History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Brighton Street Murals

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There's some good street art in Brighton, including a pretty fine James Brown mural: Look closely at the chess mural and you will see t...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

History is Made at Night in Berlin: Datacide Launch Party

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Going to be in Berlin next week to do a talk as part of the launch of the new edition of Datacide magazine (number 11), in which I have an ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Classic Party Scenes (7): Black Swan

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Enjoyed Black Swan, a whole movie about dancing - what's not to like? If you've been living in a cave for the last month you might...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Parties and Police, January 2011

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Party in the forest, Norfolk, England ( EDP 15 January 2010 ) 'Officers moved in on an area of forestland at Two Mile Bottom, Thetford,...
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Sunday, January 09, 2011

UK Teknival Trial and the Licensing Act 2003

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We reported last year on the police operation to close the UK Teknival at Dale Aerodrome in Pemrokeshire (Wales). The court case arising fr...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

No to AB74 - the proposed Californian Anti-Raves Act

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A campaign is growing against 'anti-rave' legislation being proposed in the California State Assembly by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. AB ...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

Haunted dancehall: the ruins of Detroit

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The ballroom in the Lee Plaza Hotel , Detroit, from the excellent Ruins of Detroit by Yves Marchard and Romain Meffre. Interesting article...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Bobby Farrell takes the Night Flight

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Bobby Farrell of Boney M died yesterday at the age of 61. Born Alfonso Farrell in Aruba, off the north coast of Venezuela, he left home at t...

Geraldine Hoff Doyle: death of a Rosie the Riveter

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Geraldine Hoff Doyle (pictured) died in Lansing , Michigan on December 26 th at the age of 86. Nearly 70 years ago she was working as a 17 ...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Happening 44: Groovy Food and Rave Groups 1967

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From International Times no.14, 2 June 1967, an advert for Happening 44, a psychedelic club at 44 Gerrard Street in Soho, where basement clu...
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Starchild RIP - Teena Marie

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US R&B singer Teena Marie died yesterday at the age of 54. Lots of love to her on the internet already, such as this piece at Soulwalki...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs

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'The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancin...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Black Album - Hanif Kureishi

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Hanif Kureishi's novel The Black Album (1995) is, among other things, a great snapshot of late 1980s London. Its main protagonist, Sha...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

January 1980 in the UK: chronology

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A while ago I conceived of a series of pieces on 1980 on the premise that it was now 30 years since the birth of the eighties. With 2010 run...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Captain Beefheart RIP - Hard Workin' Fucked Over Man

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RIP Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart , who died today. He features on the soundtrack of one of my favourite films, Blue Collar (1978), i...

St Pauls Uprising, Bristol 1980

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One year after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Conservative Prime Minister, the uprising in the St Paul's area of Bristol in April ...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Eadweard Muybridge

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Earlier this year I went to the Eadweard Muybridge photography exhibition at Tate Britain. Of particular interest to me are his studies of d...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Night is not an object

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"When [...] the world of clear and articulate objects is abolished, our perceptual being, cut off from its world, evolves a spatiality ...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Some more DayX3 Music Notes

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I know it seems trivial to focus on the music played in the recent riotous demonstrations in London and elsewhere against education cuts, st...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Strictly Scum Dancing Stopped by Police

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Last weekend SkumTek's Strictly Scum Dancing free party was stopped by police on an industrial estate in Enfield . The press release i...
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