Following Wire on Call Lane announcing it is to close in June, we hear some of your reflections on nightlife in Leeds.
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00:00 I haven't really been to any of the nightclubs, but I've been to a lot of the bars, especially on Cool Lane.
00:05 And I think the nightlife is fab here.
00:08 And in terms of club closures, I think as people are maybe not drinking as much, they're not really going out as much.
00:17 Nightlife in Leeds is great, brilliant, probably one of the best nights.
00:24 Compare it to, like, Liverpool or Manchester.
00:27 There's a lot of queues, like, but nightlife in Leeds is wicked.
00:30 Always make sure you put your jeans on and your shoes.
00:32 The generation of the 18 to 30 year olds now are, as I understand it, kind of a bit less of the binge drinking culture.
00:41 And I think historically that's always gone hand in hand with going to a nightclub.
00:45 And the closure of those kinds of places in Leeds and everywhere is a shame.
00:51 It's a shame for the people that work there.
00:52 It's a shame for the people who live there to not have those options.
00:57 But like everything, I think perhaps those places need to move with the times a little bit.
01:02 There's too many, there's too much of it really.
01:04 Too much drinking, too much nightclubs.
01:06 They're charging four times as much as they would in a pub, three times as much as they would in a pub.
01:11 So, yeah, they need to try and sort that out really.
01:14 Leeds is famous for being, like, very nightlife centred.
01:19 And as an exchange student coming from the Netherlands, which is where I do my degree,
01:23 I do think, like, that nightlife is more, like, there's more things to do.
01:28 And also, like, every night, every, like, even if it's a Monday night, it will be sold out.
01:33 When I used to go out to the clubs, it was a social occasion.
01:37 Nowadays, I think a lot of it is cost.
01:40 Also, holding the venues and getting a licence is, I believe, quite difficult as well these days.
01:48 Younger people seem to go have at home parties and, you know, it's a shame if it does close
01:56 because music is so important to us all.