Too old for Nightclubs

Mankyspuds

When are you/Do you get too old for nightclubs I am 31, is that too old?? Now I rarely go to them, tbh I would barely know which places are 'no go' spots for certain age groups. I would hit late bars instead (i.e flannerys).

Biggins

Your never too old for nightclubs.
I've been to many European nightspots and I can tell you, the clients there in a lot of them is totally age ranged.
Ireland sometimes is so backwards in thinking that only the young get to still enjoy themselves in all aspects of night-life.
That is an outdated mode of thinking and old!

Micky Dolenz

Biggins wrote: »

Your never too old for nightclubs.
I've been to many European nightspots and I can tell you, the clients there in a lot of them is totally age ranged.
Ireland sometimes is so backwards in thinking that only the young get to still enjoy themselves in all aspects of night-life.
That is an outdated mode of thinking and old!

Tell us more, grand Pa. :P

KeithM89_old

Youre never too old to go, just like youre never too young.. :pac:

enda1

Nightclubs are shit when you're not single.
When you're single they're still shit, but there's the anticipation of maybe scoring.

Its not an age thing really.

Biggins

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Tell us more, grand Pa. :P

A gentleman never kisses and tells.

Dudess

The more pertinent question, I'd have thought, is "When are you too old to stop giving a sh1t about being seen as 'too old' to do certain stuff?" I'd have thought 25 tops...

Princess Peach

Only when the rythm leaves your heart (or you are physically unable to dance.)

Good news is I am nowhere near any of these categories

kfallon

Biggins wrote: »

A gentleman never kisses and tells.

He fingered some bird in the queue for the cloakroom at the end of the night :pac:

Sykk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IFwWEBFWZk

Larianne

Just don't letch on the young ones and you're fine.

i.e. stay in that corner!

ScumLord

It's not a matter of getting too old it's a matter of getting sense. Irish nightclubs are nothing but cattle marts for people, I've yet to be in one that wasn't shamelessly abusing the drunks in their care. Crap music, crap music systems that have distorted sound, crap overpriced drink and crap surroundings.

Mint Sauce

Your never too old, its just some times some of the ones in there are not old enough.

Bloody Nipples

ScumLord wrote: »

It's not a matter of getting too old it's a matter of getting sense. Irish nightclubs are nothing but cattle marts for people, I've yet to be in one that wasn't shamelessly abusing the drunks in their care. Crap music, crap music systems that have distorted sound, crap overpriced drink and crap surroundings.

I don't go for drink or music. I go to get my leg over. The rest is incidental.

sbsquarepants

I'm 36, haven't been in a night club in about 5 years i'd say, and even at that stage i was starting to feel like a dirty old man!
When you think the place is full of kids - you're probably too old to be there. But........ about 20 years after that you're old enough to go back, ie when you're obviously too old to be on the pull!
People in their 30's out trying to pull teenagers is a bit sleazy in my opinion.

Nodin

Princess Peach wrote: »

Only when the rythm leaves your heart (or you are physically unable to dance.)

Good news is I am nowhere near any of these categories

I never had any rhythm, and was never able to dance. Therefore the charm of being deafened by music I didn't like was lost on me.

And the fucker whose idea it was to start playing music at the same volume in bars needs shooting, I might add.

stovelid

I hate to break it to any self-absorbed skinny orange teenagers reading, but I'm not interested in you when I (rarely) end up in a nightclub. I'd crawl over ten of you with your legs open for another pint.

old hippy

Don't much care for nightclubs these days. Having said that, me and a mate ended up in a gay & lesbian club the other night and it was alright.

K-9

stovelid wrote: »

I hate to break it to any self-absorbed skinny orange teenagers reading, but I'm not interested in you when I (rarely) end up in a nightclub. I'd crawl over ten of you with your legs open for another pint.

Ewwwhhhhhh.

trad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN69HnXny7c

Says it all.

jester77

Ireland is backwards and have a totally fecked up sense of what a nightclub is. Most people only go there to drink, leer or try to pull and the music is generally of the sh*t variety that is currently in the charts.

The setup here in Germany is infinitely better, no such thing as too old. Those who just want to drink go to the bars and stay there for the night. And for those who want to listen to music, then there is an abundance of nightclubs with lots of different genres appealing to a wide variety of taste. You end up with a great club, good music and rarely see people puking in the corners or in the jacks and not many are off their heads drunk... they maybe high depending on the scene.

ScumLord

jester77 wrote: »

Ireland is backwards and have a totally fecked up sense of what a nightclub is. Most people only go there to drink, leer or try to pull and the music is generally of the sh*t variety that is currently in the charts.

