The Documentary “Made in Sheffield” spreads out the rise and fall of Sheffield’s electronic pop scene in the early 80′. Bands such as “Cabaret Voltaire“, “ABC” and “Pulp” that got their 15 minutes of fame later in their career, started as no more than beat up underground bands. While the reckless brats from London wasted their days smashing guitars and cursing the queen, the lovely lads from the north (Sheffield is northern England) thought they were killing Rock’n'Roll.

How did I come up with this? Well, I coincidently looked up ‘Sheffield’ in Youtube, and found a trailer to the film. When I saw Phil Oakey from “The Human League” saying “We thought we were the punkiest band in Sheffield. We were laughing at the band that learned to play guitar, ‘cos they bothered learning three chords, we just used one finger”, I knew I had to have it. After a while I found the movie’s torrent file and downloaded it.

This documentary is both historically interesting and self – consciously hilarious. Apart from telling the story ad electronic pop, it shows how to be an underdog without having self pity.

And for those of you who are concern with the questions “why the hell did you look up “Sheffield” in Youtube”: sorry, can’t answer right now. Too busy doing nothing.

- For more information about how to destroy Rock’n'Roll visit the Made in Sheffield website.