ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES returns - new issue out now - plus JUNE listings
Third punk paper. 48-page riso zine giving the scaffolding a good shake. UPSET THE RHYTHM ruminate on their two decades of putting gigs on under the same banner, and we talk to LIZ PELLY about whether underground music can resist being moulded by streaming and ‘the Mood Machine’.
There’s catch-ups with FIRST TIMERS, London promoter CRYPTIC GROWTH and VHS fanzine TORQUER and new writing on radical education, HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT, hardcore picks and where to find the best records on your way to Selhurst Park. And then there are reviews, photos from gigs across the city and a comic where GAME destroys the New Cross Inn. Loads and loads.
With new writing, photography and comix by LEIGH ARTHUR, JONNY BROKENBROW, DOLLY CARRIE, CREG CLARRRK, ELENA COLMAN, TOM OBERST, BEN PERKINS, SAM ROBINSON and COLETTE ROSA. Edition of 220, printed by PageMasters on green and black in Lewisham town centre, June 2023. I want to hear your band. ANOTHER SUBCULTURE.
Really excited to get these out and about once again. You can buy a copy right now from the website, and there will be stockists across London (and again, possibly beyond) in the coming weeks. But you might consider popping down here instead a week on Saturday...
On Saturday 10th June, come down to TOME Records in Hackney from 4pm - we're doing a little launch event which will involve cans, records being played, discount beer from next door, a Sonic deathmatch and boxes and boxes of paper. Free entry, everyone welcome, go to the pub or a gig afterwards, lovely.
You can now also subscribe to everything Another Subculture in 2023 too. Plans for the next Strategies issue are already afoot (with a "whenever the next big hardcore weekender is" as a vague deadline) and there's been a few suggestions I try this so - for £25 you can get this issue, the next two Strategies and each listings zine mailed to you for the rest of the year. Sign up online - you've got until the end of June...
And of course - June listings are live on the website too. Every weekend has a banger of a line-up this month! Right, going to lie down now, take care - - B P