A mother recounts her nervous experience taking her 18-year-old son to a nightclub featuring popular gamer-turned-DJ Vikkstar. She compares the experience to her own anxieties from 25 years ago, highlighting the generational differences in how they perceive nightclubs and electronic dance music.
I parked out on the street at around 10.30pm, read the parking sign three times and took a photo of it, as if that made a parking ticket less likely. My 18-year-old son and I then walked towards a night out that had been ages in the planning. He was nervous and filled with anticipation. I was just worried.
My younger son has never been to a concert of any kind and certainly not a nightclub. He doesn’t enjoy loud noises, strobe lighting, lasers, crowds , or late nights. He doesn’t drink alcohol and is repulsed by smoking and vaping. He likes daytime sport, gaming and the EDM that features in the games he plays. But UK gamer and now DJ Vikkstar, who my son has followed on YouTube for 10 years, was headlining tonight, so the usual rules didn’t apply.
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