#109

Yeah this, my mum no so long ago hit 70 and she still gets along to gigs.
Maybe not as many as she use to go to but it was her that took me to my first gig all those years ago

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#110

you might like this bammers

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#112

My mum didn’t listen to fuck all until my sister and I kinda grew up. Now she buys folky and grunge stuff. It’s nice

#113

Nice :+1::grinning:

#115

My Dad still goes to gigs with his mates. Got turned away from Ronnie Scotts on his 60th for being too pissed. (that was actually 10 years ago, but he still goes now)

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#116

Wow she sure has vaulted a low bar there

#117

in class cant talk

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#118

Ok no problem

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#120

I find discovering music rarely happens if I’m actively doing it. Seems like I occasionally just click a link at random and then I find something I really like that leads me down another set of branches

#121

You know I’ve not listened to hot snakes despite being reliably informed they would be up my street. When and where are they playing?

#123

I’ll give them a spin

Edit: wait! 27 of this month we’re away I think

#124

Polar Bear?

#125

My mum also loves music still, though sadly most of her enthusiasm is on Ed Sheeran these days.

I still try to listen to new releases as much as possible and limit listening to older stuff. I think I’m safe from only listening to my ‘era’ of music because fuck me, so much of what I listened to between 1999 - 2006 was absolute guff. Nu metal, britrock, landfill indie and post-punk pastiche haircut bands. :nerd_face:

I’d like to go to more gigs, I’ve hardly been to any the past few years - ironically moving in with two of my ATDs meant we went out way less than when we’d hang out at shows.

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#127

That age quoted above (32/33) sounds about right…but I reckon I had a fairly late musical “awakening” so it could (hopefully) be later for me…hopefully late 30s. Coupled with the fact that I see myself going to festivals (specifically EOTR) for some time yet…and that always requires discovering something new.

P.S. this is wonton

#128

Yeah, if going to gigs was a surefire measure of coolness we’d all be much farther up the social ladder…

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#130

Not my mum, always playing music and always changing what she was into until she was getting to about 60.

#131

Oh yeah I forgot to reply to that sorry. Might be the same actually, I’ll check and let you know x

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#132

Ha ha! Thus is the route I’m on! :grinning:

#133

still make music, still listen to new stuff

some of my absolute favourite times have been combining a DiS meat with a gig

#134

I still listen to a lot of new music. I think the main thing that’s changed over the years is how I listen to music rather than the amount. I’d say 90% of my listening now is over headphones either at work or on my commute whereas when I was younger I listened to a lot more music over speakers at home and went to more gigs/clubs.