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The Raynor Lounge

I am here for Friends

About Me

The Raynor Lounge is just a room, but only in the same way that Sheffield is just a city. We know that that is not the case and it's what fills a space that makes it what it is. Over the next few months we will be filling a small part of Sheffield with a big part of what makes Sheffield amazing.
These nights are not just about the music of this fair and steely city, they're about the creativity, the magic which is created in our little hillside hideaway.
THE RAYNOR SESSIONS are a collaboration with a number of pioneering Sheffield folk, whether they be bands, labels, shops or just ace people. Over the next few months, and into next year if this works, we will be bringing you some fantastic, some eclectic, some fancy and some downright silly fun and we plan to enjoy every moment of it!
We launched on Wednesday 18th October with a special performance from Sheffield's Tiny Dancers, a phenomenal band whose rise to fame has only just begun, with a line up selected by them of Slow Club & Lennie, it was aceness!
These gigs are held at a students union but we welcome all and anyone with a few quid left to their name can enjoy the wonderfully priced £1.95 Grolsch & Strongbow or a bottle of wine for £6.50!
Tickets are available from Union Box Office (0114 222 8777), Jacks Records & Forever Changes.
Next up:
Drowned in Sound...

My Interests

The good ship Sheffield, and all who dwell in her!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who has lived in/loves Sheffield, has an ear for music, an eye for the beautiful and a mind full of wonder.

Music:

As picked by the people on the night, we just work here!

Movies:

possibly on the projection screens!

Television:

is for the uninspired, come out for one night!

Books:

can wait

Heroes:

Tiny Dancers, Giovanni chrome, Thee SPC, Forever Changes, Record Collector, Long Blondes, kid acne, invisible spies, Martin Lilliker, rare & racey, Jacks Records, Jarvis Cocker & Pulp, Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, The Longpigs, Little Man Tate, the yell, Go, Sandman, hendersons, bassets, Bands, kleber, designers republic, dulo, 7x7, no wax, 65 days of static, the showroom, iffypop, c90, Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, the Thompson Twins, Cabaret Voltaire, offbeat & synthetic, Pink Grease, Arctic Monkeys, Milburn, KHLA, Razor Stilleto, The Leadmill, Richard Hawley, Bromheads jacket, Moloko, Autechre, Sean Bean, Michael Palin, Helen Sharman

My Blog

14th March - DROWNED IN SOUND PRESENTS EMMY THE GREAT, SITUATIONISTS & MORE

Wednesday 14th March, The Raynor Lounge, £3.50 adv, DOORS 8PM - 1AMPopular music website & record label Drowned in Sound present a very special Raynor Session courtesy of their Sheffield Reporter. Emm...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:53:00 PST

21st Feb - OXFAM RAYNOR SESSION ft. THOMAS TRUAX & PATRICIANS

Wednesday 21st feb, The Raynor Lounge, £3.50adv, DOORS 8PM - 1AMAs part of the Raynor Sessions series we have invited Oxfam at Sheffield Union to curate a night of thier friends and supporters with so...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:46:00 PST

31st Jan 07 - Steel Press Raynor Session

Wednesday 31st January, The Raynor Lounge, £3.50, 8pm - 1amFeaturing Orphan Boy Live & Stainless DJsTo celebrate The Steel Press recently winning Student newspaper of the Year & the Launch of their ne...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:46:00 PST

6th Dec - Forever Changes presents Zombina & the Skeletones & more!

ZOMBINA & THE SKELETONES, THE HIPSHAKES & FOREVER CHANGES DJsWED 6TH DEC, THE RAYNOR LOUNGE, £4ADV, DOORS 8PMAs Part of the Raynor Sessions series legendary Sheffield record shop FOREVER CHANGES curat...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:27:00 PST

22 Nov - THEE SPC RAYNOR SESSION - FOTH & PG's + Super special guest DJs!

THEE SHEFFIELD PHONOGRAPHIC CORPORATION RAYNOR SESSIONWED 22ND NOV, THE RAYNOR LOUNGE, £3.50ADV, DOORS 8PMPart of the Union's series of events under the Raynor Sessions banner, welcoming local artists...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:14:00 PST

8th Nov - Giovanni Chrome Raynor Session

As part of the Raynor Sessions, a series of gigs curated by the good folk of the Sheffield music scene the pionering and innovative electronic label Giovanni Chrome welcomes... Meat for a Dark Day - ...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:43:00 PST

TINY DANCERS RAYNOR SESSION

Sheffield's The Tiny Dancers present their own Curated night in the intimate surrounds of Sheffield Union's Raynor Lounge, it's like ATP but less OTT! Our little city (or big town as some might say) h...
Posted by The Raynor Lounge on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:47:00 PST