Memory Dance shares little-known work from the non-archival fringes of post-punk, jazz, noise, synthpop, soul and electronic music. Based in Sheffield, the label and archive project restores recordings, films, and other material that might otherwise remain unheard.
Its releases have included lost 1980s post-punk and disco from The Leisure Foundation, experimental recordings made at Sheffield Polytechnic in the 1970s, and collaborations using found South Yorkshire audio and video. Memory Dance’s work brings overlooked artists, private tapes and half-documented scenes back into circulation, treating the archive as something active rather than fixed.
The venue, Memory Dance on Chapel Walk is a refurbished Victorian unit down Chapel Walk in Sheffield city centre. A record/books/tapes shop, gallery, and basement cinema.
The space will be rooted in, and be a champion of, Sheffield/Yorkshire/Northern cultural heritage; specifically sound, moving image, design and photography.
Used vinyl. Exhibitions. Artefacts. Happenings. Screenings.
100% DIY.
