If you are middle-aged and portly, do you ever go dancing?

[brownmouse]

Is late-night drunk disco-dancing a young person's game, or can the chubby middle-aged join in 'clubbing'?

I would like to relive my misspent youth with a night boogying.

Does anyone do this past 40?

Oh don't do it, OP! Please don't do it!

Only at other people's 40/50th birthday parties

Ignore the naysayers. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Do it, enjoy it, own it and be brazen.

If you are scared of other people's reactions (and who cares about people you'll never see again) wait until you are my age and weight and go to festivals to dance in outrageous clothes. Free your spirit.

Don't do it!

We like a drunken dance at a party, but clubbing is for the young and you will look tragic. The youngsters will be laughing at you. Unless it's a club for oldies - that is probably OK.

Depends what you mean by 'clubbing'. We have some fantastic local 'club' nights that are a mixture of young folk, lots of middle aged folk and even a couple of 'older' folk.

There really is a market for more places us middle aged people could have a boogie without feeling like we're doing so with our children.

In the meantime, if you really want to go and it's your sort of music then GO, and enjoy every minute of it. Why on earth shouldn't you?

Good grief,no! I leave that to the youngsters! Far to old and fat to go dancing!

An enterprising group of women near us have set up a night in a church hall - 90 mins dancing with lights & DJ so you can dance & have fun with no young people to laugh at you. And it ends at something like 9:45 so you can still be in bed by 10:30.

Depends. Plenty of small, niche club nights for older genres of music and inhabited mainly by 30s, 40s plus.

Ignore the Bores!

Here in London, there’s many a bar / outside terrace / club that sees all ages, sizes, genders and sorts.

Find your music and go!

Do it brownmouse, there's nothing like dancing for raising the spirits!

If you are in London or near go to Age Against The Machine W1. It's the first Friday every month. It's bloody brilliant. You have to be over 28 😂

My friends and I are always the last to leave.

Savage that sounds fantastic!

Any more London venues you'd recommend for elderly boogies?