Thursday, February 22, 2024

The Cavern Club 1963 : an 'alternative to this world'?

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Interesting article from Peace News, 20 December 1963 in which Richard Mabey writes of his visit to the Cavern Club in Liverpool and reflect...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Coventry Working Men's Club 'Colour Bar' (1971)

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An everyday tale of 1970s racism in England involving the Barras Heath Working Men's Club in Coventry and its efforts to keep out black ...
Friday, February 09, 2024

1995 London Clubs

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From the 'Capital Guide: London for Londoners' (Boxtree publications, 1995), published in association with the London Transport Muse...
Saturday, February 03, 2024

Jeremy: a London gay magazine features skinheads (1970)

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The fantastic Bishopsgate Institute LGBTQ+ archive has digitised issues of Jeremy , a London-based gay lifestyle magazine from the late 1960...
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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Luton punk squat party 1985: 'Revolution is the Festival of the Oppressed'

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In November 1985 there was a squat gig in Luton with local punk bands. Unusually for that time some people actually took photos of it which ...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Dole Days in Luton: unemployed protests 1985

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In the turbulent mid-1980s - 1984 to 1986 to be precise - I was unemployed like most of my punky friends in Luton.  My 1985 diary has the sa...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Left at the Pier Festival, Brighton 1994

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A feature of the 1980s and 1990s in England was officially sponsored free music festivals, usually one day affairs supported by local counci...
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...