History is made at night

Tom from Vamos a Bailar: Salsa in Cardiff and Around steps up: 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? Dancing to a rhythm’n’...

The latest dancing questionnaire has been completed by Abbey who lives in the Boston, MA area. Her summer camp dancing adventures reminded m...

I've posted this before at my south east London blog, Transpontine , but am reposting here as a follow up to the earlier Club UK post o...

Islamic authorities in Kano State (northern Nigeria) have been enforcing a ban on showing 'singing and dancing on screen' claiming i...

Heading out to Kew Gardens over Christmas, we drove through Wandsworth. As always on that journey through South West London, my partner and...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's story May Day, first published in 1920, is an account of a drunken night in New York in May 1919. Drunk socialites...

Must admit I know very little about pirate radio outside of England, but here's a few interesting stories that caught my attention: Flor...

12 years of articles from the great 'noise and politics' zine Datacide are now online . Spend some time there, it will be worth your...

I've just read a short pamphlet 'Muzak to my ears: Canned Music and Class Struggle: Public Space and Muzak as Policing'. I will ...

Even though I stand by my critique of last month's T-Mobile pseudo-flashmob , the advert may have had the effect of amplifying the real ...

How do social classes come about? From a Marxist point of view, class is defined by people's relationship to the means of production - t...

Simon Reynolds writes in the Guardian about the continued existence of printed zines in the age of the blog (he's also put up an intere...

Bad Attitude was a 'radical women's newspaper' published in the early 1990s from 121 Railton Road, Brixton (among other things, ...

No it's not just disco bombing Islamists who think that people who enjoy nightclubs deserve to die. Pope Benedict 'has promoted to b...

The Hijras of Pakistan, sometimes described as 'eunuchs', are generally gay transvesites/transsexuals, some of whom have had some ki...

"Within the crowd there is equality. This is absolute and indisputable and never questioned by the crowd itself. It is of fundamental i...

In Hanif Kureishi's latest novel, Something to Tell You, the narrator mentions being in a club in London in the late 1970s and meeting S...

Kate Aan De Wiel looks back on dancing all the way from West Ham to Cuba: 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? Tap dancing ...

"In 1927 the charge of keeping a disorderly house at 25, Fitzroy Square, near Euston Station, was brought after a long period of survei...

In an incident of moral policing in Karnataka, a group of men in Mangalore attacked a group of women in a pub on Saturday afternoon.The atta...