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  • ""Essentially every venue wants to be a pub *and* a nightclub so you have every venue competing for the same pool of customers for the entire night.
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    The pub crawl, the moving from one venue to the next to end up at a nightclub is on the way to being relegated to history."

    Also re: Wetherspoons. I was talking about this to someone the other day. They've pretty much collared most of the market, and its similar types of venues that are taking over from the traditional city centre pubs/clubs. Partly due to the longer opening hours and decisions to put TVs in them. Remember when the Titus Salt had no TVs? Now it has world cup football.
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    They've turned into a place where people can go have a few drinks, eat for cheap and stay on for a few more till the early hours, not like a few years ago when it got to 11pm and everyone would leave to go to the late clubs/bars."
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Sign on door thanks Bradford Love Apple customers for support

The sign on the Love Apple door The sign on the Love Apple door

A well-known cafe-bar and nightclub in Bradford’s west end has shut down.

A slump in trade is thought to be to blame for the closure of the Love Apple, at 34 Great Horton Road.

A sign on the door reads: “Regretfully closed. Many thanks to all our friends and customers over the past 13 years, Love & Apples.”

Only two months ago, it was announced that the Love Apple would play host to a number of top Indie acts during weekly music sessions, including Pete Doherty, The Klaxons, Happy Mondays and Mani from the Stone Roses.

The licensee at the Love Apple was Parvez Iqbal, who ran the venue with his partner Victoria Brett.

Michael Stewart, a Bradford-based writer, artist and university lecturer, used to go to the Love Apple and was friends with the boss, who he knew as ‘Pav’.

Mr Stewart said: “It’s a great shame. Pav inflated the price of beers deliberately to keep out the riff-raff from the nearby cheap drinking places. But I don’t think it worked because he lost his core audience of students.”

Businessman Len Cohen, of Leeds, supplies vending machines to pubs across Yorkshire and has dealt with the Love Apple for the best part of a decade.

He said “They were lovely people to do business with. They are very upset because they’ve run it for 13 years.”

e-mail: will.kilner @telegraphandargus.co.uk

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