There was a grand piano in the shed. There was a childhood split between Beaconsfield and Beverly Hills, a foxtrot…
Before the banjolele there was an indie dance band, a dandy punk group that sang about sherry and ultra-violence, a…
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums . The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under…
He gave up a place at art college to win a £50 bet with his father, which led him to…
Beyond our own club, the flame of eccentricity burns bright across the capital and the Home Counties. So here is…
She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.
He asked his despairing games master whether he might try fencing, scrawled spy stories in a stained-glass library, and grew…
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to…
After twenty years in magazines, he fell into conversation outside a party, hatched a pretend speakeasy, and gave it six…
In 1986, a computer technician from Port Talbot climbed into a bath of baked beans and stayed there for a…
Can dandyism survive the twenty-first century without losing its meaning? This beautifully produced volume by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams…
A boy who watched beetles cross the grass rather than climb the trees grew into a poet, cartoonist, songwriter and…
One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing…
Private members' clubs were far more than dining rooms and drawing rooms during the Second World War. They became recruiting…
He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the…