Ellie Robson Venue Editor
Hello! Welcome to the first issue of this year’s Venue. I’m Ellie, your new editor, and I’m incredibly excited to be working with our talented team of section editors and deputy editor and Venue co-parent Amelia for the upcoming year. It’s been an intense few days, learning to use Concrete’s editing software, arguing about how many people really do the sudoku featured on our back page (let us know if you do!) and worsening my reliance upon Vanilla Coke. We’ve made a few changes this year that we hope you’ll like, and we’re proud of what we’ve put together to kick off the 2019/20 year. I’m looking forward to going into my final year (I can’t say the same for the post-graduation life crisis) and hope that this year’s freshers have a fantastic start to the semester. Don’t forget to make the most of this week - try something you’ve never tried before, we have societies for literally everything - and I hope to meet some of you as future Venue contributors! Look after yourselves, and I’ll see you next issue.
Amelia Rentell Venue Deputy Editor
Welcome back! It’s us, we’re still here. I’m still here (most importantly). Have you missed the sticky LCR floor? Have you longed for the £1 Campus Kitchen chips? Or are you a fresh face ready for the best few years of your life? However you join us, I’m really glad you’re here. After spending a year abroad in America, I am thrilled to be back in the concrete jungle and more so, the concrete office. Being deputy editor of Venue this year is really exciting to me, Ellie has some great ideas for the upcoming year and I can’t wait to help her make them happen. Now that my heart is complete on it’s return to Blighty, (I hope some of you caught my travel column last year - it was a remarkable collection), I am ready to throw myself into my last year at this wonderful place. My best wishes to all the freshers on their first week conquests and to subsequent years who think they can handle freshers again (you can’t, your body can only manage once. It will never be the same). Don’t forget to stock up on vitamin C and buy some sensible shoes. Happy Freshers!
Featured Articles: Check out Leia’s ‘Finding Your Style 101’ article in the fashion section, for some tips for experimenting with your style at univesrity.
ARTS - Leia Butler
SECTION EDITORS
FASHION - Maya Coomarasamy CREATIVE WRITING - Oliver Shrouder
02 Cover image: Roo Pitt
Take a gander at ‘Concrete’s Great Gig Guide Sept-Oct ‘19’ for an overview of who to look out for in the coming weeks.
MUSIC - Lewis Oxley
GAMING - Martha Griffiths FILM AND TV - Fin Aitken