The Leadmill (Sheffield)

Having grown up in Sheffield before heading to University in Manchester, I now realise that Sheffield is, sadly, lacking in the number of decent places to go out at night. Whilst there are some great bars down both Division and West Streets, the club scene was dealt a great blow with the demise of Gatecrasher, several years ago. So where could you go on a Sheffield night out? Well, there's Embrace, sporting a massive dance-floor and great chart-tunes and the occasional older song; but this is overshadowed by its often extortionate drinks prices, high entry fee, (still, somehow) overcrowded dance-floor and unwelcoming atmosphere, particularly from ...  Read the complete review

I first visited Leadmill after i joined the city for the university there, the thing i love about Leadmill is the music, cheap drinks and the friendly people you get in there. The nightclub is split into two rooms, the main room will play the top chart hits and a bit of cheesy music and the other room which is slightly smaller will play all the indie anthems of past and present, the great thing about this is you can request your songs on a piece of a paper and hand it to the DJ who will then play it. The drinks vary depending on the day you'll visit the nightclub, Mondays and Wednesdays are 60p on drinks such as Strongbow and Carlsberg bottles. Then £1 for shots and Vk ...  Read the complete review

With Sheffield being one of the largest cities in the country you can probably imagine that when it comes to nightlife there is a huge range of different places to go. Most of the clubs that were around when I was an 18 year old (I am now 39) have disappeared and there is a whole number of new, large trendy venues that I have neither visited nor have any desire to do so. The Leadmill nightclub is one of the few places that was around all those years ago and is still going strong today. In 2005 the Leadmill celebrated its 25th anniversary and now it is officially the city's longest running nightclub. Back in 1980 Sheffield was a pretty run down place ...  Read the complete review