Manifesto
As if the 21st century never happened… The Anti-Club
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æsthetics, not avarice
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creativity, not commercialism
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the sublime over the ‘successful’
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metaphysics + music + film + poetry + literature + painting + sculpture + architecture.
The Anti-Club presents ‘20th Century Rocks’ on Spotify
Proud musical puritanism, despising manufactured acts which take credit for other people’s writing and any so-called musician who associates with such acts… as Billy Corgan says:
“everybody belongs on their own side of the street for a good reason.”
The Anti-Club incorporates many diverse genres, from Gothic, synthpop, New Romantic, Punk, New Wave and Grunge to 1980s and ’90s indie, ’80s metal, Mittelalter, folk and traditional.
All queries can be posed by e-mail at:
theanticlub@pm.me
Articles, reviews and so on can also be submitted there for publication, with an enthusiastic response guaranteed to fellow art-purists!
The Anti-Club’s non-musical interests include:
existentialism + proto-existentialism + Sturm und Drang + Gothic horror + fantasy + science-fiction + the Romantic poets + the Renaissance + the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood + Symbolism + fin de siècle + Futurism + Vorticism + the Situationists + Baroque Revival + Neo-Classical + Georgian + Backsteingotik + Gothic Revival + Historicism + Gründerzeitstil + Beaux Arts + Art Deco + Art Nouveau + the Glasgow School + the Arts and Crafts movement + Wiener Secession + Deutscher Werkbund + Jugendstil.
REJECT the bourgeois pretensions of Western ‘society’ – Art is the vanguard of the Resistance!
One must break with the wretched nescient vulgus completely, under no circumstances fraternising with the enemy, whose tawdry habits and apathy are the antithesis of paradigm-crushing fervour.
ACTIVE nihilists, avowed FOES of the emptiness inherent in capitalism and materialism do not come to enrich so-called ‘civilisation”s knowledge and culture but to abolish such ‘culture’ as it possesses.
The Art-work and the Art-ist must be as one – live our lives as works of art!
Declamation – not discussion!
Demagoguery – not debate!
Do not HIDE from reality – to do so is to welcome DEFEAT, to SURRENDER. Be alert, be vigilant… be triumphant!
Straight lines and right angles are beauty incarnate, stark black and white structures standing in harsh, direct contrast to the shapeless haze of indifference through which the oligophrenic hordes stumble and grope.
Love and HATE, but never merely like.
The Art-work must AFFECT the public, eliciting a REACTION… nothing should exist but that which is BEAUTIFUL or USEFUL.
EVOKE within the viewer, reader or listener only the following affirmation: “YES!.. that is how it is!”
By this luminescent example shall come into being a post-apocalyptic juxtaposition of verdant meadows and monumental statuary, a radiant transmogrification of bardic rhyme and bellicose fervour, a final ethereal synthesis of black roses and assault rifles.