Stoney immaculate at Yellow Arch homecoming
Sheffield psychedelic troubadour Stoney is paying tribute to his parents, in the audience at Yellow Arch, when a beer glass smashes stage left. "And that's my grandad" he says.
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Making migration matter - one step at a time
We already know that Sheffield's Migration Matters is a movement - in more ways than one based on some of the more dance-orientated events. So why not take it to the next logical step - with a 5k run!
Post Office Faces: 10 years on
I loved creating this exhibition in the then newly-renovated post hall at Sheffield Institute of The Arts. It launched 10 years ago today, a chance to say hats off to the fantastic GPO employees
'A bombardment of song'. In search of yellowhammers and stone circles in the back garden
4.14am and awake. I could have easily gone back to bed. Instead, 45 minutes later, I was communing with Africa and uncovering an ancient stone circle with the Wadsley Commoners.
I devoured Groovy, Laidback and Nasty in a week, gulping down more than a decade of Sheff music a day, and here's five things I learned
At the launch of Daniel Dylan Wray's mercurial travelogue through Sheffield's music scene, it felt like everyone in the crowd should form a band immediately but, of course, everyone was in one already
Sheffield shorts: Five things I've learned from Secret Sheffield
Turns out this slim tome by Ian Rotherham, Melvyn Jones and Christine Handley, is jam-packed with Sheff facts. Published 10 years ago, here's a choice selection to get you started.
Spooky flashbacks to our folkloric past
On Halloween, this post pulls together some of the exhibitions and things I've been to this month and connects them to a sketchy world of half-truths and ghostly make-believe in a pre-Internet world!
From supported living to strongest man: the incredible journey of Sheffield's Red King
"I've got Europe's strongest woman jumping in the air and screaming at me to go faster - and I'm thinking 'how the hell do I do this?!'"
Sheffield Shorts: When Ramases met Ursula K Le Guin for a game of padel in Buxton
A round up of what's been rocking my world, from expansive vinyl that no-one bought to trying and generally failing to book a Padel court - the new sporting ketamine, or, Aguirre: Racket Of God.
Sheffield Shorts: Into the megatron
I know I like looking up, but looking down Sheffield can be fun too. Five things I learned during my birthday treat to myself into the Victorian tunnels underneath Sheffield station.