Music Policy

100% good-time vintage Black music on vinyl & shellac

Discover the kind of uplifting sounds played at Right On – London’s queer-friendly vintage Black music club night:

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The club’s DJs play these and other foundational genres of vintage Black music from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to keep you dancing all night long.

Expect a whole range of tempos – from high-energy dancefloor jazz, Afro-Cuban descarga, and Brazilian batucada to the more relaxed rhythms of Congolese rumba, Jamaican rocksteady, and late-night blues.

Diasporic diversity

Right On aims to showcase the diversity of African-American, Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean, and African musical traditions, while connecting the dots between them.

Depending on the DJ line-up, other genres you may hear include benga, biguine, bomba, cha-cha-chá, compas, gospel, makossa, mento, plena, soca, son montuno, and soukous.

Music by women & queer artists

Right On encourages DJs to highlight the talented but oft-overlooked women and LGBTQ+ singers, musicians, and songwriters who made their mark despite the additional barriers of sexism and queerphobia they faced in the music industry and society as a whole.

At the same time, selectors are asked to avoid songs with harmful themes or lyrics, as well as those perpetuating hurtful stereotypes.

No electronic music

Right On is an event celebrating non-electronic dance music from across the Black diaspora. There are no computerised beats added to the mix.

Unlike at most other UK clubs, the DJs don’t play digital genres like house, techno, electro, reggaeton, drum & bass, jazztronica (nu jazz), or broken beat (bruk).