"I remember seeing early gigs by Hula and Chakk where, for me, it was the first time I actually had something else other than a band to look at. It was phenomenal. So you’d go into the Leadmill and there would be huge bed sheets or white screens hanging down from the ceiling with projections on it and I have never seen that before. So people watch bands like Underworld and the Chemical Brothers now, and think that’s all new and I was watching that in sort of  1980, 1981. In that time it was not so much a visual world. You didn’t have play stations, you didn’t have computer games, you didn’t have DVD players. So if you’d see something actually projected on a screen, it was fantastic.

And I remember some of the best gigs were just this complete aural and visual assault. You got every sense. So actually felt like you’d been to a gig. They didn’t do much talking, they didn’t interact with the crowd that much, but you didn’t seem to need that because you had the whole package: you got the video, you got the screens, slide projections, and the music, and the TV’s and the computers. And it was just exciting and entertaining to see really."

Jane Kitson - BBC Radio Sheffield

excerpt from BBC's radio documentary: In the city Sheffield

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