Nightclub Preview - The Attic Deluxe Bar

Table service, a full cocktail menu and several brands of top champagne, quality free-poured spirits, a wide range of cigars, award winning staff who genuinely care about customer service and a place to sit comfortably, socialise and not have to shout over the music. Not something you come across everyday in the most cosmopolitan cities and definitely not something that happens (or has ever happened) in Hull.

October sees the launch of The Attic, Hull's only deluxe bar.

Why is it deluxe? Because it's open well past midnight. Because there is a dance floor but the music is there to create the atmosphere, not overpower it. Because the hand-picked staff have received more training than any other venue in the City. Forty minutes of noisy tribal drumming is great if you're 18 and drunk, but when you've taken time to dress well, look well and feel well, who wants to be coming out of a dingy hole at 2 o'clock sweaty, smelly and stepping over some 18 year old who's throwing up in the gutter?

We think Hull's ready for something else. And we think that Hull deserves something else. So we've created something else. Something good. Something better. The best even. Hull's only deluxe bar.

A club that thinks it's a bar or a bar that thinks it's a club. Who cares? We don't. We don't want to pigeon-hole ourselves, we don't want to exclude or being excluded. We do want to be exclusive though. Just a little bit. We've got bets on who's going to be the first to buy one of our £1000 bottles of champagne.. On a Monday and Tuesday night we're bringing something genuinely new and fresh to Hull's student population.

Once Fresher's week is over and you're a bit bored of The Proclaimers and Abba, you need to be getting your social life in line for the rest of the year. Mondays and Tuesdays are about accessibility - Hull's only deluxe bar offers all of the same weekend customer service values, teamed with incredibly good value, for the more discerning student. Monday features 2 for 1 cocktails all night and a music policy that's just this side of leftfield (definitely NO Proclaimers).

Tuesday sees the introduction of our unique all night Happy Hour Machine - come to the bar, give the bar staff your order, hit the button and let the machine decide what deal you get or even if you have to pay at all! Happiness is guaranteed.. Thursday nights find a new midweek home for Hull's coolest students with the rest of the city's R n B cognoscenti.

The Face and Doc Junior do what they do best - R n B and Hip-Hop delivered with military precision. Get your boots polished and get there early and try not to dangle your dog tags in your champagne... If you want to be bored by some noisy, technical drumming for a couple of hours, go somewhere else. If you want the world's most beautiful vocal house and garage music, mixed with exquisite latin and salsa flavours delivered with soul by Chris Tyas, accompanied by Gary Hammond, the country's best Latin-Jazz percussionist and Beautiful South contributor, then come to The Attic, George Street, Hull, every Friday night.

The Attic Saturdays are all about remembering why you started going out. We tried to come up with a word to describe our music policy and the best we could do was HouseGarageFunkGrooveHipHopSoul.. A genuine mix of genuine tracks - things that will make you remember and new things to discover. If listening to the same beat all night leaves you a little cold, come to The Attic, George Street, Hull, every Saturday night.

Drink quality, dance to quality, be quality. We apologise in advance for making the rest of your social life seem a little inadequate.

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