History is made at night

March 31st 1990 was unseasonably hot, in every sense of the word. It was the day of the biggest of the demonstrations against the hated pol...

Last week I took part in Border Infection , an event at Goldsmiths in New Cross themed around borders, migration and creativity. My contribu...

Struggled through the rain today to catch the very last hour of the Kenneth Anger exhibition at the Spruth Magers Gallery in London. It was ...

Here's an interesting chapter in London dancing history - a dancehall in a groundbreaking health centre in South London. The Pioneer Hea...

I haven't got hold of a copy of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols yet, but there's a very inte...

Jazz musician John Dankworth died last month . As this BBC film from 1959 shows, one of his early achievements was to chair the Stars Campai...

If you haven't wised up about the Digital Economy Bill going through the UK parliament, you should do so quickly. Whatever you think abo...

Interesting short article about African clubs in Israel: 'On a chilly Friday in a basement on a graffiti-lined street, about 100 African...

The campaign is continuing against the points-based immigration system restricting artists visting the UK (discussed here before ) is contin...

Article in the Observer magazine at the weekend (14 March) about the people behind last month's party at a squatted mansion in London...

A school in Misssissippi has cancelled its prom dance rather than allow a lesbian student attend with her girlfriend. Here's the full st...

So you went to a party when you were a student four years ago - and now you're having to sit in a court room facing prosecution as a res...

'Nine men dressed in women's clothing were arrested on New Year's Eve in the discotheque of a Manama, Bahrain, hotel and charged...

If one threat to music venues is over-regulation through increasingly onerous licensing laws, another is gentrification. As land and propert...

When the ambient scene emerged in the early 1990s, I was somewhat ambivalent about the notion of whole clubs dedicated to low tempo electron...

Last week in Berkeley, California, a flashmob dance party on the University ended up in a riot as students protesting against cuts in educat...

From 'The Minotaur & the Maze: A Cultural History of Night #1' by Darran Anderson: 'Night might well be just technically the...

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...