History is made at night

The threatened closure of HMV (which has gone into administration) saddens me mainly because thousands of staff in its shops in Britain and ...

The death this week of Gerry Anderson has sparked an outpouring of nostalgia from those brought up on his TV programmes in the 1960s and 197...

Another example of 1960s 'rave' - an advert for an 'All Nite Mod Rave' on 18 July 1964 in Bradford, at the Coffin club in I...

Earlier this week (December 12), Norfolk police posted a short video on Youtube with the title 'Seized rave equipment destroyed'. A...

If anyone got robbed, burgled or raped this weekend in London and wondered where the police were when they needed them - hey, they had other...

Previously we discussed how the word Discotheque, coined in France by the 1940s, seems to have entered the English language in the early 19...

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...

Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least...

'Drag is about many things . It is about clothes and sex. It subverts the dress codes that tell us what men and women should look li...

Alain Badiou's latest book to be translated into English is 'The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings' (published by...

In December 1988, Paul Morley wrote an article for Marxism Today magazine entitled 'Towing the Party Line': 'Parties make me a...

'Banning Disco nights cause Chayamba secondary school to close as students riot' (6 November 2012, Zodiak Radio ) 'Chayamba S...

The London Anarchist Bookfair was a couple of weeks ago (October 27th to be precise) and to turn up without some printed matter to dissemi...

Friday night's Praxis Records party on the MS Stubnitz in London docklands was great, may write a bit more about it, but for now here...

Looking forward to next Friday's Praxis records party in London, all aboard the MS Stubnitz boat (facebook events details here ) . Pr...

From Haruki Murakami's 'After Dark', 2004: 'The record ends. the automatic turntable lifts the needle, and the tone arm d...

The twelfth issue of Datacide, 'the magazine for noise and politics',  is out today, with 68 pages of stuff you won't find in an...

Rita Tushingham and Michael York in Smashing Time (1967) 'Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be ...

The historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) died yesterday at the age of 95.  There's plenty to criticise in his political judgement  as he...