History is made at night

As this post concerns both a South East London story and documents a club scene I wasn't sure whether to post it at my localist Transpon...

Three Essex cops have been put on restricted duty while an internal inquiry is undertaken into a police assault in Brentwood, Essex last wee...

Officials in Valencia County (New Mexico) have agreed to develop 'an anti-rave ordinance' to give the sheriff more powers to stop pa...

From This is Lancashire, 14 September 2009 : 'A massive rave in a quiet beauty spot was broken up by police officers after it attracted ...

A prediction from 1897: 'Lady Ancaster's moan over the decay of dancing in London has called forth numerous letters on the subject...

Must admit I'd never heard of the 1949 Peekskill Riots in New York State. Now thanks to a tip from Bob from Brockley I am much wiser. T...

Archived Music Press is a blog consisting of scanned articles from the New Musical Express and Melody Maker, from 1987-1996. As you might e...

From Bernama.com : 'KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 2009- Police who raided a karaoke cum mini discotheque in the city early Saturday morning, foun...

Alsatia is a new blog dedicated to exploring the lost 'liberties and sanctuaries of London'. They explain : "In the seventeen...

THE VOICE: ...You will be known during your fifteen years as a ragtime kid, a flapper, a jazz baby, and a baby vamp. You will dance new dan...

Lubna Hussein is one of 13 Sudanese women arrested while listening to music in a Khartoum cafe on July 3: 'Next week I will stand trial...

I've posted here before on my involvement in the Association of Autonomous Astronauts (1995-2000). Here's some video footage of som...

A hot bank holiday weekend, no doubt with lots of partying. 4000 people attended a free party on farmland near Warminster in Wiltshire last...

Popped into briefly to this beach party on the South Bank of the Thames last Sunday. It was the latest in the ongoing series of 'Trance ...

I'm not going to claim that I got any great insights into the local musical/political/social milieus whilst lazing round in the sun in C...

In England the 17th century saw frequent conflict between church authorities and people who wished to dance or otherwise enjoy themselves on...

Here's another very old flyer (click to enlarge). This one is for a Grand Masquerade, Garden Party and Fancy Dress Ball at North Woolwic...

Earlier this month three women at a Latin Dance class were murdered at a Fitness club in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. Their killer was a piss...

'Festival communication actively engages the participants. It is this feature that distinguishes festival from those large-scale forms t...

When did people start passing out flyers to get people to come to their club or dancehall? The earliest I have come across so far is this ca...

An acccount from the excellent Keep Cool - The Black Activists Who Built the Jazz Age by Ted Vincent (Pluto Press, 1995): 'The musical ...

The '5 word meme' is just that - somebody gives you 5 words to say something about. Bob from Brockley gave me my five (as well as p...

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...