History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Raging Ravers

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Our latest policing round-up features the oldest rave prosecution we have found to date... England: '63-year-old faces ASBO rave ban...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Repeat after me: F*ck Queen and Country

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30 years ago this week the Sex Pistols released God Save the Queen as royalists prepared to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The an...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Almost Dancing at Tate Modern

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Lots of interesting music-related activity going on at Tate Modern in London as part of its Long Weekend . Throbbing Gristle were playing la...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Dancing Questionnaire 4: Sonic Truth

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Our latest dancing questionnaire comes courtesy of Muz from Sonic Truth and Whorecull . Can you remember your first experience of dancing?...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

New Police Powers to Close Clubs?

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From today's Guardian , a parting gift from Tony Blair: 'Civil liberties and homelessness campaigners last night sharply criticised ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Comanche Sun Dance

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In desparate times, millennarian movements have arisen in which people hoped to be liberated from their oppression by a sudden magical trans...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Indie Pop

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Back once again last week to How Does it Feel? in Brixton, the guest DJ this time Amelia Fletcher, indie pop stalwart of Talulah Gosh in t...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

What do they know of music who only music know?

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Democracy and Hip Hop is an interesting project, with informed critical thinking of hip hop culture starting from the position that 'H...
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Friday, May 04, 2007

Acoustic Tuning

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An excellent line up at the Festival Hall on London's South Bank last Monday, with Bert Jansch, human beatbox Schlomo, Sonic Boom (who ...

Vauxhall, Vietnam and other Parties

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Last weekend saw hundreds of police on the dancefloor from Vauxhall to Vietnam… 1000+ arrests at Vietnam nightclub More than 500 police raid...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Islamism vs. Dance

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Earlier this week, five people were found guilty of plotting bomb attacks in the London area. One of the convicted had apparently been hear...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

May Day Dancing in the Streets

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A fairly low key May Day in London yesterday. At Canary Wharf (big business centre) about 100 people danced to a samba band , having previo...
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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