History is made at night

One Day by David Nicholls is a novel based on the familiar theme of a group of friends growing up (see also Jonathan Coe's The Rotters&...

In Milan Kundera's novel Immortality (1991), one of the narrators critiques the notion of what he terms 'Homo Sentimentalis... the ...

'Her first ball! She was only at the beginning of everything. It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. ...

Big Dance 2010 (3 -11 July) was a week of live dance performance in the open air across London. I caught some Latin dance at the Scoop by T...

The day before the national celebration of the storming of the Bastille in pursuit of liberty, the French government today passed a law bann...

Since Prince fell out with with Warner Brothers in the 1990s he has pursued various unconventional strategies for distributing his prolific ...

Five years ago this month world leaders at the G8 summit were promising to 'Make Povery History', something seemingly forgotten toda...

This from Schnews (18 June 2010): 'Around 2,500 partygoers descended on Dale Aerodrome in Wales last May bank holiday for the 2010 UK Te...

'The dust came first. Donald Maitland noticed it as he rode back in the taxi from London Airport, after waiting a fruitless forty-eight ...

How much do the origins of music owe to cattle? I was prompted to think about this when reading 'The Storr: unfolding landscape' (ed...

'Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility. I...

Tibetan singer Tashi Dhondup is reportedly serving 15 months hard labour after being arrested by the Chinese authorities for his 'subve...

Happy summer solstice, June 21st and here's the 21st completed Dancing Questionnaire from John Eden of Uncarved , Woofah and many other...

Is there a more obscene media spectacle at the moment than British newspapers like the Daily Express whipping up people to rally round BP ...

All over the world, pubs and bars are full of people watching the World Cup, drinking, singing, celebrating, commiserating. On this particul...

I am still digesting the rich fare served up by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Fred Moten at last week's Black Skin, White Marx? ev...

In the past couple of years there have been several albums aiming in some way to reflect on life in early 21st century London. Think The Bug...

A while ago I went to a talk by the great radical historian Peter Linebaugh on 'The Invisibility of the Commons' . In the course of ...

'Dancing, when poor human Nature lets itself loose from bondage and circumstances of anxious selfish care: it is Madness' Image: Unt...

Looking through some pictures I realized that I never got round to posting on my trip to Rome last year to take part in Electrode09 - Indepe...