History is made at night

I don't think anyone who knows 1970s UK pop culture would argue with the fact that Suzi Quatro was one of the leather clad pop rockers w...

Getting in the Halloween zone, I watched 'The Witch of Kings Cross' (2020)- a fascinating documentary about New Zealand born artist ...

Previously we discussed how the word Discotheque, coined in France by the 1940s, seems to have entered the English language in the early 19...

A while ago I posted chronologies of police and parties from 1996 and 1997 . Here's some more from 1994 and 1995, all from England unles...

The punitive UK immigration controls against musicians have been highlighted here before . A particularly poignant example this week, with a...

From the chapter on Rhythm in Elias Canetti's Masse und Macht (1960), translated as ' Crowds and Power' : 'Rhythm is ori...

Interesting article from Australia on clubs scanning ID and even taking fingerprints as a requirement of entry. I am aware that some clubs i...

The Pleasure Principle by Kane Race (Sydney Alumni Magazine, Summer 2009) is an excellent article on the absurdities of drugs prohibition, ...

"Within the crowd there is equality. This is absolute and indisputable and never questioned by the crowd itself. It is of fundamental i...

I know millions of people have been partying and having a good time in the past 24 hours (from a free party in Kent to Melbourne where 40,0...

Australia: Riot Police called to Sydney Rave ( In the Mix, September 1 2008 ) 'A secret warehouse party in Sydney’s Inner West was shut...

Tonight is a big party night in many parts of the world, we wish everybody a safe and happy new year and hope that anybody going out tonight...

From the archive - this is an article I wrote for Alien Underground 0.1, Spring 1995, a zine edited by Christoph Fringeli (Praxis Records) ...

1. Cambridgeshire, England "Police officers were attacked with fire extinguishers as they tried to break up an illegal rave at a disuse...