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16/05/2024

Blimey! That took a moment to get over. Thx to everyone who came, saw, took part in Subculture NeoAncients. It was a wild ride and we had some fun. Hope you did too. Pic 1 Jarvis DJing probs Fat Truckers Superbike 2/ Boss Morris hopping to remix 3/ the hypnotic Daisy Rickman and band 4/ Gruff and Sadness Sets Me Free groop 5/ the sensational - and deeply cool - Goblin Band 6/ the deeply lovely BBC Witch podcast team 7/ The compelling Jeremy Deller and Zakia Sewell 8/ the polarising power of Graham Reynolds and his Big Drum 9/ the fascinating Annebella Pollen on the Kibbo Kift 10/ Zakia killing it on the decks 11/ Stephen Ellcock on “pattern making” w Jarvis 12/ incoming Stroud resident Bridget Christie delivering “the best night of comedy” seen in town since records began (an expert writes). Missing from this post but not from our hearts and minds .painswick Julie, Ben, John ###

02/05/2024

Beautiful way to start NeoAncients weekend with a full house for poets and .horovitz w electronic noisenik and doing amazing things to a bass clarinet. The last event to be added and the first out the traps. Avanti!

17/04/2024

Time For Magic - Punk meets Druidry - a cool and timely exploration of the pagan Wheel of the Year via the first collection of Jamie Reid’s work since his untimely death last year. and in conversation with about ’s final work. Subculture NeoAncients Stroud May 5. Link in bio

16/04/2024

As a teenager, Zakia Sewell became entranced by English folk music, initially through Pentangle’s haunting rendition of the traditional song, The Cuckoo. But with this enchantment came a tension - a question - of whether such a song could ever belong to her. Being of Caribbean and British descent, Zakia is sensitive to the darker histories that connect these two places and yet is drawn to a vision of Albion - an ancient, mythical land evoked in so many folk songs, symbols and stories. Zakia considers enduring symbols of Albion - from Stonehenge to the union flag - asking whether a refreshed perspective on our nation’s past might pave the way for a more hopeful future. Zakia Sewell Finding Albion in conversation with Saturday May 4.

10/04/2024

multiple happenings at Subculture NeoAncients, Sunday May 5th. 1/ Strange Things Happening + Spoken Word & Nature Playlist 3pm 2/ Music & Nature Quiz 1pm 3/ Circuitous Routes with & 12pm Thx to and for coming to the party

09/04/2024

NeoAncients art exhibition w Daisy Rickman, Lucy Wright and Nick Philips. Come to opening with artists 6-8pm in George Room on Fri May 3, then open across Subculture NeoAncients weekend, May 3-5.

07/04/2024

‘What does it mean to be a witch?’ The team behind the BBC Witch podcast take a deep dive into covens, magic and misogyny - historical and current - on the 21st century legacy of the Witch. #13

06/04/2024

Jeremy Deller returns to Subculture after last year’s sold out screening of rave salute, Everybody In The Place, this time talking w on the occasion of the paperback edition of his career retrospective Art Is Magic. Jeremy was first on our wishlist for NeoAncients and we are made up to have him back.

29/02/2024

Author and academic AnneBella Pollen talks about Kibbo Kift, an organisation who on the surface seemed just an all-ages alternative to the Scouts, but in reality had a vision for a revivalist-futurist Utopia. Their wide-ranging practices included pacifism and propaganda, myth and magic, education and economics, but their ambitious philosophy can be seen most clearly in their mystical and modernist art and design. Pollen’s new book ‘The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians’ showcases over 100 largely unseen examples of the group’s creative output including decorated tents, campaign banners, illuminated manuscripts, protest graphics, carved totems and ceremonial attire.

https://thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/pop-up-presents-subculture-1287/festival

23/02/2024

Subculture: NeoAncients - Sunday evening
Bridget Christie + support
Award-winning comedian and actress Bridget Christie has strong Gloucestershire / NeoAncient connections, not only was she born in Gloucester, but she filmed her recent hit TV series, The Change, in the Forest of Dean. She also writes for Weird Walk as well as regularly appearing on television (Have I Got News For You, Taskmaster) and radio (BBC Radio4).

