Planning your night out for Freshers’ Week? Here’s our pick of the bunch for dipping into your toes into the Steel City’s legendary student nightlife!
The Leadmill
Sheffield’s iconic music venue and student haven have a whole host of events to enjoy. Here are some of the highlights:
Dial Up 90s vs 00s Party // 18th Sept // £6
Throwbacks galore with 90s and 00s outfits fully encouraged.
ABBA Party // 20th Sept // £6
There will be no changing your mind here! A night full of ABBA? We need say no more.
Club Tropicana // 22nd Sept // £4-6
A fan favourite at The Leadmill returns. Expect a sea of Hawaiian shirts, giant pink flamingos and inflatable ducks, boozy beach buckets, rainbow-coloured confetti showers and everything else under the sun that you could imagine. Fun and sunshine, there’s enough for everyone.
SONIC Saturday: Welcome to Sheffield Party // 24th Sept // £6
A proper Sheffield night out, a great big Yorkshire welcome for newcomers of this wonderful city.
Float Along Festival // 24th Sept // £40
A day of mind-blowing outsider pop and rock in venues across Sheffield, with headliners Everything Everything topping the bill.
Tickets: leadmill.co.uk
The Foundry
A soon-to-be mainstay for Uni Of students, the Foundry is the basement of the Student’s Union, and has everything you could ask for during this year’s Freshers week…
Freshers Beach Party // 18th Sept // £6.60
Hawaiian shirts, sunglasses and boogie on the beach, with a free exclusive bucket hat with every ticket
Freshers House Party // 19th Sept // £6.60
Three rooms of music: Bedroom, Kitchen & Living Room.
The Tuesday Club x Freshers Carnival // 20th Sept // £14
The Tuesday Club kicks off a new year with a Freshers Carnival featuring some of the leading artists in electronic music, bringing the vibes to Foundry all night long.
ROAR: Freshers Animal Part // 21st Sept // £5.50
A staple of the black and gold life (the colours of Uni of Sheffield varsity sports clubs), ROAR animal party encourages you to come dressed as your favourite animal and roar your socks off!
Tickets: foundrysu.com
F*CK ME IT’S FRESHERS // 23rd Sept // £10
A recently new club to Sheffield which took over the music venue known as Plug.
This party is a UV neon rave on steroids, and features laser lighting, a giant ball pit, confetti canons and thousands of glow sticks just to name a few. A much-loved fresher’s event comes to a new home.
Tickets: fatsoma.com
Network nightclub
Drake vs Kanye West // 23rd Sept // £1-5
Two of the most influential artists come together under one roof to settle the score on who is the real G.O.A.T.
Tickets: fixr.co
SILO Sessions: Freshers Opening Party // 22nd Sept // £1.50
Local talent takes over the decks at this community of raver’s paradise, full of weekly themes, crazy giveaways and jaw-dropping visuals. Tickets: fixr.co
HallamNation: Carver Street Block Party // 21st Sept // £5-15
A block party not to be missed, for one week only. Hallamnation and Crystal Bar Sheffield have teamed up with Walkabout Sheffield, Popworld Sheffield, The Viper Rooms and Tropicana Bar to bring you this week of utter madness! £5-£15. Tickets: fixr.co
Freshers North vs Midlands vs South // 21st Sept // £7-12
The biggest Sheffield student bar crawl visiting the following Sheffield bars: Players, Molly Malone’s, Fire Pit, Tiger Works, West Street Live, Mr Wilson’s, Brand New Venue: DUO, all before ending up at CODE.
Wes Nelson x CODE // 23rd Sept // £3-7
Former Love island star and now turned RNB singer Wes Nelson makes his debut at Code nightclub. A new mix-tape themed Friday night is set to arrive at Code with Wes Nelson launching it.
Tickets: codesheffield.com
Sheffield Freshers UV Neon Rave // 18th Sept // £9.05
The only official freshers UV neon rave, voted the UK’s wildest freshers week event, sold out 9 years running!
SKINT Wednesdays // 21st Sept // £2-4
Drinks at 90p? There’s a reason you’ll never go skint on a Wednesday. Can you complete the rainbow challenge?
Tickets: skiddle.com
Organised Chaos Events: Sheffield Freshers Week 2022 Wristband // 18th-25th Sept // £35
Sheffield Freshers Street Rave, Tribeca Freshers Showcase, Hallamnation Block Party, SCENE Closing Party and more. Ten events, nine venues, all with one wristband.
Tickets: fixr.co
The Social Circle: Sheffield Freshers Week 2022 Wristband // 18th-27th Sept // £30
Made for both Sheffield Hallam and University of Sheffield students, this is a party not to be missed. Ten events, nine venues (Popworld, Walkabout, Leadmill, Revolution, Corporation, Viper Rooms, Nursery Tavern, COPA and CODE) all with one wristband! Tickets: fixr.co
