Sheffield
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The Last of the Great Indie Discos: an interview with Chris from Offbeat
Hidden away in the corner of Sheffield University’s student bar lies the Raynor Lounge, home of Offbeat, the ultimate indie disco. It has now been running for 25 years, founded as a splinter event from Warwick’s own indie society [1]. While The West Midland Offbeat is run as a generational oligarchy, passed from clique to… Read more
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Park Hill: Urban Splashback
In Sheffield for Offbeat, and with an hour to kill at the station, I climbed up through the snow to see how the redevelopment of Park Hill is going, eight and a half years since my last visit. Back in 2014, the privatised, brightly cladded section [1] was at the bottom of the hill, but… Read more
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Monkey Swallows The Universe
A slightly lost week this week, being ill, waiting to see if I have Covid. I suspect I just have a (“the?”) flu, but one might as well be sure and there’s a walk in centre just down the road. Once I was able to get out of bed, I went and stuck the stick… Read more
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