The Brickyard invites you to a one off event exploring the music at the foundation of modern electronic dance culture.
In the beginning there was Disco, possibly the most maligned and misunderstood genre popular music has ever produced, yet its influence, in mutated forms, still reverberates loudly across the globe.
Forget ‘Saturday Night Fever’, cheap leisure suits, afro wigs, platform shoes, medallions, novelty hits and every other Disco cliché associated with the period. The tacky and enduring image of disco was simply a product of money greedy, major labels cottoning on to the marketability of an underground lifestyle, sanitising it with crass commercialism and sucking the scene dry until mainstream America, and the rest of the world, cried “Disco Sucks.” The slogan ever being immortalised in the footage from the 1979, Disco Demolition Night held at Cominskey Park in Chicago by rock radio DJ Steve Dahl, when a mountain of ‘Disco’ records were blown up before the crowd rioted.
Mainstream America may have turned its back on uplifting, four to the floor dance music, but the legacy of the Disco sound remains; it created the DJ mix, the remix, the re-edit and the 12” single - elements which are still at the foundation of electronic dance music as we know it today.
Whether you’re into House, Drum & Bass, Breaks, Hip Hop, Dubstep or any other form created in the past 30 years, there is something traceable to the disco days in each one.
‘Love Was The Message’ aims to provide a snapshot of a time before Acid House catapulted itself across the Atlantic and became embedded in clubs, fields and bedrooms across the world, leaving it there to cross-
Back for another night of red headed shenanigans! Tickets on sale now! £6 in advance or £7 on the door. See Myspace/ Website to book tickets and for latest news. Hope to see you there!
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