History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Turnmills closes

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Another London nighttime landmark has closed, following the final weekend of Turmills - the famous club in Clerkenwell . The final record...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Here We Dance

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Last week I went to the launch of Here We Dance, at Tate Modern . The exhibition aims to look at 'the relationship between the body and ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Neither Washington, nor Moscow, but Eton?

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Interesting article by John Harris in today's Guardian looking at the seemingly bizarre phenomenon of English Conservative politicians ...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Classic party scenes (2): Basic Instinct

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It's 1992 and cop Michael Douglas pursues suspect psycho Sharon Stone into a San Francisco club with sex, drugs and pumping sounds by Ch...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Trance Dancing

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I originally wrote this article for ‘Head’ magazine where it was published in issue no.10, ‘Altered States’, 2000. After more than ten years...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Clubbing in Luton 1983-87

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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...
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Clubbing in Manchester 1984

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From i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985, Manchester listings by Wiganovski: Berlin, King Street: Ballroom Blitz every thursday,...
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Clubbing in Sheffield 1984

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Article by Marion Moisey from i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985. 'It seems that at some point or other everyone in Sheffie...

Clubbing in London, 1984

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The following club listings come from i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985. I wasn't around then but even allowing for i-D...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Songs about dancing (1): Those Dancing Days

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There's music to dance to, and then there's music about dancing (which may not even be very danceable). Sometimes a song is simply a...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Colette: sex and dance in Fin de Siecle Paris

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The French novelist Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette (1873 -1954), known as Colette, lived life to the full in Fin de Siecle Paris, a period des...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit,

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A low key Burns Night tonight (compared with last year's ). There's a vegetarian haggis in the oven and a bottle of Laphroaig in t...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Ghost Dance

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‘All Indians must dance, everywhere, keep on dancing. Pretty soon in next spring Great Spirit come… All dead Indians come back and live aga...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Nazis and Jazz

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The Nazis were hostile to jazz on racist grounds and various restrictions were placed on it. A complete ban was impossible to enforce, partl...
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Pop! What is it Good For?

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Lots of programmes about English pop music since World War Two on BBC4 in the past couple of weeks, some of them featuring the usual lazy mi...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Machine Music in an Age of Sweat

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The following is an extract from 'Machine Music in an Age of Sweat' an article by Fishtoe published in the Glasgow-based libertarian...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

New Datacide Blog

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Our friends at Datacide have expanded their operations from an excellent printed zine to a blog promising 'Heterogenous theory for the ...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Ben Atar eviction: a cosmopolitan response

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In November 2007, the Ben Atar squat in Tel Aviv was evicted by police. According to Indymedia Israel , the squat was located in Florenti...
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