In the 1980’s, England had in excess of 2,200 independent record stores. There are now less than 300. With entertainment retailers buckling due to online competition, the record store revival has begun.
They spent they entirety of 2011 on tour, they’ve recently signed to Sony and they’re about to release their debut album. Things are looking good for Sheffield’s While She Sleeps.
From Lord Byron to Allen Ginsberg, poetry and poets were an integral part of society until recently where the digital world has turned poetry in to an almost forgotten art.
The award winning Tramlines Festival is back for its fourth year to swarm the streets of Sheffield in July.
Skull and Bones Boys Club (SABBC) is an independent clothing label based in the heart of Sheffield city centre.
Alastair, of Incognito, caught up with Sheffield based hardcore band Grazes. They recently completed recording their new tracks which are a far cry from their already album Myths.
Everyone has seen one. We’d hate to admit it but everyone has ignored one too. Thomas Milnes is one of a plethora of street performers, or buskers, that perform on the street to try and earn, often “very, very little” money.
They are some of the most familiar faces in Sheffield, seeming to have sprung up on all the street corners and every stone dormer, and yet very little is known about the strange, moustachioed characters arriving in the city. Who are they? And where did they come from? Incognito talks to French street artist, EMA (AKA. Florence Blanchard), to find out…
“If you could go to an early Black Sabbath show, it’s probably a bit like like that.” grins Dale Norton, frontman and songwriter of Canterbury’s blues-rock quartet Broken Hands.
