SSAGO News

Following on from a successful bid at Lancaster superhero rally in February 2015, Leeds SSAGO (LUUSAG) began preparations to host the national ball in 2016.

Having formed a committee, delegated roles and creating the all important committee facebook group, we threw ourselves into the various areas of planning that hosting a national event requires. After deciding on the Marriott as the venue and ‘Northern Lights’ as the theme, we got onto the finer details, such as the creation of our ‘Grub’s Up’ challenge badge pack as a method of fundraising, designing the ball badge, organising the accommodation, and of course, dealing with the joys of HSB...

When the ball weekend finally came around, we ensured that we had enough planned to keep those SSAGO members arriving early occupied. This began with Chris leading a pub crawl around some of the city centre’s best real ale pubs on the Friday evening, whilst the rest of the committee completed the final preparations for ball, such as packaging sweets into northern lights coloured mesh bags for the tables, cutting out placecards and unpackaging miniature easels to put them on! On the Saturday of Ball, 2 of our LUUSAG members, Josephine and SSAGO Matt led a hike around Ilkley Moor, before returning with plenty of time to get ready for ball in the evening.

SSAGO arrived at the Marriott at 7pm, where they were greeted with drinks and given time to reacquaint with friends from across the country before sitting down to eat. Following a lovely 3 course meal, speeches were given by members of the outcoming and incoming SSAGO exec, aswell as Cecilia and Sophie from our Ball committee before the tables were moved and the room became a dancefloor for the evening!

The playlist was of course compiled by LUUSAG, with our love of 80’s/90’s air guitar songs and power ballads evident throughout, however we did also allow some more recent music to enter the mix in order to keep everyone happy! Due to popular request, the playlist is attached at the bottom of this article for all to enjoy.

Overall, everyone had a great time at this years national SSAGO ball (we know this because Sophie went around the room asking everyone who would listen for their ‘trip advisor score out of 5’ for the event...). So thank you to everyone for attending, and thanks to the 2015/16 national exec for helping us to put on such a great weekend! We’re now starting to plan for summer rally 2017, so we hope to see you all there!

Ball Playlist

Song Title	Artist(s)
Breakfast at tiffanys	Deep blue something
5,6,7,8	Steps
All star	Smash mouth
All the small things	Blink182
Bring it all back	S club 7
Come on Eileen	Dexys Midnight runners
C’est la vie	Bewitched
Crashed the wedding	Busted
Changing	Sigma
Crazy in love	Beyonce
More than a feeling	Boston
Dancing in the moonlight	Toploader
Don’t stop me now	Queen
Don’t stop moving	S club 7
Don’t you want me	The human league
Eye of the tiger	Survivor
Fascination	Alphabeat
5 colours in her hair	Mcfly
Footloose	Kenny Loggins
Get the party started	Pink
What I go to school for	Busted
Hey ya!	Outkast
High school never ends	Bowling for soup
Hips don’t lie	Shakira
I believe in a thing called love	The darkness
Don’t feel like dancing	Scissor sisters
I gotta feeling	Black eyed peas
I kissed a girl	Katy Perry
It’s raining men	Gerri Haliwell
I’m gonna be (500 miles)	The proclaimers
I’m still standing	Elton John
Just cant get enough	Depeche mode
Karma chameleon	Culture club
Last night(beer fear)	Lucy Spraggan
Living on a prayer	Bon Jovi
Lifestyles of the rich and famous	Good Charlotte
Take on me	Aha!
Love machine	Girls aloud
Mr Brightside	The killers
Nothings gonna stop us now	Starship
Since you’ve been gone	Kelly Clarkson
Lose yourself	Eminem
Raise our glass	Pink
Rather be	Clean bandit and Jess Glynne
Reach	S club 7
Shut up and dance	Walk the moon
Sugar, we’re going down	Fallout boy
Teenage dirtbag	Wheatus
The final countdown	Europe
Wake me up before you go	Wham
We built this city	Starship
Easy love	Sigala
Hello	Adele
Fight song	Rachel Platten
Don’t be so hard on yourself	Jess Glynne
Drag me down	One direction
Want to want me	Jason derulo
Cheerleader	Omi
Hold my hand	Jess Glynne
King	Years and years
Uptown funk	Mark ronson and Bruno mars
Changing	Paloma faith and sigma
Lovers on the sun	David Guetta and Sam Martin
Me and my broken heart	Rixton
Summer	Calvin Harris
You make my dreams	Daryl Hall and John Oates
Call me maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen
Party in the USA	Miley Cyrus
I really like you	Carley Rae Jepsen
Fast car	Jonas blue and Dakota
Never forget You	MNEK and zara Larsson
Still into you	Paramore
I just want you to know who I am	Kings of the orchard
Buck Rodgers	Feeder
SexyBack	Justin Timberlake
Dani California	Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Rich Girl	Gwen Stefani
Umbrella	Rihanna
Crank that	Soulja Boy
Gives you hell	All American Rejects
Hot n Cold	Katy Perry
Hey Soul sister	Train
Pumped up kicks	Foster the people
Steroe hearts	Gym Class heroes
Wild ones	Flo Rida ft Sia
Get lucky	Daft punk
Aint too cool	Lunchmoney Lewis
Worth it	5th harmony
Runaway (U and I)	Galantis
Part of me	Katy Perry
Roar	Katy Perry