The Liberal Agenda – Silent Disco in an Auckland shattered by homelessness and the cold death of a new born

I love Silent Disco’s

3 DJs play simultaneous sets while you wear headphones and can jump between each act.

Dancing to your favourite tune in a room that is constantly changing in energy is an intoxicating dynamism and I love to dance my erase off.

I haven’t danced much since Covid.

I looked forward to it.

The 1980s Silent Disco was enormous fun.

DJ Red played 80s Disco, DJ Blue played 80s Rock and DJ Green played 80s Pop.

The room lost its shit to Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Silent Disco seemed to encapsulate Auckland metaphorically, figuratively and literally.

Inside the Massive Town Hall thousands danced to their own concerts while jumping from genre to genre to genre like alternative universes all living beside one another.

Jump outside and the grim homelessness all along Queen street as you make your way to and from the Town Hall is set amongst a construction zone gridlock that makes the city unnavigable as shops shutter and close and grow into a graveyard where hope died long ago.

The abandoned people alongside broken buildings, cold and as unforgiving as a National Party Politicians Face, etch a shadowland of deprivation and depression no amount of Chris Luxon OCR cheerleading can massage.

Who can afford a house when you can’t buy butter?

Who can eat butter when the curb is your couch?

Jump again between DJ sets and up the hill at Albert Park where a new born infant died…

Newborn baby found dead in Auckland’s Albert Park by worker, police probe under way

…as we stumble between a Silent Disco culture in an Auckland shattered by homelessness, the cold death of a new born in an inner city park is a snapshot of what we have become as a society.

A mute orchestra blind to itself.

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