Has My Clubbing Bubble Burst?

[Orang Utan]

I'm not bored of it yet, but my body is definitely telling me to slow down. My tastes are changing though - I'm liking hard techno less and less and prefer dancing to house and disco a lot more. A lot of my contemporaries (like May K) seem to be getting into bands and gigs again, but not me. I need a replacement to no sleep at the weekend that's as much fun - a low-fat version IYKWIM

 

[May Kasahara]

Become a gigolo?

 

[Orang Utan]

Become a gigolo?

Don't think I'd get too many bookings!

 

[Dubversion]

Don't think I'd get too many bookings!

depends if you can get the tiger suit back

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I had a period a couple of years ago where i'd go clubbing a fair bit and do loads of pills, it just doesn't appeal as much anymore. I went to torment on friday and had a great time, beer and pro plus were the drugs of choice, I faltered quite badly by 5 though. I much prefer going out to clubs just a little amount rather than every weekend, I find I look forward to it and enjoy myself much more.

 

[gracious]

me, i love a good club.

shame that so many of them are shit.

 

[Giles]

I've been going out clubbing for years. I find my enthusiasm comes and goes.....

I've had almost a year when there was a group of us going out every other week at least, and these would often turn in to all weekend sessions. Then other times I've hardly gone out like that for months.

A lot depends on who you are with - I find that I pick up on my friends' enthusiasm and energy for it.

Giles..

 

[zenie]

I'd be out every friday and saturday if I could afford it.

I have felt like I've *lost* too many weekends of late though - but hey you're a long time dead

 

[Pieface]

I haven't had a really brilliant night for ages now. I'm deliberately planning on avoiding stuff until New Year and xmas - apart from helping at PRoD and doing the Actionette stuff. I've been very underwhelmed for a while now and I'm pig-sick of drugs and losing weekends to them.

 

[Pieface]

But I expect I shall bounce back

 

[Hollis]

I wish my clubbing bubble would burst.. but it won't..

 

[*Miss*Sparkle*]

A few years back I got really fed up of clubbing and getting messy and losing entire weekends. I stopped going clubbing for about 2 years cos of this - I thought my clubbing bubble had burst. Over the last couple of years I've realised that I don't need to be there til the bitter end, don't need to get messy and can still have fun. And this is what I'm doing - so what if I don't get swept off the dancefloor at 6am by the cleaners! I'll go out clubbing for as long as I want to go out, and if I want to go home I go home.

 

[zenie]

I'll go out clubbing for as long as I want to go out, and if I want to go home I go home.

That's what I do anyway?

 

[Orang Utan]

Over the last couple of years I've realised that I don't need to be there til the bitter end, don't need to get messy and can still have fun. And this is what I'm doing - so what if I don't get swept off the dancefloor at 6am by the cleaners! I'll go out clubbing for as long as I want to go out, and if I want to go home I go home.

Hmmm, this is OK sometimes, but a lot of nights put the headline DJs on last, so you have to wait til the end to hear them - I chickened out of seeing my favourite DJ (Surgeon) on Saturday cos it finished at 7 and was too far way (in Kings X) - years ago neither of those factors would have mattered.

 

[zenie]

You're all just getting old

 

[chieftain]

honestly nothings changed in clubland for the past 15 years*

*except drug prices and slights in music

ITS BORING UNLESS YOU'RE NEW TO IT

 

[Orang Utan]

True, it annoys me when people say that pills aren't as good - YES THEY ARE! YOU'RE JUST USED TO THEM!

 

[pk]

True, it annoys me when people say that pills aren't as good - YES THEY ARE! YOU'RE JUST USED TO THEM!

No, they're not as long-lasting or strong as the old red and black caps or yellow burgers circa 1989.

Don't know why.

The only thing close to the buzz of the old pills is about 1/2 a g of MDMA and 1/4 g of speed, bombed in a Rizla.

And it was all new then, so naturally it was more exciting.

Nothing wrong with clubbing it these days, but after almost 20 years... bound to get a bit same old same old...

 

[han]

Yep, I really do agree that pills aren't as strong as they used to be.

Obviously the more you take them the less strong they are cos your resistance goes up, but.....

If you take a really strong pill now, after having a year or so off for your brain to become 'virginal' again , they still won't be as strong as the rhubarb and custards that were around 10 years ago...

Doesn't matter too much though does it - anything becomes abit boring if you've done it for a decade or so....

I started to get bored of clubbing about 4 years ago, I guess after 10 years of being really into it I just started to want to do other things. Plus I just really like to have a whole weekend of feeling sane and healthy rather than knackered and wrecked these days!

Still, I really love getting offmetits a couple of times a year, say at a couple of festies or a v special occasion like Xmas/New Year. Keeps it special

A few peeps I know are having 'second winds' after having long breaks from drugs and clubbing. I'm sure that'll happen to me at some point. Probably when I'm about 50.

 

[Tank Girl]

A lot of my contemporaries (like May K) seem to be getting into bands and gigs again.IYKWIM

that's like me, I've really got into going to gigs again, and am enjoying them much more. nice early start, sensible finish and home tucked up in bed with an ovaltine before 1am

though the gigs I go to aren't necessarily the height of cool

 

[BEARBOT]

i've NEVER been all that big on clubbing..even when i was 18

i've always strongly prefered live music of various sorts,luckily got into all sorts of music quite early on when i got tired of rock and punk..went to latin music concerts as a teenager in NYC and found tito punete a hard act to follow ever since
90% of the clubs ive ever been to have had live acts on before the dj's....but don't listen to me cos techno music has just never been my thing and erm yeah ive done drugs

i would say im sure the OP already knows this but try out all sorts of things,new styles of music/different activites
you might be suprised that you find something(for awhile at least cos you might come back to it)that is even better than clubbing

 

[Rollem]

clubbing or just partying?

geez, i guess its like anything, do something too often, with the same crowd around you all the time, taking the same cocktails and dancing to the same tunes, it gets b o r i n g !

another blessing of having a kid - you pick and choose your nights out carefully and make the most of them when you are out - no matter who does or doesn't turn up. not that i am saying that the answer to all clubbing (i hate that word - dont we all just party?) woes is have a kid, god it can be the start of them !

diversify and be selective. thats my tippety-top-tip of the day

oh , and always party with punks