Sheffield Folk

07/06/2024

Sheffield Folk part 3 - Meet Alex at La Biblioteka. I first met Alex back in 2018 and loved his style on independent books and magazines.

Fast forward 6 years and here he is in his 3rd home but look out as he moves later in the Summer to the new Leah’s Yard.

30/04/2024

Who is going?

31.08.24 | Sheffield

18/04/2024

It’s going to be a mad one catching Frank attempt so many gigs in 24 hrs! Have you got your ticket yet?

We're down to 70 tickets for Frank Turner's world record attempt gig at Foundry! Full info on the link, don't hang about!
https://beartreerecords.com/products/frank-turner-live-at-foundry-2024

18/04/2024

If you have seen the performance you will appreciate this. Music by Richard Hawley 🤩

OUT THIS FRIDAY!!!
Standing At The Sky’s Edge original live cast recording 2xLP.

https://beartreerecords.com/products/original-cast-of-standing-at-the-skys-edge-standing-at-the-skys-edge-a-new-musical-songs-by-richard-hawley

06/04/2024

Head on down to Bear Tree Records to order and buy the K’s album. It’s a cracker and they are a great set of lads.

Such a great debut album!

The debut album from The K's is out this Friday. We have a very limited amount of signed prints available now if you’re quick!

https://beartreerecords.com/products/the-ks-i-wonder-if-the-world-knows-lp

29/03/2024

Ah it feels a bit emotional to think that Pete won’t be there. What a lovely gesture from Monty’s 👏👏👏

25/03/2024

The menswear fashion brand Yards Store has opened a second location in Sheffield this weekend and is set to bring a buzz to the area with its independent vibe. Championing outdoor and heritage brands such as And Wander, Goldwin and Gramicci, they are experts at offering innovative shopping experiences and show a good commitment to men's style without compromising on quality.

Opening their original store in Manchester back in 2019, they offered a site where men could focus on cool brands and a website to go with it.

Located on Pinstone Street and part of Heart of the City – the high-profile city centre development scheme led by Sheffield City Council and the developer Queensberry shows several new businesses open in that area.

Sheffield has always had independents that focus on good quality clothing for men with the likes of Arnold &Co on Ecclesall Road which has always specialised in British manufacturing by supplying Forge Denim that is crafted here in the city.

It has never been more exciting when shopping for men's clothes in the city and a quick look at the history of Yards Store shows the lifestyle retailer has grown by curating a good collection to satisfy the buyer. Having a large selection of footwear and choosing brands like Clarks Originals, New Balance and Red Wing means products being bought here are designed to last.

When you look across the city, you can see a good range of specialist vintage menswear independent shops like Jo Jo's General Store that concentrates on vintage mountaineering and rare authentic military workwear. Yards Store will add depth to the independent scene and complement what we already have in Sheffield.

Check out the new store on Pinstone Street and follow their socials to find out more about the ranges of menswear and footwear they sell.

23/03/2024

Doors are open to the new Yards Store that have opened in Sheffield. Check them out and show some support 🙌🙌

18/03/2024

New announcements for the wknd event! Check out the deets and book your tickets 🫶🫶

29/02/2024

Little Man Tate have their album out this week. I ordered my copy yesterday! Make sure to buy a copy if you can. Last day to count as album sales 🤞🤞

If 10 vinyl tracks aren’t enough & you need more LMT in your life, the CD has 2 bonus songs & the Digital Deluxe has a whopping FOUR bonus tracks.

Purchase here - https://littlemantate.tmstor.es/

Love ya, LMT 💙💚

20/02/2024

Make sure to pop along and say goodbye to Pete McKee as he heads over to his new shop and gallery space in the city centre ❤️❤️

Farewell Sharrow Vale Road: The Big Relocation Sale
Saturday 30th March

After 14 fantastic years the McKee Gallery on Sharrow Vale Road will be moving to a new location at Leah’s Yard in the city centre. To celebrate this, the gallery will be holding a special relocation sale on its last day open – Saturday 30th March.

