A traditional Irish pub in Trippet Lane that has been open since 1821, The Grapes has for years operated as a folk music venue.
In the 1970s and 1980s acts were booked by Myke Barritt from Rhiannon and John McDonald from Three Counties, with the The Amazing Grapes Vaudeville Folk Club on Friday nights and The New Grapes Folk Club on Saturdays.
The pub was also popular with drinkers on their way to West Street nightclub The Limit.
The Grapes would play a key role in Sheffield's wider music scene in the 2000s. With no in-house booker, bands and promoters were given free reign to hire the pub's 60-capacity upstairs room, putting on an eclectic mix of DIY music, unsigned local acts, jazz, Americana, metal and electronica.
Arctic Monkeys played their first gig at The Grapes on June 13, 2003. They played mainly covers and were paid '27, returning six months later to support new Warp Records signings, the then little-known Maximo Park.
Other notable Sheffield acts who played at The Grapes include The Crookes, who played there at the inaugural Tramlines festival in 2009, Monkey Swallows The Universe, who played their first gig there, and The Long Blondes. The Crookes would play again in 2010, supporting Retribution Gospel Choir. Meanwhile, Americana acts were regularly booked by WagonWheel Presents.
Later in 2010, Yorkshire Folk Arts moved their sessions down the road from the Dog And Partridge to The Grapes. There continues to be live Irish and folk music in the pub's downstairs bar area and The Grapes was a venue at the Sheffield Traditional Folk Festival 2012. However, at the end of 2010, thelandlady decided that The Grapes would no longer have gigs upstairs.
The final gig was on November 27 with singer-songwriter Dave Woodcock, electronic duo Pygmy Globetrotters, former Monkey Swallows The Universe frontwoman Nat Johnson and cult icon Thomas Truax. Truax played at The Grapes more than a dozen times between 2003 and 2010.