Sheffield Leadmill show for exciting new band Working Men's Club

Yorkshire indie band Working Men’s Club have just released their self-titled debut album and play a socially-distanced show at the Leadmill, Sheffield on Thursday, October 15.
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Initially planned for early June, the 10-track album was delayed until earlier this month due to the continuing Covid crisis.

The band and album are named after the clubs that 18-year-old band leader and singer Sydney Minsky-Sargeant used to sneak into under age at home in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

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Syd said: “There’s not much going on, not much stuff to do as a teenager. It’s quite isolated. And it can get quite depressing being in a town where in the winter it gets light at nine in the morning and dark at four.”

New band Working Men's Club are playing the Leadmill in SheffieldNew band Working Men's Club are playing the Leadmill in Sheffield
New band Working Men's Club are playing the Leadmill in Sheffield

The album was forged under the watchful ear of famed Sheffield producer Ross Orton, who has worked with The Fall, M.I.A. and Arctic Monkeys.

In the space of a year Working Men's Club have lost two original members and brought in three new ones and were championed by the band Fat White Family, who they toured with, ahead of their own sold-out UK tour.

They also won approval from BBC6 Music, Beats 1, NME, The Guardian, DIY and Q.

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Working Men’s Club also became one of the first acts to play a full-band virtual show in lockdown, streaming a 21-minute ‘Megamix’ of album tracks.

They will be back in Sheffield on May 1-2 at the recently-announced Get Together Festival at the University of Sheffield student union venue The Foundry.

The line-up includes The Murder Capital, Self Esteem, The Orielles, Tim Burgess and Ibibio Sound Machine.

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