The Leadmill has announced that will be closing next year due to its landlord issuing a notice of eviction.
City centre on 1 April 2022.
(Photo by Giannis Alexopoulos/NurPhoto via Getty Images)] ‘Common People’ group Pulp played their first-ever gig at the venue in August 1980, with frontman Jarvis Cocker pledging to back the club after hearing about the eviction notice.
(Photo by Giannis Alexopoulos/NurPhoto via Getty Images)] A lengthy legal battle was sparked in 2022 when the Electric Group, which owns Electric Brixton in London and other venues in Bristol and Newcastle, issued an eviction notice.
Electric Group, which issued the eviction notice, claims it still hopes to keep the site as a music venue, and said it will invest ‘substantially’ when it takes over the club.
