Boombox on the Klipshorns: Downtown in '77

We’re back from our summer break and getting straight back to business to examine what was going on in the Downtown party scene during the fabled year of 1977. We return to a favourite of the show - Nicky Siano - to hear how the Gallery wound down, check in on what’s happening back at the Loft, and unearth the very first iteration of the Paradise Garage. Also featured in this episode: a bit more Studio 54 wash-up, the decline of the New York Record Pool, Deleuzian sobriety and more on Jem’s breakdancing. Produced and edited by Matt Huxley. Books:Jonathan Mahler - Ladies and Gentlemen the Bronx is Burnin Tracklist:Salsoul Orchestra ft. Loleatta Holloway - Runaway Teddy Pendergrass - The More I Get, The More I Want Grace Jones - I Need a Man Sylvester - Over and Over C.J. & Co. - We Got Our Own Thing Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame

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Love is the Message: Music, Dance & Counterculture is a new show from Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert, both of them authors, academics, DJs and dance party organisers. Tune in, Turn on and Get Down to in-depth discussion of the sonic, social and political legacies of radical movements from the 1960s to today. Starting with David Mancuso's NYC Loft parties, we’ll explore the countercultural sounds, scenes and ideas of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ”There’s one big party going on all the time. Sometimes we get to tune into it.” The rest of the time there’s Love Is The Message.