History is made at night

F. Scott Fitzgerald's story May Day, first published in 1920, is an account of a drunken night in New York in May 1919. Drunk socialites...

Must admit I know very little about pirate radio outside of England, but here's a few interesting stories that caught my attention: Flor...

12 years of articles from the great 'noise and politics' zine Datacide are now online . Spend some time there, it will be worth your...

I've just read a short pamphlet 'Muzak to my ears: Canned Music and Class Struggle: Public Space and Muzak as Policing'. I will ...

Even though I stand by my critique of last month's T-Mobile pseudo-flashmob , the advert may have had the effect of amplifying the real ...

How do social classes come about? From a Marxist point of view, class is defined by people's relationship to the means of production - t...

Simon Reynolds writes in the Guardian about the continued existence of printed zines in the age of the blog (he's also put up an intere...

Bad Attitude was a 'radical women's newspaper' published in the early 1990s from 121 Railton Road, Brixton (among other things, ...

No it's not just disco bombing Islamists who think that people who enjoy nightclubs deserve to die. Pope Benedict 'has promoted to b...

The Hijras of Pakistan, sometimes described as 'eunuchs', are generally gay transvesites/transsexuals, some of whom have had some ki...

"Within the crowd there is equality. This is absolute and indisputable and never questioned by the crowd itself. It is of fundamental i...

In Hanif Kureishi's latest novel, Something to Tell You, the narrator mentions being in a club in London in the late 1970s and meeting S...

Kate Aan De Wiel looks back on dancing all the way from West Ham to Cuba: 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? Tap dancing ...

"In 1927 the charge of keeping a disorderly house at 25, Fitzroy Square, near Euston Station, was brought after a long period of survei...

In an incident of moral policing in Karnataka, a group of men in Mangalore attacked a group of women in a pub on Saturday afternoon.The atta...

Despite expressing scepticism about the sonic limitations of headphone-based Silent Disco , I agree with the sentiments of Future Next Level...

Old home movies are a fascinating source for how people actually danced in the past. This is a great clip of a New Year's Eve party in 1...

'Imagine walking into a party where everybody is wearing wireless headphones and is singing and dancing to an inaudible beat. This was ...

I won't be joining the tabloids in gloating over the fate of Boy George, jailed last week for 15 months for 'handcuffing a male esco...

War in Gaza, and (less publicised) war in Sri Lanka , war in the Democratic Republic of Congo , not to mention Afghanistan and Iraq. It...

'Police yesterday arrested a number of youths in a raid at Bor Freedom Square where thousands of youth gather to perform their normal Su...

Simon Reynolds kicked off a week of posts about The Sweet with the provocative question 'was there in fact a better British hard rock ...

I've been spending a lot of time this weekend hanging round in a car. What has made it all bearable is the radio. Despite having weeks w...

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. ...