History is made at night

It's the 2017 London Radical Bookfair tomorrow, Saturday 24 June, at Goldsmiths in New Cross. Datacide, magazine of noise and po...

A report on police  raids on two free parties in Hackney in 1996: 'Hackney Police Risk Riot to Kill Joy Hackney police ha...

From the Face magazine, February 1983, as part of an overview of the soundtrack to London nightlife at that point, an interview with the la...

The National Archives has today released Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990, including discussions amongst Minist...

I recently came across an issue of Tate magazine from 2000, a special issue celebrating the opening in that year of Tate Modern. It include...

Some musical/dance images from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, which I visited this weekend: 'Melody' by Kellock Brown (1894...

It is now more than 30 years since the 1984-85 miners strike, the last great stand of what had once been seen as the most militant and ...

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...