The Beat is The Law, Part 1

 

Follow Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and other Sheffield natives on an epic northern musical adventure through Thatcher’s heartless 80s to the ecstasy and cocaine fuelled 90s. Discover the unique, gritty industrial sound of Sheffield’s post-punk musical underground, with its fusion of wryly ironic pop, stratchy funk, and intricately layered electronic noise. This is the story of a city on its uppers and those who wished to put it back on the map. And those who would go on to find themselves at the epicentre of Dance Culture and Britpop.

 

Eve Wood's earlier film MADE IN SHEFFIELD is screening on Sunday 22nd November as part of a programme curated by STUART MACONIE.

STARRING…THE PEOPLE OF SALFORD

Born in 2003 the Salford Film Festival paid special attention to the huge variety that Salford communities are famous for, and in encouraging their involvement in film-making both on screen and behind the camera, paved the way for five more seriously succ

STEVE BALSHAW INTERVIEW

My primary role is to select, source and secure the films, and to build these into a programme of screenings and related events that will hopefully attract an audience - so I deal with filmmakers and producers, and often with the various screening venues,

INNOVATE, DON’T IMITATE!

Manchester prides itself on being “The City of Innovation”. Benjamin Disraeli famously stated that “What Manchester does today, the rest of the world will do tomorrow

THE ORSON WELLES OF SALFORD

He was Salford's Welles and King of Manchester Exploitation movies. He was a pioneer of independent filmmaking in the region. And now there's a book. You should own it.

UNDERSTANDING THE PAST

In our past is our future. Understand one, and you can better visualise the other. This selection of films from the North West Film Archive offers a glimpse of the world that was, here in Salford - some of it now lost forever, some of it simply altered be