History is made at night

I'm not going to claim that I got any great insights into the local musical/political/social milieus whilst lazing round in the sun in C...

In England the 17th century saw frequent conflict between church authorities and people who wished to dance or otherwise enjoy themselves on...

Here's another very old flyer (click to enlarge). This one is for a Grand Masquerade, Garden Party and Fancy Dress Ball at North Woolwic...

Earlier this month three women at a Latin Dance class were murdered at a Fitness club in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. Their killer was a piss...

'Festival communication actively engages the participants. It is this feature that distinguishes festival from those large-scale forms t...

When did people start passing out flyers to get people to come to their club or dancehall? The earliest I have come across so far is this ca...

An acccount from the excellent Keep Cool - The Black Activists Who Built the Jazz Age by Ted Vincent (Pluto Press, 1995): 'The musical ...

The '5 word meme' is just that - somebody gives you 5 words to say something about. Bob from Brockley gave me my five (as well as p...

Last year's tube party in protest against the drinking ban on the London Underground resulted in a court case last week in which a man ...

The majority of folk musicians I have met have tended to be some kind of lefty/liberal/anarcho/counter-cultural type, and indeed the same go...

The new restrictions on musicians and artists entering the UK ( discussed in an earlier post ) are having a predictably lamentable effect. H...

'Festivals are collective phenomena and serve purposes rooted in group life. Systems of reciprocity and of shared responsibil­ity ensure...

A big free party took place last weekend in Brighton in the aftermath of Brighton LGBT Pride: The Black Rock Rave, which many see as the uno...

Revolution as dance? The following text is from a 1970 leaflet from the San Francisco area situationist-influenced group, Council for the Er...

Terrible news about the murder at the weekend of 19-year-old London MC Charmz (Carl Beatson Asiedu), apparently stabbed outside Club Life, ...

The following article from Schnews (27 July 2009) describes the cancelation of this week's Big Green Gathering festival. I am reproduci...

Ludicrous/hilarious anti-squatter story in today's Sun - it's got the lot 'scroungers', 'crusties' and 'drug-fu...

Well yes, I'm a bit slow off the mark in posting up these pictures from the demonstrations around the G20 summit of world leaders in Lon...

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) "I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not t...

Look at Life: In Gear is a 1967 news clip from the Rank Organisation offering a quick tour of the fashion boutiques of Kings Rd, Soho and C...