Different ideas for 80s themed party…

Then again you could just dress up in pink and yellow lycra and ride mountain bikes.

Offer everyone a pint of milk upon arrival, then snatch it off them just before serving.

Alternatively play sardines by hiding in the cellar / under tables like in the nuclear fall-out public information videos.

Just make sure you get your years right. A friend of mine had his 50th 9 years back and laid on a 70’s themed party. Cue lots of flower power, chest hair wigs and big hair…..

He turned up dressed as Adam Ant 🙂

You could have a Protect & Survive party – hide under the stairs for a fortnight

(Thinking about it its pretty much what I did for my fiftieth, although it wasn’t’t consciously as an eighties tribute)

Then again you could just dress up in pink and yellow lycra and ride mountain bikes.

SCHMOO!

Also, roller disco, as Perchy mentioned. You ******* knows it, brah!

Thanks for the suggestions – I’ll pass on most thanks!!! 🙂

I’m going as Dan Marino (got myself a replica 80s Marino Dolphins jersey of t’eBay) – no one will know who the hell I am though!

Just make sure you get your years right. A friend of mine had his 50th 9 years back and laid on a 70’s themed party. Cue lots of flower power, chest hair wigs and big hair…..

He turned up dressed as Adam Ant

Formed early 1977. Who’s laughing now, you square? He was just ahead of his time 😉

I’m going as Dan Marino (got myself a replica 80s Marino Dolphins jersey of t’eBay) – no one will know who the hell I am though!

Will having Marino written across your shoulders not assist in that?

He turned up dressed as Adam Ant 

Adam in the 70s

…..wearing white sox obviously

A-Team theme:

Firstly everyone heads off to the nearest secure mental health unit and arranges for one of the inmates to escape.

Then half a dozen guests are locked in a shed with only a comprehensive selection of tools, welding equipment, steel plate, assorted scrap and a beefy vehicle.

While they are tasked with building some sort of of tank, everyone else hoons round the garden flipping jeeps onto their roofs and then emerging largely unscathed but slightly dishevelled.

…. under no circumstances are you to put big Steve into the spare bedroom.

Then put some Rohypnol into his lager and let him sleep it off in the spare bedroom.

Body popping in cool threads to MC Kev Fresh’s mixtape of banging electro vibes.  Wearing sweatbands and lots of white.  Around a ghetto blaster.

Ps this thread reminds me sharply of how many **** ‘1980s’ there were!  I had a few but there’s loads I missed.  Could the Nineties or Noughties lay even one tenth of a claim to the title of ‘how many decades in your decade?’

By comparison:

1980s:

Punk vs everyone vs post-punk

Mods vs Rockers reboot

Ska/Two Tone

Mountain biking

Poverty vs yuppies vs poverty vs…

Robot dancing/bodypopping

New Romantics

24/7 armageddon/nuke anxiety

Thatcher’s Mob and The Great Milk Robbery

Goth

‘Electronic dance music’

When video thought it had killed the radio star

Terrible food all of the time

Obsessions with electric blue,  Lurex, Spandex, Leather, Sub-Dom fashion/lifestyle themes

Inexplicable rising cult popularity of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (see also above)

The gastronomic explosion and shift to  balti and/or doner takeaways up and down high streets across the nation

First mobile phones and home computers

I could go on all day.  But when I think of the noughties it goes like this:

Jets flown into two tower blocks by nutters.  Everyone else now becomes a nutter and confirms this by creating (anti) social media and being nutters.  (Invokes the spirit of Clarkson)…

…Forever.

Not only was Adam Ant around in the 70s

Cue lots of flower power

1960s.  Ironing.  🎉

Maybe Wales was slow to adopt the summer of love

I went to an 80’s party with grey hair dye, flat cap, stick, whippet and all – I was the most 80 person in the room 🙂

Spent the whole time telling everyone to “speak up young man” and whining.

Careful with your description or just go for it  🙂

James