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Have a look down this list of Sheffield bands and singles and see how many you remember. 
 

You can get this here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreams-Vacuum-Sound-Sheffield-1978-1988/dp/B07Y4MXWY4/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Sheffield&linkCode=sl2&linkId=4d2863cc4f65eafe2ffd2b136a5d7aff&qid=1585168967&sr=8-4&fbclid=IwAR0ksi2QgWSolPl5rDgyHBbBtJ9r1grvdXYUe-IjKDGGKE5Gz0h3PW6Qpzs

 

  • Extensive 4CD/book set exploring the punk and post-punk sound of the ‘steel city’.

 

  • Features classics, rarities, album tracks and TWELVE previously unreleased gems from The Human League, Pulp (and members thereof), Heaven 17, Thompson Twins, B.E.F., Artery, ABC, Clock DVA, Hula, The Danse Society, In The Nursery, Treebound Story and many more.

 

  • 4CD + hardback book format contains over 20,000 words of artists’ sleevenotes, essays and memoirs from key players in the city’s music scene.

 

  • Curated and designed by the people who brought you Manchester – North Of EnglandRevolutionary Spirit – The Sound Of Liverpool, Silhouettes And Statues, Electrical Language, Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream and many more critically acclaimed box sets.
  • Journey through the music of a generation in one of the UK’s most vibrant and creative cities.

 

  • Sheffield in the 1970s…. a city in decline, its steel mills and factories closing and its vast housing estates beginning to crumble. Even the city’s two football teams were both experiencing the worst form in their long histories. An unlikely setting, then, for a musical revolution, but aren’t they always? As it transpired, in the aftermath of punk this industrial backdrop, alive with frustrated young talent and peppered with accessible and affordable rehearsal and performance spaces, became a hotbed of uniquely informed new bands that challenged both the constraints of genre and the dominance of music from London, Liverpool and Manchester.

 

  • Dreams To Fill The Vacuum charts the revival of Sheffield and its music in the latter half of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, from The Human League to Pulp, via Aardvark, Pax and Native Records, and onto the chart successes of Heaven 17, ABC, Thompson Twins and many others. Featuring cornerstone contributions from the city’s brightest stars – Oakey, Cocker, Ware, Marsh, Hawley, Newton and co - alongside many more lesser-known legends, this is a tale of a city and its people rediscovering itself.

 

  • Packed with first-hand artist sleevenotes, insightful essays, revealing imagery and brilliant, essential music, Dreams To Fill The Vacuum offers a story in need of telling.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. DANCEVISION - The Human League
  2. DON'T TRY TO CURE YOURSELF - They Must Be Russians
  3. DREAMS TO FILL THE VACUUM - I'm So Hollow
  4. MODERN MEN - The Prams
  5. ALL TIME LOW - 2.3
  6. METAL BOYS - Hobbies Of Today
  7. TRACK NO. 5 - Mein Glas Fabrik *
  8. HELP ME - Red Zoo *
  9. AVOID THE SURGERY (DEMO) - I Scream Brothers
  10. JUNIOR - B. Troop
  11. SHE'S IN LOVE WITH MYSTERY - Thompson Twins
  12. SAY AND DO - Repulsive Alien
  13. TORCH - Veiled Threat
  14. QUESTIONS OF GENDER - De Tian
  15. UNKNOWN - Molodoy
  16. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - TV Product *
  17. ELECTRIC WALTZ - Negatives
  18. END OF ACT ONE - Y?
  19. THE MAZE - The Toy Shop
  20. A GIRLFRIEND IS... - Vena Cava
  21. DROWNING - Graph
  22. MEN IN THE MIRRORSHADES - Rapid Eye Movements
  23. LLAMAS (LIVE AT THE WIMPY BAR) - A Major European Group
  24. RAINDANCE - The Past Seven Days
  25. LIVING IN CONFUSION - Pagan Bo

 

Disc: 2

  1. (WE DON'T NEED THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG (12 MIX) - Heaven 17
  2. LUCIFER'S FRIEND - Vision
  3. THE CLOWN - Artery
  4. TWIST - New Model Soldier
  5. TRAIN - Surface Mutants
  6. 4 HOURS (REMIXED SINGLE VERSION) - Clock DVA
  7. A BABY CALLED BILLY - British Electronic Foundation
  8. WAR GAMES - Flying Alphonso Brothers *
  9. ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - Shy Tots
  10. HEAVY MEN - Disease *
  11. DEITY'S LAMENT - Stunt Kites
  12. SECRET SOCIETY - Mau Maus
  13. MARCELLA BALL - The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor
  14. CORPSE CREEPER - Quite Unnerving
  15. PARKING BOYS - Acrobats Of Desire
  16. MAN WITH A LUMINOUS HEAD (DEMO) * - The Blimp
  17. SCRAMBLE FOR STYLE - The Mirror Crack'd
  18. REAL LIFE - Vital
  19. PSYCHOKILLER - Heroes Of The Beach
  20. ALPHABET SOUP - ABC

 

Disc: 3

  1. EVERYBODY'S PROBLEM - Pulp
  2. INTRUDER IN THE DUST - Bass Tone Trap
  3. JUST A GAME - U.V. Pøp
  4. DANSE/MOVE - The Danse Society
  5. ISKRA - In The Nursery
  6. DYING MAN, FAITHFUL PRIEST - Dachau Choir
  7. TEX MIRROR H - Out Of Reach
  8. NO ONE LEAVES THE) FEVER CAR - Hula
  9. QUIET TYPE - Time In Motion
  10. OVER - SIIIII
  11. MANNEQUIN - Ipso Facto
  12. WORLDS APART - Fatales *
  13. BILLINGHAM'S ISLAND (DEMO)* - Tsi Tsi
  14. FISH AND BREADCAKE - Fish And Breadcake
  15. LATE NIGHTS (DEMO) - Harriet *
  16. OUT OF THE FLESH (MIX 1) - Chakk
  17. THE DISTANCE FROM KOLN - Native Europe
  18. SILICON CHIP - Defective Turtles
  19. PERSUASION - Vendino Pact
  20. IN MY EYES (DEMO)* - Typhoon Saturday

 

Disc: 4

  1. KITCHENETTE - Peter Hope And The Jonathan S. Podmore Method
  2. WINDS OF CHANGE - Scala Timpani
  3. YOU UNGRATEFUL poopydoo (FLEXI VERSION) - One Thousand Violins
  4. CRAYOLA - A.C. Temple
  5. UP THE HILL - Sedition
  6. MESSAGE FROM A DEAD MAN - The Flight Commander
  7. ZULU - The Anti Group
  8. CHAINS - Chain
  9. FIX THE KITCHEN - Dig Vis Drill
  10. CHILDREN - Kilgore Trout
  11. BOTTLE BREAST - Fishwives
  12. TREEHOUSE - Mr Morality *
  13. SKIN SCRAPED BACK - Workforce
  14. LIKE A FOOL - Treebound Story
  15. WONDERFUL LIFE - Nick Fish & The Seahorses
  16. CROW BAR - The Box
  17. COLORADO DEAD MAN - The Midnight Choir
  18. THE WORLD DOESN'T TURN - The Junk
  19. LAWNMOWER WOMAN (LIVE) - The Wacky Gardeners
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