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Thirty years ago this week, in a Chicago stadium, disgruntled rock fans staged Disco Demolition Night, literally creating a disco inferno by setting fire to the records, rioting and getting arrested. Nile Rodgers, the genres foremost producer, who worked with acts such as Sister Sledge, then enjoying the greatest hits of their career Lost in Music, Hes the Greatest Dancer and We Are Family compared the event to Nazi book-burning. But by the years end, American television and radio stations had felt the protests heat and taken the music with black, gay and Latin origins off the playlist, replacing it with punk and rock. The boogie nights were over.
Fast-forward three decades to a hot, dark nightclub in Ibiza, where girls in gold bikinis and musclemen in tight trunks twirl around podiums and a glitterball spins overhead. An excited audience have waited until 3am to see Sister Sledge, who arrive on stage to wild applause, long-legged and glamorous as ever. They belt out Lost in Music, Hes the Greatest Dancer and We Are Family. Its July 2009 and disco is back, baby, back. But why are people going all Saturday Night Fever now?
Lead singer Joni Sledge says that people turn to disco when the world is full of bad news, and that right now we want to hear real voices and real tunes again. When the world is burning, the glitterball starts turning. The show tonight has been organised by Carwash, the disco night that has been running in London for more than 15 years. Its promoter, Nigel Atkin, says that clubbers are sick of boring minimal techno and faceless house music; they want dirty basslines and a funky groove.
Of course, songs like these never really went away in Europe. Any wedding DJ worth the salt in his margarita has some Chic, Sister Sledge and Jackson Five in his record bag. Atkin says that 2009 was the right time for him to launch a Carwash season in Ibiza because discos back and if we didnt start it, somebody else would have done.
Thirty years ago this week, in a Chicago stadium, disgruntled rock fans staged Disco Demolition Night, literally creating a disco inferno by setting fire to the records, rioting and getting arrested. Nile Rodgers, the genres foremost producer, who worked with acts such as Sister Sledge, then enjoying the greatest hits of their career Lost in Music, Hes the Greatest Dancer and We Are Family compared the event to Nazi book-burning. But by the years end, American television and radio stations had felt the protests heat and taken the music with black, gay and Latin origins off the playlist, replacing it with punk and rock. The boogie nights were over.
Fast-forward three decades to a hot, dark nightclub in Ibiza, where girls in gold bikinis and musclemen in tight trunks twirl around podiums and a glitterball spins overhead. An excited audience have waited until 3am to see Sister Sledge, who arrive on stage to wild applause, long-legged and glamorous as ever. They belt out Lost in Music, Hes the Greatest Dancer and We Are Family. Its July 2009 and disco is back, baby, back. But why are people going all Saturday Night Fever now?
Lead singer Joni Sledge says that people turn to disco when the world is full of bad news, and that right now we want to hear real voices and real tunes again. When the world is burning, the glitterball starts turning. The show tonight has been organised by Carwash, the disco night that has been running in London for more than 15 years. Its promoter, Nigel Atkin, says that clubbers are sick of boring minimal techno and faceless house music; they want dirty basslines and a funky groove.
Of course, songs like these never really went away in Europe. Any wedding DJ worth the salt in his margarita has some Chic, Sister Sledge and Jackson Five in his record bag. Atkin says that 2009 was the right time for him to launch a Carwash season in Ibiza because discos back and if we didnt start it, somebody else would have done.
