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🌀 The Tale Teller Club NotWiki
A living, laughing archive of the improbable, the glamorous, and the true (mostly).
Welcome to the NotWiki, the unofficial-official chronicle of the Tale Teller Club multiverse — a tangled network of real artists, alter egos, archives, and creative conspiracies.
Unlike ordinary encyclopedias (written by people with too much time and too few sequins), this one grows as fast as the story does.
Here you’ll find entries that almost sound factual — because they are — but they’re also part myth, part memory, and part midnight-blog-madness. Every name, place, and project links somewhere surprising.
🧭 Start Here
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Tale Teller Club Press — the umbrella, the dream, the noise machine.
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Pasha du Valentine — the original Countess of Brighton and Hackney; hostess, broadcaster, and provocateur of the Brighton Arts Club era.
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Sarnia de la Maré FRSA — writer, artist, and architect of this sprawling creative empire.
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iServalan — the musical counterpart; beats, strings, and rebellious couture.
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Blink Friction — art, upcycling, punk fashion, and the sound of scissors at 3 a.m.
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Politica UK — satire and ink: where news meets nonsense in hand-coloured form.
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AURA Digital Gallery — the moving-image realm, where pixels meditate.
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Tale Teller Kids / Rat Gang Crew — neurodiverse adventures and doodles for the next generation of weird and wonderful minds.
📚 What Makes This a NotWiki
Because the Tale Teller world doesn’t fit neatly in boxes.
Some entries are essays, some are gossip with footnotes. Others are just fragments rescued from hard drives, gig posters, or memory. If Wikipedia is the library, NotWiki is the back room where the stories actually happened.
🕰️ Coming Soon
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Brighton Arts Club Archives (2007 – 2014)
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Goddamn Media & Full Bloom Podcast
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Immersion Project Timelines
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Mills & Swoon Romance Index
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Rebel Queens Music Anthology
💬 Contribute or Connect
If you were there — on stage, behind the camera, or in the crowd — your memories count too.
Send in your story, your photo, your scandal, or your correction (we’ll ignore it lovingly).
📮 Contact: Use the box on the landing page
🔗 Main Site: www.taletellerclub.com
🎧 Listen: 💋 FULL BLOOM
🛍️ Shop: Merch at Redbubble
Tale Teller Club NotWiki
Tale Teller Club NotWiki page.
Tale Teller Club
Experimental arts and publishing network founded by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA, integrating music, fiction, visual art and digital archives under a single creative banner.
Overview
The Tale Teller Club originated as a cross-disciplinary collective combining sound art, narrative literature and independent broadcasting. Established in the early 2010s following the Brighton Arts Club era, it evolved from Sarnia de la Maré’s previous ventures—Goddamn Media and Pasha du Valentine Radio—into a formalised creative ecosystem linking music production, publishing, and visual culture.
Core Activities
Associated Projects
Politica UK
Satirical illustration and alternative press imprint derived from Goddamn Media’s broadcast roots.
The Tale Teller Vault
Digital storefront for books, music and collectible media by Sarnia de la Maré and collaborators.
Tale Teller Kids
Educational and neurodiverse-aware division producing inclusive stories, workbooks and YouTube content.
Philosophy
The Club operates on a belief that storytelling and sound are acts of agency. Its projects often merge art and activism, exploring neurodiversity, gender identity, environmentalism and technology through a multidisciplinary lens. The motto “Books, Beats & Broadcasts” reflects its commitment to hybrid forms of expression that move fluidly between literature, music and film.
Timeline
- 2009–2012: Goddamn Media broadcasts and Brighton Arts Club live events.
- 2013: Founding of Tale Teller Club Press as a publishing imprint.
- 2015–2020: Expansion into podcasting and digital music releases.
- 2021–Present: Launch of AURA Digital Gallery, Immersion Static series and Tale Teller Vault storefront.
See Also
Sarnia de la Mare
NotWiki Page for Sarnia de la Maré (Pasha du Valentine) (iServalan)
Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (also known as Pasha du Valentine and iServalan) is a British feminist artist, writer and digital creator.
Comprehensive artist archive for Sarnia de la Maré FRSA — also known as Pasha du Valentine and iServalan — featuring verified press coverage, punk origins, Brighton Arts Club history, and official citations.
This NotWiki page is an archival record for the artist and writer Sarnia de la Maré FRSA and her performance identities Pasha du Valentine and iServalan. It collates names, aliases, key cultural contexts, and links to external sources, interviews, and media coverage.
Feminist Artistic Practice
Sarnia de la Maré FRSA is recognised as a British feminist artist whose work spans punk-influenced performance, digital moving image, autobiographical feminist narrative, and community-led creative activism. Emerging from the radical 1980s DIY punk scene and later founding Brighton Arts Club, de la Maré’s practice interrogates power, gender, subculture and female agency through experimental media, alter-egos, and countercultural archives. Her long-standing personas — including Pasha du Valentine and the Countess of Brighton and Hackney — function as feminist critiques of class, sexuality, beauty politics, and patriarchal artistic structures. Her ongoing work combines digital storytelling, performance, erotic art history, and punk aesthetics to challenge traditional ideas of femininity and creative authority in the UK arts landscape.