Tickets: https://thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/pop-up-presents-subculture-1287/festival

20/02/2024

Pop Up presents…
Subculture Festival: NeoAncients
May 3-5, 2024 Stroud

NeoAncients is the second annual Subculture Music, Books & Culture festival in Stroud with musicians, writers, film-makers, artists, folklorists and comedians coming together to explore the resurgence of folk culture in a celebration of the ancient and it’s impact on the future…

Gruff Rhys, Zakia Sewell, Jarvis Cocker, Bridget Christie, Weird Walk, Daisy Rickman, Stephen Ellcock, Jeremy Deller, Jamie Reid, Shirley Collins, XTC, Peter Talisman, Caught by the River, the Kibbo Kift, Boss Morris and lots more!

www.thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on

26/10/2023

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29/03/2023

And these two! The properly excellent and panel with on and , taking us from the sublime (Bubbles’ new wave rebirth) to the ridiculous (Hipgnosis Wings Greatest cover 💸). And we didn’t really get to Pink Floyd or Led Zep… Plus the one thing I didn’t see, with talking all things with none other than Pete from who now lives in Stroud🥁. At the time I was chasing down guitar pedals which she’d left on the train to Cheltenham Spa 🙄🎸thx to the staff at Stroud station for locating and retrieving 🙏

29/03/2023

Well, that was a fun Subculture weekend still got it terms of unrepeatable tales of high escapades and low-jinks. The amazing and emotional Free Party panel feat. .harrison.336333. symposium with and the bewitching . . in full sweary flow with the unflappable samiraahmed. And a couple of old has-beens seeking a bit of solace in their mutual bewilderment. Thx to everyone who came and made the festival so good.

25/03/2023

Subculture rn- Miki Berenyi Trio live at P/U Subculture ahead of talk with about her searing memoir Fingers Crossed. And talking of searing, you shoulda heard Lias Saoudi and Miranda Sawyer… we laughed, we cried, we made a mental note to not let our kids join a band. And before that Nige Tassell and Sian Pattenden diving down all the rabbit holes joining a band can lead you down via the generation. Meanwhile I’m missing the Free Party film out at dammit!

24/03/2023

Great opening of John Ingledew’s Looking For Trouble photo exhibition, feat. British Youth Cultures 1968-1984, last night as the first event of P/U Subculture 2023. If you missed it get your arse along to the next happening tonight with and matthew Ingram, yeah?

23/03/2023

Subculture festival kicks off tonight with ’s Looking For Trouble photo exhibition of British Youth Culture 1978-1984 at Stroud Tattoo Company from 6-9pm. It’s amazing and it’s free! Come along

22/03/2023

Competition time! Subculture weekend is nearly upon us and we can’t wait! To celebrate we are offering a pair of freebie tickets for Miki Berenyi’s Fingers Crossed live performance and talk with Samira Ahmed on Saturday, and the same deal for Bez’s Buzzin’ talk with Andrew Perry on Sunday. To enter simply follow us (if you aren’t already) and add this post to your Story tagging , a friend you’d like to take and which event you want to go to, tagging either or Thx so much for yr support .higgs .harrison.336333 .studio

19/03/2023

Subculture festival, Sat Mar 25. Miki Berenyi of talks to Samira Ahmed about Fingers Crossed, her uncomfortably frank, characteristically wry and frequently deeply moving memoir. We know we just said the Fat White Family book is the best rock book in years, but honestly this one probably pips it.

17/03/2023

16/03/2023

Subculture festival, Stroud, Sun Mar 26th. Bez talks and Buzzin’ w Andrew Perry . Tix in bio

15/03/2023

Subculture, Stroud, Sat Mar 25. Fat White Family’s talks to ’s about Ten Thousand Apologies his jaw dropping account of his time fronting a band described (by Miranda) as “always on the brink, of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace”. It’s a book some people are calling the best rock memoir since ’s

14/03/2023

Subculture Festival, Stroud, Mar 26. The Beatles & James Bond hit Britain and the world the same week 60 years ago. Author .higgs explains how nothing was ever the same again Ticket link in bio

13/03/2023

POP/UP Subculture, Stroud, Sun Mar 26th. Super excited to have in town to talk about Lead Sister, her new re-evaluation of the talent and legacy of one of the 20th century’s great voices … and unbelievable drummer

