History is made at night

Following the recent death of Lou Reed, I could write a lot about his influence on me and the many hours of my life spent listening to him a...

Great to see this Free Pussy Riot banner at tonight's football match between Manchester City and CSKA Moscow. It may have been swif...

One of the most exciting sites I have come across recently is the Modernist Journals Project , a joint project of Brown University and the ...

Issue number 13 of Datacide magazine for noise and politics was published earlier this month with a bumper 76 pages including: Datacide:...

Here's an account of  a short-lived radical radio intervention in North London. The Islington pirate radio station broadcast on 230 met...

That the state seeks to clamp down on 'pirate radio' is perhaps not surprizing, what is inspiring though is that across the world pe...

Cheers to Stewart Home for including this blog in his selection at the The Wire: 'History Is Made At Night: A blog about dancing and p...

The Guardian reported earlier this month (10 October): 'Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network ...

I posted some photos and memories recently of a demonstration in London against the Crimininal Justice Act (and its 'anti-rave' po...

The 13th issue of Datacide, the international magazine for noise and politics, is out this week. As well as a conference and release party ...

The next issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise and politics - is out this week, and there's a release party and conference to cele...

It's the start of a new term in British student life, and yes no doubt at the end of Freshers Week some students are going out dancing, ...

Demonstrations are continuing all over Greece following the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by fascists this week. An anti-fascist lost an eye on We...

The English Defence League demonstration in London yesterday didn't amount to very much, with around 500 taking part. Fears that they w...

I caught the last day of Ellen Gallagher's AxME exhibition at Tate Modern on Sunday. Particularly taken with this Sun Ra homage: ...

Doing some research/recollecting the movement against what became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 with its notorious police ...

This is one of my favourite headlines for a while, from  Slate.Com : 'Bodybuilder Sneaks Aboard German Leader’s Jet, Stages One Man Ra...

So there I was talking to a neighbour and the Situationists came up in the conversation, and he says to me I think I've got some of th...

'Because all these serious faces’ll drive you mad, the only meaning is without meaning– Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we...

Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney ...