I’m not averse to a bit of dance music. I’ve never been to Ibiza. I’d quite like to go, at least once. I mean the full on, clubbing until dawn experience.
I’m 45? Am I too old? Am I going to feel like a fish out of water? Any old ravers in the afterword massive?
Arthur Cowslip says
I don’t know why I wrote ‘I’m 45?’ with a question mark. I AM 45.
Moose the Mooche says
You were upspeaking to sound as if you’re down with the kids. Too late, feller.
Arthur Cowslip says
I was upspeaking? To get down with the kids?
Moose the Mooche says
Yeah? It’s like.. so? Undignified?
Harold Holt says
Make it sound Australian, going up at the end of the sentence.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Toadally.
Vincent says
I went in 2002. I wouldn’t dream of going near a nightclub or young people’s pubs with thump-thump hysteria, but I did drink some nice wine and eat some nice food walking along the sea front. I smelt less ‘erb than I would in Newquay. Maybe being a bloke who looks like “Big Keith” out of “The Office, I was kept out of all the fun.
paulwright says
You are thinking about consequences. Therefore you are too old to go to Ibiza.
Arthur Cowslip says
Thought as much!
Mike_H says
Think you’ll find that’s the crux of the matter right there.
Moose the Mooche says
We will see this adventure covered in a Channel 5 documentary called Sun, Sea and Suspicious Children.
retropath2 says
I’m told you are at least a decade late; it isn’t so much your age but the age of the “scene”. My kids went but would laugh if it were suggested they would go now. It would be a bit like asking me to go to Glastonbury in this century.
If you want a dance experience, come on over to Bearded Theory, to the dance tent, aka Magical Sounds, this w/e. Most of the DJs and most of the audience/dancers will be way older than you. Hell, I go to feel young, when the whipper snapper performers, Robert Plant, Jimmy Cliff, on the main stage make me feel my age.
Kid Dynamite says
I can confirm I will be in the dance tent at BT, and I am older than Master Cowslip. JUST.
Arthur Cowslip says
I’ve heard good things about Bearded Theory! We might book it for next year.
Baron Harkonnen says
Go to Benidorm mate, that’s the place to be.
duco01 says
There’s an island 900 metres off the coast of Ibiza called Tagomago. I for one am definitely not too old for Tago Mago …
Arthur Cowslip says
Tago Mago!!? Wow.
Arthur Cowslip says
Is it anywhere near Ege Bam Yasi?
Moose the Mooche says
Turn left at Babaluma.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Babaluma scene: soon over.
Arthur Cowslip says
I’ve taken a straw poll of the general response on this thread and I think the resounding answer to my question is Yes.
Ah well. it was just a thought.
Moose the Mooche says
F*** do we know…. Ask some young people. How, I’ve no idea.
todayoutof10 says
Hey Arthur. I too am very fond of dance music and went to Ibiza – full on clubbing – when I was in my mid 30s. It was almost 20 years ago, but feels like yesterday.
What have you got to lose!?
I’d go again, but I’d avoid the pubs. They were messy ❤️
Moose the Mooche says
It’s different for girls.
Blue Boy says
I hear the walking and scenery is nicer in Tenerife…
Arthur Cowslip says
Going there this summer! This is next year we’re thinking about.
Zanti Misfit says
When you’re in Tenerife definitely go to the Siam Water Park. That’s when you worry if you’re too old.
But bollocks to that, I’m 52, no kids of my own to excuse me being there and loved it. Ultimately, nobody gives a s**t at raves, super clubs or water parks is what I’m trying to say.
minibreakfast says
I thought for a moment you’d mis-typed one of those, and thought “Ooh lovely, supper clubs”.
Moose the Mooche says
No, Super Clubs are where everyone wears capes and their underpants on top of their trousers.
Arthur Cowslip says
I went to Siam water park two years ago with my then 19 year old son and loved it and didn’t feel old! So does that mean Ibiza is a go-er???
nigelthebald says
No.
And neither is Goa 😉
Tiggerlion says
Of course you are. Get over it.
Arthur Cowslip says
Ha ha! Yes sir Tigger sir.
dai says
I actually “danced” for the first time in a number of years on Saturday at a party. The live band was playing reggae music. I enjoyed it, I am 56.