Names, Aliases & Identities
Birth / family / married names: Pembleton-Fraser, Apps, Farmer, de la Maré, du Valentine
Professional / performance identities: Sarnia de la Maré FRSA,
Pasha du Valentine, Countess of Brighton and Hackney, iServalan
Nicknames: Sar (early punk ID), Pasha, Countess
Early Adult Years & Memorial Works
During the early 1980s, Sarnia de la Maré shared accommodation in a Bloomsbury, London squat with Steven Sinclair, a young man later tragically killed by serial murderer Dennis Nilsen. The loss profoundly affected the London punk community and King’s Road punks, inspiring subsequent creative works that sought to restore his individuality and dignity.
De la Maré later wrote a poem in his memory, which she has been developing into a song and performance piece reflecting on compassion, vulnerability, and the overlooked victims of social neglect and drug abuse. This work forms part of her continuing exploration of how art can reclaim human narratives from sensationalised crime history.
London Punk Housing Co-operative (1980s)
Associated with: Pasha du Valentine (Sarnia de la Maré FRSA), Polemic, DIRT, and the South London DIY scene.
- Sarnia de la Maré (Pasha du Valentine) — visual artist, writer, and performer later known for Brighton Arts Club, Goddamn Media, Tale Teller Club, and associated projects.
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i-D Magazine – “If punk never dies, then how does it age?”
International culture magazine feature on punk identities and ageing.
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Members of Polemic — South London anarcho-punk band; active in local gig circuits,
often linked with Crass-inspired collectives.
See external source → Polemic on AnarchoScene Blog -
Members of DIRT — influential UK anarcho-punk band, part of the wider scene context.
Contextual reference → DIRT on Punk Fandom - Other residents included independent photographers, poets, and sound experimenters who participated in local benefit gigs and political gatherings across London and the South Coast.
Cultural Context
The Co-operative embodied the DIY ethics of the early 1980s punk movement — shared housing, mutual support, and collaborative art and music-making. Rehearsals and recording sessions frequently took place within the flats, with visiting bands staying overnight en route to gigs across London and the South Coast.
The group’s ethos anticipated later creative collectives such as the Brighton Arts Club, founded by Sarnia de la Maré in the 2000s, which became a hub for experimental music, performance, and visual art.
Press, Interviews & Media Coverage (Selected)
The following independent sources document Sarnia de la Maré FRSA / Pasha du Valentine’s public work as an artist, designer, performer, and cultural figure. They are listed in order of Wikipedia notability weight, with the most authoritative sources first.
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i-D Magazine – “If punk never dies, then how does it age?”
International culture magazine feature on punk identity. Identifies de la Maré as a “Brighton-based artist Countess Pasha du Valentine.”
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The Argus – “Model pets in the frame of new Brighton club”
Coverage of Brighton Arts Club activities.
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The Argus – “Brighton artist: squatters beat me up” (2012)
Independent reporting describing de la Maré as a “Brighton artist.”
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The Argus – “No-booze bar set to draw in punters…”
Article on Brighton Arts Club’s events programme.
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Silver Magazine – “The 50plus fashionistas”
Lifestyle feature listing de la Maré (as Pasha du Valentine) and identifying her as an artist and designer.
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Silver Magazine – “The Towering Strength of Amazons”
Cultural feature referencing de la Maré.
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Futures Venture Foundation – Handbook 01 (Interview)
Two-page interview with de la Maré/Pasha du Valentine (pp. 28–29).
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The Latest TV – Brighton Pride 2010
Television coverage including Brighton Arts Club activity.
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Alternative Arts & Culture – Audio Feature
Radio/podcast segment discussing Brighton’s cultural scene featuring de la Maré.
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Smore – “The Countess of Brighton and Hackney” Bulletin
Digital bulletin featuring the ongoing performance persona.
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IMDb – Film/Video Credit
Database listing associated with de la Maré’s media work.
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Amazon Music – “Countess of Brighton and Hackney” Podcast Episodes
Archived podcast episodes under the Pasha du Valentine persona.
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Spreaker – “Full Bloom with Pasha du Valentine”
Podcast archive curated by Tale Teller Club Press.
Listen on Spreaker
Photographic & Moving-Image Archives
Pasha du Valentine / Sarnia de la Maré — Archival portraits, performance stills, and creative documentation.
Photographic archives on Flickr
Direct link: https://flic.kr/ps/3hap7L
Direct link: https://flic.kr/ps/3hap7L
How to Cite This Page
This NotWiki entry serves as an official, centralised archive curated by Tale Teller Club Press, documenting the public work, interviews, press coverage, and cultural contributions of Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (also known as Pasha du Valentine and iServalan).
Preferred citation format:
Sarnia de la Maré FRSA (2025). NotWiki: Archival Page for Sarnia de la Maré / Pasha du Valentine / iServalan. Tale Teller Club Press. Available at: https://taletellerclubpress.blogspot.com/ (accessed: ).
For academic, journalistic, or biographical use, this page may be referenced alongside the external independent sources listed above (The Argus, Futures Venture, ITV/The Latest, SoundCloud, IMDb, etc.).
For Wikipedia editors: This page is an unofficial supplementary archive and should be used only as a supporting external link, not as a primary source.
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