Sheffield rock band Reverend and the Makers have pledged their support to Unite the union’s campaign for a just transition for the steel industry and a boost to jobs.
Band frontman Jon McClure called on the public to join the campaign, saying it was particularly important for Sheffield.
He said: “I think we've got to do everything we can to safeguard the industry because it provides so many jobs and is also literally Sheffield’s heritage. It's the thing Sheffield was founded upon and influences in so many ways the music that has come from the city.
“Jarvis Cocker has got a great theory: He says the bass is louder in Sheffield music because we all practice right next to the steelworks. Martyn Ware from Heaven 17 and Human League talks about music concrète. It is this idea that the early synthesiser music, the birth of British electronica, come to sort of sound like the drop forges in the steelworks that we heard growing up.”