The setup here in Germany is infinitely better, no such thing as too old. Those who just want to drink go to the bars and stay there for the night. And for those who want to listen to music, then there is an abundance of nightclubs with lots of different genres appealing to a wide variety of taste. You end up with a great club, good music and rarely see people puking in the corners or in the jacks and not many are off their heads drunk... they maybe high depending on the scene.

The clubs in Berlin are in a different league. I've been to some great ones all over Europe and even the smallest out of the way place in eastern Europe has infinitely better clubs than Ireland.

It may be just down to the music, in most clubs around the world they play dance music and create a good dancing atmosphere in Ireland they play crap from the charts mixed with the sawdoctors, then maybe some dance song from 10 years ago.

old hippy

ScumLord wrote: »

in Ireland they play crap from the charts mixed with the sawdoctors, then maybe some dance song from 10 years ago.

Sometimes when us expats return home, it's quite endearing to see nothing has changed

Solair

I agree with that. Irish nightclubs are pathetically bad in general and are only aimed at the 18-21 year old market. Even halfway through university, I felt most of them were just full of teenagers.

Very few of them are interested in music or socialising, it's all about mindless drinking and leery pick-ups.

Many of the night clubs on the continent and even in London tend to be more about the music, and are actually aimed at adults, not teenagers.

In general the night life in Ireland is a bit of a joke, you're better off sticking to decent late bars and stuff if you're over about 20!

hatrickpatrick

Dudess wrote: »

The more pertinent question, I'd have thought, is "When are you too old to stop giving a sh1t about being seen as 'too old' to do certain stuff?" I'd have thought 25 tops...

This. F*ck society, f*ck the haters, enjoy your life and remember the only reason people will bash you for it is because deep down, they're jealous.

SEPT 23 1989

The music is the problem

emeraldstar

When you don't enjoy it anymore.

smokedeels

An 18 year old upon finding out my age outside a club last weekend, said "...and you're still out partying, fair play"

I'm 25

conorhal

I'm not too old for nightclubs, it's just that nightclubs are too young for me so I stay the hell away from them.
When this recession finally bites hard we just might see that there is an upside to massive university fees and high youth unemployment, if it shakes the shrieking umpa-lumpas, and barely able stand Ross O' Carroll-Kelly wannabies out of my bars so that I can enjoy a nice after hours pint in peace, listening to decent 90's tunes that people nod appreciatively to on the dance floor rather than flopping about like epileptics hookers to some shoite from Lady Ga-Ga.

hatrickpatrick

Could I just add that for all of you's who are saying there aren't any decent clubs in Ireland, I'd agree there are very few.
But I draw your attention to Dublin's best kept secret.

N V Nightclub, Leeson Street.
http://www.nvnightclub.ie/

It's below Kobra Bar for those who know that one. It stays open ridiculously late, they have one of the most varied and skilled DJs I've ever encountered, and every single weekend they give away bucketloads of free or cheap drink.

Here's the inside of the place:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2047457550331.123550.1361200795

I don't work there or anything, I just go there every single weekend and have been doing so pretty much since last summer, it is infinitely better than any other nightclub I know and one of the only ones in Dublin which gives you a true sense of "nightclub" (as opposed to most of them which are really just big pubs with makeshift dancefloors)

old hippy

smokedeels wrote: »

An 18 year old upon finding out my age outside a club last weekend, said "...and you're still out partying, fair play"

I'm 25

LOL! I suppose when I was 18 I thought if anyone was 7 years older than me, they were getting on. I cringe at that now

My wife's older than me. Makes no difference whatsoever.

Logical Fallacy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The music is the problem

Of course it is, in ****ty mainstream clubs.

Plenty of savage gigs and nights on every weekend all over the country from all manner or talented people.

Kevin Duffy

I know I will never feel too old for them when the mood strikes, ergo I will never be too old.

strokemyclover

Age and nightclubs :rolleyes:

Another fantastic thread...Bravo!

old hippy

strokemyclover wrote: »

Age and nightclubs :rolleyes:

Another fantastic thread...Bravo!

And you're the bouncer, right? :P

Kasabian

I have a VIP booth in a certain nightclub, you don't get these when you are a young fella.

old hippy

Kasabian wrote: »

I have a VIP booth in a certain nightclub, you don't get these when you are a young fella.

That depends, though. Doesn't it?

rn

I wouldn't read too much into it... depends on who you out with really. I'm also 31 and single about a year - back going to night clubs after years of not going. I can feel "old" at times, but feic it I'm there to enjoy myself and so is everyone else. TBH if I was married and settled, I wouldn't be going but I'm not so why not...

