Sound Affects: Talks about music, subcultures & film

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

This is a special event dedicated to rave culture, dance music and photography. Featuring talks and Q&As with two photographers who have superb photo books out now on Velocity Press.

Guest speakers:
Georgina Cook: Photographer who has had work in The Guardian, VICE, DJ Mag, Dazed, and other places. At Sound Affects she'll be discussing her book Drumz Of The South: The Dubstep Years (2004-2007). During it's birth and spread across London and beyond, Georgina was on the ground documenting the dubstep scene. She captured events and radio stations such as FWD>> at Plastic People, DMZ and Rinse FM, plus pioneering producers, DJs and MCs like Burial, Skream and Benga, Mala & Coki, Loefah and Sgt Pokes, Plastician, Kode9, Hatcha & Crazy D, Skepta and Wiley.

Yushy: Photographer who shoots raves, protests and subcultures. In his new book, Section 63: Underground & Unmastered – Documenting Underground London Raves, he captures the modern DIY spirit of dance music, a renaissance of feeling reminiscent of the early 90s. Embedding himself with various crews across London, he gained their trust and friendship, stepping into their wild world and their fight to reclaim forgotten spaces to play music for the people just for a night. Vivid proof that the free party scene is in fact alive and well in 2026.

Then we'll play tunes into the evening.

£10 entry.

(If you'd like to come but can't afford a 10er just give me a shout: jak_hutchcraft@hotmail.co.uk)

East Street Tap in Brighton.

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Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/sound-affects

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.
Guest speakers:

Anjali Prashar-Savoie - Writer, cultural producer, DJ and sometimes yoga teacher. They have worked in cultural democracy projects, including the first regional citizens assembly for culture and have a background in nightlife, reimagining how cultural work can serve broader movement-building. Anjali is the author of Club Commons, a new book exploring queer nightlife published with Velocity Press in 2026.

Bassie Gracie - A punk performance poet and author known for her musical musings, feel-good feminism and general silliness. Her new book Soap on a Rope is an exploration of the British DIY music scene, through the eyes of Wilbur, a satirical banjo player. Join her on a journey through gigs, from the fields of Glastonbury to the carpeted floors of an old man’s boozer. Maybe she’s wasted her youth playing folk tunes or maybe success is just around the corner. The only thing she knows for sure is that beer tastes better when you don’t have to pay for it.

One more speaker TBC

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Doors at 7.30pm, it begins at 8 and is over by 10.30pm.
East Street Tap in Brighton.
Follow @SoundAffectsNight on Instagram

Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/sound-affects/rave-new-world-2-kirk-field-ru-callender/e-kqgbke

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

This event is at the Nightingale Rooms, upstairs at the Grand Central pub

This is a special event with writers Kirk Field and Ru Callender. After Kirk's hilarious and insightful Rave New World talk back in 2023, he's back with a brand new talk/show. Ru is speaking at Sound Affects for the first time.

Guest speakers:
Kirk Field: Journalist and raver who has been documenting dance music and rave culture since June 1989, spurred into action after reading the inaccurate and hysterical tabloid reports of the acid house party he’d just attended. His new book ‘Planes, Trains & Amphetamines’ is about what happens when UK rave culture went abroad and changed holidays forever. From high jinks on the high seas and insanity in Ibiza to playing in the powder of the Austrian Alps and psychic silliness on the Costa del Sol, this is the story of what happened when Kirk pioneered a new kind of tourism.

Ru Callender: ‘Master of MuMumification’ Ru Callender explains why he’s building a pyramid of human ashes for The KLF in Toxteth and how he incorporates punk and rave ethos into funerals. The meaning of life, death and crop circles. His new book ‘What Remains?’ is out now.

Doors at 7 and it starts at 7.30.

Tickets available now at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/sound-affects/rave-new-world-2-kirk-field-ru-callender/e-kqgbke

Follow @soundaffectsnight on instagram.