[Closed] Different ideas for 80s themed party...

Smack! Get everyone off their tits on brown. Everyone was doing it in the 80’s

Take a zimmer.

What's wrong with a sunny coke-fuelled Miami Vice homage theme? Smack's so dreary.

Close down any heavy industry in your local area?

That'd be a right laugh.

Get 200 tennis balls and do your best Mike Reid impression for an impromptu game of Runaround.

RRRRUNAROUND..............NOW!

Switch off your power, don’t empty your bins, tell everyone your dog has rabies, no heating due a coal shortage, only tins and dry good no fresh food as you can’t afford due to no minimum wage and import cost due to fuel shortages.  Ah sorry that’s a Brexit party.

What's the question?

Half the guests dress as miners, half as coppers aaaaaaand.....

Pick something upbeat:

Our family were so poor in the 80's that our dog only had one rabie

Hows about a Jim'll Fixit room??

Whatever you do, make sure your flies are done up properly on your trousers, otherwise Chernobyl fallout

🙂

The early and mid 80’s were totally shit! Everything about them! Grim! But because they were so shit everyone had enough of all the shitness by 88 and thought “sod it! Let’s put smiley face t-shirts on and get mashed off our faces on weapons grade E’s and have an absolute bloody ball.

You should just do that 😀

Binners in the 80s?

or

Or go punk.  Everyone thinks of the 80s as either raves or new romantics /. new wave but punk carried on into the early 80s

Replicate Charles and Diana’s wedding?

Grab a PC and pretend to program MS-Dos..

You could defend the Falklands all over again..

Dress up in leotards and pretend you are Jane Fonda..

Call someone up on the first cell phone call..

Wear some Nike trainers..

Knock next doors wall down and pretend to be the Hoff..

Beat it to thriller and Billie Jean!

Soundtrack by Stiff records and 2 tone

Back on topic...

Spend most of the evening building a huge wall separating couples from each other and then at the end of the evening tell them that technically they have to wait until tomorrow to knock it down. They are allowed to climb over the wall during the last half hour.

#notreallyapartyplanner

Joyriding was all the rage then, let's fire up the quatro!

Compulsory tabs for everyone. Full on Barclays, none of your Silk Cut nonsense. It's not an 80s party if there isn't a blue/grey fug hanging around 12" below the ceiling in every room.

Boycott all South African fruit.

Anybody who can prove that they have bought no South African produce whatsoever all day gets a free Nelson Mandela.

The early and mid 80’s were totally shit!

Far better in the 70's with piles of rubbish in the streets and energy blackouts, eh binners?

And just to twist the knife; coal production was on a linear decline for a century to only be affected briefly by strikes.

The 80's was ****ing awesome!

Half the guests dress as miners, half as coppers aaaaaaand…..

Pit closure themed parties have proved difficult to get off the ground:

From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-42128595

A miners' strike-themed student rugby club event has been criticised as "disgraceful" and swiftly cancelled.

FB invite:

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Play a game of Twister (ok, not uniquely 80s, and no doubt more of a challenge 30+ years on, but part of everyone's formative years and potentially highly amusing).

Clearly it’s about the pudding. Black Forest gateaux. Artic Roll. Etc etc.

Get some ignorant **** in a shiny suit to walk around telling everyone else that he's just ordered a Porsche.

if you're entertaining outside remember to leave suitable amounts of hedgeporn dotted around the topiary (bonus points for white dog poo)

Play Killing Joke's "Eighties" on endless loop so people get the idea.

And a good chance to dig the MC Hammer trousers out

got to be 80's films. Top gun, cocktail, gemlins, goonies etc

Ooh, look I found a photo which sums up everything that was bad about the 80s. Includes fashion, miners' strike, politics, the housing crisis, Michael Fish's weather forecast error and music, all in this one picture

Mad Max party.

Also doubles as a Hard Brexit party.

Roller disco.

Safe as ****.

You knows it.

Half of the guests twoc some MG Maestros and do doughnuts outside your house while sniffing glue. The other half wear brogues or deck shoes and suits and act like a cross between Rees Mogg and an estate agent.

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 ****ing '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