# Looking Up Sheffield Newsletter

Tales of Sheffield: buildings, people, bogs, bazaars

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## [Stoney immaculate at Yellow Arch homecoming](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/stoney-immaculate-at-yellow-arch)

_2026-07-12 · LookingUpSheffield_

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.

## [Making migration matter - one step at a time](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/making-migration-matter-one-step)

_2026-07-07 · LookingUpSheffield_

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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/post-office-faces-10-years-on)

_2026-05-17 · LookingUpSheffield_

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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/a-bombardment-of-song-in-search-of)

_2026-05-16 · LookingUpSheffield_

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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/i-devoured-groovy-laidback-and-nasty)

_2026-05-15 · LookingUpSheffield_

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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/sheffield-shorts-five-things-ive)

_2026-03-02 · LookingUpSheffield_

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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/spooky-flashbacks-to-our-folkloric)

_2025-10-31 · LookingUpSheffield_

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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/from-supported-living-to-strongest)

_2025-10-16 · LookingUpSheffield_

"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](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/sheffield-shorts-when-ramases-met)

_2025-09-06 · LookingUpSheffield_

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.

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## [Sheffield Shorts: Into the megatron](https://lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/sheffield-shorts-into-the-megatron)

_2025-08-19 · LookingUpSheffield_

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.

