ABC’s The Look Of Love single whose lead singer is University graduate Martin Fry
Hoping to inspire the musicians of tomorrow and celebrating the succession of homemade stars the city helped create in the post-punk period of the late 1970s, a special exhibition of record sleeves, fanzines and period photographs has been created by the University of Sheffield. Charting the rise and fall of Sheffield based musicians who went on to create some of decade's biggest bands, including Cabaret Voltaire , Human League , Clock DVA and ABC , the weeklong Do It Thissen exhibition takes place at Montgomery Hall on Surrey Street, opposite the Town Hall, from 22-30 September 2012. "Do It Thissen", Yorkshire for Do It Yourself, is part of the University of Sheffield's Festival of the Mind event which is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the city to showcase cultural strengths and the University's civic connections and roots. Event organiser Matthew Cheeseman, a Research Fellow in the University's School of English, said: "The material focuses on post-punk and demonstrates links between students and the city, emphasising DIY culture and local labels, set up by people from Sheffield, who created music, made fanzines and put on gigs. Everything will be accessible online if people can't make the events, including all the photographs." Highlights of the free exhibition include exclusive, never before seen, pictures of many of the era's bands, featuring recent honorary Doctorate and ABC lead singer Martin Fry who graduated from the University in 1979, taken by fellow alumnus Mark Morreau for the student newspaper, Darts.
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