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Uniqulture’s Arts Hearts: Rising

Inspired by grassroots music venues (GMV) champion, Jean Genie’s Panda Power Parties. Live music socials - introducing LA Salami, Gabi Garbutt, Granfalloon, annual Glastonbury fave, Lekiddo Lord Of The Lobsters and more - to new friends.

10th May 2024, The Ferret, Preston, saved. Love ya, Music Venue Trust! BBC TV North clip with CEO Mark Davyd (and a clip of Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs soundchecking)

Fusing performers, creators, dreamers, supporters. A kindly house party, with cake. Events Dept. memory from a music tourism tip, The Social in Fitzrovia.

TheZineUK arrived, founded in Uniqulture, March 2014 with punk and poetry.

Documenting seeds of stardust fuel a fertile environment. A decayed of punky situationist whimsy alongside other interdependent allies.

Totally Unofficial Free Festival Fun (TUFFF - gong!) sponsored by love, appreciation, friends, fans (LAFF)

Magick plays a huge part…

We’ve the Genie and a (Dizzy) Spell alongside every woodland folk of yore in this golden DIY Bayeaux tapestry of top history.

Music Women: Yes. Of course there’s our tech savvy musician as Space Vixen, Kat Five (interview - 2024 essential) - and our green friend, Moonpuss of Music Tourist Board.

Time Travel with DR WTF

Dr WTF’s pink LIVE LOVE TARDIS, parked in SE London by the River Thames

2024 proceeds at the rate of a week every day?

Parallel dimensions of psycho-trolls -v- poetic souls is measured (by TheZineUK anyway) in gigs, events and festival dates. These need finance to happen. Some sponsors are problematic for the moral conscience.

Nobody is perfect but it’s a Braver New World and the Resistance ®Evolution is developing. Children of all ages are an educated and empathetic new unity in a genocidal, eco criminal eruption of corruption.

United, We’ll Keep Improving.

Meet Generation A

One flag on the world stage is the most flown and displayed. Every chapter TheZineUK’s reported (perfectly imperfectly), feels like the deliciously diverse newer wave of under the radar rock n roll music industrious are SuperNature’s intent.

Hence the Fertile Environment HAPPENING despite the hisstablishment’s hostile one.

Not The Great Escape, Not The Alt Escape but an alt-alt-escapism of Total Interdependence Festivity - getting by with a little help from our friends.

Expo/Music Tourism

March is annually SXSW, Austin, Texas

2023 TheZineUK repping (down the front for Brooke Combe) at the British Music Embassy to begin the People’s Music Tourist Board then, at Vancerts, where the first word spotted is “Magic

2024. Supersponsors? RIP SXSW especially the tone deaf response from local government to the music world. “Es Ex Es Double U” (as a recent profiled music industry event called it) is planning to plonk SXSWLondon into the June 2025 ecosystem of the UK festival calender and grassroots music venue circuit. Sigh…

It feels like that was the last real SouthBySouthWest. Because…

2024’s main talking point was artist boycotts where, ironically, they probably got their names mentioned more than usual in UK/Ireland press. We’re proud to have been a media partner of Vancerts. Teenage Sequence thanked them.

Totally unofficial independent stages for the WIN. This was Vancerts ATX 2024 being loved during the SXSW boycotts…

March was also Expo 01 though.

LOVE power.

Not a bad representation of how the evening of live rock n roll music, poetry, audiovisuals and socialising went, in the end!

April 2024

CroCroLand (our doc blog) was the sold out weekend of uniqulture, artists/allies everywhere. Friends hugging under the moon. Such escapism, that leaving to discover WW3 was being attempted was surreal. Oi, war wankers, when Ms Mohammed sings ‘Never Again’, we’re with her!

Believe it - CroCroLand "An uprising of (40!) bands and music fans" - Expo 02 was, indeed, pretty much like this!

May 2024

The Great Escape is over shadowed by peaceful protest. Events take a couple of years advance programming so festivals and sponsors have time to consider/fix 2025 onwards.

Eurovision/Euronazivision, whatever, it’s an absolute catastrophuck in a week of BOOs (and bees!). (Mass Murder: still bad)

Ironically for this “once a song contest” bollox, It’s the week of Hind’s Hall by Macklemore (click link for the video - all proceeds to https://www.unrwa.org/ - the majority of us actually ARE united by music. Just not this genocidal apologist art-washing. 10% of the Malmo population protested this event. Generation A baby.

Mindless thugs beat students for being educated/moral.

We’re in some Dr Who reality warpfusion of 42 dystopian movies.

Simultaneously.

