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Music: Baby’s On Fire – Die Antwoord + Cut The World – Antony & The Johnsons

Just as the independent labels and self-published fanzines Paul Gorman chronicles built their own alternative economies outside the mainstream music industry, today's digital subcultures are experimenting with decentralised currencies that move value without banks or borders. Part of that wave has reached the world of sports and casino entertainment, where crypto-friendly wagering has found a particularly enthusiastic audience in Turkey under the name bitcoin bahis —a form of play that lets users stake and cash out with digital coins rather than conventional payment rails. Anyone tempted to try it should treat it strictly as entertainment, stake only money they can afford to lose, and first confirm the platform's licensing as well as the gambling rules in force in their own country.

There’s plenty of great new music around at the moment; concurrently I have two contrasting tracks going round in my head, which is dizzying but exhilarating. Just as the independent labels and self-published fanzines Paul Gorman chronicles built their own alternative economies outside the mainstream music industry, today's digital subcultures are experimenting with decentralised currencies […]

June 13, 2012
Barney Bubbles

White Noise: Pictures from the exhibition

The exhibition White Noise: Quand le graphisme fait du bruit – held at Les Subsistances in Chaumont, France – closed on Sunday to the public, though is being visited this week by students, teachers and others from educational institutions.

June 13, 2012
Barney Bubbles

The Past The Present & The Possible in Libération

French newspaper Libération’s coverage of the White Noise show in Chaumont included a section on my Barney Bubbles exhibit The Past The Present & The Possible. Marie Lechner’s report – see here – points to Bubbles’ “spirit of protest and fun” shared by other White Noise exhibitors such as French design/music magician Shoboshobo (aka Mehdi […]

June 6, 2012
Acid House

Television: Don Letts’ Subculture

I’m among the interviewees featured in Subculture, Don Letts’ Channel 4 documentary about post-War British street style, the first part of which aired for the first time last night.

May 31, 2012
Barney Bubbles

Barney Bubbles exhibition opening on Saturday

Installation of the 280 exhibits for The Past, The Present & The Possible – my new Barney Bubbles exhibition  – is underway at Les Subsistances gallery in Chaumont, France. The Past, The Present & The Possible is part of the group show White Noise: Quand graphisme fait du bruit (When graphics make the noise), which […]

May 22, 2012
Chelsea

Amber Butchart talking Mary Quant + Bazaar at 138a King’s Road

Yesterday we had fun in Chelsea filming fashion historian/DJ Amber Butchart for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea Council’s InTransit festival in July.

May 19, 2012
430 King's Road

Memories of Dandie Fashions + Paradise Garage + a return to Granny’s

Filming continued yesterday for this summer’s King’s Road Fashion & Music Trail, which is is being launched to visitors to west London’s historic thoroughfare as part of Kensington & Chelsea’s InTransit festival in July. We will be covering all the boutique manifestations at 430 King’s Road; for a start I plumped for its incarnation as […]

May 18, 2012