History is made at night

Reading Marlon James' brilliant 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' has led me into a re-appreciation of Bob Marley. Of cou...

'Magic Feet' was a 1990s Nottingham-based dance music zine. Here's the front and back cover of the first issue from November 19...

This Friday (23 October) I will be saying a few words at the launch of the new Datacide book, Everything Else is Even More Ridiculous, whic...

Rico Rodriguez, the great Jamaican ska trombonist, has died this week  at the age of 80. In the UK he's best known for his work with The...

'Flappers as Anarchists: delegates who do not look as though they used bombs' 'Anarchists are in conference at Newcastle-on...

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...