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New Music: Monkey Swallows the Universe – Sheffield Shanty II, plus live date

It’s niche, I grant you, but for some people somewhere (probably, in all honesty, Sheffield) the news that there is new music from folk/indie poppers Monkey Swallows the Universe, and…

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Live Review: Lisbon / Feral Mantra / The Wired at The Rocking Chair, Sheffield, 18/02/16

Lisbon are the kind of band it’s very easy to get excited about. They’re enthusiastic about their music, whether it’s finessing new material in the studio, getting the tech just…

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See: The Sherlocks release new video for ‘Last Night’

Forged from the same Sheffield steel as the Arctic Monkeys, four piece The Sherlocks have made an impressive fist of following their indie rock path to stardom so far, gaining…

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News: Tramlines 2016: First Acts Announced.

Tramlines has become the biggest day on the calendar for Sheffield residents. Every year it seems to get bigger and better, and people from further afield are travelling North to…

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News: Wet Nuns announce charity fundraiser

If you’re a long term reader of Backseat Mafia, you’ll be well aware of Wet Nuns. The hell raising Sheffield duo were favourites of ours pretty much throughout their existence,…

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Track: Hey Sholay – Ribcage

Hey Sholay are a curious band, disappearing for months on end before returning with a song and show to remind us, with a gentle nudge and a peck on the…

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See: The Starkins reveal new video for Wasted

Sheffield quartet The Starkins are regulars on the pages of Backseat Mafia already, and quite rightly so, with their sparkling, swaggering indie rock. We loved their last single Papercuts, along…

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Track: The Crookes – I Wanna Waste My Time On You (Plus Tour Dates)

Do you remember The Crookes? Well, forget everything. The Sheffield boys are back, narrating their lives with vibrant melodies and wistful metaphors, saturating their stories with vivid colour. ‘I Wanna Waste My…

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Track: Bring me the Horizon – True Friends

“True friends stab you in the front,” according to Sheffield five Bring me the Horizon’s Oli Sykes on their new single True Friends, taken from their recent That’s the Spirit’…

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Album Review: Def Leppard – Def Leppard

It’s been seven years since Def Leppard’s last album, “Songs From the Sparkle Lounge”, and the musical landscape has continued to evolve at a bewildering rate in their absence. Things…

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