A late noughties banging nightclub classic given the acoustic treatment and sounds like it was made for #acoustic #guitar
#acoustic #guitar #darrenstyles #clubland #coversong
@debonairetoast any hard flat/reflective surfaces are a right pita for live sound.... used to do a club on the circuit in Australia which had mirrored walls right across the back of the stage *and* both sides! Talk about trying to polish a turd... ππ
#soundengineer #Austraila #clubland
#soundengineer #austraila #clubland
Do you like banging #techno #eurodance #clubland #ministryofsound but also like to mellow out on #acoustic music as well?
This is your lucky day!
#techno #eurodance #clubland #ministryofsound #acoustic
#Kernkraft400 classic Zombie Nation.
The actual vocal line sung is "Domination", but when they finished the song some rando in the studio came in while it was playing back and said "WTF is a Zombie Nation???".
They all looked at each other and thought "That's a much better title for the song!!"
Prove me wrong! π
#kernkraft400 #techno #edm #dancemusic #trance #clubland #ministryofsound
Clubland Classics Part 3 - 4 songs, 2 chords, 1 guitar
#clubland #acoustic #coversongs #techno #eurodance #dancemusic
#clubland #acoustic #coversongs #techno #eurodance #dancemusic
4x Clubland Classics, 2x chords, 1x acoustic guitar - Part 2
#ianvandahl #2001 #clubland #coversongs
https://youtu.be/ZzXM04xR3Cg
#ianvandahl #clubland #coversongs
Annoyed when your favorite rock songs got turned into banging clubbing songs?
I'm turning the tables and doing covers of classic late 90's/early 2000's clubbing classics in a melancholic acoustic singer/songwriter style.
First up, an absolute #clubland banger from #darrenstyles
https://youtu.be/u54y1gzWVck
#coversong #music #techno #edm #acoustic #dancemusic #acousticguitar
#clubland #darrenstyles #coversong #music #techno #edm #acoustic #dancemusic #acousticguitar
If your of a certain 'vintage' and loved throwing shapes on the dance floor, here's a cover of a #clubland classic - https://youtu.be/u54y1gzWVck
Clubland by Pete Brown, a popular social history of working men's clubs in the UK, relates an episode during Eartha Kitt's week long residency at Batley Variety Club, Yorkshire, in 1969, when she visited Batley market:
"Stunningly beautiful, fully made-up and wearing furs and an elaborate headscarf, she soon attracted an audience of less elaborately head-scarved housewives, and young men who had clearly left their shops and offices to gawp at her. She visited a tripe stall, because - understandably again - the American megastar whom Orson Welles once called 'the most exciting woman on earth' had never encountered tripe before. In the video, Eartha Kitt fails to completely hide her disgust at both the tripe itself, and the serving suggestion of smothering it in industrial quantities of salt and vinegar. She eats a small piece and retches just about visibly, looks as if she's about to vomit, and finally swallows. Then - unbelievably - she reaches for the salt and vinegar, hammers both, and goes in again. Somehow she recovers, says she's been singing all week, and asks her rapt audience what they like to sing themselves. A minute later, the multi-award-winning TV, movie and Broadway icon is leading the whole of Batley market in a hearty rendition of On Ilkley Moor 'Baht 'At."
You can watch from 22:30 to 26:00 in this documentary about Batley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjGzSruor2Y
#clubland #reading #books #WorkingClassHistory #BlackHistory #history #Yorkshire #UK #singing #tripe #EarthaKitt
#clubland #reading #books #workingclasshistory #blackhistory #history #yorkshire #uk #singing #tripe #earthakitt
Cut for length: Clubland by Pete Brown, a popular social history of working men's clubs in the UK, discusses "moral panics" about out-group people enjoying music as entertainment (and, yes, this is still a culture war trope used to divide and rule).
Clubland by Pete Brown, a popular social history of working men's clubs in the UK, discusses "moral panics" about out-group people enjoying music as entertainment (and, yes, this is still a culture war trope used to divide and rule).
