History is made at night

Justine Picardie’s If the Spirit Moves You (2001) is a book about bereavement, specifically the author’s struggle to come to terms with the ...

The Pleasure Principle by Kane Race (Sydney Alumni Magazine, Summer 2009) is an excellent article on the absurdities of drugs prohibition, ...

Sad to hear that Kate McGarrigle has died, here's some nice footage from way back in 1977 of Kate & Anna singing 'Foolish You...

Interesting article in New York Times (10 Janyuary 2010) on decline in Paris nightlife: '...Despite its reputation as the bustling spiri...

The links section of this site is badly in need of updating, but I have at least managed to get the new addresses for Datacide and Expletiv...

In today's Observer, Arcade Fire's Régine Chassagne, whose family fled Haiti to escape the Duvalier dictatorship, writes about the e...

Sad to hear of the death of Teddy Pendergrass this week, aged 59. Among his many musical achievements was a critical role in the birth of d...

xx: A Sculpture of the Album at the Vinyl Factory (the gallery space under the excellent Phonica record shop in Soho's Poland Street) w...

An interesting early 20th century photograph of people out dancing in London (click on photo to enlarge). It comes from Living London by GR...

Some documents relating to a fateful party in Brixton in 1993. Some people I know were at this one, it was just a typical Brixon squat party...

Singing and making music is a universal part of human existence, found in all known societies. What could be more absurd than having to have...

Campaigns are currently being waged to save two iconic London venues. The Half Moon in Putney (South West London) has been hosting live musi...

The existence of gods, goddesses, spirits and saints of music and dance in religions and mythologies across the world is testament to the fu...

Following the cancellation of this year's Big Green Gathering thanks to official pressure, another festival is under attack. On Friday ...

A man was convicted this week of the murder of 18 year old Dinah McNicol (pictured) in 1991. Peter Tobin is now known to have killed at leas...

Ma Jian's Beijing Coma (2008) is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China, and ...

I was in Trafalgar Square on Friday night, where there was a fairly surreal assemblage of sights and happenings. There was the big Christmas...

In 1889, Oscar Wilde wrote an article called 'Poetical Socialists' for the Pall Mall Gazette (February 15), reviewing a book of soc...

Loud bass music ‘killed student’ , Metro 9th December, 2009 A student collapsed at a freshers’ party and died after complaining the loud bas...

Interesting article by Robert Fisk in the Independent at the weekend (5 Dec 09) on Islamism and music: 'But music and Islam have a dodgy...