History is made at night

And in a wild and sudden dance We mocked at Time and Fate and Chance And swept out of the wattled hall And came to where the dewdrops fall A...

Some reflections on last Saturday's anti-cuts March for the Alternative in London (March 26 th )... I knew it really was going to be a b...

An electrifying event at Lambeth Town Hall tonight, the first public meeting of the Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture . By 7 o'cl...

Disco legend Loleatta Holloway died last night at the age of 64. For me, her best tracks were on the great Salsoul label in the 1970s, incl...

Skateboarding park on the South Bank, pictures taken September 2010

Shocking news of the death of Smiley Culture (real name David Emmanuel) in a police raid today. According to the Voice : 'The Police Off...

'The extent to which the music is integrated with the literal meaning in soul is apparent in some of its basic stylistic conventions, th...

Twenty years ago today - Thursday 14 March 1991 - I was standing in a crowd outside the Old Bailey in London waiting for the release of the ...

Great to hear tonight of the occupation of the mansion in Hampstead , north London, belonging to Saif Gaddafi - son of the hopefully soon to...

All pictures taken last month, mostly around the 'Northern Quarter' area of Manchester.

Negri and Hardt are quite right that the current wave of revolts are 'sweeping away the racist conceptions of a clash of civilisations...

'A moderate revolution is a contradiction in terms, though a moderate putsch, coup or pronunciamento is not. However limited the ostensi...

Le Carnival Tamara Karsavina of the Ballet Russes as the Firebird Laura Knight (1887-1970) was a prolific painter of dancers and other perf...

A rejoinder from William Gibson to the claim that the 20th century music industry was a natural state of affairs: 'In the early 1920s.....

At this time of year it is customary to raise a glass to one of Germany's finest music critics: Albrecht (Ali) Höhler (1898-1933). His e...

Some pictures taken in Berlin earlier this month - mostly in Friedrichshain, but I think the last image of the astronaut was in Kreuzberg: