History is made at night

Lahore Journal: Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan (New York Times, 25 February 2010) 'Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid t...

Interesting article from Shanghai Daily (10 February 2010) on roller disco dancing in Shanghai : 'The world has moved on from roller-ska...

Stefan Szczelkun asked me to put together a selection for his Agit Disco series of mixes of political music. You can read my effort at his...

Earlier in the week it seemed that every other tweet from the twitterers I follow was telling the world to #saveplasticpeople . In quickly d...

With the future of both the Ministry of Sound and Plastic People seemingly in jeopardy , news comes of one of London's largest clubs b...

Following yesterday's story about the threat to the future of the Ministry of Sound, news that another London club is in more immediate ...

South London club the Ministry of Sound is objecting to a proposed building development which it claims could threaten its future. As part ...

Excellent article by Tim Burrows in the Daily Post (5 February 2010) on the clubbing history of Southwark. There's even a helpful map ...

Following on from last week's post on the policing on funky and bashment in London , here's an excellent article by Dan Hancox on t...

Alternative TV were one of the few signficant early British punk bands to to eschew the obvious music industry route of signing for a big la...

Next up on the Dancing Questionnaire , is Smith3000 of Expletive Undeleted blog and much more besides - 'did fanzines as a kid, promote...

French for Cartridge are celebrating the release of their new album Liquorice (Dinner with Daisy records) with a week-long residency 'p...

Thanks to Uncarved for pointing me in the direction of this South London Press story (1 February 2010): 'Strict new operating conditio...

The use of music for sonic warfare, torture and crowd control has been a recurring theme at this site. An interesting example occurred last ...

Hipsters, Flipsters & Finger-Poppin’ Daddies - Stewart Home Intesresting review at 3am magazine of the latest in the BFI's Flipside ...

I have been to a few parties in my time, but dancing in a tree house is something I haven't done. In the past year there's been a se...

I like the places where the night does not mean an end where smiles break free and surprise is your friend and dancing goes on in the kitche...

Lydia is a New Cross-based feminist zinester, blogger (see her Swimsuit Issue ) and co-promoter of Girl Germs - 'a grrrl-tastic night of...

This sublime image has turned up on a number of blogs including Royal Quiet Deluxe and Lucky Charm (I was alerted to it by Drumz of the S...

It's time for that Burns night post again : Music historians have long noted the influence of the Scottish ballad tradition on the devel...