How lively is your local town at present?

[Manks]

I went out in Nottingham last night for the first time in about six months, met up with a mate, had some beers and went for food. A very pleasant evening all in all, but Nottingham (or at least the bits we saw) was dead. And this was on the first Friday after pay day.

Ten years ago you could go out in Nottingham any night of the week and it would be busy. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and even Sundays would often see queues at the doors of bars. Nowadays that is clearly not happening. Places are closed all over the place.

I have pondered what the problem is. Is it the smoking ban? The recession? Too many places pursuing too few people?

Nottingham does have a feckless local council which pursues poorly thought out political agendas with regard to transportation, town planning and economic development, but I am not sure these are the only causes.

So, my question is, how is your local town's nightlife performing relative to how it was doing perhaps five or ten years ago?

Manks

[Teebs]

The Friday of a bank holiday weekend tends to be quiet.

I live in York, the nightlife seems to be getting busier. New places are still opening, not too many have closed down.

[Carfiend]

Very quiet in Aylesbury atm. Mainly to do with the EDL visiting today to smash the place up.

[Scotfox]

Out in Edinburgh last night. Fairyl quiet considering it's a very good pub in the centre of town, it was pay day and it was a few minutes walk from where the Beltane Festival was on.

People still feeling the pinch a bit I think.

[Hairspray]

Carfiend said:

Very quiet in Aylesbury atm. Mainly to do with the EDL visiting today to smash the place up.

And I still have to try and get into town to work, where from what I've heard they will probably let us go home pretty soon...pointless!

[Ferg]

I think in some places a significant number of people are fed up with watching their backs all the time in town.

[Edinburger]

Scotfox said:

Out in Edinburgh last night. Fairyl quiet considering it's a very good pub in the centre of town, it was pay day and it was a few minutes walk from where the Beltane Festival was on.

People still feeling the pinch a bit I think.

I was in Edinburgh last night too (George Street then West End/New Town) and it was busy. Agree that mid-week drinking seems quieter than it used to be but Edinburgh at the weekends is bouncing.

[Nevin]

Edinburger said:

Scotfox said:

Out in Edinburgh last night. Fairyl quiet considering it's a very good pub in the centre of town, it was pay day and it was a few minutes walk from where the Beltane Festival was on.

People still feeling the pinch a bit I think.

I was in Edinburgh last night too (George Street then West End/New Town) and it was busy. Agree that mid-week drinking seems quieter than it used to be but Edinburgh at the weekends is bouncing.

I was driving back to my flat in Edinburgh last night and there were still the usual amount of drunk t@rts and morons stumbling out of pubs and clubs, so it seemed pretty busy. Stirling was packed last night too.

[NerveAgent]

Nottingham is only really busy on a saturday night now. This started when we started hearing about the "credit crunch" and all that.

[Manks]

NerveAgent said:

Nottingham is only really busy on a saturday night now. This started when we started hearing about the "credit crunch" and all that.

It's a shame isn't it. The city used to have such a good vibe about it the whole time and if you needed something to do you could always pitch up at one of the popular bars for a bite to eat and be surrounded by folk.

Manks

[leyarjh]

Nottingham will be quieter at the moment as most of the students are still on holiday.

[gamefreaks]

Went out in Leicester a few weeks ago.

Dead as a Dodo.

Now that your not spending it on going out, you can give them even more yummy tax for them to piss up the wall!

Don't worry, pubs will become a thing of the past soon.

[scrawler]

gamefreaks said:

Went out in Leicester a few weeks ago.

My sympathies go to you!!!

[MitchT]

I've heard the fights are pretty good in my local town centre. I don't know first-hand 'cause I usually bail when I feel the tension starting to boil-over.

[anonymous-user]

Teebs said:

The Friday of a bank holiday weekend tends to be quiet.

I live in York, the nightlife seems to be getting busier. New places are still opening, not too many have closed down.

busier? god.

there is always a nissan gtr parked near bohemia. (had to look it up to see what it was).

Edited by DangerousMike on Saturday 1st May 14:01

[drivin_me_nuts]

Brighton is generally stupidly busy and last weekend it was most definately full, from the foreign language students to day trippers. Night life depends. I work a lot at the weekends and it's very busy around 2 3am.

[Warrior Queen]

Dead. Ramadan was months ago. Welcome to Yeading, lol.

[Teebs]

pioneer said:

Teebs said:

The Friday of a bank holiday weekend tends to be quiet.

I live in York, the nightlife seems to be getting busier. New places are still opening, not too many have closed down.

How's Bohemia?

Not sure what you mean.........

[Teebs]

DangerousMike said:

Teebs said:

The Friday of a bank holiday weekend tends to be quiet.

I live in York, the nightlife seems to be getting busier. New places are still opening, not too many have closed down.

busier? god.

there is always a nissan gtr parked near bohemia. (had to look it up to see what it was).

Edited by DangerousMike on Saturday 1st May 14:01

The owner of the Indian restaurant next door owns the GTR.

[Escort2dr]

Manks said:

Nottingham

"st, I've been shot".
"Would everyone stop getting shot !"

[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]