Yates

Yates is a large venue mounted upon a few small steps on entry past the rugged burly, but friendly bouncers into a hall-like room with large stairs up one side leading to an upstairs of wide birth balconies. Downstairs there are a few couches and chairs dotted about but the focus is on the main floor which seems to serve as a badly designed dance-floor in the mist of thick but slow producing dance music and bizarre foam sea mines. The toilets can be found on the lower level which feels like leaving a club and entering the maze of someones house. Its popular because the drinks remain cheap but because the bar serves so slowly its a long wait before you have a drink and although the shots are served in test tubes there is no-where to really relax and enjoy them- even the upstairs gets crowded quite quickly. It seems to be in a good location but its the clientele which disappoint- rowdy, blazing eyed troublemakers who are inside to get thrown out and the student majority which swamps you at the bar means you could be standing in the middle of a light show waiting to be served while in the “on-guard” position.

Probably the nicest nightclub/bar combo in reading town centre even so, but then it only gets a 6/10.

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