History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Dancing Questionnaire (25): Mark, New York

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Mark is 38 years old and works as an Advertising Executive in New York, following an odyssey from Tamworth and London via Sheffield. Can ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Portugal 1974/75: Radio and Revolution

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In April 1974, left leaning military officers overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship and ended its colonial wars in Africa. For the next t...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Dancing Questionnaire (24): Coz, Dublin

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Today is St Patrick's Day, and by complete coincidence the latest respondent to the Dancing Questionnaire is Dublin-based Coz who descr...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Kaleidakon: 1930s light show

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The centre piece of the 1939 Ideal Home exhibition in London was the Kaleidakon, what sounds like a proto-psychedelic light show. 'On...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Black Panther Records

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From the 'Black Panther' newspaper, January 17, 1970, adverts for Black Panther Party records. Seize the Time was a collection...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

121 Centre in Brixton: 1990s flyers

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The 121 Centre in Brixton , variously known as an ‘anarchist centre’, ‘social centre’ and ‘squatted centre’, was a hub of international ra...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Dancing Questionnaire 23: Luc Sante

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Luc Sante is the 23rd person to complete the Dancing Questionnaire. Luc has written extensively on New York cultural history, and much mor...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Nostell Priory Festival 1984: Police attack Convoy

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Nostell Priory Music Festival was held near Wakefield in West Yorkshire in 1984, a commercial festival with performances from Van Morriso...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Snakes for a Rave & other Ludicrous Valentine's Tales

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India 'The Delhi Police on Monday busted a gang of snake smugglers and recovered four cobras and about half-a-litre of venom after a ...
Sunday, February 05, 2012

Kraftwerk at the Lyceum, 1981

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BBC Radio 6 have been having a Kraftwerk-themed weekend, based on the rather slender premise that it is the 30th anniversary of The Mode...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012

Vienna: in the fascist ballroom

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The WKR-Ball in Vienna is an 'The annual ballroom dancefest of Austria’s pan-Germanist, far right student fraternities in the former Im...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Teenbeat

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Teenbeat Monthly was one of the wave of 1960s UK magazines published as part of the beat boom (see also Rave magazine ).  A friend found a...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Remembering Bloody Sunday 1972

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On  January 30th 1972, the British state killed 13 unarmed demonstrators on the streets of Derry (a 14th died as a result of their injurie...
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