Last Night
- Dates and Opening times
Thu 6 – Sun 23 June
Friday 14th June - 10am - 6pm
Saturday 15th June - 10am - 11.30pm
Sunday 16th June - 10am - 6pm
Friday 21st June - 10am - 6pm
Saturday 22nd June - 10am - 11.30pm
Sunday 23rd June - 10am - 6pm- Venue
The Warehouse
SWG3
100 Eastvale Place
G3 8QG- Participants
- Martin Beck
- Presented by
SWG3 with 47 Canal, New York
- Accessiblity
Good access: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to access upper floors
Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair-accessible toilet
Gender Neutral: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex
Baby Change: The venue has baby change facilities
Refreshments: There is a café or somewhere you can purchase refreshments
2nd June 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the penultimate party hosted by David Mancuso at his loft space at 99 Prince Street in New York. Martin Beck’s 13-hour video work, Last Night, 2016, is based on the 119 songs played by Mancuso on that night.
Beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1970, David regularly hosted dance parties at his home on 647 Broadway and after the mid-seventies, at 99 Prince Street in SoHo, Manhattan. The invitation for the foundational party included an image of Salvador Dalí’s painting The Persistence of Memory, 1931, and David’s phrase ‘Love Saves the Day.’ What came to be known as the Loft parties were unique in their combination of communal atmosphere and high-quality sound, centred around music and dancing.
The Loft became a legendary blueprint after which many celebrated disco-era New York clubs and beyond tried to model themselves. Last Night shows the records being played in full, in sequence on a vintage turntable in a domestic atmosphere, providing an intimate journey of music and images reflecting a singular night at a particular moment in time.