Shoom was a weekly all-nighter dance music event held at nightclubs in London, England, between December 1987 and early 1990. It is widely credited with initiating the acid house movement in the UK. Shoom was founded by Danny Rampling and managed by his wife Jenni. It began at a 300-capacity basement gym on Southwark Street in South London. By May 1988 its growing popularity necessitated a move to the larger Raw venue on Tottenham Court Road, Central London, and a switch from Saturday to Thursday nights. Later relocations were to The Park nightclub in Kensington and Busby's venue on Charing Cross Road. The early nights featured Chicago house and Detroit techno, mixed with contemporary pop and post-punk. Its musical and visual culture evolved around the classical hallucinogenic drug LSD and the psychoactive drug MDMA, the latter commonly known in the UK as ecstasy or "E". Shoom closed shortly after open drug use at the club began to attract police attention. By this time, electronic music had crossed into the mainstream as the heavier sounding rave style became popular.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1918:

The Battle of Amiens began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_%281918%29

1969:

At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road

2008:

A EuroCity train en route to Prague struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka station and derailed, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Stud%C3%A9nka_train_wreck

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

sidle: 1. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways. 2. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sidle

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Men have been laughed out of faults which a sermon could not reform; nay, there are many little indecencies which are improper to be mentioned in such solemn discourses. Now ridicule with contempt or ill- nature, is indeed always irritating and offensive; but we may, by testifying a just esteem for the good qualities of the person ridiculed, and our concern for his interests, let him see that our ridicule of his weakness flows from love to him, and then we may hope for a good effect. This then is another necessary rule, "That along with our ridicule of smaller faults we should always join evidences of good nature and esteem."   --Francis Hutcheson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Hutcheson_%28philosopher%29