History is made at night

Campaigns are currently being waged to save two iconic London venues. The Half Moon in Putney (South West London) has been hosting live musi...

The existence of gods, goddesses, spirits and saints of music and dance in religions and mythologies across the world is testament to the fu...

Following the cancellation of this year's Big Green Gathering thanks to official pressure, another festival is under attack. On Friday ...

A man was convicted this week of the murder of 18 year old Dinah McNicol (pictured) in 1991. Peter Tobin is now known to have killed at leas...

Ma Jian's Beijing Coma (2008) is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China, and ...

I was in Trafalgar Square on Friday night, where there was a fairly surreal assemblage of sights and happenings. There was the big Christmas...

In 1889, Oscar Wilde wrote an article called 'Poetical Socialists' for the Pall Mall Gazette (February 15), reviewing a book of soc...

Loud bass music ‘killed student’ , Metro 9th December, 2009 A student collapsed at a freshers’ party and died after complaining the loud bas...

Interesting article by Robert Fisk in the Independent at the weekend (5 Dec 09) on Islamism and music: 'But music and Islam have a dodgy...

From the Observer, 6 December 2009 , by Martin Chulov: Baghdad's night life falls foul of religious right - Iraqi prime minister Nouri a...

I came across this story from earlier in the year from Michigan (US), and had to read it through several times to check it wasn't a sati...

Terrible news (via BBC) of a nightclub fire in Russia last night: 'At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub ...

I noticed that on Galaxy FM (99.5) at the weekend they were broadcasting appeals for people to donate food, clothes and other stuff to peopl...

Closely related to the history of the flyer is the dance card - popular in the 19th century and beyond in Europe and the US, they set out th...

Following yesterday's World AIDS Day post , here's a few more of the HIV disco fallen remembered (thanks to Disco Delivery's t...

Today is World AIDS Day . Let's pause for a moment and remember some of the dance music greats who died from HIV/AIDS. Sylvester (194...

Electronic Farm celebrates the 20th anniversary of DIY Sound System, free party pioneers originally based in Nottingham. Nice interview, re...

Next up is Pete, a one man link connecting jazz, mod and techno rave scenes. He is currently involved in the Young Unknowns gallery project...

'It was a fine September evening, just before sunset, when yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines, and the atmosphere...

It started in Los Angeles last summer and is now being touted as the new breakdancing. From Hip Hop's new steps , New York Times, 20 Nov...