History is made at night

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...

The Dancing Questionnaire series has been slightly dormant of late, so I've invited a few people to have a go - though anybody is welco...

Archived Music Press is a blog consisting of scanned articles from the New Musical Express and Melody Maker, from 1987-1996. As you might e...

I was incredulous when I heard that Wiltshire Police had banned indie-wastrels Babyshambles from headlining the Moonfest festival scheduled ...

There are songs that stay with you, that come back to you time after time, long after you've developed a sophisticated critique of the ...

Bob from Brockley has alerted to me Primal Scream's cover version of Hawkwind's Urban Guerrilla, to which they have added the lyric...

This track by Welsh band Los Campesinos came out last year. There's an indie pop element to their songs, but also something harder - th...

I enjoyed reading Gig - the Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by the poet Simon Armitage . A man whose 'definition of a good gig...

Tracy K recalls nights out dancing from Tamworth to Tokyo, via London and Aberystwyth . The tale of dancing in Tokyo with Belle and Sebasti...

Back once again last week to How Does it Feel? in Brixton, the guest DJ this time Amelia Fletcher, indie pop stalwart of Talulah Gosh in t...

I went down to How Does it Feel to be Loved? at the Canterbury Arms in Brixton last month, which describes itself as a 'a london club ...