OMG! The music factory (under the bridge) for up yer Ronson & Back to Basics, hi Flyers, The gallery. Leeds was the place to be in the 90s. I spoke to many a people who used to come up from London for a night out in Leeds who used to say it was a far superior night out compared to London . Seriously, it was that good, there was no where better back then. It was exciting, glamorous, fun and packed to the rafters with great people everywhere. My 90s clubbing days in Leeds will stay fondly in my heart forever. ,
@@carouselcakes6237 We travelled from Scotland to visit Leeds’ clubs. Better than most cities by miles, and we travelled everywhere. Waaay better crowds and atmosphere. Notable others were Shindig in Newcastle and The Sub Club in Glasgow.
Wow just started watching and cannot believe The Music Factory has gone! I moved to Leeds when both B2B and Up Yer Ronson moved into the Pleasure Rooms - crazy venue, and the best DJs in the world (which I'm sure we'll come onto). But many a good night still spent at the Music Factory
Orbit opened in Ossett for a short period, in ‘Over 30s’ I think it was called, Nightclub. Building became a bar/ gym and then was sold, knocked down and became a housing estate.
The memory of me standing in Merrion Street coming up in the queue for the gallery in September 91. My first ever night night out. Having no idea how much that night was about to change my life.
Drove to Leeds from Derby to go to Back to Basics but got turned away at the door for wrong dress code . someone in the queue told me about the Gallery . One of the best nights of my life . 30 years later i still get a rush and adrenaline thinking about those brilliant events
This episode is absolutely fantastic. Very informative. As a Leeds dj for over 25 yrs now I learnt a lot from watching this. I knew the clubs but I had no idea of the history…. Thankyou
I used to work at speed print and printed all the flyers for the club nights in Leeds that dave beer put on. He would pick them up each Friday around 6pm. Cool guy always got us guest listed for any club night in our beautiful city. Good times.
When George dropped 808 state pacific state for the first time one Friday evening at the warehouse, the place went “off” ,he announced it as the saxophone track from Manchester as it was on a white label pre-release. Fond memories from 89/90 house scene.
We’d regularly travel from South Scotland to the clubs of Leeds. Ronson & Basics to name but two. Incredible nights that shaped our lives. Many mention Liverpool, Manchester or London as having the best clubs, and we visited them too, but Leeds was the best. The atmosphere was just different there. Truly blessed to have been part of a very special time.
Leeds was top dog from 93-1996 imo. Clubs and monthly like up yer Ronson, vague, soak, back to basics, hard times. Wicked era for clubbing and all on your doorstep.
What a place Leeds was back then for a night out. Personal favourite was The Orbit, getting shivers & a tear in my eye just thinking about it. What an education & amazing times!
Tim forgot to mention why there was big queues down the street on bliss nights , I organised 200 people minimum weekly to go from Harrogate to Leeds to Bliss @ The Gallery which grew massive , Tim used to play a basement club in Harrogate before that , it was the Harrogate crowd that boosted Bliss , when we got there , there was very little lighting or effects , I guaranteed numbers from Harrogate to help boost the Friday nights and Bliss went big,invested in lights and effects , added Steve Luigi as well as other guest visiting djs and the rest is history , you can't do it without the people so don't forget to mention the nobodies who paid the door fee and loyaly attended weekly , even through the times when Manchester had clubs that was tempting many away a certain number of us turned up EVERY week , the best days.
92 to 94 was also up yer ronson every Friday in the music factory, with monthly residents like Sasha , Graeme park , Dave dorell , Brandon block , marshall, can't believe it didn't get a mention
@@guywilliamallison688 music factory was brilliant, I went most weekends to both nights from mid 92 onwards , 94 when ronson and basics went pleasure rooms I got my first residency at music factory on mid floor at a night called groove garden, in the basement hard times was there for a while too
So many great memories of these clubs - moved to Leeds in 1994 but used to come clubbing in the years before that - Up Yer Ronson and B2B were legendary
So many memories! Basics @Rehab was probably the most nights out of all them. I was there at least twice a month every month. The staff were dressed in old fashioned nurses uniforms in red and white, the ashtrays were kidney dishes and there was indeed a fishtank, double sided to catch you out when you arranged to meet someone by the fishtank. The sound system was incredible in there, you could feel the separation of noise half way up the stairs. Awesome space.
Thanks for remembering the name Rehab! They didn't know the name in the video? I remember Bez being there on opening night. Everyone in Dr and Nurse white n red stuff. Club was near to Fudge a great bar?
They had quite a few themed nights at Rehab. I remember a casino night they did that was awesome. Best nights there for me was Inland Knights and DJ Sneak. There wasn’t much seating the main area and upstairs. A curtain if I remember rightly!
Tim used to dj at the casbah in Harrogate every Friday, 1990. I was there every Friday he was fuckin amazing, I had quite a few of his mix tapes and still have them transferred to my iPod. Then they changed the name to the mix in 1991, still Tim djing those were the best times of my life. Towards the end of 90 we were going to the warehouse, and gallery in 91. And then back to basics a bit later. For me the best night's were in the little club in Harrogate because it was just Tim on the decks and it was a much smaller club. More intimate and special imo ❤
Sound was Tim. He used to work in a record shop in Harrogate around 90-92. If ever I wanted to know a tune he’d dropped at Bliss I’d try explain it to him and 99% of time he’d know it. For example “ CLS - Can you feel it” and “ Kid Unknown- Nightmare ( Ice T sample)”. Not to mention “ MANIC - I’m coming hardcore”. Never let me down. Great vid this pal.
Leeds was once up there as one of the best clubbing cities in the world. Now it’s a dead zone. It’s a terrible shame, replicated across most cities in the Uk. Clubbing is a hugely important cultural right of passage for people.
@@mitch2620 depends what you in to I still love drum and bass the scene is world wide. But these kids don’t have like we did. We didn’t give a f£&k what we looked like 😂😂
@20.28 the " GALLERY " rocked , every night in there was , electric 91 to 93 was just off the charts ...........big up Steve Luigi , Big Martin , and all that made it possible
Gallery was brilliant my old man knew Paul Lamont well who owned so myself & my mates use to get in for nothing Fridays & Saturday nights. Was Big Martin the big black bouncer ?
