Another Sunday Afternoon at Dingwalls, LDN, April 2026

I first went to Dingwalls in 1987, and this session at NEON 194, Piccadilly, on Sunday 12 April, took me straight back. Not in a sentimental way, but in the feeling of it: the crowd tight to the stage, dancers lifting the room, musicians feeding off the energy, and that shifting blur between stage and floor. With Gilles Peterson, Patrick Forge, Sylvester and a brilliant Galliano set, Another Sunday Afternoon at Dingwalls felt less like a revival than a reassertion of spirit. The room held rhythm, movement, style and communion — the sense of a musical language still being spoken fluently, across generations. These photographs are not simply a record of performance. They trace atmosphere, presence and exchange: the intensity of faces in the crowd, the charge of bodies in motion, and the way music can still draw a room into one living thing. Not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but the real feeling of it. A proper Sunday afternoon.