Incredible in both lineup and design, absolutely crackers

London! Two weeks!

I love zines

October listings sent to the printers, going up North again

playing music is amazing, how else would you experience a promoter asking if you’re bringing a drum kit a month after you told them twice you aren’t

Gob Nation TV lives, a live set from GAMMA, still one of the most fun hardcore punk lot round this miserable island: youtu.be/rr7tPK99X_s

episodes 1-5 of @criticallistening.bsky.social, the podcast i co-host with @peretsky.bsky.social, are avail everywhere but spotify. we’re starting work on eps 6-10 this week. if you would like to support this work pls subscribe here! www.patreon.com/criticallist... tysm

I’m writing a piece about freelancing in the publishing industry/creative industries. ✍️ If you’re not a freelancer in this sector but you’d maybe like to be, what’s stopping you? If you’d never want to be freelance, how come? If you are freelance, what do you love/hate about it?

I am on the radio until 9pm with co-conspirator @vanitycrystal.bsky.social on VOICES RADIO as 1/2 of Repetitive Strain™️ www.voicesradio.co.uk

The most appropriate bus in London

DIY Space for London's first gig was ten years ago tonight

Been keeping an eye on this for a while - there used to be a world where TfL could have funded a station on Surrey Canal Road without needing to anchor it to yet another upturning development (there's a CGI render of one proposal right on top of where Venue MOT is, so there's my selfish objection)

➤ Upset The Rhythm ➤

Thanks to everyone that has come out to gigs this week so far. The wheel rolls on with 4 shows on the weekend starting with Led Bib on Friday at Moth Club dice.fm/promoters/ba...

PUNK THIS WEEK, the weekly punk criticism podcast from myself and @ninacorcoran.bsky.social, is 50. Headlined this time by the returns of Algernon Cadwallader and HARAM. Thanks to everyone who listens, even if you skip the first 10 minutes. Tell yr friends about this silly thing we do!

A record from 2015 that still Rules: mysticinane.bandcamp.com/album/eggs-o...

finally made some riso-printed badges #diyzines

Reactivated the shop on the Another Subculture website, please get these out of my house: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES #1 #2 & #4 Final T-shirts, large tote bags Scunthorpe and pandemic A5 zines Riso prints from the 10th birthday gig anothersubculture.co.uk/shop (no USA orders just for now, sorry!) 📮👜💰

Reassuring to visit where I grew up and find people putting on gigs all over the place - Fenland Hardcore Collective in Lincoln, consider them for your Midlands gig gaps

Reactivated the shop on the Another Subculture website, please get these out of my house: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES #1 #2 & #4 Final T-shirts, large tote bags Scunthorpe and pandemic A5 zines Riso prints from the 10th birthday gig anothersubculture.co.uk/shop (no USA orders just for now, sorry!) 📮👜💰

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

One month to go until Perennial, Fightmilk, and Gross Misconduct at The Ivy House! 🎟: wegottickets.com/event/667024 low income options available, no one turned away for lack of funds @perennialtheband.bsky.social @fightmilkband.bsky.social

more posters going up! 🎟: wegottickets.com/event/667024 @perennialtheband.bsky.social @fightmilkband.bsky.social

Taking submissions for the October calendar zine - send me your PUNK + HARDCORE + DIY + ???? gigs, late nights, talks, films, bookfairs etc., deadline Friday 19th September. ❗📰🔢 📌 Send here: anothersubculture.co.uk/submit 📬 September's listings: anothersubculture.co.uk/this-months-listings

Taking submissions for the October calendar zine - send me your PUNK + HARDCORE + DIY + ???? gigs, late nights, talks, films, bookfairs etc., deadline Friday 19th September. ❗📰🔢 📌 Send here: anothersubculture.co.uk/submit 📬 September's listings: anothersubculture.co.uk/this-months-listings

Since I didn’t add any analytics tracking on purpose for privacy reasons to zeenster.com I have no actual idea how many people are visiting it / using it. But based on the ingress logs I can tell probably around 500-1000 daily visits since I published which is pretty cool. Please share your zines!

