Competitions
Let's face it, Oxford students are a young, sparkly-toothed bunch. We see the sights, see our mates and feel all right on almost an hourly basis. What better way to express this jubilation than by entering our fantastic, celebrity fuelled competition and winning yourself a boheme classical guitar signed by Britpop legends Supergrass?
Supergrass was born out of a near total failure in real occupations. A factory worker (Gaz Coombes), plunger-dishwasher (Mick Quinn), dinner lady (Danny Goffey) and astrophysicist (Robert Coombes) came together to create some of the catchiest tunes the 1990s brought us.
Formed in 1994, the band had a string of major UK hits, and their cheeky post-punk vignettes to the madness of human existence were regularly found in the Now That's What I Call Music compilations.
With three platinum selling albums - I Should Coco in 1995, In It For The Money in 1997, and Supergrass (aka The X-ray Album) in 1999 - behind them, Supergrass released their fourth album, Life On Other Planets, in 2002.
They themselves were bright-eyed students at Oxford, smashing up Christ Church in their youthful, fameless days.
Now though, the group simply grind their instruments, thrashing out memorably upbeat chirrups and living out their days with rocking attitudes. However, The Oxford Student has enticed them to pick up their pens once more, to sign this über-cool acoustic guitar. And it could soon be propped up in your student pad.
All we're asking you to do is to take on some seismic Supergrass style craziness in our superb term-long competition.
Each week we'll print a segment of a well known album cover, and you simply need to work out the artist and album title, rack up the answers and, most importantly, keep them secure. In our final issue of the term (seventh week), you should surge forth to HMV, grab that week's CD, and perform the stupidest action you can think of (with said CD) for everyone to see. Get yourselves some photographic evidence, and hand it in to HMV along with your solutions. The craziest individual, as judged by the even crazier Editors of The Oxford Student, gets the guitar. Simple stuff.
So, in the name of good, clean creative genius, indie kids and eBay entrepeneurs unite, rack your brains and CD collections, and decipher that cover!
"We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now."
The immortal words of Richard E. Grant in Withnail & I, surely the greatest loved film by students in Oxford.
In the vein of Withnail and Marwood, we're celebrating nothing in particular by giving away this £80 magnum of Brut Grand Reserve Champagne, laid down for five years and packaged in a wooden presentation case. The bumper bearing of booze is available to anyone who can answer the simplest of questions about the cult film.
To win the bottle of Champers, just answer the following simple question: Who plays 'I' in 'Withnail and I'?
Send your answer, name and college to editors@oxfordstudent.com by Sunday midday and you could be downing the bubbly with some mates by Sunday evening. Usual rules apply and the Editors' decision is final.
By answering a simple question, you could be one of the lucky winners of our five sets of tickets to see Shark Tale at the Phoenix Picture House next Thursday, a day before the official release, courtesy of The Daily Telegraph Movie Mania.
Oscar (Will Smith) is a fast-talking little fish who dreams big. But his big dreams land him in hot water when a great white lie turns him into an unlikely hero. At first, his fellow fish swallow Oscar's story hook, line and sinker and he is showered with fame and fortune. But Oscar is finding out that being a hero comes at a Market Price when his lie threatens to make him the Catch of the Day. Now he has to tread water until he can get the scales to tip back in his favour again.
Shark Tale stars the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and Martin Scorsese.
To win one of the five double tickets we have to this film, simply answer the following question:
Which student radio station is at the centre of controversy regarding a promotion campaign last year?
Send your answer, name and college to editors@oxfordstudent.com by Sunday midday and you and a friend could be off to the Phoenix Picture House in Jericho. Usual rules apply and the Editors' decision is final.
6th Oct 2004