Hello again, punk papers! Have we got a new issue for you...

Another Subculture's newsletter Alternative Strategies returns with the autumn edition. 36 pages of interviews, features and reviews conducted over the silly summer.

Hello, paper punks.

Alternative Strategies #2 is looking for submissions, letters, adverts and any/all ideas that illustrate the world of London Loud Noises.

With the success of issue one (there are ten copies left in my possession and you can find a copy in London, Leeds, Glasgow, Bristol, Nantes and San Diego - with some of those stockists running out fast!) we've had some great ideas and plans are afoot to get them in your hands, with a prospective 'on the table' deadline of Static Shock Festival and a printing deadline of mid-August. 32+ pages, a couple of surprises and a new colour scheme. Here's how you can get involved:

Hello, paper punks.

Hope you've all enjoyed the long weekend in a bunting-free way - in what feels like the largest choice of gigs in London since the Virus, I ended up seeing Lysol, Lorraine James, Jessy Lanza, The Annihilated and Es four days on the trot, before only getting out of bed yesterday in order to toast Wales, Grimsby Town and [redacted]. Knackered, forgot my earplugs, happy. Covid-free, mercifully (keep those lateral flows to hand!) So with that in mind, let's give this a go:

Another Subculture presents the first ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES AFTERNOON, a daylight gig to celebrate the longest week, at the AVALON CAFE on Sunday 26th June. Doors 3pm, done by 9.

Been a while, paper punks.

Another Subculture presents Alternative Strategies #1, a quarterly riso zine with 32 pages of interviews done outside venues and over powerlines, features on Pico-8s, cameo appearances and pop epiphanies, new routes to New River Studios and a cycle through the red metropolis. 'Punk' people writing about whatever they like, on the back of a lockdown of zine swaps, inaccurate listings pages and many, many ink cartridges.

Hello paper punks, how we doing?

It's New Year's Eve, everybody has Covid and I'm planning an evening of walking up a hill to get a good view of the midnight drone display, just as it forms into the only lateral flow stick left in the city. 2021 has been a wild ride, but you could say it was better than last year mind, kind of - there were gigs, for one...

Hello, paper punks. Another week of looking at the Halloween listings and wondering what costume to go as and how many spooky Desperados I will inevitably buy on the second off licence run. (What's your CHAOS BEVERAGE?)

Quick update this week to say that, somehow, I have run out of October issues and so if you want a paper copy, go get one in your favourite record store (as long as it's Aaja Deptford, Disc World, World of Echo, Tome Records, Crypt of the Wizard, Books Peckham, Duplikat Press, The Horse Hospital or Green Onions) or with your COTW or Maggot Death internet order. (Or if you want a PDF, let me know.) As ever, well excited that people are digging the listings and will be printing more for November - still time to get involved or send your gig too, postcards to the usual address.

Couple of updates: if you're reading this tonight (that's Monday 11th), Sister Midnight have a livestream Q&A over Zoom which is worth tuning in if you're wondering about their crowdfunder; World of Echo, esteemed good shop and advert taker, are celebrating their birthday at Cafe OTO on Friday 14th; Good Night Out are hiring a part-time Operations Coordinator. Enjoy these links, and go to these gigs.

All tricks, all treats. October's Another Subculture is now available.

On time and heading to a space or letterbox near you, this month's issue has over 40 gigs, events, livestreams, club nights and radio shows at your disposal. Few more central gigs, the south eastern bias continues (want to help counter that, get in touch), the front is a tribute to a bus stop. More importantly, there's a chat with Sister Midnight whose exciting crowdfunding campaign to save The Ravensbourne Arms in Lewisham is live right now, there's photos from the last burst of summer - Carl Farrugia at the Folkestone Gardens summer skate jam, and friend of the zine Creg Clarrrk is back with his Out and About column. This month I'm looking forward to getting colder, buying more records and dressing up as Sexy Master System and doing a mosh to Game.

