When stripping off to your under-crackers is a good thing..

If you’re a true Sheffielder then the words ‘Full Monty’ (not the breakfast, silly) will evoke warm memories of a film created in and about your very own heartland.  A poignant story written about people like you. 

I will always regard the film with respect and deep affection. It was an incredibly warm and gritty tale of the economic hardship & social adversity that my generation unfortunately experienced first hand.  

It also realistically reflected a moral message that despite living in a society faced with a national pandemic of fear about the worse, good shit sometimes does happen. 

And actually, sometimes, humanity and hope do get their shit together. 

The film put Sheffield on the map – consequently opening up a mass of ‘conveniently averted eyes’ to the impact that conservative Britain had made on the working masses/classes up north.

It also catapulted the cast into Hollywood stardom. 

The Full Monty will no doubtedly be one of the most human films you will ever have the privilege of watching. It’s also the nearest thing to celebrity that Sheffield has – if you don’t count cutlery, Marti Caine and the location where Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe) finally became unstuck with SYP.

Until then, Sheffield was just a grotty little dot somewhere absolutely miles away from London yah.  

But The Full Monty, bless its little cotton socks, soon changed all that. ;)

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Please, please, please therefore show your support for Sheffield and the charity, Kendal’s Appeal and reserve your ticket to see Steve Richards et al hilariously recreate the iconic scene from the 1997 movie classic amongst an evening of fabulous entertainment, music, male strippers and topless waiters - all paid in spectacular homage to The Full Monty.

Tickets cost just £10.

Guaranteed to be a night of hilarity, charity and hope in humanity.

‘Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but anti-fat-bastard cream there is not.’ – The Full Monty (1997)

Footnote: Sheffield is now also famous for Jessica Ennis, Nick ‘I really should shoot myself in the head’ Clegg’ & La Chambre – don’t ask.