What is Speed Hating?
For a less rambling introduction to what this event is about, please do check this link. You have been warned. -Orestes. Y’all know the story: boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy fails to...
View ArticleReview: Tip Your Bartender, Screaming Maldini and Johnny Foreigner @ The Harley
Never fear the ides of March for what a cold blistering night tried to ruin three bands stepped up to save A swell night at the Harley was to be had First it was the heavier rock sensibilities of a...
View ArticleReview – X Ray Horse w/ Low Duo, Empty Churches, The Kickliner & Don’t Sleep...
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. They also say never start a review with a cliché. I guess sometimes it’s better to go with your gut instinct. After a series of unfortunate incidents...
View ArticleWild times with burgers at The Harley…
It seems that we’ve taken a turn as of late. Besides the usual music and art shenanigans, several stories about alcohol have been creeping in. Maybe it was because of this or simply because they took...
View ArticleRetribution Gospel Choir @ The Harley, Sheffield
It was a strange, funny day when Retribution Gospel Choir came back to Sheffield. It snowed heavily in the morning (not a problem for the Duluth trio of rockers) and by the time their set ended, the...
View ArticleSwimming in Sheffield – #1
Why Swimming in Sheffield? Because where others drown, we swim (actually, we duck paddle…) Once more comes the time for this sorry excuse for a website/blog/zine/Wet Nuns & Cats:For:Peru &...
View ArticleBlessa, Fear of Men & Veronica Falls at The Harley
It doesn’t get much better than this, a trio of great bands, presented in the stage that occupies the funky joint called The Harley. Three bands playing music from genres that will not cater for a...
View ArticleGig: Low Duo, My First Tooth & Screaming Maldini @ The Harley
The marrying of imagination and reality is always a rocky one. The utopian images in your head will always look like what Sir Kenneth Hugo Adam would do to please Sean Connery, but the dystopian...
View ArticleKvetching in Sheffield – #1
Waddle, waddle, waddle, it’s Springtime for Hitler and Germany…no, wait, that’s from The Producers, the best pisstake musical ever. After Spamalot. I think. Hey, that’s no ordinary rabbit. Right-o, no...
View ArticleOne fine day with Twisted Burger Co.’s new menu…
It’s weird thing, this trend of burgers being a delicacy. If you’d told me when I was ten that burgers would be on trend, I’d say you’re pulling my leg. Not that I’m complaining. There’s more to...
View ArticleGig: Scaramanga Six, Cut Your Wings + Great Deeds
I swear I’m not making this up, but I had a feeling this gig was going to be something weird. It wasn’t the fact that I made a rather good pollo con mole for tea (see above picture) but the fact that a...
View ArticleImpignorating in Sheffield – #1
Heeeeeeey, it’s me, your friendly neighbourhood listings editor, @Orestes_yipee. There was no preview on May because I was on strike. ATTICA! ATTICA! However, this is June, the best month of the year....
View ArticleWho? (Mike) Watt. When? 17 April.
Mike Watt and The Missingmen The Harley, Sheffield 17 April 2014 What is the definitive measure of success in the music business? Fame? Fortune? Devoted fans? The answer, seemingly, is distance. Once a...
View ArticleLollygagging in Sheffield – November gig list
It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these – a combination of stress, fatigue and general lack of zest were some of the causes. Also, not being in Sheffield now, it’s hard to be “in the know”,...
View Article30 days, 30 bands – #7 Oxo Foxo
“When you have to choose between the truth and the legend, choose the legend.” –Tony Wilson 2008. September: “Last of the Summer?” “Yes, that’s the name. Anything wrong?” “Just wondering if it had...
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