The landlord of a Yorkshire bar has found a simple way of stopping visits from boisterous stag and hen dos: telling everyone to stay quiet.

FortyFive Vinyl Café is inspired by a specific type of establishment found in the US city of Nashville.

Owner Ian Reid, 63, opened up the site in January last year after retiring from the world of banking without any prior experience of running a venue.

He said there are mainly two kinds of bars in Tennessee’s Music City – ‘honky-tonks’ and ‘listening rooms’.

The FortyFive Vinyl Café is a listening room, he explained, meaning it regularly hosts live performances… but not the kind where the crowd is on its feet and yelling out the words.

Ian said: ‘When we have events, it’s all ticketed. We don’t allow hen dos or stag dos. This is a listening room,

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