Various Artists: Dreams To Fill The Vacuum - The Sound Of Sheffield 1978-1988, 4CD Bookpack

• Extensive 4CD/book set exploring the punk and post-punk sound of the ‘steel city’.

• Features classics, rarities, album tracks and TWELVE previously unreleased gems from The Human League, Pulp (and members thereof), Heaven 17, Thompson Twins, B.E.F., Artery, ABC, Clock DVA, Hula, The Danse Society, In The Nursery, Treebound Story and many more.

• 4CD + hardback book format contains over 20,000 words of artists’ sleevenotes, essays and memoirs from key players in the city’s music scene.

• Curated and designed by the people who brought you Manchester – North Of England, Revolutionary Spirit – The Sound Of Liverpool, Silhouettes And Statues, Electrical Language, Scared To Get Happy, Still In A Dream and many more critically acclaimed box sets.

Journey through the music of a generation in one of the UK’s most vibrant and creative cities.

Sheffield in the 1970s…. a city in decline, its steel mills and factories closing and its vast housing estates beginning to crumble. Even the city’s two football teams were both experiencing the worst form in their long histories. An unlikely setting, then, for a musical revolution, but aren’t they always? As it transpired, in the aftermath of punk this industrial backdrop, alive with frustrated young talent and peppered with accessible and affordable rehearsal and performance spaces, became a hotbed of uniquely informed new bands that challenged both the constraints of genre and the dominance of music from London, Liverpool and Manchester.

Dreams To Fill The Vacuum charts the revival of Sheffield and its music in the latter half of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, from The Human League to Pulp, via Aardvark, Pax and Native Records, and onto the chart successes of Heaven 17, ABC, Thompson Twins and many others. Featuring cornerstone contributions from the city’s brightest stars – Oakey, Cocker, Ware, Marsh, Hawley, Newton and co - alongside many more lesser-known legends, this is a tale of a city and its people rediscovering itself.

Packed with first-hand artist sleevenotes, insightful essays, revealing imagery and brilliant, essential music, Dreams To Fill The Vacuum offers a story in need of telling.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: CD
1977-1981
1. DANCEVISION – The Human League
2. DON'T TRY TO CURE YOURSELF - They Must Be Russians
3. DREAMS TO FILL THE VACUUM – I’m So Hollow
4. MODERN MEN – The Prams
5. ALL TIME LOW - 2.3
6. METAL BOYS – Hobbies Of Today
7. TRACK NO. 5 - Mein Glas Fabrik *
8. HELP ME - Red Zoo *
9. AVOID THE SURGERY (DEMO) – I Scream Brothers
10. JUNIOR - B. Troop
11. SHE’S IN LOVE WITH MYSTERY – Thompson Twins
12. SAY AND DO - Repulsive Alien
13. TORCH – Veiled Threat
14. QUESTIONS OF GENDER - De Tian
15. UNKNOWN – Molodoy
16. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - TV Product *
17. ELECTRIC WALTZ – Negatives
18. END OF ACT ONE - Y?
19. THE MAZE – The Toy Shop
20. A GIRLFRIEND IS… - Vena Cava
21. DROWNING – Graph
22. MEN IN THE MIRRORSHADES – Rapid Eye Movements
23. LLAMAS (LIVE AT THE WIMPY BAR) – A Major European Group
24. RAINDANCE - The Past Seven Days
25. LIVING IN CONFUSION – Pagan Bo

DISC TWO: CD
1981-1982
1. (WE DON'T NEED THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG (12" MIX) – Heaven 17
2. LUCIFER’S FRIEND – Vision
3. THE CLOWN – Artery
4. TWIST - New Model Soldier
5. TRAIN - Surface Mutants
6. 4 HOURS (REMIXED SINGLE VERSION) - Clock DVA
7. A BABY CALLED BILLY – British Electronic Foundation
8. WAR GAMES - Flying Alphonso Brothers *
9. ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE – Shy Tots
10. HEAVY MEN - Disease *
11. DEITY’S LAMENT – Stunt Kites
12. SECRET SOCIETY – Mau Maus
13. MARCELLA BALL – The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor
14. CORPSE CREEPER - Quite Unnerving
15. PARKING BOYS - Acrobats Of Desire
16. MAN WITH A LUMINOUS HEAD (DEMO) * - The Blimp
17. SCRAMBLE FOR STYLE – The Mirror Crack’d
18. REAL LIFE – Vital
19. PSYCHOKILLER - Heroes Of The Beach
20. ALPHABET SOUP - ABC

DISC THREE: CD
1982-1984
1. EVERYBODY’S PROBLEM – Pulp
2. INTRUDER IN THE DUST – Bass Tone Trap
3. JUST A GAME - U.V. Pøp
4. DANSE/MOVE – The Danse Society
5. ISKRA - In The Nursery
6. DYING MAN, FAITHFUL PRIEST – Dachau Choir
7. TEX MIRROR H - Out Of Reach
8. NO ONE LEAVES THE) FEVER CAR – Hula
9. QUIET TYPE – Time In Motion
10. OVER – SIIIII
11. MANNEQUIN – Ipso Facto
12. WORLDS APART - Fatales *
13. BILLINGHAM’S ISLAND (DEMO)* - Tsi Tsi
14. FISH AND BREADCAKE - Fish And Breadcake
15. LATE NIGHTS (DEMO) - Harriet *
16. OUT OF THE FLESH (MIX 1) – Chakk
17. THE DISTANCE FROM KOLN – Native Europe
18. SILICON CHIP – Defective Turtles
19. PERSUASION – Vendino Pact
20. IN MY EYES (DEMO)* - Typhoon Saturday

DISC FOUR: CD
1984-1988
1. KITCHENETTE - Peter Hope And The Jonathan S. Podmore Method
2. WINDS OF CHANGE – Scala Timpani
3. YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD (FLEXI VERSION) - One Thousand Violins
4. CRAYOLA - A.C. Temple
5. UP THE HILL – Sedition
6. MESSAGE FROM A DEAD MAN – The Flight Commander
7. ZULU - The Anti Group
8. CHAINS – Chain
9. FIX THE KITCHEN - Dig Vis Drill
10. CHILDREN – Kilgore Trout
11. BOTTLE BREAST – Fishwives
12. TREEHOUSE - Mr Morality *
13. SKIN SCRAPED BACK – Workforce
14. LIKE A FOOL – Treebound Story
15. WONDERFUL LIFE – Nick Fish & The Seahorses
16. CROW BAR – The Box
17. COLORADO DEAD MAN – The Midnight Choir
18. THE WORLD DOESN'T TURN – The Junk
19. LAWNMOWER WOMAN (LIVE) - The Wacky Gardeners