History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Tuesday, October 01, 2024

London nightlife not dead shock

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Dan Hancox has written a great piece on ' Debunking the weird myths about London's 24-hour party people' in which he takes to ta...
Monday, September 23, 2024

'30 years of Grace' - photos of Jeff Buckley

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Last week I stumbled across an exhibition of photos of Jeff Buckley by Merri Cyr, including the shots she took for the cover of Grace, his o...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent and youthful montage adventures

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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent at the Whitechapel Gallery is a retrospective of 50 years of radical image making.  'attempt to expres...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Thank God for Immigrants - Wham

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Charity fundraising t-shirt from Jeremy Deller, featuring Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, of Greek Cypriot descent and Andrew Ridgeley,  son o...
Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Martin Simpson - Palaces of Gold, an old song for Grenfell

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posters in Shoreditch, 2024 When I saw the great folk singer/guitarist Martin Simpson playing earlier in the summer (at the Goose is Out fol...
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Monday, August 26, 2024

Monday Blues

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Spotted  by Dollis Brook while walking part of the Capital Ring this weekend  
Friday, August 23, 2024

Judy Chicago at Serpentine

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 Judy Chicago 'Revelations' is a retrospective of the artist's work at London's Serpentine gallery. Her feminist imagery is ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Tower Hamlets - Cockney Rebels exhibition

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'Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003' is a free exhibition at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive...
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Friday, August 02, 2024

Unite Against Racism demo in East End 1994 + a spycop report on David Bowie donating to Anti Nazi League

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In 1993 the far right British National Party achieved a breakthrough in the East End of London when one of its members was elected as a coun...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Art Not Evidence: against the criminalisation of rap and drill

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Art Not Evidence posters in Camberwell, South London, July 2024 ' Art Not Evidence is a growing coalition of lawyers, journalists, arti...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Beat the Blues Festival 1980: 'Post punk Woodstock' at the Ally Pally

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The Beat the Blues Festival was a one day event at the Alexandra Palace in north London on 15 June 1980, held to mark the 50th birthday of t...
Saturday, July 06, 2024

The Oxford Street 48: arrests on peace march (1982)

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  On Sunday June 6th 1982, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament held a huge demonstration to coincide with a visit by US President Ronald Re...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Working Class Records: Antifascista Siempre

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Picked up this rather fine 'Antifascista Siempre' t-shirt in Spain recently, produced by Madrid-based Working Class Records. They ha...
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