Hello, paper punks. Another Subculture’s issue for December is out now. Red and green (should always be seen), an Argos catalogue fed through the halftone shredder and some suggestions for giving 2025 the heave ho.
Yes, I have remembered to sendPageMastersall the correct layers, and yes - there is a gap between the 20th and the 27th, that’s deliberate! Go have a rest and plan something decent for Punk Fifty Paul Morley Year of Culture, god knows we’ll need it.
Subscribers have already had their copies sent through the melee that is the Christmas post (and you can of course join them, £3 a month and so it goes), you can download the grid page on the website — and as always, you can find the paper across London in the usual places all this month.
Hello, paper enthusiasts.Another Subculture’s issue for November is out now, and as a post subscriber you should hopefully already have it! Postage pending, of course. One request though: if you did not receive it and you signed up in October, please reply to this email with your address again - Stripe may have only sent me your billing details, great! - and I will send you a new one right away. Thanks as ever for the support, the subs are making a decent dent in the cost of putting this together and I hope it’s been useful since restarting in September!
Yes, I am getting back in the swing of things and yes, there is a particularly entertaining technical error this time around. Hey, at least there’s a spot to write in the days…
Hello, paper punks.Another Subculture’s issue for November is out now and making its away around town this Halloween weekend.
Yes, I am getting back in the swing of things and yes, there is a particularly entertaining technical error this time around. Hey, at least there’s a spot to write in the days…
You can download the front page as a PDF on the website, and you can find a copy in the usual places too. As always, the first thing I do when getting the paper is mail out copies to subscribers, because they are excellent people who need to fill their noticeboards and compost bins. Join them for £3 a month by signing up here. And of course, thank PageMasters for reminding me that I could do two colours on both sides.
Hello, paper punks. Another Subculture’s issue for October is out now for you to pick up, print off and put in your pocket — and with maybe the most events I’ve stuck on a single page?
You can download the gig grid as a PDF on the website, and there are paper copies in places like TOME Records, All Ages, World of Echo, Rough Trade East, WASTE! and the London Centre for Book Arts; the usual haunts in south London will have them as soon as I can get to them. Subscribers will have received theirs in the post already — join them and help with the print costs for £3 a month by upgrading here.
Thanks to PageMasters for saving me from a self-inflicted toner nightmare; listings from this month will once again be printed on riso — expect some gaudy colour combinations as we head towards Christmas; been inspired lately...
Hello paper punks. Another Subculture’s September 2025 issue is out in the wild, and ready for you to pick up and stick to your fridge. It’s great to be back, it’s great to hear the laser printer sweating under the weight of letterheads, it’s great to work out how to get to between ten and twenty shops in one day when the Overground isn’t running!
Upgrade your subscription here on Buttondown to get a copy sent through the post. Set up a subscription for £3 and if you do it before the end of this week I’ll get it sent your way.
Hello again, paper punk rockers. A brief return to the newsletter for the newsletter to tell you that Another Subculture will return next week, with listings for September 2025.
I’ve had my break, swapped a few things around in life and brain, and miss keeping track of what’s been happening - although I still recommend DIY Listings London, Eroding Empire and the London Sound Index for their loud night collating! - so the punk paper’s returning to an easy A4 two-colour pick me up, where the aim remains to fit as many gigs, and indeed words and pictures, that the average punter is still able to read on the bus home.
Hope everyone is keeping warm, keeping busy and plotting all sorts of nonsense for the festive season. I slept for two days after the big weekend and then took part in a powerlifting competition, which is something I did not think I’d be saying this time last year, cor blimey.
December’s issue is out now - a heads up that this one is online only; got caught up in Attempting Something and figured I’d concentrate on resting up and working out what I want to do with Another Subculture in 2025. More of the same with a little more planning, I reckon, plus a bit more Journalism and getting mates involved (is this you, give me a bell, etc).
Hello, paper punks. The mist has descended, we’re nearly at bonfire night and I am trying my best to tune out the American Events by looking how to add flash storage to an iPod Mini. (Much thanks to The Shop and DankPods.)
