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Old news but here it is for those that did not know:

Utopian Leisure, the company set up by former Ultimate Leisure boss Bob Senior, has acquired nightclub company Tokyo Industries for an undisclosed sum.

The deal means that Utopian picks up the three freehold Tokyo sites in Huddersfield, Oldham and Newcastle, and a 1,500-capacity Digital nightclub in Newcastle.

Tokyo Industries founders Aaron Mellor and Rob Cameron will continue to operate the venues in a new Utopian subsidiary called Utopian Three.

Senior said: "Aaron and Rob have specialist dance market credibility, whereas we are more mainstream operators. I see this deal as a merger of abilities."

Senior first worked with Mellor 14 years ago when Mellor ran student nights at venues operated by the Utopian boss.

Utopian has also set up a food division called Utopian Two after acquiring Milano's Italian restaurant in Belfast in partnership with local rest-aurateur Eddie Fung.

The leasehold venue is to be refurbished and reopened serving Asian food.

The clutch of deals means that Utopian is expecting to have a turnover of around £15m in a year's time - Tokyo Industries has a turnover of around £7m.

Utopian has previously taken the lease on a 22,000sq ft venue in Belfast's Odyssey complex, previously run without much success as the Precious and Refinery nightclub. Senior opened a nightclub, Bambu Beach, in the same complex during his days at Ultimate.

The new Belfast site is expected to reopen at the end of November and will be called Loveshack.

Senior set up Utopian last September with former Ultimate development director Tim Wynn. The company has a £100m debt facility.

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news_detail.aspx?articleid=18464

Shock horror ehh, Digital is in fact owned by smart businessmen, you were right melt we should have guessed.

melt - how did i KNOW you were going to say that

fuck off

u speak a lot fo sense

then there you go - is it the night itself you dislike OR Hard dance as a genre? i'm not a fan of hard dance/house/whatever - but i love the atmosphere and (most) of the punters that go to Detox

What that he has quoted me*? Or has he has asked you to do IP check?

*= I cant remember saying that but will take the credit for it as it sounds good.

so smart they got fired from their own plc

you said it to me in 2004 when I had like 6 aliases

man of seance was me fave when the delete post button used to work

I don't know the insides and outs, i just meant it's no real surprise digital was owned by a larger commercial company lol

what happened there then?

allegedly they became so successful they floated on stock market as a plc think it was ul

their plans didnt match those of the board and there was a mutual parting of waves

in common speak I think you call it "sacking"

When it comes to dates & memory your usually bang on.

I haven't been and I wouldn't go so fair point. I don't like that sort of music...

I don't really like Digital very much to be honest, but think it's ok, a reasonable venue.

What makes me laugh is that without it there would be no commercial venue and then people like Monobrow (I'm guessing that's not your real name and hence an alias too?) would have no establishment to get all anti-establishment about...

people who dont go to detox assuming they dont like the music

whatever next

can someone remind me who played hard house at the last detox???

Is it full of a mixture of kids and people that live in student houses in Fenham but are 10 years too old to live in them?

clearly as i said earlier an alias you are my friend

lets just say the youngest punter is 18 and the oldest is 57ish

last time i looked 99% of the crowd didnt live in funham.

you cant sustain a night with only the people / stereotypes you talk of

welcome to the board!

although, i probably am 10 years too old.

Overall - i've been to 2 Christmas parties i've been to this year = 2 i've been sick at and 2 i've made an arse of myself at

don't worry about it! I've been to 1 christmas party with much the same result! and I'm much younger than you are..

An alias of who?

Surely someone new is entitled to think you are a cock...