60: A radical vision for club culture with Anjali Prashar-Savoie

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Anjali Prashar-Savoie about her vision for a participatory nightlife inspired by queer scenes in the UK.

A stack of new interviews are coming down the No Tags pipes right now, but first we return to a conversation from our sold-out event at the ICA last month. If you couldn’t make it down, or if you were there but forgot to take notes, this episode is a keeper. London-based rave researcher Anjali Prashar-Savoie set out her vision of a ‘club commons’ – a radical, positive and participatory kind of nightlife, as inspired by her research into the history of queer scenes in the UK, from lesbian sound systems with a creche on the side to George Michael-themed free parties. The interview section begins at 41m. Before that we spend some time reporting on our New Year jollies, our seasonal “locking in” progress, and recent film-watching (Into The Abyss, Marty Supreme, The Smashing Machine). Then a conversation about the growing magnetism of Substack, a nine-year-old newsletter platform that’s suddenly having a moment with musicians and celebs. Does the Troye Sivan newsletter herald a new intimacy in fan-artist relations? Or is this just another example of Brands Saying Bae? (With apologies to Shawn Reynaldo, who wrote his own First Floor newsletter on this subject a few days after we…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chal Ravens, Tom Lea

Guest: Anjali Prashar-Savoie

Topics covered

• club culture
• queer scenes
• nightlife
• rave research
• Substack
• fan-artist relations

Keywords

• club commons
• nightlife
• queer culture
• rave
• Substack
• fan engagement
• music culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: No Tags

Books & works: No Tags Vol 2: Conversations on underground music culture

Places: London

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