History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Lou Reed Riots in Italy 1975

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Following the recent death of Lou Reed, I could write a lot about his influence on me and the many hours of my life spent listening to him a...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Free Pussy Riot Banner at Champions League Match

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Great to see this Free Pussy Riot banner at tonight's football match between Manchester City and CSKA Moscow. It may have been swif...
Monday, November 04, 2013

The Octoroon Ball, from WEB Du Bois' The Crisis

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One of the most exciting sites I have come across recently is the Modernist Journals Project , a joint project of Brown University and the ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Datacide Los Angeles Launch Party and Conference

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Issue number 13 of Datacide magazine for noise and politics was published earlier this month with a bumper 76 pages including: Datacide:...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Radical Pirate Radio in Islington, 1969

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Here's an account of  a short-lived radical radio intervention in North London. The Islington pirate radio station broadcast on 230 met...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Pirate Radio Raids: China, Thailand, Tunisia, England

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That the state seeks to clamp down on 'pirate radio' is perhaps not surprizing, what is inspiring though is that across the world pe...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Stewart Home recommends...

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Cheers to Stewart Home for including this blog in his selection at the The Wire: 'History Is Made At Night: A blog about dancing and p...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Raid on 'Homosexuals and Satanists' in Iran

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The Guardian reported earlier this month (10 October): 'Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network ...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Anti-CJA Protest July 1994: Eternity report

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I posted some photos and memories recently of a demonstration in London against the Crimininal Justice Act (and its 'anti-rave' po...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Datacide zine London launch event

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The 13th issue of Datacide, the international magazine for noise and politics, is out this week. As well as a conference and release party ...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Datacide Launch in Berlin

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The next issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise and politics - is out this week, and there's a release party and conference to cele...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Police raid at Royal Holloway College

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It's the start of a new term in British student life, and yes no doubt at the end of Freshers Week some students are going out dancing, ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Pavlos Fyssas (Killah P): anti-fascist rapper murdered in Greece

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Demonstrations are continuing all over Greece following the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by fascists this week. An anti-fascist lost an eye on We...
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Sunday, September 08, 2013

Mass arrest of anti-fascists opposing the EDL in Tower Hamlets

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The English Defence League demonstration in London yesterday didn't amount to very much, with around 500 taking part. Fears that they w...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Abu Simbel 2005 by Ellen Gallagher

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I caught the last day of Ellen Gallagher's AxME exhibition at Tate Modern on Sunday. Particularly taken with this Sun Ra homage: ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Marching against the Criminal Justice Act, July 1994

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Doing some research/recollecting the movement against what became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 with its notorious police ...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Private Party on Politician's Plane

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This is one of my favourite headlines for a while, from  Slate.Com : 'Bodybuilder Sneaks Aboard German Leader’s Jet, Stages One Man Ra...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Asger Jorn

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So there I was talking to a neighbour and the Situationists came up in the conversation, and he says to me I think I've got some of th...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Music to forget the Brain Beat (Kerouac)

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'Because all these serious faces’ll drive you mad, the only meaning is without meaning– Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Saturday night dancing in 1950s London - Steven Berkoff

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Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney ...
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