If you are a subscriber, I am happy to say your copy is already in the post - this month in lovely orange and red, cheers Pagemasters - and will be appearing at stockists across London soon. As ever, if you have a space, mailorder or cybershop and you want copies to distribute, email me and they're yours. The zine will always be free to pickup, but subscribers have been instrumental in keeping this going, with the past couple months' support in particular meaning it's finally breaking even. Join them here...

Hello, paper punks. Welcome to that part of the month where the last minute announcements haven't made the print edition and everyone wonders about what the holidays will bring. Fests, mainly. And flu jabs. I look forward to one and then the other!

I'm putting together October's issue this weekend, although as you would perhaps expect with the uncertainty and the case rates going down and up and down again, I can't see much in terms of Halloween nights being organised. Hopefully I'm wrong, and hopefully you're not planning on dressing up a Chris Whittey so if you see a spooky event - IRL, online, punk, DIY, whatever - email hello@anothersubculture.co.uk or get in touch through the socials.

Hello, paper punks. Got this month's newsletter? Rolled off the fine presses of Pagemasters into my hurried hands and you will be finding them in various places around the capital (like last Thursday's Trash Kit gig, which was obviously a joy - and the usual nice places once I get around town this weekend). A plan for October is to send them to get printed with more than six hours to go in the month - bit like Peter Saville in 24 Hour Party People isn't it? A road to perhaps avoid.

As ever, a big thank you to New Patreons and people buying badges and papers - edging closer to not losing money on the grid of gigs. This is also maybe when each week's email will arrive - before work ends on a Thursday, prime nearly weekend time, something like that, here goes...

The grid of gigs. September's Another Subculture is now available.

This month, having had a break (and moving house and going to the first IRL events in 18 months), we've got a calendar, some lovely illustrations from the legend Toby Evans-Jerra (illustrator for many an event around London, including this Sister Midnight fundraiser, alongside being part of Speed Training) and about 27 or so gigs for you to consider. The back this month has reviews of Concrete Culture, Gob Nation's all dayer, Nicky's Avalon debut and that survey for you to actually fill in.

In typical style the riso version is being printed now, and will be mailed out to every Patreon subscriber and any of you who fancy buying one online and supporting the endeavour. Otherwise, find them IRL at your favourite stockist soon, and if you are going to tonight's Trash Kit gig there might be some contraband work printer copies winging their way to the merch stand. Who knows!

More paper! July's Another Subculture is now available.

This month, the calendar is enhanced by Josephine M. K. Edwards (of Sniffany and the Nits) with "a positive and happy message for a fantastic time to be alive!"; the back page contains a miniature grid of events that will happen and a great interview with Ben Spence of Fuzzbrain Music about his year, Fuzzbrain Fuckery, the scene that's gravitated up east and next month's all-dayer Hoodfest. I simply cannot wait.

A nice page of risograph (this month it's sea foam and red, cheers Pagemasters) that you will be able to find in the usual places (and I'd like to get the zine in more places, give me a bell), or you can order a copy to your door or subscribe to the Patreon; the latter two help cover the costs and makes you an exciting person. Who knows, I might even give you a copy at the PC World gig or the Avalon Cafe art fair. IRL, eh?

Hello, paper punks. An update to keep you going while I have a long weekend and get the July calendar all together.

New Dates

Obviously, everything has shifted a bit but keep your tickets as I haven't actually seen any cancellations, which is rather nice. I'm going through every event in the June calendar in order, starting from tonight - Saturday you're in luck, the rest see you next month:

Oi! ANOTHER SUBCULTURE has returned.

Thank you for subscribing to the newsletter's newsletter. Regular service will kick in from next week (Monday 7th June) where a sort of pattern will begin - changes to events listed in Another Subculture, nice links, anything else that's fit to chuck into your inbox.

For now, a quick plug for the paper version: you can now pick up the June 2021 issue either online or IRL (the latter beginning in Peckham's BOOKS Peckham and branching out over the coming weeks; if some of these events listed this month actually occur you can find copies there!). The zine is free from stockists; by buying copies you're shoring up funds for future issues.