Leeds Northern Lights Ball 2016

Emily Robinson (Leeds)

Friday 18th of March 2016

Following on from a successful bid at Lancaster superhero rally in February 2015, Leeds SSAGO (LUUSAG) began preparations to host the national ball in 2016.

Having formed a committee, delegated roles and creating the all important committee facebook group, we threw ourselves into the various areas of planning that hosting a national event requires. After deciding on the Marriott as the venue and ‘Northern Lights’ as the theme, we got onto the finer details, such as the creation of our ‘Grub’s Up’ challenge badge pack as a method of fundraising, designing the ball badge, organising the accommodation, and of course, dealing with the joys of HSB...

When the ball weekend finally came around, we ensured that we had enough planned to keep those SSAGO members arriving early occupied. This began with Chris leading a pub crawl around some of the city centre’s best real ale pubs on the Friday evening, whilst the rest of the committee completed the final preparations for ball, such as packaging sweets into northern lights coloured mesh bags for the tables, cutting out placecards and unpackaging miniature easels to put them on! On the Saturday of Ball, 2 of our LUUSAG members, Josephine and SSAGO Matt led a hike around Ilkley Moor, before returning with plenty of time to get ready for ball in the evening.

SSAGO arrived at the Marriott at 7pm, where they were greeted with drinks and given time to reacquaint with friends from across the country before sitting down to eat. Following a lovely 3 course meal, speeches were given by members of the outcoming and incoming SSAGO exec, aswell as Cecilia and Sophie from our Ball committee before the tables were moved and the room became a dancefloor for the evening!

The playlist was of course compiled by LUUSAG, with our love of 80’s/90’s air guitar songs and power ballads evident throughout, however we did also allow some more recent music to enter the mix in order to keep everyone happy! Due to popular request, the playlist is attached at the bottom of this article for all to enjoy.

Overall, everyone had a great time at this years national SSAGO ball (we know this because Sophie went around the room asking everyone who would listen for their ‘trip advisor score out of 5’ for the event...). So thank you to everyone for attending, and thanks to the 2015/16 national exec for helping us to put on such a great weekend! We’re now starting to plan for summer rally 2017, so we hope to see you all there!

Ball Playlist

Song Title

Artist(s)

Breakfast at tiffanys

Deep blue something

5,6,7,8

Steps

All star

Smash mouth

All the small things

Blink182

Bring it all back

S club 7

Come on Eileen

Dexys Midnight runners

C’est la vie

Bewitched

Crashed the wedding

Busted

Changing

Sigma

Crazy in love

Beyonce

More than a feeling

Boston

Dancing in the moonlight

Toploader

Don’t stop me now

Queen

Don’t stop moving

S club 7

Don’t you want me

The human league

Eye of the tiger

Survivor

Fascination

Alphabeat

5 colours in her hair

Mcfly

Footloose

Kenny Loggins

Get the party started

Pink

What I go to school for

Busted

Hey ya!

Outkast

High school never ends

Bowling for soup

Hips don’t lie

Shakira

I believe in a thing called love

The darkness

Don’t feel like dancing

Scissor sisters

I gotta feeling

Black eyed peas

I kissed a girl

Katy Perry

It’s raining men

Gerri Haliwell

I’m gonna be (500 miles)

The proclaimers

I’m still standing

Elton John

Just cant get enough

Depeche mode

Karma chameleon

Culture club

Last night(beer fear)

Lucy Spraggan

Living on a prayer

Bon Jovi

Lifestyles of the rich and famous

Good Charlotte

Take on me

Aha!

Love machine

Girls aloud

Mr Brightside

The killers

Nothings gonna stop us now

Starship

Since you’ve been gone

Kelly Clarkson

Lose yourself

Eminem

Raise our glass

Pink

Rather be

Clean bandit and Jess Glynne

Reach

S club 7

Shut up and dance

Walk the moon

Sugar, we’re going down

Fallout boy

Teenage dirtbag

Wheatus

The final countdown

Europe

Wake me up before you go

Wham

We built this city

Starship

Easy love

Sigala

Hello

Adele

Fight song

Rachel Platten

Don’t be so hard on yourself

Jess Glynne

Drag me down

One direction

Want to want me

Jason derulo

Cheerleader

Omi

Hold my hand

Jess Glynne

King

Years and years

Uptown funk

Mark ronson and Bruno mars

Changing

Paloma faith and sigma

Lovers on the sun

David Guetta and Sam Martin

Me and my broken heart

Rixton

Summer

Calvin Harris

You make my dreams

Daryl Hall and John Oates

Call me maybe

Carly Rae Jepsen

Party in the USA

Miley Cyrus

I really like you

Carley Rae Jepsen

Fast car

Jonas blue and Dakota

Never forget You

MNEK and zara Larsson

Still into you

Paramore

I just want you to know who I am

Kings of the orchard

Buck Rodgers

Feeder

SexyBack

Justin Timberlake

Dani California

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Rich Girl

Gwen Stefani

Umbrella

Rihanna

Crank that

Soulja Boy

Gives you hell

All American Rejects

Hot n Cold

Katy Perry

Hey Soul sister

Train

Pumped up kicks

Foster the people

Steroe hearts

Gym Class heroes

Wild ones

Flo Rida ft Sia

Get lucky

Daft punk

Aint too cool

Lunchmoney Lewis

Worth it

5th harmony

Runaway (U and I)

Galantis

Part of me

Katy Perry

Roar

Katy Perry