Nights out in Hull have changed massively. Used to get bus into town with the lads, be George Street and Old Town before it became a bit more hipster, places like V-Bar, Sharkey's, Attik, Tunnel Bar, Mission (which is still there but man alive, not what it was), Welly (sometimes), Barracuda, Mint et al. Man thinking about it, I used to get the bus, grab some cigs from corner shop in Queen's Gardens, hop in Empress for one while we waited for Garth (rip) and then it was anyone's game until 4.30am when we would sober up, either in my mates garage or in Magma
I always lamented the lack of a heavy metal scene in Hull as we lost White Room, Dram Shop dropped its metal night, Pozition closed so no Metal Wednesdays and just like that, Spiders serves as the only real place with proper metal music left in the City. Which, given that I'm now 37, isn't exactly ideal because although I get away with looking much younger, even when I was in my twenties there were a hell of a lot of younger people there (plus, I used to go in at 15, different times man). They used to do a Friday night for the veterans which was less intense and played more of the mainstream, softer rock like AC/DC and Motley Crue. If they booted that up again I'd go to that, if it was 30 and overs. Sheffield, Newcastle, Edinburgh and York have a much better metal scene now than Hull ever did and I always thought there's a niche there to be taken advantage of.
O'Riley's does some decent live music on weekends and is relatively inexpensive, but it's in such a random place you really wanna be there for the night and unless it's got a bigger act on, it's not exactly jumping.