My general rule of thumb though is that if the gang I'm out with are going clubbing, I'll also pop along - generally the work crowd or the running or cycling crew - however if its gangs of couples I'm out with - lets face it majority of my old school and college mates are in this category - it'll be a quieter night out... and theres nothing wrong with that either.

dpe

Wouldn't think twice about going to a club abroad but I wouldn't go near a club here; everyone looks about 12. Its the same with festivals; everything here seems to skew much younger than elsewhere in Europe.

jimthemental

Kasabian wrote: »

I have a VIP booth in a certain nightclub, you don't get these when you are a young fella.

In Thurles it's called an STD booth. Ah, good times!

hatrickpatrick

In Thailand last summer I met many 40+ couples at Full Moon parties and there were also a good few tubing in Laos.

Gave me hope for the future, I was at that phase of my life where I felt like I only had a few years left before I was socially obliged to "calm down".

Scanlas The 2nd

Nightclubs make their money by making people feel uncool.

People who don't feel cool spend more money, hence the ques, dress code, attractive staff and all the rest of the bells and whistles.

holystungun9

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

In Thailand last summer I met many 40+ couples at Full Moon parties and there were also a good few tubing in Laos.

Gave me hope for the future, I was at that phase of my life where I felt like I only had a few years left before I was socially obliged to "calm down".

what the heck is tubing? Is that like injecting or something?

dpe

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

In Thailand last summer I met many 40+ couples at Full Moon parties and there were also a good few tubing in Laos.

Gave me hope for the future, I was at that phase of my life where I felt like I only had a few years left before I was socially obliged to "calm down".

Yep, I did the Full Moon when I was nearly 40, not a bother. If you go to most countries its not an issue (I think the last time I went to a club I was in Peru), just here.

hatrickpatrick

holystungun9 wrote: »

what the heck is tubing? Is that like injecting or something?

Tubing is the most fun thing in the world and I urge everyone to do it at some point in their life.
There's a river in Vang Vieng in Laos. What you do is, you hire a "tube" (an inflated inner tube of a tire), essentially a massive inflatable doughnut ring, you sit in it like an armchair, and you float down the river.

On either side of the river are outdoor bars where, if you wave to them, they will throw you out a rope and pull you in. Each bar has food, music, drink, and water attractions like slides and trapeeze swings. In some of these bars they score each jump (holding up score cards) and the best ones are filmed and shown in the local nightclub, Q bar, later on in the night.

When you arrive in the bar they stamp your hand with a number and when you leave again, you show them the number and they give you back your tube so you can go on to the next one.

It's EPIC.

Biggins

dpe wrote: »

Yep, I did the Full Moon when I was nearly 40, not a bother. If you go to most countries its not an issue (I think the last time I went to a club I was in Peru), just here.

Yep, but a lot of our youth don't get that.
They are still living in the past with an outdated Irish mentality and non-European wider picture thinking.
Some also selfishly think that 'life is for living' is only reserved for the young. How backwards is that!

Spread

100+ years. Once they have recliners and diaper change rooms

wild_cat

Going to manky nightclubs I think 35 is old enough but going to nightclubs to hear certain dj's or music at any age is grand in my opinion.


I will never forget when I was 18 and in Crawdaddy and a 38 year old hipster coke head followed me around the place telling me he was too old to be there but just wanted a bit of young trendy stuff.

I'm all for age gaps but come one.

lilmona

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Could I just add that for all of you's who are saying there aren't any decent clubs in Ireland, I'd agree there are very few.
But I draw your attention to Dublin's best kept secret.

N V Nightclub, Leeson Street.
http://www.nvnightclub.ie/

It's below Kobra Bar for those who know that one. It stays open ridiculously late, they have one of the most varied and skilled DJs I've ever encountered, and every single weekend they give away bucketloads of free or cheap drink.

Here's the inside of the place:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2047457550331.123550.1361200795

I don't work there or anything, I just go there every single weekend and have been doing so pretty much since last summer, it is infinitely better than any other nightclub I know and one of the only ones in Dublin which gives you a true sense of "nightclub" (as opposed to most of them which are really just big pubs with makeshift dancefloors)

I went to NV a couple of weeks ago on a hens and there wasn't anyone (apart from our group) over the age of 18 (if they were even that!) there :eek: I was the youngest member of our group and felt quite young all night until we ended up there. The DJ absolutely butchered whatever music he was trying to play and kept stopping songs halfway through. There were so many kids puking and off their faces, I'm only 27 and love a good night out but this place didn't do it for me. Maybe I'll go back some night and give it another chance, the good thing about this place I suppose is the free bottle of vodka and cans of Redbull you get for your table if 10 of you come in together!
Is the crowd there normally so young?!?

pockets3d

When you start looking at people there and realise you are old enough to be their mother/father

Anyone else read that as old enough to be their mothe****er?

Dangerous Man

I did.