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Loz Harvey

@lozman.bsky.social
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Long term regeneration project. Writings and happenings across #Sheffield. Love the peaks, running, records and recovering. Latest newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/lookingupshef…

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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
With #rsd2025 fast approaching, a look back at a piece I wrote on Ramases, Sheffield's very own musical pharaoh with thanks again to @steelcitysnapper.bsky.social for his amazing pix. Apparently a film is in the works - its some story! lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/republish-...
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Republish: The strange tale of Ramases, Sheffield's musical pharoah
With Record Store Day approaching and Bear Tree Records in Sheffield playing an active part, I felt it was a good time to republish this piece I wrote about Ramases, Sheffield’s central heating instal...
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Peakrill Press @peakrillpress.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We’re bringing back The Moorland Notebook – part guide, part protest, part poetic reflection – with new art, new walks, and a renewed call for access. We’re crowdfunding now. Help us reach the summit: kickstarter.com/projects/dan... #RightToRoam #UKRambling
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A Moorland Notebook by Terry Howard
A history of access and trespass on the high moors of South Yorkshire and part of North Derbyshire, with suggested rambling routes.
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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The next runner to finish Loop 1 came in at 11:59:02. laz: Are you ok? Runner: I’m Barkley ok. #BM100
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Very much enjoyed the Martin Parr documentary. A snap happy septugenarian with a walking frame and laser focus. From the mill towns of west Yorkshire to the resorts of the Wirral, he captures Britain in all its unusualness
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My latest newsletter is the tale of two social enterprises in #Sheffield, facing different futures on #IWD2025. Green shoots, city of culture dreams, creative futures. open.substack.com/pub/lookingu...
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'I would absolutely love Sheffield to take on City of Culture one day - why not?'
It's been a tough time for the arts in Sheffield. Many cultural gems have closed. But we hear today, on International Women's Day, how our city is leading the fightback. With women right at its heart.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Great artwork by Rob Lee at Burton Street Foundation. Great day volunteering for Sheffield's best centre for folks with extra learning and development needs.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Finally got my new prints of @andycropperart.bsky.social and #nickcave up . Mugger's Bridge is an infamous crossing across which graced many an urban run photo. The NC is from the Wild God tour where he untapped an emotional valve which hasn't run dry and scared my blood to brilliance.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#RIP Bill Fay. A kind and gentle soul and a great spiritual songwriter. It was a true pleasure to meet him and interview him for @mojomagazine.bsky.social in 2012.
The rear cover of Bill Fay’s debut LP, signed by Bill to me. It reads “Thanks for feeling for the music Andrew, Very best, Bill. x
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Lergy may have curtailed weekend plans but has allowed me to catch 26.2 Miles To Life, astonishing story of inmates battling their demons and their watches on laps of the San Quentin prison yard. Watch it on I Player.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Fantastic to speak with Kinder Elder and campaigner Terry Howard for my latest newsletter on wayside crosses, ancient burial routes and keeping walking weird. Follow his progress at @peakrillpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lookingu...
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"Trudging over the moors with a body on your back – it conjures all sorts."
At first glance, Terry Howard's front room seems like any other Octogenarians in Sheffield. But, just like the campaigner's approach to walking, if you look again, you'll discover something new.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Loved seeing the #timburton exhibition @designmuseum.bsky.social ... already planning a return trip with the illustration-mad youth.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Reunited with an old school mate - sort of. Loving the new #mattberry record, a great gumbo of film and TV soundtracks, clattering drums and clever words. Good lad.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Thrilled to speak to Vicky Bridges for my Looking Up Sheffield newsletter on her recent Spine triumph: of hallucinations, heartbreak and heroism (and some dotwatching too). Thanks to @adam0407.bsky.social for giving the piece some additional backbone. lookingupsheff.substack.com/p/we-were-ju...
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"We were just out of Fallowfield Fell when the hallucinations took hold" - of the Spine and dot-watching in the winter
While most Sheffielders were building snowmen, strapping on skis and slipping down Spital Street, an altogether more demanding winter pursuit was taking place high on the trails above us.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The last of the English matadors. Fascinating story @manchestermill.bsky.social about octogenarian Salford bullfighter Frank Evans, whatever your views on the pursuit. manchestermill.co.uk/the-salford-...
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The Salford Matador is still making a killing
In Manchester, he’s an anomaly. In Spain, he’s a tourist attraction
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Looking up in #Sheffield and in Upperthorpe has never been so good. You might just spot a new #peachzz.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
When zero per centers are as good as the Nillis, alcohol free may be the future for this writer. Just need an AF old fashioned now.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Loved reading old school mate Matt Berry's record influences in @thequietus.com. There must have been something in the home counties musical zeitgeist in the 80s as the Simon & Garfunkel tape was the only one we had as well! thequietus.com/interviews/b...
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It's All Expression: Matt Berry's Favourite Albums
Matt Berry takes us through his favourite records, from a teenage obsession with Tubular Bells to the London pub where Danger Mouse worked behind the bar
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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New ‘Winter Reading’ episode up now. Books by Jeffrey Renard Allen, John Bowen, Mark Bowles, Rob Cohen, Tim Robey, Sally Rooney, Bobby Short, Zadie Smith, Adelle Stripe, Moon Unit Zappa, with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social. 📚 www.backlisted.fm/episodes/230
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230. Winter Reading 2025 — Backlisted
Happy new year! We kick off 2025 - and Backlisted's tenth anniversary year - with our traditional Winter Reading episode, in which Andy, John and Nicky recommend a selection of favourite books to see ...
