{"id":57595,"date":"2026-02-24T13:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=57595"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:20:03","slug":"the-co-ops-musical-freezers-make-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/the-co-ops-musical-freezers-make-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Co-op&#8217;s Musical Freezers Make Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Musical freezers in Sheffield have made national headlines this week after Co-op customers took to social media to share the soothing sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in the Ecclesall Road store, the freezer, which has been compared on social media to Sin\u00e9ad O Connor\u2019s \u2018Nothing Compares 2 U,\u2019 and played over Coldplay\u2019s \u201cClocks,\u201d on BBC Radio 1, has been widely accepted to play a C# Major chord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Wild, 38, whose recording of the freezers has now been used by The Mirror and MusicRadar amongst others said: \u201cIt\u2019s very soothing, ASMR-inducing. It genuinely sounds really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3D9F2ADB-0E60-4088-8834-8F7018C139A4.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lukeautograff on Reddit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Wild added: \u201c Different outlets are posting articles, the BBC and everything. I\u2019ve been back there and there are just people hanging around them. I find it hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Redditor said: \u201cI guess I need to make a journey because I have been stressed lately. Screw meditation, co op freezers is where it\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst the freezers have garnered a lot of online praise- described as \u201cHeavenly,\u201d \u201cLike the string section of an orchestra,\u201d and \u201cFucking beautiful,\u201d others are calling \u201cSlow news day.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Redditor said: \u201cI thought my life was dull now I\u2019m an overachiever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this has not discouraged some netizens, who have been sampling and remixing the freezers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Redditor posted: \u201cI\u2019m actually rendering a 10 hour video of this. I\u2019ve cleaned the beeps\u2026and some loud stepping sounds. Will post it soon enough!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On sampling the freezers with his friend Mr. Wild said: \u201cWe\u2019re not sure on genre, I think we might make a couple of different tunes, put a little EP out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Co-op spokesperson said: \u201cWhilst we\u2019re unable to confirm whether the freezers are rehearsing for their next orchestral recital, it\u2019s good to hear our shoppers are enjoying the freezer section at Ecclesall Road Co-op.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical freezers in Sheffield have made national headlines this week after Co-op customers took to social media to share the soothing sound. Located in the Ecclesall Road store, the freezer, which has been compared on social media to Sin\u00e9ad O Connor\u2019s \u2018Nothing Compares 2 U,\u2019 and played over Coldplay\u2019s \u201cClocks,\u201d on BBC Radio 1, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":57608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,166,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story-2","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57692,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57595\/revisions\/57692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}