If your grandma went clubbing, she might write this

If your grandma went clubbing, she might write this

15 January, 2009 | 12.58PM

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News:

Bless the Daily Mail newspaper, and its voice of ‘Middle England’.

Recently the paper’s 65-year-old columnist Joanna Trollope, visited a ‘funky house’ music club event in order to understand the “impenetrably foreign” world of modern dance music for a character in her new novel, Friday Nights.

Her findings, which were printed on the newspaper’s website at the end of December, are rather amusing. It’s the kind of thing your grandma might have written, had she decided to go clubbing to see what all the fuss was about.

And there was the beat. It wasn’t so much deafening as huge. It gets you right in the breast bone, as if it’s inside your body as well as your head. More an experience, somehow, than music.

The dance floor was full, boys in narrow jeans and T-shirts, girls in dresses and 4in heels, or jeans and trainers, all weirdly splashed with violet-coloured strobe lighting swinging back and forth across them. I couldn’t help wondering what a medieval painter, with religion on his mind, would have made of the scene.

It’s always interesting to see how outsiders view the dance scene, and on this occasion, a little respect should be given to Mrs. Trollope for keeping an open mind.

Normally the Daily Mail treats dance music culture in the same way it treats asylum seekers and the EU - with vile disgust.

Read Joanna Trollope’s ‘The night I got down to funky house in the name of research’ here.

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