I do hope you're right, 'cos I have to say Leeds don't feel like it at the moment.

Ok there's Darkside, but a few people find that expensive (both entry and drunks inside - that's not a dig at the door price btw, 'cos im not saying it's not worth it, just somewhere I'd love to go more but can't often afford).

Where else really now? There's no place for smaller clubs and new promotors to cut their teeth really, and nights that start up seem to have a big turn out for a little while then it drops again and everyone says "where's the techno"...

Take Fusion as an example - ended up they were losing loads each month 'cos of having shit hot djs playing to 20 people...

What happened to a decent techno/"proper" house (by that I mean "underground" not superclub-wannabee) night every weekend and a few inbetween... what happened to Templehead doing a techno night as a freshers event and pulling hundreds... seens one of the liberator lot was up in leeds almost every week for a while and pulled the crowds in everytime ...and the orbit of course...

It seems no one likes us anymore...

Reading this back that has come accross as more -ve sounding than I wanted, but I'm not gonna edit it - I feel there has been a bit slump (where I live anyway) recently and I do hope that that what you've said is true and some of this quality stuff that is going on at the moment is indicative of a change, and sticks and gets things going again...

And just so much respect for the people who are keeping it going...