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University of Bradford Bars
Student Central has several bars on its Entertainments Mall level, all serving the best student-priced drinks found in Bradford as well as snacks and food, and providing great entertainment from pool tables to gaming machines and live sport, alongside quizzes, karaoke and live comedy.

The University at present runs five bars of which are all used by the Union. The main ones are held in the Student Central building and are called the The Amp Bar, The Central Bar, The Sports Bar and Escape. The second is in the University Theatre, Theatre in the Mill. With a recent re-brand of the campus bars the traditional FND which was formally held every Friday has been renamed to Little Big Fridays. A proposed non alcoholic bar is due to open in September 2016 providing a larger range of drinks available to students. This will be the only on campus milkshake bar and will be at the heart of the bars.

History of The University Bars

The main bar was called the Courtyard, and was open every day of the week. Formerly known as JBs and The Mainline, it had a Sunday night quiz (now held in The Sports Bar) and also hosted the 'Junior Common Room', although this term was not widely used in recent years. The other three main bars were all club venues; Colours and The Basement (the two larger venues), and Escape (the smallest), were open most nights for a variety of music. All three club venues combined to form the Friday Night Disco (FND) which was renamed Flirt! in 2007 to come inline with the NUSSL Branding but reverted to Friday Night Disco (FND) in 2009 The Biko Bar (named after Steve Biko), which was located in the Richmond Building, permanently closed in 2005, before the name was adopted as the name of the boardroom in the temporary Student Centre building and then the name of a room in Student Central

After the end of the 08/09 academic year, the Courtyard, Escape, Colours and the Basement were all shut down, allowing renovation of the Communal Building area they resided in to get underway. Club nights were hosted at the non-campus venue Walkabout[22] until the parent company went into administration in October 2009. The night was then held at CoCo Crystal next door until the end of that academic year. The campus bars and venues then re-opened in September 2010. The clubs were host to irregular live music and bands, and to the UK's annual music festival Infest,[23] which was started in early 1998 by three students and the union Entertainments Manager. Infest returned in 2010 when the building re-opened.