History is made at night

Occasionally I pick up my mandolin (yes really) and sing. Earlier this year at the (now evicted) Camberwell Squat Centre , I played a few so...

Dead by Dawn was a techno and speedcore club in Brixton , South London that ran from 26 February 1994 until 6 April 1996. In itself this wa...

Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is a kind of even-more druggy The Monkees with breasts, in which a young female band...

In the later 1960s, the Stonewall Inn was one of the few gay bars in New York where the management allowed dancing: there was a jukebox pump...

Nobody writes letters anymore, so outside of birthdays and Christmas I never receive anything worth opening in the post. But last week was t...

A sunnyish Sunday afternoon in East London last weekend for the Brick Lane Music Festival, with lots of free music across local bars and cl...

Funny Marina Hyde article in The Guardian today about islamists and pop music. In Schmoozing with Terrorists, published this week, journali...

USA, Harrisburg: party-goers jailed The city of Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] violated the rights of the out-of-state residents cited for violat...

Thanks to the as usual spot-on Ian Bone for this reminder that in modern Britain people still get beaten up, and sometimes killed, for wear...

O ne facet of early punk life in London (1976-77) was that there were no punk clubs, with the gap filled for some by lesbian and gay clubs ...

Further to previous post about Tony Wilson and Situationists, I've come across the following statement from Wilson made at the Hacienda...

The recent death of Tony Wilson has prompted a few mentions of the influence on him of Situationist ideas. Most famously, the name of the ...

Police in the Iranian city of Karaj have been busy, busting two parties in a week: Iranian police arrest partygoers ( BBC News , 9 August 2...

Police in East Anglia seem to be continuing with their crackdown on free parties. A couple of weeks ago, 70 baton-wielding riot cops from Su...

Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf , first published in 1928, is an outsider novel whose protagonist, disgusted by German militarism and b...

No festival seems to be complete without a fairground and in the past week I've been to a couple in London. On Sunday I went to the Lamb...

Just how fundamental is musicking and dancing to human experience? To be sure, 'music', 'dance' and indeed 'human' h...

This month, rave shut down in England, religious police raid club in Malaysia, and Iceland's first Reclaim the Streets party. Suffolk, E...

One night of Fire in New York ( Village Voice , July 16 2007) : 'Global terror, the NYPD's increasingly restrictive rules governing...