Over the years the gallery has displayed many different McKee exhibitions and launched a plethora of collections, products, and prints. It’s unsurprising that, after 14 years, we have gathered quite a stock! This means that there will be a unique opportunity to own some rare one-off products from the archives as well as discounted framed and unframed works.

Items on offer will include (but are not limited to): T-Shirts, Collaborations with Paul Smith, Classic McKee Mugs, Limited Edition Prints, Signed Books, and projects that never saw the light of day.
We will also be auctioning off the famous ‘Frank’ shop sign which has been our gallery’s mascot since opening day! We will be announcing full details of this as well as a rundown of everything that will be available on the day though our social media channels over the next few weeks.

Please be aware that all items will only be available in the store (not online) on the 30th March during our opening hours of 10am to 5pm. No items can be reserved and we will be operating a first come first served basis.

05/02/2024

I absolutely loved the Phlegm exhibtion but it did take me back to 2020 and I left feeling quite emotional. We all had to deal with the pandemic in our own way, and what makes this exhibtion special is an insight into a well loved artist’s life at that time.

On now until the beginning of July 2024 at the Millenium Galleries. Highly recommend

17/01/2024

Brilliant way to spend time in January 🤩🫶

The London Short Film Festival is back this month (19 - 28 Jan) with ten days of short films, live events, Q&As for you - including a multifaceted documentary programme.

Find out more about their five programmes of docs below...

📅 20 Jan 20:30, ICA
Documentary: Time will say nothing but I told you so: bit.ly/3vsWjv5

📅 21 Jan 13:00, ICA
Documentary: The house shelters daydreaming: bit.ly/48pCGCR

📅 21 Jan 15:00, Curzon Soho
Documentary: Journey To Earth: bit.ly/4aUluai

📅 27 Jan 14:00, ICA
Documentary: Only Connect: bit.ly/48vrRPC

📅 27 Jan 16:30, ICA
Documentary: Image//Making: bit.ly/47DJXh0

15/01/2024

Who can remember the Steve Mqueen donut? Well it’s back this Wednesday! Happy 10 years to a fab team 🙌🙌

TEN years of Steam Yard; we don’t often show our faces on here too much. (Unless we recycle this one photo by our friend) Let’s be fair donuts and coffee is much more fun.

Today marks our 10th Birthday (what?!) and we wanted to take the opportunity to thank our friends, family, incredible staff (past and present), our suppliers, bakers and makers and of course YOU! The love and support we have seen from the first morning we opened right through to the various closures (thanks Covid!) constantly reminds us why we do it. The community spirit here in Sheffield, we couldn’t or wouldn’t be doing anything else or differently regardless of the ongoing pressures right now.

We are 2 best friends for much longer than coffee shop owners, we won’t let you to just how long then you’ll realise just how old we are. We opened Steam Yard as a little escape from the day to day, a place to hang out and share a coffee and donut. We took a chance, a business loan and with a lot of help; a second hand espresso machine, couple of bags of coffee and a tray of donuts and we opened. We didn’t have enough chairs! But you lot showed up, and kept coming back! (Thank you) Fast forward now 10 years a lot has changed but you our lovely customers are the constant. Growing the cafe space, knocking down walls and restoring 100 yr untouched parts of our building, launching a cold brew, the UKs first bean to bar ice cream and various collaborations with other Sheffield businesses, taking on the next door shop from our friend Rich and opening a training lab and space for ideas and developments, pushing sustainability and removing single use plastic, bringing in our pals Dept Two into the Yard and much more.

Opening our little sister and cookie popup shop with Doughboy.

We are permanently excited about this business, we have so many idea and plans for what we could, can and hopefully will do. We love our little home and we want this shop to be the best it can be reaching as many of you as possible, a warm welcome, great hospitality, good brews and a bakery counter of dreams all with a brilliant soundtrack. That’s us!

