Fans and musicians share memories of Sheffield’s The Leadmill

For 45 years, it has been a place associated with music in Sheffield, but the bullet hosted his last concert and the club night after he lost a long war with his landlords. It points to the end of a period for fans, musicians and the city.

For Neil White, which is a concert in the brightest period, the place will always be “iconic”.

52 -year -old, “Sheffield’de Uni people who come to my age, very rooted in our memories.” He said.

“You feel a part of Sheffield. This dirty brick. You feel like a part of the city.

“What you’re going through is gold because of music.”

For Mr. White, his memories are linked to this student nights in the 1990s forever and £ 1 vodka and Red Bulls.

“It was great, and people came here, we remember the sticky floors on weekdays and out.”

For Sheffield guitarist and singer Richard Hawley, who played with Pulp, the bullet could be compared with the other large northern cradle of live music.

“This is our cave club, our Hacienda and once after closing the doors, history disappeared.” He said.

Hawley played more than other artists until his last show at 58 years after his first concert with his father and uncle at the age of 16.

“I danced with my wife on that floor and friends who are no longer here.

“This is just a special place. It touches the texture of who we are.”

In 2017, the Electric Group purchased Freehold to the building and left the management of the leadership notification.

The owners said it would remain as a venue of music, but it is likely to change a name.

Despite a long legal struggle, the hope of lead Stay in the building that ended in May.

Electric Group said: “What we plan to do is to renew the building to create a tour standard area to host the most cool club brands and music and live shows, just as we did in Brixton, Newcastle and Bristol.”

Hawley said he wouldn’t go back to the place.

Orum I really feel for the people working here and the people of Sheffield, ”he said.

“The success of people like me, Arctic monkeys, pulp and all other wonderful groups, John McClure, The Rave scene.

“Someone who has plenty of money from the outside, ‘I will have it because it’s really successful.’ “

One of the leading staff members who spoke about the impact of the closure was the event assistant Mike Cross.

“I know many Sheffields are broken,” he said.

“It is difficult to lose a place from the base, especially when the community has heartbeats and provides a safe place for many people.”

He said that he could influence artists with the closing of many places at the beginning of his music careers.

“This will mean potentially the coming of British artists who grow up at less and less at home.”

Woodhouse, Allan and Paula Rickwood of Sheffield have been married for 41 years and have been attending concerts for twenty years.

Mr. Rickwood said the place is a range of artists supported by the lottery of the place for years.

“Groups like pulp. Many people started here.

“Just as they are ready to wear local groups and then watch their growth. A great scene.”

Mr. Rickwood wasn’t sure whether the new owners would go back after taking over.

But his wife was more positive.

“I think I’m going back to see how it was,” he said.

For decades, bullets, pulp, Coldplay, polar monkeys, stone roses and oasis hosted the oasis.

At the age of 21, Thomas Ball is very young, but student and 50 -year -old father Jonathon, who is very young to remember these groups on their pumps.

“I think this is history,” he said.

“I have been in great music for years, I saw some groups that started and performing here, I have always felt more connections from another place.”

He said that the place “feels like a second home.”

“Walk there and see the same familiar faces – there will always be a special place for me.”

Jonathon, traveling from Leicester to be a part of the audience, added: “We always pay attention to who performs.

“The opportunity to emerge, not the closest (space).

His son added: “You see the same four to five walls, the same faces, the same people at the door, behind the bar. In this sense, it sounds more like a family.”

Thomas was not convinced that he would come back after the closing.

“It’s probably not as much as I like the building.

“There would be an evil for the bullet to go to the new place. I can’t do this. He won’t feel the same.”