Join us for a free-to-attend event with London-based journalist and filmmaker Ed Gillett, author of Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain.
Ed will sit in conversation with writer Tayyab Amin to discuss how dance music has resisted (and shaped) legislation in the UK over the past four decades, and the politics of club music going forward.
Click here to learn more about Party Lines.
RSVP for free, donations to help support the event welcome. Outlaws Yacht Club has step-free access and operates a fully functional bar.
About Party Lines:
"A refutation of the claim... that partying isn’t political" - London Review of Books (read more)
"[An] excellent history of UK dance culture" - Sunday Times
"A fascinating deep dive into dance music's uneasy relationship with the establishment" - Jeremy Deller
From the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988 to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music from journalist and filmmaker Ed Gillett, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.
Taking in the Victorian moralism of the Thatcher years, the far-reaching restrictions of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994, and the resurgence of illegal raves during the Covid-19 pandemic, Party Lines charts an ongoing conflict, fought in basement clubs, abandoned warehouses and sunlit fields, between the revolutionary potential of communal sound and the reactionary impulses of the British establishment. Brought to life with stunning clarity and depth, this is social and cultural history at its most immersive, vital and shocking.
About Ed Gillett:
Ed Gillett is a journalist and film-maker based in South London, who has written for The Guardian, Frieze, DJ Mag, The Quietus and Novara Media. His film and TV credits include Jeremy Deller’s acclaimed rave documentary Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984–1992 for BBC Four, and Four To The Floor, Channel 4’s award-winning music and factual strand. Party Lines is his first book.
