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Dirty Stop Out's Guide to 1980s Sheffield - back in print!

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This book was back in stock early in 2024 but sold out within days! We now have a limited number - order quickly if you want one!

  • Your own personal time machine back to 1980s Sheffield – includes venues like the Limit, the Roxy, Leadmill, Rebels, Josephines, Dingwalls, Romeo & Juliets, the Wapentake, Jive Turkey and more

  • Re-connect with your youth via scores of rare and unseen photos; hundreds of memories and eye-catching memorabilia. Includes Sheffield bands like the Human League, ABC, Heaven 17, Def Leppard and more

  • Book researched for over a year – totally unique content, exclusive interviews and many photos published for the very first time

  • Features the bands, the venues, the fans and people like you who were in the thick of the action. Who knows – you might even be in here!

  • A4 size coffee table book.

This is your ticket back to the '80s, the decade of Sheffield's electro-pop dominance, with acts like the Human League, Heaven 17, and ABC taking centre stage.
You'll be transported back to iconic venues like the Roxy, Josephines, the Limit, Romeo & Juliets, the Wapentake, Leadmill, Rebels, and even legendary shoeshop, Rebina.

The era of the Miners’ Strike; Margaret Thatcher and ‘Threads’ is brought vividly back to life.
If you were born in the late 1960s or early 1970s, you'll be captivated – this is your era! If you have an interest in popular culture or social history, you won't be able to put it down!

This book makes the perfect gift for anyone who remembers the 1980s in the Steel City.

  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1908431066

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A Word From The Owner...

Here at Dirty Stop Outs we think you're never too old too disgrace a dancefloor and certainly never old enough to know any better. Our mission is simple – we want you to re-discover your rock’n’roll mojo. So why grow up when you can still be a 'Dirty Stop Out'?

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Piper Dobbie
Dirty stop outs guide 80s Sheffield edition

I bought the book/magazine originally for my dissertation and it has helped massively in my understanding to know what the club scene was like and it has helped to know the social aspect of Sheffield during that time. Highly recommend, it's a great read and if you are wanting to know more information on Sheffield in the 1980s.

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Edward Barratt
1980s Sheffield guide

I loved it. I all so got 1970s guide

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Jean White
A great nostalgic browse and read!

I've really enjoyed looking back on the memories of Sheffields music heritage and some of my old stomping grounds.

I have a couple of Neil's books and also remember him on the scene in the late eighties and early nineties.

The photos are great to reacquaint yourself with bygone days and it's so interesting to me to read all about those years when Sheffield was a thriving, great city. I'm so proud of Sheffields music history as I look back at bands such as Caberet Voltaire, the early Human League, ABC, Artery and Pulp.

I think it's great that Neil has done our cultural music history in Sheffield such justice as he has for other cities also.

I still have such fond memories of The Limit club especially and places like The Hallamshire pub, West Street, X Clothes, Impulse and Rebina Shoes. I still have a pair of my stiletto winkle pickers for posterity! 😁

Yes well done Neil for documenting all of this and some aspects of the best years of my young life. I'm sure lots of other folk feel the same about these books. They are a lovely keepsake to have especially as I'm about to leave this once great city and move on. 😊

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Corporal Courage
Oh the memories

I received this yesterday and to be honest, I can't put it down. It's full of beautiful memories and is beautifully written. So many places I remembered that I'd completely forgotten about. My only complaint is, that even though it covers absolutely everything, it leaves you wanting more and not in a bad way either.

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Maggie Murphy
Brilliant book!

brlliant book would recommend it to anybody especially if you went in the pubs lke I did even recognised some people.took me back in time and loved it