Comments on: NEWS: Sonya Mac axed from Mandela

By: unknownmale

unknownmale — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:40:43 +0000

poularity does not directly correlate with quality. Adolf Hitler was a massive success with the German public, it didn’t make him a good guy, did it?

Listen, to be honest the music that Decci plays is tripe and its the same as Connor Phillips would play.

The Union seems to take this a year around, last year Mondays were dead, the year before it was Thursdays, ok so it wa Thursdays the year before that too but the law of averages dictates that it’ll be Monday’s again next year that are finding it difficult to draw crowds.
No one asks why loads of people go to the Limelight on a Tuesday and not whatever crap Paul McAdams is peddling.

By: raymo

raymo — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:01:55 +0000

what are yous talking about!!!???? last year in the union, every thursday night was packed and it was the place to be. nothing has been done this year to freshen the place up! also if connor phillips is a poor dj, then why is scratch and the bot packed every monday and thursday night respectively? the music in the bot is the music students want to hear! mandella hall needs a makeover, it is too dark and stinks! get it sorted!!!!!!

By: boke

boke — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:24:47 +0000

i thibnk the issue here is that the union is a pile of cack now…..

bring back denis…he got sh*t sorted

By: Metallica

Metallica — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:11:14 +0000

3 people in Union last night

Rain abu

By: barstaffer

barstaffer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:03:56 +0000

Faux are class! Don’t think they’d work in the Mandella but they’d be great in the bar

By: John B. Dick

John B. Dick — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:48:45 +0000

Anyone heard of the FAUX DJs?

Book ‘em!

By: dead

dead — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:34:16 +0000

Tonight will be so dead in Mandela Hall…

By: barstaffer

barstaffer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:42 +0000

Anyone who wants to base the Mandella’s music policy on the standard of the bot shouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions on music… actually they shouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions at all!

Decci gives the Mandella crowd what they want. If Seana can find one big student DJ that doesn’t play the same or similar songs every week then I’d be surprised! Sure you can set your watch by a connor phillips Bot night! If the music is the problem on thursday nights then how come its not a problem on Monday nights?

Gareth McGreevy should get out of the bot’s pocket and maybe address some of the union’s problems for a change!

By: John B. Dick

John B. Dick — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:13:33 +0000

Rod is a hero.

By: barsman

barsman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:08:25 +0000

rod martin WAS the vp entertainment – before it was made a full-time position.

to me it looks like the accountants are meddling with thing they don’t understand – and fucking it up. lol!

By: Ron Burgandy

Ron Burgandy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:15:53 +0000

There’s a shock now!

By: Tyrone Abu

Tyrone Abu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:49:04 +0000

I sort of agree with Seana; Deci is playing the same stuff every week. 75% of the set is identical from my freshers’ week last year – there’s a laziness or complacency there.

However, Deci plays a good set, and should remain, and also wrote ‘The Evening Angels Gather Here’, so he deserves about as many breaks as he wants after that.

Sonya ‘Cack’ Mac was a terrible error – one of the worst Union nights I’ve had out – comfortably the worst I’ve had without any other influencing negative factors. Diabolical.

Think it might be worth discussing Rod Martin’s role; shouldn’t it be a VP position, (relatively) open and accountable? If he’s bypassed by the commercial/marketing side in as disingenuous a way as he was here (tactic = copy what the Bot are doing, only less well) he can’t hold much sway anyway.

Happy St. Plastic Paddy’s Day, world, by the way.