Monument (Remastered/+DVD) - Ultravox

Advantages: Some great tracks, sounds and oblique lyrics
Disadvantages: A few also rans

...picked up used later on by various other people including Gary Numan. Numan has always cited early Ultravox and one of his big influences and his initial work certainly shows that. As this was their third album, it was by far the most accomplished and with Conny Plank's typical Germanic production work created an almost perfect blend of sounds and ideas but with a European almost film-noire feel. The remastered version of this album contains the following tracks: Slow Motion I Can't Stay Long Someone Else's Clothes Blue Light Some of Them Quiet Men Dislocation Maximum Acceleration When You Walk Through Me Just For a Moment Cross Fade (Bonus Track) Quiet Men (Full Version) (Bonus Track) John Foxx is famous for his somewhat oblique lyrics so quite what half these songs is about is anyone's guess. There are many... Read review

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Advantages: Free To Visit, Easily Accesable
Disadvantages: None

...The Sheffield Cholera Monument stands at 21 metres high and rises like Sheffield's very own version of Cleopatras Needle, on a hillside overlooking the main Bus Station and Railway Station. I remember visiting this place when I was at School and I see it everyday on my journey to and from work, yet I rarely give it a second thought. That is until the other night when, on my way home from work, whilst waiting to cross the road, a group of foreign Students stopped me and said: "Excuse me, do you know what that big monument is, over there?" I looked up at the Cholera monument, which dominates the skyline and realised just how much I sometimes take my home City for granted. THE HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT The monument was erected in 1834 in memory of the victims of a Cholera outbreak, which had broken out in the City in 1832. Over... Read review

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Advantages: Great views
Disadvantages: A long sweaty climb

...order to climb up over 300 steps to reach the top. You have to be reasonably fit in order to do this, and when I went there weren't any aids to making the trip up comfortable, like a rail to cling on to as you spiral round inside. I must have looked like a sweaty female version of Spiderman as I inched up the stairs with my back flat against the walls. I seem to remember that there was no central column to the staircase which meant that you could see all the way down to the bottom through this hole, but maybe that was something that evolved through my nightmares over the years... From the outside, the Monument is rather beautiful and graceful. The column is in the Doric style of greek architecture, which means that it is simple in design and fluted. The very top has a gilded urn that holds a globe rising from the flames, and below this... Read review

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