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Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders buys Sheffield pub to save it from shutting down
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17 Feb 2023, 17:01
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Brit Award-nominated Arctic Monkeys rocker, Matt Helders, has bought a Sheffield pub to save it from going under. The drummer joined forces with eight other people in a bid to stop it being shut down.
Located on Broad Lane in the city centre, Fagan’s has been run by husband and wife team, Tom and Barbara Boulding, since 1985 but they both retired last month.
Former landlady Barbara told The Yorkshire Post about the venue: “We renamed the pub after Joe on November 10, 1985. Everybody knew it as Fagan’s as there was The Barrel on London Road, so people just called it Fagan’s. It was just the natural thing to do.”
Teaming up with drummer Helders to keep the pub alive are James O’Hara and James Hill from the Rockingham Group, Mark Herbert and Niall Shamma of Warp, Can Studios’ Ian Stanyer, painter and decorator David House, financial analyst Tom O’Hara and joiner Ben Pickup.
Speaking to Exposed Magazine, House explained: “We don’t want to change the heart and soul of the place, so it’s still going to look the same. We’ll be adding little touches, but we’ll still have proper Guinness. All the musicians want to stay, so there’ll still be five nights of music a week and a quiz, and, after last time, Robbie Williams is still barred from coming in! The biggest change will be having a card machine!”
Hill shared: “We want to make sure it’s doing what it’s currently doing, keeping that traditional nature, but also bringing it forward into the next 37 years of Fagan’s with some of the things that Sheffield is currently doing.”
On his new venture, Helders added: “You gotta pick a pocket or two!”
Revisit Arctic Monkeys’ debut album - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - here.
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