In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 2
This is the second part of a conversation with Alaura O’Dell / Mistress Mix, formerly known as Paula P-Orridge. In the first part, we traced Alaura’s journey from meeting the musician and cultural pr...
17 Feb 56min
What is a Shaman?
Over the last century, the word Shaman has been embraced by artists, hippies, psychonauts and spiritual rebels. In the 1960s and 70s, shamanism had become a kind of countercultural shorthand for alter...
3 Feb 57min
This is Penny Rimbaud - Part Two
This is the second part of a conversation with the poet, musician and thinker Penny Rimbaud, co-founder, with Steve Ignorant, of the anarcho-punk band and activist art collective Crass Crass emerged...
19 Jan 1h 2min
A Supernatural History of the Atlantic
The sea, its myths, and the supernatural is the theme of this special New Year edition of the Bureau when we leave behind our usual waters to set sail into the past of a very unusual counterculture. ...
6 Jan 59min
Tales from the Ambient Underground
In early 1990s South London — a time when rave culture was mutating and London’s squats were pulsing with creativity, Aphex Twin, Global Communication, Nightmares on Wax, Autechre,Andrea Parker, Scann...
21 Des 202557min
In + Out of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth - Part 1
There are figures in counterculture whose names appear only in the margins of the story — whose influence is eclipsed, overshadowed, even dismissed, by more mythologised personalities. Alaura O’Dell —...
10 Des 20251h
Geiger-Counterculture: A Journey Through Atomic Albion
We are on the brink of a new nuclear age - the energy crisis, the push towards net zero and the gargantuan power requirements of AI demand it - or so we are told. But here in Britain, the old nucl...
25 Nov 20251h 3min
The Spell of David Lynch
When the filmmaker David Lynch died earlier this year, fans created shrines filled with coffee, doughnuts, cigarettes and blue roses; a level of spontaneous mourning more common for dead rock stars or...
12 Nov 20251h
