*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast curious, rare, half-forgotten, half-remembered countercultural stories, oral histories and tales from the underground. *Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, writers and cultural commentators like Billy Bragg, Lisa Law, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Jill Drower, Peter Coyote and Johnny Marr in conversation. *Listen live on Saturdays at 9.00am on London’s premier independent station Soho Radio or via catch-up on all major podcast providers: *The Bureau is now collected at The British Library Sound Archive
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Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
It is a tale of lost treasure, it is a tale of a lost - or rather forgotten - artist, a mystic, a cockney visionary.
•Curator Jonathan Allen comes to the Bureau to tell of AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE and the strange and wonderful Tarot Deck that lay for decades in the archives of The Magic Circle, undisturbed and forgotten.
•Now a growing influence on artists, writer and chaos magick practitioners including Alan Moore and Jimmy Page, Spare became largely unnoticed in his lifetime.
•We hear of his curious, occult life in South London, his riches to rags story, cartomancy, divination and the discovery that may just change his future.
•And we hear of the efforts to bring that future into the present through a campaign by Strange Attractor Press that will make Spare's extraordinary visionary Tarot available for mystics, art lovers, collectors and the curious..
•For the Austin Spare Tarot Deck Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangeattractoruk/austin-osman-spare-occult-tarot-deck-and-book
•For the book Lost Envoy http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/lost-envoy/
•For The Bureau of Lost Culture https://www.bureauoflostculture.com
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Great to read this. Could you share the images and anything about them ? Be great to hear your stories about Genesis sometime too
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Loved this! I happen to own a few Spare paintings/artworks. Who my ex-husband, Genesis P-Orridge, started to collect when the two of us we got together.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
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