Coventry Digital Archives
The REFLECTION project was launched as a protest against the view that working class street culture and electronic music, and all that came with it from the late 1980’s onwards was not seen as ‘culture & art’. Looked down upon by organisations and institutions in the city of Coventry and beyond. Until now.....
On the 27th August 2022 at 14.00 at the Coventry Central Library (the former site of the legendary Locarno nightclub) Daylight Robbery will be handing over all the digital content from its REFLECTION trilogy to be held in the libraries city archives for future generations.
The donation will include 15 films and 18 radio documentaries from the REFLECTION trilogy: A City Before Dance, House Is A Feeling & The Drugs Don’t Work. Forthcoming material will be added in the future, featuring new films and audio documentaries plus a very special animation featuring the legendary MC Man Parris.
The material will be handed over by special guests from the Amnesia House, the Eclipse and the Edge. We are proud to see stored these working class stories preserved in the city’s archives forever, as a record of a cultural movement which was significant not just for Coventry, but which impacted across the UK and worldwide.
Everybody is welcome to this free event.
Entertainment on the day will be provided by Coventrys own Distortion Cru. Playing a special set of their personal favourites during the build up.
Also confirmed, the 1st special guest handing over the trilogy of work is Neville Fivey of Amnesia House (more to be announced).
The material is a historical and honest social documentation of Coventry before, during and after the arrival of house music and all the elements that came with the youth cultural revolution in the city from 1986 to 1994: Coventry’s own Motown story in electronic music, which laid the foundations for the worldwide multi-billion-pound music industry to come.