History is made at night

The National Archives has today released Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990, including discussions amongst Minist...

'New Orleans means music' So what word comes to mind when you hear the name 'New Orleans'? Other than 'flood' it...

Doing some research/recollecting the movement against what became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 with its notorious police ...

Well I was going to join today's 'internet strike' and close down the site for the day in solidarity with the movement against ...

A while ago I posted chronologies of police and parties from 1996 and 1997 . Here's some more from 1994 and 1995, all from England unles...

An early regulation against noisy parties ('revyling') was included as Rule 30 in London's The Lawes of the Market in 1595. Seem...

Party in the forest, Norfolk, England ( EDP 15 January 2010 ) 'Officers moved in on an area of forestland at Two Mile Bottom, Thetford,...

We reported last year on the police operation to close the UK Teknival at Dale Aerodrome in Pemrokeshire (Wales). The court case arising fr...

A campaign is growing against 'anti-rave' legislation being proposed in the California State Assembly by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. AB ...

As this story from Schnews makes clear, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get permission to put on any kind of festival in the UK ot...

This from Schnews (18 June 2010): 'Around 2,500 partygoers descended on Dale Aerodrome in Wales last May bank holiday for the 2010 UK Te...

If you haven't wised up about the Digital Economy Bill going through the UK parliament, you should do so quickly. Whatever you think abo...

Interesting article in New York Times (10 Janyuary 2010) on decline in Paris nightlife: '...Despite its reputation as the bustling spiri...

Singing and making music is a universal part of human existence, found in all known societies. What could be more absurd than having to have...

Officials in Valencia County (New Mexico) have agreed to develop 'an anti-rave ordinance' to give the sheriff more powers to stop pa...

I'm not going to claim that I got any great insights into the local musical/political/social milieus whilst lazing round in the sun in C...

Form 696 sounds like the name of a Belgian industrial outfit (oh no that was Front 242 ) but is actually a pernicious example of bureaucracy...

The Nazis were hostile to jazz on racist grounds and various restrictions were placed on it. A complete ban was impossible to enforce, partl...

Where do the licensing laws that control where and when people can drink, dance or listen to music come from? The principle behind them is q...

"In 1757 the following Bill, presented by Sir John Fielding, was passed by Parliament: 'Any house, room, garden or other place whic...