Thank you, thank you, thank you 💛💛💛

15/01/2024

Love Phlegm and can’t wait to see this!

14/01/2024

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Like to party but can't stay up late? Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen can help dance the day away.

06/12/2023

Amazing that YSP won this award. Well done 👏👏👏

🙌 We're delighted to announce that at last night's Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards we won both the Tourism Attraction of the Year and Culture Award!

We were up against some strong competition for both prestigious awards, which honour the best attractions in the region. Congratulations to everyone who was nominated, and to all of the other winners.

Henry Moore, Upright Motive No.1: Glenkiln Cross, No. 2 and No.7, 1955–6. Courtesy of Tate 📷️ Jonty Wilde

26/11/2023

Looks like a top indie market to attend. Who’s going?

13/11/2023

Come on let’s see Billy sell out Sheffield. An incredible songwriter, with a voice that leaves you wanting more and I love to hear him on piano.

Come on Sheffield you can do this 🫶

So incredibly proud to announce my support acts for the November Tour.
Main support will be Ellysse Mason and Maddox Jones and will be opening.
I’ve pretty much built my whole fan base from being the support act for people so I know how tough it can be playing to a new audience so please try and get there early to see these talented humans. It’s a real honour to have them on tour with me. Birmingham has just sold out and London had so many entries that we’ve upgraded the venue to XOYO and that has now sold out (more info coming on that show very soon and dw Patreon I’m working on it) Every other show is on low tickets so don’t hang about. 😆 a caption...

12/11/2023

Have you visited Bon Cafe yet over at Broomhill?

Opened yesterday and looks cool with tasty bakery delights!

Look out for more info on them and pay them a visit!

09/11/2023

Happy 20 years to an amazing cafe!

Well, 20 years ago this very day, we opened .

A heartfelt and deeply sincere thank you to each and every customer who has passed through our doors . I'd also like to thank our incredible, loyal , and hardworking staff. My loving and supportive family who have stuck by me since day 1. Without them all , Bragazzis wouldn't exist.

Thank you all again for everything you do.
❤️

08/11/2023

Pete is moving his gallery to the city centre! How exciting. Have a read below....

Pete is opening a new gallery!

Pete has some exciting news to share with you. Next year he will be moving the McKee gallery to the new Leah’s Yard development in Sheffield City centre. Pete is the first tenant to be announced for this grade II listed development in the Heart of the city.
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"The development team has taken great pains to retain as much of the heritage of the building as possible and it looks stunning. I’m incredibly proud of the Sheffield heritage my family, and many others over the generations, have been a part of. So, to be able to place my gallery where once the Artisans of Sheffield produced their wares was an opportunity I couldn’t resist.
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“I believe in Sheffield and its ability to adapt and thrive and the town centre is currently going through a metamorphosis. Soon, it will be free of the cocoon of scaffolding and building sites and will be able to open its wings once more. But it won’t shine like our famous steel if we don’t support it. That’s why I wanted to move to the city centre to help be a part of our beautiful city’s new beginning – where we forge our own future and don’t look to be a poor copy of our neighbours up the M1 and over the Snake.

