club looks – well, like a normal social club – on the inside it’s a different story. Though the age of members of the crowd seems varied…
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