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Space Afrika are flying the flag for the Black avant-garde

Quiet Storm — Mancunian duo Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang have been soundtracking their vision of industrial decay for the best part of a decade. Their latest album sees the pair join forces with global diasporic voices to create their most personal, expansive record yet.

  • Music
  • Jack Dennison-Thompson

Sports Banger is throwing a party to mark 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street

“Fascists hate dancing” — The October event will bring DJs, live music, sound system culture and anti-fascist politics together in East London.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
Linda Simpson, Linda Simpson, Gillian, Honey Dijon, and Candis Cayne at Wigstock at the Palladium, 1995. © Linda Simpson. From Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

Surveying community and resistance in LGBTQ+ nightlife

Sex, Clubs Dissent — A new book collates queer nightlife photography over the past 50 years, and the people who found refuge and safe spaces after dark.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

In photos: Electric nights in ’70s Japan

Tokyo–Koza — Keizō Kitajima’s new photobook explores the explosion of party culture of Tokyo and Okinawa during an era of rapid change in the country, as well as its stranger turns.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

As Hanoi’s nightlife faces raids & repression, its underground scene modulates

Spaces Between the Beats — Tensions between nightlife and authorities have grown in recent times, as police target venues and their patrons with increasingly frequent drug testing and searches. With clubs becoming hostile spaces as a result, Hanoi’s electronic music community is finding new spaces and forms of expression, reports Martin Guttridge-Hewitt.

  • Music
  • Martin Guttridge-Hewitt

Princess Julia: “I always state my age as I can’t believe I’m still around”

First lady — As the latest Artist-In-Residence of Huck 83, the London nightlife legend speaks to Josh Jones and provides a few recommendations and words of wisdom.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Josh Jones

New film spotlights London’s Bubble Club, the party by people with learning disabilities

Radically inclusive clubbing — Produced by Muddled Marauders and currently fundraising for completion, the feature documentary focuses on the inclusive night, which has been in operation since 2005.

  • Music
  • Roxana Diba

Huck announces Village Underground showcase for SXSW London 2026

East London noise — Taking place at Village Underground on June 5, Huck’s official SXSW London showcase will feature performances from shame, Honey I'm Home and Cactus For Breakfast.

  • Sxsw
  • Ella Glossop
DJ with headphones operating green-lit turntables in dimly lit booth, motion blur on hands from mixing records.

The story of World Headquarters, the beating heart of Newcastle’s underground

Refuge & ruckus — Sprouting from free party roots, the nightclub institution has been an inclusive pillar of the North East’s music scene since the early ’90s. Olivia Fee dives into its long history, evolution, and ongoing importance.

  • Music
  • Olivia Fee
Concert venue with crowd silhouettes, orange stage lighting, exposed ceiling beams, and "MERRELL" sign visible on back wall.

In photos: The UK’s first trail-running powered club night

Trail Sonified – Staged in a car park on the edge of the Lake District, Merrell turned data gathered from athletes into a full-blown party at Kendal Mountain Festival, in a collision of underground music and overground sport.

  • Music
  • Ella Glossop
Group of young people posing on black metal stairs holding cardboard protest signs, wearing casual clothing against white backdrop.

Queer nightlife in crisis: 8 of London’s biggest parties unite to save LGBTQ+ venues

Not a eulogy. A declaration — Over the weekend, INFERNO, Queer House Party, Riposte, RIOT, BUMPAH, Coven, Uhaul Dyke Rescue and PLASTYK came together in a photoshoot to call for collective action, as the landscape for grassroots venues continues to worsen.

  • Music
  • Ella Glossop
Two people playing arcade games in dimly lit venue. Person on right wears white t-shirt and jeans, person on left in dark clothing.

Inside Booters: the Hooters-inspired supper club celebrating butch identity

Butchify everything — From a viral performative butch contest, to a packed ButchtoberFest celebration, Booters is taking over London’s dyke nightlife.

  • Culture
  • Megan Wallace

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