With a Shitting Image remix by The Muppets retold as a fairy tale. Wicked greedy “royals” included.

Retarted (as in having an extra jam tart) eh? Ha ha… BLOCKED!

Example - UK (Unprincipled Kleptocracy)

In Westminster/Pestmonster, a tory prime sinister was beaten by a lettuce, but they themselves beat the current (unelected) “leader” whose candidate for London Mayor was some mad bigot. The local fascists, Britain First, wereas beaten by Count Binface . BritainLast, then. Sadiq Khan, Mayor Of London acknowledged Count Binface who did the journalists job for them and asked zionaziradioLBC where their disappeared journalist, Sangita Myska, was. Dafuq?

This is what happens when the oh-so-superior-to-us-daft “wokeratti” adults are in charge. The professionals, experts, institutionalised, establishment are in charge…They and their toadies are so IN “the box”.

Leading the charge (of change)

The DIY Sector are some of the most professional in the rising global Arts and Entertainment movements.

Interdependent Culture Gift: Music Venue Trust. THANK YOU. MusicVenueTrust | Linktree

A sixth sense moral compass is changing the world with audiovisual representations for and against this Planet Nutzy age. With global genocide raging, the ingreeding slaughter-glee masks are off for Team Apartheid. Weaponised botbrains have lost their minds.

Earthlings peacefully marching towards a better future. It won’t be easy but it will always be worth it.

Team ®Evolution are using their he(ARTS) / heads.

KRIME shares his art for free - you can buy him a coffee at @Krime_1 | Linktree

Alternative ways of life are gifting some of the best of times during some of these worst of times.

The kids really ARE alright (not alt-right).

Cro Cro Land Forever (please)

The sold out Cro Cro Land Festival of 2024 is so much more than a MOMENT of the year.

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Cro Cro Land 2024

Cro Cro Land is already an event of the year for fans of rock, pop, electro, shoegaze, art and style presented on two stages at one location.

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Nature’s Science of The Arts Life

Unpublished Events Department Archived notes from March 2023. It’s 8th February 2024, and I’m adding some images while proof reading, Events Department thoughts…

I’m writing this on the first weekend of March 2023, Women’s Month.

We’ve a long way to go, (hi, festival bookers!) but let’s keep going there.

Perfectly imperfect, the interdependent music industrious who drive this tale are, nevertheless, pro active in making the world a better place.

Lewisham had been London Borough of Culture in 2022, but Alternative Sounds, weren’t really a feature. No worries, Fox & Firkin is where loadsa top names are calling in. At time of writing (8th February), Bez from Happy Mondays is the DJ on Saturday night 10th February.

The artists, through music and performance, the audiences with support, word of mouth and reaction, media (DIY or mainstream) with the oxygene of publicity and allies like the grassroots, independent gig circuit and all who sail with it.

Despite this dystopian, physical/mental health-fighting era, Music, like air and water, still cares about social justice, environment and a future. We each have differing tastes and politics, but most appreciate the huge economic, educational and reputational potential of new music. We argue about loads but we don’t go to battle about it, on line or in a festival field.

Ah. Screenshots. The People’s Chronicles. January 2023.

At the end of 2022 TheZineUK doc focused on independent venues, Sheffield Leadmill, The Ferret in Preston and Manchester’s Night & Day Cafe in an article. This tapestry weaves formidable talents and their spaces.

In the first quarter of this year we’ve witnessed scary scenes like there’s a nazicentenary jigsaw to complete by the 1930s. Nah mate, sod that. No wonder Spiite-Wing politricks steals good music for their rallies (rebranded as “party conferences”).

The angels have all the best tunes, the devil just asks without taking.

This is literally how tory-types choose how to live next to a grassroots music venue just so that they can then complain about noise. There should be a law that forbids such bollocks. It’s an attack on our culture and heritage, let alone the social collusion of a local community in a nation that has had it’s Youth Centres culled, also, during these crooked years of misrule.

Music World Advances Humanity

Music is a sharing blueprint lifestyle of Nature’s scientific sequences. The human animal is made of music. The arts are our (r)Evolution boost as we adapt at the rate of the tech we can get up our local shops.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Search For The Blue Note. The short film by Jean Genie Hayes & Jonny Hayes was what flavoured Croydon as London Borough Of Culture, 2023 for me. The premiere was packed and hugely applauded. Jean Genie also sang while presenting with Jonny and if time travelled, they could have been S C=T’s parents! Big up Stanley Arts! Documentary Information.

