I’m finally getting around to doing my review of the Swansea University Summer Ball 2006.  Well, I wouldn’t really call it a review, just more information about how I think it went and what I did rather than a review, but never mind, I’m going to call it a review.

Like last year, James and I signed up as safety stewards – which basically means we stand around looking important all night.  This year we were also joined by Ian and his girlfriend Sarah, although we were posted to different locations.  My job for the evening involved stopping people from jumping the rear fence behind the bar vans and stopping students from crossing the barriers between the bar and the fence.  The main reason for this was that there was rather a lot of alcohol stored back there!

James was positioned at the emergency services entrance just down from me – his job was to stop people getting in/out of the entrance and removing the fence should the emergency services require access.  Luckily, in this case they didn’t.

To be honest, the evening was pretty boring.  There were very few people who tried to run the fence – much to my disappointment, and it was totally useless trying to stop drunken people getting behind the bar who were desperately in need of the toilet.

The music wasn’t the greatest either, there were a few bands I just didn’t recognise and Rachel Stevens (who – to be honest – was extremely disappointing).  The final two bands – Hundred Reasons and Idlewild – were both really good, it’s a shame most people were too drunk to pay much attention.

The ball mainly caters for first years, but there were a few second / third years there.  Kate was there dressed in an absolutely gorgeous red dress – she looked absolutely stunning.  If I wasn’t still a bit gutted at her not being interested in me I most probably wouldn’t have mentioned that, but such is life.

Anyway, generally the ball was better managed than last year.  The site was better designed and at least we knew what we were doing – where as last year we had no idea whatsoever.  But other than that, I was still quite disappointed and certainly would never spend the £40 on a ticket for the event.  If I hadn’t been paid £50 to work I certainly wouldn’t have been.

Finally, there is a small selection of photos from the event are available in my media section.