![]() ![]() Once we had the first two tracks of the Black EP, we set off to see Jon at Do It Theesen, where he manually cut the tracks to an extremely limited set of 7" singles using a vinyl lathe. Sure, we’d stood outside their practice room as kids, trying to listen in, but never felt any reason to approach. ![]() It would be 30 years before any member of The Black Dog talked to Cabaret Voltaire. ![]() We tend to exist in little pockets, often leaving each other alone. We don’t really do big gangs or have that kind of mentality. The Hacienda would've never been built here. It’s one of the reasons we never really had big scenes like Manchester or Leeds. There’s something about these little mesters (workshops) that we believe lives in the very consciousness of Sheffield. They’d exploded onto the scene in a flurry of excitement before disappearing just as quickly. Sheffield had thousands of these spaces, and some still exist today, but their abundance and low-cost made Sheffield a very active place. Nevertheless, the grand names made them sound magical. In those days, the Cabs and Human League had studios with posh-sounding names, but in reality, they were the same old workspaces long abandoned by the industries they were built for. It was such a common thing back then, you could pick a dusty space in a half-derelict building for as little as £25 a month. We’d been talking about the old days making music with friends and dodgy kit, renting small practice rooms and using makeshift recording studios. For months, we’d been working away on various projects and then, without really thinking about it, The Black EP just happened. ![]()
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