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Adam McAuley @adam0407.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Excellent debut piece from my friend @lozman.bsky.social as Looking Up Sheffield. open.substack.com/pub/lookingu...
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Welcome to Looking Up Sheffield - the newsletter YOU need for 2025
Welcome to the first, and especially folkloric, edition of the Looking Up Sheffield email newsletter.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#Sheffield people! Folkloric friends! I've launched a Looking Up Sheffield newsletter into the maelstrom. First feature is with the excellent David Clarke... on Robin Hood, haunted bypasses and the legends that lurk beneath the city. open.substack.com/pub/lookingu...
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Welcome to Looking Up Sheffield - the newsletter YOU need for 2025
Welcome to the first, and especially folkloric, edition of the Looking Up Sheffield newsletter.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
An attempt at a @petemckee.bsky.social inspired Snowmuriel up at the Common.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Fantastic goal to mark the new year.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Very much here for the Jeff in 2025. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Jeffing: the run-walk method that can get you to the marathon finishing line
Olympian Jeff Galloway says his pace-shifting technique means less injury and better health for beginners and experienced marathoners alike
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Walking off the Christmas around beautiful Broomhead, with additional rule of thirds
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This year's Nichemas includes @grindrod.bsky.social new podcast about Corby Bus Station's unheralded beauty and Ffa Coffi Pawb, an illuminating doco - entirely in Welsh apart from odd words like Husker Du - tracing the history of Welsh music from Datblygu to SFA. Look at young Gruff!
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Welcome to the first episode of my geeky new podcast, Monstrosities Mon Amour, where a guest and I explore somewhere they love, somewhere more commonly dismissed… johngrindrod.substack.com/p/new-podcas...
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NEW PODCAST! Monstrosities Mon Amour 1: Corby Bus Station
John Grindrod meets The London Ambler Mike Althorpe, and they explore Corby Bus Station and *Batteries Not Included in the first episode of a new podcast
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The art of the mix tape. Can't say I disagree with any of these from the new @petemckee.bsky.social memoirs exhib, A Boy With A Leg Called Brian
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Great evening watching Tokyo Godfathers, a fantastic wintry anime, at Kelham Film Club.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Not sure if @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social intended to create a replica Tinsley Towers on its new multi-use games area in #Sheffield but I am looking forward to testing out my putting skills on a replica Viaduct. What other #Sheffield #brutalist landmarks might work, @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social ?
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Double @kneecapceol.bsky.social Tuesday, after listening to Better Way To Live their collaboration with Fontaines DC, went all out and watched the semi fictional account of their story so far. Excellent.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Celebrating the very small Venn diagram between this lovely new social media channel and Gorky's, whose frontman Euros plays in Sheffield tonight youtu.be/pUWpZbcOkcg?...
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Let Those Blue Skies
YouTube video by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Topic
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Great words on the power of people ... I am so here for this.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Six weeks off after a medical incident, so quite a landmark to join virtual Jo Whiley for my first ever #couch25k today.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Unexpected highlight of the day was hearing @reverend-makers.bsky.social Late Night Phone Call followed by Hall & Oates on radio two and then making myself laugh all afternoon with an imaginary Yorkshire version of Kiss On Your List.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Sunday listening. Mood.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Sound lovers! This four part series from @hannahpeel.bsky.social and @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social is fantastic. Lots of bleeps, echo and dots for late night listening. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Shaved 5 minutes off my morning routine by brushing my teeth and riding the mechanical duck outside the supermarket at the same time
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The majestic Martin Simpson only lives just round the corner in #Sheffield but his songs do plenty more travelling,, of birds completing the skyline and exemplary covers of Dylan, Leadbelly, Jackson C Frank, Anne Briggs and the Thompsons. Great company from @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social too.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nothing captures the drudgery of a train journey to Peterborough than a good romp through Britain's niche visitor attractions. Thanks @adam0407.bsky.social for the lend.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
An afternoon over the border in West Yorks.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Talk over town is that Katy J Pearson is a wonder; country, 80s pop, a little bit of la Bush.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just wow. Al Green's version of Everybody Hurts is a gospel wonder. Seriously great. (Is this the sort of content we're here for on Bluesky?)
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Very pleased with my @andycropperart.bsky.social Muggers' Bridge (I think plural as in more than one mugger?). A rickety old bridge across the railway now condemned and somewhat akin to running the gauntlet, as I did many times!
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Albums of the year are in. Here's to Nick, Naima, Bill, Beth, Gruff, Jane, ACR, the 86TVs, Fontaines DC and Katy J.
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Welsh surrealists #melinmelyn has never had so much fun failing to finish a song as they do on Fantastic Food. open.spotify.com/track/1WN9hE...
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Loved the snow, meet Autumn, Autumn, snow type contrasts today
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Pete Mckee @petemckee.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Good to see the old girls are still there snogging away 🌈💗
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Loz Harvey @lozman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Always nice to see some away @petemckee.bsky.social on your travels. This is at the Custard Factory in Digbeth.
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