Sheffield bands - who's the best?

[Matt S 10]

Little Ze are playing live at Threads. @ DQ on Saturday.. My favourite live Sheffield band at the mo...

[chri5 10]

Sweet Exorcist

[DanielWalton 10]

Sheffield has always been a great place for music. From Joe Cocker to the Arctics theres been some top bands. Does anyone remember a band called Snailbomb from the mid nineties?

[gularscute 10]

Has anyone seen Outroads? http://www.outroads.co.uk/flash.htmlThey sound like a proper band who should be too big to play the smallish venues that they do (apart from playing to 15,000 people in Chile it seems to mainly be Ruskins and the Bath Hotel). They have an unusual sound that mixes classic/ indie rock with blues harp and a very English sounding violin. The singer has an amazing voice that can move between a throaty roar and quiet intimacy.

 

I hope I'm not doing them a disservice here, I'm not too hot on the describing music thing.

 

Sun are also a fantastic jazz/soul/rock/reggae/uncategorisable band but only seem to play every now and again at random. I saw them do an amazing gig at The lantern Theatre. The singer/songwriter sometimes crops up to do his solo thing at the Broadfield open mike on Sundays. I can't recommend him enough, he has a scary amount of talent and deserves world domination.

 

Folk/rock band Silverwheel http://www.silverwheel.net/ are too good for words. They're a perfect distillation of all that is good about the wonderful Treebeard http://chrisgabadon.demonweb.co.uk/treebeard/ and it's many offshoots. They can transport you to another world and should be given the keys to the city.

[angelgirluk 10]

COLORPOOL by far!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

http://www.myspace.com/colorpool check them out their best track is definitely 'Dark Harvest' followed by 'Yield Monkey'

[skaman 10]

durban 4 me

[sexkitten 10]

Def Leppard or

The Dodgems

[VillageElder 10]

I'm with Skaman. If you haven't seen them check out DURBAN. Great live, and "Invasion" is a damn good first album!

[chocoholic 10]

The Harrisons!!

[metaldrummer 10]

RISE TO ADDICTION ! (http://www.risetoaddiction.com)

[Grappler 12]

Let me think of some I have seen recently.......

[Grappler 12]

I played in bands back in the late 70's, early 80's and saw loads of great Sheffield bands like Artery (John Peel favourites), The Flying Alphonso Brothers, The Negatives (single of the week in NME), I'm So Hollow, The Deaf Aids and more.

 

Over the last few years I have started going back and watching local bands and the scene seems to be thriving. Best ones I have seen recently are Van (http://www.myspace.com/vansheffield) who must be close to being signed? Milburn are good, Harrisons too and it's good to see Little Man Tate on MTV etc.

 

I also like some of the blues/R+B bands like Do$sch and Sneakin Suspicion, and Grey Cooper Love Party are great for that James Brown style funk.

 

Vegas Child are very good, remind me of someone and I can't think who.

 

The Foe or The Foes were good, awesome guitarist, bit of a prog rock sound so maybe not to everyones liking.

 

Of the up and coming younger bands I think The Pickups and JPE are two of the best I have seen, attracting big crowds with crowd surfing!! (not by me, far too old for that!) plus there are loads more out there, Sheffield can be a good night out to watch local bands, any night of the week.