History is made at night

From the NME, 17 March 1984, Neil Spencer interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson. Don’t call him a dub poet… ‘I’m not a dub poet and I don’t want t...

This interview with Linton Kwesi Johnson was published in the newspaper Socialist Challenge (29 April 1982) under the headline 'We'...

Images of musicking and dancing feature heavily in the exhibition 'Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art' at Tate Britain. Pau...

Reading Marlon James' brilliant 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' has led me into a re-appreciation of Bob Marley. Of cou...

The English Defence League demonstration in London yesterday didn't amount to very much, with around 500 taking part. Fears that they w...

What were the UK pop kids, dancers and punks listening to 30 years ago? Here's some clues in the charts  from the New Musical Express 2...

The London Anarchist Bookfair was a couple of weeks ago (October 27th to be precise) and to turn up without some printed matter to dissemi...

The New Musical Express Guide to Rock & Roll London was a cut out and keep booklet given away with the NME in ealry 1978 - my copy is ...

The racist idiots of the English Defence League held a demonstration in Luton yesterday, on the day they announced that they were joining ...

Reggae producer Winston Riley died this week. Plainly not everybody liked him : 'Winston Riley, an innovative reggae musician and pro...

Robert Beckford's 'Jesus Dub: theology, music and social change' (London: Routledge, 2006) offers a 'dialogue between the cu...

The news today from Ethiopia is grim, as it has been at many times in the past, with drought , food shortages, torture and political repre...

Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan, from the band Zeid and the Wings, was arrested last week for allegedly defaming Lebanese President Michel Sul...

Another in the series of posts on the 1981 summer riots . 30 years ago today, on Friday 10 July, Brixton exploded for the second time in thr...

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