Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
Sunday, July 05, 2026

Racist skinheads attack GLC 'Jobs for a Change' festival while Redskins and Hank Wangford band play (June 1984)

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On June 10 1984 the left Labour-led Greater London Council, on the verge of being abolished by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governme...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Stop the City, London, September 1984

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1983/84 saw a series of anti-capitalist 'Stop the City' actions focused on the financial centre of London and other cities too, incl...
Monday, April 03, 2023

The Redskins - revolutionary rock'n'roll?

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The Redskins were one of the few avowedly revolutionary socialist bands in mid 1980s Britain. They also had some decent tunes as well as a v...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

The Age of Insurreckshan - LKJ in NME, 1984

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From the NME, 17 March 1984, Neil Spencer interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson. Don’t call him a dub poet… ‘I’m not a dub poet and I don’t want t...
Friday, September 23, 2022

'They call themselves the Gender Benders' (1984)

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I saw an online discussion recently about the origins of the term 'gender bender'. Seemingly Jon Savage used it in a 1980 article ab...
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Saturday, July 09, 2022

Miners Strike Memories: Durham Miners Rally 1984

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Technically there was no Durham Miners Gala in 1984 - instead on the day the Gala would normally take place there was a miners strike rally ...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

'Sound of police truncheon against body': David Peace's miners strike soundscape

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I've written here before about music and the 1984/85 miners strike, including putting together a mix which you can find on mixcloud. Bu...