Opening its doors in 1998, Mint Club has served as a taste-making torch bearer for a club scene considered by many as the UK's No.2 for house and techno.

Pretty much level peggings with Manchester — behind only London — Leeds' nightlife has continued to snowball, spawning clubs left, right and centre as the city's infectious enthusiasm for clubbing has spread, passing down to multiple generational waves of students succumbing to the addictive allure of the 4/4.

Mint Club has been at the very core of it, the nucleus of the whole operation, its tight network of industrious promotions — Louche, System, Teknicolour — and its Watergate-inspired LED-ceiling serving to provide some of the iconic images in modern UK clubbing history in recent years. With the launch of its larger brother (Mint Warehouse) and a full-blown festival last September, Mint Club's reign of fury is set to continue.