History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Monday, November 28, 2022

London queercore 1995: Vaseline, Up to the Elbow, Sick of it All

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'Vaseline zine' started out in 1995 'for gay people who love indie and alternative music and want to rage against the scene'...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Skins and Scum: Rene Matić and Simeon Barclay at South London Gallery

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Rene Matić's exhibition 'upon this rock' at the South London Gallery features their very moving film 'Many Rivers' about...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Suzi Quatro and AC/DC: punk rockers in Australia 1974/75

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I don't think anyone who knows 1970s UK pop culture would argue with the fact that Suzi Quatro was one of the leather clad pop rockers w...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Hackney Volcano Festival 2000

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Continuing series of scanning in old flyers of things I went to in ancient times, or should I say documenting priceless cultural history art...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

'Nobody can take away the dances you've already had'

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  Image from 'Come dine in blue' , a participatory art project working with migrant communities in Lewisham.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

'For dancing in the streets' - solidarity with revolt in Iran

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The 'Women, Life, Freedom' revolt in Iran is an inspiration. I can only express my solidarity for those who have taken to the street...
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Friday, October 14, 2022

Breakbeats & Benefit Gigs at 1990s Pembury Tavern, Hackney

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I was in Hackney recently for a Hackney radical history walk/talk and went past the Pembury Tavern on Amhurst Road. The pub has been there s...
Saturday, October 08, 2022

'We are dancing strong': A free festival on Hackney Marshes, 1997

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'The Big Sexy Festy Party' The rather grandiosely titled Free Festival of Human and and Environmental Global Rights was a one day le...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

East London Gay Centre attacked (1976)

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The East London Gay Centre was at 19 Redmans Road, Stepney in the 1970s. As this report from 1976 describes it faced sometimes violent hosti...
Friday, September 30, 2022

The Age of Insurreckshan - LKJ in NME, 1984

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From the NME, 17 March 1984, Neil Spencer interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson. Don’t call him a dub poet… ‘I’m not a dub poet and I don’t want t...
Friday, September 23, 2022

'They call themselves the Gender Benders' (1984)

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I saw an online discussion recently about the origins of the term 'gender bender'. Seemingly Jon Savage used it in a 1980 article ab...
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