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By the Light of Day: how 'daytimers' created a South Asian club scene

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Rolling Stone UK hears from the former 'daytimer' regulars about the secretive events that created space for a South Asian club scene.

There's a longstanding stereotype that South Asian parents are strict about their offspring going out and partying. Such fixed ideas are often rooted in truth and, for the teenage British children of first-generation immigrants originally from South Asia (predominantly Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis), going out on a Friday night like their white peers was often out of the question. It might bring shame to the family, not to mention encroach on study time, parents believed. But it wasn't just about family - overt racism was rife in the UK, and there are countless stories of bouncers who s

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