History is made at night

The anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) is perhaps best known today for one quote attributed to her: 'If I can't dance I don't w...

A sad weekend in London, with two young people out with their friends killed in separate incidents. Annaka Pinto (left), a 17 year old from...

I went to the degree show at Camberwell College of Arts yesterday and was struck by Georgia Rodger's video piece Blinkers Instrument , w...

The Celebrating Sanctuary refugee music festival last weekend (see earlier post ) was rudely interrupted by the sound of assorted airborne k...

Big solstice celebration at Stonehenge this morning : 'An estimated 20,000 people gathered at the stone circle in Wiltshire, in southwes...

Trouble for some of the biggest names on the European clubbing circuit. In Sheffield, Gatecrasher nightclub (formerly The Republic) burnt do...

One of the best things about being in London in the summer is taking in the free music events, official and unofficial, along the South Bank...

An obituary in The Guardian today for music promoter Rik Gunnell (1931-2007). The clubs he was involved in were critical in London music i...

This month's round up includes neo -prohibition in the US, drug testing in a Thailand nightclub, sound systems at the G8 and a rave in a...

The Ted Heath Orchestra were the ultimate in British pre - rock'n'roll light entertainment (Ted is pictured in 1958). The same co...

"The Twist, superseding the Hula Hoop, burst upon the scene like a nuclear explosion, sending its fallout of rhythm into the Minds and...

I met Bridget in my local park in South London this week, here's her questionnaire. 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing...

This is an extract from the 1929 silent movie, Piccadilly, featuring a dance sequence with two of the film's stars, Gilda Gray and Cyril...

In a press release this week, the Local Government Association has warned of a ‘Rave Renaissance’ and that 'Illegal raves could sweep t...

Following yesterday's post on the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, I am starting a series of posts of space sounds. Pride of plac...

A pleasant evening at the Camberwell Squatted Centre in South London last night, spent watching the fantastic Sun Ra film Space is the Place...

No One is Illegal in Vancouver are fighting against the deportation of an Iranian refugee, well known in the local community for his danci...

Charles Donelan has sent in this fascinating questionnaire covering his dancing odyssey through some legendary clubs in New York and elsewhe...

Our latest policing round-up features the oldest rave prosecution we have found to date... England: '63-year-old faces ASBO rave ban'...

30 years ago this week the Sex Pistols released God Save the Queen as royalists prepared to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The an...