History is made at night

Le Carnival Tamara Karsavina of the Ballet Russes as the Firebird Laura Knight (1887-1970) was a prolific painter of dancers and other perf...

I wasn't sure about going to see Grant Gee and Jon Savage's new Joy Division documentary so soon after weeping my way through Contr...

The French novelist Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette (1873 -1954), known as Colette, lived life to the full in Fin de Siecle Paris, a period des...

On this day just over 100 years ago - 24 December 1906 - the first audio radio broadcast of music took place in an experiment by Reginald Fe...

Martin from Beyond the Implode with tales of drunken dancing and snogging from Dunstable to St. Petersburg . Don't think we've met ...

Camden Council in north London seem to have agreed last week to the demolition of The Electric Ballroom. I must admit I haven't been th...

In late 19th century and early 20th century Japan, thousands of young women workers were recruited from villlages to work in the cotton and ...

Further to previous post about Tony Wilson and Situationists, I've come across the following statement from Wilson made at the Hacienda...

The recent death of Tony Wilson has prompted a few mentions of the influence on him of Situationist ideas. Most famously, the name of the ...

"The Twist, superseding the Hula Hoop, burst upon the scene like a nuclear explosion, sending its fallout of rhythm into the Minds and...

This is an extract from the 1929 silent movie, Piccadilly, featuring a dance sequence with two of the film's stars, Gilda Gray and Cyril...

Some memories of early London ‘sound system culture’ in Notting Hill, late 1950s and early 1960s, a period punctuated by the 1958 riots as b...