The Quay Bar

A grand warehouse of a Bar, the Quay Bar stands at two stories high with capacity for a good few hundred people and absolutely no shortage of space. The venue has a rather small entrance around the side from which you enter after walking alongside the river, so on the second floor of [...]

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Glasshouse Bar and Nightclub

A large den for students. This is what i wrote in my show notes for the venue upon walking in, drinking and then leaving. As far as my memories stretch this place is a large theatre of a venue with two floors, the upstairs completely pitch black but with a galley overlooking [...]

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Reform bar

It is nice to know that in some spots of leeds a little reform is going on. In what looks like a trendy and happening venue,scores of young people and students fill into a medium sized, low ceiling, darkened establishment. The bar area is brighter than the rest of the venue which is riddled with comfortable [...]

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Monto Water Rats Theatre and Bar

The Water Rats as it is commonly known across the youth of North London is an important addition to the small venue circuit for undiscovered bands and London talent in the instrumental music industry. Literally a five minute walk from Kings Cross station, it is well tucked away as one [...]

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The Fenton Pub

One does a double take when entering the Fenton, its a large pub and so has a hallway onto which the bar sits but its like entering the front of a youth club. After being served drinks on the way in the inside opens up as rooms and goes upstairs for larger evenings. [...]

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Brasshouse Bar

A surprisingly  large student bar with cheap food cheap drinks and tunes all day long. Although this combination of so many positive attributes in the student pub checklist does get this place very busy later on  . It is just a hypothesis that this venue brings a big bulk of student population but judging [...]

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The Barlounge

A heavily populated bar which as an initial impression gives the air of a trendy palace crammed full of people who feel that being their gives the cool image they need to survive their peers. The bar staff are very animated however and once we order our drinks it becomes clear that the barman [...]

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Christkinelmarkt Bar

The Christkinelmarkt is a token of German Christmas heritage playing an annual role as a market, fair and bar December of every year in the main square in the city centre in Leeds. Queueing to get into the Bar area is common-place but standing in line you can already hear to the brass band [...]

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The Rocket

A nice rock-indie-emo-student den poking into the busy runway of a pavement stretching from Euston to Kings Cross. The place is perhaps bigger than it looks from the outside and populated by 20somethings from open to close. The bar is quite small but offers a rather good selections of drinks. The decor is also [...]

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Mosh Club

A three tier rock club in the centre of Leicester attracts only the most grungy of students and although the popular belief among them is that this is one of the more expensive of the bars it is still way down on the price scale offering budget alco-pops at £1 each. I went [...]

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