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The revival crew name-check nights like Select, Origin, Recoil, Scuba and Quench, and if one of those names just took you straight back to a hot, dark dancefloor at four in the morning, you're in the right place.",{"type":69,"attrs":121,"content":122},{"level":71},[123],{"text":124,"type":55},"Bands on George Street too",{"type":51,"content":126},[127,129,133,135,139],{"text":128,"type":55},"It wasn't all DJs. In the mid 90s The Room doubled as a proper gig venue, and the listings from 1996 and 1997 read like a Britpop scrapbook. ",{"text":130,"type":55,"marks":131},"Catatonia and Space",[132],{"type":60},{"text":134,"type":55}," shared a bill there in April 1996. ",{"text":136,"type":55,"marks":137},"Kula Shaker",[138],{"type":60},{"text":140,"type":55}," played that June, just as they were about to go huge. Sneaker Pimps, Republica, Death In Vegas, Porcupine Tree, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and even ABC all came through within about a year of each other. Plenty of Hull people will have a ticket stub from one of those nights in a shoebox somewhere.",{"type":69,"attrs":142,"content":143},{"level":71},[144],{"text":145,"type":55},"What a night at Room felt like",{"type":51,"content":147},[148],{"text":149,"type":55},"This is the bit you can't look up. Ask people about The Room and they don't talk about dates, they talk about the feeling: the queue on George Street, the bass you could feel before you got through the door, the dark, the heat, and the way the night just kept going after every other club in town had put the big lights on. People still talk about walking out into daylight and heading for whatever was open.",{"type":51,"content":151},[152,154,161],{"text":153,"type":55},"It had a different crowd to LA's, too. If ",{"text":155,"type":55,"marks":156},"Lexington Avenue on Ferensway",[157],{"type":158,"attrs":159},"link",{"href":160},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fbig-nights-at-las-lexington-avenue-hull",{"text":162,"type":55}," was the big, loud, everyone-you-know night out, The Room was where the people who cared about the records ended up. Plenty of us did both in the same weekend, and our legs still haven't forgiven us.",{"type":69,"attrs":164,"content":165},{"level":71},[166],{"text":167,"type":55},"When the doors shut",{"type":51,"content":169},[170],{"text":171,"type":55},"The Room closed in the early 2000s, and it left a gap in Hull's nightlife that took a long time to fill. 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The story of the Tower on Anlaby Road, Hull's prettiest building.",{"type":48,"content":339},[340,350,354,359,375,385,390,406,417,422,438,442,447,463,475,479,505,509,514,520,524,530,534,540,544,550,554,560],{"type":51,"content":341},[342,344,348],{"text":343,"type":55},"Walk up Anlaby Road from Paragon and there it is, still showing off after more than a hundred years: green and white tiles, two little towers, a pair of domes and the word ",{"text":345,"type":55,"marks":346},"TOWER",[347],{"type":60},{"text":349,"type":55}," arched over the door like it's about to announce the main feature. 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