New exhibition puts focus on stars behind sound of steel city

RECORD sleeves, fanzines and photographs featuring many of Sheffield’s best-known bands including the Human League and ABC are set to feature in a new exhibition which opens next month.

Created by Sheffield University, the week-long Do It Thissen exhibition is aimed at “celebrating the succession of homemade stars the city helped create in the post-punk period of the late 1970s”.

Event organiser Matthew Cheeseman said: “The material focuses on post-punk and demonstrates links between students and the city, emphasising DIY culture and local record labels, set up by people from Sheffield, who created music, made fanzines and put on gigs.

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“Everything will be accessible online if people can’t make the events, including all the photographs.”

Highlights of the free exhibition include exclusive pictures of many of the era’s bands as well as flyers; posters and ticket stubs for gigs at venues across Sheffield.

Martin Lacey, editor of NMX fanzine and a former DJ at the student union in Sheffield, will be guest speaker at an opening event from 6pm on Saturday, September 22 at Montgomery Hall in Surrey Street.

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