History is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters
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Sunday, October 06, 2024
John Scarlett-Davis on Derek Jarman
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A fascinating Derek Jarman talk and film at London's Farsight Gallery last month, featuring a 1984 LWT (London Weekend TV) documentary f...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
'Low Class foreigners' and men dancing with men: Police raid Italian club in Soho (1900)
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A police raid on an Italian-run club in Soho in 1900 led to fighting with police outside and the proprietors being jailed. The Co-operative ...
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Barcelona in Soho: a 1940s Surrealist hangout
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17 Beak Street in Soho is at the time of writing a branch of the Flat Iron steak restaurant chain. But for at least 40 years it was home to ...
Monday, January 06, 2014
Leonard Cohen in London
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'I'm your man: the life of Leonard Cohen' (2012) is an excellent biography of everybody's favourite Jewish-Buddhist-Canadian...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Saturday night dancing in 1950s London - Steven Berkoff
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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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Friday, June 27, 2008
Crackers 1976: daytime soul sessions in London
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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...
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