The politics of dancing & musicking and other dark matters (also on bluesky as Transpontine)
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Undercover activists flew from London to South Africa during late 60s/early 70s with instructions to build speaker boxes that could amplify cassette recordings of anti-apartheid speeches and songs to be broadcast in public spaces
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'The girls were wearing forties or fifties outfits and would have their hair dressed up. The boys would usually be Ferrys or Bowies'. Kevin Rowland on retromania at mid 70s Birmingham club Romulus history-is-made-at-night.blo…
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AAA Book launch & Agit Press Christmas Party
Weds, Dec 16, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM @horsehospital @pressagit
DJs:
DJ Sonny Ray
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DJ Bunnyhausen (Xylitol)
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DJ Balli
Tickets £5 (inc discount for the book)
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'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of London SE14' - 300+ pages of music, pubs, sport, magic, radical politics & more. Now available to order online and from local bookshops - 'deep cultural history which ripples out far beyond SE14' (Emma Warren) transpont.blogspot.com/2026/…
I went to the Luton launch of @Taj_Ali1's excellent new book 'Come What May, We're Here to Stay', a history of South Asian Resistance in Britain, including in Luton itself where racists have been spouting the same lies for 60+ years history-is-made-at-night.blo…
Sick of these racist lies about Luton- what it comes down to is there are areas, in fact the whole town, where racists won't go because they don't like seeing black and brown people but there are no areas where white people are at risk of racist attack or can't go
Tory Shadow Minister @Blake_MidBeds should be sacked for his racist lies.
Which area of Luton is a no-go area for white people?
As for being 'a dangerous place,' the crime rate is similar to the UK average and there's 0 evidence, diverse parts of the town have higher crime!
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My new New Cross history book now available from Books Peckham, who willl have it on their stall at London Anarchist Bookfair tomorrow - read about the 19th century anarchist club in New Cross Road and much much more!
The Leisure Lounge - a great mid-1990s London club remembered. More here: history-is-made-at-night.blo…
Get down to South Norwood today (Sunday) some great talks and stalls
Tomorrow! Delighted to announce that Mello Jamz, Taharqa Daniel Rashid and myself will be in conversation with dub legend @MadProfessordub at the @ARBRadBookfair 3:30!
A 1975 article by Luton Sinn Fein organiser Jim Reilly from Luton Street Press (radical paper). He died in 1980 after years of harrassment [update to my post on hunger strikes and Irish republicanism in Luton] history-is-made-at-night.blo…
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Sister Midnight FM had a day of programmes this week to mark the 1977 anti-fascist 'Battle of Lewisham', including one from me and Ben Gidley. Check out details here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/…
Association of Autonomous Astronauts observe the solar eclipse, 1999 history-is-made-at-night.blo…
Nuanced analysis/history of sectarianism & racism in Scotland. 'Not all Huns...' Confess to childhood support for Rangers, went with my Grandad to Ibrox. My dad switched to Partick when he worked in shipyards, which I like to think as a principled rejection of sectarianism
My thoughts on the recent fascist demonstrations in Glasgow and the links to Loyalism.
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otd 1986 - Levellers and The Bambi Slam play squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts (now site of Nandos). More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/…
So long William Orbit, pictured here early 1980s at the Centro Iberico anarchist centre at 421 Harrow Road W10, where he lived and had his first studio in the squatted school's caretakers house (pic from KYPP killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/…)
Gathering my thoughts on death of Vaneigem, new Durutti Column album and my changing relationship to the Situationists since I first heard of them when I read a book about the Angry Brigade when I was at school. Prob never get around to writing it but hey I'm thinking about it!
Looking forward to seeing the great Scritti Politti tomorrow. Back in 1979 they were attacked by skinheads while performing at a Stevenage Rock Against Racism gig in Hitchin. More here: history-is-made-at-night.blo…
45 years ago this week - rioting in Luton after attacks by racist skinheads history-is-made-at-night.blo…
