Are you really that old, dc?
No wonder you've never met an academic in a nightclub. It's obviously a while since you went to one yourself.
oh dear is 36 'old' ? I'd better start lying about age. as for nightclubs, I've been to about 4 or 5 in total (I think), all of them were different, but all were expensive.
...as for academics at alternative venues...hang on t-i-n... you didn't happen to be at Napalm Death 2 years ago in Berlin, -I remember a conspicuously ignored & youngish academic standing around...