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December 2002

What's On: December 2002
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Sunday 1 December

• Alejandro Escovedo (Boardwalk)
• Spunge (Leadmill, 14's+ welcome)
• (live music) (O'Neills)

Monday 2 December

• Coolio (Bed)
• Evil Hearted Me + The Ejector Seat + Crystalline (Barfly)
• Lawrence Arms + The Fake + Jerry Built (Corporation)
• Nev Reany (Bistro Casablanca)
• The Interiors (Grapes)

Tuesday 3 December

• Beth Nielsen Chapman (Memorial Hall, 8.00pm, £14.00)
• E Nature + Big William + Jobe + Seed (Boardwalk)
• Graham Jones (Bistro Casablanca)
• Repomen + Special Agents + Water Monkeys (Casbah)
• The Capes + Still 9 + Blue Room (Barfly)

Wednesday 4 December

• Blue Scandal + Ritalin + Dummy Head Stereo + Haze (Boardwalk)
• John Roland (Bistro Casablanca)
• Lambchop Quartet (Memorial Hall, 8.00pm, £14.00; £12.50 restricted view)
• Nutonic + Falling Down + Dead Like Harry (Casbah)
• Sinatra Gala Concert (City Hall, 7.30pm, £14.50-£18.50)
• The Present (Grapes)
• The Sutons + The Charm Offensive + High Sound + Peloton (Barfly)
• (live jazz and blues) (Trippets Wine Bar)

Thursday 5 December

• All American Solid Gold Rock 'n' Roll (City Hall, 7.30pm, £18.50/£21.50)
• Budgie + Gypzy (Boardwalk)
• Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings (Memorial Hall, 8.00pm, £14.50)
• Idlewild (Sheffield University)
• Koo Ka Choo (Brannigans)
• Ladytron + The Cribs (Barfly)
• Peter Moxley (Bistro Casablanca)
• Sizemore + SX (Grapes)
• Sneaky Peak + Kingfisher Blue (Deep End)
• The Plaines (Riverside Café, 1 Mowbray Street, Sheffield, 9.00pm)
• Xtreme ft. Craig McGann (Wickersley WMC)

Friday 6 December

• Adrian Paris (Arundel)
• Blondie + INXS (Sheffield Arena)
• Daytrippers (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Midge Ure (Boardwalk)
• Murder Dolls + Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster (Leadmill, 14's+ welcome)
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (City Hall, 7.30pm, £10.00-£21.50)
• Sanctuary + Lupine (Grapes)
• Slim and the Big Man Blues Band + Rockett 88 (White Lion, Heeley)

Saturday 7 December

• Ed Harcourt + Nada Surf (Leadmill)
• Fun Loving Criminals + Tetra Splendour (Sheffield University)
• Geoff Summers (Arundel)
• Jason Donovan (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Maniac (Grapes)
• Paul Carrack (City Hall, 7.30pm, £17.50)
• Ralph Salt (Bistro Casablanca)
• Slim and the Big Man Blues Band (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Stayed As Quo (Pheasant, Status Quo tribute)
• The Jamm + The Paul Weller Connexion (Boardwalk)

Sunday 8 December

• A Christmas Musical Cavalcade (City Hall, 2.00pm/7.15pm, £6.00-£10.00)
• Aynsley Lister (Boardwalk)
• Sally Dee (Bistro Casablanca)
• The Complete Stone Roses (Leadmill)

Monday 9 December

• Elton John (Sheffield Arena)
• Nev Reany (Bistro Casablanca)
• Runrig (City Hall, 7.30pm, £19 adv)
• Sola Fuzz (Grapes)
• The Way of All Flesh (Boardwalk)

Tuesday 10 December

• Commercial Dual Purpose (Boardwalk)
• Evil Hearted Me (Barfly)
• Goodfellas + Red Heaven (Grapes)
• Graham Jones (Bistro Casablanca)
• Less Than Zero + Porlock + First Day Back (Casbah)
• Russel Watson (Sheffield Arena)
• Swan Lake - Russian National Ballet (City Hall, 7.30pm, £12.00-£29.50)
• University of Roots: Barry Brown + Far-I Crew + Prince Ranny (Sheffield University)

Wednesday 11 December

• Catch It Kebabs (Boardwalk)
• Fine Young Cannibals (Leadmill)
• John Roland (Bistro Casablanca)
• Slow Mo + Tied + Slightly Alien (Casbah)
• Tegwen Roberts and Friends (Deep End)
• Tribute to Meatloaf & Cher (Memorial Hall, 7.30pm, £10.00)
• (live jazz & blues) (Trippets Wine Bar)
• (live music) (Grapes)

Thursday 12 December

• Alexander's Palace (Wickersley WMC)
• Bjorn Again (City Hall, £14.50/£15.50)
• Chicken Legs Weaver + Tegi Roberts + Justin Lewis (Boardwalk)
• City High (Kingdom Night Club)
• Lee (Bistro Casablanca)
• Primal Scream (Sheffield University)
• The Bandits (Barfly)
• The Bluetones (Leadmill)
• The Flying Emperors (Brannigans)
• The Raging Horns (Deep End)
• Treebeard (Three Merry Lads, Lodgemoor)
• (live music) (Grapes)

Friday 13 December

• Adrian Paris (Arundel)
• Boy on a Dolphin (City Hall, 8.00pm, adult £10/child £8)
• David Dickinson (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Dizzy Club (Boardwalk)
• Firecracker (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Here & Now Christmas Party: The Human League + Kim Wilde + 5 Star + Altered Images + Dollar + Belle Stars + Visage (Sheffield Arena)
• Repomen (Grapes)
• Resistance 77 + Bickles Cab + Maniac + Scum + The Narcotix (Corporation, 7.30pm, £4.00)
• The Relatives (Barfly)

