Archive for August, 2016

How we foresaw Brexit at Glastonbury A funny thing happened at Glastonbury Festival this year. We’d gone down early to set up our stall on the Monday and due to the mud and rain, and some other problems, we didn’t get on site until late in the afternoon. We erected what we could (the roof) […]

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Stay Up Late’s charity mission and values. As a charity, our history has been written by the communities that we’ve grown out of – people who believe that every person with a learning disability should be able to stay up late! We recently brought together different people involved in our work – the Storm and Thunder Team, the […]

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Summary: We used the session to create a video that will help new volunteers to understand more about what it is like to have a learning disability. We want our gig buddies to understand that this is a personal experience that is different for everyone. We will all have different ideas about what learning disability […]

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Is HMV promoting hateful language? The story over The Descendents album title containing the word ‘SPAZ’ continues. Today Real Gone Rocks tweeted a photo of the album on sale in their Bluewater branch as a ‘recommended purchase’. We think this means that HMV are responsible for helping to promote hateful language. Here’s the Tweet. Hey @hmvtweets, please […]

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Why we’re upset with Paddy Power and their use of the word ‘Mong’ A few weeks ago we got involved in a storm with fans of the band Descendents over us and RealGoneRocks objecting to the band’s new album, and EP, containing the word ‘Spaz’. The dust is starting to settle on this issue now, […]

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Amazing update – Descendents meet with Stay Up Late ambassadors Becky Boo and Brian In my previous post I was reflecting on why I was thinking of taking down our petition calling on US punk band Descendents to change the name of the new LP which features the word Spaz. Unwittingly I unleashed a whole torrent […]

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Our thoughts on the Descendents LP title issue The past couple of weeks, since starting our petition against the name of Descendents new LP, containing the word ‘Spaz’, has seen an unprecedented torrent of abuse come our way from enraged fans of the band. This post is to explain why we’re upset about words like […]

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An update on our Hypercaffium Spazzinate petition Since launching the petition to ask Descendents to change the name of their new LP ‘Hypercaffium Spazzinate’ due to it containing the word ‘Spaz’ – a word seen as highly offensive to people with disabilities in the UK – we’ve had an absolute torrent of abuse from enraged fans […]

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