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Lets Meet The Standing Member Dougie Annesley

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Ginger and I have taken it upon ourselves to be more organised with our chats to the SUBLDS committee. The holidays are over and we have decided to get back to work entertaining everyone.

What is your Name?

Doug, Dougie or Douglas. I answer to any of them.

What do you see your role in the committee being?

I’m here to make sure no one else on the committee gets buried under a pile of work that they can’t all do themselves

How long have you been dancing, what level are you now, and on a scale of 1- 4 if someone was stuck learning a move would you be able to help them? 1 being more or less completely useless and 4 being Emma C.

I’ve been dancing for a year and a bit now. I started in first year but stopped after about half a term, but I just couldn’t stay away! So I started again last year and have kept it going since. I’d probably go for being a 2 on the scale of helping someone who is stuck, largely because there are lots of moves out there that I haven’t learned myself!

What is your vice of choice?

Poker probably. But since I’m not great at it its probably more losing money to my friends who play poker.

What degree do you do? Why do you do it?

I do aerospace engineering. Because the little boy in me who thought space was cool but didn’t understand it grew up, began to understand it and still thought it was cool.

What is your best/most entertaining memory of your first year at uni dancing? Do you have any tips for beginners to have a similar amount of fun?

UEA competition, they take down all the dress restrictions so if you have something “too fancy” for most competitions, you can still wear that, and there are so many things you can enter even at beginner level.

Recommend 3 songs, A movie, A book and what is your favorite piece of cutlery?

OK three songs: Rumble and Sway by Jamie N Commons, Amazing by Foxes and the original version of Tainted Love by Gloria Jones.

For the movie, I’ll go with Independence Day: Resurgence because that was one I really enjoyed this summer and

the book I’ll go for Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe. While it has very 80s sensibilities (i.e. none at all), no one can take a situation and turn it into a funny mess quite like Sharpe.

As for favourite bit of cutlery, it’s got to be a rubber spatula, because nothing can get the last bits of brownie mix out of a mixing bowl like a rubber spatula.

What is the coolest thing you have ever done? What do you wish people would ask you about?

I flew a plane, all on my own… before I could even drive a car. I don’t know what people should ask me, pretty much anything so long as it’s not to “teach me how to Dougie” because I still don’t know myself.

What event do you most look forward to this year in SUBLDS? If it’s not strictly you have got it wrong!

I don’t know Fred, from last year it sounds like Strictly will be a lot of work of me! Probably Bath ball and the Dinner Dance but being able to do more of the dances well (or in the case of Bath ball; at all) than last year.

why do you keep dancing at SUBLDS, when you have a degree to do, It seems irresponsible to me?

You’re not my supervisor!

Any final words for the readers?

Try as much SUBLDS events as you can, it’s all good stuff!

Thanks Dougie I can’t wait to see you pulling out all those moves of yours in the near future!

19th October 2016 fredginger

Bunfight! 2016

SUSU bunfight will be on the 28th! We will be in the creative industries zone with our stand, you can find us in Garden Court. So be sure to come and stop by, sign up for our mailing list and pick up a flyer with all the information about our free taster lessons!

Our FREE taster session will be on the 10th *edit of October,  8:15  – 10pm in Glen Eyre Hall.  We will be walking from stags at 8pm.

18th September 2016 fredginger

New Committee 2016/2017

New comittee

New Committee 2016/2017

President: Emma Collins
(sublds@soton.ac.uk)
Vice President: Louis Iveson
Treasurer: George Simmons
Secretary: Bart Jennings
Social Secretary: Sam Hartwell
Team Captains: Hannah Ward-Glenton; Tom Vartdal
(sotontcs@googlemail.com)
Alumni Representative: TBA
Publicity Rep: Hugo Manning
Standing Member: Dougie Annesley

18th September 2016 fredginger

Bunfight! 2015

Tomorrow is the day of the SUSU bunfight! We will be in the creative industries zone with our stand, you can find us in Garden Court. So be sure to come and stop by, sign up for our mailing list and pick up a flyer with all the information about our free taster lessons!

We will also be doing a demo of some of our dances at 12pm, so if you are around please come by and watch us!

22nd September 2015 fredginger

Welcome to our new website!

So our website had undergone a complete revamp in time for the new year. We hope that it will be a large improvement on the previous website.

You will be able to use the website to keep an eye on our calendar and also to get information from the rest of our social media feeds.

You can find us on facebook via our page and our group, or on twitter.

If you have any suggestions for the website, don’t hesitate to contact us and let us know.

 

SUBLDS Love

15th September 2015 fredginger

Committee 2015/16

The SUBLDS committee for the year 2015/16 are as follows:

President: Fergus O’Neill (sublds@soton.ac.uk)
Vice President: Philip Leadbitter
Secretary: Gergő Csegzi
Treasurer: George Simmons
Social Sec: Sofia Sid Green
Publicity Officer: Ashleigh Moore
Male Team Captain: Bart Jennings (sotontcs@gmail.com)
Female Team Captain: Emma Collins (sotontcs@gmail.com)
Standing Member: Lara Davies
Alumni Rep: Nicola Knight

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10th September 2015 fredginger

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