The funk, jazz and indie outfit grew out of a lively campus social scene and may become more than a hobby for its members.
It was started by 60s American jazz fan Nick Dugdale, 20, orginally from Illford, who arrived on campus with the intention of pursuing his love for the music alongside his studies.

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The saxaphone player and songwriter first formed a quartet with other musicians he met through friends, the university's Blues, Jazz and Soul Soc and one unlikely encounter. Nick, a computer science student who lives in Avenue Road, said of the band's inception: "One day we were practicing and we heard the strains of a bassist playing, even though the doors were closed.
"We followed the sound and knocked on a door. Rowan Gifford answered and we asked him if he wanted to be in our band.
"He said yes and the week after we played to an audience for the first time on the university radio station."
The most recent members to join, at the end of last year, were guitarist Laurie Ainley and lead vocalist Anna Frodsham. Keyboard player Stephen Henry and drummer Steven Kiddle complete the outfit.
After the radio performance gigs across the West Midlands followed as they hit the road - or more accurately as none of its members has a car, the bus. Their reputation for a laid-back, warm sound has spread and they have been tipped to follow in Nizlopi's Radio 2 footsteps. In November they recorded a five-track EP at Woodbine Studios in Leamington entitled Jaffa Minute?, which sold more than 200 copies.
Nick said: "The interest in the band has been quite surprising. We are at the point now where venues are phoning us up asking to play, instead of us going round desperately handing out demo tapes."
Nick is staying tight-lipped about whether any deals are in the offing so he can follow his passion for music beyond university.
He said: "The only thing keeping us together is the chance of having a contract, as we finish uni at the end of next year. We have started to branch out into a more indie sound, as we were orginally only jazz. There are only around four people in England who have contracts on major labels to just record jazz - and they seem to be trying to get out of them."
Jaffa Rose took the last of the top three places in a university Battle of the Acoustic Bands which carried automatic entry onto the bill at the Leamington Peace Festival.