The Underground nightclub posted on facebook:
"We’re just not having it anymore - if all you post on Facebook is how rubbish things are, then stop being negative Nancy’s! Stop it right now! Sat at home, saying nobody wants to come to Bradford, there’s nothing here for them. Well -
⭐️ Last night people travelled from Manchester, Clitheroe & more to see Charlie Harper & Alex Wonk.
⭐️ Saturday night we literally had a coach load of people travel from Glasgow, and loads from Leeds, for Emilia Quinn & Robyn Red - all who stayed in Bradford hotels, and visited Bradford bars and restaurants.
⭐️ Thursday night Savanna Woods travelled from America to come perform here on her UK Tour, then stayed out drinking in the city centre after.
Don’t be a grumpy gus - Bradford actually has loads going for it, and those who do travel here tell us how much they have loved their stay. Venues like us, Nightrain, The 1 in 12 Club Bradford and more are constantly putting on great events that draw people into the city centre, and these people have a good time, in spite of your negativity. So imagine how great things could be if the city centre (and beyond) businesses had your support?
Sorry that we appear to have gone full Nigel - but sometimes you need to ♀️♀️
#livemusic #livemusicvenue #eventsspace #busyweekend #ifellinlovewithagirlattherockshow #punk #country #americana #gigs #gigsgigsgigs #comedancewithus #supportyourcity #supportyourscene
"We’re just not having it anymore - if all you post on Facebook is how rubbish things are, then stop being negative Nancy’s! Stop it right now! Sat at home, saying nobody wants to come to Bradford, there’s nothing here for them. Well -
⭐️ Last night people travelled from Manchester, Clitheroe & more to see Charlie Harper & Alex Wonk.
⭐️ Saturday night we literally had a coach load of people travel from Glasgow, and loads from Leeds, for Emilia Quinn & Robyn Red - all who stayed in Bradford hotels, and visited Bradford bars and restaurants.
⭐️ Thursday night Savanna Woods travelled from America to come perform here on her UK Tour, then stayed out drinking in the city centre after.
Don’t be a grumpy gus - Bradford actually has loads going for it, and those who do travel here tell us how much they have loved their stay. Venues like us, Nightrain, The 1 in 12 Club Bradford and more are constantly putting on great events that draw people into the city centre, and these people have a good time, in spite of your negativity. So imagine how great things could be if the city centre (and beyond) businesses had your support?
Sorry that we appear to have gone full Nigel - but sometimes you need to ♀️♀️
#livemusic #livemusicvenue #eventsspace #busyweekend #ifellinlovewithagirlattherockshow #punk #country #americana #gigs #gigsgigsgigs #comedancewithus #supportyourcity #supportyourscene
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00:00Hi, my name is Gail and I am the manager of the underground live music venue and nightclub in Bradford
00:06and also the platform bar that is attached to the underground.
00:09We are a live music venue situated in Bradford, covering multi-genres from rock and metal, hip-hop, soul, dance music
00:19and various other different genres including acoustic, country, etc.
00:23We provide platforms for grassroots musicians across the district and across the North of England and beyond
00:31as well as bringing in Torrid names such as Lucy Spraggan, The Wombats and more.
00:36We have been here for 8 years and in the 8 years we have grown and evolved to where we are now
00:43with 2 bars, food menu 2 days a week and anything up to 5 gigs a week
00:49from historically where it would just mostly be 1 or 2 a week.
00:54It has been a rollercoaster over the last 8 years and not always easy
00:58however we genuinely believe in Bradford and the music scene in Bradford is very important to all of us on the management team.
01:07We have obviously had the rollercoaster that was Covid in the middle of that and being closed down
01:14due to the size of venue that we are not being able to offer the same facilities when we came back out of lockdown
01:21for social distancing and such like however we have got through that okay
01:27and we are looking forward to 2025 City of Culture year which is coming up next year.
01:33We have started with preparations and we think it's going to be a great thing for Bradford.
01:41We see at the moment that there is a lot of negativity in the local area.
01:46Granted there is a lot of road works going on, there is a lot of building works and such like
01:51as we prepare for that City of Culture year and make sure that the city and the city's infrastructure is ready
01:57and there is a lot of negativity about how it is destroying the city centre.
02:04Nobody wants to go out in Bradford, rumours of it being unsafe and various other different narratives that are being perpetuated
02:12however we disagree. I work in the city centre in the night time economy and have done for over 10 years now.
02:20I feel safe in the city centre, I know a lot of people in the city centre and I know that they feel safe in the city centre
02:28and everyone looks out for everyone including customers who might not be as familiar with the area we are happy to look out for everyone.
02:34We have in Bradford, I believe we have in the city centre some really cool quirky unique little businesses
02:47and yes of course we would love to add to that, we would love more people to take a chance on opening businesses
02:53and music venues and various other different things but as far as music venues go, in the city centre we have put on some great gigs
03:01Tickles Live Music Hall, the 1 in 12 historic punk venue in Bradford, Night Train have had some great announcements this week as well
03:09and that is just four music venues. We also have some great bars and restaurants, Mamma Mia has been there for 40 plus years
03:20Pizza Pieces which is a cute little 30 plus year old little Italian pizzeria, Peacocks Indian Street Food
03:30there are so many different places that you can go, try all the different cuisines, see all the unique little bars with their own quirky little personalities
03:38Bar and Fable Record Cafe, all these really great places to go, there is cool quirky little shops as well, little retail
03:47and there is a lot going for it, there is a lot of cool events going on every weekend, if you like raves, if you like metal gigs, if you like country music gigs
03:56there is lots going on and there is something for everyone and we think that this gets overlooked sometimes
04:06and people look at things that could be's and has what we could have and we don't look at what we do have
04:15which is I think a really really cool little offering and it is only going to get better with Dallas Street Food Market, Bradford Live opening
04:22when they have managed to finish the work on there and obviously when we have our pedestrianised areas and the road works are finished
04:29so we genuinely believe Bradford is going to be brilliant, I already believe Bradford is already brilliant
04:38and we put a post out this week because we just got sick of the negative narratives on the local Telegraph Anargus website
04:50every time someone posts a positive story people jump all over it with negative remarks and stuff
05:00and I just, after last week when we had caught a load of people travelling from Glasgow for a gig, we had people come from Preston, Clitheroe, Manchester
05:10we had an American touring artist in our venue from Massachusetts, we had so much people from the outside coming to visit, staying in our hotels
05:23visiting our restaurants and bars and telling us how cool it is, in Bradford I just, this week we have decided we have had enough
05:32we are not going to accept any negativity in Bradford anymore and we would like to encourage everyone to come and join us
05:41in looking at the positives in the future because negativity breeds negativity and that is not something we are willing to feed into anymore
05:50so here we posted a post on Facebook about this and currently sitting at over 600 impressions on that plus comments and shares
06:00and I do think that Bradford is ready to accept some positivity into its life so I'm looking forward to the future