Various venues, Sheffield
From brass bands in the bus station to thunderous techno in a former gun-barrel factory, this wildly innovative festival perfectly welded past to present
No Bounds is a festival that captures the duality of Sheffield’s past and present. Centrally located in the Hope Works nightclub, a former first world war gun-barrel factory on the outskirts of town, as well as at Kelham Island Museum, the city’s industrial past is never far from sight. Never more so than when you feel crumbling concrete flake from the walls as the merciless thumping techno of Helena Hauff rings in 4am on Sunday morning. The bass reverberates so intensely that the toilet seats rattle like chattering teeth in winter.
But, with the festival spread out further than ever this year, it also captures the essence of contemporary Sheffield, with music performed in DIY venues, canalside bars, and even in the bus station, where experimental electronic artist Mark Fell takes over to present Interchange. A three-hour performance by the Maltby Miners Welfare Band takes place throughout the hub, with gently thundering brass instruments booming around the slightly ghostly, echo-laden station. There is a quiet melancholy and a profound emotional resonance to the performance – which slightly resembles Terry Riley’s In C – as it marries huge engulfing sounds with the strange backdrop of a fully functional and bewildered-passenger-filled city centre interchange.
Continue reading...by Daniel Dylan Wray via Electronic music | The Guardian
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