History is made at night

Bobby Farrell of Boney M died yesterday at the age of 61. Born Alfonso Farrell in Aruba, off the north coast of Venezuela, he left home at t...

Geraldine Hoff Doyle (pictured) died in Lansing , Michigan on December 26 th at the age of 86. Nearly 70 years ago she was working as a 17 ...

From International Times no.14, 2 June 1967, an advert for Happening 44, a psychedelic club at 44 Gerrard Street in Soho, where basement clu...

US R&B singer Teena Marie died yesterday at the age of 54. Lots of love to her on the internet already, such as this piece at Soulwalki...

'The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancin...

Hanif Kureishi's novel The Black Album (1995) is, among other things, a great snapshot of late 1980s London. Its main protagonist, Sha...

A while ago I conceived of a series of pieces on 1980 on the premise that it was now 30 years since the birth of the eighties. With 2010 run...

RIP Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart , who died today. He features on the soundtrack of one of my favourite films, Blue Collar (1978), i...

One year after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Conservative Prime Minister, the uprising in the St Paul's area of Bristol in April ...

Earlier this year I went to the Eadweard Muybridge photography exhibition at Tate Britain. Of particular interest to me are his studies of d...

"When [...] the world of clear and articulate objects is abolished, our perceptual being, cut off from its world, evolves a spatiality ...

I know it seems trivial to focus on the music played in the recent riotous demonstrations in London and elsewhere against education cuts, st...

Last weekend SkumTek's Strictly Scum Dancing free party was stopped by police on an industrial estate in Enfield . The press release i...

Not going to attempt to comment on today's epic events in London, with the Government voting to increase student fees amidst riotous sce...

In the last month a sustained movement against austerity has emerged seemingly out of nowhere. Since the student demonstration/riot in Londo...

When Walter Hill's film The Warriors was released in 1979, there were fears that it would lead to an explosion of gang related violenc...

So many student protests in the UK in the past couple of weeks that I can't keep up, let alone follow what's happening in Italy and...