Bringing the beat back to the High Street could resurrect Kirkcaldy as Fife’s favourite nightspot, the town’s leading councillor has said.
A recent meeting of community and enterprise leaders has suggested that businesses from Kirkcaldy’s night-time economy group together to promote the Lang Toun as a destination for diners and revellers.
It follows the closure this week of another popular nightspot in the town, with the restaurant and bar Fifty High Street closing its doors after its owner said he could no longer commit time to running the venue.
That comes just a fortnight after another town centre eaterie, Red, located on Tolbooth Street, closed its doors citing a “continuous down trade in business.”
However, members of the Kirkcaldy’s Ambitions Partnership, a local group that aims to promote the town, has suggested that a collective approach may be what the town needs to bring people back in the evenings.
Mr Crooks, a representative of the body, said: “The night-time economy has been challenged by changing social habits.
“Our conclusions were that to survive and prosper those businesses needed to form a network and to provide a pallet of choices related to music, entertainment and food and collectively market themselves as a branded group.
“Kirkcaldy was the live music venue in the 60s and 70s.
“Is there an appetite for Bootleg Beatles and touring oldies like The Hollies, Showaddywaddy and the like?
“Competition for a dwindling market isn’t helping anyone so innovation and networking may be the way to turn the tide.”