Uni grad balls

PeterNem · 12 May 2006 at 15:02

Just been to pick up tickets for the Loughborough Graduate Ball this summer.... 5 @ £49 each. This is the cheapest option, VIP tickets (£69, but including a 3 course meal in a marquee outside the union) were sold out.

Just wondering how much they charge for this kind of thing at other places.

The Union in Loughborough can hold 3,500 on a night, but supposedly they "undersell" by about 1,000 for the grad ball so it's not too crowded. So, assuming 2,500 sales at £50ish each, that's £125,000 that this event will generate in ticket sales.

I wonder how much gets ploughed back in to the event, and how much is kept back for other stuff next year.

The lineup isn't exactly my thing but should be a laugh (holywood theme)....

Rachel Stevens and Wheetus are the main two artists, along with Tabby & the Tsars and a Rat Pack trio tribute band.

Outside is a comedy tent, fairground rides, a "love chapel" (ooo-er), fireworks, fire performers etc. Elsewhere indorors are a string quartet, baloon modeller, magician, karaeoke and a Caricaturist, a casino, Paul Robinson from Neighbours and live indy music. Another room will be showing holywood classic films with another room playing RnB anthems all night ("headlining Dj" to be confirmed).

At £49 each for a ticket, £30-40 or so for Tux hire, and somewhere to stay for the night (term and therefore my tenancy will have finished) and money for alcohol it could end up being bloody expensive!!

Vonhelmet · 12 May 2006 at 15:06

Ours cost £70 without a meal. :eek:

PeterNem · 12 May 2006 at 15:07

Bloody hell, all of a sudden I feel a little better off then

Rich_L · 12 May 2006 at 15:07

At Robinson college in Cambridge a couple of years back it was £75 inclusive of food & alkyhol. Definitely got my money's worth though on both counts

DaveyD · 12 May 2006 at 15:10

Though I'm not graduating or going, the Birmingham Uni one has Rachel Stevens and Goldie Lookin Chain, and has a funfair and a few other things, that costs £59.

Mat · 12 May 2006 at 15:10

Trinity College ball for non junior members (ie undergrads) is £310 for a double dining ticket. Everything if free once youre inside afaik. You cant buy a single ticket. As a member of staff thats what I paid to take me and the missus for her birthday.

Edit: suffice to say, I will only be going the once I think.

da_mic_1530 · 12 May 2006 at 15:12

ours is £20 for a meal and shizzle, and then booze suit and transport,.....but who cares its at st james park

(newcastle fc ground) cept ours if college ball not uni

Haly · 12 May 2006 at 15:14

Got a graduation ball that's no dinner for £20. And a Summer Ball (which also has Rachel Stevens in it, 'yay') which is £40.

That's all I know. Not at all interested in either.

loopylou · 12 May 2006 at 15:16

£40, we rented out a huge field on a hill outside Pompey. One Casino tent with the university of portsmouth big band, one dance tent, one bands tent - headliners Blue who cost £40, 000. Fun fair, coaches to and from the site and champange brekkie from 4am to 8am when you got back to the union.

tom_nieto · 12 May 2006 at 15:18

I think our medics ball is in a similar vein and is in a field in Ealing. If the booze is free once you get in then I'm sold.

McDaniel · 12 May 2006 at 15:23

£32 students - no meal
£36 guest - no meal

and around £50ish for the meal and early access to the amusement rides

@ Essex

McDaniel · 12 May 2006 at 15:24

Haly said:
Got a graduation ball that's no dinner for £20. And a Summer Ball (which also has Rachel Stevens in it, 'yay') which is £40.

That's all I know. Not at all interested in either.

She came to Essex once and she touched me...

TWICE

\0/

Haly · 12 May 2006 at 15:26

McDaniel said:
She came to Essex once and she touched me...

TWICE

\0/

Lol.
I'm not really a fan

Although at least it's not Girls Aloud

*runs*

McDaniel · 12 May 2006 at 15:29

Haly said:
Lol.
I'm not really a fan
Although at least it's not Girls Aloud *runs*

whatever Hayley

Haly · 12 May 2006 at 15:29

McDaniel said:
whatever Hayley

PeterNem · 12 May 2006 at 15:30

I'm not a Rachel Stephens fan... last year they had Ash as one of the main acts.... makes we wish I didn't take a year out!!

Ekim · 12 May 2006 at 15:31

Ours (Reading Uni) is around £40a and in terms of entertainments we got:

In the 'Big Top Party Stage': Bjorn Again (Abba Tribute Act), The Real Thing (Some group I've never heard of!?), Dave Finnegan's Commitments.

In the '3Sixty Music Stage': The Rakes, Delays and The Imperial Vipers

Attractions include:

Fairground Rides, Chillout Lounge, Urban Dance Room, Catering Zone, Outside Bars, Surf Simulator, Heated Patio, Monster Truck, Ball Photographer, Survivors Photo, 6am Licence, 60 foot Bar and Street Entertainers

big_white_dog84 · 12 May 2006 at 15:32

Ours is a department one rather than faculty or uni wide.

£30 IIRC for dinner and dance. Not going. Can't wait to get out this place and I have no intention of spending any more time with screaming drunken students than I need to.

Vonhelmet · 12 May 2006 at 15:38

In other news, my 6th form ball was at the Adelphi in Liverpool. One lad got battered and ended up sleeping the night in a chair in the lobby. The hotel sent a bill for a single room to the school!

Chiribo · 12 May 2006 at 15:49

vonhelmet said:
In other news, my 6th form ball was at the Adelphi in Liverpool. One lad got battered and ended up sleeping the night in a chair in the lobby. The hotel sent a bill for a single room to the school!

Don't you love the way they opperate their business

Couple more years to go for me, until I hit the Grad Ball thing. All the balls we had so far were roughly £25, I only want to the freshers one, needless to say it was somewhat poop ;\

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