History is made at night

I wasn't sure about going to see Grant Gee and Jon Savage's new Joy Division documentary so soon after weeping my way through Contr...

Carrying on the discussion about gender and dance music , here's an extract from 'Women and the Early British Rave Scene' by Mar...

Is there ever a time when it's not OK to dance? Of course there have always been priests telling people not to dance on sabbaths, but wh...

Great post on house music and masculinity from a Jamaican in New York perspective at fem.men.ist (and interesting comments from a similar p...

Expect to read a lot this year about the 20 th anniversary of acid house in the UK. There’s a new Danny Rampling '20 years of house...

I have recently been re-reading some essays written in the 1980s by Marxist/Feminist cultural critic Judith Williamson , collected together ...

'A Tibetan singer well known as a feminist activist has been taken by Chinese authorities and her family has received no word of her fat...

In Night haunts: a journey through the London Night (Verso, 2007), Sukhdev Sandhu asks ‘Whatever happened to the London night?’, arguing th...

'Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly i...

In Susan Seidelman's 1985 film, bored housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) swaps lives with bohemian rock chick/gangster's moll Susa...

Last week in Lancashire a 15 -year-old was convicted to 'stamping to death a young woman in a park because she was dressed as a Goth ...

Another London nighttime landmark has closed, following the final weekend of Turmills - the famous club in Clerkenwell . The final record...

Last week I went to the launch of Here We Dance, at Tate Modern . The exhibition aims to look at 'the relationship between the body and ...

Interesting article by John Harris in today's Guardian looking at the seemingly bizarre phenomenon of English Conservative politicians ...

It's 1992 and cop Michael Douglas pursues suspect psycho Sharon Stone into a San Francisco club with sex, drugs and pumping sounds by Ch...

I originally wrote this article for ‘Head’ magazine where it was published in issue no.10, ‘Altered States’, 2000. After more than ten years...

In the mid-1980s the centre of the musical universe, or at least my universe at that time was  Luton in Bedfordshire. For any non-UK reader...