Based on D’Olier Street, SoHo Dublin is set to host club event ‘Let’s Dance’ every Saturday from 5.30pm to 10.30pm
And between this and Justin Bieber becoming a dad – when his smash hit ‘Baby’ recorded when he was 15 feels like it only came out yesterday – I’ve never felt older.
Based on D’Olier Street, SoHo Dublin is set to host club event ‘Let’s Dance’ every Saturday from 5.30pm to 10.30pm.
So, in theory, you could be tucked up in your bed with your makeup off and jammies on by the time energetic Gen Z-ers are leaving the house.
Speaking about the launch, co-owner Jerry Harrington said: “We kept hearing from our over 35s guests that they wanted a night where they could really enjoy themselves without the usual late-teen or early twenties crowd.
“‘Let’s Dance’ is our answer – a night dedicated to bringing back the magic of those classic nightclub experiences, with a modern twist, all in a space where they feel truly comfortable.”
As someone who won’t even start a movie after 8pm now, for fear of conking it before the opening credits have even rolled, it should have been ’90s music to my ears.
But there was something horribly triggering about the fact that someone who was only born in 1989, when Dead Poets Society was in cinemas and Black Box Ride on Time dominated airwaves, could now be considered “out of place in today’s club scene”, as the press release that pinged into my inbox on Wednesday continued.
Surely, there’s been a typo, I reassured myself. Surely they mean ‘over-55s’?
Alas, they did not, and my existential angst did not get any better when I popped along to a respectable 6.05pm screening of It Ends With Us with an old school friend during the week, and spotted a poster for the upcoming 30th anniversary re-release of Pulp Fiction on the way out.
Can it really be three whole decades since John Travolta discovered that, in Europe, they call a ‘quarter pounder with cheese’ a ‘Royale with cheese’?
Then again, our shock at the line of twenty-somethings queuing to brave the 8.30pm screening of the Blake Lively movie probably only proved that she and I are exactly the target market for something like ‘Let’s Dance’.
In fact, if companies really want to cater for the inbetweeny Millennial crowd – too old for late bars, but too young for bingo – maybe they need to take it even a step further.
I’m thinking: ‘Saturday Nights at SuperValu’, where you can do your big shop, have a boogie and meet a bloke all before closing time at 9pm – now that’s something I’d dust down my Macarena moves for.
