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Live Review: Little Comets at Leadmill, Sheffield 12.02.2014

Marking the midpoint in a 14-date tour, the Little Comets came to Sheffield to show the locals how to party. Catfish and the Bottlemen proved to be a great supporting…

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New: Reverend And The Makers anounce new album Thirty Two, plus tour dates

Reverend And The Makers, one of the more commercially successful bands to come out of Sheffield, release their fourth album ‘Thirty Two’ via Cooking Vinyl Records on 24th of February.…

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Video Interview: I Set The Sea On Fire

A couple of weeks ago you might remember me swooning over “Monsters” by Sheffield’s I Set The Sea On Fire. As an early Christmas present to myself, I asked the…

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Forged in Sheffield: I Set The Sea On Fire – Monsters

Hallelujah ! I owe I Set The Sea On Fire a debt of gratitude – without the blood-stirring joy of this tune, the last week could only have been a…

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Carnabells – The Ramshackle Rattle EP

Until I met my wife, I’d never heard of skiffle. To me, Lonnie Donegan was a weird name that cropped up with disconcerting regularity in the Mojo crossword. I first…

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New Music: Puzzles/Paul Conrad/Violet May

Hello there ! A quick round-up of some of the new sounds pinging around in the Backseat Mafia inbox. First up are Sheffield quintet Puzzles. Made up of Matthew, Alex, Rob, Harry…

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Live: Ghostpoet / Typesun, Queens Social Club

Ghostpoet arrived in Sheffield last week, on his tour in support of second album ‘Some say I so I say light’, which following on from his debut the 2011 debut…

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News: Tom Hickox to join Richard Hawley, Band Of Horse and others at Somerset House ‘Summer Series’

In my day it was called YTS. When you wanted to learn a ‘trade’ like plumbing, or typewriting, or being a zookeeper (probably) or a footballer, you signed up on…

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Meet: Leeroy Powell a.k.a. Sir Vinyl Instinct, a.k.a. Itchy Pig

I went on a scout camp once, and we had this (how could he be anything other?) slightly crazy scout leader, that wore shorts all the time, and usually a…

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Meet: Paul Browse – Visions of Excess, Clock DVA, electronic music….and me.

Imagine this. Born in dour post war Sheffield, you join one of pop histories most experimental bands while still in your early 20s. After almost ten years of making records…

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