'let the world know that you hate disco' - 2

I did a search on this blog for 'disco' and I find that I have made many, many references to disco over time. I was moved to thinking about it because I got a great LP recently called French Disco Boogie Sounds 1975-1984 which I highly recommend. It reminded me that really, when it comes down to it, a lot of the music I really like is, if not disco per se, than disco-adjacent and that is probably because I grew up at exactly the right time for it. I can't remember when I actually got on board with disco or came to understand it as a genre but I suppose I was about 10. It might have been 'Rock the Boat' by The Hues Corporation or something like that. I am not sure if I conceptualised this as a type of music, to be honest, and it was always a bit flexible round the edges. 

I don't have time to reflect further, it's a very busy time. Talk later. 

''let the world know that you hate disco' - 1

 

Santa Barbara Independent 18 October 1979 p. 24

misty

 

all i want is some vintage philip brown knitwear as worn on the box

...and then I go searching on facebook marketplace* and things like this come up. What is the world coming to? 

 * to be precise, searching on the phrase 'Philip Brown knitwear'. 

the lyric theatre, yarraville

This building intrigued me last night and I now know it was Stephen Street's Lyric Theatre until 1982 and is of course now apartments. Stephen Street produced most of The Smiths' hits. In more relevant news, I don't know whether the person who lost their teeth in March 1918 after a great foray into moviegoing did so at the Lyric Yarraville or one of the other Lyric theatres. Also what was the reward? 

perry and i walked to yarraville to sun books to buy a copy of robert forster's novel

These pictures are completely out of sequence except the last one. Keeps it interesting

6 am walk

Possibly the images below of the football oval convey why for a moment I thought some screens had been erected in the middle of the ground. I mean it was my bad eyes as well. 

The Darwin Institute of Trade is a remarkable institution established 2025 and they rarely leave the lights on all night so it felt like a lucky day.