The High Society

Loads of thanks to everyone who came out drinking with us (it was hard work, we know)! It was great to see you all, we hope a good time was had. But now it’s time to knock that nonsense down the page a bit.

Papier Tigre are an excellent disjointed rock trio from Nantes.

Tigers! are a fourpiece from Leeds, and also probably the most exotic species of all. We’d tell you what to expect if we adequately knew ourselves.

And one more TBC!!! The suspense is killing us too! Although we do sort of know who it is… Details here as soon as we can.

If you like the sound of that, it would naturally be lovely to see you there. The Rose of England is just up the Mansfield Road from the Victoria Centre. Keep well until Friday!

Hello all, we’ve been slack we know but isn’t that customary for January, what with exams and deadlines. We’ve been through hell and back but we promise that we have plenty in store for you all. Firstly, there are rumours of a mini bar-crawl before we head off to Radar to see The Mourning After (we’ll let you know more very soon); a superb band composed of High Soc members; we can’t wait and a great chance to meet up with old faces or come along and meet some new faces! And then we bring you acts such as Papier Tigre and Vialka in February. Go and have a listen if you find yourself wondering what to do after your exams, except from getting slightly inebriated that is (evidence below).

Hello everyone,

Just a quick (and hopefully endearing) message to those who ever read the front page (and don’t just go straight to the forums, no doubt you dare click onto that link, NO!). Anyway, the whole committee would like to say thankyou for your continued support this year. We’ve failed in parts admittedly and hope to rectify this in 2008, so stay with us but we hope you’ll agree that we’ve excelled in other areas. Whilst we don’t want to be too analytical or optimistic, we feel that next year is going to be a very special one for High Society.

We already have 3 amazing shows lined up for February and well, you should acquaint yourselves with the bands because you don’t want to miss out. The first one is at The Rose of England on the 1st February with French quirky rockers Papier Tigre (think Q and Not U, Fugazi), derby rebels Younogodie and a fucking welcome return to Nottingham for the explosive TIGERS!, it’s been too long, it really has! We can’t wait for this one and our lovely friends of Clique Clack will be helping us out with this one!

Then we have French duo Vialka on 18th February who describe themselves as “Turbo Folk Micro-Orchestra” and then, looking further afield, we look forward to hosting the rather marvellous Brooklyn-based freaky-folk collective Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities  on the 24th April. Still, if you find yourself dwelling with boredom over the festive period, why not spend some time investigating and listening to the bands, you might be in for a welcome surprise.

Anyway, without further ado, we farewell to 2007 and say hello to 2008. We have planned a whole host of events in the New Year for you, which we will keep under wraps for the time being…perhaps we’ll give them to you as a Christmas present in the next few days…(then again, perhaps not, perhaps we’ll just keeping you in suspense)

Best wishes,

Andy, Liv, Alex, Rob, Chris, Simon, Jo and Charlotte (and all the other helpers, you know who you are!)

That’s right, quite a statement we know but we think Thursday 22nd November at the Bodega Social will be some event…the poster has all the details. If you’d like to hear more then head over to our myspace where there are a few tracks up for your perusal and for the facebook fanatics click here

Thank god for that! As you may have noticed our website is back from the morgue, so get reacquainted with it, get on the forums; there’s plenty of threads to get your teeth in… none more so than this one

Our fortnightly chill-out session, Quiet Night Out relocates to Ilkeston Road this Sunday (21st October); more specifically to no. 101, El Gordo’s (map), where we’ll host you all from 8pm ’till about midnight. Meet us all, make fancy decorated “High Socks” (Get it?), eat cake, indulge ourselves in the Sunday papers, have a couple of drinks (the desperados is particularly good), and swap a mix-tape! Plus, bring along a few CDs (or records, whichever) of your own if you fancy having a go(we’ll show you how to do it), or just sit and admire a perfect Sunday night soundtrack.

ALSO, our SHOWS page has recently been updated so have a look what we have lined up for you in the future, and watch out for more additions in the next week or so…

Freshers, we have it all lined up for you in 2nd week! If you’re left unimpressed by Nottingham’s battleship-sized cheese clubs and hunger for something a bit different, we’ve got a varied diet of gigs, clubnights, and heavy socializing opportunities, all designed to help you get to know both some of the best spots in your new city and, hopefully, some of the friendlist people!

So, come and see us at Fresher’s Fayre to find out more, and stay tuned for details here at highsoc.com! (Click the calendar for the most up to date details of all events)

Before your very own eyes is the winning logo design. Twee? Of course but absolutely brilliant also…Our very own Charlotte Balnave is the victor. Thank you for all your brilliant entries, it was a closely fought affair in the end between 4 designs but we hope you like the winning design, we do! So there you have it; you’ll be seeing this on the new membership card which you can get access to by signing up again to High Society (or for the first time in the case of newbies) at this years Freshers’ Fayre for a snippet at £3.50 (Just wait until you see what we’re offering you this year at Freshers’ Fayre!) or alternatively by coming to one of our events or through contacting info@highsoc.com and we’ll try to sort something out. Anyway, who’s getting ahead of themselves here…

High Society is already thinking about next year, are you? Well, you should be too. Next year, much like last year, we want a new logo for our society, one which we can be proud of so we’re giving you (members, non-members, graduates, freshman, anybody…) the opportunity to design our new logo for us. (The logo above is last years design) There can only be one winner of course but the designs that don’t succeed (and are considered usable) will be used as designs for badges which will be available from the start of next year. The winner will receive free entry to any Nottingham gig of their own choosing (within reason) and free High Society membership for the forthcoming year (a massive saving of £3.50). So, what are you waiting for. There’s no limit to how many you can send in but the deadline is 21st July, so you’ve got a month, get doodling my friends. Send your designs to info@highsoc.com or alternatively send them to, 17 Hungerton Street, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 1HL…Email is preferable though please. If you have any problems then please do let us know…

The High Society affiliated publication and our newly SU endorsed sister society, The Mic, publishes a new issue today, covering everything you need to know about music this summer.

Frankly - wow. 2000 copies (!), half with a colour cover, half without. A total of 32 pages, crammed full of news, reviews, opinions and interviews with The Pipettes, among others. It is available from outside the SU shops and around campus. It is free, of course, silly.

This is quite simply a staggering achievement, battling against lack of money, the exam time pinch and post-Easter apathy.

Congratulations to genius of an editor Josh and his incredibly hard working team for making this all happen. Onwards to next year and bigger, brighter and even better things.