History is made at night

The novelist Geoff Dyer wrote an article for the Observer this week entitled ' Underground culture isn’t dead – it’s just better hidden...

'Mobs riot in West End' (Independent on Sunday, 1 April 1990) 'Central London experienced its worst riot this century yeste...

Burns Night once more, the Scottish poet Robert Burns being born on this day in 1759. I have had my vegetarian haggis and a glass of Laphro...

The famous 12 Bar Club in London's Denmark Street closed a couple of weeks ago , having been given notice to quit as part of a plan to ...

One of the highlights of Eastenders over Christmas was an episode where soap opera arch-villain Nick Cotton finds his old copy of The Sex P...

I probably should have mentioned by now that the latest issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise and politics - was published last Octobe...

'All around me there was an incredible rushing noise, which I knew was composed of shouting and screaming and firecrackers and stamping...

Henry Cow's 'Nine funerals of the Citizen King' is a track on their 1973 debut album 'Legend' and signalled the radical ...

A chronology of events in the UK See previously:  Welcome to 1984   January 1984 Wed 1 February – print unions and News International...

Some pictures from Athens last weekend: Demonstrators gather outside the university on 6 December, the 6th anniversary of the killing o...

From: South London Press, 3 January 1903: ' The Fatal Thirteen -Death from excessive dancing Dr Waldo held an inquest at the Southwa...

Daily Star, 10 October 1994 (from Datacide archive) Revolt of the Ravers:  The Movement Against the Criminal Justice Act, 1994 Su...

Panacea was a mid-1990s zine from Cardiff ('Panacea West') and Southsea ('Panacea South'). Panacea 'future soun...

From the excellent Oz Magazine archive , here's some images of London graffiti from Oz number 13 (June 1968), photographs apparently fr...

Back in December 2013, The Wire magazine featured this blog in its 'Unofficial Channels' column: (from The Wire, December 201...

Grew up reading about the late 1960s and early 1970s, all those heroic struggles of resistance and repression.They seemed like ancient hist...

A chronology of events in the UK (See also   Welcome to 1984 ; February 1984 ) 1984 started with various strikes, including the early r...