@@bobstermahermust admit I loved the Gallery Friday & Saturday nights, devoad when it finished , use to come out of their in some states off my knackers as everyone was in there. Paul Lamont who owned sadly commited suicide in Newmillerdam Wakefield . Were I'm from but worked in Hunslet at the time and upto 2006 20 years it so.
The little club in Harrogate that Tim mentions was The Mix. Important part of the story of the Gallery imo as early Bliss days had a load of people coming from Harrogate and Wetherby that were regulars at the Mix. A lot of those people also went to the Hacienda at that time. Was a big group. still have one of Tim's tapes from the mix. A copy of countless copies 😅. Also surprised that Sunny's wasn't mentioned - where the harcore usually ended up.
The Gallery at 16 years old with Martin the doorman and Boris in his high vis vest. Then graduated to the Orbit. Sometimes Mint club later days when couldn’t get to Morley
That was incredible. I left Leeds at the end of 1990 so missed the peak, but I was out at least a couple of times in the late 80s until I left. Even back then it was still amazing as House and Hip Hop were coming on hard. Thank you all for the great walk down memory lane. 💫 PS. Love The Saints!! 🎉
Brilliant to see this! What a trip down memory lane:) I worked at The Mix in Harrogate and went to the Gallery every week, we all used to spill out of the club at 2 and carry on partying in the car park behind the old bus station😂. I went out with Keith the drummer and remember being in the car on the way to the club driving from Leeds to Harrogate with him Jez and Tim when we stopped for petrol and their first chart hit was announced over the radio in the petrol station. It was a life memory moment😊. Fantastic times! ❤ Great times when all of a sudden everyone was full of huge love. Xx
I was a back 2 basics girl I followed them from the start down at the chocolate factory I was only 17 when 8t all kicked off and I'm 52 now. I reminisce about those nights legendary ❤
Have great memories of Jez and Tim as warmed up for them for a couple of years or so on a Saturday Night at Elbow Room. Great lads, honest and down to earth and excellent DJs/ Producers.....much respect from me....Andy Ictus 😊
I love this, I used to queue for hours to be early doors for the Hospital Records nights at The Elbow Rooms. Utah Saints ran Sugarbeat Club every Saturday, it was amazing. Breakbeat, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass... amazing!!!!
Excellent stuff, cheers for sharing, loving this trip down memory lane even though I only skirted around the edges of the scene. Saw you guys twice, blowing The Shamen off the stage as support at the T&C, and more recently stealing the show with a cheeky DJ set at The Sisters / Simon D benefit at the Brudenell. About time to see another gig, maybe at the Project House, great new venue.
Right up until around 2014 Leeds was still the epicentre of clubbing in the UK and a leading city in Europe. I was playing the scene every weekend juggling residency’s for Speedqueen, Kissdafunk, Crasher, and later Filth, Habit etc and on any given weekend you was spoilt for choice from around 10 decent clubs, Mint, Northern Lights, Warehouse, Rehab, Wire, Mission, Stinkys, Space, Crasher, control, Beaver Worx, Kerbcrawler, of which you could guarantee all had world class headliners week in week out… outside of London there was no city that came close except the Leeds scene was more compact, friendly and the crowd way more up for it. Agents were crying out for their artists to play here. It’s sad that hardly any of the clubs remain. Baffles me to this day how it declined so rapidly but I partly blame its decline on the growth of the student population, student promotors slowly took over the independents with their access to databases and ability to target students direct as soon as they arrived in the city.
It's dying as all musical movements seem to do until they are reinvented. Kids don't go for what their parents like either so really it's a generational event and I for one are very happy to have seen it.
The Warehouse was the King of clubs in Leeds, the whole club was alight with absolute joy. The sweat used to drip from the ceiling and the poppers filled the air. Nothing surpassed it for acid house.
Back II Basics fourth venue I remember there and I remember the fish tanks both at the gallery and here. I also used to go here when it was Ponana, and and I forgot what they called it. My guy who taught me barbering was called Barber B and he used to do the Japanese Sunrise on Dave Beers hair. So there's another connection for me with all these guys. We did fashion shows in the Corn Exchange, it would be great to meet up with the three of you guys and exchange history. I'm absolutely loving this, thank you massively for producing and uploading this video. It's bringing back so many good times.
Stinkys….wonderful, intimate little club, great times! I remember Hard Times when it was briefly based in an underpass that is now Decathlon and Hotel Chocolate…
Stinkys sundays, great memories, would be packed from 6am to mid afternoon. I live nearby and the building caught fire a couple of days ago which was sad to see!
Utah Saints still rockin it at Beatherder this year, what an awesome set that was!!! Hope they enjoyed my giant glowing smiley face balloon. Back to Basics at the Mint club were my formative clubbing years…. Happy times.
Good to see the Warehouse still going strong. My best memories are of Vague, Hard Times and Basics. Basics fifth birthday party at the Pleasure Rooms was one of finest nights out of my yoof. Leeds really did have some of the best clubs in the 1990s. Over in Manchester, where I'm from, by the mid 90s the Hacienda had turned to shit tbf but you were spoilt for choice in Leeds.
Chocolate Factory was great for us indie kids. That rave up Hunslet was in 1990 I was one of the people that walked past the Babylon. Warehouse was great on a Friday early 90s. I think the Best club in Leeds was The Orbit without a doubt.
That was brilliant guys thanks so much for this, it brought back so many memories. The warehouse was my favourite club in Leeds. I saw nightmares on wax in there a couple of times, mr George Evelyn himself, I've got pretty much all of his albums, and a lot of wax da box podcasts on my iPod. Absolutely fantastic times 89 to 95 ❤❤❤❤
This is superb. Just took me back to great nights...and I worked at The Gallery 1990/91 on Thursday & Saturday nights, upstairs bar and then Armageddon at Ricky's downstairs on Monday nights!
I'm from Coventry and grew up in the Eclipse before going to a beautiful little nightclub known as Crazy Daisy's.. it was the start of the house scene and I would travel the Country to dance at all the best clubs.. now I'm sure I went to a night dont know the club but it was called Up your Ronson
Amazing guys, remember playing a Zero B gig at the galleries with Tim on the decks, also a session in Lion studios and a gig at the warehouse. Happy memories.
