Manchester is about the best place in that area for EDM nights.

If you are going up to University the scene you are trying to get into is now older than you so the feds etc are well aware of how the scene works and how to stop it. Plus hosting an event where hard drugs are used and attendees are students usually below age 25 can even get you in trouble for “creating unsafe environment for vulnerable young people” which is really career limiting for someone who is themselves a student and wants to get a job in paid event management when they graduate (all these jobs are CRB checked). Hence why student nights are “booze friendly” as its just about still legal, though students are now judged harshly even for booze.

Compared to when I (briefly) went up to University (many years ago now :crazy: ) students are more conservative when it comes to drugs and booze and much more ambitious about their futures. OK this might not be a bad thing as it means that the bulk of todays students might even be there because they want to be rather than being forced there by parents, but from what PV users who have gone up over the years have told us its no longer the “4 year party” it once was claimed to be. We in fact get loads of people askiing to erase their profile after graduation as they are worried about pre-employment lifestyle screening when they apply to jobs and not without good reason.

All that said if you really do want to do well at uni it might be worth going to a place with less social life / distractions so you end up forcing yourself to study as there is nothing else to do…