History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Sheffield Gramophone Shops

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Sucker for old gramophone record sleeves, advertising the shops they were bought in. I found these examples in a Peckham charity shop, both ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Birmingham Stop the City 1984

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We've previously covered the Stop the City demonstrations in London of 1983/84 when a couple of thousand  people, mainly young anarcho-p...
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Thursday, September 07, 2023

Stop the City, London, September 1984

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1983/84 saw a series of anti-capitalist 'Stop the City' actions focused on the financial centre of London and other cities too, incl...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger interview (1978)

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An interview with folk singers Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger from 1978, published in the socialist  newspaper Militant (28/7/1978) after the ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Marcuse - the barricade and the dance floor

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Happy 125th birthday Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) , born 19th July 1898 and still spooking fascists from beyond the grave - see how he featur...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Radio Citta Futura 1976

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 1976 article about Italian radical radio station Radio Citta Futura (Radio Future City) from Red Weekly, paper of the International Marxis...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Feminist discos/male violence (South London 1977)

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An account of violence against women in the vicinity of feminist discos 'in the South London area'  in 1977. Slightly frustrating fo...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Speed (and other club listings), i-D 1995

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Club listings from i-D magazine,  no. 135, April 1995, covering lots of places in Britain and Ireland, but with the photos all from legendar...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Tales from a Disappearing City

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Tales from a Disappearing City is a new youtube podcast from DJ Controlled Weirdness (Neil Keating) exploring untold subcultural stories fr...
Saturday, June 03, 2023

Soviet Union Disco Style 1982

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'the showy disco style caught on and is now seen in dance halls and at parties. The long dress, inconvenient for modern dances, has give...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Bedroll Bella: Geordie raver

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Bedroll Bella by Sid Waddell (Sphere, 1973) is the story of a feisty, foul mouthed, hard drinking, 'right raver' and proud Geordi...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Milan 1992: Parco Lambro and Prisoners demo

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  In Summer 1992 I went to Milan with Italian friends who I knew from Brixton to go to a radical gathering/festival in Parco Lambro. The cit...
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