Vision can announce that Salvation Nightclub will be returning as an official YUSU student night for 2013-14, as the official Wednesday night sport venue.
After losing its position as the official Tuesday night venue to Kuda last year, Salvation has been restored to the roster as the fourth official YUSU student night, along with Kuda, Tokyo and Revs, who have maintained their existing slots on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays respectively.
On the developments, YUSU President, Kallum Taylor, said: “The new Official Wednesday night at Salvation is going to be a superb club night which could re-shape the nightlife scene here at York. When Salvo came forward with their proposal, and once our Sports clubs got behind it, we were very keen to see it happen and make it part of the ‘Official’ YUSU Club Night line-up. We’re absolutely buzzing about it.
“As opposed to just ‘happening’, Wednesday Nights look like they’ll be better than ever before, in a much bigger club which our students have been calling out for a while now, and so we’re really looking forward to making it a huge success. Big and successful Sports Clubs deserve a big and successful night.”
New York Sport Union President Cassandra Brown added: “I’m excited to see an official Wednesday night for our clubs. Now we can make it a great experience for students. It’s an exciting change and I’m hopeful of its success.”
The deal with Salvation will see sports clubs at the University of York receive in excess of £10,000 worth of sponsorship, a significant increase on the money they received from the previous Wednesday night venue of Mansion.
Those sports societies who previously held existing deals with Mansion have been offered improved terms by Salvation, whilst smaller clubs have also benefited by attaining a new source of sponsorship. Those clubs that have not already agreed a sponsorship deal with Salvation, are being urged to.
Members of clubs who have agreed a deal with Salvation will be offered free entry on a Wednesday night, whilst the deal will also see them granted free entry to Revs on Sundays.
YUSU were unsuccessful in attempting to attain an official Wednesday night venue four years ago, but the current deal appears to be beneficial to all parties, with sport clubs set to receive increased income from sponsorship.
Everyone will still go to ziggys. This is stupid.
This would never have happened in my day. YUSU is a waste of space.
Initially, people will react that way – I certainly did. But with further consideration, everyone will benefit from the move and if everyone sticks together to make nights as enjoyable as they have been, Wednesday nights will essentially be exactly the same but in a different shaped room. Not to mention better drinks deals and all of the bonuses the clubs of your university will benefit from. It’s about the people you’re with and what you make of your own night.
Cass Brown: “I’m excited to see an official Wednesday night for our clubs. Now we can make it a truly great experience for students at a club which all kinds of students have wanted back for a while. It’s an exciting and much needed change and I can’t wait to see its success.”
Either a) deluded or b) through gritted teeth. Welcome to YUSU Sabb rubbish, pal, enjoy your tenure.
This would never happen at Hogwarts. Classic YUSU Bureaucracy bullshit. Down with YUSU. Down with Government.
Why would you begrudge your sports team sponsorship because “that’s the way its always been”?
Why would you condemn YUSU for working on behalf of the sports teams, capitalizing on a night that already unofficially exists and giving the money to sports teams?
how about supporting independent student nights rather than ploughing money into shit clubs playing shit music? york uni students don’t need another hellhole to get pissed up in, they need a musical education in electronic music. the british drinking culture is sad and vulgar, stop fuelling it YUSU.
“how about supporting independent student nights rather than ploughing money into shit clubs playing shit music? york uni students don’t need another hellhole to get pissed up in, they need a musical education in electronic music.”
Wrong. Bangers and Mash and that malarkey are fine without an official YUSU night. What sports clubs need is a space in which to get pissed, make bad choices and listen to tried and tested music. Please feel free to keep listening to house and feeling enlightened though.
I can’t decide if the guy above me is making some sort of ironic joke or is genuinely a bizarre hipster parody.
Seriously though I really never saw the attraction of ziggies, yeah its alright but it’s nothing special. Sports clubs like it because it’s there’s, they’ve always gone there, it’s a “ziggies” thing, it’s not even called ziggies anymore! that’s how much of a tradition it is, and we all know what sports teams are like with there traditions.
But I really don’t see the difference, yeah its a stupid move from YUSU to get rid of the club a large group of people held very dear, but they’re really is no difference between ziggies and salvation, hipster 101 above here has the right of it when he says that all the nights are, aesthetics aside, essentially all the same. Assuming you weren’t going to ziggies for the decor.
Be thankful for that though, it’s the only thing protecting us from him and his Housedub or whatever it’s called.
Maybe because the independent nights don’t give cash strapped YUSU lots and lots of money?
Oh my god, your usage of their/there/they’re actually hurts me.
Why not go for Fibbers? Better than both options
YUSU does York no favours by supporting these tacky cheesy nights. They should be supporting clubs that give York a decent music scene whether it be DJs (famous or up and coming) and decent bands. If wanting the city you live in to have a decent nightlife makes you a hipster then call me a hipster. getwirednotpissed has it completely right. York’s nightlife is all predominantly the same lame mix of cheesy chart shit. Leeds’s nightlife puts York’s to shame.
When moaning about this and the other nights, you do realise that the money brought in from these nights is more or less exactly equal to the money spent on the media…
you mean that the money they spend on bringing big names in is equal to what they take on door? well the main reason that is the case is that those kind of nights are competing against cheap student nights that YUSU sponsors. Your average fresher who comes to York university will go to the nights that YUSU sponsors regardless as to whether that night is the best option. On the ever increasingly rare occasions that a big name does come to York the night will often be dead, especially in comparison to the YUSU sponsored cheese-fest nights, which are often rammed. YUSU and York Uni students need to support nights that bring big names into York rather than ignoring them. 3/4/5 odd years ago York used to be getting names like Skream and Benga, Chase and Status, Nero, DJ Fresh, Andy C, DJ Hazard, Kissy Sellout, Brookes Brothers, etc etc…
@all the hipsters below-the-line: do you really want a bunch of boozed-up, violent rugby players coming to your clubs? Might as well keep them corralled in their crèche at Ziggys so everyone else can enjoy their night out.