08/03/2023

Just some of the amazing female writers, musicians and journalists taking part in the first POP/UP Subculture music book festival here in Stroud, Mar 23-26 ✊

02/03/2023

World Book Day: Subculture 1 - here’s a selection of about half the books and writers we have coming to POP/UP Subculture our first ever Music Book festival, here in Stroud, Mar 23-26. So much great writing to immerse yourself in… Ticket link in bio .higgs

28/02/2023

Festival programmes hot off the press - pick one up from with more around town this week. .higgs For the full line-up and tickets visit: https://thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/pop-up-presents-subculture-773/festival

14/02/2023

POP/UP Subculture festival, Sub Rooms, Stroud, March 23-26. Love & Let Die - John Higgs in conversation with Matt Everitt. Bond and the Beatles present us with opposing visions of Britain, our national values and ideas about male identity. The story of a clash between working-class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage in a single week in 1962.higgs

10/02/2023

DiY Party night Studio 18 Stroud, 9pm-2am, Mar 25. The original DiY Soundsystem and DJs, inc Grace Sands & Pezz, plus contingent Nigel Deane, Dan Monkman and Don Thompson. Culmination of P/U’s deep dive into the Free Party scene and UK , including screening of ’s Everybody in the Place, special preview of Aaron Trinder’s Free Party; A Folk History, exhibition and panel featuring DiY originals in discussion w and . Daytime events free (ticketed). DiY Party £12.50.
Tickets: https://thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/pop-up-presents-subculture-773/festival

18/11/2022

We are screening In The Court of The Crimson King on Friday 25 November followed by a Q&A with director Toby Amies. Afterwards Toby will play records “specifically designed to make people dance and have a really good time!” Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/4m7hcabd

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Pop Up presents… Subculture Festival: NeoAncients May 3-5, 2024 Stroud NeoAncients is the second annual Subculture Music, Books & Culture festival in Stroud with musicians, writers, film-makers, artists, folklorists and comedians coming together to explore the resurgence of folk culture in a celebration of the ancient and it’s impact on the future… Gruff Rhys, Zakia Sewell, Jarvis Cocker, Bridget Christie, Weird Walk, Daisy Rickman, Stephen Ellcock, Jeremy Deller, Jamie Reid, Shirley Collins, XTC, Peter Talisman, Caught by the River, the Kibbo Kift, Boss Morris and lots more! www.thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on @popup_stroud

Subculture festival, Sat Mar 25. Miki Berenyi of @lushbandofficial talks to Samira Ahmed about Fingers Crossed, her uncomfortably frank, characteristically wry and frequently deeply moving memoir. We know we just said the Fat White Family book is the best rock book in years, but honestly this one probably pips it. #shoegazing #indie #crazycolour

Subculture, Stroud, Sun Mar 26th. In 1986 the NME released a cassette that would shape music for years to come. Now, thirty-five years on, Nige Tassell tracks down the class of C86, unearthing members of all twenty-two bands and sharing the stories, both tragic and uplifting, of these long-lost musicians. #indie #c86 #closelobsters #mightymighty #primalscream #shopassistants #soupdragons #bigflame #thepastels #mightylemondrops #fuzzbox

Subculture festival, Stroud, Sun Mar 26th. Bez talks #happymondays #blackgrape #celebritybigbrother #beekeeping and Buzzin’ w Andrew Perry @thesubrooms. Tix in bio

Subculture, Stroud, Sat Mar 25. Fat White Family’s @lias_saoudi talks to #theobserver’s @msmirandasawyer about Ten Thousand Apologies his jaw dropping account of his time fronting a band described (by Miranda) as “always on the brink, of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace”. It’s a book some people are calling the best rock memoir since #juliancope’s #headon #tenthousandapologies @fat_white_family

Subculture Festival, Stroud, Mar 26. The Beatles & James Bond hit Britain and the world the same week 60 years ago. Author @john.higgs explains how nothing was ever the same again #loveandletdie #drno #thebeatles #ianfleming #culture #counterculture Ticket link in bio

POP/UP Subculture, Stroud, Sun Mar 26th. Super excited to have @lucyobrien61 in town to talk about Lead Sister, her new re-evaluation of the talent and legacy of one of the 20th century’s great voices … and unbelievable drummer @thesubrooms @sian_superman #karencarpenter #thecarpenters #culturalcapitalofthecotswolds