Since the words Pot Noodle, Rustlers and STI became synonymous with the typical image of a student, promoters and bar owners have for what seems like a depressing eternity served up a similar array of grimness at offending student nights right across the country. In countless bars to countless clubs shockingly bad DJs can be heard buggering the decks, with the sweetest note not too dissimilar to Kewell a Devil’s nails scraping down a blackboard.
In October 2007 a tight group of pissed off friends at Essex University threw the towel in; they’d had enough and decided to start organising their own student parties. They had a simple aim, to throw special events that were credible, musically, decoratively and financially but more essentially, catered for the needs of today’s ‘untypical’ student. They wanted all the edginess of the underground club scene, they wanted lights that left your eyes twinkling, they wanted prices at the bar that echoed the deals of our northern student brethren and they wanted to make sure they catered for everyone!
In October 2007 Sexy Penny’s was born. The club had been revamped, the pigs were flying and the DJ’s nimble fingers were ready to touch places she wasn’t meant to be touching. Tune after tune reverberated from heart to heart, Disco got humped by Funk, Indie and Electro got married, Prince and Missy Elliot broke the floor and the Cheese was left in France. It wasn’t about the genre; it was about the mix it was about the party, it was about what all the others aren’t…Good music.
The £1 drinks we’re being guzzled faster then you can say Oasis and the Twister matt got ruined. They’d done what everyone was crying out for, a student party that was Sexy AND saved the Penny’s! The rest as they say….is history.
Students ARE SEXY these days…but there’s no shame in SAVING THE PENNY’S…
