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Des Pardes is a topical show with live calls, covering a wide range of issues regarding the Asian community.
It includes a mix of melodious tunes from down memory lane and studio guests to make a fun packed evening: tackling the issues with hard talk and no nonsense style.
Tune in every Thursday from 9pm – 11pm.
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Shows feature unsigned artists, shout outs, worldwide hip hop, underground hip hop, news/ rumours, old and new school artists.
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Two fundraisers for this year’s Peace in the Park festival are set to happen this weekend – Friday the 21st at the Riverside and Saturday the 22nd at the Redhouse, writes festival volunteer Chris Arnold.
As many of you may know, lack of funds meant that Peace in the Park was unable to go ahead in 2013, to the disappointment of many Sheffield locals. The festival is looking a lot stronger financially this year but still needs those all important funds raised from multiple events in the run up to June. Purveyors of all things fun Cool Beans are taking care of Friday night at the Riverside whilst Saturday is being hosted by Sheffield reggae stalwarts Dubcentral, both events incorporating a mixture of live music and DJs.
Friday at the Riverside is £6 to get in and features live sets from:
RENEGADE BRASS BAND
THE BALKAN BANDITS
BONGO & THE SOUL JAR
CARL “ON FIRE” WATKINS
Saturday at the Redhouse is £4 to get in and features live sets from…
STEEL CITY RHYTHM
MOOSH
All profits raised go straight to Peace in the Park and help make the occurrence of this year’s festival a certainty. You can find more info on Facebook for Friday’s event here and for Saturday’s event here.
Tickets for the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival go on sale from this week from the Showroom Cinema – and the 9th ShAFF is set to be the biggest yet.
More than 100 films will be screened at this year’s ShAFF, taking place from 4 – 6 April 2014, thanks to additional venue space at Sheffield Hallam University’s Pennine Lecture Theatre and more screenings at Red Bull’s outdoor Cityscape Cinema at the amphitheatre.
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival launched the ShAFF 2014 trailer on BMC TV this week ahead of its cinematic screening at the Best of ShAFF 2013 at the Showroom Cinema on Thursday 13 February and YouTube release on Tuesday 18th February.
There were over 200,000 views of the 2012 and 2013 ShAFF trailers; this year’s was been produced by Peak District adventure and outdoor photographer and filmmaker Lukasz Warzecha and his Polished Project colleague Wojtek Kozakiewicz. The soundtrack is ‘Life in Glorious Stereo’ by Sheffield band Screaming Maldini.
You can watch the trailer here:
The expanded programme includes more family-friendly Young Adventurer sessions and a dozen feature-length films as well as ShAFF’s popular Adrenaline, Spirit of Adventure and specialist sports film sessions.
It also includes more cycling films as part of ShAFF’s ‘Tour de Cinema’ partnership with DocFest as part of the Yorkshire Festival in the run up to the Tour De France.
A suggested donation of £1 from every ticket sold will go towards supporting Sheffield Hospitals Charity raising the £5,000 that is needed to provide a satellite blood fridge in the resuscitation room of the Emergency Department at the Northern General Hospital’s Major Trauma Centre.
Festival Director Matt Heason said: “Lukasz and Wojtek have done a cracking job taking over the reins of producing the ShAFF trailer from Alastair Lee and it’s fitting that it opens with Leo Houlding in Al’s new film ‘The Last Great Climb’.
“We’re particularly proud to be supporting Sheffield Hospitals Charity, especially as ‘Risk and Reward’ is a theme that reoccurs in so many of this year’s films. We’re also grateful to Screaming Maldini for letting us use another of their tracks. Their energetic, soaring orchestral sound is a perfect backdrop for the incredible footage that we’re privileged to screen.”
Nick Cox from Screaming Maldini said: “We’re delighted and honoured to be involved with this amazing film festival for the second year running. Seeing our music set to such incredible feats of human endurance, strength and death-defying bravery makes us feel immensely proud while at the same time immensely physically inadequate!”
Sheffield Hospitals Charity Director, David Reynolds said: “ShAFF is a hugely successful event so I’m delighted that the festival is supporting Sheffield Hospitals Charity this year and the delivery of emergency care. I’d like to urge everyone attending the event to please support our fundraising efforts to supply a satellite blood fridge. Having immediate access to this facility is vitally important for severely injured patients, who are losing blood. No time will be lost collecting blood from elsewhere within the hospital which means you can be sure that every penny donated will have a direct impact on the care of patients at a time when they need it the most.”
Stu Littlefair climbing in the final of F-BO14. Image: Neil Bentley
Some of the UK’s leading climbers competed alongside keen Sheffield participants in the fast-growing sport of ‘bouldering’ in a competition at Sheffield’s Foundry climbing wall this weekend.
F-BO14 (the Foundry Bouldering Open) attracted many of the UK’s top competition climbers, including many current British Bouldering Team members, to test their strength and technique against its famous ‘wave’ bouldering wall.
The competition began with a first round of 25 boulder problems; the 72 competitors could have up to 4 attempts at each one. The top scoring 6 men and 6 women then went through to a final where they each had to grapple with 4 more tough problems on the famous ‘Wave’ bouldering wall.
