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.
Known for her established acting career, Vera Graziadei has more recently turned her attention towards her passion for directing. Her latest output being a short
Known most notably for their large presence within the brit-pop scene of the 90s, Blur are Damon Albarn, Alex James, Graham Coxon, and Dave Rowntree.
Today marks the date of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece ‘A Clockwork Orange’ in the UK. The film that follows Alex Delonge, a youth
“I’ve killed 19 men, one for every year I’ve lived” admits Mary, the protagonist of ‘I was a Teenage Serial Killer’, Sarah Jacobson’s 1993 short
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
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 Kilpatrick sisters are as enchantingly ethereal as their namesake sprite suggests, yet an ethos of hard graft lies beneath their imagery of rippling projections
“I wanna be instamatic. I wanna be a frozen pea” howls Poly Styrene on X-Ray Spex’s debut, and only, album released in 1978. Shriek-singing observations
From Jubilee (1978) If you are stuck at home (future readers, please note this is the time of the Coronavirus epidemic), then make use of
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