History is made at night

The destruction of a Roma area of Istanbul once famous for its music and dancing: 'Anti-riot police supervised this final phase last wee...

An eclectic night of music at RampART Social Centre in Whitechapel last weekend (Saturday 16th May). I started off in my Half a Person punk-...

'HO CHI MINH CITY — It is early evening and another night of singing has begun in earnest at Style Karaoke, a plush club where high-fly...

'Teenager Tyler Frost has been suspended from his US Baptist school for breaking strict 'no dancing' rules by attending his girl...

Stewart Home notes the passing last week of Chris Gray : 'Chris is probably best known for his brief membership of the Situationist Inte...

'The SOC –SAT union in Almería has accused the National Police of racism in raids which took place in El Ejido on Saturday, which ended ...

'Deputy Chief of Pattaya Police Police Sub-Lieutenant Sutham Choasritong and about 30 police officers raided the Hollywood discotheque l...

'Lahore is a city that has to fight for its cultural survival. The growing influence of the Taliban, although hundreds of kilometres to ...

On this day in 1871 (the 16th May) there was a unique party in Paris during the days of the Commune . The occasion was the destruction of th...

First whiff of summer and for many people it's time to head out to the fields to party. May Day (Friday 1st) in North Wales saw a party ...

This Saturday there's a benefit for the Visteon workers at the Rampart Social Centre (15 Rampart Street, London E1). Music includes a se...

Our first dancing questionnaire from Poland: 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing? I was probably 6 and had rhythmic lessons...

Contemporary debates about the social impact of personal music devices were anticipated in Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 45...

Ras G hails from South Central Los Angeles via outer space and seems to be consciously placing himself in the afro-futurist tradition of S...

'A rising musical star was allegedly shot dead by her own brothers in the conservative city of Peshawar in Pakistan last week after she ...

Lola Montez (1821-1861) lived a short but interesting life. Born Eliza Gilbert in Ireland, she reinvented herself as 'Lola the Spanish D...

Robber Bridegroom (Surrealist London Action Group) notes the passing this month of Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009), Chicago-based 'poet, a...

In his 1984 autobiographical text Dancing Ledge, Derek Jarman wrote about gay clubs in London and New York in the early days of AIDS: The d...

30 years ago today, on the 23 April 1979, the far right National Front were planning an election meeting in Southall, West London. The main...

The Dark Side of the Club is an exhibition of clubbing and music photographs by Jamie Simonds now showing at the Gowlett pub in Peckham . ...

Are there many dancing places in the landscape? Obviously there are many places where people have danced in the open air, but what about pla...

From 1965, this Northern Soul classic by Dobie Gray has been an anthem for many years for some of the most committed dancers ever to have g...

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster , when fans of Liverpool FC were crushed at the Hillsborough football s...

Following the death last week of Ian Tomlinson after being assaulted by police at the London G20 demonstration, I guess I'm not the onl...

'more than 1,000 revellers turned up at an illegal rave on beef baron Lord Vestey's £15m estate, police said today. Ravers descended...

Stewart Home continues his exploration of the undocumented corners of the 1960s London beatnik scene with a post on West London face, Phil G...

I enjoyed Jim Shaw's The Whole: a study in Oist Movement exhibition at the Simon Lee gallery in London. The underlying premise of the ...

The chief of police in Redlands, California has denounced raves being held at Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom, a defunct amusement park. Police C...