History is made at night

That the state seeks to clamp down on 'pirate radio' is perhaps not surprizing, what is inspiring though is that across the world pe...

The working class style tribes of  the 1980s have been nicely recreated in Shane Meadows'  This is England films/TV series. But some of...

In December 1988, Paul Morley wrote an article for Marxism Today magazine entitled 'Towing the Party Line': 'Parties make me a...

The New Musical Express Guide to Rock & Roll London was a cut out and keep booklet given away with the NME in ealry 1978 - my copy is ...

Returning to the historic usages of the term 'rave', here's some examples from the1960s. At the 'Shoreline Club' i...

Finally got round to watching 'Festivals Britannia' a documentary about the history of the British festival scene first broadcast ...

Today is St Patrick's Day, and by complete coincidence the latest respondent to the Dancing Questionnaire is Dublin-based Coz who descr...

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...

Another in the series of posts on the 1981 summer riots . Thirty years ago today, on 15 July 1981, Brixton exploded for the third time that...

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

Mark Angelo Harrison, aka Stray Wayward, was involved with early free party sound system Spiral Tribe. So good to hear that he is working on...

Getting totally addicted to Like Punk Never Happened: Brian McCluskey's Smash Hits Archive . Whole issues of the late 1970s/early 1980s ...

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

One year after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Conservative Prime Minister, the uprising in the St Paul's area of Bristol in April ...

After the exuberance and excitement of Wednesday's massive demonstration (50,000+) against education cuts in London, the hangover is set...