Lovers Rock gives life to the joyful Black history of blues parties | Micha Frazer-Carroll
Steve McQueen’s film captures the underground spaces that my mum’s generation carved out for themselves in the 1970s
At the halfway mark of , the new Steve McQueen film set at a blues party in 1980, at least a hundred partygoers calmly sing an a capella song for five minutes straight. It is hypnotising and, like other moments in McQueen’s film series, which centres around British Caribbean communities in the 1960s to the 1980s, time feels momentarily like it has beenstretched. Every person in that jam-packed room patiently sings the slow song from start to finish, and everyone knows the words: “But I’ve got no time to
