Just To Add

As a postscript to the last post, The Wendy House in Leeds closed this month as well. The Wendy House was a 'dark alternative' club which operated from Leeds University Union and had been running for no less than 16 years. Leeds has always had the reputation as being the Gothic capital of the North and there was plenty of enthusiastic clientele. However a combination of personal factors, financial losses and being fiddled about with by the venue brought the organisers (who I don't know) to conclude that it was time to call it a day.

A quick Googling revealed a local blogger with quite a  bit to say about the demise of the Wendy House. It's worth pointing out that 200-300 attenders - which he regards as the dispiriting tail-end of a great tradition - would be very respectable indeed at most other alternative events I've ever been to, but clearly in the context of the Wendy House wasn't enough to keep the place going. The complaints about music styles and room-space are the sort of details people bring up when it's quite clear that any sort of institution is going down the tubes, but the real reasons lie beyond such factors, and are harder to get a handle on - in churches as much as in Goth clubs.

Photo from the Wendy House website.