Do you like clubbing?
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A usual night for us would be 10pm til around 4-6am (depending on the line-up).
DJs usually changed every 1/1.5 hours, and we'd only really dance to the ones we wanted to see. There would be be plenty of time spent off the dancefloors chatting, and we almost always ended up going back to a friend's place for further socialising. The dance floor is meant for dancing, not chatting, just like you don't have a chat in the middle of a paintball game or a go-kart race.
Those atmospheres can still be found here aswell, you just don't know about them because you are no longer involved in the scene.I went Raving / clubbing almost every week from 1989 right through to 1993 and have some great memories of how it used to be.
And funnily enough - those sorts of club atmospheres can still be had in many parts of Europe / Australia and America - in fact they are the norm in most other countries apart from the UK (which is a bit strange considering we virtually invented raving and clubbing)
I go to raves around London all the time, and while I agree you do get some that are still taken over by tools, there are lots which are great with good vibes and good music.
Not really. The drunks, overpriced drinks, sticky floor and "GEEZAS!!" Soon spoil the atmosphere.There's only a few venues I like and I'll only go with friends who go to have fun, not with the intention of getting bladdered. I want to remember the night, have fun and not feel like death the day after.
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I do enjoy clubbing however I'm slowly but surely slowing down on the whole nights out now and settling down a bit. Never thought I'd get too old for it.
Still enjoy going out clubbing though, I always will, if not just to catch up with mates etc!
Still enjoy going out clubbing though, I always will, if not just to catch up with mates etc!
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Mixed views on it really. Primarily being - I can't dance. For neither love nor money, I can not flail my limbs in such a way as to impress others, I look a buffoon. However, I do enjoy music and moving to it, I love to mosh, headbang etc, and so raving where everybody is just jumping and flailing is excellent for me. Now I by nature, am very in control of myself, so occasionally I love to be out of control of myself. Drunk, or rolling, or high, or on some other mind altering substance, but no matter what I do, I can never hit the point at which I have the confidence to dance without the control to do it well. Sometimes I do just flail about on the dancefloor and have a great time, and I don't care what others think, sometimes, like this last saturday, I stand outside the club and spread love, I talk to strangers that seem upset, give them a hug, talk out their troubles and give them advice, cheer them up and help them have a good night too. If I do get on the dancefloor though, it rarely ends well, I consider myself a reasonably attractive guy, enough so that I am more often the approached than the approachee, and more than once have I been pushed about by some drunken lout thinking I'm "stealing his bird" because she decided to grind on me. I'm not one to go out "on the pull" (mostly because my gentleman takes a strong disliking to alcohol), so I'm not stealing your bird, I'm just swinging my arms as though I'm a four year old wondering if he does it long enough he'll take off. It's not my fault I don't feel the need to exude my manliness by picking fights with every other meathead in the building. So with that said, no, I can't say I do enjoy the typical clubbing, I'm much more of a quiet drink in a pub kinda guy, but sometimes, I do quite enjoy an insane, sweaty, off-your-face jumping competition. I can also see why some people do enjoy it, it just isn't for me. 
I have more fun in the early stages of the night having a chat and drinking with mates, But when the beer has been flowing a while its nice to head to a nightclub to have a bit of a drunken dance and see ladies shaking their booty .
As for not going out with new uni people on freshers week, well I think thats a foolish choice as its the ideal time to make friends and even if you dont drink at least they will appreciate you made the effort.
As for not going out with new uni people on freshers week, well I think thats a foolish choice as its the ideal time to make friends and even if you dont drink at least they will appreciate you made the effort.
I didn't mean to imply that "everyone" gets off their face drunk when going clubbing, as that's obviously not going to be the case with everybody, but you can't deny that for the majority of the younger generation of clubbers (that makes me feel old saying that at 26) that the sole purpose of going out clubbing is to get arsefaced.
