[Queen Jane]

MY SHEFFIELD A PERSONAL VIEW featuring Eliot Kennedy, Pete McKee, Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkey's Drummer Matt Helders & Rony Robinson will be at Sheffield Hallam University's Pennine Theatre on Tuesday 2nd March. Tickets are priced £7 and there are no booking fees charged on this show.



From Coles Corner to Lady's Bridge, Henderson's Relish to Ward's Brewery, what is it that makes Sheffield such a special place to so many creative talents?



Join some of the city's most famous sons in an informal conversation about why they love Sheffield and how it has inspired their creativity.



Hear them talk about their favourite Sheffield places, and their personal memories of the city. You'll have the chance to share your own thoughts with these inspirational talents, and to ask them directly about their Sheffield.



This event is part of a series of fund raising activites for the preservation of a famous piece of Sheffield artwork, the Minerva Frieze, designed by Godfrey Sykes in 1854.



John Palmer, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Sheffield Hallam, said:




"This will be an intimate, informal and illuminating event and will offer a real insight into the lives of our panellists. We are delighted to welcome five such influential speakers to the University and by bringing them together we are sure to have an enjoyable evening."


Doors open at 6.30pm & the event starts at 7.00pm.


Tickets for My Sheffield A Personal View at Sheffield Hallam University on Tuesday 2nd March are available online through this web site at www.arenaticketshop.co.uk through the ticket hotline on 0114 256 56 56 or in person at the Sheffield Arena Box Office.

All tickets will be posted second class up until 21st February, any tickets purchased after this date will be available for collection from the Pennine Theatre when the doors open on the night of the event.Tickets are limited to a maximum of 9 per person.

[patrickh]

Aww i would LOVE to go to that

[Queen Jane]

Should be a good night and I'm a big fan of Richard Hawley as well.

More info on the Minerva Frieze http://www.sheffield...p?articlepage=1

[Julieandthemothman]

It should be fun to watch it but unfortunately I live way too far.

[rexomillion]

thanks didnt know about this

[Jamie Cal (Number 1 Fan)]

Didnt Know Bout This Either!

[Queen Jane]

Anyone going to this tonight?
Was hoping to go myself but have had to change my plans.

[patrickh]

Anyone go??

[Packman]

I wish i Lived there

[Carl - Site Admin]

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Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders and Richard Hawley deliver Sheffield talk
Pair talk Monkeys demos, ice cream and adverts



Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and Richard Hawley took part in a panel discussion about their home city Sheffield at Sheffield Hallam University last night (March 2).

The topics of discussion included the city's bid to be 2013 Capital Of Culture, music licensing and Arctic Monkeys' early forays into the online music world.

Hawley was on typically charismatic form, regaling the near-capacity crowd with a number of anecdotes and delivering forthright views about his city of birth and musical career.

Asked about Sheffield's bid to be 2013's Capital of Culture, Hawley declared: "Personally, I don't think it'd do us any good. We just get on with doing what we do. No need for accolades, thank you very much."

During the interval the advert for Häagen-Dazs ice cream, featuring Hawley's song 'Open Up Your Door', was shown to the audience. When proceedings resumed the singer spoke of his decision to license his music to the company.

"I've been asked loads over the years [for his music to be used on adverts]," he said, "but I have issues with the whole corporate thing. But when I found out I'd get two years worth of free ice cream, our lass said, 'You're doing it!'. I stopped it after a year, though, as I didn't want her to have to be airlifted out of the house!"

He joked that, due to the length of the material on recent album 'Truelove's Gutter', the advert was also a good way for him to get his new songs heard.

"Häagen-Dazs is the only fucking thing I could get played on!" he said. "The radio,
these days, is being used against us – it's music to wash the cars to. No spiritual depth. It's creative fascism, the kids these days are being told they should only write songs that are two-and-a-half minutes. I'm from the John Peel generation, so my response was to say 'Fuck off' and think, 'I'll make a single that's ten minutes long'."

Helders, wearing a smart suit and still sporting a mop of curly hair, remained
relatively quiet throughout, though recalled how his band had had no role in getting his band's original demos – recorded at 2Fly Studios in Sheffield – online back in 2003.

"We didn't even know how to do it, it was a friend of ours [who put their songs online]," he explained. "It was only when we started seeing people in the crowd that we didn't recognise that we started thinking, 'That internet's a good tool!'"

The talk's other panelists included artist Pete McKee, broadcaster/playwright Rony Robinson and songwriter/producer Elliott Kennedy – who exlplained that Bryan Adams, Celine Dion and The Spice Girls have all visited his Sheffield studio over the years.

Money raised from entry fees to the talk (over £3,000) will be used to help preserve the Minerva Frieze – a Godfrey Sykes art piece made in 1984 which is currently on display at the university.

http://www.nme.com/n...c-monkeys/50048

[guitou138]

i learn every day more about them

[Queen Jane]

Someones blog about the evening with photo
http://senseofplace....-sheffield.html