Cyndi Lauper was one of my favourite female vocalists of the post-Punk era. Her discs were often badly produced but the voice cuts through all the tacky studio extras.  I was lucky enough to see her live a few times, but only once in Sheffield. I was reminded of this when her farewell tour was announced in 2024 and I rushed to have a look at ticket availability. The UK prices were simply horrendous; it was actually cheaper to travel over to France and catch her there!  In the end seeing the Glastonbury set on TV made me change my mind.  I’m sure the shows this last February were fine if you’d never seen her live before but it wasn’t for me, her voice just didn’t have the range it once did.

The 1995 show on the ticket here was her first concert in Sheffield (promoting the compilation album Twelve Deadly Cyns), and was the singer at the top of her game.  In a sensible move she didn’t bother with a support act either. I did take some colour and mono photographs (on film!), and later we waited by the stage door where she cheerfully signed a couple of picture sleeves for us which was appreciated.

The City Hall tickets had been computerised a good while before, with perforated corners retained by the venue as you went in. £16.00 seems laughably cheap thirty years on!  Cyndi did play here once more in 2011 on her Memphis Blues covers tour but albums of covers are not my scene so I skipped it.

Simon Robinson