to want to resume clubbing in my 40s

[IKnewItWasBullshitAllAlong]

bring on the MDMA
and the e
and those dummies
plastic platforms

wanna go back to the 90s

but

I AM TOO FUCKING OLD.

I really miss the 90's.

I heard all the clubs are doing really badly now because the young just stay in on their phones. It is this (says she on her phone) even more than brexit or the apparent popularity of Corbyn that makes me despair for the future of our nation

YANBU. I have a hankering too... just makes me smile so much thinking back. Such a good time... xx (allowed for this thread).

The 90s were brilliant weren't they Word? I'm so glad I'm not young today, it just seems so much angsty SJW and having to agonise over your identity and be angry about stuff.

In the 90s it was all just 'Yeah, Sun is shining, I don't care who you are or what colour you are, what you wear or who you shag. I just love everybody; let's get fucked up and have a dance'.

I came to clubbing late, having spent the 90s and 00s with career and kids. I now go rarely, take a taxi there and back and leave early. Knowing there's a cab waiting at 3 or 4 am means I'm not tempted to stay for one more dance and I get home in time to have a few hours sleep before the day starts. I go to psy-trance nights every few months.

Didn't start clubbing until I was 38!

Had some excellent nights at the Bigg Market in Newcastle....

Can I come too, OP?

Me too.

Started clubbing in my teens, nearly 40 now. The oldest person I met clubbing back then was 67 and wearing a very short white mini dress. On the basis I figure I have a few more decades of clubbing left

I can't do drugs or drink anymore and my knees might not last until the sun comes up, but count me in.

Closest I get at the moment is dancing around the kitchen blasting 90's tunes whilst cooking.

Oh God. Just remembered I went to a World Dance event once and there was a lady who must have been in her late 70s dressed as a fairy.

I spent the early/mid-90s smashed off my face all weekend in various clubs. I absolutely loved that period of my life.

Only bad experience I can remember is making a long trip to the Eclipse in Coventry in, I think '93. That was a proper hole and the gear we had was pants.

Not sure I'd want to go out and try to recreate those days again, though. It would just spoil the memories I think.

This Friendly Fires track is for those who were too young to be there in those days, and for the rest of us to laugh at how bad it all looked sometimes.

Ha ha, Shelly! That made me laugh!

All these blokes gauchin' (Scottish slang for drug-induced teeth/mouth clenching & grinding!)

I've never been into it when I was younger but... The past couple of years I've been doing a bit of raving around Europe. I go to Elrow in different countries. It's amazing! No age limit either. Everyone welcome!

After years of not caring my kids are a bit older now and I'm less tired. Clubbing/ going to gigs has regained it's appeal. Really looking forward to dancing at Green Man next week.
So no, OP, YADNBU. Death is for sleeping, get living. Drugs Im not keen on but nor am I going to faint in horror if other people choose differently.b

When're I watch clips like that from the late 80s or 90s, it's not that I was too young, more that I lived in a parallel universe, more "serious".

gauchin Gawd that word brings back memories. We used to make sure we had chewing gum at the ready

I'm 46 and after years of making a tit of myself in my kitchen, I have finally cracked Northern Soul dancing. I'm pretty fucking good at it.

In my kitchen :(

I bloody love northern soul. Its also very 'come together and dance'. No age limit either.

oldraverand gubbythanks. Tall trees does ring a bell, but very distant, it was long ago and I would have been, aherm, worse for wear. I just remember it was friggin awesome and I had white trousers on and a red, one-sleeved vest ( nice). Maybe we were best friends in a loo for ten minutes, ha!
Margaret well said, wish I'd had you by my side when my older sister became mrs fucking puritanical over coffee when drugs came up!

Be really careful anyone thinking of taking Ecstacy now, there are some tablets are a lot stronger than the ones in the late 90's. JUST SAY NO!!

moreprosecco we called it gurnin jn Glasgow. Gauchin must be East Coast? Chewin gum at the ready and painful jaws all.week!

spiral, if I was young, free and single that would sound like bloody good reason to say 'yes please' IMO.

Margaret, I know what you mean, but I was with friends on a night out last month to a rave and one of them took one and a half tablets and ended up in hospital taking fits and she's 37. Just be careful anyone thinking about rying them again!

Also off to Green Man Ragusa - see you in the Chai Wallah & Far Out tents :)

DH and I, along with a friend, who is the manager of a current radio 1/1extra DJ, plus said DJ (who's appearing at each of them) are doing a 3 day festival marathon on the Aug bank hold weekend - SW4, Creamfields and Reading. No drugs (or much booze as will be driving a lot) - but I'm looking forward to a bloody good dance.

Be really careful anyone thinking of taking Ecstacy now, there are some tablets are a lot stronger than the ones in the late 90's. JUST SAY NO!!

Or have one tested. Relatively inexpensive, just need to buy the pills enough in advance. This is by far the most sensible thing to do if you would like to take pills. I would really recommend people get their pills tested. Party as safely as possible everyone!

one of them took one and a half tablets and ended up in hospital taking fits and she's 37
1.5 pills is actually a fair amount. Also did you test a pill in the batch in advance?if not why not?

It's really important to test pills because of the occasional use of PMA which is super toxic at low levels.

I'll be dancing until dawn at Green Man next week too! I'm 44 and know perfectly well I won't be the oldest. I won't be "trying to be young", any more than I've been "trying to be old" when I spent this afternoon knitting and drinking tea.