Junior Wells says
Reggae is age neutral.
metal mickey says
Reggae is everything-neutral and crosses all barriers… back in my DJ-ing days, on those odd weird nights when the crowd simply refused to dance to anything, it was always reggae that would break the deadlock… Jamming, Red Red Wine, Kingston Town… and ska too, A Message To You Rudy, or Too Much Too Young or One Step Beyond for the more raucous gatherings…
Tiggerlion says
Reggae is a healing balm for the whole of mankind, especially if you sing along at the top of your voice, whether you can sing or not.
Junior Wells says
Yep. To all of that. Born of the chalice – sunshine , spliff and happiness.
attackdog says
Tiggers answer is true. I’ve just taken delivery of Black Uhuru’s ‘Anthology’ and it’s rootsy, rockin’, skankin’ and, err .. It’s very good (and a steal at about a fiver on Amazon).
dai says
For the record, the song they played was Night Nurse as immortalised by Gregory Isaacs.
duco01 says
Oh yes…
“Tell her it’s a case of emergency
There’s a patient by the name of Gregory”
I love it when singers refer to themselves by name in their own songs!
Gary says
Like Sting in ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’
metal mickey says
… or as in the immortal Simply Red version:
“Tell her it’s a case of emergency
There’s a patient by the name of Mickey”
Kaisfatdad says
I have an old Finnish friend who lives out in the wilds of the countryside in Ibiza and I’ve been over to visit her a few times. It is a very beautiful island and is a mixture of so many different scenes. She’s part of the whole hippy scene that dates back to Soft Machine’s gigs there.
Add to that …
the sophisticated Mediterranean jet set from Spain, Italy and France
the charter tourists from the UK and Northern Europe many of whom are there for the Balearic beats nightlife
Spanish family holiday makers
a lively gay scene in the Old Town
extraordinary open air discos (Ku was the place when I was there 20 years ago)
All in all a very heady mixture of scenes jostling along with each other. Not to mention some marvellous places to eat in all price categories.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Yes, my thoughts too. Just get on a plane and GO SEE. If the banging music and soap bubbles club scene leaves you unimpressed within 5 minutes, at least you can say you took a look. And when you do finally come to your senses in that respect, you’ll have the rest of a fabulous place to explore.
Necking nineteen lagers in four hours flat, scoffing three dodgy Es, getting a headache the size of Formentera, realising you have a minor stab wound and unexplained gravel rash in the mid morning afterwards and very possibly discovering that you’ve lost your wallet are only about nought point zero zero zero one percent of Ibiza’s attractions.
mrxsg says
I don’t see why you shouldn’t go.
You’ll probably be a decade younger than some of the Deejays.
Harold Holt says
Go, and if you don’t like it, leave.
I have to admit clubbing was never my thing, so my qualifications to speak on this are a) non-existent and b) 30 years out of date. But whenever I was anywhere near the Med (particularly Spain and Greece) my main objective was to avoid the British tourists…I’d hang with the Scandis and Germans. Much more civilised atmosphere.
Places like Loret De Mar, with Watneys, fish and chips and hooligans didn’t seem that attractive really.
Ahh_Bisto says
The beauty of Ibiza is that it’s very easy to get away from the club scene without having to venture too far. So go Mad fer it and enjoy a late entry to Yoof culture and if it gets a bit messy then go Saga fer it and enjoy an early entry to Oldie culture.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Wot E said. Er, I mean, what he said.
attackdog says
I’d say go for it. Just don’t forget to pack your Speedos and mankini so you at least look the part. Party away Bro.
Moose the Mooche says
A fellow would be overdressed in Speedos and a mankini, don’t you know.
attackdog says
Oh no, I didn’t mean that they should be worn at the same time. That really would be a disastrous fashion faux pas for a young guy of 45.
Moose the Mooche says
It would cause severe tension in the Balearics.
Hamlet says
Just go! What’s the worst that could happen: you go to a sunny place and have a few drinks? You make a tit of yourself? Rod Stewart’s been making a tit of himself for years!
If you feel out of place, just find a nice bar and have a few beers. My uncle, who’s 70, goes to Ibiza because it’s sunny and he has mates there. He doesn’t go clubbing, but he likes the island.
Anyway, people are too busy thinking about themselves to worry about what you do. This is a liberating thought: do what you want to (not shoplifting, obviously).
Mike_H says
No incest or Morris dancing either.
Arthur Cowslip says
Wait, slow down, I’m taking this down as a list.
Anything else?
Sour Crout says
What Hamlet said
Though I found the island a bit dirty to be honest . Menorca, Northern Majorca and Formentera are much nicer.