Saint Etienne – review

The Leadmill, Sheffield"Sheffield Leadmill …" sighs Sarah Cracknell wistfully of a venue her band played in the early 90s. Saint Etienne arrived perfectly pitched between the then cutting-edge shimmering beats of clubland and sepia-tinted nostalgia for pop's lost innocence, with an indefinable but powerful undercurrent of melancholic longing.Now, of course, they are a focus for nostalgia themselves. The band and audience are now in their 40s, and grown men greet the blonde singer's entrance in...

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