I couldn't give a monkeys what people want to do, and if they choose to get messy and horifically ill the next day as they enjoy it, then fine. What I don't understand is the apparent mentality with primarily younger generations that getting in such a state is the sole point, and somehow necessary to be considered normal. If you don't fancy that type of activity, you're instantly thought of as a bit of a weirdo.
What I was trying to get across, is that if you like drinking and the sweatfest of clubbing, go nuts. If not, don't be bullied into doing something you don't like as not everyone will think you're a nutter.
I did have friends who as Papa Larazu pointed out, were a crap social circle, but luckily found new friends who accept me for who I am, without trying to make me feel like an outsider for not drinking. I never thought I'd never find that at first.
As for the real ale terms, I was merely trying to distinguish a proper beer from the normal lagers, as I think my Dad would rather drink wee than something like Fosters etc!
Also, I don't drink any alcoholic beverages when I'm out with him or anyone else that drinks, just them.
I love it, but as others have mentioned you have to know what you like and find an appropriate line-up and venue. For me it's the darker sounds of dnb/dubstep. I went to Egg on Friday for a freshers night and that was the first time I've been to a club without a decent DJ playing for a while... Tonight is Pacha and tomorrow Ministry of Sound, but again they're both freshers so it'll be quite a different club night (liqour & cheese) to the dark sweaty cave dwellings I'm more likely to be found in.
I can understand the hate for clubbing when the usual experience is 'town centre' sort of clubs where people go as their last place on a night out. That falls under a night out drinking, not clubbing. Clubbing is when you look at the clock at 5am and feel panic as you know daylight approaches and you only have an hour left on the dancefloor!
I can understand the hate for clubbing when the usual experience is 'town centre' sort of clubs where people go as their last place on a night out. That falls under a night out drinking, not clubbing. Clubbing is when you look at the clock at 5am and feel panic as you know daylight approaches and you only have an hour left on the dancefloor!
I agree, there is a rather large difference between a night out if Fabric and a night out in Tiger Tiger!
I don't agree with the 5am thing though, at 5am in fabric i usually still have a good 5 hours of getting my groove on to go
I agree, there is a rather large difference between a night out if Fabric and a night out in Tiger Tiger!
I don't agree with the 5am thing though, at 5am in fabric i usually still have a good 5 hours of getting my groove on to go
This is true... Bristol was our usual haunt and we'd drive back to Swindon or get the first train after the club shut which tended to be around that time. Now I live in London though, so the long nights are a-coming.
I agree, there is a rather large difference between a night out if Fabric and a night out in Tiger Tiger!
I don't agree with the 5am thing though, at 5am in fabric i usually still have a good 5 hours of getting my groove on to go
U don't like tiger tiger?
First club I ever went to when I was 17
(don't tell them that though lol)
People are quite obviously mistaking the stuff they see on TV as clubbing, you know the scenes on the police, drunks, action programs.
This has always rung true to me:
Do you know where your teenager is at 5 o'clock in the morning?
Young people, things have changed
Today the question for parents is, it's 10 am
Do you know where your children are?
This has always rung true to me:
Do you know where your teenager is at 5 o'clock in the morning?
Young people, things have changed
Today the question for parents is, it's 10 am
Do you know where your children are?
I will usually prefer a bar with a dance floor than a full on club, but it depends where I am and which club it is.
For example, we have horrible clubs in Cambridge and I can't be bothered with them anymore, but if I'm out in London or somewhere new I indulge. Electric Ballroom in Camden is quite nice on a rock night.
For example, we have horrible clubs in Cambridge and I can't be bothered with them anymore, but if I'm out in London or somewhere new I indulge. Electric Ballroom in Camden is quite nice on a rock night.
I like Tiger Tiger, it's just a completely different thing to somewhere like fabric.U don't like tiger tiger?
First club I ever went to when I was 17
(don't tell them that though lol)
TigerTiger is where I go to get drunk, listen to rubbish chart music, have a laugh with mates and pull birds.
Fabric is where I go to dance all night to great music