History is made at night

It's been a long time since I've done one of these posts , but important to remind ourselves that the anti-rave Criminal Justice Act...

Mark Leckey's film 'Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD' is a collage of what he has termed 'found memories', fragments from ...

Following our earlier post on the Camden Palace from The Face, 1983 here's a couple more courtesy of the excellent Like Punk Never Hap...

Interview with Poison Girls from 'independent feminist/socialist magazine' The Leveller (published from 52 Acre Lane, SW2), Decembe...

20 years ago - on 2 August 1997 - the second Summer Rites lesbian and gay free festival was held in Brixton's Brockwell Park. Coming ju...

'Feels and Flows' by Paul Maheke at Tate Britain in London is essentially a recreation of aspects of a nightclub space within the...

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...