Someone must’ve spiked Julian Cope’s acid: Personal memories of an artist like no other
“We’ve ceded our world to the idiots”.
Author: Richard Metzger
The Ladybirds: the bizarre story of two all-girl topless rock bands
Audacious, controversial, and defying gender norms on stage.
Sex, gore, and typography: The lurid world of cult movie posters
Pulp-art madness of vintage cult movie marketing.
Nina Hagen’s ‘NunSexMonkRock’: The weirdest, greatest unsung masterpiece of the post‑punk era
A post‑punk freak‑show.
Keith Richards and ‘Main Offender’: The best Rolling Stones album of the 1990s?
It’s defiantly analogue, defiantly live, and defiantly Keef.
‘Fuego’: The insane story of a raging nymphomaniac recommended by John Waters
Porn melodrama turned queer camp icon.
Cold War delirium and nuclear hysteria: Cheerfully insane KFC adverts from the 1960s
KFC once leaned into fear and surrealism.
‘Eight Songs for a Mad King’: the most insane piece of music ever written
Baritone shrieks across five octaves in a cage-like opera.
Revisit for a good time: The Brown Acid series was another slab of stoned-out rock bliss
A playlist to get you through.