Summer time is festival time and luckily for us in Sheffield we’re pretty spoilt for choice on the festival front with musical mainstays including Tramlines, Peace in the Park and […]
Dave Johns
Dave Johns recently came to widespread public attention as the lead role in Ken Loach’s searing drama, I, Daniel Blake, helping the film win numerous awards for its incisive critique […]
Quizarama-rama
Every Monday I don ladies flower print tights, a sparkly waistcoat, a fez and a Charlie Chaplin moustache and go into pubs across Sheffield. This isn’t because of some fetish […]
Darts
A couple of years ago I found myself living back at home, feeling like a turd in a washing machine, making a mess of everything. I had no fixed job, […]
Hammer Horror
If you’ve ever been unemployed and faced a day of dull nothingness, where the only useful thing you’ve done all day is change a loo roll, and nearly messed that […]
The King of Controversy: George Carlin
“I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m […]
The Late, Great Robin Williams
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” Last year, I wrote a short article about the sadness I felt after the passing […]
The Unforgettable Eric Morecambe
One part genius, one part show man and one part false fool. If the man was anymore the perfect package he wouldn’t have needed Ernie Wise but that is no […]
Beards – They’re Growing On Me
For some reason, fashion has come full circle and not since the days of the Wild West has the beard been so popular. Call it what you will your face […]
Comedy Idols – Billy Connolly
“My definition of an intellectual is someone who could listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.” I was 10 the first time I heard the […]
The Glang Show
The relationship between comedy and politics is confusing and tangled, but always bubbling underneath the surface. We’re all very used to the comedian as a social commentator, whether it’s Frankie […]
Sheffield in Edinburgh: Part 4
Ahead of a review in next month’s Now Then I’ll be posting a series of short pieces about the wonderful performers from our Steel City making a splash in the […]