Eventual winners were Shauna Coxsey and Martin Smith – who each took home a £350 cash prize.
The winners of the juniors’ competition (aged 10 to 17 years) were Gracie Martin (who also came 5th in the women’s senior final) and Jack Ainscough.
Neil Bentley, the Foundry’s General Manager, told Sheffield Live that the competition had a “great fun atmosphere throughout with some amazing climbing by the determined competitors.”
Results
Men’s Final Results
Women’s Final Results
Full details of junior results and team results are available on the Foundry website.
Whether you:
– have an idea for a screenplay but are not sure how to progress;
– or if you have a work in progress that would benefit from good feedback and a stimulating development environment;
this screenwriting workshop programme will help you to realise your writing potential and develop your script under the expert tuition of a successful writer and script consultant.
This course consists of 6 workshops that will run every Thursday evening from 13 March 2014
Venue: Sheffield Live 93.2fm
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm every Thursday
Start date: 13 March 2014 until 17 April 2014
Many script manuals present the issue of writing as a problem of craft. There’s a suggestion that if you know about structure, plot points and narrative arcs that you will be able to produce a good commercially viable script; this in my experience is not the case.
Any good piece of writing in any genre needs to have about it some element of risk and authentic resonance. Authenticity comes from finding the true core of your story; risk comes from having the courage to explore it. Once you begin to connect and engage with your material then learning the craft will follow.
It is amazing how imaginative and coherent you become when you really find the essence of what you want to say.
The first sessions prioritise content development, we then go on to workshop your script with the aim of producing an outline and full treatment and sample scenes. Your script idea is central to the process. In each session the formal workshop topic is taught as part of the process of the script review of your work.
Content development
Through a series of exercises the workshops encourage and enable you to become aware of both location and character; some of these exercises will relate to your lived experience . This work demonstrates how a keener awareness of the space you inhabit and the complexity of yourself and those around you, will spark ideas and give depth and insight to your writing.
Introduction to a structured approach of assessing example outlines, treatments and scripts
In this session we follow the structure of a script report to assess example work, providing an opportunity for participants to take what is relevant to use as a tool to assess their own work.
Characterisation
One dimensional character can kill a good idea. Character development runs through the entire workshop programme.
Story Structure
You will learn how the factors of plot, pace, and credibility of the story should be developed – and harnessed – to effect the coherence of the overall script.
Dialogue
The most common problem is that, often, there is too much of it, it is lacking in authenticity and expositional. You will spend time listening to how people actually speak and discovering the importance of silence and subtext.
Visual Scripting: the centrality of prose description
Film is a visual medium. Prose description is the expression of the visual. A good script uses the power of the visual to create a third layer of meaning; evoking mood through metaphor and subtext.
Course fee: £95 + booking fee.
Please book your place here:
More information about Jan Worth is available at www.janworth.org
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Left to right: Richard Smith and Paul Brown
Today’s Business Live show featured two successful creative Sheffield businesses sharing their advice and tips (as well as national and local business news).
Presenter Jamie Veitch was joined by illustrator Richard Smith and animator Paul Brown. Both shared their experience of setting up and running their businesses as well as their opinions on the state of the economy, business confidence – and how online and real-world networking have been beneficial to them.
Richard’s illustration, cartoon and caricature business encompasses work for corporate and individual clients – he’s even creating some comic book cover art for the new album by Down ‘n’ Outz – fronted by Sheffielder Joe Elliott of Def Leppard fame.
Paul is an animator, digital artist, consultant and tutor, and runs Flycheese Studio, teaching digital art specialising in working with people who need support to live their lives. His students’ work is entered into film festivals and competitions and his social enterprise, which like all businesses earns its own income, also creates hugely positive benefits for its clients.
Today’s show also featured figures about Britain’s economic growth and from the British Film Institute about the state of the UK film industry and news about a £14million investment into the Sheffield City Region, which was announced this week.
You can listen to the podcast of today’s show featuring Paul and Richard (available for 60 days) here.
You might also wish to listen to the podcast of last week’s Business Live show, which featured communications, marketing and networking experts Faye Smith and Alan Fenn answering listeners’ questions. Podcast here.
More about the Business Live series here.
Richard Eyre, the Head of City Centre Management and Major Events at Sheffield City Centre, was Jamie Veitch’s guest on today’s Business Live show.
At a time when there are approximately 40,000 empty shops in the UK, and footfall in Sheffield, like most locations, had declined by about 9% in 2012, creative and innovative ways to support retailers and generate visits to city and town centres is viewed by many as crucial for the future of the high street.
In December the Government announced some measures around business rates, parking, and technology which are aimed to support city and town centres. Will these go far enough?
Richard addressed Sheffield’s approach to these issues, and talked through the Council’s successful use of High Street Innovation Fund and Keep Sheffield Working Fund to revitalising Chapel Walk, support independent and multiple retailers, and generate footfall through the Summer Saturdays programme of events.
And he gave a clear message to businesses and communities that he’s open to and welcomes engagement and ideas.
Have a listen to the podcast of today’s show here (available for approx 60 days from today, 3 Jan).
