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Feminist/Queer Desires
I was invited by Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at
Goldsmiths College, to present a paper on the theme of "Disco and the
Queer Dance Floor" at the third annual Gender and Theory Conference,
which took place on Wednesday 11 June 2008. The conference was
Our party with David Mancuso at the Light
A thousand daffodils came to bloom last Sunday in the concrete surroundings of "lower Shoreditch", which shares with TriBeKa the strange experience of housing a Bohemian-oriented culture on the border of one of global capitalism's uncompromising centres ⎯ London's financial
[Posted: 21 Mar 2007]Once Upon A Time
BBC 4 are screening a one-hour documentary about music in New York
during the 1970s that looks like it could be good. I was interviewed
for the programme late last year and know that David Mancuso was
interviewed for the programme, too. I'm pretty optimistic it'll be more
Roger Sanchez's Choice
I've just posted a set of sleeve notes I wrote for Azuli's Roger
Sanchez Choice. I'm quite pleased with the way it's all come out,
although to begin with I had my doubts about getting involved in the
project. I remember being quite into a number of Sanchez's early 1990s
releases on Stricly
Arthur Russell update
It is possible to blame Italy for many things, but my recent absence
from the Blogging sphere is not one of them given that we returned from
Rome over a fortnight ago. No, I've been steering clear of Blogland
because I've been trying to wrap up a "good draft" of my
Last Sunday's party
Well, we had another great party with David Mancuso (the Loft) at the Light on Sunday. Hearing Ame's "Rej" on our system was a particular highlight. Having my friend Matthew Ingram -- Woebot, the great dance music blogger, to most --
[Posted: 14 Dec 2006]Dear Dancer
We'll be putting on our winter party with David Mancuso at the Light in
just over a week's time. Ticketweb have now sold out of tickets. I'm
going to paste below the email we're about to send out that gives info
on where there might be a few tickets left. Best not to hang around too
long if you
Three books, two articles, two conference papers, several lectures and sleeve notes, one headache
I'm up to my neck with teaching at the moment, which has generally been
fun, but wasn't when I had to deal with a homophobic incident during a
discussion on music and discourse the other day. Serves me right or
trying to illustrate my point by describing hip hop as a discursive
space of...
Intensities: Theo Parrish, Nicky Siano, Helen Lane
Three big parties to report on: Theo Parrish at Plastic People (Shoreditch), Nicky Siano at the Key (Kings Cross) and Helen Lane at Appolonia (Stanmore). (I also went to the Dubstep launch of
[Posted: 27 Oct 2006]