Legends. I'm sure they used to drive around Leeds in a convertabile Saab. Quiet a bright one, yellow may be. Unless that was the acid I was taking after The Gallery
Fantastic video from start to finish. Appreciated the Duchess of York getting referenced here. So many great clubs and nights. Links to US and Ibiza were great to hear.
Lovely trip around Leeds. I saw Parva (became Kaiser Chiefs) in the Corn Exchange. Funny the posters were the only thing of mention on Swinegate Cockpit. 😅
Remember being at The Gallery on the balcony, don’t remember the year, had a bi-plane hanging from the ceiling, played Utah Saints remix of Annie Lennox’s ‘Little Bird’…. brilliant 👌
I only got into dance when techno/electro came out late 90s, early 2000s. I used to do Berlin, and Geneva, mostly. But, Leeds had a night called Technique based in The Mint Club ran by a guy called Jay Kilka and a few others. The Mint Club had little stools with the seats in the shape of Polo Mints, and yeah, it had a great sound system. The place was run by an older Lady named Val. She was top. I also liked Alec Bowen at Polar Bear records. Had a great night in the basement of the corn exchange/elemental bar, one time. But the balconies were out of bounds Leeds is now a very non happening city, sadly. I wasn't too much of a fan of house music, original rave.
@@spookybaba Heya! Jez and Tim did actually mention Technique but we had some sound issues right at that part so had to cut it out. Thanks for your comments
Wow, the nostalgia for me on this was oozing out, I remember so much of the Corn exchange when you mentioned it, that was more aimed for me as a Cream night. I used to get mix tapes from the Arc shop all the time, also for Steve Luigi when he was on call lane. Had so many great nights back in the day at Ritzy, the gallery, back to basics and the corn exchange. Thanks for the great memories 🎉🎉🎉 Edit: Utah Saints we’re and still are to me absolutely amazing, full of nostalgia musically so thanks for your productions guys👍🏻
Fun times in the late 80's-early 90's. I was the partner of Kirk who ran the Chocolate Factory. We used to give sweets (and other stuff 🤫) out. Great indie tunes, and very psychedelic dance floor. Most of my mates were in bands that played the Duchess. It was sad when it shut down 😞. Personally I found most of the clubs mentioned too commercial. We were into the DIY nights that would just pop up out of the blue. Crazy people and crazy hard tunes, but sooooo much fun! Yes, Leeds was certainly full on in those days. Much like many other cities at the time 🙂
I live in Kent but used to travel up to Leeds to go to the orbit club and back to basics. Many a good night spent in the deep end at back to basics. Happy days great memories made a lot of good friends to.
Dave Beer man - he was a legend, worked at The Pleasure Rooms where there was Up Ya Ronson and Back to Basics, he was the man who took me into office and told me my grandad had just passed away, met him at The Majestyks a few years later when I was a manager there and he recognised me and reminisced about working with me at Back to Basics!
LOVE this, amazing oral history! Tim and Jez are legends, I was honoured to first play their night at The Elbow Rooms some 20 odd years ago and back then like now, you couldn't meet 2 more genuine guys. Big love and much respect fellas 🙏🏻👊🏼
Saw many great bands at the Duchess including OASIS before they blew up. Started my clubbing at Ricky's, The Warehouse, Kaos and then into B2B and SOAK at the corn exchange. Had so many good times in Ricky's with Steve Luigi & Gary Norman on the decks
Old techno head here. Back in my day Leeds was known as LSD and 2 Es. Loved the Orbit in Morley! Best music, best people and fantastic memories. I miss the Morley lads hanging from the upper floor fists a pumping. Saw Sven Vath, Jeff Mills, Westbam, Carl Cox and so many others. I even have a tattoo of the Orbit logo on my back. Thomas Schumacher When I Rock takes me right back to those days. Good times.
Ah right I wondered what they were doing there. Remember drinking round the corn exchange in the late 90s and fudge was the place to be for a bit just round the corner
Brilliant stuff , basics also was in a little club called the garage and it also had record shop in house that Frenchy and Tristan ran , also last venue basics was in last year was in sheif street venue, now that's lost too✌️❤️
Fantastic video! I controlled the overhead lighting system ("disco panel") at Mint Club from 2009 to 2013 (and the original lighting at Mint Warehouse), so right at the tail end of the Leeds club scene's glory years. If you were there at the time, you might remember I had a big afro (which is long gone now, haha). I'm not originally from Leeds, so there was loads of new information here for me, as well as bringing back some great memories. The best years, for me, were between 2010 and 2012. Mint Club was really flying; winning awards and gaining loads of recognition around the world. The best times really are a flash in the pan, unfortunately, but we experienced some unforgettable times with the likes of Sven Väth, Ricardo Villalobos, Loco Dice, Seth Troxler, Kerri Chandler, and my absolute favourite, The Wizard, Jeff Mills. All of those guys are the most chilled, down to earth people, despite their fame. Had some great conversations with some of them during and after their sets. I still have loads of those old flyers kept in a box and still keep in touch with some of my closest mates from that time who were like family to me! Luke Pompey (Hi, mate!) said it in his comment: the student promoters are what brought down the proper club nights, and we saw it happening in real time, starting around 2012. It coincided with "clubbing" getting a lot of mainstream attention on reality TV and EDM gaining popularity, along with the popular drugs changing from what fuelled the proper music. We saw those types (people who are there to be seen, rather than to enjoy the music) entering the proper club nights, and the atmosphere changed a lot, quite rapidly. I'm still really happy to see Mint Warehouse and Mint Festival going strong. I remember getting my hands dirty, setting up the first Mint Festival and Cocoon in the Park and having to go to A&E for a tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail that went through my boot! When I do walk through Leeds City centre, I love spotting some old mates' names still popping up on flyers. Glad to see them still doing their thing! Shouts and love to the best resident DJs I've ever had the pleasure to hear (plenty of times!) Annie Errez and Bobby O'Donnell for system/Mint, and the Newcastle lads, Simon and Peter (People Get Real), who backed me to release on/represent their label and were always up for a laugh when they came down for Wax:On. ❤️ We knew we were experiencing and being a part of something special back then, but nobody had any idea of just how quickly it would all happen and end. R.I.P. to all the ones we lost along the way. Life moves fast, so enjoy and cherish the good times while you can. They might just end up becoming legendary.
