History is made at night

In the early 1990s, when I was living in Brixton, I went to some parties at a squatted school in Stockwell. I couldn't remember too many...

Have posted here before on proletarian dandyism , and one day will get around to writing some more about Decadent Action , clean living in d...

'Illegal raves thwarted by police in villages' ( Bedford Today , 16 May 2011) 'Three illegal raves were thwarted by police over...

Controversy in the States about the participation of Common in a poetry night at the White House this week. The usual Fox News right wing p...

The Girl with Green Eyes , starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave, is a 1964 film based on Edna O'Brien's novel The Lonely Girl ...

I wish I'd taken some more and better photos during my one and only trip to Japan, back in the 1990s. But I remember wandering around Yo...

Getting totally addicted to Like Punk Never Happened: Brian McCluskey's Smash Hits Archive . Whole issues of the late 1970s/early 1980s ...

Hip hop has provided a voice for rebels in the recent uprisings in North Africa, notably in Tunisia . So perhaps not surprisingly other repr...

My recent article for Datacide magazine, Dance Before the Police Come, has now been published on their website: 'Shut Up and Dance’s 199...

On was a free magazine put out in the mid-1990s by the people around the Big Chill - the editor was Pete Lawrence. The 1997 'Winter Sols...

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still en...

FITwatch report that police officers visited two South London venues in dubious circumstances last weekend: 'On Saturday 23rd of April a...

An early start for the long hot summer of 2011, with the warm weather prompting people to head out on to the streets and thegreat outdoors. ...

Just got back from today's Justice 4 Smiley Culture demonstration in London, pretty impressive with maybe a couple of thousand people he...

An early regulation against noisy parties ('revyling') was included as Rule 30 in London's The Lawes of the Market in 1595. Seem...

At the Salvation Army charity shop on Deptford High Street this week I came across this classic 12" from 1980. I knew it was a sign tha...

Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's trip into space, the first human to leave the planet's atmosphere - and the first to...

Thirty years ago this weekend Brixton exploded in the middle of Operation Swamp 81 - a police operaation that saw almost 950 mainly black yo...

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...