Features
Out of the Centre: Exploring the Meaning of the Word 'Eccentric'
On the drifting meaning of a single word - why the late Lord Bath spent a lifetime declining it, how a national birthright became a global…
Author
Ima von Wenden
Personalities
Mind That Steinway in the Potting Shed
There was a grand piano in the shed. There was a childhood split between Beaconsfield and Beverly Hills, a foxtrot down Sunset Boulevard with Fred Astaire,…
Personalities
A Big Bean in a Small Can: Forty Years On
In 1986, a computer technician from Port Talbot climbed into a bath of baked beans and stayed there for a hundred hours. He has been a…
Personalities
Face the World with a Dandy Stance
Before the banjolele there was an indie dance band, a dandy punk group that sang about sherry and ultra-violence, a Britpop terrace anthem and a covers…
Personalities
There Is No Such Thing as Nothing
A boy who watched beetles cross the grass rather than climb the trees grew into a poet, cartoonist, songwriter and campaigner - and the Eccentric Club's…
Personalities
Music, Monkeys, and a Moat of Tea
He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the same thing - only now it…
Personalities
The Rakes' Progress
One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing "Greensleeves" until a naked man tried…
Features
The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums. The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under the club clock, a dinosaur-hunter chairing symposia…
Personalities
The Fabulous Czainskis
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to rescue a silver woman in pieces.
Personalities
The Six Faces of Lucy Freud
She spent a year at art school under her married name, saying nothing. Then she turned out the lights.
Editor at the Roost
Dare To Be Eccentric?
Since the eighteenth century, the Eccentric Club has celebrated originality, fellowship and independent thought. Yet in an age of culture wars, cancellation and performative outrage, the…