Sheffield music film starring Cocker/Hawley screening 2 Nov 7pm O2 Academy

[TheBeatIsLaw]

02.11.10. 7pm Sheffield O2 Academy2

Hope you can make it to the first screening of the Sheffield music film 'The Beat Is The Law Part 2' which will be supported with live music from Yonni (featuring Hula's drummer Nort), Cuckoo Clocks (featuring Treebound Story's Paul Infante), Oblong (acoustic), Chloe Simmons

Screening starts 8pm. Only £2 entry. Doors open 7pm - 11pm.

 

A bit about The The Beat Is The Law:

Welcome to the People's Republic of Sheffield, 1983. An all-powerful Tory government has crushed the steel industry with little thought for what will become of the thousands left unemployed. There is no work. But that doesn't mean there's no hope.

 

Once the possibility of work had been taken away, the misfits and musicians of Sheffield had a lot more time on their hands. Time they used to make music in Sheffield and about Sheffield; music made in derelict spaces, there being no rehearsal let alone recording studios in the city.

 

What they made was a musical revolution.

 

Featuring Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), Richard Hawley (Treebound Story / Longpigs), Mark Brydon (Chakk / FON / Moloko), Rob Gordon (FON / WARP) and many more this pulsing, good humoured documentary is well worth a watch for anyone who's tapped their feet to a Britpop beat or a House tune.

 

"Impressive" The Times