SU club night scrapped after a mere five week run

This year’s new SU night, “SoundClash” has been axed just weeks after being added to the Union’s event roster.

The club night which filled the Monday night slot in the SU promised “the biggest indie rock ‘n’ roll anthems and crazy drinks offers!” as well as “only the very best in live music”.

The event was set up for local live bands to draw in a crowd before a Leadmill Friday-style club night.

Despite being a fairly original idea for an event at the SU, SoundClash hasn’t taken place since early October, in an unprecedented failure for #1 SU in the country.

The reason for the event’s cancellation hasn’t been confirmed by the SU or the event’s organisers who declined to comment, but it is clear that low attendances and a complete lack of comprehensive promotion for the Monday night indie rock party were a major contributing factor.

Having tracked down some of the rare few who attended one of the nights, it is clear that the night was widely under-appreciated.

English second-year Jess Smith said: “According to the bouncer’s counter there were 63 people in there when we arrived at 11:45, but there was nowhere near that number actually there.

“Apparently a party of 100 that had booked tickets had failed to show, and more people were there for the live bands earlier on.”

Lively

Traumatised second-year Economist Matt adds: “The highlights of the night include a two-person dance-off mesmerising literally the entire room, as well as some guy getting his dick out in ‘When The Sun Goes Down.”

The “crazy” drinks offers of £3.50 double and mixer were twice the price of the same drink in Leadmill on a Friday, Sheffield’s more well-known haunt for indie kids, and £1.50 more than the ever-reliant Monday mega-party that is DQ.

Tragic

With a playlist comprising only of strong indie tunes including Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, Joy Division, and the Courteeners, it’s hard to blame the music.

Politics and International Relations second-year Aidan complained: “The music was good, but the atmosphere was not worthy of the tunes being thrown down by the DJ”

Basically SoundClash turned about to be a car crash. A well-playlisted flop of only five weeks. And you definitely didn’t even notice it had gone anywhere.