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🛸🍄 A celebration of 60s and 70s counter-culture, a regular club night in Thanet that specialises in garage rock, psychedelic rock, proto-metal, proto-punk and loads more! 🍄🛸

20/05/2026

The blue wizard returns at the end of June!

Freak Out is back for our big summer event! Last June we managed to pack out the Arts Club with a night filled to the br...
06/05/2026

Freak Out is back for our big summer event! Last June we managed to pack out the Arts Club with a night filled to the brim with 60s and 70s hard rock, so lets see if we can do it again!

But how can we make this night even better?

How about FREE ENTRY!! Anyone coming in before 9pm will be treated to free entry for the entire night!!

We will also be working with other businesses or events on the night to help folk get in as well!

Make sure you reserve a free ticket as early as you can!

Tickets will be £5 after 9pm entry, so make sure you get down early!

Our photobooth and sleaze horror fest will also be making a come back, including our now infamous dress up box

Expect to hear the likes of Sabbath, Mountain, Dio, Led Zep, Coven, Hawkwind, Budgie, a whole host of witch fronted occult rock and loads more!

Thank you all so much! We had an absolute blast spinning some more early metal and doom for you guys!And of course thank...
05/04/2026

Thank you all so much!

We had an absolute blast spinning some more early metal and doom for you guys!

And of course thank you to the team and Luke for always putting upwith our ideas!

We can’t wait to announce our next date, but in the meantime if you have any feedback or questions feel free to drop a message!

Thanks!

Yesterday's run of music for those who have been asking! We're glad that the change of direction to Freak Out was well r...
04/04/2026

Yesterday's run of music for those who have been asking! We're glad that the change of direction to Freak Out was well received! We'll get a date announcement up soon for our summer edition! Watch this space!

As per usual, the DIY photobooth was a hit! Feel free to message for a tag or removal!
04/04/2026

As per usual, the DIY photobooth was a hit! Feel free to message for a tag or removal!

Look out for the blue door tomorrow night!Cameo appearance from !
02/04/2026

Look out for the blue door tomorrow night!

Cameo appearance from !

This friday at the first .thanet of 2026, we will be reopening our craft table! Designed as a bit of fun and a bit of an...
31/03/2026

This friday at the first .thanet of 2026, we will be reopening our craft table! Designed as a bit of fun and a bit of an ice breaker

Come and make a magical matchbox at the craft table ✨️ a talisman you can fit in your pocket and a home for tiny treasures. 💫

There's enough collage materials to design your own surreal album art as well!

The projector returns next week! We will be playing the Karnstein trilogy, in honour of local legends playing earlier t...
27/03/2026

The projector returns next week! We will be playing the Karnstein trilogy, in honour of local legends playing earlier that night at

Unfortunately we won't be able to make their show (with putting on Freak Out!) but will be playing this as a close runner up!

Fancy a pallete cleanser after the show? Then pop down!

Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come (1970)A gritty heavy psych and proto metal gem, Kingdom Come sits neatly in that space...
16/02/2026

Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come (1970)

A gritty heavy psych and proto metal gem, Kingdom Come sits neatly in that space between heavy metal and psychedelic rock that signals where heavy music was going at the turn of the decade. In the story of heavy metal, they would never reach the same height of fame as their Sabbath contemporaries, but were absolutely part of that same seismic shift that pushed the limits of volume and aggression at the time before it was even named. Underrated, but essential in the history of heavy metal

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Heavy MetalThe first entry in a big list of things we may p...
10/02/2026

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Heavy Metal

The first entry in a big list of things we may play in a couple of months. Start with the behemoth, and game changer of all rock music, the mighty Black Sabbath debut. Highly innovative and distinct from the work of their peers, Black Sabbath took the hard, bluesy driving rhythms of heavy psych and blues rock and, with a little bit of extra sauce, released a genre defining album. Black Sabbath's signature doom laden sound was achieved in part by accident, as guitarist Tony Iommi had to tune his guitar slightly lower to compensate for his finger prosthetics, due to a factory accident.

Aptly timed for a 1970 released, at the start of a decade where rock music was taking a darker approach in general, Black Sabbath sets the tone, opening with the thunderous self titled track (Black Sabbath, by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath), the ringing of the cathedral church bells spells it out that this is not walking in step with many of their big named contemporaries. Favouring menacing and brooding tone over blues swagger, the band favoured an ominous feeling.

Post release appraisal also makes not of not only did it lay down the foundation for the heavy metal scene going forward, but it also zeroed in on the doom, stoner and sludge scenes as well. With many modern bands seeking to emulate and evolved that original proto-doom sound, such as Electric Wizard who wear their Black Sabbath worship on their sleeves

The album has an enduring legacy as one of the most important releases of British music in the 1970s, and the start of what is possibly the greatest consecutive 4 album run in all of rock music

Sabbath always has a place in the Freak Out playlist

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