S Club 3

The final Fresher's event was obviously the one I was the most excited about: S Club 3. From 1998 to 2003, S Club 7 (which became just S Club in 2002) was a British pop group with their own American TV show. Jo, Bradley, and Paul recently reunited as S Club 3 to do a reunion tour, mostly stopping at small UK colleges to perform for nostalgic fans. This past Saturday, they played at "The Big Cheese" at Potterow, one of Edinburgh's student unions. My friends and I arrived early to line up. We met other visiting students, two Americans and a Canadian, in line who we found out we had mutual friends with. One of the girls actually went to Stuyvesant High School in New York City, TJ's rival, so we were able to bond about intense high school experiences at a magnet school for science.


We got inside "the Venue" (it was actually called the Venue) by 9:30pm, but S Club 3 wasn't coming on until midnight. We filled the first two hours with casual drinking and dancing, but things started getting intense a little after 11pm. We had managed to get to the second row and were determined to hold our ground. But the crowd was made up mostly of drunk freshman girls trying to push their way to the front, not caring who they knocked over the process. We tried to hold on to each other in an attempt to keep them from squeezing between us, but in the process I fell over at one point (big surprise), Lorrie had beer dumped all over her, and most of us were bruised. At nearly midnight, almost all of our group decided it wasn't worth it and headed to the back of the venue, where there was space to move around. Matt and I firmly held our ground.

S Club 3 came out a little after midnight and immediately launched into S Club Party. They actually seemed surprised to have such a large and excited crowd--they kept asking, "You all still like us?" They quickly went through all the songs people knew in under half an hour (all lip synching) and then Paul attempted some solo material. That's when we finally escaped.


I'm not sure I would ever fight that much to stay at the front again, but it was really fun to see a band that I loved at ten years old.