Sheffield’s Leadmill react to Arctic Monkeys’ raffle elevating £one hundred,000: “To them it’s a guitar, to us it’s a lifeline”

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Arctic Monkeys performing in Nottingham in 2005 (Photo by Andy Willsher/Redferns/Getty Images)

The Leadmill in Sheffield have shared their grateful after Arctic Monkeys parent over PS100, 000 through a charity raffle of frontman Alex Turner’s guitar.

Earlier this month, the Steel City natives launched a raffle of Turner’s black Fender Stratocaster( which he used for many of the band’s early carries-on, including gigs at The Leadmill and Reading Festival in 2006) to help raise money for the Sheffield venue and other independent grassroots venues in the UK which have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The band’s Crowdfunder campaign and raffle was launched to help stricken venues in conjunction with the Music Venue Trust and their #SaveOurVenues safarus, andremains open until 6pm on Tuesday August 25- but the PS100, 000 target has previously been smashed.

“I can’t believe we’re over PS100, 000 ,” Leadmill general manager Rebecca Walker told NME.” That’s an stupid amount of money and will go so far to locking is not simply the bricks and mortar of venues, but also their key members of staff.

“We so humbled and so grateful. We couldn’t thank the guys fairly for listening to us and allowing us to reach out to them, but likewise exactly their magnanimity. To them, it’s simply a guitar but to us it’s a lifeline- it’s a matter of whether a venue can stay open or not.”

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Thank you to everyone who has supported our Crowdfunder campaign so far and helped us reach our target of PS1 00,000. All fund caused still further and up to 6pm BST tomorrow, Tuesday 25 th August will go to @ theleadmill and other grassroots venues across the UK in conjunction with @ musicvenuetrust. Last chance to win Alex’s Fender Guitar and accessed through a screening of our rendition at Reading Festival 2006. Enter by clicking the link in our bio .

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Asked about how they came to team up with the band, Walker said: “Everyone in Sheffield knows someone who knows someone who knows Arctic Monkeys. You can’t run very far in the city without person having a story about them. I happen to know someone with a connection to them so we reached out back in April and then their conduct said,’ We’ve actually been speaks with them and they were asking about you guys to see if you were alright’. It was so great to know that no matter how large-hearted they get or where they are in the world, they’re still pay great attention to the crisis of how venues are doing back home. They were only too happy to help.”

“People are gifting from across the world, from Japan to Brazil, as well as our backyard in Hillsborough and Crookes.”

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Win Alex Turner’s Fender Stratocaster Guitar which Alex used during the early part of his busines starting with the very first Arctic Monkeys gig at The Grapes, Sheffield on June 13 th 2003. Now is a clip of Alex playing the guitar at @theleadmill Sheffield in 2005. Entry is PS5 and all continues go to @ theleadmill and other grassroots venues across the UK. Everyone who enters the competitor will accessed through an online screening of Arctic Monkeys performance at Reading Festival in 2006 which will air on the 26 th August at 8p m BST and can be used for 24 hours. For more information and to enter, click on the link in the bio .

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Asked if she had a message for Alex Turner and co, Walker told NME: “Thank you so much better and you are forever welcome to play on our stage! I can’t wait for whenever they come over to Sheffield so I can them the most important one hug- socially distanced of course, if needs be by then. This is going to go such a long way to ensure that people can keep their jobs and see that venues can continue existing.”

Visit here to enter the raffle before 6pm on Tuesday August 25, with each entryway costing a minimum of PS5. As well as having the chance to win Turner’s guitar, anyone who is opens the raffle will gained their an exclusive consider of the band’s 2006 recital at Reading Festival, which will be broadcast on an invite-only basis at 8P M on August 26( it’ll then be extended to re-watch for 24 hours ).

This weekend, the UK government have announced the first 135 grassroots music venues across England that will receive emergency subsidies from the PS1. 57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. However, countless venues say that they’re “still in hopeles the requirements of fan support” in order to survive.

Last week identified Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, is of the view that musicians no longer need to have “extra social distancing” on theatre following the results of a brand-new study. This comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson allowed for indoor gigs in the UK to return with social distancing measures in place, but the Music Venue Trust revealed that over two one-thirds of venues would be unable to do so.

Visit here to donate to the Save Our Venues campaign or buy special new gifts and merchandise .

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