The

Hellwood Archive

Cult cinema, true crime, strange history and cultural oddities.

Stories from the darker corners of film, television, music, literature, crime, history and the unexplained.

the velvet underground

1966 New York underground multimedia performance with a rock band, dancers, overlapping film projections, coloured slides and strobe lights filling a crowded dance hall

Music Literature

Exploding Plastic Inevitable: The 1966 Show That Invented the Modern Multimedia Gig

Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable threw the Velvet Underground, underground cinema, strobe lights, dancers and a mirror ball into the...

25 Sep 2026 • Archive Note