History is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters
Friday, January 12, 2024
Dole Days in Luton: unemployed protests 1985
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In the turbulent mid-1980s - 1984 to 1986 to be precise - I was unemployed like most of my punky friends in Luton. My 1985 diary has the sa...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
Left at the Pier Festival, Brighton 1994
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A feature of the 1980s and 1990s in England was officially sponsored free music festivals, usually one day affairs supported by local counci...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
My London musical/radical soundscape 2023
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Reading other people's end of year lists is like listening to people talking about their dreams - occasionally interesting but mostly ve...
Sunday, December 24, 2023
'Do not play acid' - London club listings October 1988
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London Club Listings from a local paper in October 1988 (Westminster and Pimlico News) in the midst of the acid house upheaval. KISS FM crew...
Friday, December 22, 2023
'How to produce a feminist magazine': Bad Attitude - radical women's newspaper (1992-97)
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Bad Attitude was a London-based radical women's newspaper that ran from 1992 to 1997. It was put together by a group of women (mostly fr...
Friday, November 24, 2023
Muzik magazine issue One: 1995 club listings and Drexciya
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Muzik magazine was launched with this June 1995 issue by IPC magazines, the publishers of NME and many other established publications. The m...
Friday, October 06, 2023
100 years of anti-fascism in Britain
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Mussolini's ascent to power in Italy in 1922 was the start of a terrible period in European history, followed by similar far right dicta...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Sheffield Gramophone Shops
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Sucker for old gramophone record sleeves, advertising the shops they were bought in. I found these examples in a Peckham charity shop, both ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Birmingham Stop the City 1984
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We've previously covered the Stop the City demonstrations in London of 1983/84 when a couple of thousand people, mainly young anarcho-p...
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