Uni Verse translates as One Song. In conjunction with the celestial skies made of the same Nature as the living globe, is a consistent serendipity that lifts the Islands and Isles just off the European landmass. We need it, we’re literally jailed by a barbed wire fence of sewage. Yeah, you bet Musician, Feargal Sharkey is a leading figure in the fight to put things right, there, too!

Also known as leader of 1970s onwards Derry lifetime-legends, The Undertones, a band whose loved-by-rock music generations anthem, ‘Teenage Kicks’ sealed their music culture heritage by happy (phew!) accident. Bassist, Mickey Bradley, is a music world hero giving airplay to newer wave rock star potential on his BBC Radio show.

The 22nd Century Space Pop outfit, Feral Five, reshaped sounds and thoughts with their 2023 album ‘Truth Is The New Gold’ the multi-sensory launch gig (with special guest, Ms Mohammed) was a veritable ABBA discovery with a DIY-Hackney flavoured plot twist.

Small, independent venues have built the barely visible Irish British dots on the globe to centuries of international giant reputation and achievement. Some balance to the English colonial bollocks of a nation whose new generations are all for saying “sorry”, “thank you”, whatever but the fash fossils ain’t having it.

Between #SaveTheFerret + Music Venue Trust’s #OwnOurVenues campaign and the sparkling video ‘Ray Of Hope (Ferret Forever)’ by Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs (“What a song!” - John Kennedy, Radio X), is a symbiotic uniqulture blue printing the future Entertainments module.

Entertainment arts power has been especially potent from the second half of the 20th Century as media possibilities bloomed - and owes very much to working class power which is also where the most diversity (and therefore possibility) remains.

Grassroots music circuit is where the next industry is creating itself. Obviously. Heck, artist/journalist, Dizzy Spell (TheZineUK’s Editor) bio is Situationist Roma Activist and I don’t know if it’s a queer thing or not, but I (Caffy, Events) am a vintage Black rock chick with a long time career as a Love Pirate on a parallel dimension (Planet Water). Along with the cast, cats and crew (Zeenagers) our tales of the playing class prove what is seeding under the radar to be worth investing time, energy and cash into.

This happens annually. This Feeling is not only Britain Ireland’s No.1 live rock n roll music club it’s also a finishing school of future picks with many perks, a community audience who follow bands on tour, supporting the venues as well as the artists, a creative crew of writers, photographers and hosts/DJs and a cross breeding Zone with a stellar reputation. thisfeeling.co.uk

The Newer Wave Punx of Normal Island

Fast forward to all backgrounds fusing to create playing class friends, while music education and venues feel systematically shut down by design.

Some genuine cult classic songs or even bi-stage worthy live sets grace intimate safe spaces. Affordably. I feel like I’m stepping home to Planet Water from the Maximum Mad Max Mayhem of Planet Earth, when I walk through the doors of a small venue.

Zone Airport. February 2023, coolazfck rockers, The Velvet Hands sold out This Feeling at The Lexington, London (ably supported by Lion Machine 23 - wove into this tale, 2019) and Sasha Assad who became a golden thread that very night. Via headlining TF Stage at Truck Festival then selling out November headline tour they play their biggest London show to date on 26th April 2024 at Omeara, London Bridge. Tickets: The Velvet Hands | (thisfeeling.co.uk)

The fact that so many faces from our pages are surely living a reality that they could initially only dream of, is a beautiful thing. We mean it when TheZineUK states the #FertileEnvironment as a “despite everything” reality. Blue Meanies, tories, can stick their hostile environment up their austerity hole.

2023 started colourfully

#BigInThisFeeling: Our gigging year started at another iconic music tourism space - The Water Rats in Kings Cross - being thrilled by Alien Blaze, Alice SK, Colour TV (James Brookes from the Soccer Six crew was beside himself after their set), Darlings - and more at This Feeling’s Big In 2023 show. (I also loved hearing SHADE in the between sets club sounds).

The Zone travelling circus of rock n roll brings crowds to the circuit and increasingly sells out in advance. Like this evening did. In the crowd were Zone Rangers, Louise Schofield and Jean Genie, multi tasking music women who move and shake new pop worlds.

There’s always a mix of artists, industry and media in “The Zone” and various of the events that we regularly attend and document. “Something Must Grow” (Patrick Jones, TheZineUK original inspiration). What makes the newer wave work is the mutual recommending, staging and witnessing that is outside the boundaries of mainstream manufacture. If it doesn’t grab us, we can’t be arsed to pretend it does. If it does though, uniqulture has a healthy rivalry to keep most of us raising our game, but with respect.

