Strictly bhangra: how daytimers got young British Asians dancing

His parents thought they were studying. However, thousands of British Asians adopted the 80 and 90 dance before returning to tea

Those were the days of disco, a time when dance music took in the UK. But the young British Asians come of age during the 1980s and 1990s had, in the parents whole, conservatives who disapproved of their children sweaty nightclubs, getting drunk and connect with the opposite sex.

repressive In this context, something new was learned that go unnoticed by the general public: club events where thousands of young Asian bhangra music is heard - especially - played by orchestras and later by DJs. These events took place not at night but during the afternoon, when children were examined at the university, school or library. And was baptized and daily agendas.

"They were a national phenomenon," said Rajinder Dudrah, author of Bhangra: Birmingham and beyond. "In Nottingham, Bradford, London, Manchester, Birmingham and Luton, the children boarded buses to go to a club where there would be 2000 Asian dance. The trick was to come back spotless, as if nothing had past, so that "live to tell about it."

• Rav, a DJ and radio announcer with music collective Punjabi Hit Squad, and then studied in London diaries. "You tell her parents that he stayed late at school," she says. "Then I went in his uniform, on a bus, paying 10 pounds, has a house rave, and be 6:00 p.m. ".
Gursharanpal Singh Chana, better known today as the photographer and writer Boy Chana, a teenager in Birmingham when he found diaries. "It took place on Wednesday afternoon when schools have free time," he says. "We tell our parents, we went to class, but we went to the party." Ruby Begum, who grew up in London, I would go to the library. "Girls of Asia had to keep her hidden personality, but once we got to the club that we could be free."

This Saturday, the Daytimer is back for one day, at the Southbank Centre in London. BBC Radio 1 and Asian Network DJ Nihal organized the event as part of Alchemy Center Festival, which celebrates the art of the Indian subcontinent. The Daytimer be free of alcohol and halal food, focusing on music, especially the cream of what has been called Burban: Brown urban music. Although the event will include the participation of adolescents who may not be aware of the history of daily, there will be a similar function: to give young people access to music that Asians are not usually the opportunity to discover live. "This is an opportunity for them to see artists like Shizzio, Kaden Junai Shide and Boss," says Nihal. "They have a huge fan base among young Muslim women who would not normally be able to go to concerts. "

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