rarstar Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 let's face it, leadmill is the only place in south yorkshire where you can see decent bands if you wan't the best bands, you've got to pay for it tickets are usually around the £10 mark, which isn't bad, and £2.40 a pint although not cheap, is hardly extortionate like someone said, you're looking at £4 for a bottle of tart-fuel in the kingdom, and that's only on a club night you go to the leadmill on a monday, and a bottle of lager costs 75p, wednesday and it's 50p for a vodka shot - of course it's going to be more expensive on a saturday night, with a gig on they have to make money - it's a business i prefer it like that - pay for the good bands, it's how they make up for the loss of profit on cheap nights also, to say they only play cheesy music is completely false. they have three rooms and play almost every taste in music they could there are different nights with different themes, they play indie, pop, r&b, they have metally-punky-grungy bands on and they even play 60's soul or funk and stuff like that in the smaller rooms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncrossland Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 don't drink the vodka, taste like nail varnish remover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted February 7, 2004 Share Posted February 7, 2004 Very nicely said Rarstar.... here here !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnkysknky Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 Yeah the thing is with the Leadmill is it never pretends to be anything different, it's a dark, dirty club and they're proud of it. Always good for a laugh once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarstar Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 well, my girlfriend is living in cambridge for the year and having spent quite a bit of time down there, all i can say is thank god i don't have to pay £6 for a smirnoff ice and listen to a mixture of abba, generic seventies disco drivel and modern dancepoptrancehop toss every weekend thank god for the leadmill and casbah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarstar Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 ps, the lack of general capitalisation is a tempory situation i'll have the shift and fullstop keys welded back onto my keyboard by 15:29 hours on monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassman-x Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 I used to love the leadmill in my student days. I was a regular at some of th cheap mid-week student nights and regularly went to weekend nights like rise, joyrider and step on. Also saw plenty of quality bands there. It was a top place, nice and chilled out, top vibes inside and great music. The weekend nights there are now more cheesy top 40 stuff and it doesn't have the same vibe and people as times gone by. Oh well, another once great Sheffield venue bites the dust... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarstar Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 They stopped playing the cheesy stuff on saturdays about a year or more ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtro Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 At the risk of sounding like an old soap dodger , I've been to the Leadmill for about 20 years and its currently the worst its ever been imo. I went to one single gig there in 2003, they seem to have lost their pulling power to book decent bands. I think Sheffield always gets overlooked due to Leeds and Manchester though, which is not the Leadmill's fault. As for club nights...lol no thanks! The last times I've been down there its degenerated into a total meat market full of the checked shirt brigade. Besides the dance scene, the only club I bother with now is the Corporation which is good for alt/rock acts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rarstar Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 Xtro... Do you reckon that's generally due to the overall crapness of music today though? I mean if the best bands going around at the moment are supposed to be the Strokes and Jet, then what else can be expected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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