sentences:  Barradale continued to record and perform from his native Sheffield, teaming up with guitarist Mick Bratby and bass player Ade Thorpe, both formerly of No Mean City and Aku Ake and later with guitarist and songwriter Alan Smyth, later a producer based at his own 2-Fly Studios in the city.Their bands Fruit, Seafruit, were championed by broadcaster Jeff Cooper's 'XS' show (now radio2XS) at the radio station Hallam FM, where they recorded two sessions in 1996 and 1997. Cooper also employed Barradale as the narrator of a 1995 radio documentary for the BBC "Sheffield Music 1995", which also featured Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and others.Geoff Barradale is the manager for the Arctic Monkeys who are also from Sheffield.