there is the excited chatter of students , imbibing too quickly because its free ( except for the ones who dont drink , but they are just as excitable ) ; there is the steady drone of university staff , networking with the people formerly known as urban regeneration ( now re-named sustainable communities ) , divided between the ones who cant wait to get home and others who are really quite enjoying it ; and there is a re-union of sorts between two men whove known each other since childhood , two boys who played in a band together till way past the age when they should have known better .