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From Wes Baggaley’s “panel-beating electronic sleaze” to EVOL’s “a maximalist kind of minimalism, or vice versa.” Eclectic recollections from SSVI: Noctifer by Noel Gardner, reviewed in the latest edition of The Wire Magazine, in stores now!

A lost 90s gem of Hollywood desperation, STAR TIME plays like the Manson Family gatecrashed David Lynch's Lost Highway. Henry Pinkle is a socially awkward young man whose life revolves around his favorite television show. When that show is suddenly cancelled, he is driven into a deep psychological crisis, convinced that his existence has been erased along with it. Standing on the edge of a rooftop and ready to end it all, he is approached by a mysterious figure named Sam Bones, who talks him down and offers a strange alternative path that promises fame and validation rather than obscurity. Recruited into Sam’s surreal worldview, Henry becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming famous and begins a violent spree while donning a creepy baby mask and chasing stardom in the only way he believes possible. As his actions escalate, the blurred lines between fantasy and reality, celebrity and anonymity, leave him grappling with the very media-driven identity he hoped to achieve. Saturday 25/04 Bar 8pm Film 8:30pm Tickets at THENICKEL.CO.UK

After being out of circulation for decades, this is an incredibly rare chance for London audiences to see Paul Morrissey’s extraordinary MADAME WANG'S. Morrissey began making films with Andy Warhol in the 1960s before going on to redefine American independent film with works like Flesh, Trash and Heat. After a brief period in Rome where he made the horror films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, he temporarily decamped to California to make Madame Wang’s, his definitive post-Warhol statement. A ramshackle and absurdist satire of Cold War politics and consumer culture set in the punk scene of 1980s Los Angeles, Madame Wang’s is one of the great underseen masterpieces of American cinema. Part of PUNK AT 50 21/4 - Tonight 8.45pm With introduction by filmmaker @mondodraig Courtesy of @vinegarsyndrome Tickets at THENICKEL.co.uk

This May at The Nickel — London’s Freakiest Grindhouse Cinema Directors Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet join us in person for a double bill of LET THE CORPSES TAN and their amazing new film REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND Kneejerk presents a double feature of ROBERTA FINDLEY films: A WOMAN'S TORMENT and TENEMENT THIRD WINDOW bring us a double bill of OBAYASHI films introduced by James Balmont Lost 90's underground feature THE POPE OF UTAH finally arrives on the big screen The UK premiere of SALT ALONG THE TONGUE and Q&A with director Parish Malfitano Cosmik Debris brings us three PAUL MORRISSEY films: WOMEN IN REVOLT, HEAT, and TRASH REVENGE season begins with DEADBEAT AT DAWN, MERMAID LEGEND and ROLLING THUNDER PUNK AT 50 continues with VORTEX and SALVATION The Library of the Occult presents the first UK screening of stop motion fantasy horror SHRINE OF ABOMINATIONS THEATRE OF HORRORS - new doc on Paris' Grand Guignol theatre introduced by author Madeleine Ledespencer LUIS BUÑUEL's surrealist comedy VIRDIANA, introduced by Cold Magazine's Valeria Berghinz Actress Eva Yelmani presents SÉRIE NOIRE and THAT MOST IMPORTANT THING: LOVE MY NAME IS MONDAY presents another night of forgotten cinema, music and animation from the USSR 2 Girls 1 Film Club present ISOLA: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY GIRL SHRIMETIME returns with rare and underseen eye-popping Japanese animation Members Only sneak peek of F*CKTOYS with video intro by the director @missannapurna Our usual MYSTERY MOVIES now every Friday AND Saturday nights + MYSTERY DOJO returns with a deepcut kung fu classic matinee Rare screenings of: THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE, DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING, DR CALIGARI, IMMORAL TALES, DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL, SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG EYED JESUS, GODS OF TIME SQUARE, L'ANTICRISTO, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS, NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER, THE LAST HORROR MOVIE, ROAD GAMES, DEADLY CIRCUIT, MESSIAH OF EVIL, SPIDER BABY, BRAIN DAMAGE + more… Only 37 seats. Book now at THENICKEL.co.uk

