Leeds venue Brudenell Social Club celebrates 100 years

This year sees the 100th anniversary of Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club, with the venue marking its centenary with a series of 21 special shows.

The gig series, running from later this week right through to mid-December, will play host bands and promoters who have worked most loyally with the venue over the years. These include outings by the reforming ¡Forward, Russia!, Kurt Vile, The Fall, Albert Hammond Jr, Shellac, The Wedding Present, Loop, plus an all-dayer on 7 December featuring Eagulls, Sky Larkin and others.

“The Brudenell isn’t like any other club,” said current proprietor Nathan Clark. ”It isn’t affiliated to any external bodies. We’ve now got a better spec than anywhere that’s putting on similar gigs in the area, just because of the natural organic reinvestment, and new dressing rooms and toilets and showers and stuff like that. You can physically buy facilities, but you can’t buy the model of reinvestment and I don’t think you can replicate it either.”

Check out the full schedule of events below:

November
24 – Shellac + Helen Money (sold out)
25 – Metz + The Wytches + Cheatehs
26 – John Smith (main room) – Crystal Stilts (games room).
27 – Jonathan Wilson
28 – Om
29 – The Fall (sold out)
30 – Forward Russia! + This et al (sold out)

December
1 – The Wedding Present + Weekend + Sky Larkin
2 – Superchunk + Girls Against Boys (sold out)
3 – Loop + The KVB
4 – Rocket from the Crypt (sold out)
5 – Toseland (james toseland + tony jepson)
6 – Quasi + Hookworms
7 – Brudenell 100 years all-dayer (feat. – Eagulls, Sky Larkin, Blacklisters + more tbc.)
8 – Night Beds
9 – Albert Hammond Jr (sold out)
10 – Owen (mike kinsella)
11 – Wooden Shjips
12 – I like trains play progress reform
13 – Kurt Vile (sold out)
15 – Martha Reeves (sold out)