History is made at night

From The Face, March 1989, an overview of (mainly) London clubland - 'Clubland is coming to life again after the traditional Jan/F...

Last week in Iowa, Michele Bachmann launched her bid to become the Republican candidate in the nex US presidential election. On the Tea Part...

Darryl Pandy died yesterday (10 June 2011). Here's why he was important:   Before the internet and satellite/cable channels the musical ...

On was a free magazine put out in the mid-1990s by the people around the Big Chill - the editor was Pete Lawrence. The 1997 'Winter Sols...

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...

Excellent article by Tim Burrows in the Daily Post (5 February 2010) on the clubbing history of Southwark. There's even a helpful map ...

Next up on the Dancing Questionnaire , is Smith3000 of Expletive Undeleted blog and much more besides - 'did fanzines as a kid, promote...

Thanks to Uncarved for pointing me in the direction of this South London Press story (1 February 2010): 'Strict new operating conditio...

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 won't be joining the tabloids in gloating over the fate of Boy George, jailed last week for 15 months for 'handcuffing a male esco...

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...

This track is Township Funk by DJ Mugava (pointed to by Lower End Spasm ). Sheffield's Warp Records are releasing this in the UK. I don&...

Is dance music over, yet again? There certainly seems to be a lot of online discussion to this effect. Like many interesting music blogging ...

Carrying on the discussion about gender and dance music , here's an extract from 'Women and the Early British Rave Scene' by Mar...

Great post on house music and masculinity from a Jamaican in New York perspective at fem.men.ist (and interesting comments from a similar p...

Expect to read a lot this year about the 20 th anniversary of acid house in the UK. There’s a new Danny Rampling '20 years of house'...