Saturday 14 December

• BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (City Hall, 7.00pm, £10.00-£21.50)
• Johnny 7 (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Live Wire (AC/DC trib) (Pheasant)
• Oasis (Sheffield Arena)
• Ralph Salt (Bistro Casablanca)
• The Berzerker + Labrat + Incision + Red Harvest (Corporation, 7.30pm, £6.00 adv)
• Tony Christian (Arundel)
• (live music) (Grapes)

Sunday 15 December

• Best of the Boardwalk Unsigned - Part 1: The Moon + Skydiva + Milburn + Ravenscar + After the Silence + Trailer Park Trash + Mybe (Leadmill, 6.30pm, £7.00/£6.00 adv) [...more...]
• Mike Sanchez (Boardwalk)
• Sing The Musicals (City Hall, 7.30pm, £10.00-£15.50)
• Steve Salfield (Bistro Casablanca)

Monday 16 December

• Gina Le Faux (Grapes)
• Nev Reany (Bistro Casablanca)
• Robin Hoare + Slim and the Big Man Blues Band (Deep End)
• Status Quo (City Hall, 7.30pm, £26.50)

Tuesday 17 December

• Graham Jones (Bistro Casablanca)
• Jools Holland (City Hall, 7.30pm, £22.50)
• Northern Xposure (Boardwalk)
• Norton College Music Students Showcase (Casbah)
• Tarana (Grapes)
• Ain't Misbehaving ... badly (Bukowski's)

Wednesday 18 December

• Blythe Power + Poke (Boardwalk)
• Down Fall + Mr Shiraz (Casbah)
• John Roland (Bistro Casablanca)
• Jools Holland (City Hall, 7.30pm, £22.50)
• (live jazz & blues) (Trippets Wine Bar)
• (live music) (Grapes)

Thursday 19 December

• 2 out of 3 (Wickersley WMC)
• Dead Like Harry (Boardwalk)
• Peter Kay (City Hall)
• Slow Mo + 1600E (Deep End)
• Swing 42 (Bistro Casablanca)
• The Lollies + Harvey Half Devoured + Kavolchy (Casbah)
• (live music) (Grapes)

Friday 20 December

• Adrian Paris (Arundel)
• Daytrippers (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Eduardo Niebla (Memorial Hall, 7.30pm, £12.00)
• Frank White (Pheasant)
• (live music) (Grapes)
• Ju Ju Club: Transglobal Underground Sound System + mystery guest (Boardwalk)

Saturday 21 December

• 4ft Fingers + Not Katies + W*nk Sinatras + Mybe (Corporation, 7.00pm, £4.00)
• Big Sun (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Bootleg Beatles (Sheffield Arena)
• Christmas Carol Concert - Northern Symphony Orchestra (City Hall, 7.00pm, £10.00-£21.50)
• Chuck + Champion Kickboxer + The Better Ford Clinic + The Dharma Buns (Grapes, 8.00pm, £3/£2 flyer)
• Frankie Starr (Arundel)
• Glory Days (Boardwalk, Spingsteen trib.)
• Ralph Salt (Bistro Casablanca)

Sunday 22 December

• Jude Sacker (Bistro Casablanca)
• Live at the Lescar (in assoc with Barfly): Silver Fuzz + The Sound + Northern Bliss (Lescar, 6.00pm, £3.00)
• Roger Chapman (Boardwalk)
• The Bourgeois Zoo Christmas Show (Coal Aston Village Hall)

Monday 23 December

• Nev Reany (Bistro Casablanca)

Tuesday 24 December

• (Sorry, Sheffield seems to be shut for Christmas)

Wednesday 25 December

• (Happy Christmas)

Thursday 26 December

• Connie Lush (Boardwalk)
• Damion (Wickersley WMC)
• PLANET ZOGG BOXING DAY SPECIAL - Hyperdelic (Trance Techno) (Corporation, 10.00pm - 6am, £7Adv/£10 Door)

Friday 27 December

• Acoustic Angels (Boardwalk)
• Adrian Paris (Arundel)
• Black Coffee (Trippets Wine Bar)
• Gypzy (Pheasant)
• DROP (DJ Phyll) + MYSTERY MACHINE (DJ Joey) + FRACTURE (DJ Rice) (Corporation, 9.30pm - 2.30am, £4 b4 10.30pm, £5 After)

Saturday 28 December

• Ian Andrews (Arundel)
• Ian Parker + Derrin Nauendorf (Boardwalk)
• Ralph Salt (Bistro Casablanca)
• The Rhythm Shakers (Trippets Wine Bar)
• FAT LIP (DJ R.A.G.E.) (Corporation, 5.00pm - 8.00pm, £2.50)
• RESERVOIR ROCKS (DJ Phyll) + HARDSIDE (DJ Kev) + RETRO DROP (DJ Drop Dead) (Corporation, 10.00pm - 3.00am, £4 b4 11pm, £5 after)

Sunday 29 December

• Floydian Slip (Boardwalk, Pink Floyd trib.)

Monday 30 December

• Nev Reany (Bistro Casablanca)
• The Inside + Soula Fuzz (Deep End)
• CORPORATION NEW YEARS EVE EVE SPECIAL PARTY NIGHT ODDBALL (Corporation, 9.30pm - 3am, Adm £5 all night)

Tuesday 31 December

• (Happy 2003)