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.
Listen to any ska, skinhead, reggae, rocksteady or 2-Tone compilation worth its salt and there he, or she, is. ‘Rudy got soul’, ‘Rudie Gets Plenty’,
The lilting, spoken songs of poet-performer Sinead O’Brien are meditative in both senses of the word. Simultaneously hypnotic and pensive, to listen to O’Brien’s musical
The first instalment in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical history examines the enigmatic Su Tissue of LA post-punkers Suburban Lawns. Often
She’s been heralded as the ruler of ‘slacker pop’, but Lauran Hibberd is by no means work-shy; a self-imposed exercise of creating daily lockdown songs
An amalgamation from three corners of the world uniting in a frenzy of sonic fuzz and rock glitches, Calva Louise are as diverse as their
Strange Bones band was brought up on a parental influence of punk, the Bentham brothers have kept musical vitriol in the family in the form
Rene Matić’s first solo show may have recently closed at Bermondsey’s Vitrine Gallery, but the Peterborough-born artist has made their ephemeral exhibition permanent; its title
In the autumnal gloom of 2020, Scottish six-piece Walt Disco presented a longed-for EP of contemporary New Romanticism clad in celestial synths and brocade corsetry.
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
East London is the scene to be seen at this summer, as Rinse FM and Found Series are back at it again with the Born
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