History is made at night

Not going to attempt to comment on today's epic events in London, with the Government voting to increase student fees amidst riotous sce...

In the last month a sustained movement against austerity has emerged seemingly out of nowhere. Since the student demonstration/riot in Londo...

When Walter Hill's film The Warriors was released in 1979, there were fears that it would lead to an explosion of gang related violenc...

So many student protests in the UK in the past couple of weeks that I can't keep up, let alone follow what's happening in Italy and...

Today is World AIDS Day, a day for everyone to reflect on the ongoing global health disaster that is HIV/AIDS. For me personally, a time to...

This site celebrates the pleasures of the night, the possibilities of nocturnal encounters on the dancefloor, the sense of liberation in the...

Going to be doing some posts about the anti-rave Criminal Justice Act and the 1990s free party scene. 15 years ago the Act had become law an...

The ill-fated wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer was announced in February 1981. Unemployment was high amidst cuts and auster...

Alan Sillitoe died earlier this year, 50 years after he came to prominence with the classic post-war Northern working class novel, Saturday...

After the exuberance and excitement of Wednesday's massive demonstration (50,000+) against education cuts in London, the hangover is set...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story The Popular Girl is centred around the figure of Yanci Bowman and her desire for more than the l...

Martin C. ( Beyond the Implode ) and John Eden ( Uncarved ) have put together a great if suitably chaotic anarcho -punk mix/podcast, release...

Last Saturday night's squat party in central London seems to have generated a huge amount of press interest, not all of it accurate. Scu...

David See 'was a finalist in the Music Week National DJ '77 Championship' and writer for Disco International. In 1980, Hamlyn (L...

I went to Cafe Oto in Dalston a couple of weeks ago for a reading by two members of Wu Ming, the Italian writing collective responsible fo...