History is made at night

Blackheath Cavern, also known as Jack Cade's Cavern, was a  series of caves under Blackheath Hill in Greenwich South East London (pres...

It's getting hot - time to take the fields and beaches people. Wicklow (Ireland) - Herald.Ie 18 July 2012 Raves are regularly ta...

Somebody else can write the cultural history of how the punk look was gradually domesticated in mainstream hairdressing during the 1980s -...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit a rarely opened archive in South London. The basement of New Cross Learning (the volunteer-run l...

Interesting short article on mid-1980s London pirate radio and hip-hop: Soul pirate on the air waves By Jaswinder Bancil (South London ...

It's now been four months since Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Santsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were arrested and detained in Russia....

' Punk's Dead' is a book of photographs by Simon Barker (Six), with an exhibition of some of the photos at Divus Temporary, 4 ...

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 ...