Saturday, July 30, 2022

Disco Chart 1980

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UK Disco Chart, Record Business, 25 February 1980 . Interesting to see BPM displayed, 'Spacer' by Sheila & B Devotion one of th...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Wildcat benefit at AMP, Covent Garden (1974) - with Charlie Gillett and members of Henry Cow

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I am always interested in the social/cultural/musical life of radical scenes, here's a report of a London benefit night for the mid 1970...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Miners Strike Memories: Durham Miners Rally 1984

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Technically there was no Durham Miners Gala in 1984 - instead on the day the Gala would normally take place there was a miners strike rally ...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Farewell Mark Astronaut

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photo from Astronauts on facebook Sad to hear of the death this week of Mark Astronaut (Mark Wilkins). I saw his band The Astronauts a numbe...
Tuesday, July 05, 2022

London Makhnovist Centre squat in Fleet Street

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A group of Ukrainian anarchist squatters have occupied their second building in London. The London Makhnovists Centre at 187 Fleet Street op...
Saturday, July 02, 2022

Glastonbury CND Festival 1982

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During the 1980s - starting in fact with the 1981 festival - Glastonbury was explicitly a festival for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament....
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

'Women Choose, Don't Argue!' - punks protest against anti-abortion bill 1979

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In 1979, Conservative MP John Corrie introduced a private member's bill aiming to restrict abortion rights. In the climate of New Right ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Marching against megadeath - June 22 1980 in London

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Peter Kennard's design for the flyer/poster The announcement of the deployment of a new generation of US nuclear weapons in Europe, coup...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

'Being a clubber felt special' - Dom Phillips' 1990s Mixmag

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Terrible to hear of the murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil - not just an isolated act of violence but a moment in a brutal w...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

'Low Class foreigners' and men dancing with men: Police raid Italian club in Soho (1900)

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A police raid on an Italian-run club in Soho in 1900 led to fighting with police outside and the proprietors being jailed. The Co-operative ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Rwanda 'Stop the Plane' deportations protest

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Demonstration on Wednesday 9 June 2022 at Rwandan embassy in London (Seymour Place W1H) protesting against UK government plans to start depo...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Anti-Jubilee Agitprop 1977

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The most famous moment of opposition to the Queen's 'Silver Jubilee' in 1977 (to mark 25 years on the throne) was of course the ...