Researching, exploring and reporting British inspired Subculture and Art past and present. Our subculture blog delves into the roots of Northern Soul and simultaneously reports on the contemporary Northern Soul scene. It interviews emerging new wave bands that themselves are inspired by the original punk bands appearing across another page of the Blog.
It charts the evolution of Subcultures from their emergence in the 60’s and 70’s to a more inclusive and equitable movement today. The underground and subcultures are never fixed in one place or time. They have strong and meaningful reference points but are always evolving.
Always Forward, Never Back.
Northern Soul – was a youth movement about precisely that – MOVEMENT. Clapping, spinning, kicking, stomping, jumping, shuffling, sweating: Northern Soul operated as an irrepressible
Just after recording their debut album, the world was plunged into uncertainty. Re-calibrating their artistic intent, dark “twee-punk” outfit Qlowski questioned the future and concluded
An erotic murder in red rubber sheets. A ballerina prances around a bonfire; her stage a ruin of rubble. A doe-eyed, lethargic Adam Ant watches
The next instalment in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history takes a look at Zapple Records, a short-lived label
Holiday Ghosts are back with a new LP ‘North Street Air’; taking its title from their environment, their third album is a documentation of Katja
Bootlickers by name, Bootlickers by nature: Underground’s new radio show is all about applauding and advocating creativity; exciting, emerging and experimental. Our second bootlicking guests
Home to the original gothic novelists Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker and later gothic rock spawning from punk in the late 1970s (for
The Kilpatrick sisters are as enchantingly ethereal as their namesake sprite suggests, yet an ethos of hard graft lies beneath their imagery of rippling projections
ICA is hosting the first major solo exhibition by Judy Blame, accessories designer, art director and fashion stylist. Hailing from Devon, Blame ran away from
NME (New Musical Express ) and Melody Maker were both published on Denmark Street Denmark Street is on the edge of London’s West End running
Born on the 9th July 1932 in Kersal, the British photographer was recognised for her street photography and portraits, which concentrated on Manchester’s working folk.
BFI Future Film is celebrating 40 years of Punk with a ‘Punk Season’, a month of filmmaking activities, screening recommendations, discussions, and events. Introduced by
Photo by Ken McKay/TalkbackThames / Rex Features (1498624ar) Guest Stars : Rihanna The X Factor’ TV Programme, Results Show Live, Fountain Studios, London, Britain. –
How to get our attention at Underground? Bikes Girl Bikers putting out a statement that Bikes are for non-gender A discriminated against group fighting prejudice
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