PageMasters zine fair was packed, tried to restrain the spending, came away with a lovely badge:

Went to a good and completely normal podcast recording today, thanks to @beefanddairy.bsky.social

Ever wonder what Tony Wilson would have been up to if he was alive today, and realise with some regret that he would have gotten involved with some particularly shit NFTs

we’ve got a new album coming on halloween and to celebrate we’ll be playing a launch show at the beautiful and wonderful piehouse co-op it’s a total joy to announce we’ll be joined by goalies and wagults see u there pals xoxo TICKETS: link.dice.fm/EueesTYLpWb

Recommending for no particular reason, ahem, but @thewhitepube.bsky.social 's successful Arts Council funding application library is an incredible demystification resource: thewhitepube.co.uk/funding-libr...

Here's yesterday's outing: thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

happy bandcamp friday

This doesn't really have anything to do with Bandcamp Friday, but here's a FREE look at our fantastic Colossive Records catalogue: bit.ly/ColossiveRec (BTW, Bandcamp is a great way to support artists and to find new music - and on Bandcamp Friday the platform waives its cut so artists get more)

We’re delighted to announce the second leg of UK events to mark the recent publication of @jencalleja.bsky.social’s translator memoir Fair. 10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop 2 Oct: Voce Books 8 Oct: Collected Books 16 Oct: Veranda Books Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...

The Wire 500 is out now! Featuring a special commemorative silver gatefold Wire 500 artwork by Savage Pencil, plus features on Natural Information Society, Fay Victor, OvO, Weston Olencki, Bitchin Bajas, Lea Bertucci, and many, many more. Available to buy here: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Of Note 017 is on its way! Highlighting writing from: Hanif Abdurraqib @imgarysuarez.bsky.social @carlzoilus.bsky.social William Robin @grantsharpies.bsky.social @missmollymary.bsky.social Dylan Green Ben Ratliff with the book of the month Lia Kohl buttondown.com/of_note/arch...

There are just under 12 hours left to vote in this year's Tiny Awards! Small, fun, beautiful and occasionally-pointless websites, and a pleasing rebuttal to anyone who thinks everything online is rubbish in 2025: tinyawards.net/vote/

September's ANOTHER SUBCULTURE punk listings page is out now. Find it at BOOKS Peckham, WASTE!, Tome Records, LALA Books, South London Gallery, and online here anothersubculture.co.uk 60+ gigs/events! Get the paper sent to your letterbox every month for £3: buttondown.email/anothersubculture/buy

September's ANOTHER SUBCULTURE punk listings page is out now. Find it at BOOKS Peckham, WASTE!, Tome Records, LALA Books, South London Gallery, and online here anothersubculture.co.uk 60+ gigs/events! Get the paper sent to your letterbox every month for £3: buttondown.email/anothersubculture/buy

Thee endless revelation ov volcanic tongue, the third and final DJ mix companion to the compilation 2xLP on Disciples celebrating the amazing Glasgow-based record shop run by David Keenan and Heather Leigh. @reversediorama.bsky.social @wishimage.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/Ipvddu9sghwU...

Patience is a virtue. SEPTEMBER punk gig listings posted, being distributed this weekend (get this thru your letterbox: buttondown.email/anothersubcu...)

From today - you can send things from the UK to America again, the tariff rate is 10% plus 50p, although it looks as though tapes and zines (perhaps books, too?) are exempt (so 'just' 50p per item). Records and T-shirts, you need to add a quid or two to your webstores now

Been using Plexamp (streaming from my Raspberry Pi media server in my living room into my phone on this train) instead of a streamer and while the app is great, it turns out I might have to repair one hundred gigabytes of song metadata. Apple Music, what did you do to my FILES:

Sometimes, I am truly glad to have been born in Grimsby

I appreciate the pure simplicity of the official audacity merch.

Fellow record labels shipping physical music to the USA: There’s some new Bandcamp guidance that suggests there’s an exemption to the removal of de-minimus rules for “informational media”: get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/art... T-shirts, totes, badges etc wouldn’t be exempt, so liable to tariffs.

A final plug for the 2025 Tiny Awards - voting closes on 1 September, so you have a week left to pick your favourite lovely little website from the past 12 months to win a VERY SMALL prize. Great webstuff made by real people, celebrate it while you still can: tinyawards.net/vote/

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