History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Monday, February 17, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (5): Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign

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In the aftermath of the London poll tax demonstration and riot on 31 March 1990, the Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign to ‘Unconditional...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (4): Prisoners Support Conference, Birmingham 1991

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This flyer is for a poll-tax prisoners national solidarity conference held in Birmingham in October 1991, with the stated aims being: to la...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (3): Community Resistance Against the Poll Tax

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'Pay no poll tax' posters like this one graced many a window during the anti-poll tax movement.  This particular one was produced in...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (2): St Valentines Day 1991 - Massacre the poll tax (in Lambeth)

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Next up in the Poll Tax Archive,  a leaflet from early 1991 giving advice to people being taken to court by Lambeth Council for non-payment....
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Poll Tax Archive (1): North Middlesex Hospital Anti-Poll Tax News 1990

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It is now 30 years since the high point of the movement against the poll tax. The 'community charge', as it was officially called,...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Disco isn’t dead. It has gone to war (Tony Cokes)

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If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol 1   at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art was the first UK solo exhibition of US-based artist Tony ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

2019: a political year on the London streets

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On this last day of the decade I am not going to attempt any kind of political balance sheet. Yes it's been a fairly depressing time in...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Synth Jam with Wasp

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I haven't done a lot of music making in 2019, but I did enjoy taking part in a Synth Jam earlier in the year as part of the Telegraph H...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Crass, Poison Girls, UK Decay in Luton, 1979

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As I post this it is forty years ago this very night that anarcho-punk pioneers Crass and Poison Girls played in Luton, along with home town...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

1937: Police raid Harworth Striking Miners' Dance

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In 1936/37 there was a long and bitter miners’ strike in Nottinghamshire centred on Harworth colliery, sparked by the refusal of mine owners...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Butterfly Dream

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(Bristol Temple Meads Station, October 2019) 'Long ago, a certain Zhuang Zi dreamed he was a butterfly – a butterfly fluttering her...
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