Mutya Buena to perform at Vanbrugh event
Former ‘Sugarbabes’ star Mutya Buena is set to perform at an upcoming event in Vanbrugh held in coordination with the International Student Association (ISA).
The event, taking place on Saturday of week 7 is to following the ISA Fiesta, an annual event held in Vanbrugh dining hall to showcase the food and culture from the home countries of international students at York.
It is hoped that the presence of a known celebrity will raise the profile of the event and encourage ticket sales after the last event in Vanbrugh, ‘Volume presents Tribal,’ had to close early due to an unexpectedly poor attendance.
Buena is one in a number of celebrities to perform at Vanbrugh events in recent months. Most recently, pop star Lolly headed the Volume event ‘Planet Pop’ during Freshers week.
The timing of the event on a Saturday places it in direct competition with the CO2 club nights at the Courtyard in Langwith. College JCRCs have been in contention with the weekly club nights since they were first proposed last year, fearing that they would jeopardise college events usually held on the same night. Vanbrugh Chair, Dani Fill, expressed concern back in January that “it (the Courtyard) is going to be detrimental to Vanbrugh events.”
However, Vanbrugh Ents Rep, Steph Northcott, expressed belief that the event can be a sucess despite the clash: “We hope that it won’t cause any problems,” she said. “We’ve looked at the events that have been held by Derwent, and they’ve all done well despite usually being on a Saturday. We’re hoping that because Mutya Buena is big, she’ll attract people who will maybe go to the Courtyard first and then to Vanbrugh, or maybe just come straight to Vanbrugh instead.”
Tickets for the event will be on sale this week in Vanbrugh.
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It’s an ISA Event in collaboration with Volume, just to clear things up!
Mutya’s certainly “big”, she looked a bit porky on Big Brother!
Good to see york is maintaining its reputation for dreadful music
I saw Mutya at V Festival the other year in the tent when it was pissing it down outside.
She’s not bad actually…
Indeed, this event is organised by the ISA as part of International Week.
It has nothing to do with “raising the profile” of Vanbrugh events. It is simply an ISA event held at Vanbrugh college.
I think you may need to change the title..
I know what you mean Marsh, next time we will just sell our kidneys and get you the Rolling Stones..