Studio Electronique
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The golden age of Sheffield pop had its first stirrings in the era of Threads, Thatcher and mass redundancy. Pop music pilgrims arriving today in Sheffield to sniff out the traces of dole-nourished musical manifestos may struggle, however, to locate its landmark sites.The city’s most elusive and sacred shrine is, perhaps, the Ballifield council semi that housed Studio Electrophonique, the home studio owned by Ken Patten: panel beater, fly fisherman, water skier, neighbour to Sean Bean, and midwife at the birth of electronic music in the north.
Studio Electrophonique witnessed the birth of bands that became The Human League, ABC, Heaven 17, Def Leppard, Clock DVA and Pulp; not to mention the unheralded sounds of The Electric Armpits, The Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor and Systematic Annex. Ken’s work shaped British pop but, in true Sheffield style, he never thought to tell anyone about it. This talk, from author Jamie Taylor, will help to tell it for him.
Location
Portland Works Lecture Room ("Makerspace").
Portland Works, Randall Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S24SJ
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