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Before there was Spotify, Soundcloud, Bandcamp or any of these fancy apps for discovering new music, there were the pirate radio stations. These illegal outlets could only be found through perseverance, existing somewhere along the FM frequency and celebrating black music often ignored by the commercial mainstream. Thanks to pioneer…
For some, Ibiza may evoke scenes of 18-30s mayhem, sunburnt skin, jelly shots and deportation orders but that isn’t the only crowd that have been drawn to this magical place. For reasons beyond any pragmatist’s understanding, Ibiza has attracted freethinking alternatives for decades: hippies, political dissidents and loaded seafarers. Whether…
Does subcultural activity still exist and if so how and where? It’s a question that has been concerning cultural theorists for some time and in a world where business minds are savvy to the kudos artistic edginess can bring them, anything countercultural rarely stays so for long. The punk years…
Whilst there may be many things to complain about in London – too many people, tube delays, not enough bike racks, Marmite- sponsored Christmas lights – the inspired choice to load the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square with art isn’t one of them. Since 1999, the empty plinth, originally designed…
It’s that time of year again, when the annual showcase of ‘hot young things’ in the art world returns to London’s ICA. The Bloomberg New Contemporaries show presents the best work from up-and-coming talent across a variety of mediums and since 1949, has been one of the major open-submission exhibitions…
You may have noticed a dubious advertising campaign gracing your idiot box over the past months in which a mini robot/alien – AL to his friends – travels the length and breadth of the country to get us all clued up about modern technology and the broadcasting change over to…