There was an alternative night in the Warehouse that we used to go to, but can't remember the name. Saw lots of great bands there. I came across the Utah's for the first time at Beatherder festival. With the Camouflage Disco and Trailer Trash sound systems, right from the very first festival, when it was small and intimate. Ohh, so many memories flooding back...and lots forgotten too 😂 It's so interesting reading the comments and helps to jog the hazy memories 🥰
Wow an original 1990s Utah Saints T-shirt, that is priceless :O And I'm amazed and very happy to see the Warehouse is still going! I thought both Back 2 Basics (Saturday) and not Soak but Up Yer Ronson (Friday) moved to the Pleasure Rooms in '94 but I could very well be wrong, there may have been some Soak nights before UYR (the same promoter I think -?). They had Dave Beer's tropical fish tanks at The Pleasure Rooms too, incredible venue!
Forgot to mention our Gaff the the Mex Bar. Many a House night and of course Dope was there and was listed as the Norths 1st Drum and Bass night…. The Bristol crew 1st time in Leeds. LTJ Bukem Roni Size, 3D and John Peel was a regular.
RIP the elbow rooms, one of my favourite places in Leeds which shutdown a few years ago, huge shout out to after dark, a club I did come to once long before I ever lived here
@@Dangermouse27 Holy shit, that was not fun. That happened far too many times. Seeing the steam generated by 3000 pilled up ravers standing outside and on the steps of the refectory was quite the site to behold however.
There was a photo of me at Kaos in one of those Leeds free papers. Where I looked that high that I might have reached escape velocity. My sister saw it and used to blackmail me by threatening to show our mum it if I didn't do as she asked. She had it stashed away somewhere and if we were arguing, she'd get it out and say "I don't have to remind you of the possible consequences, do I?" It was hanging over me for a good few years until I left home.
Rockshots and the Chocolate Factory you were always guaranteed a night to remember , amazing music and crowd who were predominately gay. It had it all .
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OMG! The music factory (under the bridge) for up yer Ronson & Back to Basics, hi Flyers, The gallery. Leeds was the place to be in the 90s. I spoke to many a people who used to come up from London for a night out in Leeds who used to say it was a far superior night out compared to London . Seriously, it was that good, there was no where better back then. It was exciting, glamorous, fun and packed to the rafters with great people everywhere.
My 90s clubbing days in Leeds will stay fondly in my heart forever.
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@@carouselcakes6237 We travelled from Scotland to visit Leeds’ clubs. Better than most cities by miles, and we travelled everywhere. Waaay better crowds and atmosphere. Notable others were Shindig in Newcastle and The Sub Club in Glasgow.
Wow just started watching and cannot believe The Music Factory has gone! I moved to Leeds when both B2B and Up Yer Ronson moved into the Pleasure Rooms - crazy venue, and the best DJs in the world (which I'm sure we'll come onto). But many a good night still spent at the Music Factory
Not strictly Leeds. Orbit in Morley. Incredible!
Morley is Leeds! 🤡
What a club the after dark was.
Orbit my favourite drove through from Scarborough couldn't drive back never found car till next day 🤣
Morley is leeds but not town
Orbit opened in Ossett for a short period, in ‘Over 30s’ I think it was called, Nightclub. Building became a bar/ gym and then was sold, knocked down and became a housing estate.
The memory of me standing in Merrion Street coming up in the queue for the gallery in September 91. My first ever night night out. Having no idea how much that night was about to change my life.
Yeah remember them days big martin on the door bliss on a friday spark on a saturday with steve luigi gallary massive
Drove to Leeds from Derby to go to Back to Basics but got turned away at the door for wrong dress code . someone in the queue told me about the Gallery . One of the best nights of my life . 30 years later i still get a rush and adrenaline thinking about those brilliant events
How did it change your life ahaha
Legends. Leeds was a serious place to rave, glad to have been part of it. Some great memoires ❤
This episode is absolutely fantastic. Very informative. As a Leeds dj for over 25 yrs now I learnt a lot from watching this. I knew the clubs but I had no idea of the history…. Thankyou
I used to work at speed print and printed all the flyers for the club nights in Leeds that dave beer put on. He would pick them up each Friday around 6pm. Cool guy always got us guest listed for any club night in our beautiful city. Good times.
He’s a massive Crack Head now, do anything for a pipe!
Massive Crack-Head now!
When George dropped 808 state pacific state for the first time one Friday evening at the warehouse, the place went “off” ,he announced it as the saxophone track from Manchester as it was on a white label pre-release. Fond memories from 89/90 house scene.
My m8 thought they were called Bob State 😂
George Evelyn N.O.W. LEGEND top dj
We’d regularly travel from South Scotland to the clubs of Leeds. Ronson & Basics to name but two. Incredible nights that shaped our lives.
Many mention Liverpool, Manchester or London as having the best clubs, and we visited them too, but Leeds was the best. The atmosphere was just different there.
Truly blessed to have been part of a very special time.
Leeds was top dog from 93-1996 imo. Clubs and monthly like up yer Ronson, vague, soak, back to basics, hard times. Wicked era for clubbing and all on your doorstep.
My home city. Leeds was such an important and influential place in the 90s.
Back2Basics - RIP Ali Cooke ❤
@@shadyron2842 definitely. Had some ali mix tapes from his time at basics great tunes from a special time
Saturday nights at the Phonographique downstairs in the merrion centre...late 80's...loved it..x
Think the Phono had a good night on Thursday in the late 80's too, I was very underage 😂
What a place Leeds was back then for a night out. Personal favourite was The Orbit, getting shivers & a tear in my eye just thinking about it. What an education & amazing times!
The Orbit at After Dark club was a mint night out. All the netting draped everywhere and the chill out room. Top club.
