Annie Nightingale

Why are the authorities so keen to stop the young having fun?

5 August 2023 9:00 am

In his history of dance music in modern Britain, Ed Gillett describes police kettling at raves from the 1990s onwards and the attempt by parliament to ban repetitive beats

How electronic dance music took over the world

3 February 2018 9:00 am

It was approximately 4.50 a.m. in Ibiza: peak time on the dance floor. I was on the decks in one…

A trullo: kids love them

Stone houses and packed beaches: the pleasures of Puglia

2 January 2016 9:00 am

If Italy is the elegant, over-the-knee boot plunged into the Mediterranean, then Puglia is the narrow peninsula that forms its…

Compiling my greatest hits (and my Twitter trolls')

25 July 2015 9:00 am

Compilation schompilation. Having been in music for as long as I have you would think I had a good idea…