“Independent Venue Week has found its soul in Hull, a city whose venues teach a masterclass in nurturing talent and sustaining a vibrant cultural scene, writes Sophie Leigh Walker.
There is a northern city at the end of the line, its once bomb-shocked streets of Victorian terrace houses crowded like rows of bad teeth. The Blitz had raised much of Hull to rubble, but The New Adelphi Club remained unscathed; it hangs on the lip of De Grey Street, its car park the bomb site where its neighbours once stood. Painted on the wall outside are the words: “You’ve come a long way, baby…”
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