History is made at night

Personally I am a little jaded by Michael Jackson flashmobs, but this example from Chile in June 2011 takes it to another level of political...

Some heavy-handed arrests at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC on Saturday. It was the latest in a saga that started in 2008 when Mary...

Some Vietnamese 'flashmob' action, June 18 2010. OK this one clearly isn't a genuine unlicensed, spontaneous gathering. It's...

'Young people who gathered to celebrate spring by blowing bubbles at an annual flash mob in central St. Petersburg were attacked by a gr...

Last week in Berkeley, California, a flashmob dance party on the University ended up in a riot as students protesting against cuts in educat...

Last year's tube party in protest against the drinking ban on the London Underground resulted in a court case last week in which a man ...

Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the jihadist bombs in London, which killed 52 people. One response was TangoCommute : 'To mark the ...

The inevitable Michael Jackson tribute flashmob drew a big crowd to London's Liverpool Street station this evening, the idea being to d...

Earlier this month, police staged an operation to prevent a silent rave at Glasgow's central station . Elsewhere people did manage to pu...

Following the analysis here of the recent T-Mobile pseudo-flash mob , I notice that Stewart Home was actually inadvertently present at Liver...

Even though I stand by my critique of last month's T-Mobile pseudo-flashmob , the advert may have had the effect of amplifying the real ...

'Imagine walking into a party where everybody is wearing wireless headphones and is singing and dancing to an inaudible beat. This was ...

Earlier this week there was an apparent flashmob at Liverpool Street - several hundred people dancing in the railway station. But it wasn...

Last week - 18th November - people gathered outside the Royal Exchange in the City of London (financial district) for a mobile clubbing even...

Here's a flashmob with a sense of history - on Saturday 30th August 2008 a couple of hundred people turned up at Ikea in Milton Keynes a...

The dust is still settling after last Saturday night's party on the London underground. For people outside of London, the basic story is...

From New York Times, 20th April 2008 : 'on Friday evening, at the south end of Union Square near East 14th Street. More than a thousand ...

From Golden Gate Xpress , 22 September 2007: People overflowed into the street and crowded around the westbound bus stop at Haight St. and F...

One night of Fire in New York ( Village Voice , July 16 2007) : 'Global terror, the NYPD's increasingly restrictive rules governing...

A fairly low key May Day in London yesterday. At Canary Wharf (big business centre) about 100 people danced to a samba band , having previo...