Neil Campbell

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Astral Social Club, Futurist Bags, you know the score. Day job in a11y.

Poster for a fundraiser for the lubber fiend, curated by Richard Dawson, on Saturday 5th September 2026, 7pm til late. On the bill are Richard himself, Will Guthrie, Astral Social Club and Heather Ferrier. All proceeds from tickets will go to Lubber, with suggested donation being £15.
High school photo of a fresh-faced young man with neat side-parted hair, a striped jacket and tie. Wait a minute, could it be a young Iggy Pop? Yes, it is Iggy!
Black and white photo of Guggi and Gavin from Virgin Prunes on stage, sandwiching a tall person wearing cartoon policeman head and holding a birthday cake.
Abstract black and white poster for gig on Thursday 16 July at 7pm at Nan Moor's in Todmorden. Tickets are £10, and will be available soon.
Poster for gig at Todmorden Nan Moors, 7pm on Friday 22 May, with Hedgling, ex-Woven Skull, featuring Neil Campbell, supported by AHKRH. Tickets are £10 waged or £5 unwaged.
Vibrant photo collage poster with strange faces and handwritten information. Astral Social Club, Anxiolytics and Herb Diamanté playing at Awen33 on Saturday 9 May at 7pm.
Poster with close-up photograph of a synthesizer for the 1in12 event on 18 April, presented by RinDIY Electronic, with Gilank (playing 7:30-8pm), Futurist Bags (playing 8:15-8:45), Limewave (playing 9-9:30) and Yorkshire Modular Society (playing 9:45-10:30). Tickets are £8 in advance or £10 on the door.
Poster for gig at 100 years gallery in London on 28 March, featuring Astral Social Club, The Piss Superstition, Sparrow & Shipsey and Mutare. 7:30 start, £10 cash entry.
Front cover of Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising.
Poster for Vibracathedral Orchestra gig at The Lubber Fiend in Newcastle on Saturday 21 February.
Poster for COLOUR OUT OF SPACE presents gig on Sunday 29 March, 2pm til 9pm. Performers are Astral Social Club, Sharon Gal, The Piss Superstition, The Polly Shang Kuan Band, Russell Walker, Stone Coenelius and Feghoots. Entrance is 10 pounds.
The Slits Peel Sessions 1977-78-81 LP. Front cover shows a black and white photo of the band in their early all-female line up.
Scrawled poster for Jake Muir, Astral Social Club and Not Above Music gig at Wharf Chambers in Leeds on Tuesday 18 November. Admission is £8 full price or £4 for the low or no waged. Doors at 7:30.
Black and white passport booth photo of 2 teenage men with dyed black hair and eyeliner looking very pleased with themselves.
Poster for K-Group and Astral Social Club gig at Nan Moor's in Todmorden on 20 November. Admission is free but donations are encouraged. The image is in black and white of a nondescript boxy building, the same one that appears on the K-Group cd on Corpus Hermeticum Records.
Black and white photo of Gavin and Guggi of Virgin Prunes on stage, flanking a tall figure wearing a huge laughing policeman's head and holding a birthday cake.
Photo of Neil Campbell at Wharf Chambers, 3aring a yellow shirt, gurning a bit and holding a copy of Trance's Time Devours 7".
Never Understood, The Jesus and Mary Chain book, sat on my bedside table. The cover has a lovely, typically unsmiling, picture of the Reid brothers from the 1980s.
Poster for NOX do this discotheque on 19th July at Wharf Chambers in Leeds. Entry is £6 low wage or £8 full price.
Eyeless in Gaza - Drumming the Beating Heart
Inner bag for Sun Ra Horizon LP on Saturn, with the Rare and Racy stamp and a price of £4.50
Journey Among the Stars (from Cosmos) Love in Outer Space (from Planets of Life or Death) The Cosmic Explorer (from Nuits del la Fondation Maeght Volume 1) Angels and Demons at Play (from Angels and Demons at Play) Part 2 (from The Soul Vibrations of Man) Constellation (from Media Dreams) Blackman (from Soundtrack to Space is the Place) Solar Drums (from Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow) The Outer Darkness Part One (from The Outer Darkness) Space Probe (from Space Probe) Spontaneous Simplicity (from Pictures of Infinity) Mayan Temples (from Of Mythic Worlds) Discipline 8 (from Horizon) I'll Wait For You (from Strange Celestial Road) The Cosmic Explorer (from Nuits del la Fondation Maeght Volume 1) Interplanetary Music (from Interstellar Low Ways) New Planet (from Continuation) Dance of the Living Image (from The Night of the Purple Moon) Spiral Galaxy (from Other Planes of There) They Plan to Leave (from Ra to the Rescue!)
Poster for Vibracathedral Orchestra and Pink Footed Geese gig at Shakespeare, Sheffield on 22 March 2025 at 8pm. Tickets £10 in advance
Hand painted poster for Vibracathedral Orchestra, Nina Garcia, Yoke and Patsy Drove gig at Moor Beer, Bristol on 8 March 2025, tickets £13 or £9 concessions
Black and white photo of an unsmiling and sultry Cher in the 1960s, replete with fringe, pale lipstick and exquisite eye makeup.
