Not being negative
The term has no place in my life. From teenage in early 1990s to... right now
We laughed at that word. I'd think of very old people collecting stamps, coins, trainspotting, knitting, crotchet? What's that?
My best way to use the word would be to use a bat / piece of wood to kill people.
Fine to 'go out'. That is not the right wording either - staying at home or leaving it?
WE... our kind had a time and place to group in a bar. Not a 'pub' which did not involve 'pop'.
My elder brothers and their girls / wives liked a place in town called 'GAS' to meet for pop on a Saturday night (Michael Jackson, Wham, Elton John) where I lived (never 'grreeeww up' - ignorant of what was around me) Glad to get out of there
I got myself into The NIGHT OWL when I was 14. 1980s. A door in the street. Up the stairs to a windowless room with a bar and dancefloor. Entirely metal, grunge, Death - all American - Metallica & Megadeth, going home about 4am to get ready for school. We had tooo much beer. Girls jumped all over me but generally found me a bit odd, I guess. I thought they were. mmm. too loud & fat
Ooh I did have deep social ineptitude which has taken me until about 2011 to recognise my failures - trying to not interact, and relax. Did like a big Iron Maiden event in Shepperton once
Since 1994 to now, London or Bristol, inside or outside in summer, we made our own parties. From the start I organised a few events with strictly electronic, non-vocal music. That's proper reason to get you excited & moving, feeding real emotion & passion directly into your ears, and mostly disturbingly bass into your belly. The 'pay to get in' door tariff and bouncers era disappeared for us in about 1997. Free parties were my life. Inter-contintental, travelling in vans with serious kit and power generators of different sizes. That was a way to get clubbing together, NOT following society. The inverse. We mixed our own music. Early days: organised in a nightclub, with our own strobes and ultraviolet. No mirrorball.
Police use helicopters and ground force with shields to stop the noise. In fields, forest or beach outside or cities in recycled buildings. The best activity was to take over disused buildings, just to smash up everything - windows, doors... airport hangars, farm buildings in the countryside near Bristol, warehouses, fire stations - anything empty. 30 floors. Different sound rig on each floor. One on the roof. Umm.. not Ibiza... We followed French and Czech culture. In the wispy mountains of Barcelona
This is THE reason why I've found it impossible to meld with the standard everyday normal couch potato TV-DVD-watching genre of people who like go shopping, and work in offices. Different planet lifestyle. Thought I could get on that way.
Carved a different way to live. Trying to hide that and be normal. It is all over. I wonder what normal people do, because... I don't
