Sound Affects is a night of talks about music and subcultures, how sound affects us and how music changes the world. This event is a punk, post-punk and zine special. Speakers: Miki Berenyi - Singer songwriter who plays in Piroshka, and used to play in Lush. She also used to run _Alphabet Soup _and _Gutterpress _fanzines in the 80s. Her memoir Fingers Crossed was the Rough Trade, Rolling Stone, Resident and Sunday Times book of the year in 2022. Richard Cabut - Author, poet and playwright. Used to run the _Kick_ punk fanzine between 1979 and 1982. His new book Looking For A Kiss is a tale of doomed punk youth, teenage perversity and post-punk faded chic. Lu Williams - An artist whose practice includes sculpture, print, zines, drawing, writing, video, events and workshops. In 2015, Lu started Grrrl Zine Fair, a place for self-publishing and DIY art, music and culture which platforms women and marginalised genders, artists and zine makers through Grrrl In Print zine, a self-publishing fair, panel talks, performances, live music and workshops. In 2017, they founded Grrrl Zine Library, which hosts 600+ queer and feminist zines and is housed at the Old Waterworks (an artists’ studios and community hub with its own publicly accessible library) in Westcliff-on-Sea. A section of the library is currently part of a public exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London (until January 2024). Peter Webb - Owner and Creative Director of PC-Press, publishing books on Test Dept, Killing Joke, Massive Attack and others.They just released the 'Vague Fanzine book (1979 - 1984).' Peter is also a writer, lecturer, publisher and musician, he is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the UWE, Bristol. He previously worked in the music industry 1980 – 2002 as an artist with the break-beat and trip hop project Statik Sound System and previously the post punk bands Necromancy and Idiot Sideshow – doing soundtracks for a GLC film and working with Physical Theatre companies like Intimate Strangers and Blast Theory. His current music project is New Brand.