SHEFFIELD TAPE ARCHIVE, ONE-STOP SHOP FOR THE GUN CLUB, RUDIMENTARY PENI, THE FALL AND PULP
Sheffield Tape Archive collects
#demos and live tapes recorded in
#Sheffield and its environs between 1977 and 2007.
#NickTaylor, the custodian of the archive, has assembled a bonkers array of musical goods: the 1979 demos of
#ClockDVA and I’m So Hollow, both recorded (at least in part) at
#CabaretVoltaire’s Western Works studio; a 1993
#RudimentairePeni gig in Derby that opens and closes with back-to-back performances of “Teenage Time Killer” and “B-Ward”; a Leeds show from
#ScreamingLordSutch’s barnstorming anti-Thatcher campaign in 1983;
#theFall, live at Hallam University, 1993 (with a great instance of typo-as-rock criticism: “Why Are People Grudgeful?” is mislabeled “Why Are People Grungeful?”); Eighties sets by
#Crass,
#Eek-A-Mouse, and
#Chumbawamba at Sheffield’s Leadmill; a typically flattening 20-minute
#Stretchheads set from 1990; and much else.
For the
#Pulp fan, the compilation Live at the Hallamshire Hotel 1981-85 mixes dour performances from ‘84 and ‘85 gigs with live material by
#theMembranes, Bog-Shed, Heroes of the Beach, and the
#WackyGardeners. Speaking of the Wacky Gardeners, many groups are featured here whose fame has yet to reach our benighted American shores, such as the
#FuckCityShitters,
#NakedPygmyVoles, the
#WealthyTexans and
#AMajorEuropeanGroup.
Some of the material at
#SheffieldTapeArchive comes from the collection of the late Sheffield music journalist
#MartinLilleker, who suffered from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease before his death in 2016. Taylor donates the proceeds from
#Lilleker’s tapes to charity.
#rock #pop #punk #music #musique
Sheffield Tape Archive, one-stop shop for the Gun Club, Rudimentary Peni, the Fall and Pulp
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