Sheffield is unique as a city in Britain, in that for the last 30 years there has been a difficult empasse between Licensees and Licensing Magistrates. As a result, there has been hardly any opportunity to drink after 11pm on Friday or Saturday, unless you went into a Nightclub.
     Things have been getting a little more relaxed recently, probably due to the fact that the Labour Government has been promising to relax the licensing law over drinking up time. There have been recent developments of late bars, often with a twin early bar, so that punters don't have to rush to drink up, they can just wander upstairs. Some established bars are now charging after 11pm, though it is still free before. This is an excellent development, as it takes the strain from the public transport bottleneck which has always existed at 11pm, where the taxi rank queues have been 100 strong, and waiting often takes the best part of an hour.

     We had a nightclub boom, a couple of years ago, where it seemed, for all the world, like a new club opened every week. People came from all over the north midlands and the north of England, and we became the club capital of Yorkshire, and the north. Now it's all died down a little, But we are left with an eclectic variety of clublife.