"Now, you might think there's nothing wrong with a sing-song around the old Joanna [piano], but these were working-class Victorian men, remember, so anything they did was, by definition, bad. The Town reported in 1837: 'The epidemic of vocal music has more particularly spread its contagious and devastating influence amongst the youth of the Metropolis, the London apprentice boys. These young gentlemen generally give vent to their passion and display their vocal abilities in the spacious room appropriated to that purpose of some tavern or public house and these meetings are most aptly denominated Free and Easies: free as air they are for the advancement of drunkenness and profligacy and easy enough of access to all classes of society with little regard to appearances or character.'
This despicable practice of people singing to each other in a space that welcomed anyone and had no dress code has reappeared numerous times in history.
[... two more example quotations, a rave from 1989 and pub singing in 1858 ...]
Each writer is describing music, and people enjoying it as a shared communal experience. None of them seems to witness anything worse than that happening, so sensationalist language is employed to do some really heavy lifting to help make singing and dancing feel like a sinister threat from outside our cultural safe space. Whether it's happening behind the closed doors of a pub you'd never dream of visiting or a disused airfield in Berkshire you'll never find, the publication brings these revellers into your home, stoking the fear that contagious, alien beings are coming for you and your children."
Brown later discusses other moral panics about working class clubland, such as women leaving their homes after dark to get together and... prepare to be shocked... play bingo... oh the horror!
#clubland #reading #books #WorkingClassHistory #history #cooperative #UK #singing
#clubland #reading #books #workingclasshistory #history #cooperative #uk #singing
"Bastard's Club was founded in Charlton Marshall near Blandford, Dorset, in 1855 for farm labourers. It was named, as wags enjoyed explaining, not after its members, but for its founder, Mr Horlock Bastard [...]" - from Clubland by Pete Brown, a popular social history of working men's clubs in the UK.
#clubland #reading #books #WorkingClassHistory #history #cooperative #UK #Dorset
#clubland #reading #books #workingclasshistory #history #cooperative #uk #Dorset
I'm still reading Clubland by Pete Brown, a popular social history of working men's clubs in the UK. Despite the first chapter being devoted to amusing reflexivity (you don't need to know what this means but it's a must for social historians), by page 38 he's already included about half a dozen mentions of women's suffrage and a pointed reference to chattel slavery. I especially enjoyed his dismantling of the excuse "for their time":
1780s: "[Samuel Greg] was a pioneer of the factory system who liked to control people as well as capital. When he built the famous Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, he and his wife Hannah also built a model village for their employees. Conditions here were somewhat better than they were for the enslaved people on Greg's sugar plantations in the West Indies, and the couple were considered enlightened for their time. Sure, they forced young children to work seventy-two hours a week, but Hannah took a personal involvement in their education and well-being."
In 1857 their son, Robert Hyde Greg, accidentally founded what is now the longest surviving working men's club. He intended it as a teetotal reading cafe, lol.
#clubland #reading #books #WorkingClassHistory #history #cooperative #UK
#clubland #reading #books #workingclasshistory #history #cooperative #uk
"There is no true civilisation, no true and lasting prosperity, unless the condition of the mass of people steadily improves, not only in material comfort or in security from destitution, but in all that makes life valuable." - The 20th Annual Report of the Club and Institute Union, 1883
I'm reading Clubland by Pete Brown, which is a social history of working men's clubs in the UK. As a proud member of my thriving local social club, which began as a working men's club in the 19th century, I'm finding this popular history fascinating.
#clubland #reading #books #workingclasshistory #cooperative
Just started @bbcradio4@twitter.com & all ep's downloadable @BBCSounds@twitter.com. #Clubland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001gwyn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Donβt you miss talking, eating, dancing, partying -in person - with other beautiful folk??
Donβt you miss long hugs with friends? Feeling their heartbeats, finding safety through simple embrace ?
I do
βSocialβ media will never replace the human touch
Now Kiss your kitty cat / pup and dance π
5th Dimension / Let the sunshine in
Jonathan Peters