History is made at night

Twisted (or Twisted a.m.) was a late 1990s/early 00s club night in Brixton playing a unique mixture of what the Alabama 3 once called 'S...

The Girl with Green Eyes , starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave, is a 1964 film based on Edna O'Brien's novel The Lonely Girl ...

At 240 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park in North London there is currently a semi derelict pub. Before it closed it was known as the George...

Here's an interesting chapter in London dancing history - a dancehall in a groundbreaking health centre in South London. The Pioneer Hea...

South London club the Ministry of Sound is objecting to a proposed building development which it claims could threaten its future. As part ...

I have been to a few parties in my time, but dancing in a tree house is something I haven't done. In the past year there's been a se...

Are there many dancing places in the landscape? Obviously there are many places where people have danced in the open air, but what about pla...

I've posted this before at my south east London blog, Transpontine , but am reposting here as a follow up to the earlier Club UK post o...

Heading out to Kew Gardens over Christmas, we drove through Wandsworth. As always on that journey through South West London, my partner and...

I've mentioned before that the Astoria in London was threatened with closure, but now it has actually happened. This week's Demoliti...

'Beatnik Parties took over Nash House - Wild Parties Held In the past week some 15 young people have been arrested and charged with vari...

Central London club The End is closing in January 2009, 13 years after it opened in West Central Street and became one of the top places in...

Another London nighttime landmark has closed, following the final weekend of Turmills - the famous club in Clerkenwell . The final record...

I went to see the new Beowulf movie recently. In 3D at London's Imax cinema it was quite impressive and I do think it captured the feel...

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...

We’ve previously noted how the word ‘rave’ was used in the late 40s and 50s for late night jazz parties in London and elsewhere. Moving int...

Trouble for some of the biggest names on the European clubbing circuit. In Sheffield, Gatecrasher nightclub (formerly The Republic) burnt do...

An obituary in The Guardian today for music promoter Rik Gunnell (1931-2007). The clubs he was involved in were critical in London music i...

An excellent line up at the Festival Hall on London's South Bank last Monday, with Bert Jansch, human beatbox Schlomo, Sonic Boom (who ...

Last week I visited Nine Ladies Stone Circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire (pictured). This is one of many such sites in England to which i...