"made in sheffield"
Sheffield Vision
This documentary chronicles a time in Sheffield, UK between 1977 and
1982, the time when adventurous bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Human
League, and ABC were making local names for themselves, creating their
own noise machines, twisting and turning sounds into ordered chaotic
electro punk. While this only focuses on the time between most bands
inceptions until the time when all of them seem to break big in the
mainstream, there's a certain lack of material collected to really make
this really complete. Appropriate 25 year-old city footage is absent.
In it's place is current footage of a cosmopolitan town completely
unlike the Sheffield described by a number of the interviewed
musicians. In addition, only a small handful of people were actually
interviewed: quite noticably missing are Sheffield resident Richard H.
Kirk and any member of Def Leppard! Die-hard fans of these bands would
probably want something like this for their collections, but for the
moderates on the fence, I honestly feel this film really could be a lot
more than a 52-minute VH1 Behind the Music-esque short.
This documentary chronicles a time in Sheffield, UK between 1977 and
1982, the time when adventurous bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Human
League, and ABC were making local names for themselves, creating their
own noise machines, twisting and turning sounds into ordered chaotic
electro punk. While this only focuses on the time between most bands
inceptions until the time when all of them seem to break big in the
mainstream, there's a certain lack of material collected to really make
this really complete. Appropriate 25 year-old city footage is absent.
In it's place is current footage of a cosmopolitan town completely
unlike the Sheffield described by a number of the interviewed
musicians. In addition, only a small handful of people were actually
interviewed: quite noticably missing are Sheffield resident Richard H.
Kirk and any member of Def Leppard! Die-hard fans of these bands would
probably want something like this for their collections, but for the
moderates on the fence, I honestly feel this film really could be a lot
more than a 52-minute VH1 Behind the Music-esque short.
