I love chatting to older ravers and often ask em how they came to be ravers! usually it’s always what were the pills like when you first started! Have had many a colourful conversation with older ravers and proper enjoyed em!

I just don’t like the wankers who say “our era was the best yours is fucking shit” have met a few people like that before, them sorts can fuck right off! :laugh_at:

ive got quite a few mates who are in thier 30’s and 40’s, never really thought it was an issue at free partys tbh…

if I see any old people dancing I yell “nice dance moves grandad”.

I view older ravers in the mirror.

envy them for being there in the begining and admire them for still going at it hardcore :weee:

Yeah i’m with em on that one. K is wrong now! Had some K on the weekend (First time in a while) i regretted it straightaway! Horrible stuff, bring on the mad man! :laugh_at:

thing with rave is its ongoing popularity – mid to late 80s, 90s, 00s, and nearly into 10’s. That nearly a four decade span! Its no wonder that age boundaries are becoming so wide.

it does depend on the crowd (& certain individuals) at parties. Most of the free ones i went to were fine but one time there was this agitated rottweiller in attendance which put a more ominious slant on the evenings entertainment 🙁

Although i try and be open minded about the traveller folks there were some who did not look after their animals

“free parties are great for all oldies…i call old about 50 or 60”
thank you for making me feel younger

i think older ravers have a lot to teach the younger ones. i have met a few 30 yr olds @ parties that are some of the most interesting people i’ve ever met!

just have fun!

im 38. dont look it or feel it its a number to me…:love:
also look at madonna at 50! we have left the age behind where we have to conform to being older.we can wear do what we want..it makes me smile when i think whats it going to be like when we are all old. walking about in adidas trackie suits cos there comfy. and pensioner punks with dyed hair.tattoos and piercings..in the old folk homes they ll be sat round swapping tales of raves way back when….hehee…
….im more comfortable now in my 30s than i ever was in my twenties…and my teen times were just awful really….happy in your own body you have to be…and guess what i got told by someone….i have the body of a 21 yr old the other day …! get in !:weee:

I’m an older raver but lucky enough to also look younger (I had to get a challenge 21 card recently as I can’t get served alcohol in many places without it!)

the only reason why less older people attend raves in East Anglia is because people have families or long term relationships a bit younger, and they can’t afford to take risks such as losing vehicles, careers or loads of money from rigs (due to getting busted) when they have others dependent on them.

Although the music was good, (some older ravers) look upon the early 90s with rose-tinted specs. in fact the scene still had a darkside – much of the cameraderie from drugs such as MDMA was temporary and the “community” was dominated by real gangsters, violent and dysfunctional people, which as much led to the CJA and similar laws as the moral panics from “babylon”.

it was on the decline by 1993 and by 1995 it could easily have died out had the government not changed as they were starting to enforce the laws.

For all the people cursing Blair today, from 1997-2002 it was a lot less harsh – they actually had all the laws and surveillance available back then but never really bothered to enforce them, as the rest of society wasn’t as bothered about raves – at some points it was like the CJA never existed and people could do what the fuck they wanted!

IMO The best times of raves were 1997-2002 in SE England and until 2005 in East Anglia, not that long ago.