More about the Business Live series here.
Jade and Jordan
Interview by Jade Knox
Kamara guitarist and vocalist Jordan Fearnley managed to find the time before his gig at the old Grindstone last Friday to give music-loving Sheffield Live listener, volunteer and gig correspondent Jade Knox an interview:
Jade: Which contemporary artists would you most compare yourself to?
Jordan: definitely Foals, just because we have a lot of melodic riffs – we haven’t got like a solid rhythm going with the guitars it’s all melody, that and a lot of atmospheric effects behind the guitars and we have been compared to Foals in the past!
Jade: Would you say that you are “indie” or do you dip into more genres than that?
Jordan: We like to change things up, in between songs or even during the same one.
Jade: So your appeal stretches further than just the stereotypical indie fan?
Jordan: Definitely yeah! We often get put on stage with Arctic Monkeys copy-cats. Indie is such a generic term and we are a DIY band – that’s what I like to call it, we do everything ourselves, we write, record, produce all on our own.
Jade: If you were to get signed, which would be the record label you’d want to sign you?
Jordan: I personally, would love to be signed to Witchita. My all time favourite band The Cribs, Los Campesinos, FIDLAR and Those Dancing Days are all signed to Witchita. You can tell that the label gives the bands freedom within their music and if we were to be signed we’d still like to do a lot of the things ourselves.
Jade: For yourself, who are your main musical influences ?
Jordan: Like I say The Cribs are my all-time favourite, they’re only from Wakefield which isn’t far from me in Leeds. As a teen I did listen to a lot of Arctic Monkeys and as artists they have developed massively, they didn’t stick to the sound of their first album they changed it up every time which is what I want to do, it’s a new album, a new era, you can’t just keep reproducing the same sound you’ve already made. I’m also really into 50s rockabilly, motown, disco, synth-pop and new wave, I have a hugely broad musical taste.
Jade: In terms of fashion, you change your style an awful lot, you were sporting a very 90’s bowl-cut at one point, do you get your influences from anyone in particular?
Jordan: If I see something and I like it, I’ll just do it, regardless of what’s in fashion at the present time. I do like to wear very classic never-go-out-of-fashion things, skinny jeans! I don’t think they’ll ever go out of fashion, plimsolls on my feet and denim jackets.
Jade: How did the band get together?
Jordan: Well Dale went to the Leeds College of Music where I graduated from and I actually posted on a forum saying that I wanted to make an indie band – but not a generic one – with some talented musicians. Dylan got in touch with Gav on there as well and Matty was just sorted of plonked together with us.
Jade: You seemed to have a bit of a hard time finding a drummer at first, what was happening?
Jordan: We seemed to have a bit of a curse with our drummers. Dylan was originally the drummer but he wanted to sing and play guitar as well, so we ended up changing him and having two drummers with us for about two weeks each and it was coming up to about a week before our first gig and we decided to get Gav’s mate Matty on it and he’s a phenomenal drummer.
Jade: What sort of position would you like yourself and the band to be in about three years from now?
Jordan: Definitely on our second album, what we’re doing now is we want to release EPs until we get signed, we don’t want to make an album while we don’t have a label, I don’t think it’s a good idea to do that. A lot of labels look for bands that have got everything prepared and ready to release but I want to get our sound and songs perfect ready before this. In a few years’ time I’d like us to be playing decent slots in festivals. I think our band are a summery band and we want to play festivals.
Jade: It’d be ignorant to not notice that you are an attractive fella, would you say that you’re single at the moment?
Jordan: At the moment I would say that I’m seeing somebody – sorry!
Jade: Your job as a music teacher means that both your work and play is consumed by music on a practical and theoretical level, does it ever get a ‘bit too much’?
Jordan: I’ve admitted to myself that I am addicted to music, for some people it’s drugs or drink but for me it’s music. I get a real buzz if I’m in a charity shop and I find a record that I really like. I wake up on a morning and I listen to the radio and then I teach music which I’m so passionate about and then when I get home I put one of my playlists on depending on my mood, I go to practice or write a song, it’s just something that fills my entire day. I can’t even imagine what I would do without it to be honest.
Jade: Who is your favourite up and coming artist at the moment? Who should I be looking out for?
Jordan: I’m still in love with Happy Daggers – I played their first gig with them in 2010 and they’ve got a real disco vibe but in an indie band – three of them are teachers as well and they absolutely love their music and have such a good stage presence, I completely recommend seeing them if they have a gig coming up. I heard that they were played on Hollyoaks lately – I’d love that, or an advert!
Jade: Are you looking forward to the gig at The Old Grindstone tonight?
Jordan: Yes I am! I know it’s not in the city centre but from what I’ve seen it’s a pub set up which seems absolutely buzzing. The music starts about half 8-9 and there’s five bands on I think, so it should go on quite late!
Jade: Do you like the steel city?
Jordan: I do indeed you’ve had some amazing artists come from your city and I expect more to arrive in future.
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About Jade: “I am a tiny, twenty-two year old with a big love for music and radio. Fuelled on caffeine and forever changing the colour of my hair I’m going to be on the hunt for local gigs and talent in and around the steel city!”