
Elegy to Vivienne Westwood, Mother of British Punk Fashion
Words by Jess Ralph The Queen is dead, boys. And no, of course, we’re not referring to QE2. Dame Vivienne Westwood passed away on the
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.
Words by Jess Ralph The Queen is dead, boys. And no, of course, we’re not referring to QE2. Dame Vivienne Westwood passed away on the
We featured the work of Rene Matić back in 2019 (read here). So, their new two-month long show, Upon This Rock, (at the South London
As Underground turned 40 this year, we thought there was no better way to commemorate this on the Subculture and Arts blog than by counting
As punk imploded under the weight of its own anger and grit, the ‘passionate bright young things’ (See Aladdin Sane) of the UK needed a
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
Continuing our participation in Punk London here at Underground, we are now looking at Richard Young Gallery’s exhibition, ‘Anarchy in the UK’. The exhibition digs
The story of Marc Bolan has long been modern Britain’ s remedy to lost folklore. The glam rock legend perfectly befits the spec of a
Photo by Ken Russell – January 1955The Last of the Teddy GirlsElsie (15) and Rose Hendon with Mary Toovey and Jean Rayner (14) in front
PREVIEW: NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL 2017 This coming August bank holiday is when Notting Hill attracts two million people to the second largest carnival in the
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