History is made at night

USA, Harrisburg: party-goers jailed The city of Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] violated the rights of the out-of-state residents cited for violat...

Thanks to the as usual spot-on Ian Bone for this reminder that in modern Britain people still get beaten up, and sometimes killed, for wear...

O ne facet of early punk life in London (1976-77) was that there were no punk clubs, with the gap filled for some by lesbian and gay clubs ...

Further to previous post about Tony Wilson and Situationists, I've come across the following statement from Wilson made at the Hacienda...

The recent death of Tony Wilson has prompted a few mentions of the influence on him of Situationist ideas. Most famously, the name of the ...

Police in the Iranian city of Karaj have been busy, busting two parties in a week: Iranian police arrest partygoers ( BBC News , 9 August 2...

Police in East Anglia seem to be continuing with their crackdown on free parties. A couple of weeks ago, 70 baton-wielding riot cops from Su...

Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf , first published in 1928, is an outsider novel whose protagonist, disgusted by German militarism and b...

No festival seems to be complete without a fairground and in the past week I've been to a couple in London. On Sunday I went to the Lamb...

Just how fundamental is musicking and dancing to human experience? To be sure, 'music', 'dance' and indeed 'human' h...

This month, rave shut down in England, religious police raid club in Malaysia, and Iceland's first Reclaim the Streets party. Suffolk, E...

One night of Fire in New York ( Village Voice , July 16 2007) : 'Global terror, the NYPD's increasingly restrictive rules governing...

Previous posts have considered the recent 30th anniversary of The Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen and the 25th anniversary of The Falkla...

Soren Kierkegaard has a great line about ‘dancing in the service of thought’ . I don’t think he was really talking about dancing, but it go...

Next up in our collection of space-themed songs comes this East London punk obscurity from 1978. 'I wanna be a cosmonaut' by Riff...

Just a few months after the death of his former bandmate Mick Mulligan , another of the great jazz ravers has died - George Melly . We have...

The anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) is perhaps best known today for one quote attributed to her: 'If I can't dance I don't w...

A sad weekend in London, with two young people out with their friends killed in separate incidents. Annaka Pinto (left), a 17 year old from...

I went to the degree show at Camberwell College of Arts yesterday and was struck by Georgia Rodger's video piece Blinkers Instrument , w...

The Celebrating Sanctuary refugee music festival last weekend (see earlier post ) was rudely interrupted by the sound of assorted airborne k...