Tim forgot to mention why there was big queues down the street on bliss nights , I organised 200 people minimum weekly to go from Harrogate to Leeds to Bliss @ The Gallery which grew massive , Tim used to play a basement club in Harrogate before that , it was the Harrogate crowd that boosted Bliss , when we got there , there was very little lighting or effects , I guaranteed numbers from Harrogate to help boost the Friday nights and Bliss went big,invested in lights and effects , added Steve Luigi as well as other guest visiting djs and the rest is history , you can't do it without the people so don't forget to mention the nobodies who paid the door fee and loyaly attended weekly , even through the times when Manchester had clubs that was tempting many away a certain number of us turned up EVERY week , the best days.
Great times Mr buttocks😅
The gallery 91/92/93 🥳🥳
You Raver LOL
Basics Dec 91\92\93 etc……we had more Class……..😉
We started going the 2nd week open. Just the Top Floor at the beginning……..I remember this when it was all fields……ha.
@@martingetliffe Dave Beer went to raves.
@@martingetliffe 😂 Couldn’t one do both, I know I did. Rave gear for Gallery Fridays, Glam for Basics on Saturday.
@@martingetliffejust posers . Gallery was the real deal
Great video. The Gallery changed it's name to the Pleasure Rooms which then hosted Back 2 Basics and Ronson. Had some amazing nights there in 1995-96.
91 to 93 the gallery rocked
92 to 94 was also up yer ronson every Friday in the music factory, with monthly residents like Sasha , Graeme park , Dave dorell , Brandon block , marshall, can't believe it didn't get a mention
Yes in its peak Ronson was arguably better than Basics. Never went to Music Factory was a bit too young @@lee2nice
@@guywilliamallison688 music factory was brilliant, I went most weekends to both nights from mid 92 onwards , 94 when ronson and basics went pleasure rooms I got my first residency at music factory on mid floor at a night called groove garden, in the basement hard times was there for a while too
So many great memories of these clubs - moved to Leeds in 1994 but used to come clubbing in the years before that - Up Yer Ronson and B2B were legendary
Up yer Ronson then Love to be in Sheffield those were the days!!
So many memories! Basics @Rehab was probably the most nights out of all them. I was there at least twice a month every month. The staff were dressed in old fashioned nurses uniforms in red and white, the ashtrays were kidney dishes and there was indeed a fishtank, double sided to catch you out when you arranged to meet someone by the fishtank. The sound system was incredible in there, you could feel the separation of noise half way up the stairs. Awesome space.
Thanks for remembering the name Rehab! They didn't know the name in the video? I remember Bez being there on opening night. Everyone in Dr and Nurse white n red stuff. Club was near to Fudge a great bar?
They had quite a few themed nights at Rehab. I remember a casino night they did that was awesome. Best nights there for me was Inland Knights and DJ Sneak. There wasn’t much seating the main area and upstairs. A curtain if I remember rightly!
@@masonjames1Fudge Bar was a great pre-Basics bar. Cuban Heels, to the right of Fudge Bar was a decent place to get food.
Tim used to dj at the casbah in Harrogate every Friday, 1990. I was there every Friday he was fuckin amazing, I had quite a few of his mix tapes and still have them transferred to my iPod. Then they changed the name to the mix in 1991, still Tim djing those were the best times of my life. Towards the end of 90 we were going to the warehouse, and gallery in 91. And then back to basics a bit later. For me the best night's were in the little club in Harrogate because it was just Tim on the decks and it was a much smaller club. More intimate and special imo ❤
Tim was class and a world class hip hop DJ. Used to see his sets at The Gallery , Leeds circa 90/91.
Stephen Betts from Wetherby?
Ey up Steve! - I should have read the comments before I dropped mine. Legendary nights. Missed the Casbah sadly. Would love to hear those tunes
@@PaulScotthi Paul.
Jez Willis was one of my lecturers at Leeds Conservatoire. Such a sound guy!
Sound was Tim. He used to work in a record shop in Harrogate around 90-92. If ever I wanted to know a tune he’d dropped at Bliss I’d try explain it to him and 99% of time he’d know it. For example “ CLS - Can you feel it” and “ Kid Unknown- Nightmare ( Ice T sample)”. Not to mention “ MANIC - I’m coming hardcore”. Never let me down. Great vid this pal.
Leeds was once up there as one of the best clubbing cities in the world. Now it’s a dead zone. It’s a terrible shame, replicated across most cities in the Uk. Clubbing is a hugely important cultural right of passage for people.
You know it. Gallery basics warehouse flyers ark events voyage at flyers. Phobia at town and country
Kids have more important issues to address than going clubbing. It’s dead in the water now. We have to deal with it.
Phobia christ I'd forgotten all about those nights and there was one called Organik. Didn't realise it at the time but we were a bit spoilt for choice
@@bobstermaher Dj sy organik yeah Leeds was as good as anywhere in country
@@mitch2620 depends what you in to I still love drum and bass the scene is world wide. But these kids don’t have like we did. We didn’t give a f£&k what we looked like 😂😂
@20.28 the " GALLERY " rocked , every night in there was , electric
91 to 93 was just off the charts ...........big up Steve Luigi , Big Martin , and all that made it possible
Gallery was brilliant my old man knew Paul Lamont well who owned so myself & my mates use to get in for nothing Fridays & Saturday nights. Was Big Martin the big black bouncer ?
@@jeremywentworth1833 wooooooooow ur sooooo lucky !!!!! Yes Martin had hands like shovels !!!!! Loved the place , i was only 15 at the time 🙈
I started going gallery 1992 - 93...great atmosphere but the music changed direction 93 onwards and I followed
@@bobstermahermust admit I loved the Gallery Friday & Saturday nights, devoad when it finished , use to come out of their in some states off my knackers as everyone was in there. Paul Lamont who owned sadly commited suicide in Newmillerdam Wakefield . Were I'm from but worked in Hunslet at the time and upto 2006 20 years it so.
Big Martin was class. A mountain of a man but top drawer fella and bouncer 😂.
Some great night In Leeds over the years, but Orbit will always be number one!!
Fuck yeah
Amen ✊🏻
So sick. Incredible memories and so many places I'd forgotten about. Fantastic tour guys :)
What an incredible piece of musical history in Leeds - thanks for sharing
Big shout out to the After Dark Orbit crew. So glad it got a mention at the end there coz it was truly legendary in there
The little club in Harrogate that Tim mentions was The Mix. Important part of the story of the Gallery imo as early Bliss days had a load of people coming from Harrogate and Wetherby that were regulars at the Mix. A lot of those people also went to the Hacienda at that time. Was a big group. still have one of Tim's tapes from the mix. A copy of countless copies 😅. Also surprised that Sunny's wasn't mentioned - where the harcore usually ended up.
