#The traditions of going out (clubbing)
The growth of the “rave” scene in Britain has meant that dancing had again become a central activity, as it was in the dance halls of the 1950s and early 1960s and the discos of 1970s. Alcohol has tented to be a peripheral element of UK dance culture in the 1990s. Instead, rave places much more emphasis on taking drugs such as “Ecstasy”. The counter-cultural status of raves can be compared to “blue parties”, which became particularly popular in Afro-Caribbean communities in the 1980s. Like raves, blue parties were associated both with a specific type of music (reggae and raga). But there is another way of going out on the town – pubbing.In large cities, especially northern ones, such as Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle, there is a whole ritual which revolves around “going out on the town” on a Friday or Saturday night. Long queues form as hundreds of people gather around the pubs, clubs and wine bars. Young women often dressed glamorously in thin-strapped or backless evening dresses, gauzy tunics or very short skirts, and young men in more casual shirts and trousers.