History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Idle No More: Round Dance Revolution

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The Idle No More movement for indigenous rights started out in Canada last year, and has been marked by protests across the country and sim...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A shrine to a pirate

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On Redcross Way SE1 (near to London Bridge station), the site of a paupers' graveyard was discovered during construction of the Jubilee...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Global dance protest says no to violence against women

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On Valentine's Day last week, there were flashmob dances and similar actions in at least 190 countries as part of One Billion Rising...
Monday, February 11, 2013

HMV 1932: Radio-Gramophone Demonstration

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The latest news on threatened record shop chain HMV is that administrators Deloitte have announced that 66 of the 220 shops will close whe...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Join the EDL and BNP

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No I don't mean the racist idiots of the English Defence League and the British National Party... they are yesterday's news. I refer...
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Monday, February 04, 2013

Bowie in Dunstable 1972

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The Civic Hall in Dunstable, later renamed the Queensway, was built in 1966 and demolished to make way for an Asda supermarket in 2000. Gro...
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Friday, February 01, 2013

Fire at Freedom

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Sad to hear that Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel High Street was damaged last night in an apparent arson attack. The anarchist centre in An...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

His Masters Voice goes Silent

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The threatened closure of HMV (which has gone into administration) saddens me mainly because thousands of staff in its shops in Britain and ...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Gerry Anderson Fashions

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The death this week of Gerry Anderson has sparked an outpouring of nostalgia from those brought up on his TV programmes in the 1960s and 197...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

All Nite Mod Rave - Bradford 1964

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Another example of 1960s 'rave' - an advert for an 'All Nite Mod Rave' on 18 July 1964 in Bradford, at the Coffin club in I...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Norfolk Police smash up speakers - and boast about it

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Earlier this week (December 12), Norfolk police posted a short video on Youtube with the title 'Seized rave equipment destroyed'. A...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Operation Condor: Prohibition London

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If anyone got robbed, burgled or raped this weekend in London and wondered where the police were when they needed them - hey, they had other...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Discotheque Dress for Party Dancing (1964)

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Previously we discussed how the word Discotheque, coined in France by the 1940s, seems to have entered the English language in the early 19...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Turner Prize 2012: Sub-Cultural Traces

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Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...
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