yeah I think psy-trance might often attract an older crowd, old hippies mostly :laugh_at:- there are people like Barclay / Dark Angel who could be my uncle (think he turned 50 a couple of years ago)

but its the opposite on other genres – where I live now (East Anglia) and if I go to a free party or underground event playing hard trance, breaks or hardcore breaks (the most popular genres round here) I’m often one of the oldest people in the group – most are in their teens/twenties…

the wider free party crowd is actually a lot younger than what it used to be, I think its become a sort of “gap year” thing now from age 16-21 and then people go uni or get full time jobs and start winding it down a bit….

lightweights tho innit. when i was 13 we used to smoke crack in the youth club toilets. bare crack.

started drugs at age 15 but didn’t go raving till age 19 (although drugs were harder to get back then)

I think that although youths what do “too much too young” don’t drop dead or go mad, they do tend to burn out a lot quicker and by their late teens/early 20s aren’t enjoying parties any more

if you pace yourself you can keep going for years (where do you think all the older ravers come from?)

actually its just dawned on me that when I lived in Thatcham, Random_impulse wasn’t even born.. (bah, I feel really old now!)

am i the youngest poster here?

or is there someone 16… hmmm

i left my pipe at the vine

i also drop mdma at about 8 o clock cos i’m told too :hopeless:

I’ve met several generations of the same family at Norfolk parties, some people go with their mums and dads :laugh_at:

ive met loads of people who party with parents and kids, specially round the wales and forest of dean area.

round here you only get kids at the smaller little hippy parties, some of the larger rigs can be a ketamine fest and not good for taking children too.

yep that does (or did) happen here with the fluffier parties.

some parents have to be careful though, its fine if the parents are still together but my mate nearly got done by social services because he took his son to one of our parties in Reading (it was a squat party but a well run one with a small friendly crowd) and his ex found out and grassed on him to the authorities :hopeless:

Its strange though as I think small children aren’t at any major risk but when youths are aged 10-16 is when its a bit of a risk as they could end up regularly doing drugs a lot earlier than may be desireable… (apart from the slightly greater health risks to a growing body, its the risk of not doing well at education, as I know when I started doing drugs as a teen I couldn’t be fucked with studying any more)