History is made at night

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...

Sad news about the death this week of Ari Up ( Ariane Forster), former lead singer of The Slits. She was only 48, incredibly she was only 1...

From Miami Herald, 14 October 2010: 'Raymond Castro, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, died in his hometown of...

Courtesy of 56a Info Shop in SE London, I have recently had access to an archive of radical publications from the early 1980s, in particula...

For those who never stop complaining that there isn't enough dub in dubstep comes news that Tectonic Recordings are releasing a whole a...

All I need in this creation Is 3 months work, 9 vacation Tell the boss, any old time The daytime is his, but the nighttime's mine Photo:...

54 by Italian collective author Wu Ming is a novel set in 1954, with a fine plot involving the mafia, secret services, communist ex-partis...

My recent hypothesis that the vuvuzela is becoming the protest instrument of choice for the emerging movement against austerity has received...

The Turner Prize 2010 exhibition is now open at Tate Britain, with at least three of the four short-listed artists having strong musical con...

Over at Datacide, Christoph has been publishing texts from Alien Underground, a great zine published in South London in 1994/95 offerin ...