The November 2024 issue of Another Subculture is out in the world: in the post for subscribers, at anothersubculture.co.uk and the usual haunts in south and east London, where I managed to turn up with the copies just after someone had asked for them, two days in a row? London, too big.
On the back page there is the first post-gig interview I’ve done in a while after the hyper super Sonic punks Billiam and the Split Bills rolled through town. The king is called a ‘shit cunt’ and we talk about Shadow Generations - it’s what you’d expect from us two if you know either of us, really.
Hello, paper punks. Some updates on this weekend of gigs and nonsense that we’ve been rustling together: there’s more bands playing across the weekend, day tickets are on sale and you’ve got a little longer to save a few quid…
The latest lineup. The 20th artist is YOU?
We’re breaking down the weekend into three days and nights - in Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark - here’s our planned mixture:
On Thursday 21st November at Spanners: MEGZBOW & VINEGAR TOM, NO HOME and FISCAL HARM. (Plus one?) - ease into the weekend with some saxophone, paens to late capitalism and pastoral noise. £10/5, 7-11pm. » BUY THURSDAY TICKETS HERE «
On Friday 22nd November at Avalon Cafe: GIMIC, GAMMA, RITUAL ERROR, DEAD NAME, SUBLUX and RUBBER. This is the hardcore show, please pit. Plus, karaoke until 2am with SABRINA THE TEENAGE BITCH, Deptford’s finest chaos host. £10/5 (free after 11pm), 7pm-2am. » BUY FRIDAY TICKETS HERE «
And on Saturday 23rd November at the Ivy House: a post punk garage indie bop alldayer spectacular with R.AGGS, HOLIDAY GHOSTS, DEAN RODNEY JR. AND THE COWBOYS, GRAZIA, VAIAPRAIA, MARCEL WAVE, KENO, VIRVON VARVON and BENNY LAGER AND THE TOPS. (Special guests, keep an eye out…) £20/10 (under 18s go free), 2pm-midnight. » BUY SATURDAY TICKETS HERE «
The grid in situ: Atlantis Records, other end of Mare Street
Meteorological autumn is here, and that’s fine. The September listings are available now, having been posted to subscribers and distributed to the usual spots (and a couple of new ones) over the weekend: as ever, get to BOOKS or Tome or WASTE or Dash this week and pick one up, or download right here. Particular thanks to PageMasters for printing in their new Bubblegum Pink riso colour, although if you ate the calendar it will not stay with you for six years. (Is that bollocks? I bet that’s bollocks.)
I will be returning to that Kelly Green in due course.
Taking a little advantage of last month’s listings taking us up until today so apologies for the late update but August’s Another Subculture listings are available now - in all the usual places be they BOOKS or Waste or on the website. As ever, subscribers’ copies were in the post as soon as I recieved them last Friday, and if you’ve got a space that could do with some biodegradable listings filling up the place, give me a shout and they’ll be sent your way.
I always assume that August is a quieter month, the allure of ‘not London’ calling, but yeah there’s about 60 events in this month’s calendar, including the usual brace of gigs but also a BBQ, a small press festival in London’s best comic shop, a few favourite club nights and a five day free festival down by the Ravensbourne. Loads!
Summer is here, the football is blocking out the election in about two thirds of my brain (would it have been funny if England were knocked out just before the polls, yes it would; Switzerland, best of luck!) and of course there’s loads to see. July’s listings are out now - subscribers will have theirs in the post but you can download the grid for your fridge here.
Hello, paper punks. A quick update this month - June 2024's listings are in the post, out and about and online for you to download. 75+ events this time, plenty of benefits and the final chance to get to a Static Shock Gig abound (thanks for sending people my way Ellis, now get some rest!). Tried something slightly different and harked back to the work printer mode with the Letraset, there's photos from a nice gig at Lewisham Arthouse I went to in May (with Fluid Tower & Lobby), plus there's some good chats with Dead Name and Marcel Wave on the back, both being bands I'm excited to see this month!
