Ten-day music and film festival Sensoria to take over Steel City

The ten-day festival — which features Richard Hawley, Robo-Karaoke and the Everly Pregnant Brothers paying homage to the Human League — will take over various Sheffield venues between September 27-October 6.

The festival has expanded to ten days in its tenth year and this year covers the theme ‘senses working overtime’.

Live sets will come from BEAK>, Ex-Easter Island Head, The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble (Goldfrapp), Drenge, Rolo Tomassi, Fvnerals, Textasy and International Teachers of Pop (The Moonlandingz).

Sheffield’s ukulele super group The Everly Pregnant Brothers will also pay homage to Dare, the hugely popular, genre-defining album by The Human League. 

The band will be covering all the favourites, including Don’t You Want Me, Love Action (I Believe In Love) and Seconds in a mostly pun-free live set. The Brothers, along with some special guests, will deliver their own unique interpretation of the triple platinum selling album in its entirety for the first time as part of Sensoria’s opening weekend. 

The line-up also includes The 3 Ring Circus featuring Richard Hawley and special guests. This performance will see a trio of artists opening their set in different venues, before jumping into a waiting car to speedily transfer them to another location. Eventually, each artist will be the opener, middle act and headliner at different locations, the order of which is a complete mystery to each audience.

Sheffield’s purveyors of post/math-rock Rolo Tomassi will also return for an intimate hometown show off the back of their new album Time Will Die and Love Will Bury it. 

For one night only, and to celebrate the release of their new EP, Autonomy, Drenge’s long suffering robot companion DR3-NG3, will curate an evening of cake, dancing and Robo-Karaoke entitled DR3-NG3's Big Night Out.

For more information and to buy tickets visit sensoria.org.uk.