History is made at night

From 'The People' July 24 1960 a report on Beatniks in Liverpool, London and elsewhere, with some choice quotes and turns of phrase:...

'40 coffee bar night spots- some of them dimly lit cellars were teenagers go on unlimited necking parties - have earned for the seaside ...

As documented here before , the words ‘rave’ and ‘ravers’ seem to date back to the post-WW2 UK jazz scene and were widely used through to th...

Another example of 1960s 'rave' - an advert for an 'All Nite Mod Rave' on 18 July 1964 in Bradford, at the Coffin club in I...

Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least...

Returning to the historic usages of the term 'rave', here's some examples from the1960s. At the 'Shoreline Club' i...

Finally got round to watching 'Festivals Britannia' a documentary about the history of the British festival scene first broadcast ...

From International Times no.14, 2 June 1967, an advert for Happening 44, a psychedelic club at 44 Gerrard Street in Soho, where basement clu...

In our search for the origins of rave , we have previously looked at the revivalist and trad jazz scenes in London from the late 1940s to th...

The search for the linguistic origins of 'rave' and 'raver' continues. Jon, who does the interesting Alsatia history site ,...

In previous posts on the origins of rave, ravers and raving , we have established that the use of these terms in relation to parties goes ba...

Paul Jones on the cover, 1967 + 'Fantastic Rave Offer: Boyfriends by Computer' (years ahead of its time) + 'Dolly clothes for ...

Alsatia is a new blog dedicated to exploring the lost 'liberties and sanctuaries of London'. They explain : "In the seventeen...

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...

Just a few months after the death of his former bandmate Mick Mulligan , another of the great jazz ravers has died - George Melly . We have...

Steve Fletcher has sent this great photo of himself and then girlfriend at a jazz 'rave' on Hampstead Heath in 1955. According to St...

This US magazine cover is from 1954. By this point the word 'rave' was already being used in London to describe all night parties in...

In previous posts we have looked at the revivalist jazz raves organised by Mick Mulligan and Cy Laurie in 1950s Soho. From the mid-1950s a ...

When was the birth of rave as a word for a wild party and raver as the party-goer? Quite a few sources suggest a Caribbean origin. The Wikip...

In an earlier post , we referred to the revivalist jazz raves organised by Mick Mulligan and George Melly in London in the early 1950s, the ...