History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Monday, April 21, 2008

The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music

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Expect to read a lot this year about the 20 th anniversary of acid house in the UK. There’s a new Danny Rampling '20 years of house...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Privatized sound? - from the Walkman to the iPod

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I have recently been re-reading some essays written in the 1980s by Marxist/Feminist cultural critic Judith Williamson , collected together ...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Free Jamyang Kyi

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'A Tibetan singer well known as a feminist activist has been taken by Chinese authorities and her family has received no word of her fat...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Night Haunts

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In Night haunts: a journey through the London Night (Verso, 2007), Sukhdev Sandhu asks ‘Whatever happened to the London night?’, arguing th...

Night, the beloved

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'Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly i...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Classic party scenes (3): Desperately Seeking Susan

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In Susan Seidelman's 1985 film, bored housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) swaps lives with bohemian rock chick/gangster's moll Susa...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Mexico 'Emo' Bashing

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Last week in Lancashire a 15 -year-old was convicted to 'stamping to death a young woman in a park because she was dressed as a Goth ...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Turnmills closes

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Another London nighttime landmark has closed, following the final weekend of Turmills - the famous club in Clerkenwell . The final record...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Here We Dance

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Last week I went to the launch of Here We Dance, at Tate Modern . The exhibition aims to look at 'the relationship between the body and ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Neither Washington, nor Moscow, but Eton?

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Interesting article by John Harris in today's Guardian looking at the seemingly bizarre phenomenon of English Conservative politicians ...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Classic party scenes (2): Basic Instinct

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It's 1992 and cop Michael Douglas pursues suspect psycho Sharon Stone into a San Francisco club with sex, drugs and pumping sounds by Ch...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Trance Dancing

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I originally wrote this article for ‘Head’ magazine where it was published in issue no.10, ‘Altered States’, 2000. After more than ten years...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Clubbing in Luton 1983-87

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In the mid-1980s the centre of the musical universe, or at least my universe at that time was  Luton in Bedfordshire. For any non-UK reader...
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Clubbing in Manchester 1984

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From i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985, Manchester listings by Wiganovski: Berlin, King Street: Ballroom Blitz every thursday,...
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Clubbing in Sheffield 1984

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Article by Marion Moisey from i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985. 'It seems that at some point or other everyone in Sheffie...

Clubbing in London, 1984

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The following club listings come from i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985. I wasn't around then but even allowing for i-D...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Songs about dancing (1): Those Dancing Days

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There's music to dance to, and then there's music about dancing (which may not even be very danceable). Sometimes a song is simply a...
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