History is made at night

A school in Misssissippi has cancelled its prom dance rather than allow a lesbian student attend with her girlfriend. Here's the full st...

So you went to a party when you were a student four years ago - and now you're having to sit in a court room facing prosecution as a res...

'Nine men dressed in women's clothing were arrested on New Year's Eve in the discotheque of a Manama, Bahrain, hotel and charged...

If one threat to music venues is over-regulation through increasingly onerous licensing laws, another is gentrification. As land and propert...

When the ambient scene emerged in the early 1990s, I was somewhat ambivalent about the notion of whole clubs dedicated to low tempo electron...

Last week in Berkeley, California, a flashmob dance party on the University ended up in a riot as students protesting against cuts in educat...

From 'The Minotaur & the Maze: A Cultural History of Night #1' by Darran Anderson: 'Night might well be just technically the...

Lahore Journal: Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan (New York Times, 25 February 2010) 'Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid t...

Interesting article from Shanghai Daily (10 February 2010) on roller disco dancing in Shanghai : 'The world has moved on from roller-ska...

Stefan Szczelkun asked me to put together a selection for his Agit Disco series of mixes of political music. You can read my effort at his...

Earlier in the week it seemed that every other tweet from the twitterers I follow was telling the world to #saveplasticpeople . In quickly d...

With the future of both the Ministry of Sound and Plastic People seemingly in jeopardy , news comes of one of London's largest clubs b...

Following yesterday's story about the threat to the future of the Ministry of Sound, news that another London club is in more immediate ...

South London club the Ministry of Sound is objecting to a proposed building development which it claims could threaten its future. As part ...

Excellent article by Tim Burrows in the Daily Post (5 February 2010) on the clubbing history of Southwark. There's even a helpful map ...

Following on from last week's post on the policing on funky and bashment in London , here's an excellent article by Dan Hancox on t...

Alternative TV were one of the few signficant early British punk bands to to eschew the obvious music industry route of signing for a big la...

Next up on the Dancing Questionnaire , is Smith3000 of Expletive Undeleted blog and much more besides - 'did fanzines as a kid, promote...

French for Cartridge are celebrating the release of their new album Liquorice (Dinner with Daisy records) with a week-long residency 'p...

Thanks to Uncarved for pointing me in the direction of this South London Press story (1 February 2010): 'Strict new operating conditio...

The use of music for sonic warfare, torture and crowd control has been a recurring theme at this site. An interesting example occurred last ...

Hipsters, Flipsters & Finger-Poppin’ Daddies - Stewart Home Intesresting review at 3am magazine of the latest in the BFI's Flipside ...

I have been to a few parties in my time, but dancing in a tree house is something I haven't done. In the past year there's been a se...

I like the places where the night does not mean an end where smiles break free and surprise is your friend and dancing goes on in the kitche...