Fantastic watch. I love stuff like this. I remember basics being in the Mint Nightclub.
The Mint Club was great. I particularly loved the Technique nights.
The Gallery at 16 years old with Martin the doorman and Boris in his high vis vest. Then graduated to the Orbit. Sometimes Mint club later days when couldn’t get to Morley
Big black Martin from Huddersfield 👊🏾
That was incredible. I left Leeds at the end of 1990 so missed the peak, but I was out at least a couple of times in the late 80s until I left. Even back then it was still amazing as House and Hip Hop were coming on hard. Thank you all for the great walk down memory lane. 💫
PS. Love The Saints!! 🎉
Brilliant to see this! What a trip down memory lane:) I worked at The Mix in Harrogate and went to the Gallery every week, we all used to spill out of the club at 2 and carry on partying in the car park behind the old bus station😂. I went out with Keith the drummer and remember being in the car on the way to the club driving from Leeds to Harrogate with him Jez and Tim when we stopped for petrol and their first chart hit was announced over the radio in the petrol station. It was a life memory moment😊. Fantastic times! ❤ Great times when all of a sudden everyone was full of huge love. Xx
I was a back 2 basics girl I followed them from the start down at the chocolate factory I was only 17 when 8t all kicked off and I'm 52 now. I reminisce about those nights legendary ❤
Have great memories of Jez and Tim as warmed up for them for a couple of years or so on a Saturday Night at Elbow Room. Great lads, honest and down to earth and excellent DJs/ Producers.....much respect from me....Andy Ictus 😊
I love this, I used to queue for hours to be early doors for the Hospital Records nights at The Elbow Rooms. Utah Saints ran Sugarbeat Club every Saturday, it was amazing. Breakbeat, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass... amazing!!!!
Excellent stuff, cheers for sharing, loving this trip down memory lane even though I only skirted around the edges of the scene. Saw you guys twice, blowing The Shamen off the stage as support at the T&C, and more recently stealing the show with a cheeky DJ set at The Sisters / Simon D benefit at the Brudenell. About time to see another gig, maybe at the Project House, great new venue.
Uk,s ibiza back then ' bedrooms' & ' casa loco' 💖
When 'Bedrooms' finished used to chill out on the sofas until about lunchtime.
Up your Ronson was Friday nights and back to basics on the Saturday!!!
Right up until around 2014 Leeds was still the epicentre of clubbing in the UK and a leading city in Europe. I was playing the scene every weekend juggling residency’s for Speedqueen, Kissdafunk, Crasher, and later Filth, Habit etc and on any given weekend you was spoilt for choice from around 10 decent clubs, Mint, Northern Lights, Warehouse, Rehab, Wire, Mission, Stinkys, Space, Crasher, control, Beaver Worx, Kerbcrawler, of which you could guarantee all had world class headliners week in week out… outside of London there was no city that came close except the Leeds scene was more compact, friendly and the crowd way more up for it. Agents were crying out for their artists to play here. It’s sad that hardly any of the clubs remain. Baffles me to this day how it declined so rapidly but I partly blame its decline on the growth of the student population, student promotors slowly took over the independents with their access to databases and ability to target students direct as soon as they arrived in the city.
Yes Luke!! Remember you at BVA's used to be there setting up with Graham and working the bars hope your good pal!! 💙🤍💛🤍💙
It's dying as all musical movements seem to do until they are reinvented. Kids don't go for what their parents like either so really it's a generational event and I for one are very happy to have seen it.
Once the London mob trickles in the city gets deflated by design
The Warehouse was the King of clubs in Leeds, the whole club was alight with absolute joy. The sweat used to drip from the ceiling and the poppers filled the air. Nothing surpassed it for acid house.
The smell of sweat and poppers 🎉
Brilliant comment first club for house music, way before 90s, 80s was also golden period funk & soul very early Chicago house 👊🏾
Agreed. It’s was all downhill from the glory days of The Warehouse.
Back II Basics fourth venue I remember there and I remember the fish tanks both at the gallery and here. I also used to go here when it was Ponana, and and I forgot what they called it. My guy who taught me barbering was called Barber B and he used to do the Japanese Sunrise on Dave Beers hair. So there's another connection for me with all these guys. We did fashion shows in the Corn Exchange, it would be great to meet up with the three of you guys and exchange history. I'm absolutely loving this, thank you massively for producing and uploading this video. It's bringing back so many good times.
Stinkys….wonderful, intimate little club, great times!
I remember Hard Times when it was briefly based in an underpass that is now Decathlon and Hotel Chocolate…
Stinkys sundays, great memories, would be packed from 6am to mid afternoon. I live nearby and the building caught fire a couple of days ago which was sad to see!
Classic! Big ups Shae, great guests to have on your channel :) - Kiwi here from Welly
I loved this, visiting all the clubs from my stomping ground. So many amazing memories especially Vague & Basics.
Utah Saints still rockin it at Beatherder this year, what an awesome set that was!!! Hope they enjoyed my giant glowing smiley face balloon. Back to Basics at the Mint club were my formative clubbing years…. Happy times.
WOW...how cool is this.....
The Duchess was a great venue. As you say Nirvana played there. As did Oasis , Blur , Manics , Radiohead and so on. A truly iconic venue.
Loved the Duchess saw plenty of band there.
Good to see the Warehouse still going strong. My best memories are of Vague, Hard Times and Basics. Basics fifth birthday party at the Pleasure Rooms was one of finest nights out of my yoof. Leeds really did have some of the best clubs in the 1990s. Over in Manchester, where I'm from, by the mid 90s the Hacienda had turned to shit tbf but you were spoilt for choice in Leeds.
Yeah loads of mancs were in Leeds that time and loads of Leeds in Manchester 88 89 and 90
Corn exchange events legendary .. 80% Manchester..Sasha ,Mike Pickering ..MVITA
LOVED the Utah Saints, had their records and saw them live at Feile ‘93… legends! ❤
Chocolate Factory was great for us indie kids. That rave up Hunslet was in 1990 I was one of the people that walked past the Babylon. Warehouse was great on a Friday early 90s. I think the Best club in Leeds was The Orbit without a doubt.
