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Campus Meetups for Alt. Fresher’s Week

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Naturally, we want to meet you all in the coming week (SEE BELOW), and we’re going to make that as easy as possible, by offering meet-ups before the events. These are going to be at Derby Hall (either outside or in the bar), Broadgate (outside Londis) and Jubilee Campus (by the cash machine at the main entrance). Giving you little excuse. Be prepared to catch a bus into town, for which you’ll probably need about £1.50 in change.

The times are as follows:

Monday 7:30 pm
Tuesday 7:30 pm
Wednesday 8:00 pm
Thursday 7:30 pm
Friday 7:00 pm
Saturday Alternative tour 1:00 pm
Islands gig 7: 30 pm
Stealth Vs Rescued 9:00 pm

Hope to see you there.

08-09 Excitement!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Hello everyone! Welcome to the online home of High Society, Nottingham University’s Indie and Alternative music society. Hope your year is starting nicely. We are slogging away at Fresher’s Fayre from the 23rd to the 25th. Please come and visit us to lift our spirits!

We have discounts for the coming year - our card promises you:

£4 entry before 12pm for stealth Vs Rescued (usually £6)
10% off at wild and wilder
Electric Banana £1 before 12pm
£1 off door price at Radar
10% off at Kathleen n Lilys
Queue Jump and discount entry to Dive and Fresh out of Death at Market Bar.
Advance-price entry to Damn You! gigs on the door.
Plus discounts and exclusives for all high soc events.

And of course we’ll keep you informed about our events, which are bound to include gigs, clubnights, bar crawls, quizzes, cinema trips, our resurrected ’Quiet Night Out,’ an upcoming ’alternative tour’ of Nottingham and (possibly?) much much more. Worth joining for next week alone? Here’s our lineup for ALTERNATIVE FRESHER’S WEEK 2008!

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, club nights, and heavy socializing opportunities, lined up in our annual Alternative-Fresher’s week.
Monday- the High Society’s legendary indie quiz at the Horn in Hand- Where you get to meet fellow high soc kids and be challenged to our fiendish quiz in order to win some fantastic prizes.

Tuesday- Quiet Night Out- Music, films, games and cake at the Crocus Café.

Wednesday- Electric Banana! (this is a clubnight, as this is not obvious and this pair of unrelated words may not speak for itself)

Thursday- High soc bar crawl were we grace some of Nottingham’s finest purveyors of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and then we’ll end up at the excellent……RADAR, where there will be high soc djs.

Friday- High soc gig at the Hand and Heart Gallery. Lonely Ghosts with support from Wrist.

Saturday- Day, the alternative tour around Nottingham, shops, tea rooms and exhibitions.
Night- Gig, Islands at the Bodega and then if that wasn’t enough Stealth Vs Rescued.

Stay tuned for the poster, as well as details for our on-campus meetups. Meanwhile, feel free to peruse the forums as we bring everything BANG up-to-date! With all the love we can muster - see you soon.

x Highsoc.

“There’s more to life than ATP” Parts One and Two

Friday, April 25th, 2008

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Incoming: Papier Tigre, Tigers! Feb 1st

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

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!

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!

Fri 9th Nov. The Family Elan and more at The Arts Organisation

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

It would be great to see a few familiar faces at this (potentially brilliant) show. It’s £4 (maybe even a High Soc

discount) and if you haven’t listened to the bands and don’t know who they are, then why not have a listen. You might be pleasantly surprised. Go to here and here for more information…
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Quiet Night Out Tomorrow (4th Nov)

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Yes, we’ve been shoddy on the communication point so we hope this isn’t too late (there are reasons why the email hasn’t gone out today). But, tomorrow night sees us entertain El Gordo’s once again. This time, a Fireworks theme (I’m led to believe), so expect slightly macho gingerbread men, sparklers (?), and general fun-filled entertainment with the usual Sunday newspapers, board games and the perfect setting to wind down your no doubt stress-induced week. Why not get baking on Sunday afternoon and share with everyone your culinary delights or bring along some records, and come DJ. Please don’t be scared to do this, we’re not going to scough at your musical taste, that’s not what Quiet Night Out is about. Oh, and mixtape’s, don’t forget, we’ll have the box there tomorrow again so get making and baking…Hope to see you there

High Soc Halloween Special….

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

All hail the genius that is James ‘Indiehorse’ Robert Birtwhistle for the poster. I think you’ll agree with us that it’s simply incredible!

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Our facebook event provides you with more information. This should be a night to remember. It’s upstairs at the I-Bar (which is easily found (map) just down from Pelham Street, on the right before you turn left to go towards Broadway/Lee Rosy’s. We hope you can make it down, it’s going to be quite an evening that’s for sure…

SJ Esau & Monster Bobby @ The Maze, £4

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Supernight presents…

FRIDAY 28th SEPTEMBER @ The Maze, Mansfield Road

SJ ESAU (Anticon)
His biog reads like a pack of lies - freestyled with Massive Attack, won DMC Rap Battles aged 12, duetted with Lou Barlow… but releases on both Twisted Nerve and now Anticon would seem to back up such outlandish claims.
What is undeniably true is that Sam makes wonderful, warped folk akin to Beck, Animal Collective and Why?
We’ve been trying to book this guy for ages and we finally got him!

www.sjesau.co.uk

MONSTER BOBBY (Hypnote)
Signed to New York’s Hypnote, Bobby writes home-spun romantic tales for the shy indie kid in all of us.
These lo-fi solo recordings are a million miles away from his work with the Pipettes, the all-girl indie pop sensations he is credited with having masterminded. Look out there’s a monster coming!

www.myspace.com/monsterbobby

DOKTOR COCACOLA MCDONALDS
The good Doktor heads to Supernight from Derby via Dublin and the Edinburgh Festival.
He has recently been spotted singing in his pants on Jimmy Carr’s DVD, popping up on BBC 3, penning ballads for Gene Hackman and abusing innocent bystanders with a battered Casio keyboard.

www.myspace.com/doktorcocacolamcdonalds

PLUS we’ll have an exclusive set from special guest DJs Midlands Dance Club

All for £4!!!

www.myspace.com/supernight

Damo Suzuki, Burning Hammer Band, Yo Chomsky, Napoleon IIIrd @ Junktion 7

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Drowned in Sound Nottingham present:

Damo Suzuki

The Burning Hammer band (featuring members of Lords and Glissando)

Yo Chomsky!

Napoleon IIIrd

+DiS DJs

@ Junktion 7, November 10th

£5 advance, £6 NUS/flier, £7 doors otherwise

Mantile presents… A Band + Filthy Turd @ The Arts Organisation

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Mantile presents…

A Band - influential Nottingham based free-noise band that has included members Neil Campbell and Richard Youngs in the past.

Filthy Turd - “The prince of UK noise” has even been named by Thurston Moore as one of his recommended listens in the NME for chrissakes. Wow.

Johnny Scarr - http://myspace.com/johnnyscarr

Friday 28th September, 8pm

The Arts Organisation, £5