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ABSOLUTE RAMPAGE 🤯 BIRMINGHAM × NOTTINGHAM × LEICESTER 💣🔥 MIDLANDS’ BIGGEST FRESHERS EVENT 💥🎓 💥 2,000+ STUDENTS | ALL-STAR DJ LINE-UP | HUGE PRODUCTION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ After selling out our Freshers Tour across Birmingham, Nottingham and Leicester last year, we’re bringing all three cities together for one unforgettable Freshers experience. One venue. One night. One Absolute Rampage. This September, 2,000+ students from universities across the Midlands will unite under one roof for the biggest Freshers rave of the year. Welcome to ABSOLUTE RAMPAGE. 🤯 💥 One huge venue takeover 💣 Massive production 🎶 Nothing but bangers 🤯 An atmosphere you’ll never forget ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 VENUE O2 Academy Leicester 12 University Road Leicester, LE1 7RH 🚶 Approx. 10 minutes from De Montfort University 🚶 Approx. 15 minutes from the University of Leicester 🚌 Approx. 10 minutes from Leicester Coach Station 🚆 Approx. 15 minutes from Leicester Railway Station 🚆 Approx. 30 minutes by train from Nottingham 🚆 Approx. 55 minutes by train from Birmingham ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗓️ DATE & TIMINGS 📅 Friday 25th September 2026 🕙 10:00PM – 3:00AM ⏰ Last Entry: 12:00AM SHARP 🎟️ Arrive after your ticket’s valid entry time and you may be subject to a late entry fee. 🪪 PHYSICAL ID ONLY – Passport or Driving Licence 🚫 Dress Code: No tracksuits, man bags or hoods 🧥 All jackets must be left in the cloakroom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 MUSIC POLICY 🔥 Afrobeats 🔥 Amapiano 🔥 Hip-Hop 🔥 R&B 🔥 Bashment 🔥 Dancehall 🔥 UK Rap 🔥 And much more... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤯 WHAT TO EXPECT ⚡ Festival-Style Production 🎊 Massive Confetti Drops 🎆 CO₂ Cannons & Special FX 🔊 Concert-Level Sound System 🎹 Dedicated Amapiano Set 🇯🇲 Bashment Takeover 🎤 Live Hosts 📸 Professional Photography & Videography ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔊 DJ LINE-UP TBA 👀 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎉 BOOTHS • BIRTHDAYS • VIP Celebrating a birthday or coming with a big group? 📩 promotion@getlit.org.uk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎟️ TICKETS LIVE NOW Last year, we sold out across Birmingham, Nottingham and Leicester. This year, we’re bringing all three cities together for one massive Freshers event. THREE CITIES. ONE VENUE. ONE NIGHT. ONE ABSOLUTE RAMPAGE. 🤯💥 DON’T HEAR ABOUT IT. BE PART OF IT. 🔥 DON'T GET LEFT

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