Leeds Then and Today: Lost Nightclubs

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What was your favourite former nightclub in Leeds? Andy Hutchinson goes on a fast-paced tour of Leeds City Centre nightlife hotspots to reminisce on some of the most popular clubs of yesteryear.

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00:00Hi and welcome to the latest edition of Leeds Then and Today with me Andrew Hutchinson

00:04as we take a trip down memory lane to remember the lost nightclubs of Leeds.

00:09If you were a mover and shaker in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s and the early 2000s,

00:15we hope this will evoke happy, if not hazy memories, of nights to remember.

00:19Did you ever visit the Majestic, the colourful cheesy nightclub that everyone loved to hate?

00:24Just down the road here was Jumping Jacks with its famous duelling pianos.

00:30Belinda's here on Lower Brigger was a popular haunt in the 1970s and into the 1980s.

00:38Just a few yards away was Rock Shots 2.

00:41Do you remember Martins?

00:45It was located in the Corn Exchange Cellars and was hailed as one of the best discotheques

00:49around in the 1980s.

00:52The Mecca Locarno Ballroom was nothing short of a city institution here inside the County

00:57Arcade.

00:58Do you remember Planet Earth?

00:59Do you remember its revolving dance floor?

01:02It later became Bondi Beach.

01:05Heaven and Hell here on Eastgate was one of the first nightclubs to embrace the dual dance concept

01:10and by the 1970s had built up a reputation as a punk and alternative venue.

01:16Eating, dancing and cavorting.

01:19This was Brannigan's on Vicar Lane and what a night out it was.

01:23In the early 1990s you had Mr Craig's.

01:27That had changed to Club Europa, one for the dance fans in the early 2000s.

01:32Before you went into Club Europa you might have had a drink or two at Berlin's.

01:37Famous for its spin the wheel dance offers.

01:40Down the road here was the gallery, back to basics and what a night that was.

01:45And for those who had the stamina, down the road you had Casa Loco.

01:50Cinderella Rockefellers on Merian Way, owned by Peter Stringfellow, was arguably the most famous

01:56city night spot in the 1970s.

01:58The Merian Centre was home to some of the best known nightclubs back in the day.

02:02In time, Confettis, La Fonographique, Ritzy and Oceana.

02:07And who can forget Tiffany's in the Merian Centre, loved by a generation of clubbers in the 1970s.

02:13Here I am outside what was the TNC, the town and country club on Cookridge Street.

02:18It holds many, many, many memorable nights for me.

02:21Fridays was Brutus Gold Love Train and Saturday was Top Banana.

02:26Everybody but everybody loved a drink or ten before heading to their favourite nightclub.

02:31What was your bar of choice?

02:33Here on Boar Lane, you have Yates's Wine Lodge, you have Jack and Mellie's.

02:37And do you remember Square on the Lane?

02:39Do you remember Leeds Pentagon on the corner of Cor Lane and Brigette?

02:43It was dubbed the place for wining, dining and dancing back in the day.

02:47Here on Boar Lane was where you got the Knight Rider home for those who lived in West Leeds,

02:52where people who'd been to different clubs would all congregate, meet together.

02:56It was just a pound home.

02:57You'd share stories that were the happiest of times.

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