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Image description: black silhouettes in front of a purple lit club room The pulsating music sweeps in and crashes like a sonic wave breaking on the beach of Oxford night life. The multicoloured lights shimmer and swirl, fading from greens and blues to red and pink hues. In a disjointing contrast the disco floor throbs […]
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Image description: A blurry photo of the inside of a night club If there’s one thing this year has taught us, it’s that there’s truth to the cliché that ‘you don’t know what you have until it’s gone’. Whether that be adventures abroad, celebrating with family, or pub quizzes that actively discourage the use of […]
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With Oxford’s nightlife set to return from the 21st June onwards, here are the key events for what will be a huge couple of weeks. Don’t be put off by the number already sold out, there are still tickets up for grabs for some of the best nights, on sale now or on sale soon! […]
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m a sucker for a night out. I dreamt in lockdown of Fever’s fluffy faux-velvet walls, those sweaty mirrors dripping with condensation, those unexpectedly Bacchic Tuesday nights in Michaelmas and Hilary. As great as it was to actually have a fully-fledged social life in my first year, full of thrills and […]
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Sarah Alford challenges the popular perception of the clubbing scene I went to a Freshers’ clubbing night on Wednesday. Not the sort of anecdote I expected to be telling, for I would ascribe the same amount of enjoyment experienced on a night out as to what I feel during collections I haven’t revised for. But […]
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“Burning down the house”, a popular club night, will be moving from The Cellar to Cirkus, a new nightclub opened on George Street. This decision follows a recent fire risk assessment which has meant that the capacity of the club has had to be restricted severely, since the fire escape was not considered adequately safe […]
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At the start of 2018, The Cellar have revealed that the head landlord of their premises off Cornmarket Street are looking to redevelop the site into retail space, leaving the venue’s future uncertain. In a statement released on Facebook on the 28th of August, the Cellar described the news as “devastating… not just for the […]
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Ah, the Oxford clubbing scene. A veritable assortment of packed floors, questionable music transitions, and suspiciously cheap drinks. Despite what you may have heard about clubbing here, there really is something for everyone. Trial and error, as with so many things, is probably your best bet. So, with Freshers’ Week looming, allow me to run you through the selection on offer. […]
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We did attempt to get some food at Wahoo before it closed for good (yes, it sounded weird as we said it) but apparently they haven’t served solids for a couple of months now. They were putting up pumpkins and stringing cobwebs across the bar when we arrived at 5pm, and told us to come […]
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A group of students from St Peter’s JCR have bought the Wahoo sign after raising £400 in less than four hours from a ‘gofundme’ crowdfunding page. The group of students – led by Anna Harris, George Fagan, James Povey and Rob Smillie – approached the club yesterday, who responded almost immediately with the quoted price. […]
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Wahoo, who tragically passed this weekend, was undeniably the real MVP of Oxford’s Holy Trinity (Park End and Bridge, obviously). Home to your weekly questionable last-minute decision (“I guess we could go out”), Wahoo made a name for itself through the dogged determination of the college Shuffle reps, desperate to plug ‘RETOX’ Fridays. Despite its […]
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Yes Heels may make you feel fab and glamorous when you’re getting ready in the comfort of your own room, but fifteen minutes into your night out and you’ll be dreaming of sitting on the sofa in front of the TV and begging your friends to sit down for a minute in the club. Trainers […]
Continue ReadingHouse music has increased in popularity in recent years and is particularly big among university students across the country. It differs to other music in the sense that a whole night, in a certain club, will be deemed a ‘house night’, specifically catering for the tastes of the group of people in attendance. In this […]
Continue ReadingAfter a crew date, formal, bop or as a celebratory ending to an essay crisis, everyone’s heading to ‘The Bridge’ on a Thursday night. This much you already know. So what are the major fashion clans in Bridge, and which will take dominance as Trinity Term rolls around? ‘Post-library’ chic So, you’ve finally heard […]
Continue ReadingUniversity is to alcohol what an essay is to an all-nighter: undoubtedly at some point in your student life the two will come together, and no one will be able to stop it from getting messy. Even for those of you who prefer to party lightly on a sugar high of coke and lemonade, a […]
Continue ReadingEstablishing yourself as one of the connoisseurs of the Oxford clubbing scene is doubtless one of the priorities in the opening weeks of our university careers. This, of course, cannot be achieved without the support of those essential killer outfits. The enduring question uttered amongst budding friendships from the first evening of freshers’ week well […]
Continue ReadingWith the looming prospect of Freshers’ Week in all its overhyped glory comes the even darker thought of its fancy dress themes, the darkest of which is arguably the unashamedly crude Traffic Light Party. Not only is the idea of ‘stop’, ‘go’ and ‘maybe if you buy me thirty shots of Sourz’ (the verdancy of […]
Continue ReadingBefore all of you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshlings descend upon Oxford for Freshers’ Week, what to wear to the inevitable plethora of club nights will no doubt be at the forefront of your mind. Advice from fresher veterans of yesteryear will be ringing in your ears: ‘wear comfy shoes’, ‘only wear, or take out, items […]
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