Summer Ball 2010

OrionsBelt · 13-04-2010 01:13AM #1

Seen the email from Melanie today about the Summer Ball. any details of what will be involved. Any decent acts?

also, just an idea, but if it going to be a beach party theme, can some area of campus actually become a beach, like put lots of sand on the green infront of the HUB maybe

Urizen · 13-04-2010 01:24AM

OrionsBelt wrote: »

also, just an idea, but if it going to be a beach party theme, can some area of campus actually become a beach, like put lots of sand on the green infront of the HUB maybe

You think the SU are made of money?

Ha, been waiting WEEKS for an excuse to say that!

Gothamite · 13-04-2010 01:37AM

Does anyone really care about 'great acts' any more though? I think the biggest events in recent times have proven that if anything, students just want a well coordinated night with lots of drinks promotions and different styles of music in each room. Gimmicks like those oxygen things at the RAG ball, the omnipresent silent-disco and the occasional bucking bronco are fun too.

I'm quite happy to pay a tenner and have a great time and have plenty of money left to spend on drinks, rather than spent €50 (or whatever UCD are charging, I don't care) in order to see Jedward who (if I was masochistic enough) I could have seen in the Helix a week ago.

Nekro Man · 13-04-2010 11:28AM

Gothamite wrote: »

Gimmicks like those oxygen things at the RAG ball, the omnipresent silent-disco and the occasional bucking bronco are fun too.

The bronco was epic last year, till every hammered joe soap rushed at it the second someone fell off

g5fd6ow0hseima · 13-04-2010 12:53PM

Gothamite wrote: »

different styles of music in each room

I dont think so

carlowboy · 13-04-2010 04:04PM

OrionsBelt wrote: »

Seen the email from Melanie today about the Summer Ball. any details of what will be involved. Any decent acts?

also, just an idea, but if it going to be a beach party theme, can some area of campus actually become a beach, like put lots of sand on the green infront of the HUB maybe

Did that 2 years ago, it was good fun.

Nekro Man · 13-04-2010 04:06PM

carlowboy wrote: »

Did that 2 years ago, it was good fun.

is it feasible tho? would there not be a massive clean up after? is the chance of a repeat of this years paint party to likely/fresh in peoples minds?

carlowboy · 13-04-2010 04:31PM

Nekro Man wrote: »

is it feasible tho? would there not be a massive clean up after? is the chance of a repeat of this years paint party to likely/fresh in peoples minds?

Can't see why not. Unless of course they lost a lot of money what with the rag ball not selling out.

Nekro Man · 13-04-2010 04:33PM

carlowboy wrote: »

Can't see why not. Unless of course they lost a lot of money what with the rag ball not selling out.

unless? from what i heard (and this is what i heard, not fact) they were selling rag tickets on the door this year. I couldnt go because it was too expensive for me but i did go last year and tickets were like hens teeth for it.

douglashyde · 13-04-2010 04:54PM

Was it last year's summer ball that the strippers wrestled in the jelly?

Nekro Man · 13-04-2010 04:55PM

douglashyde wrote: »

Was it last year's summer ball that the strippers wrestled in the jelly?

that was a rugby shindig, toga night unless i'm mistaken

douglashyde · 13-04-2010 05:35PM

Nekro Man wrote: »

that was a rugby shindig, toga night unless i'm mistaken

ohhh yeah, now i remember. that was an interesting night

manlad · 14-04-2010 08:49AM

calvin harris confirmed at Carlow I.Ts summer ball surely we should be able to compete in some way with that

discus · 14-04-2010 09:33AM

manlad wrote: »

calvin harris confirmed at Carlow I.Ts summer ball surely we should be able to compete in some way with that

CH "DJ sets" are ****e tbh. Not worth seeing.

manlad · 14-04-2010 11:00AM

discus wrote: »

CH "DJ sets" are ****e tbh. Not worth seeing.

I can sumwhat agree with you but Calvin Harris compared to who we had last year (think it was swamp thing or sumtin)would be a big improvement. I'm more glad to see its a summer theme at least this year so not too worried bout who plays. Party shorts at the ready!

YourName · 14-04-2010 04:12PM

It says beach party on the posters around campus, does that mean we could soon see a few tonnes of sand backing up into DCU ! ? ! ? ! ?

