if New York can die so can London

[Mr. Tea]

L to R: Mvuent, Gus, Linebaugh, Stan. Although, really, Linebaugh's all four.

I was going to try and match them up, but you've done it perfectly.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Will be mentally adding "Ah tell ya hwat..." to the start of every Linebaugh post in future.

 

[shakahislop]

doxxed him

 

[blissblogger]

i haven't read it but i listened to an hour of interview with them the other day. there was nothing egregious, it was a bit boring really.

a question for the dissensus massive, on the books side of things, is there much of a literature on the US side of 'raving' etc? obviously on the uk side we have the work of young upstart @blissblogger and so on. am sure there's loads on early house and techno but i keep hearing people talk about the equivalent of free parties in the US.

Two excellent historical accounts of North American rave culture





The Matos one is more recent and detailed... whereas the Scott one was written well before the EDM explosion of the 2010s.... She's Canadian so it really is North America not just the USA (there's a good chapter on Toronto's Anglophile rave scene). Don't be put off by the "New School Dancescapes" subtitle, which I never noticed before!

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Imagine reading this if you're mentally disabled and you are already always concerned about social blunders - now you feel even more nervous about going out, but you now feel even further marginalized by these people that are supposedly so concerned about social justice (but it seems only ever when it seems to come to race/sex/lgbtq+) because you feel like one unintentional social blunder might blow up in your face

Imagine how you feel if you're white with immediate black genetic heritage:

 

[mixed_biscuits]

yes

Leave the uniform at home next time?

 

[Corpsey]

Watched a bit (and I do mean a bit) of that "Scala" documentary last night and wondered if any Londoners here ever went there.

Another of those intriguing and depressing hints that London used to be a lot more fun

 

[luka]

william kent type of fleapit bet hes been noshed off in there

 

[luka]

doesnt even know who was bestowing the favour, just went along with it. it was dark. it was all a blur. rocky horror picture show was showing.

 

[Corpsey]

Was that before your time? Closed in 1993

 

[Corpsey]

I like the idea of it but I think in reality I'd be far too square to go to a place like that

Do you even get midnight screenings in London now? (Patiently awaits a link to a list of 600 happening this evening)

 

[luka]

before my time. i dont like that kind of thing anyway

 

[Corpsey]

Do you like escape rooms and axe throwing?

 

[Corpsey]

Can a scenario be envisaged whereby London becomes affordable again and is culturally revitalised? Presumably it would have to go through some sort of hellfire first.

 

[luka]

i could imaigne it during lockdown but it didnt seem to happen

 

[Corpsey]

Yeah I thought that would burst the bubble

I guess it enriched the already rich so they could buy more luxury flats

 

[luka]

its definitely now the worst version of london ever to exist. worse than the aftermath of the blitz i expect.

 

[version]

Corpse was thrown out of a London cinema for unloading a pistol into the ceiling during Infinity War.

 

[version]

 

[Clinamenic]

Corpse was thrown out of a London cinema for unloading a pistol into the ceiling during Infinity War.

I can hear him chanting "I am inevitable"