History is made at night

In the mid-1980s the centre of the musical universe, or at least my universe at that time was  Luton in Bedfordshire. For any non-UK reader...

From i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985, Manchester listings by Wiganovski: Berlin, King Street: Ballroom Blitz every thursday,...

Article by Marion Moisey from i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985. 'It seems that at some point or other everyone in Sheffie...

The following club listings come from i-D magazine, no.21. December 1984/January 1985. I wasn't around then but even allowing for i-D...

There's music to dance to, and then there's music about dancing (which may not even be very danceable). Sometimes a song is simply a...

The French novelist Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette (1873 -1954), known as Colette, lived life to the full in Fin de Siecle Paris, a period des...

A low key Burns Night tonight (compared with last year's ). There's a vegetarian haggis in the oven and a bottle of Laphroaig in t...

‘All Indians must dance, everywhere, keep on dancing. Pretty soon in next spring Great Spirit come… All dead Indians come back and live aga...

The Nazis were hostile to jazz on racist grounds and various restrictions were placed on it. A complete ban was impossible to enforce, partl...

Lots of programmes about English pop music since World War Two on BBC4 in the past couple of weeks, some of them featuring the usual lazy mi...

The following is an extract from 'Machine Music in an Age of Sweat' an article by Fishtoe published in the Glasgow-based libertarian...

Our friends at Datacide have expanded their operations from an excellent printed zine to a blog promising 'Heterogenous theory for the ...

In November 2007, the Ben Atar squat in Tel Aviv was evicted by police. According to Indymedia Israel , the squat was located in Florenti...

The beginning of this month saw the final closure of three clubs in the old Goods Yard by Kings Cross station in north London - The Cross, C...

Tonight is a big party night in many parts of the world, we wish everybody a safe and happy new year and hope that anybody going out tonight...

On this day just over 100 years ago - 24 December 1906 - the first audio radio broadcast of music took place in an experiment by Reginald Fe...

Bit of a kerfuffle amongst English folk dance enthusiasts about Observer columnist Jay Rayner's comment that "For some reason, wh...

I went to see the new Beowulf movie recently. In 3D at London's Imax cinema it was quite impressive and I do think it captured the feel...

'Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to ...

Following the recent 1997 chronology we go back another year to 1996, a time of Reclaim the Streets parties, police raids on gay clubs and,...