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.
Bootlickers by name, Bootlickers by nature: Underground’s new radio show is all about applauding and advocating creativity; exciting, emerging and experimental. Our third bootlicking guests
Brimming over with vitriol, The Lounge Society’s debut EP, is as insurgent and agitated and its title, ‘Silk for the Starving’, suggests. Having met in
Being a self-taught artist, at what age did you stumble across photography and start to realise that it was something you connected with as an
The latest instalment in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history explores Japanese New Wave band, Plastics. (The previous ‘Ever
Lilting between the eerie and the ethereal, White Flowers debut is an album for off-kilter dreaming and wandering at dusk. Following their stints as art
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
This May 25 will be the 76th birthday of famed photographer and contemporary artist, Nobuyoshi Araki. Born in Tokyo, the Japanese legend is known for
We were lucky enough last night to get down to the screening of ‘Safe House: A Decline of Ideas’, a documentary about the history and
Raw, spitfire and eclectic beats to match – this can only describe music’s freshest and most exciting talents, Rocks Foe. The Croydon native has been
May 1964 Somewhere on a beach in Southern England On the east end of the beach –THE ROCKERS. Rockers were one of the original UK
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
40 years ago, PTMADDEN shot his favourite group the Sex Pistols at Nashville Rooms in West Kensington, London in 3<sup>rd</sup> April 1976. The young art
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