Goddamn Media was the radical broadcast wing of Brighton Arts Club, active between 2008 and 2015. Founded by Pasha du Valentine and later curated by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA, it captured the heartbeat of Brighton’s underground art, film, and music scene. Through Goddamn Radio and Goddamn Film, the collective documented UK counterculture, DIY media, performance art, and feminist activism during a pivotal moment in digital art history. These archives preserve the movement’s energy, giving voice to a generation that transformed rebellion into art.
🎛️ Goddamn Media Archives
The Broadcast Arm of Brighton Arts Club (2008–2015)
Logo artwork (c.2009): symbolising the lens as a weapon, the hand as protest, and the voice as defiance.
🕰️ Introduction
Between 2008 and 2015, Goddamn Media erupted from the underbelly of Brighton Arts Club as its radical broadcast division — a collision of live radio, guerrilla film, underground music, and unfiltered conversation. It was born in an era before podcasts were fashionable and before livestreaming was mainstream, when creative rebellion meant making, broadcasting, and performing on instinct and nerve.
What began as a DIY media experiment quickly became a movement: a collective of artists, musicians, poets, and activists using low-budget technology and high-voltage conviction to speak their truth.
These archives preserve that unruly energy — the static, the laughter, the feedback squeal — and the freedom that fuelled a generation of Brighton’s creative underground.
🎙️ Goddamn Radio
“It wasn’t radio, not really — more like an open wound with a mic.”
Broadcast live from the Brighton Arts Club basement, Goddamn Radio hosted weekly chaos: open mics, rants, live gigs, political outbursts, and drunken philosophy. The archive includes fragments of these transmissions, rescued from old drives, CDs, and student reels.
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🎬 Goddamn Film
“We made films with no money but too much to say.”
These were the days of cracked software, MiniDV cameras, and midnight edits. Goddamn Film chronicled Brighton’s fringe — drag, street art, punk theatre, and everything too raw for television. Some of these projects later screened at Brighton Arts Club and in collaboration with early digital festivals.
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💿 Soundtracks & Collaborations
Much of the music featured in Goddamn Media was local — Brighton and London MCs, poets, noise artists, and producers who donated their tracks for the thrill of rebellion. These were consented, collaborative, and now part of Brighton’s hidden media history.
Recovered tracks will appear here as they are remastered and uploaded.
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🧩 Philosophy & Legacy
Goddamn Media was never meant to last — and perhaps that’s why it mattered. It blurred the lines between art, politics, and everyday chaos. It gave voice to outsiders, performers, and thinkers before the world called them “content creators.”
Its defiance seeded later projects: Tale Teller Club, Politica UK, and Immersion Static, all of which echo Goddamn’s belief that storytelling — in any form — is a form of resistance.
“We used to shout. Now we tell tales. The revolution just changed frequency.”
🪶 Curated by
Pasha du Valentine
Founder, Brighton Arts Club & Goddamn Media
Film & Broadcast MDes, Edinburgh College of Art
Sarnia de la Maré FRSA
Archival preservation for the Tale Teller Club Press Network
The original Goddamn Media logo remains a symbol of creative dissent — the lens as confrontation, the artist as witness.
A later version, featuring a rose in the barrel, marks the transition from protest to storytelling.
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