We’re delighted to announce that Tim & Barry have received Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants funding to support our 25th anniversary programme. For 25 years, we’ve documented underground music, art and the communities around them through photography, film, streaming, radio and events. Along the way, we’ve built an enormous archive of hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of hours of film documenting the people, places and moments we’ve encountered. This funding is helping us bring that archive back into the world through a programme of exhibitions, screenings, workshops and conversations, while also giving us the opportunity to explore and organise parts of the archive and uncover material that hasn’t been seen for years. Some parts of the programme are already underway, but there’s much more to come. We’ll be sharing each strand as it develops over the coming months. With thanks to Arts Council England and National Lottery players for supporting the project
We’re delighted to announce that Tim & Barry have received Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants funding to support our 25th anniversary programme. For 25 years, we’ve documented underground music, art and the communities around them through photography, film, streaming, radio and events. Along the way, we’ve built an enormous archive of hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of hours of film documenting the people, places and moments we’ve encountered. This funding is helping us bring that archive back into the world through a programme of exhibitions, screenings, workshops and conversations, while also giving us the opportunity to explore and organise parts of the archive and uncover material that hasn’t been seen for years.
Some parts of the programme are already underway, but there’s much more to come. We’ll be sharing each strand as it develops over the coming months. With thanks to Arts Council England and National Lottery players for supporting the project
HARLESDEN HIGH STREET: RIDLEY ROAD
2010-2020
HARLESDEN HIGH STREET: RIDLEY ROAD
2010-2020
This exhibition takes the studio as its subject, bringing together two signed tabletops, a showreel and a complete list of contributors. Together, they document a community formed through repeated acts of collaboration, experimentation and exchange.
This exhibition takes the studio as its subject, bringing together two signed tabletops, a showreel and a complete list of contributors. Together, they document a community formed through repeated acts of collaboration, experimentation and exchange.
For a decade, Tim & Barry's practice was based at Ridley Road Studios in Hackney, a complex set back from the road above a local shopping centre. Known to Tim & Barry and their collaborators simply as “the studio", it was home to Tim & Barry TV, Beat This, Just Jam, No Miming and The Lift. More than the place where this work was made, the studio shaped a decade of collaboration across grime, footwork, UK funky and experimental electronic music.
For a decade, Tim & Barry's practice was based at Ridley Road Studios in Hackney, a complex set back from the road above a local shopping centre. Known to Tim & Barry and their collaborators simply as “the studio", it was home to Tim & Barry TV, Beat This, Just Jam, No Miming and The Lift. More than the place where this work was made, the studio shaped a decade of collaboration across grime, footwork, UK funky and experimental electronic music.
UAL: RESONANT MATTER 14 APRIL - 14 JUNE
UAL: RESONANT MATTER
14 APRIL - 14 JUNE
Resonant Matter explores how London’s underground culture is powered by the music and fashion born from its diverse communities - from pirate radio and street protests to sound‑system culture and club nights.
Resonant Matter explores how London’s underground culture is powered by the music and fashion born from its diverse communities - from pirate radio and street protests to sound‑system culture and club nights.
More than documentation, this archive operates as cultural infrastructure. It captures not only artists, but the aesthetic codes, styling choices, environments and creative energy that defined a generation. What began as instinctive documentation has become an invaluable record of how underground culture shaped mainstream visual language.
More than documentation, this archive operates as cultural infrastructure. It captures not only artists, but the aesthetic codes, styling choices, environments and creative energy that defined a generation. What began as instinctive documentation has become an invaluable record of how underground culture shaped mainstream visual language.
Presented within London College of Fashion, the screening invites reflection on the intersection of music, style and image-making — and positions the archive as both historical record and ongoing act of cultural innovation.
Presented within London College of Fashion, the screening invites reflection on the intersection of music, style and image-making — and positions the archive as both historical record and ongoing act of cultural innovation.
RIO CINEMA 2026- BIG SOUND ON THE BIG SCREEN
RIO CINEMA 2026- BIG SOUND ON THE BIG SCREEN
RIO CINEMA 2026- BIG
SOUND ON THE
BIG SCREEN
to truly celebrate a milestone like 25 years, we knew we had to try something ambitious, in true Tim and Barry style, we did just that by blending just jam with our new VIDEO DUBZ concept, played through a banging sound system in the classic, Rio Cinema Dalston.
to truly celebrate a milestone like 25 years, we knew we had to try something ambitious, in true Tim and Barry style, we did just that by blending just jam with our new VIDEO DUBZ concept, played through a banging sound system in the classic, Rio Cinema Dalston.
Just Jam takes over the Rio Cinema for a one-off live show, bringing the psychedelic, anything-can-happen energy of Just Jam onto the big screen with a big sound system, live sets, DJs, MCs and performances from Skengdo x am, Nori, Manga Saint Hilare, DJ Oblig, Tsunamy, Kieran Dotwav, Vvsmygwen and Cheza Lucina.
The other half of the night is VIDEO DUBS, with Martelo & Ian Mcquaid digging through 25 years of the Tim & Barry archive and treating the videos like records: Grime, UK funky, footwork, freestyles, Just Jam, No Miming, Beat This and more, mixed live on the cinema screen on Saturday the 3rd of October 8pm–2am.
Just Jam takes over the Rio Cinema for a one-off live show, bringing the psychedelic, anything-can-happen energy of Just Jam onto the big screen with a big sound system, live sets, DJs, MCs and performances from Skengdo x am, Nori, Manga Saint Hilare, DJ Oblig, Tsunamy, Kieran Dotwav, Vvsmygwen and Cheza Lucina.
Just Jam takes over the Rio Cinema for a one-off live show, bringing the psychedelic, anything-can-happen energy of Just Jam onto the big screen with a big sound system, live sets, DJs, MCs and performances from Skengdo x am, Nori, Manga Saint Hilare, DJ Oblig, Tsunamy, Kieran Dotwav, Vvsmygwen and Cheza Lucina.
The other half of the night is VIDEO DUBS, with Martelo & Ian Mcquaid digging through 25 years of the Tim & Barry archive and treating the videos like records: Grime, UK funky, footwork, freestyles, Just Jam, No Miming, Beat This and more, mixed live on the cinema screen on Saturday the 3rd of October 8pm–2am.
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