Made of steel: how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland (opens in new tab)

Galvanised by the Arctic Monkeys and guided by wise heads such as Richard Hawley and the Reverend, disused steel mills and former pit villages are now shaking to the hum of the Sherlocks, Milburn and more – and creating hyperlocal chart successes● Bingley rockers Marmozets: ‘I learned to walk again’● The Yorkshire bands you may not have heard of“It was like being in an athletics race where you’re running really fast, and then Usain Bolt turns up,” Milburn frontman Joe Carnall says of 2006, wh...