HistoryisMadeatNight

The politics of dancing & musicking and other dark matters (also on bluesky as Transpontine)

[John Eden @johnedenuk]

Rio Tape Slide Project now online https://t.co/u9Gw6TpUvl <<< over 10,000 1970s/80s photgraphs of Hackney now online.

[Transpontine @Transpontine]

Around Two Bridges: a cultural history tour around the Tooley Street area for Southwark LGBT Staff Network - Derek Jarman, Andrew Logan, Spandau Ballet, George Michael, Rolling Stones. @BoyGeorge, Sex Pistols, Throbbing Gristle and more!
https://t.co/vdQ37CwQrP

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

Enjoyed reading Emma Warren's history of the youth club and got me thinking about my own Luton youth club times in the punk/postpunk period https://t.co/WsjJsDaAaG

[John Eden @johnedenuk]

New! An old shop sign shines a light into Hackney's long history of solidarity with asylum seekers, opposition to racism, supporting rioters, challenging corrupt cops and outraging Margaret Thatcher! https://t.co/rNKyKdT4VR

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

Opposing the racist National Front in Hitchin, Herts in 1971. More here: https://t.co/dOdZpzi1j1 (note Hitchin IWA placard, @Taj_Ali1 )

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

The Fugees interviewed in 1994 for Minneapolis anarchist paper The Blast! https://t.co/XKkrY2dzIi

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

@TheBlackDog Saw them on that 1981 tour too, at the Lyceum in London. Blew my mind https://t.co/3AF4nMozBF

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

@Communization_ @endnotes * should have been @endnotesjournal

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

@Communization_ I was disappointed that my sympathetic but critical article didn't get much acknowledgement in that scene. I still think that the current had an inadequate understanding of fascism rooted in its origins (though more recent @endnotes more sophisticated) https://t.co/M9K2wK0C5x

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

@CollettWriter I used to have Vampire Weekend A-Punk, perfect loop

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

@tubbsOreally Thames Lido in Reading? Lovely pool and you can hang out, use Sauna, but don't have to go full spendy with spa treatments if you don't want to

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

Protests are stepping up in France against new RIPOST law criminalising free parties (images from Monpellier Manifestive demo yesterday)- more here https://t.co/udZKtvLHHA

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

@johnedenuk @56aInfoshop Don't think I'd seen the full version of this before, never knew about the street theatre stuff. makes me think that Angry Brigade were as much Brechtian as situationist- guerrilla warfare as alienation device.

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

'Anarchy, Peace, Tea and Two Sugars'. From NME, 1 October 1983, a report of anarchist squat centres in London including Kafe Kollapse in West Hampstead, the Burn it Down Ballroom in Finchley and the Peace Centre at 99-119 Roseberry Avenue, London N1

[Transpontine @Transpontine]

Peter J Carroll has died, co-creator of Chaos Magic amidst the anarchy, punk and squatting in Deptford's Speedwell House in the 1970s. More here: https://t.co/KK4QfAJb2C

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

Trad, mod, 'non stop jiving' and 'no skiffle' - the jazz club boom in Luton, 1958-63. More here: https://t.co/4OCKFArGe4

[Past Tense @_pasttense_]

#OnThisDay in London festive history, 1994 - Hackney Homeless Festival held in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington - and attacked by police 
https://t.co/8lZF4ZkhVq

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

'The organised might of the working class couldn't make it, so they've sent a computerised mini-calculator to represent them.' Cartoonist Lowry in NME, 1 October 1983

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

Fine fox in stained glass window at new V&E East in Stratford, added to my fox collection https://t.co/40udWhZ4zN

[HistoryisMadeatNight @Historyatnight]

Max Horkheimer on the 'animal hell' in the skyscraper of human society (and the story of a fox in the Shard) https://t.co/EMAAbLTFXu