Taking your kids clubbing, C/D?

I'm not sure I'd want to do this myself, but this is one of those 'damn, I wish I'd thought of it' things.

Parents of ILE, where do you stand on this?

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i have friends who took their 3-month-old to Sonar last year, they said it was great!

i didn't see all of it but i thought small town ecstasy was really good

"Some people actually borrow kids to come here with"

Hmm

I'd totally take my three-year-old to an age-appropriate concert; she's just reached the point where she really responds to music, sings along, etc. But I already didn't go "clubbing" myself as a single person, so I don't know if I'd take my kid to one. Maybe a preschool indiepop night or something.

"Some people actually borrow kids to come here with"

As Nick Hornby comes up with a great idea for a sequel.

I thought this thread would be about baby seals.

Absolutely not.

No wai

oh god! i'm not sure what would be worse; adults on e or or toddlers.

could have sworn we had a thread on this!! yeah it's everywhere. i think it's just fine, clubbers get older, have kids, bound to happen.

it seems less lame to me than bringing your baby to a rock show, somehow. if there were a 'rock for tots' show to bring them to.

this would be really great for a kid's hearing

^

I'm taking my 13 yr old nipper to see Hot Chip tomorrow night. It's his first proper gig so should be interesting.

guys i doubt they're blasting the shit. these things happen at like 2pm

"Crank it up... to FIVE!!!!!!"

More like "Crank it up...to THIS many!!!"

Not a chance, sounds absolutely horrendous

Seen some people at one of these things on TV months ago. Would trample over my own kids to avoid.

I'm for it, as long as they only give their kids a half

Deprived of a social life since the birth of their children

Fuck is wrong with these people?

same thing that's wrong with you, but different

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If they wanted a social life, they shouldn't have had kids.

also goes for not ruining my movie/dining/etc. experience with their spawn

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This basically sounds like paying to go to a wedding reception.

"Crank it up...to THIS many!!!"

haha! My kids would LOVE playing with the DJ faders, come to think of it.

- people like wedding receptions
- cover charge is cheaper than flatware / immersion blender
- don't have to sit and clap politely through bride/groom or bride/father dances
- special VIP room for single parents to get grinding on one another

I just worry about these poor children, lured into the nightlife and then deprived of it between the ages of 7 and 18.

It's more like early preparation for middle school dances and bar mitzvahs.

No one tell Kim Fowley about this, OK? (Those who've read WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB will know what I mean.)

Deprived of a social life since the birth of their children

They're called "babysitters" and "grandparents." Look into them.

^^^ Good idea if you have willing grandparents or money for sitters, but it doesn't always work that way.

"We weren't ravers even before we had a kid, but we can't go out for a meal or a drink very often as both sets of parents live in Canada and it costs a fortune to get babysitters."

PWNED PWNED PWNED

-being sick accepted at that age

If they wanted a social life, they shouldn't have had kids.

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also goes for not ruining my movie/dining/etc. experience with their spawn

-- milo z, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

seriously. fuck your "dining experience". you pretentious ass.

milo otm

Some people actually borrow kids to come here with

Is this the final piece in the MISSING MADDY jigsaw?

Nice to see kids being exposed at such a young age to wholesome fare like "Word Up" and "Bootylicious."

yep thats the real evil of these things.

but then again, the indiedisco version would be way worse

Hi folks, Spokesperson for Amber and Alice here.

It depends on what you mean by 'clubbing', and what the basic difference between 'it' and the 'entry level' (shall we say) havens/butlins/pontins style 'kids disco'.

If the difference is minimal (and I suspect it is), then what exactly is the fuss about?

As for the 'wholesome' fayre just mentioned, that's nothing: Kids want to be gettin' down to 'super freak' and not just because it was in "LMSunshine' (and no, they have not seen it).

It's dance music, and so they dance to it. Alice has always been a fantastic dancer for her age, so the old traditional 'nellyEl' and 'ringyringy' just does not cut it as it maybe did, for longer/older age kids than now.

There's a lot of music around.

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i probably wanted to dance to 'Relax' when i was 6

.. and probably did!

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