Brudenell Social Club
The Brudenell is a lively and fun loving venue that embraces music and art under a wide and diverse umbrella that has no boundaries.
The open music policy believes in freedom and creation and holds the belief that music and expression provide useful social interaction. It is a community ‘non profitmaking’ venue, that holds charitable status, based in Leeds 6.
In recent times The Brudenell has been most famous for hosting secret gigs for bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Cribs and the Kaiser Chiefs.
However, it has been a centrepiece of the Leeds music scene for a number of years, and hosts gigs most nights of the week, which are put on by a variety of local promoters.
The name Brudenell is said to come from the family of James Thomas Brudenell, who owned Kirkstall Abbey after it ceased to be a monastery in 1539. James Thomas Brudenell was also the Earl of Cardigan. This connection explains why many roads in the Hyde Park area of Leeds are named Cardigan and Brudenell, and therefore how the Brudenell itself got its name.
The Brudenell Social and Recreational Club has a long and varied history and was formed on December 8th, 1913, it bought its first premises and current land shortly afterwards where it is still located today.
Venue info:
3 Queen's Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1NY
0113 275 2411
