Is there an end of party song in England??

[PrincessSloth]

I'm English, moved to Scotland in my teens.

OBVIOUSLY if you've ever been to a party in Scotland, you'll know that it is the law that the last song played must be Loch Lomond. If you breach this you get sent to jail and forbidden from entering Scotland for 1000 years.

Anyway, is there an English equivalent? Or Welsh or Irish for that matter!

In my experience, Glasgow parties end with Simply the Best or You'll Never Walk Alone depend on your team. 500 Miles and/or Loch Lomond precede it, and I'm usually just drunk enough to get super emotional about it

'We sniff got sniff married sniff there sniff ah sniff love sniff you'

• down my drink.

School discos in 90s/00s it was The time of my life

At parties, it’s usually New York, New York- with everyone in a circle kicking their legs out.

At a club I went to in my twenties, it was, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python.

I was in New York about 10 years ago and noticed every bar and club, regardless of the type of music they normally played, played Livin’ on a Prayer as they were winding down. So maybe this is a world wide phenomenon.

I used to go to a pub where it was always Remember You’re a Womble.

Thats it, Loch Lomond is getting binned off as the last song of the night and replaced with Remember you're a Womble

I take it they are football songs @WooMaWang?

Honestly in my circle if we didn't end a party with Loch Lomond everyone would just hang around like zombies for the rest of their life. You can't leave until its been played!!!

I've also heard Oasis 'Don't look back in anger' everyone shouting it and dancing in a ring and also New York New York ditto.

In the early noughties, my night out wasn't complete without the Baywatch theme tune and the Dirty Dancing medley.

In my days working in the cloakroom at University of Sheffield (about 20 years ago) one club night always played the Benny Hill theme as the last song. Which was quite surreal when you were dashing round the cloakroom finding everyone’s coats.

Hit the Road Jack, Mr. Smith’s heyday

Ooh simply the best! Forgot that one. It’s been ruined now for weddings in NI after that scummy cokehead couple sectarianised it at theirs.

When I was 18 at Eclipse in Brierley Hill it was always Chesney Hawkes, I am the one and only!
More recent nights it's generally Mr Brightside.
I'd much prefer Sweet Caroline!

New York New York with everyone standing in a line kicking their legs!

Showing my age here, it was always Je t'aime at the end of every school disco or 'social' in the early 1970s...... at school the next Monday it was all about who you slow danced with. Innocent times!

In nightclubs in Ireland its still the national anthem. Pub I used to go to used to play always look on the bright side of life too.

“I've never been to a party in Scotland that ended with Loch Lomond. You must be going to very different parties to the kind I used to go to.”

Well you’d not play it in someone’s house... or at a rave...

But weddings, parties in halls or bowling clubs... it’s definitely a thing. To the point that you need to say if you don’t want them to play it if you’re not into the squashing at the end of the night.

I'm 40 and from Scotland- the rave version of Loch Lomond does feature but my main memories of last songs from the late 90's and early '00's were semisonic - closing time and mr brightside

I'd say Come on Eileen. We went to a Spanish wedding a few years ago where the British contingent persuaded the DJ that the song was an English cultural tradition at weddings.

Should confirm that when I said country roads initially then I was born and bred in Hereford which is as close to wales as can be without being in.... wales

Thats it, Loch Lomond is getting binned off as the last song of the night and replaced with Remember you're a Womble

Not exactly the same but my New Year celebrations wound up about 2.30am with a mass singalong on a District Line tube. Sweet Caroline, Daydream Believer, My Old Man Said Follow the Van.

New York New York. And if you're at the British Legion the absolute last song would be God save the queen!

Robbie Williams Angels

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python. Always the 'lights on' song at my local pub with a dancefloor (about 10+ years ago!)

Either Always Look on the Bright side or Don't Look Back in Anger depending on whether it is a United or City party...

I always cringe when The Time of My Life (dirty dancing) is the last song!!
The last one at my wedding last year was Frank Sinatra - My Way