The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World

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The location was always a closely guarded secret until the last minute, so that the police wouldn’t arrive and shut you down. I was probably the most hated person in England whenever anything was cancelled or redirected. A particular moment of pride was when the BBC did a story on the orbital/M25 scene and they played my voice, giving out directions on the news.

The inspiration for Shoom came from a trip to Ibiza to celebrate Paul Oakenfold’s birthday in August 1987. We went to this open-air, after-hours club called Amnesia where DJ Alfredo was playing and that was a pivotal experience. It was a combination of the spirit of Ibiza, the spirit of the people and this revolutionary new music, house and techno. We returned to London and sprinkled some of that Ibiza magic into the clubs we created. When I created Shoom in a basement gym in Southwark, it was a complete breath of fresh air. It was small and intimate and it attracted a group of like-minded people of all races, colours and sexual preferences, a mixture of art students, street kids and fashion people. It only held 300 people, but within a few months there were thousands waiting to get in. It’s 30 years ago this summer that acid house exploded in the UK, triggering what’s now called the second summer of love and the biggest youth revolution since the 1960s. As a Mexican wave of parties swept through London in a rush of joy and unity, a new world emerged from the swirl of dry ice and pulsing beats, one that was to shape our culture and outlook for the next generation. I’d come off the free festival scene. That was my life,” she tells me over the phone from her home in Bristol. When she discovered free parties, she saw people coming together to just dance, celebrate life, be unified and be on the land.

The women blazing a trail at The Hacienda

The media's coverage of hippie afflux in the Haight-Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson termed the district "Hashbury" in The New York Times Magazine. In Manhattan, near the Greenwich Village neighborhood, during a concert in Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day of 1967, some police officers asked for the music's volume to be reduced. [4] In response, some people in the crowd threw various objects, and 38 arrests ensued. [4] A debate about the "threat of the hippie" ensued between Mayor John Lindsay and Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary. [4] After this event, Allan Katzman, the editor of the East Village Other, predicted that 50,000 hippies would enter the area for the summer. [4] [34] California [ edit ] Josh Blaaberg is an emerging video artist, whose work spans both the film and art worlds. He has recently been commissioned by Channel 4’s art strand ‘Random Acts’ and the British Film Institute, while his work has screened at Sundance Film Festival and SXSW Fun Fact: According to some estimates, the single sold over 100,000 copies, making it a smash hit for the iconic TRAX label and one of the most the most well-known acid records of all-time.

We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, to stay where you are, bring the revolution to where you live and don't come here because it's over and done with. [43] a b c d e Weller, Sheila (July 2012). "Suddenly That Summer". Vanity Fair . Retrieved September 28, 2012.M. Isserman, and M. Kazin (eds), America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 151–172. P. Braunstein, and M.Doyle (eds), Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, (New York, 2002), p. 7. Like Paulette, Kath was and still is integral to Manchester’s music scene. It began when she helped put on a World Aids Day benefit in Liverpool in 1989. Unable to find a DJ to play for free, Kath and her girlfriend decided to play their own records. It was such a success they began running Loose, their own monthly night. Have women been written out? Without a doubt A picture of Kath at Flesh, taken by fellow DJ and Homoelectric resident Philippa Jarman Wu Tsang is an award-wining filmmaker and artist, and director of WILDNESS, a film which tells the story of LA club The Silver Platter and the LGBT community for whom it has provided a ‘safe space’ for generations. Her projects have been presented at museums and film festivals internationally, including MoMA, Guggenheim, Whitney, LACMA, Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Berlinale, Hot Docs, and SXSW. She was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow (Film/Video) and is currently shortlisted for the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize. The band released its second album, Bebop Moptop the following year. Gary Clark was no longer the band's only songwriter, as Ged Grimes and Kit Clark co-wrote "I Can't Wait" and Kit also contributed "N.Y.C Shanty", both of which Kit sang on the record. The first single released from the album was "Never Gonna Be the Same", but this was overshadowed by its successor, the hit single "The Second Summer of Love", which reached number 23 in the British charts. [5]

a b Wilson, Alan (13 September 2014). "Danny Wilson to reunite for Ryder Cup gig". The Courier . Retrieved 20 August 2016.Gary Clark and Ged Grimes grew up together in Dundee, Scotland and played together in school bands. [3] [4] Influenced by soul and pop artists such as Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Burt Bacharach, and Hal David, they eventually moved to London, where they played in the bands Perfect Strangers and Dream Kitchen during the early 1980s. Neither band met with success: circa 1984, while still in London, Clark and Grimes noticed that talent scouts and journalists were beginning to follow the soul and pop scenes in Scottish cities. Returning to Dundee, they teamed up with Gary Clark's younger brother Kit Clark to form a new band called Spencer Tracy (after the film star of the same name). [4] Belladrum Tartan Heart's in the right place". The Courier. 12 August 2010 . Retrieved 20 August 2016.

a b c d e f g h i j Will Harris (31 August 2009). "Hooks 'N' You: A Portrait of Gary Clark as a Young Recording Artist". Popdose.com . Retrieved 20 August 2016.a b Gail Dolgin; Vicente Franco (2007). The Summer of Love. American Experience. PBS. Archived from the original on March 25, 2017 . Retrieved April 23, 2007.