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Psv Never lived in Manchester, did have friends living in Hulme at one time (not in the Crescents though), when I went to stay with them the main place we went was the PSV, an African-Caribbean club, downstairs there was a dancefloor. Remember a few nights there in the late 80s, music if I...

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...

Having seen so many 11 year olds wearing their t-shirt I must admit I had dismissed them as just another band appealing to empty pubescent rage, but now I have actually listened to them I do like them. Kind of reminds me of some of the heavier 80s punk stuff (Discharge, Amebix, Antisect)...

Not sure that Kierkegaard explicity discusses the admiration of the female form on the dancefloor, but he might have said that your comment suggests that you are stuck in an aesthetic sphere of being, with your life governed by passing pleasures and sensations. Eventually the boredom of living...

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...

cant' believe nobody's mentioned Sinead O'Connor on this thread yet, the catholic rasta priestess herself. I know not many people take her seriously these days but she obviously has given this particular matter a lot of thought for better or worse...

George Melly - raver I am writing a book on the history of social dancing in London (17th century onwards), Melly's books are a goldmine of detail on music scenes and places. One of the things I was intrigued by in his 'Owning Up' is a whole section on how his bandmate Mick Mulligan (who also...

Prince Wills and Harry are wannabe chavs innit? trying to be down with the Diddy man, having girlfriends called Chelsy (well one of them). Their advisers might think that they can save the Royal Family with the populist touch, but the opposite is true - the more they try and be just like...