History is made at night

Now on at UNION (London SE1) is 'the first solo exhibition of London based artist Matthew Stone . Emerging from a strongly collaborati...

"The limbo dance is a well-known feature in the Carnival life of the West Indies today... The limbo dancer moves under a bar which is g...

Time for another round up of international police party action - did you know that in some parts of the USA teenagers can be arrested for lo...

Steve Fletcher has sent this great photo of himself and then girlfriend at a jazz 'rave' on Hampstead Heath in 1955. According to St...

The Montague Arms in New Cross on a Friday, a night jointly presented by White Noise (linked to Battered Ornaments records) and Spinning Je...

Last week I visited Nine Ladies Stone Circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire (pictured). This is one of many such sites in England to which i...

There have protests, street blockades and barricades in the Italian city of Trento following the eviction by riot police of the Bruno Social...

Party on the Montreal Metro last week (30 March)arranged by Newmindpace (see: http://newmindspace.com/metroparty.php). Looks interesting, th...

From the London Evening Standard, 5 April 2007: More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain's b...

A Reclaim the Future event went ahead in a squatted building in North London's Holloway Road last weekend, with various radical workshop...

From The Luton News , 27 March 2007: 'Police-run carnival' anger Bedfordshire police appear to be digging in their heels over a ban ...

Following the closure of the Roxy this month, New York City's last remaining roller disco is due to close in April 2007. A news report ...

One of my favourite pastimes is browsing through books and vinyl in car boot sales, jumble sales and charity shops, so I was delighted today...

From the film Beat Street (1984), filmed at the Roxy in New York.

As previously mentioned the Roxy club in New York closed this month. It opened in 1979 as a popular roller disco and, since 1991, had hosted...

Legendary New York club Roxy closed earlier this month. I'll post some more about its history soon - it hosted a gay club and roller dis...

From the archive - this is an article I wrote for Alien Underground 0.1, Spring 1995, a zine edited by Christoph Fringeli (Praxis Records) ...

At the weekend I took part with my daughter in a South London community musical production of My Fair Lady , featuring a cast and crew of 20...

Back in the 1970s/early 80s the Throbbing Gristle /Psychic TV nexus explored the notion of sound as control, including how particular sonic ...

The Waltz was the focus of outrage as the dance spread from Austria and Germany to France and England in the late 18th and early 19th centur...

Bronx-based radical Commie Curmudgeon has completed our Dancing Questionnaire (also posted on his site), and very interesting it is too. S...

Interesting article in last week's Time Out London about policing of grime nights: "Imagine a society where the police force says w...

The writer Anais Nin (1903-77) lived between Paris and New York in the 1930s, and her diaries provide a vivid account of bohemian nightlif...

Last week in India, near the city of Pune, police arrested 271 at a rave at a rural farmhouse. Seven people accused of organising the party ...

This US magazine cover is from 1954. By this point the word 'rave' was already being used in London to describe all night parties in...

A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a part...

Scott Wood describes himself as 'a fortean, veggie, wanna-be writer'. He is the promoter of South East London Folklore Society , run...

Excellent BBC4 documentary this week. Once Upon a Time in New York: The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Funk was only an hour long when any of ...

'Being against war, telling stories, singing in the shower - these are the signs of a pleasant disposition' (Jean Baudrillard, Fragm...

1. Cambridgeshire, England "Police officers were attacked with fire extinguishers as they tried to break up an illegal rave at a disuse...

In previous posts we have looked at the revivalist jazz raves organised by Mick Mulligan and Cy Laurie in 1950s Soho. From the mid-1950s a ...

I went down to How Does it Feel to be Loved? at the Canterbury Arms in Brixton last month, which describes itself as a 'a london club ...

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Copenhagen in angry protests against yesterday's police eviction of Ungdomshuset (the...