Becky Jefcoate (1994) - Together in Electric Dreams (Giorgo Moroder and Philip Oakey) ‘It’s the very last song that Susan Norvil and I played at the very last union disco of our graduation year in ‘94. Still takes me back.’

Paul Caswell (1998) - Tubthumping (Chumbawumba)

Susan Gandy - Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) ‘The late Peth, aka Ian Pethybridge, always had Baker Street blasting out of his LTH window!’

Brooker Bridge (1978) - Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) ‘No 1 in the charts when we broke up for our first Xmas vacation and still there at the start of next term. The favourite band of the sadly departed Arthur Gwynn… A few of my cohort (75 - 78) are bringing guitars (to this year’s reunion) so it would be good to get them to reprise their ‘greatest hits’ from these Halycon Days - ‘The Lampeter Calypso’ Alex Sadowski, ‘If You See Kay’ (Bob Machin)

Nigel White - Come on baby light my fire (The Doors) ‘Played endlessly by the guy above my room (Lloyd Thomas 210)

Charlie Notton (2005) - Chop Suey (System of a Down) ‘If only because it seemed to always be playing in the union whilst I was there and hearing it takes me back.’

Kathy Miles - On again, On again (Jake Thackray) ‘Remember him singing that when he came to Lampeter.’

Mary Salter (1998) - Jump Around (House of Pain) ‘Wednesday half price vodka shots would get my mates on the dance floor the moment it came on! I remember revising in the union bar in the afternoon, listening to Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues.) It went strangely well with medieval murders!’

Susan Jones (1978) - Grease Sountrack ‘I was boarded in Harford. The girl on my right was best friends with the one directly opposite. They played the Grease soundtrack incessantly. I hated it. I preferred plainsong and classical music! The chap underneath me used to sing opera. He had a wonderful voice however I preferred Grease to opera!’

Kai Evert - I hear you knocking (Dave Edmunds) ‘Final year in OB. Happy days.’

Leigh Johnson - Welcome Home (Peters and Lee) ‘Quarry jukebox, best in the world.’

Rhian Jones - Absolutely Everybody (Vanessa Amorosi) ‘Just to annoy my roommates…Played relentlessly in the Ivy Bush!’

Niall Washington-Jones (1969) - Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) ‘Would take me and Robert Banister back to OB and Piers Ploughman.’

Paddy Wex - Bad Moon Rising (Credence Clearwater Revival) ‘Thundering from the jukebox in The Ivybush c.1970.’

Jo Blackcat (1991) - Eternal Flame (The Bangles) and Losing my Religion (REM) ‘These two songs always remind me of being there.’

Graham Taylor - Hotel California (The Eagles)

Mark Thombs (1995) - 1st year - Animal Nitrate (Suede), Where’s me Jumper (Sultans of Ping), Sherrif Fatman (Carter), Nameless One (Wendy James)

2nd year - Everybody Hurts (REM) ‘The much played mid 90s break up/missing/homesick tune heard from many a room.’

3rd year - Strange Currencies (REM), Common People (Pulp), Dizzy (Wonderstuff), Spirit in the Sky (Dr & the Medics) ‘Spirit in the Sky was played last at the Freshers Ball, a folksy weird intro and then boom! What a time was to come. All these still take me back to a very special place and time.’

Brendan McSharry (1971) - Those Were The Days (Mary Hopkin), Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel), She’s a Lady (Tom Jones) ‘I would often hear these songs on the jukebox of my favourite Lampeter pubs - The Black Lion and The Ivy Bush. They were all big love-song hits in their day, were very tuneful and featured on BBC’s Top of the Pops. I would hum them to myself in my Lloyd Thomas and later Garth House rooms; and on my cross-country runs along the tracks that stretched beyond Station Terrace and Magic Mountain. All four singers (Mary Hopkin, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Tom Jones had great lyrical voices and came across as very personable and attractive - though Paul Simon stood out among them as being also a gifted songwriter.’

Esther Weller (1999) - Yma o Hyd (Dafydd Iwan) ‘Dafydd Iwan gave a gig at the Arts Hall in my 3rd or 4th year at Lampeter. I still vividly remember the feeling I had as one of hundreds of Lampeter students singing Yma o Hyd at the top of our voices. I knew then we were somewhere special. The emotion continued when Yma o Hyd became our campaign anthem at the recent protests in Lampeter and at the Senedd.’

Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You (Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson ‘In our 3rd year, a friend and I had a huge crush on the local policeman. This song summed up how we felt and I remember putting it on the jukebox in the union about 8 times one night. I can still hear the groans from everybody now!’

Wendy Dossett (1990) - Echo Beach (Martha & The Muffins, Don’t Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult), Reward (The Teardrop Explodes) ‘Union Disco Memories 1987 - 1990’

Stephen Willoughby (1987) - 99 Red Balloons (Nena), Joanna (Kool and the Gang), I Just Called To Say I Love You (Stevie Wonder), We Don’t Need Another Hero (Tina Turner), Take On Me (A-ha), One Night in Bangkok (Murray Head), You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon), Always On My Mind (Pet Shop Boys) ‘I also remember first hearing Last Christmas and Band Aid on the radio in my first term. Plus those who were there at the same time as me (1984-87) will remember Rob Leech who campaigned for a classical music disco and was a great fan of Beethoven. So I’ll also suggest the first movement of his 5th Symphony as a tribute to Rob.’

Stephen Howard - London Calling (The Clash) ‘Not that I was a fan, but my neighbour played it every day over finals. It still makes me cold sweat.’ Also The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) - a union bar favourite.’

Barbara Ender Jones - White Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) was the first song I heard on my way to my room in Harford. And the first disco, Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys. As for classics, Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique blaring out of Colin Holness’ window on the corner of Canterbury.’

Eigen Halpin (1999) - Disco 2000 (Pulp)

Susan Deacy - Birdhouse In Your Soul (They Might Be Giants)

Anna Storms - Brimful of Asha (Cornershop) and Laid (James) Also niche hit Tomber La Chemise (Zebda). Laura Groves and I DJ’d with in 1999 thanks to Clare Gunning living in France and sending us random CDs!’

Jo McCoy (1999) - Ray of Light (Madonna) ‘The Anna Friel song!’ Also National Express (Divine Comedy)

Elizabeth Anne Micklethwaite - Dance With Me (Orleans) This was often played at the end of Lampeter discos and reminds me of walking home through the campus. Or Catch The Wind as sung by Marko at folk club with Sara looking on or anything from Rumours. By contrast I really loved Gordon is a Moron (Jilted John)

Carlene Rowell - It’s Raining Again (Supertramp)

Steve Scadden (1993) - Always Somewhere (Scorpions) ‘I asked Greg (of Prey) to run off a copy of GnR Appetite for Destruction for me; and on the other side of the tape he put Lovedrive by the Scorpions. I loved the album, and more than any other band they have been the soundtrack of my life, but Always Somewhere in particular is still a favourite, and was key to me seeking out more albums

Wind of Change (Scorpions) ‘Sorry, two by the same band. Different reason. Reminder of the fall of the Berlin Wall before I came to Lampeter, but whilst I was there I was involved in setting up and running a cub pack there, and partly as a result of that some of us went out to Hungary, following it opening up to Western travel more; they had had to stop scouting due to allying with Hitler and then being taken over by Stalin, and were rebuilding it from scratch - we helped work on their national scout campsite. But I also went to the Quarry and on one occasion I saw it on the jukebox and was keen to see the video. I had no idea it had been played to death there already, so was not popular!

Groove is in the Heart (Deee-Lite) ‘Did not like this at the time, but I remember it being played to so much, particularly at discos at the Black Lion, I think? that it always reminds me of going there.’

Hazard (Richard Marx) ‘I bloody hate this song. Always found it really depressing. But I had a girlfriend (yes, I really did, for a while, before I stupidly lost her) who loved the song - it was one of the five records that Longwave Radio: Atlantic 252 had, and they pretty much played them on loop. And it was one of the few radio stations you could pick up at Lampeter.’

I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) ‘Again, hate this song. The corridor I was on in year 3 had someone who used to play it with his door open at 8:00 every morning at full volume. For some reason that was acceptable, but me playing rock after 11AM and before 9PM was antisocial.... But hearing that song immediately takes me back to living in that corridor.’

Enter Sandman (Metallica) ‘Went to see them at Milton Keynes Bowl with a group from Lampeter, but this was also played a lot in Goth Corner.’

