Hello again, paper punks.

Still a bit of a mess out there, hope you're keeping steady - been going out more, seeing the sights and getting the colds. The booster's in my arm and the plans are in the brain, even if out there everyone seems a little knackered and wondering how not to lose money while promoting (or renting, or breathing in London?) Going to see Special Interest tonight so that'll solve everything for what, twenty minutes? And there's a fair bit to update you on, starting with:

November listings out now - and online

This month's Another Subculture calendar is out and about - Patreon subscribers got theirs in the post this week, paper copies are getting out and about, and from this month you can go onto the website and download the PDF for you to save, print, share. Lots to see, lots to do as ever - and that screenshot above capturing how events still come and go.

For December, maybe I should get some red and green out, and in the new year I might be changing this up once again - suggestions welcome. If you want to distribute these in your favourite space, then I will send you copies!

Either way - looking forward to Damage is Done weekend and a certain number on the 18th,..

Another Subculture and DHFC Gigs present a night down the clubhouse

Come see leather.head (spiky rhythmic jazz punks, think This Heat), Joy-Rides (annual gig, indie friendship supergroup) and Gross Misconduct (first gig, “landfill punk”, members of Milky, Strong Arm, Killjoys) at Dulwich Hamlet Football Club (Champion Hill Stadium) on Friday 18th November.

• Doors at 19:00, done by 23:00.

• Tickets are £8.80 (waged), £4.40 (unwaged/Universal Credit) including booking fee, and are available here.

• We’ll have some free masks and hand sanitiser available for anyone who wants them, and of course we highly recommend that you take a lateral flow just in case, and to give it a miss if you are experiencing COVID-like symptoms.

• Champion Hill Stadium is five minutes from East Dulwich station (Southern services to/from London Bridge and Croydon) and buses including P13, 37, 48, 42, 176, 185 and 484. SE22 8BD is the postcode; if all else fails head towards the big Sainsbury’s.

Kick your telly in - a guide to punk on UK TV from 2020, now online

The Another Subculture website now has a functioning(?) blog and archive section, and I'll be uploading articles and interviews from the lockdown issues and the now sold out Spring issue of Alternative Strategies, becuase I like getting it out there and there's some gold in there, promise. For the Dusty Digest zine swap (held in autumn 2020, and an idea worth returning to), I wrote a guide to British punk television from the 1970s to today, having spent the first months hastily learning how to use OBS and giving it a go myself. Didn't we all? Read it here and get distracted. So it goes...

The magazine website came calling

And finally - the first chat about Alternative Strategies on another platform and it's courtesy of MagCulture, who asked me to describe my workspace, inspirations and what's great and good. If you wanted to see my studio flat and attempts to shoehorn Sonic the Hedgehog and Letraset into everything I do, click through.

Right, that's it for now. As ever, you can buy the autumn issue of Alternative Strategies direct - and I'm going to start planning what it'll look like in 2023. If you're got ideas for future issues (and/or fancy putting an advert in, fund those custom inks), email hello@anothersubculture.co.uk or come find me at the next time Hygiene play! Join a union, form a band, look after each other and get to the gig - - B P / A S