History is made at night

Some heavy-handed arrests at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC on Saturday. It was the latest in a saga that started in 2008 when Mary...

Photographier Molly Macindoe has a new book out 'Out of Order: A Photographic Celebration of the Free Party Scene' . I haven't g...

Sad to hear of the death yesterday of Gil Scott-Heron. Among many other things, he was a consistent critic of the Space-Military-Industrial ...

These murals are on the Rockingham Estate, near the Elephant and Castle in South London. They were done in 2009 by Morganico with local you...

Jamie Potter ( http://twitter.com/jamiepotter ) gives us the low down on 21st century nights out in Hull, Leicester and Leeds. 1. Can you r...

Tone Loc's 1989 Funky Cold Medina is both an old skool rap pop classic and a slightly dubious paean to slipping an aphrodisiac into wom...

In the early 1990s, when I was living in Brixton, I went to some parties at a squatted school in Stockwell. I couldn't remember too many...

Have posted here before on proletarian dandyism , and one day will get around to writing some more about Decadent Action , clean living in d...

'Illegal raves thwarted by police in villages' ( Bedford Today , 16 May 2011) 'Three illegal raves were thwarted by police over...

Controversy in the States about the participation of Common in a poetry night at the White House this week. The usual Fox News right wing p...

The Girl with Green Eyes , starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave, is a 1964 film based on Edna O'Brien's novel The Lonely Girl ...

I wish I'd taken some more and better photos during my one and only trip to Japan, back in the 1990s. But I remember wandering around Yo...

Getting totally addicted to Like Punk Never Happened: Brian McCluskey's Smash Hits Archive . Whole issues of the late 1970s/early 1980s ...

Hip hop has provided a voice for rebels in the recent uprisings in North Africa, notably in Tunisia . So perhaps not surprisingly other repr...

My recent article for Datacide magazine, Dance Before the Police Come, has now been published on their website: 'Shut Up and Dance’s 199...

On was a free magazine put out in the mid-1990s by the people around the Big Chill - the editor was Pete Lawrence. The 1997 'Winter Sols...

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still en...

FITwatch report that police officers visited two South London venues in dubious circumstances last weekend: 'On Saturday 23rd of April a...

An early start for the long hot summer of 2011, with the warm weather prompting people to head out on to the streets and thegreat outdoors. ...

Just got back from today's Justice 4 Smiley Culture demonstration in London, pretty impressive with maybe a couple of thousand people he...