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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · 22h

The film is completely free to watch online too. Get stuck in. vimeo.com/324959796

Tales From a Hard City

This is "Tales From a Hard City" by David Hill on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · 1d

Tales From A Hard City is a remarkable, v v funny and overlooked documentary. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, I look at how it's a useful accompanying document to tracing the origins of another Sheffield landmark turning 30 this month: Pulp's Different Class. thequietus.com/culture/film...

How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp's Different Class | The Quietus

Wild Dreams. Cool Ambition. Hard Cash. While these words may sound like something you’d associate with a high-octane blockbuster action flick, in reality they are the tagline to a 1995 documentary abo...

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers Luke!

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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · Aug 23

“It’s become this indelible thing for Sheffield people now. It’s in the city’s blood.”

Love Threads? If so, you’ll definitely enjoy this piece by @danieldylanwray.bsky.social about new doc Survivors: The Spectre of Threads ahead of its world premiere at the Sheffield Film Festival next weekend.

Threads and the making of the Sheffield mind

"The film had genuinely traumatised him in a way that has made him ready for the end of the world at any moment"

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sorry to miss this, Luke. We can't get there until this aft - hope it goes well and see you later on!

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · Aug 20

A quick update on #JDTwitch -- a new separate fund to raise money for care for others at the hospice he is at has been started by the family, with some of the Crowdfunder proceeds helping to start things there. Full details are here -- JD continues to want to give back to others.

Love to JD Twitch

Keith’s Hospice Tribute Fund

keith-mcivor.muchloved.com

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Aug 7

Will thoroughly look forward to seeing this - and yourself - at Krakenhaus, John!

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · Jul 14

there's almost nobody in This Thing Of Ours who doesn't owe something to Keith in one way or another, so let's all chip in a few quid when he needs it most... very glad to hear he's comfortable at last

Keith McIvor (JD Twitch) care support

Helping Keith McIvor (JD Twitch) access urgent care and therapies to manage and ease symptoms

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jul 7

I love the documentary American Movie very deeply. I wrote the latest entry in the my feelgood movie series on it about how inspiring I find the purity and heart of it on top of the lols. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

‘I’m rooting for them’: why American Movie is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers drawing attention to their favourite comfort films looks back to a funny and touching documentary from 1999

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jul 7

Been meaning to read this anyway but a very helpful reminder to buy asap, which I now have done. Cheers Jude.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · Jul 7

It's here! The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025.

What's at Number One? How many have you heard?

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Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 graphic. Composite image made of several of the top ranking artists.

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hearts of Darkness - a doc on the making of Apocalypse Now - is back in cinemas this week. I spoke with its director, along with a couple of cast and crew from the original film, to dig into a troubled production that produced a landmark despite the chaos. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

'Vietnam was insane, Apocalypse Now only slightly less so': The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history

No production has been as troubled as Apocalypse Now. As a documentary about Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war epic is re-released, its director, and people who were on set, reveal all.

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 27

Cheers!

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 24

Total pleasure!

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 24

oh cheers, Hannah!

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 24

After 45 years, The Leadmill closes this week. It's been a bitter, messy, battle – personal and legal – until the end. It's sad for many people but I wanted to use it as an opportunity to celebrate Sheffield's bountiful ongoing independent spirit elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

‘Not all grassroots venues are struggling’: Sheffield’s Leadmill may be closing, but the city’s DIY hubs are thriving

Despite controversial new ownership for the local landmark, Sheffield’s vibrant network of staunchly independent spots is bucking the crisis facing Britain’s small music venues

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 23

Cheers Pete

Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thanks!

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 23

Cheers Dan

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · Jun 19

"In Sheffield you let your music and your art do the talking. You leave your ego at the door. Everything else doesn’t matter. The song is king."

@danieldylanwray.bsky.social catches up with the legendary Richard Hawley to talk dreams, dogs, and why he’ll never set foot in The Leadmill ever again.

‘I'm just a specky bum from Sheffield who got lucky’

Coles Corner was Richard Hawley’s love letter to his city. 20 years on, he looks back on the record that made him a star

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk

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DJ Mag @djmag.com · Jun 17

"House music demands that we all have a space at the table.”

Ahead of its UK premiere at Sheffield DocFest, @danieldylanwray.bsky.social‬ speaks to house pioneer Vince Lawrence and filmmaker Elegance Bratton about Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

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New documentary, Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, illuminates Chicago house music's Black and queer roots

Ahead of its UK premiere at Sheffield DocFest this week, Daniel Dylan Wray speaks to house pioneer Vince Lawrence and filmmaker Elegance Bratton about Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, a new documenta...

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is such a wonderful record. Drink it up.

Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social · Jun 13

HAPPY happy day. It's the official release date of my 2t2 album🙌. Available from the link below and other fine records stores via links on www.coseyfannitutti.com Love to you all 🎊❤️ x x x x

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 12

Did this week’s readers interview with John C Reilly, who was a total sweetheart and answered various Qs on everything from Tom Waits to Magnolia via his new musical project and his buttocks.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

‘Chaps frame the buttocks in a beautiful way’: John C Reilly on Magnolia, moving into music – and his nice bum

The actor and musician takes your questions on devastating box office results, his love of Oliver Hardy, and his new vaudeville crooner alter ego

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 10

It’s on Matador so presume Noam

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Daniel Dylan Wray @danieldylanwray.bsky.social · Jun 10

good gear.

Fergal Kinney @fergalkinney.bsky.social · Jun 10

new: a publishing supernova of hastily commissioned Oasis books is coming to the shelves of Dads and Uncles near you.

For @thequietus.com I read three of them. How do they confront what Oasis were for most of their career (I.e. appalling, making bad music)?

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Some Might Not Say: What a glut of new Oasis books is leaving unwritten | The Quietus

There are a glut of new Oasis books out due to the reunion, but, asks Fergal Kinney, how is the band's shocking decline in quality dealt with?

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