I think there was some confusion here, anothe poster said I would have to hire security etc and bar staff, but i think you're right that this would not be the case if im meerly arranging an event there. I'm usually up central, so thank you for the offer.
I am speaking to event organiser / DJ at SE1 and he has told me it took them a long time to gain large enough marketing base to rent SE1 etc.
As for UCL, I am heading into my final year. Failed to get an internship this year so i'm looking for some good projects to boost my CV for next year applications. What did you study at UCL out of interest?
You certainly won't be hiring security or bar staff. SE1 is a big venue to fill and requires massive marketing. I did Information Management, graduated 2008. You would have been been at school when I did my big student stuff, my first year just consisted of going out EVERY night, making a lot of contacts in the process and I used this to my benefit in my second year massively. Promoting is very lucrative if you are popular and use it to your advantage, I was promoting some of the biggest nights every week for that entire year to the point where Rough Hill (which is one of the biggest event companies in the UK) would put my branding (whiteguestlist) on their websites, flyers and I was loving it.
Vodka Island Monday at On Anon was the first proper night I started with, we would ram out that place every week to the point where it get so busy that police gave the club warnings that there were too many people coming out of the club at 3am so we were forced to shut down that night and move Vodka Island Mondays to Tiger Tiger Haymarket which was also turned into a weekly success. They brought me in to help give their Tuesday night at the Loop a big push start and we soon made it the weekly Tuesday night that everyone wanted to go to. We later went back to On Anon and started a weekly Thursday night there but it was never as busy as the Mondays used to be. There was also a weds night at Strawberry Moons which never really picked up to be honest, weds was always sports nights and ministry.
I bloody loved that time of uni, it was possibly the best thing i've ever done and been involved in. For that year I was their number one promoter and was organising about on average about 12 birthdays a week plus all the regular guests, I was a pretty well known character throughout that year which is obviously one of the byproducts of working in that industry!
Excellent when you are at uni as the perks are great, no queuing up at your nights, you and all your mates in for free when there is a queue of 100 or so people waiting to get in and then competitor promotion companies start to take interest as well and want you to work with them so you end up getting into their nights for free too because they want to sweeten you up!
I know i've gone off on one, but just reminiscing how awesome those times were
I'd definitely give it a go if I were you, but remember 3rd year is quite an important year for you and it's the reason why I stopped my promoting, plus the fact that it's only really fun when you go out a lot yourself, once in third year we didn't go out as much as we used to
