Brudenell Social Club
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The front entrance of the Brudenell Social Club.
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| Location | 33 Queen's Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
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| Coordinates | 53°48′36″N 1°34′12″W / 53.810°N 1.570°WCoordinates: 53°48′36″N 1°34′12″W / 53.810°N 1.570°W |
| Type | Music venue |
| Seating type | Primarily standing, some seating |
| Capacity | 400 |
| Opened | 2 December 1913 Demolished and rebuilt 1978 Reopened 7 December 1978 |
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| www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk | |
The Brudenell Social Club (often referred to as just the Brudenell, or colloquially as the Brude or Brud), is a social club in Hyde Park, Leeds, England, which is best known as a venue for live music. While being a nonprofit organisation, it retains the "community atmosphere of its origins as a working men's club". The club is split into two areas—a 400 capacity concert room and a bar area and games room section, which occasionally holds gigs alongside the concert room.
The club was originally formed in 1913 by local businessmen, who built a wooden clubhouse at 33 Queen's Road which opened on 2 December of the same year. After falling into disrepair, this wooden structure was replaced by the present brick building in 1978, with the club officially reopening on 7 December. The Clark family took on the club's license in 1992 and began to put on gigs after a shift in the makeup of Hyde Park's population caused by more students moving into the area. Initial shows were focused around the local DIY music scene.
From 2004 to 2005, noise complaints forced the club to briefly abandon gigs. After a period of fundraising, soundproof firedoors were purchased and installed, while a new public address system was added to the concert room as a result of a National Lottery grant. A few years later, in 2007, the Brudenell moved from being a members club to being a "publicly open, licensed place that runs as a social enterprise and reinvests its money".
The club has played host to "secret gigs" by the likes of Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand, hosted The Cribs as they played three-consecutive nights, billed as "Cribsmas", in December 2007 and celebrated its 100th anniversary in December 2013, with shows by The Wedding Present, The Fall and ¡Forward, Russia! among others.
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