History is made at night

A group of Ukrainian anarchist squatters have occupied their second building in London. The London Makhnovists Centre at 187 Fleet Street op...

The famous 12 Bar Club in London's Denmark Street closed a couple of weeks ago , having been given notice to quit as part of a plan to ...

There were violent clashes in Hamburg yesterday over the threat to evict the Rote Flora social centre. The ex-theatre in the city's ...

Sad to hear that Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel High Street was damaged last night in an apparent arson attack. The anarchist centre in An...

Friday night's Praxis Records party on the MS Stubnitz in London docklands was great, may write a bit more about it, but for now here...

Red Rag was a radical newsletter published in Reading from around 1979 to the mid-1980s.  Somebody is currently doing a great service by ...

Grayson Perry's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' (2007) is his memoir of the period before he became a successful ...

A bank holiday weekend coming up and there are the usual warnings from police forces across the UK of 'zero tolerance' of free part...

The 121 Centre in Brixton , variously known as an ‘anarchist centre’, ‘social centre’ and ‘squatted centre’, was a hub of international ra...

1950s Soho clubs are one of the enduring obsessions of this site, but I didn't realise until recently that there was a specifically an...

Looking through some pictures I realized that I never got round to posting on my trip to Rome last year to take part in Electrode09 - Indepe...

Went to an event at the 195 Mare Street squatted social centre in Hackney last weekend. Very interesting film and short talk from someone in...

Article in the Observer magazine at the weekend (14 March) about the people behind last month's party at a squatted mansion in London...

When the ambient scene emerged in the early 1990s, I was somewhat ambivalent about the notion of whole clubs dedicated to low tempo electron...

Some documents relating to a fateful party in Brixton in 1993. Some people I know were at this one, it was just a typical Brixon squat party...

Ludicrous/hilarious anti-squatter story in today's Sun - it's got the lot 'scroungers', 'crusties' and 'drug-fu...

I am doing a talk in Rome in a couple of weeks (Saturday 13 June) as part of an Independent Electronic Music Festival. It's happening a...

An eclectic night of music at RampART Social Centre in Whitechapel last weekend (Saturday 16th May). I started off in my Half a Person punk-...