History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Thursday, July 02, 2009

We were brought up on the Space Race, now they expect us to clean toilets

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40 years ago this month since the first human moon landing. The song that most resonates for me relating to this is Monochrome by The Sunda...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Eel Pie Island

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The excellent Another Nickel in the Machine - a site focusing on 20 th century London -has recently featured some great photos of A Rave o...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Dubstep, Funky and the Goddess of Love

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Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances is a new blog looking at music/culture/politics through the unusual lens of a South London based vo...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson Flashmobs

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The inevitable Michael Jackson tribute flashmob drew a big crowd to London's Liverpool Street station this evening, the idea being to d...
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New Links

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A couple of (related?) new blogs with similar interests to this site: Apples from the Underground - ' blog inspired by the underground ...
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On the side of the dancers, the dirt and the dust

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'Order reigns in Tehran!' You stupid henchmen! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will already 'rais...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Taser = torture

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Weekend nights in Anytown UK, boys and girls roam the town centre between pubs and the kind of nightclubs where they only play chart music. ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

J18 1999

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Ten years ago today, the G8 Summit in Cologne was the occasion for the global J18 'Carnival Against Capital' with demonstrations, ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Deportees

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Students and supporters at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) in London are occupying management offices there in protest a...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Remembering Tiananmen

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Twenty years after the Tiananmen Square massacre (4 June 1989) there seems to be some amnesia about what actually happened in China at that ...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Miners Strike: (4) Mansfield (5) Soul Deep

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On Monday 14 th May 1984 some of us from our Miners Support Group  at Kent University went on the Kent miners' coaches up to Mansfield ...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

Klezmer

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Klezmer, Book One: Tales of the Wild East (First Second, 2006) is a graphic novel by Joann Sear following a group of musicians in their wan...
Thursday, June 04, 2009

International Times Archive

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There's a fantastic archive up now for The International Times, the famous UK underground paper of the 1960s and 70s. It includes scan...
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