 DCU's Student Union held its first October 1st last week, hosting German-themed events in both the Nuba and Marquee over the course of three days. Events coordinator, Patrick Gill, is pleased with the overall success of the event. Generally, as a trend over the years, events that take place over more than one night haven't been very successful, so this is probably one of the most successful of that nature event. We sold out Tuesday and nearly sold out Wednesday. Monday was relatively quiet, but we knew it would be. But at the end of the day, it's not about money for ticket sales or anything like that, it's about student engagement, so we still wanted to put on the third night on the Monday for people that wanted to go, but we knew it would be relatively quiet, so we're expecting that. Highlights included a traditional German brass band, Drag Queens, Deveen Devine and Dolly Grip, and Shite Knight, appropriately renamed Scheiser Night. Tickets dropped from five to two Euro on the final night of the festival. However, this was pre-planned by the SU in order to boost morale and keep the incentive going. We talked to DC students to find out if they went and what they thought of it. It was good. The Monday night, I didn't go to Tuesday night, the Monday night. There wasn't that big of a crowd, I would have expected, I hoped for a lot more of a crowd, but then like the band kind of just got everyone going and even though there was a small crowd, we kind of made it our own and we had a bit of a crack. Well, I was there last night and it was actually great. Went out with a few buddies of mine and we sort of chilled in the marquee where there was a lovely brass band playing and it was just, it was mad dancing to that sort of music. It's a bit different to the modern stuff, so it was pretty fantastic. None of my friends went and I just didn't really have much of an interest going and I didn't think, like, I didn't hear too much about it. Drag Queens are a bit weird, but it was funny. I got something I'd never seen in DCU before or so. I'm in honour for DCU TV News.