Sound Affects: Talks about music, subcultures & film

Sound Affects is a night of talks about music and subcultures, how sound affects us and how music changes the world. Hearing from writers, musicians, artists, superfans, photographers, filmmakers and everyday music lovers, we dive into personal stories, esoteric bands, fan communities, punk, pop, social change and much more. It's organised and hosted by journalist and documentary filmmaker Jak Hutchcraft.

Speakers:
Phil King - Musician who played in Felt, Lush, The Jesus & Mary Chain and loads of other mint bands. He works as Picture Editor and Editorial Researcher for UNCUT magazine. He made a documentary about his time touring in Lush - 'A Far From Home Movie', which we screened at our sister night, Video Affects. Phil also compiles music compilations - Junkshop Glam ones in the past - such as Glitterbest, All The Young Droogs and Boobs - and more recently a compilation of Junkshop Synth-Pop called All The Young Droids. The latter is what he will be talking about at Sounds Affects. He'll be in conversation with Peta Lily.

Peta Lily - Peta wrote ‘I Am A Timebomb’ with Roy Nicolson (aka Michael Process) in the basement of a shared boho flat in Fulham in 1980. Born in Australia, now a UK resident, Lily was then the co-founder of an Edinburgh Fringe First winning touring theatre company. She continues to work in theatre as a director, performer, theatre maker, drama lecturer and workshop leader. She is now also a cabaret artist, continuing to write songs with Roy Nicolson in her alter ego drag persona Parker Dee. Follow Parker @parkerdeeking and Peta @petalily and www.petalily.com. See her perform in London @CrazyCoqs on 12 November 2025.

Rebecca Lin - She was meant to speak at our event last month but had to rearrange. Rebecca is a British-Taiwanese cultural researcher, youth advocate, and storyteller from Leicester, whose work explores identity, education, and sovereignty across the globe. Drawing on her journey from organising grassroots gigs in the UK to curating exhibitions amplifying mixed-heritage and indigenous voices in Taiwan, she highlights how localised music movements and subcultures have shaped her own sense of belonging, revealing music as a universal vehicle for youth expression, democratic participation, and decolonial resistance.

Jonathan Scott - Writer and record collector. His book 'The Vinyl Frontier' is about the making of a Golden Record that NASA fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977. 'Into the Groove' is the story of recorded sound, from tin foil to vinyl. He gave a talk at Sound Affects back in December and we loved him so much we've invited him back!

Doors at 7.30pm, it begins at 8 and is over by 10.30pm.

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CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS. Sound Affects presents a special event at the Old Market all about death and the afterlife. A night of talks, live music, film and live art. At Halloween, the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. OBLIVION is dedicated to death's past, present and future, in art and culture.

Featuring:
David Bramwell - Musician, broadcaster and author who's written and made programmes about psych music, The Residents, time travel, Ken Campbell, and many more weird and wonderful topics. His books include The Haunted Moustache, The Cult of Water and The Longman and Friends: Sacred Sussex. He runs Brighton's Catalyst Club as well as hosting the Adventures In Nutopia podcast. David will be guiding us into the Hellmouth on this evening.

Jak Hutchcraft - Journalist and filmmaker with an interest in music and subcultures. He directed the Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now documentary on Sky TV, and runs the monthly Brighton salon Sound Affects. He's written for The Guardian, VICE, The Quietus, Kerrang! and other publications. At OBLIVION, he'll deliver an illustrated audio-visual talk, What Does Dying Sound Like?, which is about music and near death experiences.

Sapphire Goss - An artist who uses obsolete media and fragile processes of decay and revival to explore time, mortality and memory. She draws on early photography and film where the boundaries between science and magic seemed thinner, such as Optographs, thought to capture the last image seen in a dead person’s eye.

Mike Sefton - Electronic music composer and filmmaker. His latest project is Twitching Dreamers, an 18-track album of music set at the end of this century, featuring the voices of the living, the dead... and those without a body. Playing live, with films and voices from 70 years hence.

Plus four deathly short films from Exploding Cinema, a screening collective that emerged from the underground art squat scene in 1991.

Doors: 18:15
Starts: 19:00
Ends: 22:30

Sound Affects is a monthly night of talks about music and subcultures, how sound affects us and how music changes the world. It's organised and hosted by journalist and documentary filmmaker Jak Hutchcraft.

Follow @SoundAffectsNight on Instagram.