Too old for Nightclubs

Logical Fallacy · 31-05-2011 01:41PM

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 · 31-05-2011 01:45PM

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

strokemyclover · 31-05-2011 01:46PM

Age and nightclubs :rolleyes:

Another fantastic thread...Bravo!

old hippy · 31-05-2011 01:47PM

strokemyclover wrote: »

Age and nightclubs :rolleyes:

Another fantastic thread...Bravo!

And you're the bouncer, right? :P

Kasabian · 31-05-2011 01:49PM

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

old hippy · 31-05-2011 01:51PM

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 · 31-05-2011 01:53PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:22PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:28PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:30PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:33PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:45PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:46PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:52PM

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 · 31-05-2011 02:52PM

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 · 31-05-2011 03:24PM

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

wild_cat · 31-05-2011 03:29PM

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 · 06-06-2011 11:40PM

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 · 06-06-2011 11:45PM

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 · 06-06-2011 11:51PM

I did.

take everything · 06-06-2011 11:57PM

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...

Do you mean "old enough" instead of "too old".

eco2live · 07-06-2011 12:01AM

depends on how sporty you are.

Ja see intermission?

slavetothegrind · 07-06-2011 12:02AM

i gave up when the doorman said to me "unless you are here to collect someone this really ain't your crowd!"

having said that i was id checked at a club in vegas two years ago.
i had to laugh and say thanks but no he was serious!
i could have nearly been his daddy

eco2live · 07-06-2011 12:03AM

wild_cat wrote: »

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.

Yea that was a good night

Too old for Nightclubs

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