History is made at night

London club listing from Time Out, 26 February 1982. Before my London clubbing days, and I must say it doesn't sound too great though of...

Gays Against Nazis/Rock Against Racism gig at Leeds Poly, 30 June 1978 with The Mekons, reggae band Tribesman and Sheffield post-punk band 2...

The great junglist/drum & bass MC Skibadee died last month and fittingly is the subject of lots of memorial graffiti around Waterloo in ...

As Japan industrialised in the late 19th and early 20th century large numbers of young women were employed in textile mills, often living in...

Lots to love in 'Parallel Mothers'/'Madres Paralelas' (2021), the latest Pedro Almodóvar film. One plot thread concerns the ...

'Section 28' of the Local Government Act 1988 was a piece of culture war-style legislation framed by Margaret Thatcher's Conserv...

'Yesterday evening a grand ball, attended by the leading members of the Hebrew persuasion in the city, took place at the London Tavern, ...

 The murky story of American “psychological operations” in the Vietnam war features many strange episodes. As told in ‘If Then: How One Data...

'9 August 1980. Ninth anniversary of  internment, and the Au Pairs are playing a free gig for the kids in West Belfast. Rock The Block -...

Milton Keynes Gallery has been hosting an exhibition on the famous MK club The Sanctuary (it closes on 23 January 2022).  'How did an u...

Long ago and far away (well mid 1980s Luton) there was a great punk band called Karma Sutra. I hung out with them and made a few squiggly no...