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Millennium Eve

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Username098123764591 · 21/04/2023 09:37

Somebody on another thread mentioned millennium Eve and it got me wondering what everybody was doing on Millennium Eve? And also what fun outfits were you wearing you would cringe at now?

I was only 13, my family doesn't celebrate new years eve as we had a very sad loss and it brings back memories so we were home doing not much really I was messing around on the internet I really wanted to turn the computer off but Kyle from the year above was talking at me on MSN!

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JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 21/04/2023 14:39

I was working in a city centre pub with a late license. Normally NYE was mega busy and great fun, on the millennium it was really quiet and we had more staff than customers at midnight so we locked up and had a drink!

Ludoole · 21/04/2023 14:41

I was 2 weeks off my due date with dc1, so I was the only sober person at a family party .

lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 21/04/2023 14:47

I was on Bondi Beach. Carl Cox was DJing. I lost all my mates at 11.55 and saw midnight in with a bunch of strangers. Fun times!

LetMeGoogleThat · 21/04/2023 14:55

I was with friends, watching the river of fire fireworks on the Thames. No idea what I was wearing, but I remember drinking warm larger and the station at Waterloo closing due to an emergency. It's the looooong walk home to North London I remember, serenading the Queen en route and getting MCs brekkie at Kilburn.

Abzs · 21/04/2023 15:04

I was 21. I had that flu. I have a vague memory of sitting by the fire at my dad's house in a down jacket shivering and watching Jean Michel Jarre perform at the pyramids in Giza.

AceofPentacles · 21/04/2023 15:07

@Anskl I was also at Gatecrasher it was freeeeeezing!

In the morning I drove to Manchester airport and got a private jet to Space in Ibiza with a load of DJs <those were the days>

newrubylane · 21/04/2023 15:11

I was fourteen, and was at a house party at my auntie's. I remember it being such a fun night, particularly watching all the fireworks going off at midnight and all doing a conga down the street at about 3am. I was wearing bootleg jeans and a mesh top with a kind of pink and purple and white batik style pattern on it and these amazing flared sleeves. It was from Topshop and I felt so grown up and cool in it. I have a picture of me somewhere, wearing some kind of feely boppers.

HalloumiFries · 21/04/2023 15:22

I was 21 and had come home from living abroad to spend christmas and new year with family and friends in the UK. Wore a strappy black dress, hair mascara and lots of lots of glitter. Big group of friends went to a bar in town for the early part of the night and for the turn of the millenium. I remember this enomous sense of hope and excitement for the future and everyone was in a fantastic mood; we all belted out Pulp's Disco 2000 at the top of our lungs just after minight. We then headed to a friend's flat after midnight and partied there until about 5am. I got together with a guy I fancied; spent the rest of the next week together then I flew abroad again. Came back again summer 2000, resumed things, decided to stay in the UK for good this time. It's a cliche, but... reader, I married him.

13Bastards · 21/04/2023 15:33

How cool are you @AceofPentacles! Very jealous!

Was it gatwcrasher that had the 'IT WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU' tagline for the millennium night party? I remember seeing it on adverts and being gutted I was too young to go

BusySittingDown · 21/04/2023 15:40

ButterflyBitch · 21/04/2023 10:42

I bloody loved pilot! I had a black sleeveless top with a white dragon on the front that I wore to death.

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Yes! That sounds like a top that I would have worn too.

BusySittingDown · 21/04/2023 15:42

ElizabethBest · 21/04/2023 10:44

I did exactly the same as @BusySittingDown, wearing exactly the same outfit. Family party wearing black bootcut trousers and a mesh top. Although I think my top was from Bay Trading. Grin We did a quiz at the party with rounds for the millenium, century and decade, which I won and the prize as a minidisc player. Good times!

Bay Trading! That's another one I used to frequent.

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/04/2023 15:48

I was mid 30's and married. I worked for a water company answering the phones on the emergency number and logging details for the control room to dispatch.
We were anticipating 100s of calls from people experiencing loss of supply due to technical problems with reservoir pumps etc. We had no calls at all.
At 4am I drove up the motorway (I was the only car on the road) to collect my DH from a friend's party and finally got to bed at 8am.

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 21/04/2023 15:56

I was almost 11. I fell asleep and woke up moments before midnight.

I mostly remember the millennium advent calendar. That really made it exciting for me.

CMOTDibbler · 21/04/2023 16:06

At a houseparty, laughing at a drama llama gf of a friend who was all about the millenium bug then watching the fireworks

ReformedWaywardTeen · 21/04/2023 16:07

I've remembered what I was wearing, because I was bloody freezing- a moschino dress, yellow with red speech bubbles on and rude words. It was mesh so I had red matching boy shorts and a bra. Lots of glitter, black eyeliner and my lip was pierced so definitely that was in place.

ApolloandDaphne · 21/04/2023 16:21

We held a big party at our house for friends, family and all the kids. It was fun. I wore a black dress I think. After the bells we walked up our street to see other friends who were having a party and they had fireworks. We did a lot of dancing. What a night it was.

eurochick · 21/04/2023 16:23

I was at a friend's party in Greenwich. It was expected Greenwich would be mobbed because of the meridian line so the council made the area tickets only. But then fucked up the ticketing process so even people living in the exclusion zone couldn't get tickets to access their own houses. It was a total balls up. But we just started the party early in the day before tickets were required and carried on. At midnight we went down to the riverfront where the Cutty Sark is but there was hardly anyone there. It was such a damp squib!

newjobnewstartihope · 21/04/2023 16:24

I was at home drunk and upset after a disastrous date aged 19

saveforthat · 21/04/2023 16:27

justcantgetenough · 21/04/2023 09:44

I was ill in bed with that awful flu that was going around, never been so poorly, coughed so much I put my back out. So was probably in bed feeling sorry for myself and being annoyed at the fireworks.

Same and my employer was offering a massive bonus for everyone with no sickness over that holiday period (they were terrified of the millenium bug) so I missed out despite perfect attendance up till then. Still bitter.

Sideorderofchips · 21/04/2023 16:31

I was 15. We were at my uncles with my aunt and uncle, my parents and my gran and grandad and my cousins. We played card games, drank wine and brought it in together

NameChangingIsMySuperPower · 21/04/2023 16:32

Went to Blackheath to watch the fireworks.

JoanThursday · 21/04/2023 16:35

I was at a house party. Can't remember the dress I was wearing, but do remember the shoes: gorgeous black, pointy shoes with a very high and very slim wedge heel. Very late 90s and very dangerous. Audley shoes, I think.

I tottered throughout the night and fell into a bush at around 3am.

lifeturnsonadime · 21/04/2023 16:36

I was 25, and on a ski trip in the French Alps with a group of friends.

TheNoodlesIncident · 21/04/2023 16:45

I was late twenties and at a house party with DH (then BF). Everyone was dressed up in black tie, I wore a gold lamé dress (and the host's dinner jacket at some point, I must have been cold). At midnight we all went outside and saw the horizon on all sides was lit with fireworks. Everywhere you looked. It really was magical.

We partied like it was 1999... Grin

Joolsin · 21/04/2023 16:48

I was in my late 20s, and my dad had died that morning. I spent the day organising funeral plans, ringing people (ruining their buzz!). Awkward phone calls where they thought I was ringing for HNY wishes, so I was telling the sad news and shutting down the awkwardness asap before I moved on to the next person.

All these years later, can still ruin people's buzz if a "what were you doing at the millenium" conversation comes up. Someone will start rhapsodising about the Scottish castle they rented with all their friends or whatever, and I'll go "my dad died that morning". Kills the conversation stone dead!!!