History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Matthew Stone

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Now on at UNION (London SE1) is 'the first solo exhibition of London based artist Matthew Stone . Emerging from a strongly collaborati...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Limbo Gateway

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"The limbo dance is a well-known feature in the Carnival life of the West Indies today... The limbo dancer moves under a bar which is g...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Police party raid round up

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Time for another round up of international police party action - did you know that in some parts of the USA teenagers can be arrested for lo...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Hampstead Heath Rave 1955

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Steve Fletcher has sent this great photo of himself and then girlfriend at a jazz 'rave' on Hampstead Heath in 1955. According to St...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Haunted Folk

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The Montague Arms in New Cross on a Friday, a night jointly presented by White Noise (linked to Battered Ornaments records) and Spinning Je...
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Stone Age Dancefloors?

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Last week I visited Nine Ladies Stone Circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire (pictured). This is one of many such sites in England to which i...
Friday, April 06, 2007

Bruno Social Centre Evicted in Trento

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There have protests, street blockades and barricades in the Italian city of Trento following the eviction by riot police of the Bruno Social...
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Montreal Metro Party

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Party on the Montreal Metro last week (30 March)arranged by Newmindpace (see: http://newmindspace.com/metroparty.php). Looks interesting, th...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Dancing Flash Mob

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From the London Evening Standard, 5 April 2007: More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain's b...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Reclaim the Future in London

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A Reclaim the Future event went ahead in a squatted building in North London's Holloway Road last weekend, with various radical workshop...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Sound Systems Ban at Luton Carnival?

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From The Luton News , 27 March 2007: 'Police-run carnival' anger Bedfordshire police appear to be digging in their heels over a ban ...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Death of Roller Disco

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Following the closure of the Roxy this month, New York City's last remaining roller disco is due to close in April 2007. A news report ...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Dancing Times 1943

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One of my favourite pastimes is browsing through books and vinyl in car boot sales, jumble sales and charity shops, so I was delighted today...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Battle at the Roxy 1984

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From the film Beat Street (1984), filmed at the Roxy in New York.

The Roxy, New York

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As previously mentioned the Roxy club in New York closed this month. It opened in 1979 as a popular roller disco and, since 1991, had hosted...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Last Dance at the Roxy

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Legendary New York club Roxy closed earlier this month. I'll post some more about its history soon - it hosted a gay club and roller dis...

Australian Jazz Panic

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From the archive - this is an article I wrote for Alien Underground 0.1, Spring 1995, a zine edited by Christoph Fringeli (Praxis Records) ...
Monday, March 19, 2007

I could have danced all night

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At the weekend I took part with my daughter in a South London community musical production of My Fair Lady , featuring a cast and crew of 20...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

Sonic Attack

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Back in the 1970s/early 80s the Throbbing Gristle /Psychic TV nexus explored the notion of sound as control, including how particular sonic ...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

When the Waltz was Banned

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The Waltz was the focus of outrage as the dance spread from Austria and Germany to France and England in the late 18th and early 19th centur...
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