History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

My London musical/radical soundscape 2023

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Reading other people's end of year lists is like listening to people talking about their dreams - occasionally interesting but mostly ve...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

'Do not play acid' - London club listings October 1988

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London Club Listings from a local paper in October 1988 (Westminster and Pimlico News) in the midst of the acid house upheaval. KISS FM crew...
Friday, December 22, 2023

'How to produce a feminist magazine': Bad Attitude - radical women's newspaper (1992-97)

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Bad Attitude was a London-based radical women's newspaper that ran from 1992 to 1997. It was put together by a group of women (mostly fr...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Muzik magazine issue One: 1995 club listings and Drexciya

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Muzik magazine was launched with this June 1995 issue by IPC magazines, the publishers of NME and many other established publications. The m...
Friday, October 06, 2023

100 years of anti-fascism in Britain

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Mussolini's ascent to power in Italy in 1922 was the start of a terrible period in European history, followed by similar far right dicta...
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...
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