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WHERE:
Leeds University
WHEN: The third Saturday of the month.
MUSIC: Floor One: Alternative, 80s and Goth. Floor Two: The
mutate room – “Cyborg Beats”.
SIGNATURE TUNES: A total mixture, including Nine Inch Nails,
Marilyn Manson, A-ha, New Order, The Darkness, Rammstein,
Prodigy, System of a Down, Tiffany, Fisherspooner, Duran Duran,
Soft Cell, The Cult, Madonna, Rage Against the Machine, Guns
N Roses, etc.
DJS: Glenn, Susie, Nik, Echo, and Gill – all very friendly
and they welcome requests.
COST: £4.00 door. £3.50 advanced (plus booking
fee)
DRESS CODE: Long, plaited red hair, PVC corsets, lots of leather
and fishnet. The girls can wear this too.
OPENING HOURS: 9pm til 2.30pm
LATE LICENCE: 2am
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Leeds
has rightly become well known for its exciting music scene. Sadly,
many articles focus too much on dance music, in particular, house
music. Hard house, happy house and funky house but now, ladies and
gentlemen, I give you The Wendy House.
Alternative,
80s and Goth is the threat. I liked the sound of alternative and
80s, as I always have done, but wasn’t too sure about that
goth element. Fittingly, the first song I heard was some booming,
doom n' gloom death metal tripe. I was eager to hit the bar.
Dancefloor
divas
That was pretty much the only time my friends and I were away from
the dance floor. My ears perked up at the sound of a few classics,
and by the time Tori Amos' Cornflake Girl had been played, there
was a run of songs which had been the soundtrack to my teenage years
- Guns n’ Roses, The Pixies, Hole, Manic Street Preachers,
Nine Inch Nails and so on.
The
list of memorable tracks was endless. The emphasis is on the best
alternative music from the 80s onwards – with a bit of pop
chucked in. I also found that the goth label isn’t as bad as
I had thought.
The music isn’t restricted to these labels either – pretty
much anything goes. You can expect all sort to be played. Except
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, of course, but you never know…
Drill
n’ Bass
There is the mutate room upstairs, with its Cyborg Beats. Hmmm,
interesting. This room promised 'hard electronic music for the dancefloor',
which apparently means industrial, noise, power electronics, drill
n’ bass, acid techno - basically anything at all, because even
these punchy labels cannot begin to define the music in the mutate
room.
There are a few recognisable tunes hidden within the set-lists and
I was impressed to hear the Plump DJs and Peaches.
I am
so grateful for places like this, because it is somewhere else to
go instead of the vast numbers of bars and clubs which churn out
the exact same music as each other. Not that these are bad places,
it’s just brilliant to have something as refreshing as The
Wendy House as a true alternative.
Cassia
Baldock
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