Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder says Blades “have found form” ahead of their upcoming match against leaders Scunthorpe. Sheffield Live! reporter Shamaan Freeman-Powell spoke to Wilder ahead of the match.
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder says Blades “have found form” ahead of their upcoming match against leaders Scunthorpe. Sheffield Live! reporter Shamaan Freeman-Powell spoke to Wilder ahead of the match.
Sheffield Hallam Students’ Union have arranged a full week of events to welcome new students to the city. Sports fairs, society fairs and volunteering fairs are all designed to give freshers an insight into university life and provide opportunities to make friends and meet like minded people. Simon Thake reports for Sheffield Live!
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Services have tested their capability to respond to a major blaze as part of a service-wide exercise. Dozens of emergency services vehicles lined up outside the former Prince Edward Primary School on Queen Mary Road. The operation, involving more than 60 on duty firefighters and 10 standard fire engines, was the biggest training session of the year. Shamaan Freeman-Powell spoke to Assistant Chief Fire Officer Martin Blunden.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has published a new book, ‘Politics: Between the Extremes’. It is a frank account of his experience in politics, power and the 2015 General Election defeat. The Sheffield Hallam MP argues that with the resurgence of nationalism and mainstream parties in turmoil, new divisions define the country that are no longer simply left and right. Sheffield Live! reporter Baillor Jalloh spoke to Nick Clegg at the launch of this year’s Off the Shelf Festival of Words at Sheffield Hallam University.
SLTV first hit your screens on 23 September 2015 so we celebrated with a special edition of Talking Sheffield hosted by Simon Thake in front of a live audience. The guests were Steve Buckley, Chair of SLTV, Sara Hill from Opus Magazine and Lia Nici from Estuary TV.
A Sheffield farm has become the new home to seven piglets.
They are a rare breed and have been attracting much attention from the visitors.
Heeley City Farm has been targeted by youths over the years. In April there were five break ins over five nights.
They broke into the cash office, but after finding little money lying around, they caused deliberate damage to the farm.
Now the volunteers are concerned for the safety of the animals.
Kathryn Smiles has been to Heeley City Farm to meet the new arrivals.
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Well, we did it! On Saturday the 30th of October, as part of the ‘Off the Shelf’ festival, the ‘Cornucopia Radio Show’ was broadcast live from the Sheffield Winter Gardens, for 6 hours between 11am and 5pm.
The day featured poets, storytellers, comedians, performers, actors, musicians, singers and local amateur dramatic groups. Yes, it was a little chaotic (let there be no doubt about that!) but it was also pretty amazing, because amazing is the thing we do best!
Click here for an image gallery featuring every performer or click on the audio player below to listen to each and every act (and if you want to download them as individual mp3s click here)
And if you’d like to get involved in any of our future live events or help with the recording of our studio pieces, then our email address would be a good place to start: studio@cornucopia-radio.co.uk, or if that’s too hard, just try visiting the website.
On Sunday the 24th of May, a special “Rave Against Racism” three stage event will be taking place at “The Corporation” here in Sheffield, with a headline set from The Orb.
All proceeds from the event will be going to straight to Sheffield Live! helping us to continue providing a an eclectic mix of original programming by local people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.
Rave Against Racism is a non-profit organisation that raises awareness around the issues surrounding the far-right and supports community groups and individuals around the world. It was set up in January 2009 to help and support promoters, clubbers and ravers in the ongoing fight against the far right in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. The people involved have a long history of free parties, being promoters or punters and an interest in anti far-right politics and activism. We want to help support people who may well be turned off by mainstream politics to get involved in the local community groups that are in their area and if needs, help them setting up their own groups. Our primary focus is Anti Fascism and raising awareness and having a damn good time whilst doing so. We want to encourage people to meet and mix and share ideas and ideals whether online or out in the real world.
The bands take to the stage from 9pm and the event runs till 4am. Tickets are priced at £12 and can be purchased online through the Corporation website.
