Sheffield Musicians

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List of Sheffield Musicians in Charter Square 

Musical Pocket Park

Click on the name to open the Wikipedia entry

See the conditions for entry at the end

Musicians: 

1) ABC

2) All Seeing I  

3) Andy Nicholson*

4) Arctic Monkeys

5) Babybird 

6) Boy on a Dolphin  

7) Bring Me the Horizon 

8) Bromheads Jacket

9) Cabaret Voltaire

10) Chakk *

11) Clock DVA *

12) Dame Josephine Barstow

13) Dave Berry

14) Dave Hawley

15) Def Leppard

16) Derek Bailey

17) Fat Truckers

18) Forgemasters

19) Gomez

20) Heaven 17

21) Helen Boulding

22) Jarvis Cocker

23) Joe Cocker

24) John Shuttleworth

25) Little Man Tate

26) Living in a Box

27) Longpigs *

28) Milburn

29) Moloko

30) Monkey Swallows the Universe

31) Neil McSweeney

32) One Thousand Violins

33) Paul Carrack

34) Philip Oakey

35) Pulp

36) Reginald Dixon

37) Reverend and the Makers

38) Richard Hawley

39) Rolo Tomassi

40) Self Esteem

41) Slow Club

42) Steve Edwards*

43) Stoney

44) Sweet Exorcist

45) The Comsat Angels

46) The Everly Pregnant Brothers

47) The Human League

48) The Long Blondes

49) The Moonlandingz

50) 65daysofstatic

Singer, Songwriter & Record Producers:

51) Alan Smyth

52) Eliot Kennedy 

Record Labels:

53) Hudson Records

54) Warp Records  Bonus: BBC Radio 4 - 'Sound Towns - Sheffield: Warp Records' - Great music is born from societal and political change. These are the origin stories of some of the UK's most vital musical movements. For this episode, Click on Sheffield's Warp Records.

Recording Studios:

55) 2fly Studios

56) Yellow Arch Studios

Did we miss someone?

Named marked with * have been added since the on-site signs were erected in summer 2023. The signs will be updated once sufficient changes justify the cost.

To qualify the musician must:

have begun or developed their musical career in Sheffield

have a Wikipedia entry, linking to their career

email Hello@ChangingSheff.org to tell us who you think should be included