To miss E?

[CroutonCrab]

Might be all the stress in the world at the moment but it’s made me think about what I’d give for a couple of doves and the clammy hands that come with them. Don’t think my heart could take it now

@clocktwelve It was amazing wasn’t it?!

I have quite a few friends who’ve booked..I’m not sure, wish I could..not sure if it’d feel right, which I know is ridiculous

Those days didn’t last long enough though. By the late 90’s it felt like the magic had gone

I never really liked pills but I really loved speed. The comedowns were horrendous but I had so much fun.

Until Covid I still tried to go out dancing every month or so. I really really miss dancing.

I used to love E. I feel like I missed out big time by never going to a rave though!

My all time favourite were 'double cherries' and my god the buzz was incredible.

I took E alot in my teens and made some great memories but when I look back it frightens me how risky it all was.

I haven't done anything like that in a long time and wouldn't ever again now i have children.

I'm only mid 20's but did enough of it that I had effectively grown out of it by 21.

great times, but I never could hack the comedowns very well. When suicide tuesday lasts a week and a half it kinda stops being worth it

Not having smartphones to document how shit-faced we were was so liberating. I would never do drugs and barely drink now I have kids but there’s something about this pandemic that’s made me really nostalgic for those days!

The 90s really were the best decade ever.

Spake she thus..

Well intresting thread but the sixtes were quite a change after we ripped up the cinema seats after a Bill Hayely gig! and the Winkle Pickers and teddy drainpipes! And fo cpourse the summer of 69 and all the big frest's:)

Then the shite disco 70's and then the Eighties! Best decade ever spent a lot of time roadie'ing for some decent bands and in between times running a few Pirate radio stations.

Nineties? well OK but apart from desiging some sound systems nah:(

Since then been all downhill really hasnt it?..

Cheesy as it sounds, not having phones made it all so ‘In the moment’ we made an effort but it wasn’t all about being tagged in pictures etc, so it was such a freedom.
I feel so grateful to have been in that era, I feel sad my girl won’t experience all that (not the drugs obviously) but just the way things were and how amazing the music was...
I feel envious too of those a little older probably mid to late 40’s? who really lived through illegal raves..I was around 12/13 I think when that was all happening, but I remember the buzz around it all and the older boys looking like the Stone roses.
I just made it with the good house music and clubs, before it went a bit crappy a few years later.
It is scary to look back and wonder how the hell I didn’t die, had no fear at all..currently all I feel is fear at times (covid and the messed up world)
Things seemed so simple back then!

I reckon I could handle poppers!?! Could just turn the lights off and blast a Choon and have that 60 second high?
I do not have the energy to purchase poppers and they sell it down the road....

Poppers only ever gave me a pulsing headache

This post is making me want to bawl from all the nostalgia. The closest I get these days is club bangers in spin class, and clubbercise. I miss the 90s so much.

@capricorn12

Whatnext2018: yes I was a Hacienda regular but a bit older than you. I went to uni in Leeds from 92 to 95 so was also a Back to Basics girl and Vague if anyone remembers that place.

I was at Leeds at the same time as you, but was a Gallery girl. White gloves and glowsticks, woop woop! Bloody brilliant days back then.

It was an amazing time. I feel so boring now in comparison as every night out was an adventure in those days. I got through comedowns by drinking cider and had some hilarious next day adventures too. My main aim in life these days is to be fit and healthy and have even stopped drinking. Feel lucky to have those memories though, definitely no regrets.

YANBU at all!!! Omg the rush of coming up. I used to get my friends to run their nails down my scalp ohhhhhhhh. And when the base dropped! Whoooaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. Going to Gatecrasher and dancing for 8 hours eating ice pops. I wonder how I was a size 6!

I'm too young for the 90s era but a friend's parents and all their now middle aged, sensible friends get together once a year in a barn in a rural undisclosed location and have a blowout with a massive soundsystem and an understanding land owner! There's judges and doctors and all kinds of sensible adults who just relive their youth for a couple of days and then go back to being sensible...maybe you could all do a Mumsnet version? 😂

Yes yes!! I was never one for pills but speed for the clubbing and weed for the comedown. Not too many London clubbers on here yet?? I did see Turnmills and The End mentioned upthread - both excellent. Went to the big ones, Ministry and Club UK but not much cop - full of tourists getting too mashed up and messy.
My absolute fave was Strawberry Sundae, just the best nights, everyone so happy and dancing everywhere, the whole club was like one big dance floor. I remember going to the loos and there was like an aisle with people 4 or 5 deep either side facing in and dancing and you’d just dance along it to get to the toilets!! Happy, happy days, mainly 95 -99.

Blinded by the Lights by The Streets always gets my nostalgia flowing...

Oh Vague ❤️ I have a dress in my wardrobe I wore for a night in there, with a feather boa and a long cigarette holder. I styled myself on Cruella De Ville that night.
It wasn’t my usual clobber. I was a Sankeys regular, more baggy combats, sports bra and bodywarmer, but it was nice to get dressed up and go out out.

No..not at all unreasonable.

I loved opium when I took it -From Rajasthan- It was like floating, a most delicious and benign feeling...Knock sex into a cocked hat.

If it was legal here and non addictive, I'd do it NOW 😎

But it isn't so can't.

@BatShite

Poppers only ever gave me a pulsing headache

Same...yuck.

Stashing little packets of ‘Whizz’ 😂down your bra or in your shoe/boots and that good feeling when you got passed the bouncer and then ‘Bombing’ it in Rizla’s in the toilets.
Saying to each other ‘You come up yet?’ Then that cheesy grin all over your face when it hit.

I feel a Mumsnet rave is on the cards, I used to take speed, basically dirty cocaine.

But I will say anyone with Spotify to hand just head over to the electronica tunes and loud in the car, it's great fun.

I remember many many comedowns, having to sit around the table for Sunday dinner, grandparents included (god bless them) and not being able to eat a single thing

@mellowgreenspring can I come? I was too young at the time!

Found these in the street.
Gave them to a copper supervising football crowds as didn't want to be tempted.

Young me wouldn't have been so ''responsible''.

Good god - this is why I love Mumsnet. I’m 33 and was pretty tame in comparison to a lot of the stories here but yes miss those times and feel so galvanised by loads of other woman feeling the same

Nah it scared me too much now - and I'm only 25