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Having held our elections earlier tonight, your new committee for next year will be:

Andrew Stafford-President

Ciaran McManus-VP Events

Adam 'Gracie' Grace-VP Tech

Aaron Bali-VP Advertising

Sally Ford-Social Sec

James Dalziel-PEJ Manager

Aisha Rasool-Band Manager

Congratualtions one and all!  The new committee will be shadowing their predecessors from now until the EVA's in May when they will take over full time.

Here we are guys, that time again.

A time for change.

A time when you can have YOUR say!

COme down on the 9th and vote in the committee, or join it!

Also, we have a great night at the soul cellar coming up, showcasing the finest that Southampton and Portsmouth universities have to offer. Would be great to see some supporting faces down there!!!

Andrew xx

Hi there guys!

Hope exams have gone well for all of you and you've enjoyed the freedom of the last few days! If you want to spend some of that freedom listening to some live acoustic acts then this is the week for you!

Coming up on Tuesday we have the first open mic of the new year, where you can see some familiar faces and hopefully some new ones, with the usual great variety of styles.

Also, everyday this week, between 2.30 and 4.30, we are providing live music in the CU marquee on campus, and the best of Livesoc's musical talent will be taking to the stage!

Finally, and excitingly, on Friday, we have our latest pubcrawl - theme cliques, so get yourselves chavved/gothed/emoed up and join us for a night in Portswood. No doubt taking in a bit of live music on the way!

Much Love

LiveSoc

Hello from LiveSoc!!! I know we've been fairly quiet since the start of term, but never fear, we will be starting up again with our usual enthusiasm after exams. We wouldn't want you to hold us responsible for missing revision now would we?

There will be plenty to look forward to over the next term, including some gigs that we're quite excited about, and of course, more great music at our regular acoustic night and jams. Also keep an eye out for what is promised to be the top selling live music based society calendar of the year, coming soon - catch the committee becoming their idols in funny and often embarrassing ways (and outfits)!

Look forward to seeing you all at a gig soon, and good luck in exams!

Love

LiveSoc

Hey guys,

We hope you have a brilliant Christmas break, with plenty of presents and mulled wine! We'll be back in the New Year with plenty more live music for you - our regular events plus a few special extras!

Spreading LiveSoc love and Christmas cheer,

Emma (VP Ads)

So, less than a month until the start of Christmas holidays, but there is plenty to do if you love live music!

On Sunday 22nd, we have a Jam at the Boiler House at 1.00pm, and a gig starting at 8.00pm, where we will see some bands new to the uni, and some old favourites. With Long Shore Drift, Midnight Sun and Echos of Spheres

On Wednesday 25th, we will be heading down to 90 degrees in town where we are putting on the fantastic Indigo Sun for a night that promises to be truly brilliant!

On Tuesday 1st December we are hosting our final Living Room open mic of 2009! Promises to be great and a few festive faves are bound to appear!

After all that, there is still loads to see. At the Boiler House on the 6th December, we will be seeing the Xmas Battle Of The Bands, which again promises to be a great night!

Don't forget to keep an eye on the facebook page and here for updates on great events forthcoming!!!!

A massive congratulations to everyone who showed up to our Cancer Research fundraiser at the Hobbit, you'll be pleased to know we managed to raise £165 for a very good cause! Also, a huge thank you to the bands who played: The New Decibels, Used Inc and Fighting Fiction - the night wouldn't have been anywhere near as good without you.

So week one of our FRESHERFEST 09 is done and out the way, and what a fantastic week it was. 

Monday saw RAGfest take over the concourse and provide us with plenty of wonderful entertainment both in the marquee and from societies performing outside, all the while raising money and awareness for some great charities.

Tuesday brought with it the Post Grad and Monte bunfights, both of which allowed us to get loadsa sign ups for the mailing list. Then in the evening we had a smashing first gig at the Bent Brief (pictures now up) with Andrew 'Bumble' Stafford, Ciaran McManus and Rosie McCloskey giving us 3 fantastic acoustic sets.

On Wednesday we had the main bunfight in the daytime, with record numbers signing up (just under 600 by Al's count).  Evening time saw us take over 90 Degrees with a barnstorming set from Kent based soul funksters Linear Loveboxx, getting just under 200 in the door.

Thursday we took a well earned break, but on Friday we came raring back with our first social of the year, a 'plain white T's' pub crawl through Portswood, ending up at the Hobbit.  We had about 20 new faces pop along to join us, which was brilliant, and I hope you all made a load of new friends!

Finally today, we have had some people over at the Winchester bunfight while Al ran a tech training session in the Cube.  Both of these went well, aside from Phi'ls war wounds sustained after a battle with a mic stand!

Dont forget tomorrow we have a jam session during the day (1-3) at the Boiler House, the halls bar for Monte/Wessex Lane.  Then in the evening we have a smashing gig lined up for you at the Hobbit, featuring The New Decibels, Used Inc and Fighting Fiction.  First band on at 7, all finished by 10.30, its gunna be a good one, so make sure you get yourselves there!

Chris xx

So, we have a pretty mammoth month of Live music for all your enjoyment, as well as a number of various other bits and bobs in the pipeline.  Keep your eyes peeled on the events page for news on what we have going on.  Even if you aren't a fresher anymore (or like me, arent even an undergrad any more! :-( ) then still feel free to come along to all of these evenings, its called Freshersfest as it was originally intended to co-incide with freshers fortnight (before spiralling out of control and into nearly an entire month) and it would be great to see loads of faces, both familiar and new. 

Congratulations to Sam and Nicky!! May you have many happy years together :)