Right, cast your minds back twenty years – if applicable – to NYE 2004. You’ve wandered into some ratty dive bar because you and your m8s can’t organise yourself properly and it’s free entry before 9 PM, and this picture perfectly sums up the vibe:

• Cutters Choice (£2.20 for 12.5g!), filters, a sub £3 pint and just out of shot silver king-size Rizlas for… reasons 🌿

• A blue Nokia 3100—your trusty text machine, perfect for texting “where r u” at 11:58 to that one mate who’s reliably gone missing.

• A glass ashtray, because in 2004, nobody batted an eye at sparking up indoors, especially when you were trying to take the taste of a pint of piss warm Carling away.

In the background, it’s all indie anthems and sticky floors. The DJ’s dropping Mr Brightside (pre-overkill era), followed by Take Me Out and something from The Libertines, while everyone pretends not to care how cold it is outside.

What were you lot up to on NYE 2004? Bonus points if it involved blagging into a club underage, lighting sparklers in a garden, or an iconic indie outfit that somehow involved a scarf indoors. Cheers 🍻 to dodgy dive bars and simpler times!

Happy New Year you old c*nts

by the_they_is_them

22 comments

  1. Fucking hell this is practically upper class! We used to tear off bits on the rizla packets to save on buying filters or just smoke without 😂

    The money saved helped us afford Drum. Was like an extra 50p for 12.5g

  2. Christ I miss those old Nokias and physical keypads.
    As much as Smartphones have infinitely improved life, they have also infinitely negatively impacted life – including inability to stay present.

    Anyway on topic, 2004 I was 11 so I was probably at my uncles to watch the New Year in. He’d usually give me a shot of whisky to see the year in. A bit young but not insane around my area.

  4. 30g of cutters choice is £25.50 now at 85p a gram.

    12.5g for £2.20 is 17p a gram! A 5 fold increase!

    £2.20 in 2004 is £4.32 today. They’ve made smoking very very expensive.

  6. 2004 I was in some dodgy club in Waterloo. I’d been doing the whole raving thing for about 10 years on NYE up til then, but that was the last one I ever did, it’s been house parties or just doing nothing ever since.

    20 years ago…. Damn….

  7. Car park and 3 litres of cider then some pills in the park I think. Ahh to be 17 again.

  8. Bloody hell, Cutter’s Choice… might as well smoke old rope!

  10. First NYE at uni! Can’t remember but similar to yours by the sounds of it. Can’t remember what phone I had.

  11. This seems like this was taken in the Pavilion Tavern in Brighton. The entire blurb reads like my 2004 life.

  13. Little nugget of weed in the pouch of baccy to have with a pint in the beer garden. Those were the days.

  15. This photo made me yearn for Bowling and Snake EX2. Blue 3100 was my very first phone

  16. Peak ‘Indie Sleaze’ era.

    Soundtracked by The Rapture.

  17. I was with my horrible ex, so probably crying in the toilet of a club in Greenwich or New Cross.

  18. I was conceived about 3 months later lol. Just turned 19

  19. Had tickets to go to my local boozer. But me and my mate are so much pizza before going out it put us in a food coma and we went home about 8. Proper rock n roll night. 

  20. I was definitely underage drinking in a pub with rollies too. My earliest new year photo is from 2005, posing all posh because I have a REAL cigarette (a danger to my sweepy hairsprayed fringe) 😆

    Edit: I remember I was in Idols in Sunderland where the lasses wore nothing but furry leg warmers (near enough) and stupidly drunk on goldschlager with work at McDonald’s the next day

  22. I was 14. I get a bit sad when I think of that girl, I was so unhappy.
    Tonight I’m out with my partner at the village pub for dinner. I expect we will be asleep before midnight!

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