Live reviews

Supercharged and exhilarating, Squid’s live rendition of their debut post-punk influenced record Bright Green Field mesmerised Leadmill’s main room, marking an epic comeback for gigs.

Viewers of this lockdown livestream entered the wonky wonderland of Buds & Spawn, eclectic sonic curators and defibrillator to the sputtering heart of the live music scene.

“Stay wonky!” is the takeaway message from this wonderfully compelling and conscientiously curated evening of the experimental and the avant garde.

This February during Independent Venues Week I caught bedpost.'s set at Network, a new venue at DINA in collaboration with Record Junkee. I …

Matt Black writes poems for adults and children. Matt is already a Sheffield favourite, having lived and worked in the area for many years. …

You know Christmas has officially begun when local lass Kate Rusby brings her travelling band of merriment to town. Set to a beautifully win…

Steve Waters' adaptation of Giles Foden's book about the dangerous, charismatic and psychopathic Ugandan leader Idi Amin uses a fictional re…

Everyone has visited a place like Bishops' House before. It's a small museum in an old Tudor house, timber-framed, thick-walled and fitted o…

Manu Delago might be known as a percussionist, but after this show it's clear that it's in his role as composer that his ear is put to best …

There must be only a handful of people on the planet whose first, and so far only, visit to a flat in Park Hill was to attend the most intim…

"This is the first night of the tour, and we wouldn't want to spend it anywhere else, Sheffield," utters Fran Doran, the lead singer of six-…

Joining forces for a 16-hour party at The Night Kitchen on bank holiday Sunday, Control and Mizik Nou supplied something even hotter than th…

The Frog & Parrot is a great little pub for a gig. The band is at ground level with the majority of the packed audience overlooking them…

A lot has been said online about the obscene length of Hexis' current European tour, comprised of 111 shows in 109 days with no days off; a …

The Lehman Trilogy is the story of three brothers who arrive in America from Bavaria in the mid 1800s, setting up a modest cloth business wh…

Prologue The hour before I performed in an improvised musical at the Lyceum, I was as ready as you could be for a completely made-up show. I…

Touring their second record together, SOAR, Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita and Welsh harpist Caitrin Finch descend upon the Abbeydale P…

Africa 3.0 was a special opportunity to watch a film documenting a near-phenomenon and to then experience it. In this instance, the phenomen…

HoneyfeetHailing from Manchester, Honeyfeet brought eclectic instruments, passionate vocals and bags of energy to Folk Forest. Featuring psy…

The third instalment of KALLIDA, a small capacity festival of music and visual arts, took place over the weekend 19-22 July. This year saw a…