All welcome to an evening at Salurinn, where we’ll screen two works by Jeremy Deller.

Logi Leo will be spinning some records!

God bless this acid house and see you in Hamraborg!

Our Hobby is Depeche Mode

Our Hobby is Depeche Mode is a 2006 documentary film directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and filmmaker Nicholas Abrahams. Instead of focusing on the band itself, the film explores the intense, global subculture of Depeche Mode fans and how pop music becomes a lifeline and a symbol of personal freedom.

Everybody in the Place

In Everybody in the Place, artist Jeremy Deller revisits the social and political forces that shaped the UK’s so-called Second Summer of Love (1988-89). The film is structured around a lecture he gave to political science students. Using rare archive footage, it connects acid house and rave culture with unemployment, police tensions and the 1984–85 miners’ strike – a major national conflict that changed Britain’s political direction.

House music travelled from clubs in Chicago and Detroit to Britain, and merged with British-Caribbean sound system culture. It moved into nightclubs, warehouses and open fields. Acid house, and later rave, did not appear from nowhere. It grew in a country that felt divided, giving young people new ways to gather, dance and build community as older systems were breaking apart.