OrionsBelt · 15-04-2010 12:02AM

YourName wrote: »

It says beach party on the posters around campus, does that mean we could soon see a few tonnes of sand backing up into DCU ! ? ! ? ! ?

thats already been asked in the thread. would be fitting for a beach party. put down a big sheet of plastic and put the sand on top that way there's no clean up.

as for the cost, sure get alan keegan to do a few trips back and forth to a beach to load up his car and there you have it, free sand

GLaDOS · 15-04-2010 12:59AM

OrionsBelt wrote: »

as for the cost, sure get alan keegan to do a few trips back and forth to a beach to load up his car and there you have it, free sand

Heh, suspect there might be laws against that

Nekro Man · 15-04-2010 11:31AM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Heh, suspect there might be laws against that

i want to see someone up in court on charges of sand theft... who would the prosecution be? erosion?

GLaDOS · 15-04-2010 04:06PM

Nekro Man wrote: »

i want to see someone up in court on charges of sand theft... who would the prosecution be? erosion?

For environmental reasons, they had to seek permission earlier in the year for using beach sand for salting the road http://alanshaw.ie/?p=347

douglashyde · 15-04-2010 04:47PM

I don't imagine that it would be beach sand.

Plastic sheet idea is good; however I see things getting messy when some lads decide they want to build a sand castle and realise that they need to wet the sand first!

Urizen · 15-04-2010 05:11PM

Does no one remember the sand two years ago? And the various and disgusting problems that went with it?

I talk, of course, of people using it as a giant human litter tray. And various cats also following this example.

Sand is a bad idea.

Einstein? · 16-04-2010 01:43PM

redbrick + ...sand?

..no

one a the lads like ! · 17-04-2010 10:51PM

I'd love to see a beech party above. Would be serious craic. How can we have a beech theme without sand like?

Generally these events in DCU are quite poor. IMO the social scene here is terrible. It seems people only go to dcu to win a sigerson or make it to the olympics.

public_enemy · 17-04-2010 11:40PM

one a the lads like ! wrote: »

It seems people only go to dcu to win a sigerson or make it to the olympics.

Yep, that's why I'm here anyway. It's the thought of having that gold medal around my neck that gets me through all these sandless Summer Balls.

Urizen · 18-04-2010 12:11AM

Dude, if you have such problems, the Union are more than happy to accept suggestions. Don't just sit there and whine that there's no social life. Which there is. In abundance. This ball being a prime example.

Sod'o swords · 18-04-2010 02:52AM

one a the lads like ! wrote: »

Generally these events in DCU are quite poor. IMO the social scene here is terrible. It seems people only go to dcu to win a sigerson or make it to the olympics.

I read people saying this before, how the social life's terrible, load of rubbish really. I'm in first year CA, which is possibly the worst course ever for anything social related, tell a girl you're in it and you may as well take a dump in her handbag. Even with this, i'm out at least twice a week with different people having a whaaaaale of a time.

It's what you make it, find friends, don't get stabbed and you're sorted.

As for the summer Ball, even with unkown generic acts, it'll be a hoot.

gizmo · 18-04-2010 02:58AM

Exactly, as the 'ol FAQ for the forum says...

Is DCU any Fun?
This question is asked repeatedly here by CAO candidates when considering their choice of college/university. The most common response is that: "College is what you make of it". If you want to go to DCU to party, you will find yourself partying. DCU is neither boring nor lacks social life. People are boring and lack social lives. DCU contains some of these people. Other colleges contain some of these people. Other colleges contain people who party hard. DCU contains people who party hard.

Couldn't agree with that more.

carlowboy · 18-04-2010 06:38PM

one a the lads like ! wrote: »

I'd love to see a beech party above. Would be serious craic. How can we have a beech theme without sand like?

Generally these events in DCU are quite poor. IMO the social scene here is terrible. It seems people only go to dcu to win a sigerson or make it to the olympics.

Yeah because all 10,000 students went here with a view to being an athlete.:rolleyes:

Benny Lava · 19-04-2010 12:24PM

Exotic Cocktail Bar!

Tazer · 21-04-2010 12:00PM

Tickets are sold out I heard..

Summer Ball 2010

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