Leadmill to close?

Landlord is trying to evict them, hopefully they fail. We can't be losing another small music venue.

 

Had many happy nights there, seeing great bands and dancing the night away. Still go to gigs there, no longer dance the night away. Be gutted if it does shut.

 

Suede, Pulp, Cud, Wedding Present, Spiritualized, PJ Harvey, Kirsty MacColl... just some I remember, don't know how many I've forgotten. Great venue.

 

I haven’t been for a good few years but it’ll still be very sad to see it go. After many wasted nights in Rebecca’s and the like it was pretty much life changing for me to discover a club where you could see the hottest upcoming bands and sup proper ale at the same time. I spent a large percentage of the 80s in that place.

 

I used to go to the 60’s and 70’s music sessions on Thursdays. Went downhill when they did the toilets up in my opinion.

 

Don't worry, they haven't been renovated since and have long since been below 1970s standards.

 

I still go very regularly hope common sense prevails before they turn it into yet more student flats.

 

It's a bugger when a landlord can't evict someone from their own property.

 

That’s reassuring. My last visit was probably 1997-ish.

 

Does your mam like you?

 

I can only assume he does it to try to wind folk up, surely no-one can be that daft.

 

After battling so hard through Covid to stay afloat it would be criminal if they're evicted, a city needs more independent, quirky places. Saw and heard a lot of great music there.

 

Been to a fair few gigs there, including Cud, Wedding Present and Kirsty. Probably unknowingly at the same time as you

 

I'm not really sure why people are jumping on dreamboy here. I'd say that giving one years notice of termination of a lease - if that's what was agreed by both parties when the contract was signed - is fine isn't it? Or are we suggesting that landlords should be forced to keep tenants forever and have no say in what happens to their property?

Obviously it's terrible sad if the venue does close but I think it's unfair to call them angels and slate the landlords as evil.

 

It's unlikely to be an "eviction notice", that doesn't really make sense in the context of commercial property given the one year timeframe. What has almost certainly happened is that the lease has expired or is expiring next year, and the lease has the benefit of the protections afforded to business tenancies which mean that a tenant has a right to a new lease except in defined circumstances, such as where the tenant has persistently delayed in paying rent, or the landlord wants to substantially redevelop the premises. The Leadmill will have the opportunity to dispute the grounds put forward by the owners - if the objection is non-payment of rent during the pandemic then the court will likely have sympathy and order a new lease on terms to be assessed if not agreed. If the landlord can make out a redevelopment ground then they'll be booted out, but will get some compo in return. Maybe the landlord has just served the hostile notice to strengthen their hand in negotiating a new lease.

Alternatively the Leadmill might have agreed a lease outside the statutory protections with a landlord's break clause, in which case they can't really complain.

So probably not a case of "nasty nasty landlord," more likely just the natural consequence of the lease expiring that could have been seen coming and planned for.

 

A thread to make one feel old. The place in my day was the Limit Club up West Street!

 

Loved the Limit too!

 

Come on mate, this is a venue that holds a place in a lot of our hearts. It's not the 'Some corporate name' Arena. It's the Leadmill. Where I, and dozens of people who use this forum, have been countless times. Or it's The Limit, as Osenkaht referenced, where I've also been many times, which was fantastic, that has now gone. Or The Dutchess of York in Leeds which has gone. Or, the best venue in the world, the grandly named Hull Adelphi, which was just someone's house. Or it could be Oakwell. And if you're on the side of the Landlord in these discussions, then f**k you, I don't want to hear you because you have no soul. I don't want to converse with someone with no soul. It's the antithesis of humanity.