To wonder what happened to all the ravers/clubbers

[Colddampandmoany]

Just having a bit of a thoughtful day really, thinking back to the mid 90’s and my youth
Life was so exciting then and looking back, I cannot believe the things we got up to from a young age and how different things will probably be for my Dd now

I’m 47, trapped in suburbia 😅 and nobody would likely imagine the type of person I was back then and until mid twenties really

If you were there, what is your life look like now, do you often feel as bored as I do? Would you go back?

Still out partying and going to festivals when opportunity arises (although sober and in bed at a well reasonable time - usually well before midnight)

Wish someone had convinced me what a revelation and amazing thing sleep is back when staying up waaaay to long was a thing. Nothing good comes of staying up after 4am

You could say I'm slightly too old for rave as I'm 60 yeaes old; but I've loved most of the genres of music. I was probably about 25 when rave started & I used to go. Loved the trance era & old school Ibiza too. There is a rave/trance night on in my town soon that will be over by 10pm and I'm so sad that I have no one to go with! I've got friends who are either into 80's, rock or goth. The one friend who would go with me, also 60, needs a hip operation & would never manage it.
I seem to be the only one out of my friends who is not physically falling apart in some way. Their minds are willing but their bodies are not. I need to find another lone raver to go with.

We are still around but, we are getting older!! 😫

Day raves for the win. Absolutely brilliant time and home by mid evening.

I was more the indie/britpop/alt scene mid 90s onwards. I also love a bit of house/club classics too. My sister was the raver. I loved that time it was really carefree. nights out were cheap and i had a city centre on my doorstep.Everyone knew each other from regular nights. It felt safe. I wasn’t into drugs but loved to get drunk.

Now… 46 love the music but i like early evening ends to afternoon/evenings out.I go to gigs etc too but coming home early hours would not agree with me, even a couple of drinks now is hard work next day 👀🙈

Hats off to those still raving and enjoying their life how they want! It’s not at all sad it’s brilliant.

Oh my gaaaaad not 40 year olds having fun and stuff? Ewww. Sorry you had to see that.

I was never a raver but am into metal, and metal gigs are full of older people. I’m 45 and am never the oldest in the room.

@Soashamed60 where's that? It sounds like I'd love it and none of my friends loved the trance scene! If it's somewhere midlands ish and I don't have my daughter I'll come and rave the night away (on Diet Coke these days 🤣)

I love the day discos now, so much fun, love the cheesy 80s and 90s tunes, finished my 8pm and showered and in my pjs by 10pm :)

I’m 53 and still out and about. On a much smaller scale! I’m never the oldest person there. My DS is at university and they do a bit of this kind of thing, but not at the levels we used to 😂

I mean I’m 50 so 40 is young to me, but when there are adults aged 40-60yo are running round with no shirts, guts hanging out, no teeth left from years of drugs, women I knew back then squeezing themselves into clothes 3 sizes too small falling over with legs in the air, tits out, off their faces in drugs they are back in the 90s is actually really sad.

Any adult having a good time out whether it be concert, pub, club and so on, great go for it, I had a fab night out on Saturday for a 50th, lots of banter, shots, singing, dancing but no one was acting like anyone in the “raving” videos taken at the 90s rave nights I watched.

Day disco - lol. That sounds like an event organised for care home residents. Maybe it’s the future. Instead of sitting around a piano singing war songs, retired gen x will be going to day discos 😂

There was a magnificent thread on here about ten years ago called ‘old ravers’ I think it may have been in chat so possibly deleted

I turned 18 in 1990 and consider myself to be very lucky. We had the best of times in so many ways.

I go hard(ish) about once per year. That's enough for me now.

This! Went to Cream Classics on Halloween, it was bloody epic!

Clearly you haven’t been to the current raves - last all night and full of Gen Z.

Still raving! I’ll stop when Carl Cox packs away his 3 decks lol 👯

You know what, I would've thought I was really nostalgic for this period as well and I have posted similar

But then I went to see Pete Tong at the Royal Albert Hall in the summer. It was a great night, but those memories seemed so incredibly far away, it was like they had been replaced by other great memories

So I have a massive amount of nostalgia, but it's mostly for more recent things

It just feels so far away now! But I felt very emotional about the John Lewis advert, I thought they hit exactly the right note with that. And I don't have children.

I wouldn't go to a nightclub now, but where I live, there's a lot of daytime things and some of the lovely DJs we had in the 90s will do a set in a bar on a Sunday lunchtime, because mine is now the age group that might want a little bop after Sunday cocktails.

However, there's 20 somethings attending these as well and they say that they like it because it's not expensive to get home on public transport and they can get home safely.

I was also surprised at the age range at Pete Tong - twenties to 70s maybe?

I wonder if how much you miss it has something to do with what your life is like at the time. I now find myself really missing the 2010s. 2020 to 2023ish is a black hole for me because I had loads of issues as well as lockdown but I now have fun memories of last year too!

Honestly, I think the numbers are more Gen Z than any other group. Be interesting to know if hospitality has any stats on that. (and yes, I would've asked the same question in my 20s) 😂

I'm still here!

Mate I do go back, im off to a rave on NYE that finishes at 6am 😂

I'm in my 60s and would rave still if my knees would allow me to. I was a New Romantic and look back on my clubbing days then as being good fun and yes I would go back. I loved dressing up and prancing about like a pirate queen. I still go to gigs, quite often the same bands and artists who are still performing and because they have years of experience behind them are still worth seeing.

Still here!

I’m 58 and went to Pikes in Ibiza in the summer. Was amazing!

I'm still raving, only it's in my kitchen or my car now!