22/5/03 4:10 PM Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] > There is a massive factory in Sheffield with a huge sign saying Sheffield > Forgemasters which must have inspired Beckett and Hall in naming that first > Warp release.
It certainly did, they also did lots of VS mixes - Detroit/New York etc... > Then of course there is the influence of bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Human > League and Clock DVA on then 313 Innovators - Great days, watching the Cabs/League/DVA play - along with loads of other punk bands, remember going to see The Clash play in the back room of a pub... Martin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jussi Lehtonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:03 PM > To: Robert Taylor > Cc: Somewhere in Internet > Subject: RE: (313) Metro Times article (Sheffield [Was: "May day"]) > > > On Thu, 22 May 2003, Robert Taylor wrote: > >> Sheffield is UK's answer to Detroit - those bleak industrial >> surroundings must do something to the brain and make you want to make >> bleeps and beats! > > I might've said this earlier (way back), but it was nice to notice a real > life connection in a TV-film Doomsday Gun > ( http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109650 ). > The Sheffield plant used for the manufacturing of the gun's parts was none > other than ... Forgemasters. :) > A shipping-crate with no label?-) > > > > J
