If you were/are a student. Who headlined your freshers week do?

[laptop]

Probably.
Might have been later.
I had memory... thingy.​

 

[treefrog]

The QMU had Snow Patrol, the GUU had *cough* B*Witched on the same night. Oddly enough the QM was utterly packed, but I still thought SP were anodyne crap before they hit the big time...

 

[maes]

Big Brovaz...

Not going in boycott of their appalling spelling

 

[herman]

Bad Manners

 

[Fuzzy]

from memory i think we had Bjorn Again, the abba tribute band.

 

[Buds and Spawn]

Mega City 4 and The Pixies...

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Mega City 4 and The Pixies...

Spawny get. ( not the MC4 mind )

 

[Mr T]

from memory i think we had Bjorn Again, the abba tribute band.

We've got them on Saturday. We've had Chesney Hawkes the last two years on the saturday night so hopefully this will be better(!) We had Dave Pearce and Colin Murray from Radio 1 on Tuesday night and school disco tonight I'm not a fresher but who cares

 

[Stigmata]

Gosh, you're not at Kent are you?

Apparently, we also have someone called Sharon Woolfe, the singer from Shanks & Bigfoot (the one's that did "Sweet Like Chocolate Boy").

Is it open to non-freshers? Because I couldn't really enjoy my fresher's week at Kent, I was busy desperately trying to make friends.

 

[Kitty Schmitty]

Is it open to non-freshers? Because I couldn't really enjoy my fresher's week at Kent, I was busy desperately trying to make friends.

I think it's open to all UKC students but apart from that I don't know. Bradley is outside in the "flirt" tent in the Elliot car park, and the rest seems to be all going on in the Venue. They have got really anal about allowing non-students into the Venue recently, so if you are no longer a student there you may have some trouble getting in.

More here - http://www.kentunion.co.uk

Good luck and enjoy yourself though if you do manage to go.

 

[pogofish]

One college had Runrig, supported by a dire band in Batman suits. The pair of them however were completely upstaged by a lady snake-dancer whose performance opened quite a few eyes that night!

The next place had Hawkwind, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts & IIRC, a prog band called Twelfth Night. Quite some evening that, very wasted & HW were promptly hired back for the end-of year gig as well.

 

[Chorlton]

Mega City 4 and The Pixies...

i was wondering if ours was MC4 - was that at Liverpool?

 

[Chorlton]

One college had Runrig, supported by a dire band

jebus! - i got caught up in a hogmany crush once as princess street tried to evacuate itself on seeing runrig take to the stage...

 

[pogofish]

I've had to evacuate certain blind-drunk members of Runrig to the arse-end of one of the worst estates here after they played. Their manager & offices were near neighbours of mine once!

 

[Chorlton]

I've had to evacuate certain blind-drunk members of Runrig ...

i heard about that... some of them took the high road and others took the low road?


yeah, thats mine... the badly fittin dunnes stores Snorkel affair...

 

[pogofish]

The very low road! At that time (& AFAIK still?) the manager had her office in one of the dodgiest blocks in one of the tawdriest streets in the city. Wild times ensued!

 

[pilchardman]

We didn't have bands for freshers week.

But Stirling had Zigue Zigue Sputnik at one point during my time there.

 

[Oxpecker]

Racing Cars. I think.

Or it could have been Viv Stanshall.

Hardly interchangeable I know, but it was a loooooong time ago

 

[Buds and Spawn]

Spawny get. ( not the MC4 mind )

They didn't play together anyway - two seperate gigs. I was a big fan of both bands at the time, so spawny indeed!!

i was wondering if ours was MC4 - was that at Liverpool?

This was Exeter 1990. For the sake of accuracy I think the Pixies gig was a couple of weeks into term... it's all a big blur now...

 

[ChrisFilter]

Miss Dynamite, UCL, 2001

 

[Wintermute]

Preston, 1995: Coolio

Gangster-muthafuckin-rapper-badass-type arrives on stage, shouts "who's got the weed" and "thow yer joints on stage". Cue loads of studenty-northern-fizzy-larger-drinking-types all shouting "Fuck off and buy yer own, yer reet bugger"

 

[chooch]

Edwin Starr, I think. Local boy, as he was by then.

 

[grosun]

This was Exeter 1990. For the sake of accuracy I think the Pixies gig was a couple of weeks into term... it's all a big blur now...

Argh, dammit... that was the gig I passed up... a mate of mine was in Exeter, but I was going to see either Carter USM or the Farm a couple of weeks later, so thought I'd give it a miss

<kicks self repeatedly for the next 15 years>

 

[Buds and Spawn]

You missed out. The Pixies were awesome - and it's the only gig I've been too where I've been picked up off the ground and moved rapidly from one side of the venue to the other and back again by sheer mass of numbers...

Most peculiar, but a lot of fun nonetheless

 

[ChocolateTeapot]

I think it was The Wedding Present and The House of Love. Missed both of them anyway: was to busy ogling like a wee boy in a sweet shop. Mate came downstairs and said "What did you think of that then?" I said "Oh, have they been on already?"

CT

 

[1927]

Edwin Starr, I think. Local boy, as he was by then.

Lived nearTamworth didnt he,Polesworth?

 

[miss giggles]

No idea. I was far too busy throwing up in the ladies sink

 

[yardbird]

Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger--Ask your Dad.
Na.... ask your grandad!

 

[chio]

The posters have just gone up here for this year's do.

It's Scott "who?" Mills off Radio 1. Who in their right mind is going to pay £19, not to see even the worst calibre of musician, but to see a dee-jay from "the nation's favourite" talking shit?!

 

[dweller]

we had Bad Manners in 1990 at the QMU Glasgow,
fuckin' great!!!