Twin Cities : Sheffield & Toronto

We were looking at a review of Robert Gomez new album ‘Brand New Towns‘ and the first two paragraphs jumped out as the writer, Andy Gill, talked about which cities were the it cities in terms of music creativity. England’s Sheffield and Canada’s Toronto are the places to sing right now:

It’s strange how the virus of musical creativity seems to pass from town to town, infecting artists in one location before shifting randomly to somewhere else. One month, Reykjavik or Athens, Georgia is the searing cauldron of rock’n'roll; the next, it’s Portland, Oregon or Omaha, Nebraska.

At the moment, the two undisputed hotbeds of pop power are Sheffield and Toronto, both spawning a seemingly endless string of exciting new acts. And, the way things are going, the small town of Denton in Texas looks set to be the next Sheffield, with a growing roster of talent spearheaded by Lift to Experience, Midlake and, now, the genre-dodging genius of Robert Gomez.

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