Eighty Nine

1989: a cusp between decades.The year the Berlin Wall came down and Voyager went up. Ted Bundy and Emperor Hirohito died. The birth of the first Bush administration and computer virus.In San Francisco and Newcastle the ground shook, in Chernobyl it melted. Tiananmen Square shocked the world and Tank Man imprinted on the international consciousness. Communism and Thatcherism began their decline, Islamic fundamentalism its rise.It was the year Batman burst onto the big screen, we went back to the future (again), Indiana Jones made it a trifecta at the box office and Michael Damian told us to rock on. Based on a play list of 26 songs released in 1989, Eighty Nine re-imagines the social, political, cultural and personal experiences at the end of the decade which gave the world mullets, crimped hair, neon-coloured clothing, acid-wash denim, keytars, the walkman, Live Aid, the first compact disc and MTV. Featuring stories by: Paul Anderson, Cath Barton, Tanya Bell, Jim Bronyaur, Adam Byatt, Jodi Cleghorn, Jason Coggins, Jonathan Crossfield, Rob Diaz II Rebecca L Dobbie, J.M. Donellan, Laura Eno, Kaolin Imago Fire, Jo Hart, Susan May James, Maria Kelly, Stacey Larner, Monica Marier, Laura Meyer, Lily Mulholland, Emma Newman, Dale Challener Roe, Devin Watson, Icy Sedgwick, Benjamin Solah & Alison Wells.