That was brilliant guys thanks so much for this, it brought back so many memories. The warehouse was my favourite club in Leeds. I saw nightmares on wax in there a couple of times, mr George Evelyn himself, I've got pretty much all of his albums, and a lot of wax da box podcasts on my iPod. Absolutely fantastic times 89 to 95 ❤❤❤❤
The best of times lads! x
It really was Kerry👍🤫😘
Absolutely Kerry👍🏼. Still paying for it now as the club drugs made way for darker drugs. Those were the days x
This is superb. Just took me back to great nights...and I worked at The Gallery 1990/91 on Thursday & Saturday nights, upstairs bar and then Armageddon at Ricky's downstairs on Monday nights!
I'm from Coventry and grew up in the Eclipse before going to a beautiful little nightclub known as Crazy Daisy's.. it was the start of the house scene and I would travel the Country to dance at all the best clubs.. now I'm sure I went to a night dont know the club but it was called Up your Ronson
Eclipse was awesome
Amazing guys, remember playing a Zero B gig at the galleries with Tim on the decks, also a session in Lion studios and a gig at the warehouse. Happy memories.
Legends. I'm sure they used to drive around Leeds in a convertabile Saab. Quiet a bright one, yellow may be. Unless that was the acid I was taking after
The Gallery
Fantastic video from start to finish. Appreciated the Duchess of York getting referenced here. So many great clubs and nights. Links to US and Ibiza were great to hear.
Lovely trip around Leeds. I saw Parva (became Kaiser Chiefs) in the Corn Exchange.
Funny the posters were the only thing of mention on Swinegate Cockpit. 😅
Had my 18th birthday at Basics when it was at the mint with Derrick Carter ❤
Remember being at The Gallery on the balcony, don’t remember the year, had a bi-plane hanging from the ceiling, played Utah Saints remix of Annie Lennox’s ‘Little Bird’…. brilliant 👌
I only got into dance when techno/electro came out late 90s, early 2000s. I used to do Berlin, and Geneva, mostly. But, Leeds had a night called Technique based in The Mint Club ran by a guy called Jay Kilka and a few others. The Mint Club had little stools with the seats in the shape of Polo Mints, and yeah, it had a great sound system. The place was run by an older Lady named Val. She was top.
I also liked Alec Bowen at Polar Bear records. Had a great night in the basement of the corn exchange/elemental bar, one time. But the balconies were out of bounds
Leeds is now a very non happening city, sadly. I wasn't too much of a fan of house music, original rave.
@@spookybaba Heya! Jez and Tim did actually mention Technique but we had some sound issues right at that part so had to cut it out. Thanks for your comments
Wow, the nostalgia for me on this was oozing out, I remember so much of the Corn exchange when you mentioned it, that was more aimed for me as a Cream night.
I used to get mix tapes from the Arc shop all the time, also for Steve Luigi when he was on call lane.
Had so many great nights back in the day at Ritzy, the gallery, back to basics and the corn exchange.
Thanks for the great memories 🎉🎉🎉
Edit: Utah Saints we’re and still are to me absolutely amazing, full of nostalgia musically so thanks for your productions guys👍🏻
Loved the gallery spark on a friday with dj tim utah and spark on a saturday with big martin on the door gallery massive seen zero b live what a club
Fun times in the late 80's-early 90's. I was the partner of Kirk who ran the Chocolate Factory. We used to give sweets (and other stuff 🤫) out. Great indie tunes, and very psychedelic dance floor. Most of my mates were in bands that played the Duchess. It was sad when it shut down 😞. Personally I found most of the clubs mentioned too commercial. We were into the DIY nights that would just pop up out of the blue. Crazy people and crazy hard tunes, but sooooo much fun! Yes, Leeds was certainly full on in those days. Much like many other cities at the time 🙂
I live in Kent but used to travel up to Leeds to go to the orbit club and back to basics. Many a good night spent in the deep end at back to basics. Happy days great memories made a lot of good friends to.
Inspired by gallery to buy some decks myself. Ended up playing for 15 yrs. Leeds was ace back then.
Sids was Barry on Brigitte back then I think.
Such a great idea for a video. Loved this. I’d love to see a similar tour of Manchester
@@DJTimSandford thanks for your comment Tim, I've reached out to a few DJs for Manchester. Who do you think would be best?
Northern Light ❤🎉
sorry we forgot to talk about this...
Dave Beer man - he was a legend, worked at The Pleasure Rooms where there was Up Ya Ronson and Back to Basics, he was the man who took me into office and told me my grandad had just passed away, met him at The Majestyks a few years later when I was a manager there and he recognised me and reminisced about working with me at Back to Basics!
My first night out was in The Gallery 1992 ❤ the best times x
LOVE this, amazing oral history! Tim and Jez are legends, I was honoured to first play their night at The Elbow Rooms some 20 odd years ago and back then like now, you couldn't meet 2 more genuine guys. Big love and much respect fellas 🙏🏻👊🏼
Big Love Woody - yes remember you playing at the Elbow rooms back in the day 🙂
Saw many great bands at the Duchess including OASIS before they blew up.
Started my clubbing at Ricky's, The Warehouse, Kaos and then into B2B and SOAK at the corn exchange.
Had so many good times in Ricky's with Steve Luigi & Gary Norman on the decks
Cool documentary showcasing Leeds, remember all these places from back in the day. Great to see Tim n Jez 👍💜
A couple missing though but great video.
A friend of mine MEL was the girl singer in nightmares on wax, great set of musicians
Old techno head here. Back in my day Leeds was known as LSD and 2 Es. Loved the Orbit in Morley! Best music, best people and fantastic memories. I miss the Morley lads hanging from the upper floor fists a pumping. Saw Sven Vath, Jeff Mills, Westbam, Carl Cox and so many others. I even have a tattoo of the Orbit logo on my back. Thomas Schumacher When I Rock takes me right back to those days. Good times.
