@duzalampe 561534 wrote:
As someone whose 30th birthday darkly approaches, I figured it’d be fun to get people’s opinions on a very important and serious matter:
At what age is it time to hang up the glowsticks?
A: If you have to ask, you’re already too old. Loser.
B: When you start to feel noticeably older than everyone else.
C: You’re never too old!
In UK it does seem that all clubbing is aimed at the 18-35 age group but in NL there are people 50 and above regularly attending EDM events. I am lucky that (due to ancestry) I am regularly mistaken for someone in their 20s, and that SE Asian chaps are equally common in many parts of NL and DE (there are 18 Chinese restaurants even in a rural area of NL).
At some time I want to visit NL, and the Ganzenparadijs, the big electronics / hi fi / radio amateurs field days, the studios of Radio Maria, meow with the cats at the Schiedam cat show and see Armin Van Buuren; but from what I have seen there is no reason why I could not do all of these things at any age between 42 and 60+ as it seems like a lot of Dutch chaps do exactly that. (there is also a convenient train that stops near all these places, and space to put my e-bike on it).
(I am still going to get called aside by Border Force on the way back in anyway whether I am 40 or 70 as they will find it hard to believe I actually bothered to learn Dutch and travel 500km across the country for legitimate reasons…).
I recently watched this youtube video of this dude in NLwho built his own hi fi amp using EL84 valves in 2011 and used a house track as backing music, although he does also listen to (and transmit) piratenhits. To have the skills and spare time to do that he must be the other side of age 45. There does seem to be a crossover between the piratenhits scene and hardstyle/gabba/hardcore followers (I think the radio pirates are their dads!)