"I’ve been very proud to have been present for Sharrow Vale Rd’s growth into one of Sheffield’s independent shopping districts. Over the 13 years I’ve been there I’ve seen the street blossom into a bustling network of independent shops, cafés, restaurants, bars, and food outlets.
However, now I believe it’s time to move on and embrace a new beginning in one of Sheffield’s historical jewels – Leah’s Yard.” - Pete McKee�
Leah’s Yard, which is currently undergoing the final stages of its renovation, breathing life back into its patchwork of buildings, is gearing up for opening in summer 2024. We will have further news on opening dates in the new year.
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Until then you can follow the Leah’s Yard journey across social media:
Instagram, Facebook and X:
Pete has some exciting news to share with you. Next year he will be moving the McKee gallery to the new Leah’s Yard development in Sheffield City centre. Pete is the first tenant to be announced for this grade II listed development in the Heart of the city.
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"The development team has taken great pains to retain as much of the heritage of the building as possible and it looks stunning. I’m incredibly proud of the Sheffield heritage my family, and many others over the generations, have been a part of. So, to be able to place my gallery where once the Artisans of Sheffield produced their wares was an opportunity I couldn’t resist.
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“I believe in Sheffield and its ability to adapt and thrive and the town centre is currently going through a metamorphosis. Soon, it will be free of the cocoon of scaffolding and building sites and will be able to open its wings once more. But it won’t shine like our famous steel if we don’t support it. That’s why I wanted to move to the city centre to help be a part of our beautiful city’s new beginning – where we forge our own future and don’t look to be a poor copy of our neighbours up the M1 and over the Snake.

"I’ve been very proud to have been present for Sharrow Vale Rd’s growth into one of Sheffield’s independent shopping districts. Over the 13 years I’ve been there I’ve seen the street blossom into a bustling network of independent shops, cafés, restaurants, bars, and food outlets.
However, now I believe it’s time to move on and embrace a new beginning in one of Sheffield’s historical jewels – Leah’s Yard.” - Pete McKee�
Leah’s Yard, which is currently undergoing the final stages of its renovation, breathing life back into its patchwork of buildings, is gearing up for opening in summer 2024. We will have further news on opening dates in the new year.
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Until then you can follow the Leah’s Yard journey across social media:
Instagram, Facebook and X:

18/09/2023

If this is true it will be the first time since T Rex played there! And what a party!

One of the world’s top ten leading concert promoters is planning two massive outdoor concerts at Clifton Park in Rotherham next summer, and ...

18/09/2023

Who else is looking forward to this?

"Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life", our first new album in over 15 years, is out on the 17th of November!

Available to pre-order now - https://littlemantate.tmstor.es/

16/09/2023

Love Luke’s work. Make sure to pop down and check it out tomorrow

My Exhibition is open!

Open until 2pm Sunday 17th.

Free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/luke-horton-exhibition-things-we-do-f-love-tickets-652647625617

14/09/2023

Can’t wait for this x x

09/09/2023

Team work 👏

I’d be lost wi ahht these two!

Emma (left) is our Hillsborough Store Manager and Inventory Manager!

Aviv (in the sky) is our Project and Product Manager!

I am very grateful for the both of them!!

31/08/2023

🚨ARTIST OPPORTUNITY🚨

YSP and Working Class Creatives Database (WCCD) are offering an on-site residency at YSP in October 2023.

This Award is open to application for members of the WCCD and will be selected in collaboration between YSP and WCCD.

The chosen artist will receive:
🔹 A residency at YSP from 10–22 October 2023
🔹 Access to facilities including metal and wood workshops
🔹 Fee of £750 + up to £250 for materials
🔹 On-site accommodation at YSP + food and hospitality
🔹Return travel in the UK up to £150
🔹 Support from YSP’s Curatorial team + half-day support for YSP’s Technical team

🗓️ Applications should be submitted to [email protected] by midnight on Sunday 10 September.

Find out more and apply at 🔗 bit.ly/YSPxWCCDResidency

📷️ courtesy of Connor Shields

17/08/2023

Last day to get 50% off your food at the fab new Proove Pizza in Orchard Square!

Thursdays never looked so good!

10/08/2023

Exciting to see The Sherlocks on course for a number one album. I love the Sirens track and think this is their best album yet!

Help the lads and buy for £4.99 on ITunes today. It would be nice to see the South Yorkshire band reach their well deserved goal 👊👊

WE’VE JUST GONE TO NUMBER 1 ON ITUNES CHART!!!! IT’S WORKING!!! ❤️

LET’S DO IT! ONLY £4.99

GET INVOLVED EVERYONE!!!!