History is made at night

From The Face, March 1989, an overview of (mainly) London clubland - 'Clubland is coming to life again after the traditional Jan/F...

Red Rag was a radical newsletter published in Reading from around 1979 to the mid-1980s.  Somebody is currently doing a great service by ...

Enjoyed the spoken word event at the Hannah Barry Gallery in Peckham last night (actually a warehouse on the Copeland Industrial Estate). ...

From the NME Guide to Rock & Roll London (early 1978), a guide to the Gay Scene starts with a warning: 'a note to all you guys &#...

On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, I am reminded of James Connolly's denunciation of Queen Victoria's Diamo...

From the 1978 NME Guide to Rock & Roll London , the section on Disco compiled by LeRoy Z. Jefferson, with listings and reflections on t...

The New Musical Express Guide to Rock & Roll London was a cut out and keep booklet given away with the NME in ealry 1978 - my copy is ...

While huge amounts of  money are being pumped into the top down spectacle of the Olympics, England's long established culture of Africa...

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on this day, 19th May 1925. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by him with Alex Haley, was p...

 Just realized that Lisa Lopes is ten years gone, killed in car crash in Honduras on 25 April 2002. That kind of thing makes you feel ol...

The racist idiots of the English Defence League held a demonstration in Luton yesterday, on the day they announced that they were joining ...

Returning to the historic usages of the term 'rave', here's some examples from the1960s. At the 'Shoreline Club' i...

Grayson Perry's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' (2007) is his memoir of the period before he became a successful ...

Finally got round to watching 'Festivals Britannia' a documentary about the history of the British festival scene first broadcast ...

In the early/mid 1990s there were some big free festivals in London parks. Not pseudo-free festivals behind big fences with lots of privat...

A bank holiday weekend coming up and there are the usual warnings from police forces across the UK of 'zero tolerance' of free part...

Mark is 38 years old and works as an Advertising Executive in New York, following an odyssey from Tamworth and London via Sheffield. Can ...

In April 1974, left leaning military officers overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship and ended its colonial wars in Africa. For the next t...

Today is St Patrick's Day, and by complete coincidence the latest respondent to the Dancing Questionnaire is Dublin-based Coz who descr...