UPDATE: You can now view pictures from this event at our Image Gallery
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The Orb ( LIVE with Visual Show )
Mixmaster Morris ( Big Chill / Ninja Tune / Samurai FM / Irresistible Force )
Celt Islam featuring Bongo Chilli + Danman LIVE ( Kritical Mass Records / Lone Trader Records)
Alphadrive LIVE ( R.A.R. )
Ann-D ( Headcharge / R.A.R. )
Lady Muckcedes + Mr Benz ( Sunshine Girls / R.A.R. )
Urban Truffle ( Chimp Makes Noise / R.A.R. )
Mixmaster Morris ( Big Chill / Ninja Tune / Samurai FM / Irresistible Force )
Oris Jay / Darqwan ( Texture UK )
Mikey J ( Tuesday Club )
Alex Deadman + MC Walker ( Junglist Alliance / Dark Crystal / R8 Records )
Fattasound ( Dubcentral / Universal HiFi )
Si Cheese ( Dirty Cheese )
DJ Disorientalist ( Disoriental / R.A.R. )
A+D+A+M Lab4 ( LIVE with Laser Show )
Space Sentinelz ( Headcharge / Twisted Traxx / R.A.R. )
Kam-Pain ( Headcharge / Easy Skankin’ Records / R.A.R. )
Freaktechnique ( Headcharge / R.A.R. )
Kickflip ( Urban Gorilla / Headcharge / Fat Records / R.A.R. )
John Wainwright ( Headcharge / Likebreaks / R.A.R. )
Geenius ( Headcharge / Likebreaks / R.A.R. )
On Monday 23rd March the Harley Hotel & Bar and Sheffield Live! 93.2FM join forces to showcase some of the city’s finest musical talent at a special benefit gig for Sheffield Live!
A top night featuring the who’s who of Sheffield’s up and coming indie bands:
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Pistola Kicks; billed as Sheffield’s tightest liveliest act by the Sheffield Telegraph myspace.com/pistolakicks
The Interiors; described as ‘A glorious tribute following in the footsteps of some of the greatest bands of the post-punk age’ by Subba Cultcha webzine myspace.com/theinteriorsband
Cats:For:Peru; praised by Sandman Magazine as “Perfect avant-pop that John Peel would undoubtedly be championing myspace.com/catsforperu
Standard Fare; whose demo was described as “brilliant” by Huw Stephenson on his Radio 1 show, ‘In new music we trust’ myspace.com/standardfare
The night will close with Sheffield Live! DJ sets from the fabulous people behind Mixtape, The Indie Hour and The Breakdown.
Doors open at 8pm and £3 gets you in.
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Tune in to Sheffield Live! to hear tracks from all the bands and interviews with the music makers!
Sheffield’s first fulltime community radio station celebrates its first birthday today. In just one year Sheffield Live! 93.2fm has made its mark on the UK’s fourth largest city by introducing a new brand of radio that celebrates Sheffield’s rich diversity. With a strong commitment to local people, issues, music and culture the station has created a truly inclusive soundscape of modern day Sheffield, broadcast everyday on FM to a potential audience of 350,000 people.
Sheffield City Council Leader and regular Sheffield Live! listener Paul Scriven said: “It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Sheffield Live! on its first year of fulltime broadcasting. The station has made a positive impact on the city’s cultural life, by offering a powerful platform to local people for debate, political engagement, creative expression and community celebration.”
A wide range of Sheffield Live’s programmes have become household names like the ‘Indie Hour’ which features tracks from the now legendary Sheffield Indie scene. ‘Sheffield in Focus’, a magazine programme for local visually impaired people is produced and presented by a seasoned team of broadcasters who are themselves visually impaired. Produced and presented by two of the city’s top scientists ‘The Sound of Science’ is a world class science, engineering and technology programme, delivered in an accessible and entertaining format. ‘Sabrang’, a discussion programme in Urdu has a vibrant phone-in that gets the community talking every week whilst ‘Siteen Daqiqa be Alarabi’ and ‘Luisheng Sheffield’ provide Sheffield’s only radio 
programmes in Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin. In addition the station hosts a wide variety of youth orientated, cutting edge music programmes featuring Alternative, RnB, Hip Hop, House and Baseline, presented by some of Sheffield’s best known club DJs.
Sangita Basudev, Chief Executive of Sheffield Live! said: “We are one year old! What a great opportunity to celebrate the hard work, commitment and creative enthusiasm of the 100’s of volunteers that are Sheffield Live! 93.2fm. Sheffield Live! provides a high quality, eclectic service 24 hours a day. We take pride in the creative input the station has made to Sheffield and the investment we have made in a new generation of home grown broadcasters of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.”