To ask when did The Young stop going to DISCOS

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Lovely DD (16) is sat here beside us watching Netflix. When I was her age (in the 70s/80s) I would have either been at a disco or in the pub. Obviously, now young people have to produce id to get served, the latter is out but I think it's a bit sad the young don't go to discos.

Did you go? What do your teens do on a Saturday night?

Not sure what you mean by "disco"?

If you mean going out drinking to discos/clubs/pubs/raves, then I do think things have changed. I think people tend to meet for food, go to house parties and do less drinking.

Speaking for myself, it was pretty easy to get served in the early nineties, I would say I was a regular in pubs and clubs from 16.

Not sure that was the best way to spend my time in retrospect, maybe what kids do now is better.

nightclubs & pubs were dying pre covid at least in London.

Don't they get bored or want to let off steam? I remember clubbing on a £10, I barely drank except tap water & never took drugs but dancing all night was amazing
Yes they do but they can’t get in to clubs anymore, unless they look much older than they are & have very good fake ID!
Fines for serving alcohol to an under 18 are huge now & most places are very strict about it. Also loads of the kind of local town centre clubs we went to just don’t exist anymore

I stared going to clubs and pubs at 14. Shocking when I think of it now, but I was always well behaved.

My DD1 aged 13 went on her first date today (well cinema with a boy she likes and had kfc after), then they hung out here for a bit. So cute!

[quote DavidRosesJumpers]@MrsRobbieHart we did formals/pre-formals in Northern Ireland. Pre formals were often out of town venues. Sometimes I think we had buses booked. So so drunken. ID/licensing must have been very slack.

Generally out in bars/nightclubs every weekend from 16.

Sorry OP, I only remember discos from primary school![/quote]
Yes I’m in NI too!!

In a similar vein I said to mine dh a few months ago "where are all the teenagers". We live in the same part of London we grew up in & spent a lot of our time hanging out with friends in cinemas, shopping centres, parks etc. I don't really see groups of teenagers at all these days.

I'm trying to think back through the haze of Vodka and Loulou. When I was 16 I was still going to Wesley disco (yes, the premier disco for South Dublin teens shared a name with the founder of Methodism).
Shortly thereafter we started getting into Club 92, which was a nightclub, but I would also call it a disco.

Then I went off to uni in London and discos were already long gone, apart from retro events .

In the 90s/2000s a disco was the party you had at the end of term at school. Or what you went to in the evenings on holiday with your parents where your dad perfected his dad dancing

Do you mean an under 18s disco? I don't remember there being one in my area. I was 15 in 2000. We just used to gravitate to each other's houses. Usually to my friend's house as her parents had recently divorced and her mum went out every Friday night reliving her youth, so we had the house to ourselves. I started going clubbing when I was 17.

Discos were a thing in the local village hall in the 80s. It wasn't "uncool" to go, it was literally the only thing to do!

I think know what you mean OP. When I was about 14 (1980s) there were loads of discos - like a school disco but held in rugby clubs, tennis clubs, by the venture scouts, by youth clubs - anywhere that wanted to raise a bit of cash - there was one somewhere local nearly every weekend. They were all about dancing and snogging with drinking and smoking outside or in the toilets! By 16 it was time for house parties, pubs and clubs but I have great memories of those discos.

Disco= Nightclub/pub with dancefloor. Come on people. Loads of people (of a certain age) call it that. I certainly do.
Late 40s here. First club trip age 14! In pub every Friday from the last year of secondary, certainly more in 6th Form. Never in the house with parents on a weekend, and I was not a popular cool kid. Was a bit of a nerd.
If we weren't in pub would be cinema, bowling or sitting in an older boys car in the supermarket carpark listening to a tape.
No one sat with their parents on a weekend eve.
We had exactly this conversation earlier as met a friend with her 17 year old dd and couldn't believe she didn't have her own plans on a Saturday.
It's really depressing. I take some comfort in the fact that the 'going out' era for young people was actually just quite brief.. 60s 70s, 80s 90s really. Then back to sitting at home like Victorian times with Social media.
Is it any wonder our young are so depressed.

