Subsol 2022
Popular culture and subculture festival
The wish of the festival "Subsol" is to make room for projects that by definition are excluded from the parameters of serious, “highbrow” or academic culture: the marginalised, outsiders, subcultures, common culture and lowbrow art, from the underground to the popular, in the form of rare comic books, raw humour, urban music and proletarian/common literature.
Peter Bagge
The nightmare of the American dream
OK, so we weren’t in Seattle in the early 90s, but thanks to Peter Bagge (Peekskill, 1957) we learned that the hate there was very similar to the hate here. Few artists have managed to chronicle the disaffection, acne-covered-alienation, misanthropy, and indignation of youth like Bagge. ...
Bobby Gillespie
A kid from the tenements
Bobby Gillespie (Glasgow, 1961) is the lead singer, songwriter and founding member of Primal Scream, and one of the few sixty-one-year-old men who can wear leather pants with enviable poise and dignity. He has released eleven albums with his band, including Screamadelica (1991), ...
Mamen Moreu, Maribel Carod, Ana Belén Rivero and Irene Márquez
El Jueves it's no longer what it was
“The Friday Girl” was a magazine segment featuring images of nude women accompanied by captions of outdated humour that, during its first years ruling the newsstands, could be found in the pages of El Jueves, the longest-running humour magazine in Spain. Since a while ...
Saïm
Emotional punk from Majorca
Their name sounds like ‘lard’ in Catalan, but Saïm are everything but unctuous. They’re a power trio from Felanitx/Manacor (Mallorca) who sing in Catalan and draw their influences from the world of Dischord/Washington DC and Touch & Go: deep, melodic and emotional punk ...
Juarma
Busting the phone booth in my hometown with rocks three times made me a cartoonist
Juan Manuel López, better known as Juarma in the underground comic scene—and now, in the literary scene as well— gave this (awe-inspiringly titled) talk on illuminations and darkness, public vandalism and the self-taught life.
A roundup of everything
El Mundo Today
The leading news outlet in Europe, El Mundo Today, sums up all existing culture. You won’t need to learn anything new ever again: all the knowledge accumulated by humanity, from prehistoric times to the present day, will be summarised in this barely 25-minute talk. Whoever attends this ...
Drill from Delicias
Bebegrande
Bebegrande is part of the new batch of artists who, under the umbrella of the #spanishdrill tag, make up the first musical movement in Spain spearheaded by young people of colour. With lyrics that mix Creole, French and Spanish, and visuals that map the working-class neighbourhood ...
Subsol
Popular culture and subculture festival
The wish of the festival "Subsol" is to make room for projects that by definition are excluded from the parameters of serious, “highbrow” or academic culture: the marginalised, outsiders, subcultures, common culture and lowbrow art, from the underground to the popular, in the form of rare comic books, raw humour, urban music and proletarian/common literature.