to wonder where all the metalheads have gone?

[morbidangel]

I never see any metallers anymore (long hair, metal shirts, leather/denim jackets, patches etc). When I was younger there were loads of us. Now you don't see any, they have completely disappeared as have all the great venues. I am still one (albeit old) but I miss seeing young metalheads in all their gear. Where have they all gone?

I think I remember it wiseupjanet but was it not somewhere near Afflecks Palace?

Actually everything has gone online - music, clothes - everything ... Andrew O'Neill says all is peachy in his Big Book Of Metal Stuff and l'm inclined to think he's right ...

Anyone remember the Saxon club in Sarf London?

@Yambabe

Oh I so miss Jilly's

I'm a metalhead, I just don't dress like one anymore. Still listen to metal, go to gigs and festivals I just don't have as many piercings as I used to and my hair is no longer bright blue.

I'm a mum, I'm in my mid-twenties and I love black metal. :D I look totally mumsy though - Joules tops and chelsea boots. Still got my bullet belt in the wardrobe though. :)

DS (14) likes metal, especially nicking my Rammstein .

It's just that his preferred clothing is basically as little as he can get away with (jeans, t and sneakers, or simply shorts/flipflops on a warm day), he has short hair but has just announce he may grow it.

I can look mumsy/office type while at work, but certainly still wear leathers/jeans/boot/band shirt when not at work, sporting tattoos and coloured hair.

May take DS to a festival next year.

A mumsy 30somethibg now, but in my youth I was a goth/metal goddess.

Friday nights would see me travelling to Wolverhampton with college friends to go to First Base or sometimes The Deep and The Cage. What was the name of the other one by the car park? 🤔
I had such a crush on Chris the DJ who also worked at Mike Lloyds. I met him for a drink a couple of times but thought he only wanted to be friends. Wish I'd pushed that a bit more.

When DH and I got together we'd go to XLs or Jillys with huge groups of friends, XLs used to send a mini bus to our local rock pub to collect us, it was always really embarrassing because it would be one from the lap dancing place next door complete with images of half naked ladies on it 😄

I have some brilliant memories of great club nights and the most fantastic gigs. Slayer at Rock City in 2000 is a particular high point.

Also meeting Pete Steele and him telling me I had beautiful hair

Do any of you recall The Highwayman at Threapwood Staffordshire? Cracking place, once frequented by Metallica themselves. I had many nights `i don't remember in there 😂

Yes! I wasn't a fan of the music - my mate always organised visits on cock rock nights, and I was (and still am!) into the more extreme end of things (death, black, thrash, etc). The building was awesome though, gutted that it's derelict (or maybe demolished now?)

youthecat and toodamhottoday I remember a few years back my old manager at work (v strait laced sensible accountant, now retired) telling me she used to be a barmaid in the Mayfair!

I’m a bit too you to remember it myself having only come to the NE as a student, but I used to go to Cuba Cuba on a Friday night in the early 2000s. Not really a full on metal head, more into ska/ punk but I used to love it there. Also the Get Your Skates On night at Northumbria Uni - happy days!

DH said I dressed like a skater boy when we first met (super baggy jeans, chain, DC shoe co trainers, Reel Big Fish t shirt) but I’m very boring nowadays...

CaptainW, it's 25 years since I last went to the Mayfair - kids got in the way of my clubbing days. Now they are all grown up. Still there's always Trillians.

Still a fair few old ones near me that are 50+, long haired and wearing their leathers and Iron Maiden t-shirts. They all congregate in my local and talk about how they used to be roadies for Mötorhead and Black Sabbath back in the day. The special brew seems to have done for some of them though, sadly.

I don't see as many obvious young metal fans around these days. Goths seem fewer than a decade again, too.

I don't know if I am just nort not noticing properly but there seem to be less different styles around in the youth of today. I am probably not noticing but through my teenage years you could quite easily tell what people liked by the way they dressed, punks, metalled, hippies,, 70s throwback, ravers, pop, etc. I think there was a lot more creativity in clothes too. Even our school bags were highly personalised often army surplus with band badges.

I am probably not noticing but I love seeing all the different styles. Especially the punks with massive spiky neon hair and piercings. Never brave enough myself.

YouTheCat DH refuses to go in Trillians, and I don’t know anyone else who would be interested either - my rock soc mates all moved away after uni.

I feel the need to rebel against all DH’s depressing indie and electronic music now!

All the metal heads are old fogeys now, it’s not cool for young people anymore. Went to a rock concert recently and everyone there was 25-30 and dressed very preppily.

Captain, it's his loss. The beer is good.

Less metal for me, more rock and a bit of indie. However you wouldn't know as I now live in mantaray/apricot dresses with a sensible A line bob haircut, very mummy approaching 40. 20 year old me in her oversized black band hoodies, eyebrow piercing, turquoise then pillar box red hair and numerous plastic braclets up her arm would not be impressed.

However, get into my car and my music tastes are very much the same as 20 year old me!

I'm still here! But for me I grew out of the need to show the world the kind of music I liked and brand myself as 'different' by the clothes I wore by the age of 19. I still love Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slayer just as much, but am no longer defined by music.

I'm here too. I am in my forties and dress more normally. Still have long hair though.

11 yo DD has managed to find Paramore all by herself and is obsessed.

We took her to see them twice recently. The other people in the crowd and security were awesome and kind of adopted her and made sure she didn't get pushed out of her space or bumped in to.

Rock/alternative crowds are the greatest.

I was just thinking this the other day! I was a right grunger back in the day but dress much more "normal" now I am a mum. Still like my old music though

WiseUpJanetWeiss

Apparently Powercuts was formally called 'Yanks', so the internets tell me...maybe you knew it then?

Phoenix was a pastel blue and pink mirrored hellhole in the precinct centre near the university that used to play rock music on a Sunday. DJ used to finish up with a cheery "now piss off home all of you, I want to watch corrie", or similar

Captain, yes the Mayfair was host to some great nights, I even climbed up the the fire exit to sneak in to listen to Y&T doing their soundcheck in the afternoon around '83, got collared by the security but blagged my way in to stay, met the band, fantastic. Ratt, Peppers, White Lion (oh the shame) the list goes on....

While since been to Trillians, but it was the Jubilee long before that. The place to met before/after going to the City Hall.

Have a wide spread of rock appreciation, loved Rammstein at the beginning and went to Berlin to see them in the middle of a forest

Just been to M&S singing (rather badly) to Californication...Dam Yankees on now.....

We were there at the last Black Sabbath concert last year. Booked to see Hawkwind later this year.

Hi, I'm still here! Still have purple hair and love my battered New Rocks.

@FailingMotherhood it's actually houses now 😒 I wanted one but bit out of our price range.
Friday nights played a good mix of everything from Slayer to Poison.

Loved that place so much, my best friend still teases me about throwing up purple nasty out the window of her mini as she drove us home 😳