Showtime Sports Bar in Huddersfield set to open at one minute past midnight to public

A sports bar in West Yorkshire is 'hoping to steal a march on the competition - by opening at just one minute past midnight on Saturday July 4.
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Staff at Showtime Sports Bar on Zetland Street, Huddersfield, are hoping to provide a 'welcome form of relief for the punters who have been waiting patiently' for the reopening by opening at the very earliest opportunity.

Managing Director Adam Snowball, said events had 'taken on a course of their own' - with many of their customers 'phoning, emailing, texting and using social media' to request the earlier reopening.

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Adam said: "We had not undertaken any advertising or been in the press so we could find no causal link other than to presume everyone was in the same boat, were in the weekend mood and had begun planning for the next weekend.

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"We all sat down and agreed that with the reduced capacity, if everyone who had contacted us turned up at the same time we might not be able to get them all in.

"So we did a bit of brain storming, then Ian said (Ian Snowball, Adam’s father and the Co-Founder of The Huddersfield Project), ‘a lot of people don’t come out on Friday night until quite late, so why not open at one minute past midnight and get people in as if it was the tail end of a Friday nighter."

The pair spoke to a few of the people who had contacted the bar about opening on Saturday and ran it past them and everyone agreed on the time suggested.

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Adam added: "During the close down, we have spent a lot of time beefing up the sound system in Showtime and put in a scaled down version of what is going to be installed in the Colosseum, so it’s absolutely dripping bass with wall to wall Martin Audio now.

"This means that while nightclubs are closed people can still come around here after midnight and enjoy a sound that beats most smaller nightclub venues.

"While there is a bit of trepidation around the whole reopening thing, I can’t deny, we are all still very excited about opening up and seeing some of the regular faces back again."

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