Oi! from South East London,

Another bumper helping this month, a combination of Voices scheduling us for two hours with relatively short (but welcome) notice and with a dear comrade and fellow rock DJ BB of The Spiral Times dropping by! Be sure to listen to her monthly missives on Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide, with themes criss-crossing contexts and containing heaters all at once.

As you can expect, we went in all sorts of directions this month - at one point working out which was music and which was the sound of the market being packed away outside. Texture!

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• If you are reading this newsletter on the day of release, then come on down to IKLECTIK’s new home in Peckham for TONIGHT’s Vanity Crystal performance amongst the UAL Sound Art noise crew’s latest presentations. Free entry, RSVP here.

• Next week, Motlash aka Ben aka The Paper Man will be at PageMasters’ first zine fair of 2026, at the Art Hub Studios round the corner from New Cross station. Consider it an Another Subculture tourist information kiosk, and bring coins for badges. Free entry, Sat 2 & Sun 3 May.

Listen: Voices Radio • 19.04.26

01. Devo - U Got Me Bugged (Instrumental)
02. Blitz - Into The Daylight
03. Marbled Eye - Something's Different
04. Ameretat - Tanhayee Khodsouzi
05. Skintern - STRIP ME
06. Territorial Gobbing - Disco III for Four Organs
07. Rangers - Jane's Well
08. The Fall - Hit The North (Part 6)
09. Maara - The Chase
10. Nexciya feat. Lil B - R u ok?
11. ASTER - Stepping
12. Valance Drakes - Pixel of the Moonlight
13. Cloud Management & Vivien Goldman - Judge Judge (Feel Free Hi-Fi Remix)
14. Robert Hood - Self-Powered
15. Loraine James - Simple Stuff
16. Mr. Oizo - M-Seq
17. Talismann - Kliniek Dub 1 (Original Mix)
18. Trade - Positive Neckline
19. Rhythm and Sound - Queen In My Empire
20. Paul McCartney - Secret Friend
21. Royal Headache - Distant and Vague
22. Cold Beat - Gloves
23. The Units - Cowboy
24. Relaxer - Burning Spear
25. Pete Cannon & Time To Rush - Gimme A Beat
26. ROC - Makina Trax 12
27. Outrage x Sonar’s Ghost - Eggs2C
28. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground (Rewire Mix)
29. james K - Hypersoft Lovejinx Junkdream
30. DJ Rashad - Let U No

You can hear the show on our Mixcloud and Soundcloud. Links to tracks available on Bandcamp can be found on our Buy Music Club.

We will be broadcasting live again on Voices Radio next month on Sunday 17th May 2026 at 20:00 UK time.

Yikes, I overslept!

B: A relief to watch everyone regain some energy as the clocks change and the tours begin. My weekends have been packed, going from Scene A gig to Scene B gig and meeting friends from each or both, deciding to go to Ruislip to watch a hard-won draw by my local football club circa age eight. (Scunthorpe United: play-off fever begins at 5pm on Saturday! I do wish they didn’t use #UTI as a hashtag.)

Maybe it was because 2026 began with a record number of overcast days, or because 2026 continues with me noticing the petrol station down the road updating their prices just a little too much these days? I’m still in a house move conundrum too, my thoughts about freeholders and other landlord situations steering me towards Wikipedia articles about the Land Reform Movement, so that’s also in the mix.

But there has been an air of waiting for something to kick in or kick off bouncing around my head, and sometimes you’ve just got to remember that one remedy is Hard-Core! Xerox Musik and the final Hyperdub Corsica night, in particular? Delightful (don’t look at the new buildings.)

A camera purchase has yielded some satisfying results, even if it turns out Snappy Snaps don’t flip your files round. Have some evidence that I left the house:

I’m Taking Out A Policy of Love and Destruction

V: Hello, have mostly spent the last month recovering from numerous health-based Ls but somewhere along the way my absolutely nuked attention span returned.

Having stepped back from the overwhelm brink, part of my reappearing focus went towards Anjali Prashar-Savoie’s Club Commons: Moving Bodies to Grow Movements in Queer Nightlife and Beyond - truly a diamond in a rough of meaningless chinstroking essays on the escapism of the rave. I really admired how grounded the book stays in reality, and how they emphasise that understanding and connecting history - not least that Everything Is Still Thatcher - is an essential part of moving forward. I strongly recommend!

On that note, during my illness period I watched so many movies my friend thought my Letterboxd account was indicating a mental breakdown. One was Charles Atlas’ Hail The New Puritan!, which you might have caught at the Tate’s Leigh Bowery exhibition last year. It’s a faux-documentary about pre-CBE Michael Clark involving a scrambled presentation by Mark E Smith and Brix. Great. Perfect. Sign me up. This is true late-80s gay freak video art. Don’t watch the version on Youtube that cuts off 20m early (I’m gonna help you out and say the words “Solidarity Cinema” here).

Other audiovisual highlights reflected in the show: At Sunday School’s recent bank holiday edition I stared deep into the heart of the LEDs and was introduced to the towering mass of rhythmic hooliganism that is the discography of EVOL.

I mean this as the biggest compliment on earth when I say placing this at peak time of the aftershow is an act of sadism is designed to clear the weak, the other half locking in on a runaway train of kick drum battering (and sudden monologues about Blackpink). Sort of reminiscent of being hit in the face with a balloon by a strobe light, my eyes will never be the same.

When we say that Repetitive Strain is for shouting about the most abrasive nonsense on earth this is exactly what we mean. Categorically do not watch this if you are sensitive to flashing lights. Until next time!