AV Festival

This edition of AV Festival, held in Newcastle and Gateshead, asks: can socialist concerns and agendas be rehabilitated for today’s anxious times?

Better understood as a popular modernist collective, Test Dept made records pulsing with panic and were one of the last examples of post-punk

The self-proclaimed ‘purveyors of sinister whimsy to the wretched’ are admirable, not only for a staggering level of productivity, but for being so reliably unpredictable