Grappler

I remember "Boys Cry" by the Original Mirrors being played a lot at the Limit. The Original Mirrors were Ian Broadie, who went on to form the Lightning Seeds.

I think as others have said, it might reflect more on yell.com, but compared to most of the rest of the country, Sheffield is not in great shape. We very rarely attract in big business to set up here, because we have no airport, our road system is a joke and the road surfaces are the worst in the country.

Unfortunately not......good idea though

Ahhh...happy days!!! I think we were still called "Urban Youth" then, or a similar "angry young men" type of name! Anti Moffat League should have been a number one!!

I remember going to Granville College around 1978 and getting a students union card so I could get in the Union building in Pond Street (Nelson Mandela Building). We would go in on a Saturday night, 22p for a pint of Stones, you could go out, have a good night out, get a bag of chips in Fitzallan square and get the late bus home for about £2.50!!!!! Also remember getting my clothes from Harringtons in the market, you had to climb up a loft ladder into the loft to try stuff on!

and wearing all that lot and dancing to "Skiing in the snow" lol

Mark was taller I think, but I'll ask him later this week if I get chance

Great picture!!! not sure that's Janet France though? I must send this to Glyn Machin!!

The Plough on Sandygate Road near Crosspool, great food but not that cheap from memory, good beer as well.

It says your pm area is full!!! Check out http://www.myspace.com/vansheffield to listen to them. They have played acoustic sets at Trippets, The Showroom, etc. Come and see them live next week (28th) at DNR/Bar 101 on Arundel Gate with two other bands, you will see their electric set. The acoustic uses a lot of the same songs plus others. Cheers Grappler

Will pm you

What about a tribute band for "The Cult"? good old fashioned no-nonsense balls to the wall British rock!!!

I can provide a band that will do an acoustic set (they bring their own gear usually) if that is of interest?

Been a few times (though not recently) and both times were excellent.

Got to agree with that, Manzil is best takeaway and is better than most "sit down" restaurants.

I played guitar in "The Bloc" which only lasted for a few gigs, BUT one of them was at the Crucible Studio (little theatre inside the Crucible building), I think "Stodge" who posts on here was at that one, along with about 100 other people? We also played a few pub gigs, one was the Arbourthorne Hotel, I was dressed like Paul Weller in "The Jam", as I had met him a few weeks before and was a massive fan, unfortunately it was "bikers/rockers night" at the pub!!!! We got a few dirty looks but it all went ok. The drummer from the Bloc went on to play in "Beat Street" and I went to join Simon Lee Ellis in "The Prams", we were ready to gig when our practice room at West Bar was broken into and my guitar was nicked. It took me ages to save for another one (my trusty Vox) and by that time I had met someone and fallen in love (ahh....). Didn't play for over 20 years but then formed a blues band and played at the Nottingham House in Broomhill last year for a breast cancer fund raiser. My daughter used to play Bass in a local band called "Pretty Young Things" and supported Maximo Park and Pink Grease and my son has formed a band called The Pickups, so it must be in the genes!!!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/vansheffield Van are the resident band at "Under The Boardwalk", they play headline, opening act, anything, only suggestion is if you put them on as opening act then make sure the headliners are top notch because these lads are a hard act to follow. At their last gig in York they were moved up to headliners after the soundcheck as none of the other bands wanted to follow them. A nice bunch of lads as well.

Yes he does, I saw him singing in a band at "Under The Boardwalk" last week, they were called "Van" (I think)

Without sounding technically stupid, if I load up a CD with some MP3's and bring it along, would that be all you need? Cheers.

Glenn Robinson lives in Perth, Western Australia, been there for about 15 years. Glynn Machin lives in Denmark and is (believe it or not) world famous in the field of high end furniture design. Phil Rose - don't know. Steve and Paul, I think Paul is a builder. Mark Parsons - still in Sheffield, see him every few months for a beer and a catch up or sat on the front row of Global Windows stand at Bramall Lane.

Saw them at the Limit, great band!!!

I remember this! Only watched the first few minutes as it was crap! The opening scene on a California road, supposed to be the A57 was hilarious and the street scenes that said "Crookes, Sheffield" which looked like they were filmed on the old MGM "New York Street" set that was used for The man from U.N.C.L.E!!!!

I agree, Ali at Yellow Arch, number should be on their website, I know they are on "my space" as well.

Awwww...Helen Duroe, my first ever crush at Gleadless Valley School (I had lots!), tall, long dark hair, gorgeous, got a picture of me and her younger sister somewhere (Christine?), taken on the "Black Path" coming down from Herdings park in the snowy winter of 1979. And your "best mate/worst mate depending on the phase of the moon" Collette Gibson danced with me at the school leaving disco, last dance of the night and all that....I don't think I ever saw her after that, another crush of mine!

When "dipping" we used to use a few like this.... " Racing car number 9, losing petrol all the time, how many gallons did it lose" and who ever you were pointing at said a number, like 5, and then you dipped 5 and that person was out. Or.... "There's a party on the hill, will you come? bring your own present and a current bun, (insert name of one of the people present, i.e. "billy") Billy will be there with a ribbon in his hair, O-U-T spells out!"