Having a dance at @bustermantis April 24th xx

SUNDAY SCHOOL was a 20-course meal with apéritifs and after-dinner cigarette. Left me punch-drunk and haunted by a Goetic Demon, in the best way. Here’s a few live captures I managed to take along the way. 🕯️ London, last weekend

V_V_5❤️‍🔥❤️ X @shittyfuturespresents Nurse + Psychic laughter @ Moor 4/4 Thanks to @oz.shoots.your.band for the shots ! A master as always

V_V_5❤️‍🔥✨ X @shittyfuturespresents Vice versa X Shitty futures post punk banger was a success. So much love to all that played and attended

STARTS TOMORROW! 👹

SENTINEL X STRANGE FIELD: Nurse, Psychic Laughter, Noise Hz Friday 3 April - 19:00 ● 105-109 French Street, G40 4EH Psychic Laughter feature members of PC World and Santacruz, delivering live industrial tinged electronics defined by a relentless and rhythmic machine like noise. Heading to Bristol and London for a short live run after their Glasgow gig, Psychic Laughter and NURSE will accompany one another on a joint-tour. Friday 3 April - Glasgow, UK @ Strange Field Saturday 4 April - Bristol, UK @ Moor Brewery Sunday 5 April - London, UK @ New River Studios Tickets available in the link in our bio.

Heading into @nts_radio today at 18:00 w @al_aldous & @helltowne (Psychic Laughter) Playing tunes & talking all things SSVI: Noctifer! Tune in- nts.live 👹

This April at The Nickel - London’s Freakiest Grindhouse Cinema! This is it - the stuff your mama warned you about. Wild, primitive cinema. The weirder it is, the more we like it. So book your ticket, peel back the blue velvet curtain and take your seat among your fellow cinematic deviants for such unspeakable pleasures as: A SEASON IN HELL continues its descent into the fiery underworld with RACE WITH THE DEVIL, HELLZAPOPPIN’, THE DEVIL’S RAIN and BLACK MAMBA MAN VS BEAST bites back with WHITE DOG, OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, EATEN ALIVE, ROAR, Q: THE WINGED SERPENT plus an animal attack MYSTERY MOVIE MY NAME IS MONDAY digs up lost Soviet-era music, film and animation — while SHRIMETIME resurfaces with more mysterious animated artefacts from Japan @shrime_time A double feature of krautrock band CAN’s music in film: DEEP END and DAS MILLIONENSPIEL THE MYSTERY DOJO opens its chambers to new disciples for a secret kung-fu matinee EURODITTY presents Piotr Szulkin’s dystopian Polish sci-fi classic GOLEM @mb93now VIDEO BAZAAR returns with Peter Watkins’ savage pop satire PRIVILEGE @videobazaarpresents PUNK AT 50 encores with a super rare screening of Paul Morrissey's MADAME WANG'S COSMIK DEBRIS presents ONE FALSE MOVE, THE LAST SEDUCTION and Richard Gere in BREATHLESS (1983) @mondodraig DISCREET.CINE presents AN UNMARRIED WOMAN @discreet.cine DELETED SCENES presents John Waters double CECIL B. DEMENTED + POLYESTER @deletedscenesbypj ALLY RUSSELL SHIELDS presents Elizabeth Taylor double SECRET CEREMONY + BOOM! @allyrussell NIGHT SHIFT presents THE BABY and THE MAFU CAGE @mcdv_1405 JAMES BALMONT presents BLUE SPRING and 9 SOULS in conjuction with THIRD WINDOW FILMS @thirdwindowfilms @jamesbalmont EMMA TOMA presents SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS @emma_toma Grindhouse genre detonations including CUT-THROATS NINE, PIECES, SOCIETY, FREEWAY: CONFESSIONS OF A TRICKBABY, THE LADY IN RED, THE STUFF, THE SWINGING BARMAIDS and THE BOD SQUAD Plus notorious and deeply weird oddities: ILSA, LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET, PIN, THE APPOINTMENT, STAR TIME, SOULTANGLER and FOLIES MEURTRIÈRES Only 37 seats. Book now at THENICKEL.co.uk