Concert Venues

You would expect a city with a large university student population to have some dance venues and other live music Venues that cater to a young crowd. To say that about Sheffield is an extreme understatement. The vibrant live music scene in the city has been the soundtrack to life for citizens of Sheffield for over 30 years.
Past and present Sheffield musicians have enjoyed excellent success. Names from the not too distant past include Joe Cocker, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Def Leppard, The Human League to name a few. More recently the Arctic Monkeys, Pink Grease, and The Long Blonds are wonderfully popular in and outside of Sheffield. The live music Venue s, such as venue s, pubs, hall s, and stadiums fill the air with music, and vibrate the cities streets with a baseline.
So a lot of skill ed acts come from Sheffield that’s seems an odd coincidence. Perhaps something in the water that endorses vocal cords develop, not like ly, but something has to explain the large volume of musicians coming out of this fairly small area. Well, it is not that ample of a mystery.
It seems that in the early 1980s when the steel industry was on a down turn, someone on the Sheffield City Council heard about the ample resources involved in music. The multi-million dollar incomes of rock stars looked like an attractive way to bring a lot of resources into the city. By 1982, a year that saw double-digit unemployment rates and 20,000 jobs lost, the City Council decided to do something about it by producing a few rock stars of their personal.
It could not have occurred quite that way, but the fact is, the council got involved in the music business. They figured out that to have a excellent income producing music scene a few things were needed. An infrastructure for the music industry was vital, so the Council began funding projects associated with music. A recording studio was necessitated to attract top acts and lot of live music Venues were necessitated to showcase the local/regional skill.
Sheffield City Trust owns Sheffield International Venues and operates Hallam FM Arena, and Sheffield City Hall to name a few of the 13 Venues for music, sports, and entertainment. (SVI) Sheffield International Venues vision is to  promote  Sheffield as an international and cultural center point for sport, leisure and entertainment, something they have been quite successful at doing since 1988.
Red Tape Studios is a training web site for Sheffield City Council. It offers training to individuals interested in careers in the music business. band Development, band and Artist management, Music Technology, Music Business Courses and even deejay training courses are available. Because these courses are part of a local/regional government backed system, they are competitively priced and the program really endorses  promote  the music scene in Sheffield.
Of course the City Council offers other training units. Aspiring caterers, ( Assuming that the re is such a thing) could train at Sheaf Training alongside aspiring construction workers and customer service representatives. Tritec PC Training is the City Council’s IT training ground and every city has at least one of these. The fact that the city recognizes and promotes popular music is just so surp growing, and what’s more rousing and surp growing is how well it works.
That answers the question how one small area could produce so a lot of skill ed musician s. Not really a mystery, it is more of a plan. Council backing is only a small part of the music scene however, and the Venues that have been committed to growing the live music scene for the past twenty five or thirty years deserve much of the credit as well.
The Leadmill celebrated its silver anniversary in 2005, and has grown from a derelict flour mill in a rundown part of the city during the last stages of the steel industry’s demise. Unemployment and hopelessness was the consensus among young individuals at the time. A group of volunteers, students, musician s, and unemployed individuals, who described themselves as “insane but likable” came together to  set up a center for arts and music for individuals like themselves who had nowhere to go.
The Leadmill has grown into a landmark, and the live music has grown legendary. The occasion in 1980 of what was a performing arts center with jazz, pop bands, theatre, education workshops, and venue evenings began a tradition of live music that Venues the world over have tried to emulate. The “insane but likable” founders turned out to be visionaries, except when they turned down a strange young blonde girl for a show in 1983 who turned out to be Madonna. But who would have thought a venue where the toilets backed up onto the dance floor would do so well. It’s not the bricks and mortar, but the bands and the experiences of the individuals who have been there time and time again that are memorable. The Leadmill is a launching pad for stars in the music business, and the place to see up and coming musicians in Sheffield.
The Leadmill is of course not the only famous live music Venue in town, and is just one of the excellent live Venues. There is a venue in Sheffield for whatever your taste is. Live Music, deejay & MC stuff, techno, synthpop, independent poppunk, and whatever other combinations of music are left over are represented somewhere in the city. Starting from a forward thinking city council and bright young individuals who love music, the city of Sheffield has been producing musicians like other cities produce butchers for the past 30 years.