Nightclubs: It’s about time we moved on

It’s high time we ditched the nightclubs.

Booze is expensive, it’s full of lairy idiots and the bouncers aren’t always the friendliest. We should go back to the good ol’ days (which none of us remember).

Rave culture; the massive party scene that took hold while most of us were still learning to walk.

It saw a massive nation-wide trend of music, drugs, glow-in-the-dark paint and people generally having a fucking great time in fields and warehouses up and down the country.

Due to the moral panic that inevitably follows any form of youth and hedonism, most aspects of the culture were demonised. The law at the time quickly followed suit and reflected efforts to prevent the raves from taking place.

This clamp down eventually led to the parties having to be further regulated and take place in buildings that inevitably had to charge for entry. And so the nightclub was born, parallel to the death of spontaneity in rave culture.

Clubs are where decent night life goes to die. Ever tried going to one sober? No. Because you need to be drunk to find any form of entertainment in them. Drug taking is more regulated, so people have to hide in the toilets or in the dark sticky corners of the club to sneak their hits.

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The communal atmosphere of the rave was destroyed and now you’re more likely to find idiots throwing badly aimed punches because one of them knocked the other and spilled their double vodka.

Who said the only way to enjoy an active social life was to spend your weekends in a dingy building, designed to by the owners to squeeze as much money out of you as possible?

We’ve all felt the pinch of the ever increasing alcohol, and some even suggested that the manipulation of rave culture to nightclubs was to drive people away from tax-less drugs and back to taxable alcohol. Would that really be such a surprise?

Same ale, less money…

Personally, I think it’s about time we all jumped on the free festival bandwagon. The friendly atmosphere is based around the precept that you should bring what you expect to find there.

It’s certainly not a new idea, but for those of you who prefer a good house party to a sweaty club, it’s like that but on a bigger scale.

Conversely, if you do like clubs, it still involves drinking and dancing the night away; but it doesn’t include an entry fee, aggy bouncers or £4 for a double. Everyone’s a winner.