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Seemingly Tony Tucker, one of the three Essex dealers killed in a Range Rover at Rettendon in 1995, at the very least ran 'security' at Club UK and the Velvet Underground in Charing X Road. See: http://www.bernardomahoney.com/rrmurders/documents/dfrancois.shtml and...

Final Frontier at Club UK was raided by police in December 1994. In October 1995, the Saturdays night was raided in Operation Blade involving dogs, horses, and 150 police from the Territorial Support Group. 800 clubbers were turned out on to the streets, and many searched. 10 people were...

I had some great nights in there on Fridays at Final Frontier and also on Saturdays which was more of a house night. It was launched as this great luxurious superclub but like most such places this pretty much meant a few black painted rooms and a couple of seats. I think one of the rooms was...

Yes indeed, she is 22 not 14, I don't think her reproductive choices are really anyone's business (having started off this thread as if they were of course). I also think she's made one or two very good pop tunes actually.

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...

"We didn't sit down and go, 'OK, let's use minor chords and take it this way.' I think if they could be a fly on the wall when we were recording, people would be surprised that we'd go back home and we would tend to play a lot of late Beatles music and dub reggae. That was my main memory of what...

I am not suggesting a direct influence, let alone plagiarism, just interested in the similarities in apparently radically different tunes. Yes the old three note bassline only has so many variations.

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...

I agree with John (previous post) that the case for the smoking ban doesn't stand or fall on whether smoking declines, but on whether it creates a healthier workplace for bar staff - which it transparently does. I don't see any great conspiracy or even strategy behind the smoking ban, once 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...

Its dance music y'know! Seriously, nothing wrong with that - it doesn't have to be sonically innovative if it works. More to the point, like many threads on dissensus this one makes me think there's just not enough time in the week to catch up on all the various mutating sub genres out there...

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 went to a party in an anarchist squat just after the ban came in and people were smoking, it pissed me off a bit as I did come back stinking of smoke which I've always hated. But it did raise some bigger questions - were they striking a libertarian blow ('why should they stop smoking because...

This thread seems to have become the what is oi thread, surprizingly given its starting point in a post about 1970s anti-racism. Anyway I think people are blurring the distinction between bands like Sham 69 and Cockney Rejects with a kind of prole-hooligan punk intent and later out and out nazi...

Author of New Statesman piece is Sukhdev Sandhu, author of the excellent 'London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City', one of the best books on London I've read (and I have read a lot).

Maybe the Time Out article overstates the case a bit, after all people have always left the dancefloor to go to the bar or the toilet, so in some ways people going off for a fag is just an extension of that. But it does create a segregation between non-smokers and smokers - in some ways it...

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...

I read somewhere else that the burger bar in this film is actually in Rotherhithe not Deptford High Street, will have to see the film and check it out. Also the river where bodies are dumped - wonder whether its Deptford Creek/Ravensbourne or the Thames. The former was used as a location in the...

That one is a bit literary for my taste, I prefer that other Peter & the Test Tube Babies one which goes, IIRC, 'Elvis had a heart attack, 'cos he was too bleeding fat'