History is made at night

The excellent Another Nickel in the Machine - a site focusing on 20 th century London -has recently featured some great photos of A Rave o...

Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances is a new blog looking at music/culture/politics through the unusual lens of a South London based vo...

The inevitable Michael Jackson tribute flashmob drew a big crowd to London's Liverpool Street station this evening, the idea being to d...

A couple of (related?) new blogs with similar interests to this site: Apples from the Underground - ' blog inspired by the underground ...

'Order reigns in Tehran!' You stupid henchmen! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will already 'rais...

Weekend nights in Anytown UK, boys and girls roam the town centre between pubs and the kind of nightclubs where they only play chart music. ...

Ten years ago today, the G8 Summit in Cologne was the occasion for the global J18 'Carnival Against Capital' with demonstrations, ...

Students and supporters at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) in London are occupying management offices there in protest a...

Twenty years after the Tiananmen Square massacre (4 June 1989) there seems to be some amnesia about what actually happened in China at that ...

On Monday 14 th May 1984 some of us from our Miners Support Group  at Kent University went on the Kent miners' coaches up to Mansfield ...

Klezmer, Book One: Tales of the Wild East (First Second, 2006) is a graphic novel by Joann Sear following a group of musicians in their wan...

There's a fantastic archive up now for The International Times, the famous UK underground paper of the 1960s and 70s. It includes scan...

There was a very interesting Time Team TV programme last night summarising the latest research on Stonehenge, specifically the Stonehenge Ri...

Tragedy last weekend (23 May) at a festival in Morocco (full story at BBC News ): 'At least 11 people have been killed in the Moroccan c...

I am doing a talk in Rome in a couple of weeks (Saturday 13 June) as part of an Independent Electronic Music Festival. It's happening a...

The destruction of a Roma area of Istanbul once famous for its music and dancing: 'Anti-riot police supervised this final phase last wee...