The cover of Replicas by Tubeway Army, showing a pale unsmiling Gary Numan dressed in black in a stark empty room, standing slightly robotically. He is looking out the window at thin crescent moon and a neon sign that reads "The Park", and his reflection, which seems disembodied and possibly not to be a reflection at all, looks back in, seemingly with a life of its own.
2 men playing music in a small space, with a window behind them. One of them is in profile playing a bass recorder, the other has his back to us and is playing piano.
Poster for the gig. Text transcript: HEINOUS HANDS PRESENTS A FEEDBACK MOVE SHOWCASE yPLA (paul abbot & michael speers discover where synth meets drums), VASCO ALVES (long-form electro acoustic exploration) and CANAL BLAKE (electronics & percussion quiet sizzle). 30th NOVEMBER - 7:30PM - wharf chambers £8 or £4 low or unwaged - wharf is a members club, you must he a member or guest to attend
Black and white photo of a small crowd watching band. Most of them look quite alternative, in a 1980s way. The light fall in an highlights the author, a slim mildly androgynous figure with a shaved Tibetan tonsure hairstyle, looking very thoughtful.
Triple Negative playing at Wharf Chambers, Leeds. 3 people on a small stage playing violin, sorprano saxophone and drums. It all looks slightly mysterious, non-rockist, not at all showbiz.
A stack of records with Invisible Connections by Vangelis at the front.
Neil Campbell and Becky Mahay after their set, shamelessly mugging for the camera
Psychedelic eye duotone poster for a gig at The Golden Lion in Todmorden - France, Universal Veil and DJ Paddy from Gnod on Friday 15 November. Tickets £10 or £12, doors 8pm
Poster for Borbetomagus and Vibracathedral Orchestra gig at the Adelphi in Leeds in 19 April 1999
Abstract fiery dragon line drawing with details of the gig
5 middle aged men perform as Vibracathedral Orchestra under a sympathetic purple lighting.
Cover of Eyeless in Gaza's Mythic Language CD.
Covers of Sun Ra and Nick Mott LPs stacked on top of each other. The Sun Ra one is a picture of his face, while the Nick Mott one is a semi grotesque photomontage of a human face. Both are possibly fixing the camera with a similar stare.
A pile of yellow cassettes with small blue sky squares on the front, of a Vibracathedral Orchestra release, recorded 14th and 17th August 2024.
Abstract yellow and black poster for Vibracathedral Orchestra, Seraphim Blush and The Alan Years gig, The Tavern at Annie's, NG1 1PR on 23 August. Tickets are £8 advanced, £10 on the door
Big red poster with ants for gig at Wharf Chambers on 25 August with Vibracathedral Orchestra, Rory Salter, Holome and Anxiolytics.
Text-only poster for Here is a Big Place and Neil Campbell playing live at Anywhere Out of this World at 8pm on Saturday 29 June
Triple Negative playing live in Leeds, 3 mysterious characters in hats and hoodies
Siouxie and the Banshees, 1981. This is from the programme for the gig itself, at Leicester de Montfort Hall. I think my friend bought it. We were both 14.
CDs of Isaac Hayes Black Moses, Broadcast Spell Blanket, Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works volume 2 and cheap 5 cd box set of Echo and the Bunnymen LPs
Marshall Allen looking cool walking down the street carrying his sax, smoking a fag
Cover of Return of the Quiet LP by Martyn Bates, quite 1980s looking artwork showing Martyn in profile.
Fairly fresh-faced Phil Todd and Neil Campbell drinking beer in a pub, some time in the late 1990s.
Poster for the gig with big picture of Ajay from Bhajan Bhoy looking happy with his guitar.
Cover of Reel to Real Cacophony by Simple Minds, plain blue textured card with small text at the top
Cover of Tubeway Army's Replicas LP
Poster for Rhodri Davies, Telyn Wrachïod gig at The Adelphi, 1-3 Gunslet Road, Leeds on 15 April 2024 at 8pm. Tickets are 8 pounds waged, 5 pound low or unwaged. The poster is black on white with an ancient-looking stylised line drawing of a person playing a harp.
5 people playing dulcimer, drums, hurdy-gurdy etc in a well-lit room. They are all dressed strangely, with hoods, strange headdresses, animal skulls.
Front cover of Xmal Deutschland Early Singles compilation CD, showing 5 young German goth women, all with different brightly coloured hair. In the background is the cover of their Fetisch LP.
Cover for Going Up CD by K-Soace, showing three middle aged men standing next to each other, the two on either side with arms folded and a mysterious light emanating from the hands of the central man.
Poster for Astral Social Club, Slug Milk, Ince B and Penguin Arcana gig at The Shakespeare, Sheffield at 6pm on Sunday March 17 2024
Wide angle shot of two middle aged men hunched over Casios and synthesisers in a low-lit rehearsal space.
The Skids on stage in Corby, Richard Jobson looking suitably intense.
Feet up on settee, today's huge Guardian cryptic crossword, barely started, on my knee.