Sunday evenings have never tended to be a night I particularly felt needed filling with a club night.

The only ones that ever seem to be on offer are relaxed affairs, dreamy and expansive music accompanying the general malaise of a Sunday evening.

No one is inclined to dance themselves to the point of exhaustion with the week of work looming on the horizon of the following day, and pubs and clubs tend to provide for this winding down of the weekend.

But not the Regal, they seek to promote something entirely new for a Sunday evening, and it’s utterly brilliant.

A roller disco may not be an entirely new idea for Oxford, but I haven’t seen or heard about one in years, and even then I’m pretty sure it was in a movie, so upon entering the only expectations I have are of the ones I’ve seen in 80s teen flicks.

This is not however, how the evening begins. First off, the night begins with pop and R & B played deafeningly loudly as the venue slowly fills up, and in all honesty I feel that this does the night a disservice. I think that my own impressions are probably similar to most people’s, and really what a roller disco needs is a flair for cheese and disco – luckily this expectation is eventually fulfilled.

As the night presses on, the DJ wonderfully relapses into Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees and the Ghostbusters theme tune, for which I am eternally grateful.

Not having roller skated in about 15 years, I’m entirely unsure on my feet in a pair of skates, and spend my time worrying for my safety.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have insurance for that sort of injury, not that it matters at all.

The actual feeling that roller skating gives you taps into that inner child that lives within all of us and allows that child to have the time of its life.

Really it’s brilliantly cathartic, and looking about myself (when I’m not staring at my feet praying I don’t make a misstep and break my ankle) every single person in the Regal has an enormous smile on their face, and that’s for a very simple reason, it’s the most fun any of us have had in a long time.

There are two sessions, one family session which I didn’t attend but I can imagine is a fantastic day out for a family, and an evening session for over 18s.

The latter has the bonus of offering the terrifying combination of alcohol and roller skating, a combination I am suddenly very fond of.

Really this is the most innovative and gloriously fun filled night I think I’ve ever been to in Oxford, and I thoroughly recommend it to people of all ages.

One word of advice, dress up for it. Tiny neon shorts adorn almost all the customers, celebrating everything that is ridiculous and brilliant about this night.

This is a night with no competition, so, while I hesitate to use the pun, what are you waiting for Oxford? Get your skates on!