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Read MoreNew Year's Revolutions
The Latest Picture Book - Dec’20-Jan’21
Sun 14th March 2021: "Hallo. We are TheZineUK. We are seven years of situationist, whimsical rock'n'roll artbeat poet lifestyle. The musical." We Are A New Sanse!
Except Sunday wasn't about us. It was about the women of (?) “Poundland” / “Povonia” / “Lepercoloniski” (?) (seriously, what is Brexitannia's real name these days? "united" and "great" this nation sure ain't - but we can’t stick with Plague Island forever! Anyway, International Women’s Day is eternally every day for anybody who is onside.
Mon 15th March : The Ides were ‘ideous! #PolicingBill hell is, of course, going ahead.
Tues 16th March : In our parallel dimension we are inspired by the cast and crew of our story.
Most of them are our friends and many of them will know where this tale is coming from. Between us all, we have woven an almost-Almost Famous tapestry of golden threads which make increasing sense as a movie script. The latest picture book has been uploaded, what happens next? In seven years of kismet and riffs we have come a long and twisted way. Literally feeling sentimental like the faces on our pages are beloved characters in a real life folklore story of heroic every day people.
Season 1
(innocent-ish passions meeting at live music adventures). We launched New Year 2014 with punk art poetry on Tin Pan Alley, Soho, Central London. Mid March 2014 we uploaded Chapter 1 of the diary doc and went on a road trip of creativity and serendipity. It was the yellow brick road of highs and lows which led to the Music People Party in December 2017. Slideshow: Season 1 of 2021 cast/crew video clips.
Season 2
By 2018, you couldn't make it up how delectable DIY in dystopia was empowering a theatric fertile environment despite the increasingly hostile environment of reality's backdrop.
In 2019, the seeds, watered with love, accidental comedy and noisy funshine began to bloom. Then we awoke to the 2020 vision with many of the one race, humans, revealing themselves. Some inadvertedly.
Through the latest picture book December 2020 to 31st January 2021 - for many of us, although we are dividing, these shared experiences (including being uplifted by the arts, while despairing of cruel corruption) bring us together in different ways to gigs.
Cue the wealth of artists, their audiences, allies: photographers, writers, presenters, DJs, dreamers, producers, film makers, dancers, promoters, technicians, designers, poets and cottage industry of crews. If TheZineUK doc is untrue then nobody will recognise the charismatic characters in our tales.
2021's Zeenagers ARE the Music People Party and beyond, plus new friends keep coming.
The latest upload is a melting pot picture house of Amanda Gorman, The Rezner, Bugeye, Simon Price, Cool Thing Records, Birthmarks, BLAB, Mourning Birds, Gavin Monaghan, Asylums, The Mysterines, John Robb, Music Venue Trust, End Of The Trail Creative, Travellers Tunes, Peace And Justice, Drilly, Sick Love, False Heads, A Cause In Distress, Coach Party, Emily Capell, Lock-In and OBTV with the wonderful Nadia Sheikh as our cover star. We’ve actually seen/met most of the people concerned, in the flesh, over the years.
Serious shout outs to the New Year (r)Evolution, escapism have never been needed so badly. Not so sure how long TheZineUK will last though. We are a nuisance. Headed up by working class women of non-elite heritages we're more Rocking Pebble than Rolling Stone but have gate crashed and blagged alongside all the kind invitations and access, to bring a story unlike anything else.
Our stars, yeah you heard, STARS, twinkle hard. They possess stages, not ages (Generation Tremorists of uniqulture are children of all ages). Our Newer Wave of Interdepent music industrious confuse the corporate. Vintage rockers bring the experience and anecdotes while teens and 20-somethings are the sussed marketing heads of the next biz, already. This frees the artists to break through between school and pension like music was the life long calling that it really is.
Season 3
We rebooted in Love Month 2021 (a.k.a. February) with the Lunar(tic?) New Year but also tinges of hope. No way would we stop reporting on the genuine stars rising under the radar despite everything. What happens next? We all decide.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Hallo Bright Pink CatWalk...