Live rock every Friday (and selected Saturdays) in South Sheffield

Official Site - The Broadfield, Abbeydale Road.

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Live rock music every Friday night at the Broadfield (yes, real ale) on Abbeydale Road in Sheffield. Bus routes 75/76, 97/98 and others stop outside the pub and close enough not to get wet - catch them outside TJ Hughes or at Moorfoot. The last 98 goes back to town at 23:46 and the last 76 to Woodseats at 23:50. Bring a couple of quid for a gallon-of-beer raffle to help support the band (there's no door charge - there are too many doors) and maybe a fiver for their CD if you like the noise. Loads of covered space in the yard for the spineless nicotine addicts. No - this isn't an official Broadfield site. They're not that rude.

2007 - August

• 17th - Charlie Don't Surf put The Broadfield back on Sheffield's live music map with a bang. They're back on 14th December. Despite short notice, the height of the holiday season and the Woodseats heavy rock assault team claiming ignorance and bussing off to see Vamp, standing room only was easily achieved. Beer as good as the band - £2.35 for Old Speckled Hen and Greene King IPA. Fizzy, extra cold and smooth stuff too, if you like that kind of thing.
• 24th - Whitewash - Punk Night - anyone there at the Charlie gig should have recognized the drummer
• 31st - Sour Mash - a poorly attended gig by Mash standards - no one was seen sitting on anyone's shoulders or swinging from the light fittings, as happens so often. A small group at a rear table tried to get the standing audience out of their line of sight - who did they want to look at? That's not what it's about. Besides, nature abhors a vacuum.

2007 - September

• 7th - No Quarter. No known web site, or rather too many and unable to disambiguate. Yes, that is a word - no more emails. The sound test terrified Heeley Bottom but they were more restrained during the gig. The Led Zeppelin medley's interesting.
• 14th - The Carnival
  No music by 21:40 - went home. Waste of bus fare and time. Very good when they eventually started, apparently. Greene King IPA was OK.
• 21st - Blitz
  Sheer fun. Shame the beer ran out. Back on 7th December. See you again, lads.
• 22nd - yup, a Saturday - Fade2Black
  A prompt start and all the real ales on? Possibly Sheffield's most improved band of 2007 - be excellent for corporate events. You don't have to be loud to be good.
• 28th - Shrine of the Monkey
  Orange Goblin, Opeth, Goatsnake, Sleep, The Sword, Sahg, Wolfmother, Cathedral, Electric Wizard, Black Label Society, Stone Sour, Slipknot, Soad, Pantera, Mastodon, The Haunted, Black Sabbath, Free, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Ozzy Osbourne, Rush, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Whitesnake, Thunder & Joe Satriani

2007 - October

• 5th - Phil Brodie Band
  Jimi Hendrix, S.R. Vaughan, Gary Moore, Pete Green, John Mayall, Albert King, BB King, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin
• 12th - Rodger
  Pink Floyd/Dire Straits, etc.
• 13th - another Saturday - Willie Browns Rhythm Method
• 19th - The Unforgiven
  Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood, Cream, Dr Feelgood, The Georgia Satellites, The Blues Band, Elmore James, Janis Joplin, Deep Purple
• 20th - Saturday's becoming a habit - MPG BAND
  Hendrix ; AC/DC ; Led Zep ; Albert King ; Free ; Frank Zappa ; Clapton ; Stevie Ray Vaughan
• 26th - Rumblestrip
• 27th - yup, another Saturday - Jonny Seven
  The Clash, The Undertones, The Sex Pistols, The Police and Tom Robinson

2007 - November

• 2nd - Firecracker
• 9th - Top Gun - Caution - site disables 'back' key - this link opens in a new page so you can kill it easily. Needs Macromedia Flash, too - what's that about?
  Free, Meatloaf, Bon Jovi, Steppenwolf, Pink Floyd, Ozzie Osbourne, Thin Lizzie, Gary Moore, Metallica, Whitesnake, Faith No More, Black Crowes, AC/DC, Van Halen, Guns'n'Roses, Rod Stewart, Gary Moore, The Whow, Led Zeppelin, Queen
• 16th - Piston Broke
• 23th - Mag 7
  Jethro Tull, Paul Weller, Thin Lizzy, ZZ Top, Van Halen, The Hooters, The Darkness
• 30th - Storm Bringer
  Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, UFO, ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Van Halen, Gary Moore, Pat Travers, The Cult, BBM, AC/DC, Free, Gun

2007 - December

• 7th - Blitz
  AC/DC, Judas Priest, Bon Jovi, Black Sabbath, Slade, Thin Lizzy, Saxon, Thunder, Bad Company, T Rex, Billy Idol, Bryan Adams, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, UFO
• 14th - Charlie Don't Surf
  AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Bowling for Soup, Bryan Adams, Cheaptrick, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, Georgia Satellites, Judas Priest, Kiss, The Darkness, Thin Lizzy, Thunder, UFO, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Y&T
• 21st - booking available
• 28th - booking available

And Laughing Gravy are negotiating.

A few Sheffield (& area) Rock Bands.

There's an excellent venue directory on Storm Bringer's site. And where would Northern music be without the Rock of the North web site?

• Betty Black - how many bands make a serious attempt at White Room in front of a live discerning audience armed with ashtrays? Twenty in three decades? See them at least once. Worth a long drive.
• Storm Bringer - rarely appear in Sheffield itself. Also worth the drive.
• Charlie Don't Surf - know rock. And they know loud. And continuous. And heavy. If they lay something down, it don't get up in a hurry.
• DO$CH - a band and an act - see them live and keep the aisles clear. Rhythm and Blues? And the rest!
• Kickback
• The Phil Brodie Band - (also links to Bitter Suite - much the same lineup but different music).
• Actionier - own material - they've played together before. Get up close. Backing vocals have better pitch than lead, but they shouldn't swap.
• Blitz - Ah, the Olive Grove gig. One-two, one-two. Guess who? Guys who enjoy themselves - another one worth a drive. Sheffield's most under-rated band?
• Mag 7 - don't be fooled; there are now only four of the Magnificent Seven. They don't sound as good.
• Rodger - think Pink Floyd/Dire Straits with snatches better than the originals.
• Raw Gallagher - pretty loud for a three-piece, good instrumental sections (not a put-down of the vocals) - CD's worth a fiver.
• Fade2Black - all kinds of stuff, including T Rex. One of Sheffield's few fiddle-wavers, too.
• Suite Zero
• Stumble
• Coast - usually seen a bit further north - sadly rare visitors to Sheffield.
• Red Mosquito - another memorable Woodseats gig - the staff playing football behind the bar. Come back Mel - all is forgiven. Even the phone's disconnected now, and the pub's on the Rock of the North shit list. Sad. Good to see Red Mosquito back on the scene after a long absence, though - gigging again as of September 2007.
• Sour Mash - balance. If you've never made out the words to your favourite piece of mega-rock, go to a Mash gig. Hell, you can even hear the second guitarist. Bring back Animal.
• The Unforgiven - excellent name.
• Shrine of the Monkey - long hair lives. There's a guitar under there somewhere!
• Treebeard - claim to play "heavy wood" music. No electricity is used in the commission of the offence. Not even batteries. Like the steps at St David's cathedral, no two people will ever count the same number of instruments. Or, indeed, realise that many of them ARE instruments. It can't be described - you have to see it live. Vaguely like the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band locked in Steptoe's yard for a weekend on speed, except there's no teapot. Yet. Count the hats and wait for someone to shake the pineapple. A box of frogs comes to mind. Or, in their words, a bag of weasels. And there's always Bollox the Dog.

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