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Went down to the London anti-cuts demo in Whitehall tonight. Got to whitehall before the student demo arrived, probably around 500 people there. The organisers announced that the police had agreed to close Whitehall from 6 pm so people should go into the road - some of us did but the first car...

Nearly 18 months into current financial crisis, the immediate risk of banks collapsing etc. might have gone but the real impact on the rest of us is just starting in terms of cuts, redundancies and general austerity. Greece and Ireland today, here tomorrow? So where's the crisis music? Talking...

Sad news about the death of 19-year-old London MC Charmz (Carl Beatson Asiedu), stabbed after performing at Club Life in Vauxhall on Saturday night: http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2009/08/london-funky-mc-murdered.html

Too many music legends dying off this week to have a new thread for all of them so can I just mention: Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners Isaac Hayes (I know he's had a thread) and Jerry Wexler None of these in the centre of the Dissensus playlist maybe, but note that Wexler, when asked what he...

...well not so much lost as not previously available on line as far as I can see. 'Black Noise' by Mark Fisher from ***Collapse magazine 1995. http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2008/07/collapse-magazine-black-noise-by-mark.html

Saw this tonight and thought it was good, nicely complementing Control (have reviewed it here). Anybody else seen it yet? There's a quote at the beginning which I would love to track down - its a voiceover, possibly from a 40s/50s movie going on about the City ('the city of peace' etc.). Anyone...

Sorry for entering tabloid territory, but hey Lily Allen (22) is pregnant and the dad is the not so gorgeous Ed Simons (37) from Chemical Brothers. Hope for aging techno stars everywhere, what next Moby and Kate Nash? Also I've only just realized that Kate Moss's latest squeeze, Jamie Hince...

Has anyone noticed the similarity between the basslines on Burial's Archangel (2007) and Bauhaus's 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' (1979)? I've spliced some samples together if anybody wants to check this out: http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2007/11/burial-vs-bauhaus.html Opens up the...

Fascinating and disconcerting article on the use of Deleuze & Guattari etc. by military strategists in Israel and elsewhere: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the_art_of_war/ 'the reading lists of contemporary military institutions include works from around 1968 (with a special emphasis on...

Following John's earlier post about Lydon on Tommy Vance here's another unlikely appearance - Crass on Tommy Vance's radio one Rock On show! http://www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/?cat=10&paged=11 This is on the fantastic newish Kill Your Pet Puppy site (KYPP was a great anarchoish punkzine in...

I've heard that at the Seone club near London Bridge, home to various trance and dub nights etc., people who want to smoke have to pay £1 for a smokers wristband in order to be able access the smoking area. I was at a gig a couple of weeks ago at the Amersham Arms in New Cross when I noticed a...

In August 1977, the National Front attempted to march from New Cross to Lewisham in South East London. Local people and anti-racists from all over London and beyond mobilised to oppose them, and the NF were humiliated as their march was disrupted and banners seized. The day became known as 'The...

Just been watching Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, there is a line in it which I know has been used as a sample but I can't remember where. It's 'What I see is beyond your dreaming'. Somebody help me out its doing my head in - what track uses it?

I haven't really been properly hooked on a TV programme since the end of Buffy, at least not in that 'this is up there with my favourite books, films, music and I have to just talk about it constantly ' sense. But having watched the first three episodes of Heroes, I am wondering is the gap...

Did you buy the Mail on Sunday today in order to get the free copy of the new Prince album? I did, hiding behind my copy of the Observer as I came out of the shop in case any of the neighbours saw me. Perhaps it is another nail in the coffin of the record industry (see BBC article here), but it...

Soren Kierkegaard has a great line about ‘dancing in the service of thought’. I don’t think he was really talking about dancing, but it got me thinking about dancing and thinking. Reading lots of books about dance it has struck me how little consideration is given to what is going on in people’s...