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An emo retrospective exhibition at the @Barbican Centre - it’s free but only on until 15th January 2025. The exhibition is called I’m not OK (great MCR nod there!!) and it’s a collection of personal memorabilia from the 2007 wave of emo, ranging from bedroom selfies to ticket stubs, MySpace posts, band merch like t shirts and hoodies, personal photos. Lots of the content for this exhibition has been digitally unearthed by the Museum of Youth Culture from old hard drives and Photobucket accounts as well as submitted by emos themselves. The exhibition is so nostalgic and brings back so many memories of being a 12 year old on the internet. It you back to when we had iPod classics, Motorola razor flip phones where you could only store 50 text messages before the memory was full, when kerning and NME were a the height of their success and interviewing My Chemical Romance, who were my first real obsession, I can guarantee I have seen every single interview they’ve done, so it was also cool to see a few of their original annotated set lists too. The exhibition feel like a love letter to the emo subculture and really captures the community spirit that was an inherent part of it all. It takes about 30 mins to zip through, it’s free and you can find it in the Barbican library on the second floor. But! It’s only on until 15th Jan so hurry! No need to book tickets.