History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Friday, September 28, 2012

Someday all the Adults will Die!: Punk Graphics 1971-84

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'Some day all the adults will die!: punk graphics 1971-1984' is a free exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, on until 4th N...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Party Riots in Holland and Spain

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34 people were arrested in Haren, Netherlands , on Friday night (21 September 2012), after thousands of people turned up for a young woman...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Expect Anything, Fear Nothing

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Coming up on Saturday 22 September,  8:00pm - 10:00pm,  at the Mayday Rooms , St Brides Yard, outside 88 Fleet Street, London: 'An e...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Revolution as resonance

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Following on from Negri and Hardt's recent reference to 'low frequency' communication between struggles, here's anothe...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Low Frequency Struggles

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'Early in 2011, in the depths of social and economic crises characterized by radical inequality, common sense seemed to dictate that we...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

London Drum Riot for Pussy Riot

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Global Day of Action in support of Pussy Riot next Saturday September 15 - London action is 11 am - 2 pm opposite Russian Consulate,...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Sicilian Dance Trophies

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The centrepiece of 'Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport' at the South London Gallery is Aleksandra Mir's Triumph. ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Party in the Essex Woods

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From Southend Standard (10 August 2012): 'Footage of revellers at an illegal rave in Rochford woodland has been posted on YouTube.M...
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Girl with Cassette Recorder (1975)

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This great photograph of a young woman with her cassette recorder was taken in London in 1975 by US photographer Al Vandenberg. It fea...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

An Underground Dance, Greenwich 1846

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Blackheath Cavern, also known as Jack Cade's Cavern, was a  series of caves under Blackheath Hill in Greenwich South East London (pres...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Summer rave madness

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It's getting hot - time to take the fields and beaches people. Wicklow (Ireland) - Herald.Ie 18 July 2012 Raves are regularly ta...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

1980s Glasgow Haircuts

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Somebody else can write the cultural history of how the punk look was gradually domesticated in mainstream hairdressing during the 1980s -...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Music for Pleasure

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Last week I had the opportunity to visit a rarely opened archive in South London. The basement of New Cross Learning (the volunteer-run l...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Soul and Hip-Hop Pirates 1984

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Interesting short article on mid-1980s London pirate radio and hip-hop: Soul pirate on the air waves By Jaswinder Bancil (South London ...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Free Pussy Riot

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It's now been four months since Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Santsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were arrested and detained in Russia....
Sunday, July 01, 2012

Punk's Dead

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' Punk's Dead' is a book of photographs by Simon Barker (Six), with an exhibition of some of the photos at Divus Temporary, 4 ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Face Club Listings, March 1989

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From The Face, March 1989, an overview of (mainly) London clubland - 'Clubland is coming to life again after the traditional Jan/F...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Bracknell Squat Party 1985

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Red Rag was a radical newsletter published in Reading from around 1979 to the mid-1980s.  Somebody is currently doing a great service by ...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Stewart Home, Tim Cockburn & a Norfolk Rave Poem

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Enjoyed the spoken word event at the Hannah Barry Gallery in Peckham last night (actually a warehouse on the Copeland Industrial Estate). ...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

NME Guide to Rock & Roll London (1978): Gay Clubs

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From the NME Guide to Rock & Roll London (early 1978), a guide to the Gay Scene starts with a warning: 'a note to all you guys ...
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