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Club UK in Wandsworth: Love, Ecstasy and Crime

Heading out to Kew Gardens over Christmas, we drove through Wandsworth. As always on that journey through South West London, my partner and...
Partisan Books: a 1970s radical community bookshop in Luton

Continuing the series on the radical history of Luton, here's a bit about a 1970s radical bookshop, Partisan Books which was based at 34...
Clubbing in Luton 1983-87

In the mid-1980s the centre of the musical universe, or at least my universe at that time was Luton in Bedfordshire. For any non-UK reader...
Cars: Adorno, Numan, Kundera

'Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility. I...
Crackers 1976: daytime soul sessions in London

The Way We Wore by Robert Elms recalls the soul/funk sessions at Crackers in London in the mid 70s. This was by all accounts a very influen...
Thank God for Immigrants - Wham

Charity fundraising t-shirt from Jeremy Deller, featuring Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, of Greek Cypriot descent and Andrew Ridgeley, son o...
Karma Sutra, Luton anarcho-punk and hunt sabbing (1984-6)

Long ago and far away (well mid 1980s Luton) there was a great punk band called Karma Sutra. I hung out with them and made a few squiggly no...
George Robey: a lost London venue

At 240 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park in North London there is currently a semi derelict pub. Before it closed it was known as the George...
In Defence of Disco - Richard Dyer

In Defence of Disco by Richard Dyer was first published in the magazine Gay Left, Issue 8, in 1979. It has been republished in academic cont...
Saturday night dancing in 1950s London - Steven Berkoff

Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney ...

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Your Heart Out

Coincidentally ... Or Not (Part One) - Things fall apart. Oh yes. The old fabric is torn away, or disintegrates, and all that. But, sometimes, when you least expect it, things fall into pl...
16 hours ago
thehippiesnowwearblack.wordpress.com/

Dave King publications – San Francisco exhibition and new book - THE WORK OF Dave King, the artist, graphic designer, photographer and publisher who created what became the ‘Crass logo’, is being celebrated in a new exhi...
1 day ago
blissblog

Dream on - Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - fo...
1 week ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2024 ➤ Andy Polaris reminds us of Quincy Jones’s legacy as a titan of 20th-century showbiz - ❚ The cross-cultural pioneer Quincy Jones died this week aged 91 in Los Angeles. In tribute, we republish Andy Polaris’s appreciation of his genius when he...
2 weeks ago
it's her factory

Two upcoming livestreamed talks by me - I’m giving a number of talks this November, and two of them are going to be streamed over the internet. The first one is this coming Friday November 8. It’...
2 weeks ago
UK Free Parties and Free Festivals 1990-1994

A Short Film Review: Free Party: A Folk History - A disclaimer first: we were involved in a little background work (figuring out e.g. dates of parties) for this documentary, so what you are about to read i...
3 weeks ago
Stefan Szczelkun's Agit Disco plus blog

Classical Orchestra’s also do agitdisco - “As President Zelenskiy recently said: In times of war – even more so than in times of peace – we must all remember the significance of culture. And people...
3 months ago
Blackdown

Traditions and telling your own story: "Rollage vol 6 EP" - Rollage vol6: Traditions EP by Dusk + BlackdownI've interviewed 100s of dance music producers over decades & I've spotted a pattern. Unlike, say, songwrite...
1 year ago
uncarved

Tales from a Disappearing City - This is a great new podcast/vidcast from DJ Controlled Weirdness aka Neil Keating. It covers 80s/90s London with a definite slant towards music and subcult...
1 year ago
Listen and Understand

Why Punk Is Still A Total Failure In 2022 - This is a follow up to an old flyer from The Apostles. You would think that after all these decades that the conditions of the so called punk movements...
2 years ago
90's + Gigs Squats Parties

The Stockwell Hole September 2013 - Here is the vandalism from September, duplicate pictures included. more after the jump Read more »
10 years ago

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Politics of Dancing

'People have always come together to move to music. In the process communities have been created, social divisions challenged, pleasure exalted over work and a billion relationships have blossomed. At the same time dancing bodies have often been subject to regulation – rules about when, where and how they can move, rules about who is allowed to dance with who, rules about what dancers can wear and put inside their bodies… That, in essence, is the 'politics of dancing'.

Musicking

'musicking... is an activity in which all those present are involved and for whose nature and quality, success or failure, everyone present bears some responsibility. It is not just a matter of composers, or even performers, actively doing something to, or for, passive listeners. Whatever it is we are doing, we are all doing it together—performers, listeners... dancers, ticket collectors, piano movers, roadies, cleaners and all' (Christopher Small).

Dancing Questionnaire

The aim of the 'dancing questionnaire' is to get a sense of the diversity of people's experiences of dancing and musicking. If you want to contribute, please answer the following questions yourself and send to transpontineblog@gmail.com

1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? / 2.

What’s the most interesting/significant thing that has happened to you while out dancing? / 3. You. Dancing. The best of times… / 4. You. Dancing. The worst of times… / 5.

Can you give a quick tour of the different dancing scenes/times/places you’ve frequented? / 6. When and where did you last dance? / 7. You’re on your death bed. What piece of music would make your leap up for one final dance? (Previous Questionnaires)

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