History is made at night

Robber Bridegroom (Surrealist London Action Group) notes the passing this month of Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009), Chicago-based 'poet, a...

In his 1984 autobiographical text Dancing Ledge, Derek Jarman wrote about gay clubs in London and New York in the early days of AIDS: The d...

30 years ago today, on the 23 April 1979, the far right National Front were planning an election meeting in Southall, West London. The main...

The Dark Side of the Club is an exhibition of clubbing and music photographs by Jamie Simonds now showing at the Gowlett pub in Peckham . ...

Are there many dancing places in the landscape? Obviously there are many places where people have danced in the open air, but what about pla...

From 1965, this Northern Soul classic by Dobie Gray has been an anthem for many years for some of the most committed dancers ever to have g...

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster , when fans of Liverpool FC were crushed at the Hillsborough football s...

Following the death last week of Ian Tomlinson after being assaulted by police at the London G20 demonstration, I guess I'm not the onl...

'more than 1,000 revellers turned up at an illegal rave on beef baron Lord Vestey's £15m estate, police said today. Ravers descended...

Stewart Home continues his exploration of the undocumented corners of the 1960s London beatnik scene with a post on West London face, Phil G...

I enjoyed Jim Shaw's The Whole: a study in Oist Movement exhibition at the Simon Lee gallery in London. The underlying premise of the ...

The chief of police in Redlands, California has denounced raves being held at Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom, a defunct amusement park. Police C...

Tina Modotti (1896-1942) is best known as photographer, but her's was one of those lives that joined the dots between different radica...

Earlier this month, police staged an operation to prevent a silent rave at Glasgow's central station . Elsewhere people did manage to pu...

Following my earlier post about the 25th anniversary of the Miners Strike , here's some recollections of being a strike supporter in Ken...

Interesting review by Dylan Jones of Gentlemen Of Bakongo, Daniele Tamagni's book chronicling "a journey with the Sapeurs of the B...

Following the analysis here of the recent T-Mobile pseudo-flash mob , I notice that Stewart Home was actually inadvertently present at Liver...

Moving Gallery - The Mysterium was an event held at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich last month (19th February) as part of In the Momen...

As many people have mentioned over the last couple of weeks, it is 25 years since the start of the last great Miners Strike in Britain. On 5...