Pull Up Your Socs

26th Sep 2006

Pull Up Your Socs
Danny Elbow

Carbon Copy at UCC's Battle of the Bands in Cyprus Avenue with some fans who may or may not be in UCC's live music society.

Live Music Society
Many students both involved and uninvolved in the LMS are never quite sure whether they were 'members' of the Live Music soc at all when they finish college. You sign up on Societies Day and turn up at lots of gigs, (maybe even perform one or two) but your membership status remains aptly vague for the duration of your college life.

Gigs are cheap and lots of fun though. By their nature they involve drink and the social setting is often quite ripe for a score - even if it is with a dressed-down White Snake fan with issues that would make Marlyn Mason look like Hector ” hEochag·in.

The standard of music is naturally mediocre as this is the forum in which real talent and determination will be separated from the pretenders. The three chord drum bashing rock quartet who forget songs half way through (but keep going anyway) are often as entertaining as the well rehearsed and ultra-organised bands who sell merchandise and pass around a mailing list sheet after gigs. For different reasons obviously.

Water Sports
As the winter winds begin to bear down on Leeside, the notion of sailing and wind surfing societies may cause your already shivering head to look twice when you see their banner on Sign-up Day. Believe it or not certain students voluntarily immerse themselves in sea water outside the normal June-August window - a time of year where most testicles will disappear for a week upon contact with any water that isn't coming out of an electric shower.

Join the dramat and you too can have 1.28 million hits when you search your name on google.

However, due to our reliably unreliable climate the number of times events will be cancelled are in direct proportion to the number of all-day drinking sessions that are quickly drafted in to fill the void.

Drama
A prodigy of one of the college's more prestigious societies this is where Cillian Murphy's law degree slowly turned from mild interest to background irritant.

The dramat opens its theatrical doors as wide as possible during Fresher's Week holding open auditions for actors, technical staff and people with organisational skills who make unusual accent inclinations at the end of their sentences.

Don't worry if the only acting on your CV was a one-line part in a play your senior infants class made up about World Cup 1990 or a stint on Fair City (which could have feasibly reversed any talent you have). Everyone gets a shot at the big time. Your life long desire to get the part of a runaway Irish kid on Home and Away who falls in love and impregnates Sally Fletcher could still happen'