History is made at night

Following the analysis here of the recent T-Mobile pseudo-flash mob , I notice that Stewart Home was actually inadvertently present at Liver...

Moving Gallery - The Mysterium was an event held at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich last month (19th February) as part of In the Momen...

As many people have mentioned over the last couple of weeks, it is 25 years since the start of the last great Miners Strike in Britain. On 5...

The revolt of the Xhosa against the British colonial forces in early 19th century South Africa was marked by dancing. Like the Native Americ...

Poor Joe Strummer must be turning in his grave at the latest abuse of his music: 'A report into the policing of last year's Climate ...

A campaign has been launched against the impact of the government's latest tightening of immigration controls on arts and music. Accordi...

1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? My mum used to have a Felicity Kendall exercise tape, which she would have in a little...

William Dalrymple on the destruction of a Sufi shrine in Pakistan ( full article in yesterday's Observer ): 'Rahman Baba, "the ...

Agit Disco is an archive project dedicated to political music, initiated by Stefan Szczelkun . The format is a series of CD length selecti...

Less than Zero (1985) by Brett Easton Ellis is, as everybody knows, a study in nihilism set among the young, bored and wealthy in 1980s Los...

Tate Britain in London is currently showing films by the Black Audio Film Collective , including the excellent Handsworth Songs (1986). Th...

Crossing the Thames on the Millennium Bridge yesterday I came across a group of furries. Apparently there’s a whole international scene of ...

Tom from Vamos a Bailar: Salsa in Cardiff and Around steps up: 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? Dancing to a rhythm’n’...

The latest dancing questionnaire has been completed by Abbey who lives in the Boston, MA area. Her summer camp dancing adventures reminded m...

I've posted this before at my south east London blog, Transpontine , but am reposting here as a follow up to the earlier Club UK post o...

Islamic authorities in Kano State (northern Nigeria) have been enforcing a ban on showing 'singing and dancing on screen' claiming i...

Heading out to Kew Gardens over Christmas, we drove through Wandsworth. As always on that journey through South West London, my partner and...

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...