This month Lickerish is back with a bang. After the precedent was set with the launch the remit is simple, if you want to get your grind on in Sheffield to the most upfront super smooth grooves, this is the place to be.

Playing live is the UK's latest sensation DJ Ironik!

November's boom bap comes with that liquid tint for Detonate this month with Soulful drum n bass doyens Hospital in the house. The record label has been integral in pushing the jazzier edge of DnB, continuing the musical legacy of the mid nineties and showcasing the versatility behind the music and the sonic beauty it can peak at.

At last, hip-hop artist who speaks his mind and isn't afraid to be himself. Kenan Bell has no interest in acting like gigolo, pimp, drug dealer, or thug. He's not trying to be the hardest gangsta on the block. All he wants is to make positive, uplifting music. Bell's approach to rap seems quite refreshing in a sea of act-alike's and wanna-be's.

Also playing are; Sheffield's indie / spoken word / rap cross-over band, True Gentlemen; Smugglers Run; & newcomers The Cartels.

Woah. This is a biggie for Shuffle, as the feted scenesters Simian Mobile Disco rock back up alongside one of the hottest bands currently flirting under the live music radar, Kitsune darlings We Have Band.

 

Alabama 3 is a pop band, a punk rock, blues and country techno situationist crypto-Marxist-Leninist electro band. We never went on X Factor or Pop Idol or Stooge Quest. We did it the old fashioned way;

The main event at every Reflective show is Martin Leverton, the charismatic front for the Sheffield scene and the owner of the Reflex. The scene's figurehead, his super smooth mixing combines with microphone patter to create an unstoppable party vibe. This insider knowledge guarantees a complete level of up-to-date musical knowledge, which when coupled with an archaic sense of history for the scene means he can effortlessly slip from upfront promos to good time classics.

The term legend is thrown around a lot in these kind of blurbs, to the point where it's frankly, a massively overused cliché. But when of your guests produced what is regularly referred to as 'The Greatest Dance Album of All Time, and has had such a massive impact on British music generally, well, what are you meant to say.

The final Saturday before the Christmas season swings through is another corker from the Shuffle mainstays as they enlist the talents of not one but two stellar guests. Making their Plug debut are deadly duo Deepgroove, Get Physical Signings and notorious house music badboys, alongside the UK's leading lady of rave, Kate Lawler.

Mark E G
Brisk
Marc Smith
Kenny Sharp
Topgroove
Welshy & Sabin
T.D.K
Expression
Jake Nicholls
Spinner

Natz, JD Walker, Domer, ELL, Space & Mental

Pray silence for the Headphones Disco. Everyone gets a pair of wireless headphones.. Two DJs play on two dedicated channels of the headphones competing for your attention.

Armed with heartbreaking melodies, crashing drums and a tornado of white noise, Glasvegas are the thrilling sound of young Scotland. Well-versed in rock's rich history, they marry classic 50's songwriting with the

It's time for Shuffle to welcome the nation's favourite radio voice up to the Steel City for a very special leg of her own tour, as Annie Mac Presents swings into Plug. As the doyen of the underground dance scene, Annie's musical crusade has been giving the spotlight to the underground strains of dance music outside of house and trance, allowing breaks, drum n bass, electro and luscious rave to sit atop the musical palette.

Supergrass sit round a table in an Oxford pub, drinking lunchtime lager and coffee. Six albums in and barely out of their twenties; the four guys who made Diamond Hoo Ha are raring to go. They're back, not limping but sprinting.

There aren't many rock bands on this planet that wouldn't like to be regarded as unique. Of course, in these times of nostalgia and endlessly recycled ideas, very few actually deserve that description. Finland's Apocalyptica deserve it more than most.

Planet Zogg kick starts the festive season with an all night trip through hyperdelia joining the dots... from trance... to techno... to psy.. to breaks in a full on cosmic visual environment!!

Tinchy Stryder is a grime artist hailing from Bow, East London. Aswell as being one of the genres top solo artists he is part of the highly rated group, Ruff Sqwad.

Whilst the date maybe unlucky for some, the 13th offers up a scintillating Saturday's morsel of action for one of Plug's final parties of 2008. Two of the biggest hitters to straddle the Sheffield dancehall this year return for another

The Saw Doctors are the latest in this strangely noble line...They are not loud or angry, or vigorously uncompromising. They have no image, message of "attitude"...

In his ten years as a professional DJ Spoony has captivated dance floors and the air-waves all over the world. His broadcasting career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties), a ground-breaking show on Kiss 100 was to follow as a member of the Dreem Teem with Mikee B and Timmi Magic.

The main event at every Reflective show is Martin Leverton, the charismatic front for the Sheffield scene and the owner of the Reflex. The scene's figurehead, his super smooth mixing combines with microphone patter to create an unstoppable party vibe.

The Mingleville Christmas party is the first official Party for UK social networking website www.mingleville.com it will be the first in a series of great parties across the UK. Don't miss out on a fantastic night and book your tickets early"

Inspired by funk and soul artists such as Raul Midon and The Isley Brothers, the band has created a truly distinctive sound. With a down-to-earth feel and an air of simplicity, their music is the perfect soundtrack for any occasion. They are Bohemian Mods.

The biggest night of the year is upon us as Plug celebrates New Years Eve in dramatic style. Last year saw Erol Alkan deliver an exclusive midnight set, barricading the clubbers with his inimitable elec-tech concoctions and indie swagger. 2008 sees Plug go that little bit further by bringing the man who reshaped dance music only a mere four years ago and is priming himself for similar theatrics in 2009, Mylo.

The Brute Chorus have been combining garage, blues and folk music with a scatology of Biblical stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales since March. They've been taking it to the people with sets at The Secret Garden Party, Danny McNamara's The Aftershow in Manchester, and a monthly residency at Camden's infamous Hawley Arms pub and became MySpace front page featured artists along the way. They live together in a flat in Whitechapel formerly inhabited by Bow Wow Wow, so they claim.

The band's first release was a charming offering of psyched-out garage-folk put out on the Hawley Arms backed Bumpman records. The ltd edition AA side 7" sold out in no time- and is currently available for download.

 

Orange 38 (formerly Paddy Orange Project) have been causing quite a stir locally of late, just take a look at this video from when they graced the Plug stage supporting Reverend & The Makers at our 3rd birthday party in September. With new band members and a new sound it looks like big things are round the corner for this gang.

Kathryn Williams' ability to take an everyday observation, the kind of thing that might attract anyone's attention for an instant before we're distracted by all those Desperately Important Things we're busy with, and grab it from the ether, bring it down deep into herself, boil it down to its essence, and then send it back out, in a song that breaks your heart, with a voice that instinctively understands the power of restraint, of intimacy, of melody that drifts like thought, of lyric that pricks like a needle, or conscience, probably both.

Mongrel. A coalition of the willing. A force of nature based on musical artists who want to say something about the world they live in and be free of the merry go round of make record release make record release. Attached to the old fashioned notion that its cool to care about the world you live in made popular by the punks and the 60's counter culturalists before them we got together and made a record from our own pockets to make a stand and put our sword in the dirt.

Given the length of time Emmy The Great has been a leading light of the anti-folk (/nu-folk /new-wave-female-singer-songwriter) scene in the UK, its surprising to hear she's still only 23 years old.

Formed from the ashes of previous bands in and around southend, Essex, Baddies are 4 friends on a mission to make you listen, and listen you will. Theirs is a sound that flits effortlessly through Talking Heads / QOTSA and classic 70's UK Punk.