History is made at night

Earlier this week there was an apparent flashmob at Liverpool Street - several hundred people dancing in the railway station. But it wasn...

I've mentioned before that the Astoria in London was threatened with closure, but now it has actually happened. This week's Demoliti...

Benjamin Péret (1899-1959) was active in the Surrealist movement from its formation until his death. Among other things he edited at one sta...

It was my birthday recently. Some friends who know my penchant for small stringed instruments - I play mandolin and ukulele and also have a...

Woofah issue three has been out for a month now, but it's taken me a while to get round to reviewing it. If you haven’t seen previous i...

The break of dawn is not always the end of the party, but it is usually the beginning of the end. If nothing else, the first rays of dayligh...

I was walkin' down the street, And it was gettin' mighty late. Well, the truth of the matter is, This poor girl had been abandoned ...

'Queer urban culture was the site of diverse intersecting modes of queerness and "normality," coalescing around their desires ...

George Brecht (1926-2008), Fluxus artist, died last month. His many sound pieces included 'Drip Music' (1959): 'For single or ...

More on Soho Nights from today's Guardian: '... in 1956, I heard about this new dance craze called hand-jiving. So I made a number...

From Brooklyn, Onomé Ekeh recalls a life in dance from New York to Switzerland : 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? No. ...

Only a few days to go of the exhibition by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern (London) - it closes on 11th January. If you hav...

Police break up illegal rave ( Oxford Mail, 6 January 2009 ) 'Teenagers accused police of being heavy-handed when they arrived in the e...

'Beatnik Parties took over Nash House - Wild Parties Held In the past week some 15 young people have been arrested and charged with vari...

Showing at the Photographers Gallery in London at the moment is Soho Nights, an exhibition of photographs of London nightlife in the 1950s....

The row is continuing about the Metropolitan police discouraging grime nights and other black musics, and its use of the now notorious Form...

Still a few days to go of the Twelve Days of Christmas festivities. In the 16th century though, protestant churches in Scotland sometimes tr...

I know millions of people have been partying and having a good time in the past 24 hours (from a free party in Kent to Melbourne where 40,0...

I am hoping to get to the Photographers Gallery (London) next week for an exhibition on 1950s Soho Nights which apparently includes some im...

'Police in Peru were searching Friday for the person who threw a tear gas canister into an unlicensed discotheque early Christmas Day, c...

The Police in Arua district have detained Nyadri district Police commander Benedict Ojingo and Police constable Rashid Nyakuni over murderin...

From Latin American Herald Tribune, 26 December 2008 : 'A 16-year-old boy died over the weekend in the central province of Cordoba after...

I am a bit of sucker for Christmas carols - well, even uber-atheist Richard Dawkins enjoys singing along to them . And of all the carols, my...

Soundtracks can make a film, or certainly enhance it. For instance, the soundtrack to Juno is excellent, with its indie pop/anti-folk vibe ...

England (London): squatted pub evicted ( Islington News , 19 December 2008) 'Bailiffs have evicted squatters who turned an empty Hollow...

I've posted before on Excavated Shellac, a site dedicated to '78 rpm recordings of folkloric and vernacular music from around the w...

I've been spending a lot of time searching through the treasures to be found at the recently released Life archive of photographs . Amon...

In the new journal Nyx - a noctournal (produced by people associated with the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, New Cross...

Tempting as it is to make cheap jibes about the torture of having to listen to Limp Bizkit under any circumstances, musical torture is a ser...

The death this week of children’s programme maker Oliver Postgate (1925-2008) has prompted an outpouring of nostalgia from everybody raised...

Like many people around the world, I'm trying to get my head round the 'credit crunch' financial crisis. Six months ago there wa...

Form 696 sounds like the name of a Belgian industrial outfit (oh no that was Front 242 ) but is actually a pernicious example of bureaucracy...