London good drum and bass clubs for older crowd
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Starry Wisdom
Young for a mlc
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Don’t know about d n b but I’ve been to Phonox and XOYO a few times and am 49. Middle-aged clobbers unite!
kalidarkone
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Rupture at Corsica Studios in Elephant and Castle.
Went there a few years ago (late 40's) very diverse crowd including age.
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Went there a few years ago (late 40's) very diverse crowd including age.
Corsica Studios · London · Club ⟋ RA
Corsica Studios (previously known as the Corsica Arts Club) is a medium-sized, two-roomed music space located in close proximity to Elephant & Castle tube station in south-east London. A rotating cast list of promoters and labels stage events at the venue each Friday and Saturday, which has...
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ska invita
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Launch DnB, 4 parties a year or so, nothing lined up for 2021 yet, but its a crowd of lifers, selection errs towards mid-skool sound, but far from only - goes till 6
Rupture errs towards amens, or did in the past at least
old flyer
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
Oooh!
Launch DnB, 4 parties a year or so, nothing lined up for 2021 yet, but its a crowd of lifers, selection errs towards mid-skool sound, but far from only - goes till 6
Rupture errs towards amens, or did in the past at least
old flyer
Whilst I have a house to myself in North London (likely for the next year or so) then I'd be very interested
. BigMoaner let me know if you want to go for a dance sometime. Maybe even have a ' Hot off the dnb press' u75 night.....
BigMoaner
We will all go together
I'm trying to rebuild my social circle after a collapsed marriage so sure.Oooh!
Whilst I have a house to myself in North London (likely for the next year or so) then I'd be very interested
BigMoaner let me know if you want to go for a dance sometime. Maybe even have a ' Hot off the dnb press' u75 night.....
certainly not the case round here, the D&B scene is full of teens.You'll probably find that many if not most drum & bass nights automatically have a good proportion of >40s in attendance
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Any night you are considering, it's usually worth doing a bit of research on the DJs if you don't know anything about them. Youtube and soundcloud and all these things are now quite handy for that. Often a good way of clarifying whether their idea of a certain genre matches yours.
BigMoaner
We will all go together
Amens?
Launch DnB, 4 parties a year or so, nothing lined up for 2021 yet, but its a crowd of lifers, selection errs towards mid-skool sound, but far from only - goes till 6
Rupture errs towards amens, or did in the past at least
old flyer
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Where's round here? My impression is that outside of london it's much less normal for folk in their 40s+ to still be doing any clubbing.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Varies. Big nights down this way, we're the oldest in the club by 10 years. Smaller do's in private venues/ free parties a bit betterYou'll probably find that many if not most drum & bass nights automatically have a good proportion of >40s in attendance
North-west. There's plenty of scenes full of post-40s up here though, you're misinformed.
han
love is the answer
I think you're right about that!
ska invita
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Noisy drum tunes build around the amen break
like this for example
its become a bit of a dividing line in some quarters - Ive hit my limit with amen tunes, and stay clear of new amen productions
....was thinking about this yesterday funnily enough, i think older tunes, 1994 and backwards had a slower tempo, 160BPM and slower, and thats about the limit when the amen break starts to get too noisy. It can be a bit of a headache in faster modern DnB
(dont get me wrong there are many great DnB amen tunes , just I think they need playing sparingly)
ska invita
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Not quite the same thing though.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
That was the last place I went to before the first lockdown came in. "See you after the pandemic" I remember saying to someone at the end of the night, thinking that meant in two or three months.
Your friends who moved out of london when they started a family are not going clubbing, this is true. Whereas those who've stayed and don't have children still go out - that division exists elsewhere in the country too. The having childcare responsibilities thing is the dividing line, not the living in london thing.
kalidarkone
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That's not been my experience in Bristol....I got older and older and they got younger and younger and then they were younger then my child!You'll probably find that many if not most drum & bass nights automatically have a good proportion of >40s in attendance
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I know there is obviously a having children element and there is obviously some correlation with having kids and moving out of London. There is also a correlation between staying in London and carrying on doing things that lots of people give up altogether once they reach a certain age. I know several people with young kids who still live in London and still, now and again, go out. What my impression is, is that it's much easier just to casually pick a night that looks good and go along for a bit and no-one really bats an eyelid at there being a scattering of older people. I don't mean nights or "scenes" that are targetted at or centred around an older crowd. There are those in London too, but they are certainly not your only option if you're over 40 and want to go out without feeling like an abnormality.
It's actually one of the first things I noticed when I arrived in London as a "young" person, that many nights had a much wider spread of ages than I was used to where I was before (which was Glasgow).
Of course I may be wrong but I'm not sure how we can settle this objectively.
han
love is the answer
Not sure about that. Lots of people without kids who did loads of clubbing in their 20s and 30s don't want to do it once they're in their 40s. Some still do! Whatever floats yer boat.
ska invita
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You're too young to be going out in an era of covid vacinne passports - youve got to be 50 years old or above these days