4th Basics venue behind Corn Exchange was Rehab. Speed Queen were also there circa 2006 /2007
Ah right I wondered what they were doing there. Remember drinking round the corn exchange in the late 90s and fudge was the place to be for a bit just round the corner
@bobstermaher yes mate.. Cuban Heals too
I recall the club Po Na Na that was there prior to Rehab circa '99 / '2000
Brilliant stuff , basics also was in a little club called the garage and it also had record shop in house that Frenchy and Tristan ran , also last venue basics was in last year was in sheif street venue, now that's lost too✌️❤️
Fantastic video!
I controlled the overhead lighting system ("disco panel") at Mint Club from 2009 to 2013 (and the original lighting at Mint Warehouse), so right at the tail end of the Leeds club scene's glory years. If you were there at the time, you might remember I had a big afro (which is long gone now, haha).
I'm not originally from Leeds, so there was loads of new information here for me, as well as bringing back some great memories.
The best years, for me, were between 2010 and 2012. Mint Club was really flying; winning awards and gaining loads of recognition around the world. The best times really are a flash in the pan, unfortunately, but we experienced some unforgettable times with the likes of Sven Väth, Ricardo Villalobos, Loco Dice, Seth Troxler, Kerri Chandler, and my absolute favourite, The Wizard, Jeff Mills. All of those guys are the most chilled, down to earth people, despite their fame. Had some great conversations with some of them during and after their sets.
I still have loads of those old flyers kept in a box and still keep in touch with some of my closest mates from that time who were like family to me!
Luke Pompey (Hi, mate!) said it in his comment: the student promoters are what brought down the proper club nights, and we saw it happening in real time, starting around 2012. It coincided with "clubbing" getting a lot of mainstream attention on reality TV and EDM gaining popularity, along with the popular drugs changing from what fuelled the proper music. We saw those types (people who are there to be seen, rather than to enjoy the music) entering the proper club nights, and the atmosphere changed a lot, quite rapidly.
I'm still really happy to see Mint Warehouse and Mint Festival going strong. I remember getting my hands dirty, setting up the first Mint Festival and Cocoon in the Park and having to go to A&E for a tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail that went through my boot!
When I do walk through Leeds City centre, I love spotting some old mates' names still popping up on flyers. Glad to see them still doing their thing!
Shouts and love to the best resident DJs I've ever had the pleasure to hear (plenty of times!) Annie Errez and Bobby O'Donnell for system/Mint, and the Newcastle lads, Simon and Peter (People Get Real), who backed me to release on/represent their label and were always up for a laugh when they came down for Wax:On. ❤️
We knew we were experiencing and being a part of something special back then, but nobody had any idea of just how quickly it would all happen and end.
R.I.P. to all the ones we lost along the way.
Life moves fast, so enjoy and cherish the good times while you can. They might just end up becoming legendary.
Barry on Briggate (now Sid's) 😆
Good on you guys back in the days of the real night fly's ⏺️👌🙏😇🌌🏆✅
Shout out to the after dark orbit dwelling Fam out there!!
Orbit48 4life.. My heart still bleeds for one more tune.. 🙏 ❤
Ditto 👍
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Amazing video. Thank You!
SugarBeat..... such epic nights!! Changed my life x
The Nightclub history of LEEDS is not documented - thank you for this wonderful insight, I’ve played percussion in most of these venues. ❤
There was an alternative night in the Warehouse that we used to go to, but can't remember the name. Saw lots of great bands there. I came across the Utah's for the first time at Beatherder festival. With the Camouflage Disco and Trailer Trash sound systems, right from the very first festival, when it was small and intimate. Ohh, so many memories flooding back...and lots forgotten too 😂 It's so interesting reading the comments and helps to jog the hazy memories 🥰
Wow an original 1990s Utah Saints T-shirt, that is priceless :O And I'm amazed and very happy to see the Warehouse is still going! I thought both Back 2 Basics (Saturday) and not Soak but Up Yer Ronson (Friday) moved to the Pleasure Rooms in '94 but I could very well be wrong, there may have been some Soak nights before UYR (the same promoter I think -?). They had Dave Beer's tropical fish tanks at The Pleasure Rooms too, incredible venue!
I used to play next door with Malcolm Dale at Mr Craig’s… he introduced you to me at The Gallery, climbing that ladder..!
Peace & Love ☮️💜🕉️
Forgot to mention our Gaff the the Mex Bar. Many a House night and of course Dope was there and was listed as the Norths 1st Drum and Bass night…. The Bristol crew 1st time in Leeds. LTJ Bukem Roni Size, 3D and John Peel was a regular.
Sorry....We knew we would miss a few and really sorry Carl as that's really important what you say above and thanks for mentioning it.
Utah saints are awesome I eventually got my hands on their first album on vinyl a few months ago 👍
RIP the elbow rooms, one of my favourite places in Leeds which shutdown a few years ago, huge shout out to after dark, a club I did come to once long before I ever lived here
Right trip down memory lane that was 😊
ooft front242. smashing vid, sound guys and tip hat the the elbow rooms guy letting them in.
I miss ARK at Leeds University.
Don't miss the fire alarm going off 😅
@@Dangermouse27 Holy shit, that was not fun. That happened far too many times. Seeing the steam generated by 3000 pilled up ravers standing outside and on the steps of the refectory was quite the site to behold however.
There was a photo of me at Kaos in one of those Leeds free papers. Where I looked that high that I might have reached escape velocity. My sister saw it and used to blackmail me by threatening to show our mum it if I didn't do as she asked. She had it stashed away somewhere and if we were arguing, she'd get it out and say "I don't have to remind you of the possible consequences, do I?" It was hanging over me for a good few years until I left home.
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We had DJ Luigi at Gallery We perused Corn Exchange for Ark flyers ended up at Bowlers then found Orbit 💚🎵🤪
Rockshots and the Chocolate Factory you were always guaranteed a night to remember , amazing music and crowd who
were predominately gay. It had it all .
Loved it. '89-91
Club culture doesn't always need to be in a capital city .. Great documentary
thanks for posting. lived in leeds 92-94 …. great memories. the orbit was hands down the best !!
Remember hearing "meltdown" by quartz in the the chocolate factory used to love the top floor was a top night in there ❤🎉❤🎉