Over 3.7 million Brits over 45 go raving once a week

[klang]

Yeah, but they’re still available, not in the pockets of a random crackhead.

Anju never claimed their 54th was a squat rave.

 

[Pickman's model]

No not many people. Glad to see you are as happy and positive as ever.

ain't life grand

 

[Orang Utan]

In your sixties you can't remember what you used to call it. Clubbing and raving sound quite modern. I think we called it 'going for a bop'. Or 'dancing'.

My mum called raves 'hops'

 

[klang]

In your sixties you can't remember what you used to call it. Clubbing and raving sound quite modern. I think we called it 'going for a bop'. Or 'dancing'.

knees up?

 

[RD2003]

Stuff like this makes me nostalgic for my late 1970s adolescence when people over 45 seemed content to be adults. When your mates' dads were called Ken, Stan or Dave and not Kyle, Travis or fucking Trent. And you used to overhear them saying to each other stuff like, "I don't like Scargill myself, think he's a bit of a nutter, but he definitely gets things done for the Yorkshire miners." They talked about cars and the quickest route to get down to Cornwall, and thought drug dealers should be shot.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

At one point we were holding moots up on the Ridgeway. Moot, if you have an older Anglo-Saxon term for a knees up, go for it...

 

[Fez909]

Stuff like this makes me nostalgic for my late 1970s adolescence when people over 45 seemed content to be adults. When your mates' dads were called Ken, Stan or Dave and not Kyle, Travis or fucking Trent. And you used to overhear them saying to each other stuff like, "I don't like Scargill myself, think he's a bit of a nutter, but he definitely gets things done for the Yorkshire miners." They talked about cars and the quickest route to get down to Cornwall, and thought drug dealers should be shot.

The Brexit Party awaits your vote

 

[RD2003]

The Brexit Party awaits your vote

They'll be waiting a long time then.

 

[Cid]

At one point we were holding moots up on the Ridgeway. Moot, if you have an older Anglo-Saxon term for a knees up, go for it...

An Anglo Saxon moot is more... local council meeting. With judicial stuff.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

An Anglo Saxon moot is more... local council meeting. With judicial stuff.

And mead, lots of mead, so a knees up was had...

 

[ruffneck23]

At one point we were holding moots up on the Ridgeway. Moot, if you have an older Anglo-Saxon term for a knees up, go for it...

I went to a few of your moots on the ridgeway

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[marty21]

No grandad. You had to be driving around the M25, stopping routinely at services, striking up with like minded people saying things like 'nice one, top one, get sorted' and 'aciiiid' etc. Then finding a phone box, and clubbing together to dial premium rate phone numbers or listening to announcements on pirate radio to get the secret location. Then follow a convoy to the colourful lights and repetative beats in the distance coming from a disused Kent airfield.

Seems a lot of faff

 

[ruffneck23]

Seems a lot of faff

it was great, the getting there was part of the fun

 

[mod]

i'm 44 now.

Used to go raving twice a week in my 20s and 30s but since I hit my 40s its 3 times a year now. If that.

Hence my reduced participation in the Drugs forum (unless its about drugs for pain relief).

What an old cunt i am now.

But what fantastic and dedicated raver I was.



I was there and it was fucking amazing. It really was.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've never really done dancing, let alone been to a rave. I've flailed about to guitar shit many times and I went about twice to dance nights when my mates got into Es about 1992. Love listening to repetitive beats of certain genres but I never knew how to dance.

 

[Teaboy]

I go raving all the time, I'm in a field near Shepton Mallet as we speak. I'm the only person in the field yet have still managed to end up chatting to a scouse lad.

Sadly I'm only 41 so don't count in this study.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've never really done dancing, let alone been to a rave. I've flailed about to guitar shit many times and I went about twice to dance nights when my mates got into Es about 1992. Love listening to repetitive beats of certain genres but I never knew how to dance.

I'm confused. You say you've never been to a rave but have been to two dance nights. A dance night is a rave!

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

i'm 44 now.

Used to go raving twice a week in my 20s and 30s but since I hit my 40s its 3 times a year now. If that.

Hence my reduced participation in the Drugs forum (unless its about drugs for pain relief).

What an old cunt i am now.

But what fantastic and dedicated raver I was.



I was there and it was fucking amazing. It really was.

Yeah I used to love it. Some of the best times of my life.

It's really rare for me these days though, if I was trying to do it weekly like I used to I think it would destroy me. Mind you I am only 40, maybe when I hit 45 I'll be back on it.

 

[extra dry]

I suspect that the survey's idea of 'raving' is quite different to what most people think.

Standing in a feild realising your mates went home yesterday

 

[quimcunx]

Standing in a feild realising your mates went home yesterday

It might have been yesterday. or 2004.

By my calculations approximately 1 in every 5 people aged between 45 and 65 would have to be raving every week. There seem to be quite a few posters here aged between 45 and 65 and not many of them mention raving every weekend that I've seen despite urban probably being an outlier with a high incidence of ravers.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm confused. You say you've never been to a rave but have been to two dance nights. A dance night is a rave!

there's the blue touchpaper lit

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'm confused. You say you've never been to a rave but have been to two dance nights. A dance night is a rave!

I think our definitions differ. By "dance night" I meant a nightclub playing dance music. A rave to me is outside.

Oh, I was forgetting seeing Carl Cox at Glasto. I danced all the way through that, couldn't help it. Think I did the same for a Mrs Woods set earlier in the day too.

 

[Cid]

I'm confused. You say you've never been to a rave but have been to two dance nights. A dance night is a rave!

Weeell... not really.

E2a, though I disagree with the ‘outside’ definition.

 

[extra dry]

I Rave daily! on youtube and in my mind....

 

[girasol]

I only started going to raves in my 30s, before that I just went out, got pissed and/or took some drugs and danced in a club, pub or someone's house... I guess the only difference between the two periods was the licensing of the venue I can't think of anything I'd want to do less these days than go 'raving' all night, to be fair

Still partial to some drunken dancing until no later than 2am, very occasionally

(edit: Yup, over 45 I am)

 

[ruffneck23]

Glastonbury will be my 2nd ' Rave ' if you can call it that but there will I definitely rave for a bit of it, this year. I doubt there will be a 3rd, unless I magically get a crew ticket for boomtown.

 

[Cid]

I mean there are things that definitely aren’t raves... obviously you need dance music (and not sure all dance music counts). I think going until at least dawn is required. Must have a proper sound system. Continuous sets (beat matching etc, no discrete tracks, at least in the main room). Alcohol not the main mode of discombobulation. Though I could imagine a straight edge rave.

 

[kalidarkone]

Surely everyone who ever went 'raving' is pushing fifty by now anyway?

Watch it sonny!

 

[kalidarkone]

I'm gonna be 50 very soon and I go out all night raving about every 6 weeks. However I don't have many peers that do and I wish I could find all these 45+ people.....they don't seem to be in Bristol.....