{"id":18760,"date":"2019-02-15T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18760"},"modified":"2019-02-15T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T12:53:47","slug":"a-damp-and-grey-day-in-sheffield-with-high-level-flasher-main-roads-and-the-monochrome-set-feb-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-damp-and-grey-day-in-sheffield-with-high-level-flasher-main-roads-and-the-monochrome-set-feb-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A damp and grey day in Sheffield &#8211; with high-level flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-01.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I paid my second visit to Sheffield in recent times and once again failed spectacularly to see anything of what I know is a most excellent city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-02.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first visit was on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/in-photos-a-look-around-sheffield-in-late-autumn\/\">chilly weekend in November 2016<\/a> and just like this trip, we were staying in a hotel miles away from any nightlife after playing a gig at the wonderful Greystones music venue &#8211; which is located on a top of a leg-crunching hill miles from any late late bars.<\/p>\n<p>So with humble apologies to the denizens of Sheffield, here&#8217;s a short collection of damp and grey shots from my short visit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-03.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-04.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-05.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-06.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-07.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Support act for the night was the startlingly original &#8216;prog punk&#8217; band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/category\/Musician-Band\/Sleepy-People-Band-897620897054217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sleepy People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-08.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My kit for the evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-09.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from the back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-10.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E1y1oq088x8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-11.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weather hadn&#8217;t improved much in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-12.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-13.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-14.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-15.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-16.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-17.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first I thought there was a manikin in one of the windows of the refurbished council flats on South Street Parkhill, Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-18.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then he moved. Eeek!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-20.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-21.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-22.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-23.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/sheffield-monochrome-24.jpg\" alt=\"A damp and grey day in Sheffield - with flasher, main roads and The Monochrome Set, Feb 2019\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/so-whats-sheffield-like-then.317955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chat about Sheffield on the busy forum.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I paid my second visit to Sheffield in recent times and once again failed spectacularly to see anything of what I know is a most excellent city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,43,456,17],"tags":[199,28,1195,1503,1401],"class_list":["post-18760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-music","category-news","category-photos","tag-architecture","tag-gigs","tag-photos","tag-sheffield","tag-the-monochrome-set"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sheffield-monochrome-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4SA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18762,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions\/18762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}