The Garage Radio Show – The Independent Radio Show That Delivers Fresh Artists To Your Door. We sit down with Milk, founder of The Garage Radio show that has earned a reputation for promoting new and emerging artists at the forefront of punk, post punk, indie and alternative music. Tell us a bit about yourself and your background. Well, although my whole family is English, I was actually born in Elizabeth in South Australia, so I hold dual Australian/British nationality, but at one year old my family returned to the UK, where I then grew up in a village in Northamptonshire and ultimate ..read more

Words by Jess Ralph They are the band that showed a newly formed New Order that it was possible to make music without guitars. Depeche Mode cites them as an influence, as does Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. David J, bassist of Bauhaus, says the band “ one of the few post punk bands on the scene at the time who we related to.” Add to that, pretty much every musical outfit that has emerged since the early 80’s with a dark, abrasive, and danceable electronic sound. Cabaret Voltaire- the Zurich Café and epicentre of Dadaism that inspired the name. Cabaret Voltaire were pioneers of indus ..read more

Words by Jess Ralph A – Anarchy in the UK “I am the antichrist! I am an anarchist!” snarls Johnny Rotten on the opening lines of The Sex Pistols’ debut single, released in 1976 on their Never Mind The Bollocks album. With its references to nihilistic civilian violence (“ I wanna destroy the passerby!”) , the IRA and bleak visions of capitalist greed (“ Your future dream is in a shopping scheme!”) , the track caused middle England to collectively choke on their tea-dipped custard creams when it first hit the airwaves, and made the Pistols public enemy number one in the tabloid press. Anarch ..read more

@j4ziii UNDERGROUND chats with Jeanie Jean, the creator behind NOT DEAD zine – a rawly impassioned, documentary style diary capturing the influence and impact of punk and new romantic scenes on contemporary youth subculture. Jess Ralph sits down with Jeanie for an insight. Hi Jeanie ! What inspired you to first make the Not Dead zine? The idea came to me during the pandemic, during the first wave. It starts on quite a sad note – I just lost my mum, and my grandmother soon after. All my work had been cancelled or postponed and I felt as if I was just stuck in a box at home. As the res ..read more

Words by Jess Ralph The Queen is dead, boys. And no, of course, we’re not referring to QE2. Dame Vivienne Westwood passed away on the 29th of December 2022, casting a sombre cloud of collective mourning across the fashion industry and leaving behind her a legacy of cultural influence so seismic and far reaching it is almost ungraspable. From architecting punk fashion in the mid ‘70s to her vocal climate activism in her later years, Westwood’s spirit had been one of constant reinvention, taste making and politicised provocation; using her boundless creative spirit and vehement absorption of ..read more

The latest in our series on overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history takes a look at Japan’s new-wave singer Jun Togawa (The previous edition of ‘Ever Heard of…’ about the punk feminist icon Beki Bondage, can be read here) To many, Jun Togawa (born Togawa Jun) is a name that would not be familiar. However, her cultural impact upon Japan and the Japanese music scene was revolutionary. Often being compared to Bjork and Sinead O Connor, Togawa used her image and music to comment on the state of femininity within the music scene. Click here for more…. Her musical career ..read more

Harrison Swan of Talk Show. (Photo: Ben Stapleton) With an upcoming EP ‘Touch the Ground’ set to release in 2022, Talk Show, the London-hailing post-punk inspired quartet, partnered with Underground England and Sixty Sixty Sounds to create a launch party for their latest single ‘Underworld’. With Underground’s roots in music and subculture, and Sixty Sixty Sounds’ rich musical heritage at its Denmark Street location, the pairing was an obvious choice. The guitar shop, which has seen visitors from the likes of Billy Gibbons to Harry Styles, remains at the heart of Britain’s rock and roll hi ..read more

It’s been 19 months since Bristol-based sextet Damefrisor’s last release, and the world has indelibly shifted. Accordingly, as has their music. The unsettling atmosphere of earlier songs such as ‘And You Know’ and ‘Huile’ persists, yet their inherent characteristics of blurred and bleary shoegaze obscurity have been tapered; tightened. ‘Do You Think I’m Special’, released on Permanent Creeps, possesses an urgency unrivalled by the group’s previous recordings. Rapturous synth parts and wailing vocals interweave with full-throttle guitar lines; jaggedly distinguishable from preceding industria ..read more

A year of locked-in, locked-down living has seen an even mightier digital transference of conduct, and no band seems to have better articulated this cyber-spaced existence than Hackney-based trio Deep Tan. Implementing sparse, jagged guitar lines to chronicle deep dives in the dark web, the three-piece traverse an online disposition with lyrical content spanning meme accounts and notions of consent with regards to deepfakes. Following the release of their EP ‘creeping speedwells’ we spoke to Deep Tan about lockdown perseverance, the return of live music and compliments from Pam Hogg. After e ..read more

With a slight Marc Bolan wail and brazen buoyancy to boot, it’s little surprise that the first album of Leeds-via-York four-piece band Perspex have eschewed the angst of their peers for a foundation of palatial, 80’s Glam. Prior to their imminent ‘Whip the North’ tour with The Black Lagoons, we caught up with Perspex’s singer and guitarist Michael Cable about York’s musical community, epiphanies and recording their eclectic debut.   For those who do not know, how did Perspex come about? We formed from another band, which we were in when we were really quite young – from the ages of abou ..read more