EVER HEARD OF… THE UFO CLUB?

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The UFO Club, which saw residence on 31 Tottenham Court Road, was London’s first psychedelic nightclub, featuring Pink Floyd and Soft Machine.

The latest in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history takes a look at London’s first psychedelic night club ‘UFO’ (The previous edition of ‘Ever Heard of…’ about Japanese new-wave singer Jun Togawa, can be read here – click here Clubbing was very different in the swinging sixties compared to… Read more »

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen

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Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers by Stanley Cohen Underground England Blog

Ahead of the bank holiday we are taking a look at ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers’, written by Stanley Cohen and it is a piece of work highly respected by British criminologists. The book looks at the social and media reaction to the conflict between the Mods and… Read more »