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BBC News
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Blaze at Sheffield Full Monty club 'deliberate'
A blaze at a former working men's club which was a backdrop for hit film The Full Monty was started deliberately, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has crews were called to the fire at the ex-Shiregreen Working Men's Club on Shiregreen Lane in Sheffield at about 19:20 BST on Tuesday. Nobody was injured in the incident and crews had left the scene by 22:30 BST, according to the fire service.A South Yorkshire Police spokesperson said an investigation into the cause of the blaze had been launched and inquiries were "ongoing". The club closed in 2019 and the following year, Sheffield City Council's planning officers refused an application to bulldoze the building after more than 1,000 people signed a petition to save Bentley, who was behind the petition, said she believed the fire marked "the end of an era".Ms Bentley, who ran the club with husband Roy for 15 years, including while the famous movie was being shot there, said: "It was a fantastic Working Men's Club when my husband and I had it. It was very, very busy."While the fire was "sad to see", the club would forever remain an "icon of the city", Ms Bentley added."It'll never lose that, really, will it?"Oscar-winning comedy The Full Monty depicted the lives of Sheffield steelworkers who were made redundant and turned to stripping at a club to earn a movie, starring Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy, ended up as one of the best-loved and highest-grossing British films of the 1990s. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
The Guardian
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Bdrmm: Microtonic review – Hull shoegazers nod towards the dancefloor
Right from their self-titled shoegaze-indebted 2020 debut, Hull four-piece Bdrmm – so-called because they began as a bedroom project for singer/guitarist Ryan Smith – have been more about textures than big hooks. As they've grown, they've steadily broadened their palette, with electronica increasingly at the heart of their sound, and Microtonic feels very much like a natural progression, melding as it does the sense of foreboding present in Thom Yorke's solo material (the work of the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher is cited as an influence) with some unabashed moves in the direction of the dancefloor. Opener Goit finds Working Men's Club's Sydney Minsky Sargeant intoning ominously on top of glitchy beats and menacing rhythms. Recent singles Lake Disappointment and John on the Ceiling are more straightforward bangers, while Snares contrasts tense verses with the euphoric release of its chorus. At times, though, the tunes are so gossamer-light that they simply float away – like a mundane dream, Sat in the Heat is perfectly pleasant while it lasts but easily forgotten as soon as it ends. The ponderous Infinity Peaking, meanwhile, is an unfortunate reminder that 'bedroom' is an anagram of 'boredom'.