Lewisham’s finest: PageMasters and Klos Deli’s Polish radler selection
Hello, paper punks.
Hope your International Workers’ Day was a tremendous one, or at least you managed to do fuck all in front of the bad screen. This month’s listings are Out There right now - in the post for the Patreon lot, across the city over the next few days and the grid of gigs is online now: go to anothersubculture.co.uk to download and subscribe.
Sixty events on the grid this month - the usual mixture of gigs and club nights and maybe a film or two - plus for maybe the first time, an event every night this week starting from April Fools' Day. A friend pitched the idea of them going to seven gigs in seven days so perhaps I'll remind them if they have a spare £80.
Realised I hadn't sent an update about this month's listings yet, but it's been a silly couple of weeks - moved from one end of Lewisham to another and there is now somewhere you could call an HQ (👀) to spend an evening putting paper in envelopes without taking over the bedroom, so we are truly back on track.
The March issue has as least been on fridges, handed to Framtid survivors and posted to Patreons far and wide already, so if you haven't gotten your hands on the teal page and read the behind the scenes chat with two of the Damage is Done collective, then go to TOME, Waste!, BOOKS and the usual places in between.
Evening, paper punks. Once again a little late with the monthly reminders but glad to say that February's Another Subculture listings has been mailed, distributed and soaked in Signature Brew (and why is it always them?) over the past few days. Back in its original A3 form, it can be found in record shops, the odd gig (see you at The Tubs on Wednesday) and in the letterboxes of subscribers. You can still download the listings and keep up to speed on Instagram, but the back page will wait until next month to go online. Incentives!
For March, expect another interview, the return of Creg Clarrrk's Out and About column and whatever else is fit to print. Get your events in over the next fortnight, get in contact if you would like to place an ad (£25 for a business card sized graphic, £1 for a classified; email me!) and if you have some news to share - a fundraiser, a book group, a new reason to buy a skateboard - I want to get it out there.
Hello, paper punks. A quick email for you this week: I am working on the February 2024 edition of Another Subculture – going back to the original A3 riso newsletter combo – and if you have anything you'd like included on the back page you have a week to send it through. We're talking:
"News", classifieds, signal boosts - there will be a column with news of upcoming events, releases, campaigns, fundraisers and the like - as long as it's from Punk World and is ideally non-profit. Expect to see venues new and old popping up in here in the coming months. Email hello@anothersubculture.co.uk with your tips.
Classified adverts - bringing back an idea from 2019 here: give me a pound and whatever you put in the description on PayPal I will print like it's the back of the NME in 1997.
Regular adverts - as always, to help with the printing and postage now I've given up the work photocopier. Email me if you're interested.
Your deadline for all of the above: a week today, Tuesday 23rd January 2024.
Happy new year, paper punks. Can I still say that on Twelfth Night? Is it even Twelfth Night – anyway. I hope you all had a peaceful and fun festive period and now it's time to get headaches again. A quick announcement:
From February 2024 the listings will be back in public circulation at the usual spots across the city, and Another Subculture will return to the original, pre-chaos format of A3, risographed, and with interviews, photos, columns, gossip and whatever else you came to expect in Alternative Strategies one giant page at a time. Getting it all into gear again is exciting and may even become more manageable, and it will be good to try and capture what's been going on in a more regular fashion.
More punk paper. 40-page riso zine looking back and wondering where we go from here.
Static Shock Weekend is remembered through a post-festival pint with Tom Ellis and photos and art from Leigh Arthur and Lukas Fraser; we interview Juliet Jacques about her new play We Need To Talk, the headrush that was 2017 and the usefulness of post punk forty years on; PC World’s William Dante Deacon interviews Michael Molcher about the links between Judge Dredd, Mega-City One and the history and affect of British policing. There are also exclusive comics from JMKE, Jonny Brokenbrow, Leomi Sadler & Richard Short and columns from Tom Oberst and Creg Clarrrk.
