BLUF Bristol Announce Dates for Bristol Leather Weekend

LeatherWest reporter Chris Malford reports on BLUF Bristol, who have announced two events for the first ever Bristol Leather Weekend. Now organising their seventh meet to come to the City, the group have also announced their first dining event.

BLUF Bristol will be three years old at the Leather Weekend so it seems timely for the group to enter into a venture to celebrate their birthday event. Reputably started as an informal conversation around a table (“Could BLUF work here?”), the local BLUF chapter has gone from strength-to-strength in their first three years.

Gaining a strong reputation in the LeatherWest region, BLUF Bristol meets have attracted a following from the rest of the UK (as far as Scotland and Northern Ireland) as well going ‘international’ with visiting BLUF men from Spain, France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

Entry is strict to these BLUF events, I know from being a guest previously to cover them for the website. It’s “members and registered guests of members only who adhere to the strict dresscode” (says the BLUF website) which is vigorously enforced on the door. This ensures a wall-to-wall leather clad event straight out of a Tom of Finland picture: a sea of Muir caps; a bar filled with fully dressed leather men right down to ties and those incredibly horny tall to-the-knee boots, clasping their pints with a gloved hand.

As usual, BLUF say that non-members are welcome. Men wanting to join this highly anticipated BLUF meet should contact the BLUF organisers. They will be able to help and advise entry, as long as you can comply to the dresscode.

In addition, the BLUF Bristol Dinner is a new event. Popular at Leather Pride events such as Folsom Europe (Berlin), Amsterdam Leather Pride and in Antwerp, the format is being brought to Bristol for the first time and is thought to tbe the first time a BLUF dinner has been held in the UK.

Mark, Langlitz Leather Cop, who is organising the dinner said to LeatherWest that the “guys really wanted something to mark the birthday during the Bristol Leather Weekend, in addition to our usual meet during this new style Leather Pride event in the UK.”

The dinner is being held at The Retreat Bar & Grill, on West Street, in the heart of the leatherman’s stomping ground of Old Market. Service starts at 9pm. Tickets only available via the BLUF.com website. Non-members again welcome but remember that dresscode applies. Contact Langlitz Leather Cop for deatils .

Luckily, I have the gear and I’ll be attending both to cover the events for the LeatherWest blog.