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I am not a violent person by nature. I do not enjoy the idea of walking up to strangers and punching them, even if they are fascists. It is just something that needs to be done. I’ve had enough scary moments to realise that I am no braver than the next person.

Nor do I possess the gift of the gab, as some anti-fascists do. I wish I did, because on some occasions that can be more effective against fascism than a good left hook. I really admire those people who stand up to them alone at places like football grounds or in their High Street. These verbal put-downs, often with passers-by looking on, are just as humiliating to a fascist as a kick in the bollocks.

Bash the Fash – Anti-fascist recollections, 1984-1993

Riddim magazine issue 6.

Wax Poetics issue 20 – reggae special with some nice bits on Wackies, French soundsystem scene, Soul Syndicate, Lee Perry, etc.

Praxis Newsletters

Darius James – Negrophobia: An Urban Parable (Saint Martin’s Press)

Osama Bin Laden – The Islamic Millennium (Martyrdom Press)

The Listening Voice issue 7 (subscribe by sending 6 2nd class stamps to The EPA, 33 Hartington Road, Southampton SO14 0EW)

Pulpmania issue 1

The Best of Smash Hits – The 80s (Sphere)

Rob Young – Rough Trade (Black Dog)

You’ve Got Chico on Your Breath – wicked!

Battle for Broadway Market screening 11th Feb

HACKNEY INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW

The Battle for Broadway Market

 

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At the end of November 2005 an occuption was started by local residents at 34 Broadway Market to prevent it being knocked down for luxury flats.

Over the next few months support multiplied and the news travelled around the world. It’s a story that brings in corrupt property developers, an incompetant council, rampant gentrification and the question of just what sort of community we want in 21st century London.

This is the definitive film of the event.

Dir: Emily James, 2006, 62 minutes

Trailer:

Also…The 43 Group

After the Second World War Jewish ex-serviceman found once again Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirt pals spreading their anti-semitic message on the streets. This documentary recounts the anti-fascist battles fought in the East End and all over London in the years immediately after 1945.

Dir: Graeme Kennedy, 2000, 25 minutes

Smoke and Mirrors: Fighting Housing Privatisation

An inspirational documentary showing how tenants in Edinburgh fought against council housing privatisation.

3pm, Sunday February 11, Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate Street, London, E2 9AG£2 entry

Sunday lunch is served in the Sebright Arms from 1-4pm at £7 per head onwards

http://www.hackneyindependent.org

Blogariddims Office Party Mix – The tracklist

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This mix came out as part of the excellent blogariddims series in December.

1. Elizabeth Welch – Stormy Weather
2. The Passions – I’m In Love With A German Film Star
3. Yazoo – Nobody’s Diary
4. Foxx – S-S-Single Bed
5. “Malcolm McLaren” (i.e. Bow Wow Wow) – Sexy Eiffel Tower
6. 2 Unlimited – Let The Beat Control Your Body
7. Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam
8. Divine – Native Love
9. Mel & Kim – Respectable (Club Mix)
10. Spy 51 – Cake
11. Mambo Taxi – Do You Always Dress Like That In Front of Other People’s Boyfriends
12. The Shangri-Las – Give Him A Great Big Kiss
13. The Angels – My Boyfriend’s Back
14. Shampoo – Shiny Black Taxi Cab
15. We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Going To Use It – Rules & Regulations (Splendiferous Mix)
16. Daisy Chainsaw – Love Your Money
17. Colourbox – The Moon Is Blue
18. Nancy Sinatra – Sugar Town
19. Angel Corpus Christi – The Day John Kennedy Died

A tip of the hat to Paul Nomos who assembled my quotes/clues into the following over at Dissensus:

Teens of Eden “I’m the Ice Queen” (1986)

Everything I have is gone
Trying not to pose
Perhaps if I held you
The pleasures of night
The pleasures of night

(Chorus)
Ice Queen
Ice Queen
All I have is gone
Ice Queen
Ice Queen
You know that I’m the one

It didn’t matter that he was tame
It penetrates your brain
A place to stay
I never get enough
Conversation is interrogation
You’re like a big expensive drug trip
She looked down on me
He’s not evil
He’s not evil

(Keyboard Solo)

Now you’re going to get a beating
Sleazy brown dirty macs
Leave your job and have some kids
Yes we do
Scorched and dieing
Never had a friend or wanted one
A criminal on the take
Criminal on the take…

(Chorus x4)

Winners

Joint 2nd place: Martin BTI and “Stinky” Jim

1st place: Jenks

Big up all the entrants and those too intimdated to enter who still told me they enjoyed the mix.

win a mix cd

Less than two days to go in the Blogariddims Office Party Mix track spotting competition!

I won’t be doing an end-of-year-round-up but am instead doing a 2006mix which will only appear on a limited number of CDRs (i.e. you won’t be able to download it).

If you can identify more than 6 tracks in the Office Party mix (which you can download -follow that link!), you stand a good chance of winning one of these precious items.

Entries to me by midnight (er, UK time, I guess). Full details below…

history is made at night

People have always come together to move to music. In the process communities have been created, social divisions challenged, pleasure exalted over work and a billion relationships have blossomed. At the same time dancing bodies have often been subject to regulation – rules about when, where and how they can move, rules about who is allowed to dance with who, rules about what dancers can wear and put inside their bodies… That, in essence, is the ‘politics of dancing’. This site aims to be a celebration of dance as an affirmation of life in different times and places, sometimes dangerous times and places.

http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/

A great new blog from the people who brought you transpontine. Pieces so far include blues dances in 50s Notting Hill, dancing under the Nazis in France and an 1879 “drag ball” in Whitechapel.