History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Saturday, March 30, 2013

SP23 (formerly Spiral Tribe) back in London

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SP23 (formerly Spiral Tribe) are putting on a rare event in London on 19 April, at Village Underground, London EC2. They say: ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

A Bigger Splash

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This weekend is the last chance to see 'A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance' at Tate Modern in London. The exhibition '...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Music and Moonlight and Feeling are One

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In the last weeks before he was drowned in 1822,    Percy Bysshe Shelley  wrote a series of poems inspired by his friend Jane Williams   an...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Communism of the Senses

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Dancing in Lost River Cave , Bowling Green,Kentucky in the late 1940s 'shared conviviality could be seen as a kind of communistic b...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

1930s: Workers Film and Photo League

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The Workers Film and Photo League  (sometimes just 'The Film and Photo League') was a 1930s organisation associated with the Commun...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Protest Memes: Gangnam & Harlem Shake

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No sooner has a dance craze exploded over the internet than it seems to emerge as a global protest meme. Protestors have been doing it Gan...
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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