Category archives for: History

Sheffield’s Time-Honoured Music Venue In Spotlight For Award

Sheffield’s longest standing live music venue is in the limelight after being nominated for one of the UKs most prestigious music awards, following enduring success.
The Leadmill, which celebrates its 31st birthday this year, has been nominated for a Live UK Music Business Award. The award is one of the industry’s most highly esteemed acclamations, the final […]

Amy Winehouse - The Girl Who Broke The Mould

First things first, this isn’t going to be another article on how Amy has ’ joined the 27 club’ this is no place to group people together and no way to remember the amazingly talented artists that have left us at such an early age.
On Saturday the 23rd of July at 4pm Amy Winehouse’s body was […]

Elizabeth Taylor: Fame and Films

Elizabeth Taylor’s passing yesterday, from heart failure at the age of 79, has undoubtedly saddened many across the globe. One of Hollywood’s most alluring leading ladies has long since been a commanding presence on the big screen but continually commanded our attention away from it. Her work on raising Aids awareness throughout the 80s, […]

Intoxicated Man - A portrait of Serge Gainsbourg

To the English speaking world Gainsbourg is at best a cult figure: A genius to the initiated and a pervert to the rest. He presented himself as a mixture of the two; a literate cynic whose primary interests were “eroticism and money, in that order.” In 1969 he had a UK no.1 hit, Je t’aime… Moi non plus (I love you… […]

I Put A Spell On You

A song’s journey through musical history

The original version of this iconic song was written by Jay Hawkins and released on his At Home With Screamin’ Jay Hawkinsin 1956. At only 2:25 minutes in length, it transformed the way we listen to, and view, music, even making its way on to The Rolling Stone Magazine’s list […]

Modern Clogging is Here

Power, passion, energy, strength, endurance, dedication, showmanship – all of these attributes could belong to a soldier or a marine….. or a dancer. Clogging is the dance form that has been a part of my life for the last 20 years of my 25 years in this world. It is something that defines me as a person and as a professional. I have experienced […]

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