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92 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 3 2o17 Samantha Wilkinson, Catherine Wilkinson | Night-Life and Young People’s Atmospheric Mobilities being played to purchase drinks; less popular songs generate a different atmosphere, which are unsuitable for dancing mobilities. Importantly, this paper has illustrated, through the account of Charlie, that not all young people are enveloped by enjoyable atmospheres in drinking spac- es; this warrants further attention. To date, when young people’s alcohol-related mobilities have been considered in the liter- ature, it has typically been conceptualised in a reductive manner, which theorises mobility as a “product of rationally weighed decisions” (Spinney 2009, 820). This paper has contributed to a small body of work (e.g. Duff and Moore 2015; Shaw 2014; Wilkinson, S. 2015), in high- lighting the emotional, embodied and affective aspects of alcohol-related mobilities, including vehicular mobilities, and mobilities in commercial drinking spaces, and has thus gone some way towards exposing the lived experiences of young people’s drinking geographies. Such fun, and ‘buzzy’, yet also safe, alcohol-related mobilities described by young people are, however, somewhat at odds with the heavily regulated spaces preferred by planners and authorities. As this paper makes clear, young people themselves use the term ‘atmosphere’ when discussing their drinking stories; this paper thus argues that it is culturally credible for policymakers and planners to communicate with young people in their own language, regarding how to craft en- joyable, inclusive, and safe drinking atmospheres to share with friends. With this, there should be a move away from imposing, in a top-down manner, rules and regulations regarding where young people can, and cannot, consume alcohol (e.g. banning open space drinking); this ap- proach completely downplays the relational, dynamic, and processual aspects of young people’s night-life. References Anderson, Ben. 2009. ‘Affective Atmospheres’, Emotion, Space and Society, 2(2), 77-81 Atherton, John, Chris Baker, and Elaine Graham. 2005. ‘A ‘Genius of Place’?: Manchester as a Case Study in Public Theology’. In Elaine Graham, and Anna Rowlands, eds., Pathways to the Public Square: Proceedings of the 2013 IAPT Conference, Manchester UK (London: Transac- tion Publishers); 63-83 Barker, John, and Fiona Smith. 2001. ‘Power, Positionality and Practicality: Carrying out Field- work with Children’, Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography, 4(2), 142-147 Bellis, Mark, Gerry Hale, Andrew Bennett, Mohammad Chaudry, and Mary Kilfoyle. 2000. ‘Ibiza Uncovered: Changes in Substance Use and Sexual Behaviour Amongst Young People Visiting An International Night-life Resort’, International Journal of Drug Policy, 11, 235-244 Berry, Marsha, and Margaret Hamilton. 2010. ‘Changing Urban Spaces: Mobile Phones on Trains’, Mobilities, 5 (1), 111-129 Bille, Mikkel, Peter Bjerregaard, and Tim Flohr Sørensen. 2015. ‘Staging Atmospheres: Materi- ality, Culture, and the Texture of the In-Between’, Emotion, Space and Society, 15, 31-38 Bissell, David. 2007. ‘Animating Suspension: Waiting for Mobilities’, Mobilities, 2(2), 277-298 Bissell, David. 2010. ‘Passenger Mobilities: Affective Atmospheres and the Sociality of Public Transport’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28 (2), 270-289