Freshers
Frenzy! Watch us try desperatly to make a good impression to the new students.
Thursday 21st September, Docklands
Campus, 10am
Molten
Diversity Arts Parade.
Barking town Centre, Saturday
30th Sept, 2pm-(ish)
Funky
Spunky! Serious Student Psychadelic Samba Sesh at the uelsu Freshers Ball
Sat 14th October, Docklands Campus
Recent Events
Barking
Bateria battles brews and bangs out big beats bringing Beltane Bash bliss!
Bank-holiday Monday, 29th May,
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1
St Augustine's
World Wide Fayre
Saturday 1st July, St Augustine's
Church, Gants Hill.
Stone
me!
Performances at Avebury Stone Circle, and Stonehenge to welcome the sun
on the solstice: 20th - 21st June
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"so how many did you get this year? yeah, well i got 7!" WHO CARES? Tired and pissed off with the ridiculous fluffiness of valentine's? well so are we. Who, in this modern world of wars, death and abuse needs to be told when they should say "i love you"? And for the bargain price of £2 for a crappy piece of cardboard with some shitty little pink teddy holding a heart and some mushy bollocks someone else wrote for someone else? Only a fucking Moron! Get a life, and realise, you should say it whenever you want to, (or don't). Its supposedly a free world. Anyway, call us cynical, but lets have a party anyway, and celebrate our collective hatred of this festival of Hallmark! UEL Barking Bar, Longbridge Road, Barking. RM8 2AS
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the War
Thursday 17th November saw Barking Bateria's fourth performance in UEL Docklands Bar in three months, this time in support of the uelsu's SWSS society and their Troops Out campaign night. The performance may have been short, stretching only to five songs, but went down well with the crowd, getting them up and dancing and in the mood to continue the partying.
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The band has a history of supporting the Anti-war movement, as it has been present at almost all of the large rallies in London for the last few year, including making a very audible impression on the Parliament Square protest the day the Iraq war broke out, and also being on the 2 million strong Feb 18th Protest, where we joined forces with members of Rhythms and Norwich School of Samba. The most Recent rally attended was 24/09/05.
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Lewes Bonfire Night Pirate madness and lots of rum again descended on us on 5th November when we travelled down to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the gunpowder plot in the town infamous for its Bonfire Carnivals, Lewes, East Sussex.
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Not participating in the parade itself this year, the "Barking Buccaneers" commandeered their own territory at the bottom of Friars walk, and played almost as a protest to the Borough society who had ousted at the last minute.
The crowd obviously prefered the thundering of our drums, as a couple of hundred party go-ers came to dance to our performance, ignoring the torchlit processions and intracate costumes of the societies. We created our own procession and led a rag-tail mob down to waterloo firework display, before creating our own mini rave ousite a carpet warehouse.
Without doubt, we can say much fun was had by all, member and viewers.
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