History is made at night

Last year's tube party in protest against the drinking ban on the London Underground resulted in a court case last week in which a man ...

The majority of folk musicians I have met have tended to be some kind of lefty/liberal/anarcho/counter-cultural type, and indeed the same go...

The new restrictions on musicians and artists entering the UK ( discussed in an earlier post ) are having a predictably lamentable effect. H...

'Festivals are collective phenomena and serve purposes rooted in group life. Systems of reciprocity and of shared responsibil­ity ensure...

A big free party took place last weekend in Brighton in the aftermath of Brighton LGBT Pride: The Black Rock Rave, which many see as the uno...

Revolution as dance? The following text is from a 1970 leaflet from the San Francisco area situationist-influenced group, Council for the Er...

Terrible news about the murder at the weekend of 19-year-old London MC Charmz (Carl Beatson Asiedu), apparently stabbed outside Club Life, ...

The following article from Schnews (27 July 2009) describes the cancelation of this week's Big Green Gathering festival. I am reproduci...

Ludicrous/hilarious anti-squatter story in today's Sun - it's got the lot 'scroungers', 'crusties' and 'drug-fu...

Well yes, I'm a bit slow off the mark in posting up these pictures from the demonstrations around the G20 summit of world leaders in Lon...

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) "I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not t...

Look at Life: In Gear is a 1967 news clip from the Rank Organisation offering a quick tour of the fashion boutiques of Kings Rd, Soho and C...

Some reflections after my trip last weekend to Latitude festival... 25 years ago the British state mounted a huge and brutal police operatio...

It was all hands in the air at Somerset House last week (20 July) for Calvin Harris, inciting a Monday night outdoor crowd to jump around: ...

I spent last weekend at the Latitude festival, near Southwold in Suffolk. Musical highlights included Emmy the Great's sweet songs about...

Interesting obituary in The Guardian this week for Norbert Rondel (1927-2009), another of those dodgy figures straddling crime and nightlif...

Police closed down a birthday party at Sowton, Devon on 11 July, on the basis that it has been described as an all-night party on facebook. ...

Robbed by the Police: Alcohol confiscation and the hyperregulation of public space is a good new report by The Manifesto Club highlighting...

Yesterday's Telegraph reports that a Manga introduction to Marx's Capital has recently been published in Japan - cover below (for m...

It's taken my brain a while to make the connection between two of the recent themes at this site - the 1969 Moon landing and the death ...

I first became aware of the line 'We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams' when it was quoted on the cover of Sasha a...

Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the jihadist bombs in London, which killed 52 people. One response was TangoCommute : 'To mark the ...

One of the first acts of Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson after his election was to scrap the explicit anti-racist message of the Ris...

Thinking about this month's moon landing anniversary, I realized my post on this should have mentioned the sublime Arthur Russell trac...

KUALA LUMPUR: Five policemen, including a chief inspector, were among 70 disco revellers arrested by police yesterday after they tested posi...

40 years ago this month since the first human moon landing. The song that most resonates for me relating to this is Monochrome by The Sunda...