With its oddly complicated interior and a rather empty downstairs pool room the Purple Turtle looks and feels like the sort of place where, in a film, you would go to meet an intergalactic bounty hunter. A number of the regulars look as if that's exactly what they are there for but this contributes to a light hearted atmosphere.

By nights the Turtle becomes pretty manic with a young crowd, lashings of cheap drink and events from live music to quizzes keeping the addled masses happy.

Not the place for a date or a reunion with old friends but as a gig venue, or a spot to get completely pissed, it does the trick.