I was just thinking this the other day, I miss dancing my DD’s never have chance. There always seemed to be an occasion when I was in my early mid teens. We had school discos and there was an under 18’s night at a local hotel/pub. Then there would be a wedding or a New Year’s Eve party at some village hall.
Now schools don’t even have anything except the prom type thing at the end.
I haven’t even dance with my DD’s for years as our family haven’t had any weddings or parties.
I’ll have to organise one

I spent every weekend night out with my friends and various boyfriends from age 14- going to university.

Wouldn’t have called them discos in the 90s; clubs and pubs or sometimes raves in warehouses. God those were hedonistic happy days.

I feel sorry for the youth today, sat in all the time either at home with parents or out drinking and/or gaming at a friends house! Where’s the fun in that?!

I was still going to clubs 15 years ago and there was a significant shift in the young one's behaviour. They'd stopped dancing; in response to live music they'd stand still. It was odd. Don't know if that phenomenon was just local, but it was a very trendy city.

We used to go to nappy nights at the local club (2001?), ages 13-17, would kick us all out by 10 o clock in time for the adults. It was brilliant, bottle of lambrini before hand, necking with boys who stunk of lynx Africa and dancing to shakira. Good times

I used to go to ska punk gigs from 14 around Camden which were on in the daytime. Then alternative music nightclubs from 16, rave type places from 17, this was around year 1999/2000.

This thread is quite sad isn’t it .
I think encouraging teens to embrace live music (where funds allow) is a way for them to let off steam in these discoless times. Venues tend to be quite vigilant since re opening post covid, and there are often local bands who have nights for 13+ age range etc. It’s at least the opportunity to dance and dress up.
Still. I shudder at my own teenage antics and am quietly relieved that nightclubs are more strict with age regs now, not to mention drinks being prohibitively expensive!

I think of a disco as an end of year school party as well! Good fun when you’re 9.

I’m not sure what teens do now though. I have a teen niece but not sure she’s a good benchmark as she’s very quiet and studious. When she goes out with her friends it’s shopping and a costa/cinema and I don’t think she’d go to a club even if she could!

Up until the mid 90s the office Christmas do always consisted of lunch in a hotel with a disco afterwards.

Now schools don’t even have anything except the prom type thing at the end.

Is there no dancing at proms then?

I do remember a wedding I went to about 6/7 years ago where I thought the dance music was shite. Not what I would call proper bopping music at all.

I know what you mean. Other than cinema or food places, all of which are costly, there isn't anything aimed at under 18 teens open in the evening.
Mine got accustomed to hanging out in the park during Covid restrictions and have just kept doing it (they do also wander between each others' houses). Hanging out in the park drinking with friends is not precisely where I wanted my teen to be, but I'm actually not sure what their alternative is.

I grew up rurally but the next village had a great youth club which would have discos. I’m secondary school we would have end of term discos in the town hall with the grammar school. It was great as many of us had been to primary school together.
From the age of 16 I was getting served in pubs and going to nightclubs.

Even hanging round at each other’s houses is problematic, in my youth parents just kind of let us get on with it, now I wouldn’t let 16 year olds have a drink at my house for fear of the wrath of their parents (not that I’m desperate for my Dd to be getting drunk but I do recognise that it was a right of passage for most of us)

@nancy75

Even hanging round at each other’s houses is problematic, in my youth parents just kind of let us get on with it, now I wouldn’t let 16 year olds have a drink at my house for fear of the wrath of their parents (not that I’m desperate for my Dd to be getting drunk but I do recognise that it was a right of passage for most of us)

I remember at 17 driving with friends to a beach and having a party there. Then back to one lads house. It was a huge country house and we turned up about 3am. He parents came down and made us all tea and fried egg sandwiches. We all (about 8 of us) found a sofa or something to sleep on.