A mix of politics and music with meaning Featuring special interviews examining our social history, current affairs, and the city’s culture – from big ideas to everyday lives. Including a weekly update of community and activist news, and the best music from The Jam to Sayed Darwish, Woody Guthrie to Public Enemy.

Get in touch about your events, your music, your community, the stories you want heard or the struggles you want to fight!

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Write to us: Mouthpiece, c/o Sheffield Live!, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX

My name is Richard Motley. I am passionate about City-Making especially place-making for the creative economy.

I manage the CIQ Agency which trades as Integreat Plus and produce the radio programme, My Kinda Place supported by Sheffield Live!

Integreat Plus is a social enterprise set up to help support individuals, communities and businesses to achieve their place based ambitions. Integreat Plus strongly supports Sheffieldlive! in making accessible digital media production opportunity and skills to enable and equip  communities in the telling of their stories, histories and articulating people’s aspirations.

My Kinda Place is  strongly focused on the need to understand places and how they impact on our lives and that we can and should do more of to shape our places, communities, cities and neighbourhoods. We all love distinctive, inclusive, fair and ‘at ease’ places.

I like to get under the skin of the major place based issues facing Sheffield and Yorkshire whether it’s the need to build new, affordable and well-designed housing or exploring new types of housing choice or provision for those in need of housing; whether its about becoming a Smart City, re-imagining our High Streets, our City Centres or re focusing our libraries and other public services.

We need to be more informed and democratically engaged if we are to create really sustainable and economically resilient places, communities and city centres.

Bringing you hot new releases in our featured ‘New Directions’ albums, keeping you up to date with the latest thinking in improvised music.

Also featuring recordings from the giants of jazz – such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis – from the present day back to the 1920s in our ‘Landmark Release’ series.

Plus information and featured events, festivals, artists, and workshops, focusing also on photography and visual arts created ‘in the moment’.

We also wander down less well known musical byways. Whether it is the sounds of Norwegian ice instruments or native American tunes which floats your boat, In the Moment is with you.

You can contact In the Moment by email inthemoment@sheffieldlive.org. We’d love to hear from you!

2016 New Directions and Landmark Release albums:

January

04/01/2016: Kamasi Washington The Epic – The Plan Brainfeeder BFCD050

11/01/2016: Kamasi Washington The Epic – The Glorious Tale Brainfeeder BFCD050

18/01/2016: Landmark Release – Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage

25/01/2016: Kamasi Washington The Epic – The Historic Repetition Brainfeeder BFCD050

February

01/02/2016: Luis Munoz Voz Pellin Music / Krokofant Krokofant II Rune Gramophone B016OLZBE8 (released January 8th)

08/02/2016: GoGo Penguin Man Made Object Decca B0186KU046 (released Feb 5th)

15/02/2016: Landmark release – Sonny Rollins Saxophone Collossus

22/02/2016: Bill Frisell When You Wish Upon a Star Sony Classical B01887RB8U (released Feb 5th)

29/02/2016: Snarky Puppy Family Dinner Volume 2 (released Feb 12th)

Photograph discussed on In the Moment 21/12/15 during interview with photographer Laura McLaughlin-Hart.