Insanity (Oceanic) ‘The story was that they were already booked to play Lampeter, and then the song became a hit; but they couldn't get out of their contract to play Lampeter, so ended up coming to us.’

Spirit in the Sky (Dr and the Medics) ‘Great evening when they played Lampeter. I missed a lot of the gig directly, as I was helping out with the Ents crew, but went in for the last song. They announced it would be a Blues riff in something or other major, and everyone was disappointed because they wanted to hear Spirit. Of course it *was* Spirit that they were referring to, and it was awesome.’

Hey Big Spender (Shirley Bassey) ‘Might sound an odd one, but I remember a performance of a bastardised version of this at one of the Rag shows - I believe they roped Barry in to it (Sadly no longer with us; I use this name because after discussion with them over my Lampeter albums of photos, and what naming to use, they felt more people would know them as Barry from that era)’

These are the Days of Our Lives (Queen) ‘I remember being on the way back from a SSAGO rally (Student Scout and Guide Organisation) in Newcastle, in a minibus with an unnervingly loose steering wheel, when news came on the radio that Freddie Mercury had died.’

Joyride (Roxette) ‘I remember quite a few Roxette tracks being played at Lampeter, yet they hardly seem to get played at all these days.’

Way Out Fuel (Prey) ‘Greg Lines might be able to get you a copy!’

Mark Douglas (2000) - You’re Gorgeous (Baby Bird), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Deep Blue Something)

Simon Copley - Kind Captain I’ve Important Information (HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan) ‘Produced at SDUC in 1980, I sang it in the role of Dick Deadeye in duet with Derek Rider playing Captain Corcoran.’

Amy Cotterill - Build Me Up Buttercup (The Foundations) ‘The Foundations played the President’s Ball (around 2004) and it was a fantastic night.’

Ralph Hayward - The Blend Band (Edmund Estafan) ‘Search for them on Bandcamp. As another SDUC favourite of mine, Beltane Fire UK put it: “This is not a dream of what was but a dream of what could be.” My reason for referencing Beltane Fire is that I found their album in Hag’s Record Shop when feeling low and it saw me through my darkest days.’

Martin Wells - Thunderstruck (AC/DC) ‘This was always on the jukebox upstairs in the students union. This was in 1991.’

Anonymous - Friday I’m In Love (The Cure), This Charming Man (The Smiths) both transport me back to Arts Hall Disco possibly before the Kirsty McColl gig. The New Union Bar always played Mr Blue Sky by ELO (still don’t like that track!) and Nothing Else Matters (Metallica) at lunchtimes. The jukebox up in the pool room upstairs seemed to come on randomly during the mornings when we checked for our post and it was always a Robert Palmer.’

Richard John - You Saw The Whole Of The Moon (The Waterboys)

Stan Keaton - ‘In the old Union Bar in OB I remember The The’s Heatland. In the New Bar I recall Rat In Mi Kitchen (UB40) and Down At The Doctors (Dr Feelgood)’

Dominique Delaney - ‘There are so many to choose from including:

Things Can Only Get Better (D:Ream) ‘This was the tune the kept Karl Lofmark corridor 6 (or 5) going through our 4th year. It made us smile when things were going horribly wrong.’

Two Princes (Spin Doctors) ‘Brilliant union hall discos’

Vegetables Of Satan, Lampeter To Llandovery (The Blend Band) Brilliant memories of the guys dancing around the Arts Hall. The songs were iconic and I always remember Lampeter to Llandovery because that road made me travel sick every time I went down. 30 years later it still does!’

Spirit In The Sky (Dr and The Medics) ‘They were great performers and they ended up at my house party in Lynwood. They tried to give away kittens to Yas Richards-Williams.’

Dizzy (Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff) ‘My friend, Angela Fever (nee Neal) played this song at her birthday party. She was tipsy and stood on the stairs in the flat playing it on repeat for hours. But we didn’t care, we were having fun.’

Emily Parker - ‘Pink Floyd was always on the jukebox in the union in 95!’

Marc Catchpole - Paranoid (Black Sabbath) was on the jukebox when the Union bar was in OB, I recall.’

Ann Burgess - ‘We had lots of songs about the staff when I was there!’

Alyson Jane Worthington - ‘Insanity’ (Oceanic) ‘I went to see Natural Life when they came to Lampy in my 2nd year.’