February 2023, #FuturePicks - Anna Wolf, KILL THE ICON! and Feral Five all have an increasing presence in February 2024. Check out Right Chord Music here: https://www.rightchordmusic.co.uk/

Interdependent Circuit Of Recommending Promoters, too

This Feeling, Decolonise Fest, Kick Out The Jams even TheZineUK’s own music socials, where would our next shows be staged without the Music Venue Trust. Genuinely the closest that our dimension of civilisation has to a government that cares about it’s people and their necessary spaces.

Own Our Venues is a people powered initiative. The Independent Venue Community look after and unite the spectrum of local people. The Tonic Charity is one of the mental health charities looking after the music world.

I found Tonic via the Music Industry CUP Soccer Six (whose crew includes an environmental Professor, Mark Maslen) and has included Women’s Football for over two decades (ambassadors Rowetta, Abbie McCarthy, Louise Schofield, Megan Wyn, Katie Owen are Ents world sparklers, on and off the pitch!)

The name Love Music Hate Racism speaks for itself. Forget Westminster on the North West bank of the River Thames. South EAst London has a Ministry Of Sound where Music Venue Trust were originally based and the ace n awesome Featured Artists Coalition still reside.

That’s a short walk from the Temple Of Art And Magic where I ended February 2023, on the night of a "Hmmm, War?” kinda day catching Kosmic Troubadour and friends pulsing PEACE through music with songs like ‘I Believe In Love’. I arrived home humming “We can do it, we can save the world”. But actually, we CAN.

Follow all the above and below - a supernatural magick will manifest.

With a couple of actual wizards (Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden Recording Studio - The Wizard of Wolvo - and wordsmith, punk legend Bruno Wizard) in our collaborative cast, cats and crew of creative charismas. Lisa Knight PR is one of the bewitching black cat owners of the music world (hi Molotov!) who, like ourselves, offer assistance affordably to help spread the word of emerging acts into ACTion.

Hi £-rich people, there’s enough official data from these and more organisations for worthy investment proposals. Who can help? Help sufficiently and break more than even. (see organic DIY growth reports). Also, Stop eroding and gate-keeping the potential pipeline! Please and thank you. Credit where credit’s due: Appreciation to the access angels.

Meanwhile, in the Temple Of Art and Magic… Love Month 2023

Add Nature’s Science to the arts for amplified public entertainment and we become united by a song, an individual or a group - often like a family extension. Fact - many of the people above meet each other on the future-making smallest venues biggest stories trail. It’s in our Sixth Sense of instinctive Nature.

The Force is strong via music.

Come with the MusicPeopleParty that is ALL happening!

TikTok Tales of January 2023 included at TheZineUK (@thezine.uk) | TikTok

14 March 2023 - Music Tourism Report Research began at the British Music Embassy in Texas

14 March 2024 - Music Tourist Board FOR THE PEOPLE is go! This is a situationist documentary, so no previews are currently available but it will be planned simultaneously as it unfolds.

By February 2024 - Scientifically natural new futures, The Musical!
Zeenagers Expo travelling circus begins in the New Cross backstage bar where TheZineUK was originally born. Come and tell us about YOU and be part of this uniqulture on Thursday 7th March 2024. facebook.com/events/1266437088092220

AWEtumn 2023

Totally Biased (sue me) tiny percentage of what’s rocking the now and next for The Events Department, as Leaves Fall From Trees like music news gifts

2023. What A Time To Wish To Be Allowed To Be Alive!

But positivity IS happening in music. Despite The Overwhelming/Underwhelming Everything of Now. The (necessarily) DIY Sector of the Entertainments world is adapting with a star shaped twinkle cracking the cruelty-gloom. See our situationist, cut n paste tapestry weave, whimsically, for further details. Below are three degrees of celebration rather than six degrees of separation. Universe (“one song”) makes it so. Noisily enjoying, A-Z:

ALEX SPENCER

“I’m What The Future Becomes”.

Are people of all ages listening to what the artists are facing? Singing about? Caring about? (kudos, Just Stop Oil, for sharing support for ‘And Now The Weather’) by articulate synth punx, KILL, THE ICON! Do you listen and really HEAR?

In lockdown, Alex Spencer came to attention with videos of busking around Manchester and became part of this tale. In Summer 2023, post GCSEs, the wait was over, got to see Alex perform live (with Will Harvey from his band) at #SoccerSixFest - worth the wait and highly engaging. That #FootballMusic social day out was special day for all the Spencer family. Aces. More on that is still to follow.

For now the new single, ‘Do What I Wanna’, is a sing-along-think-along tune of the year and you just know it will be a stormer at the headline show in November. Best wishes always, Alex.

Hi. We’re a DIY multi media - more Rocking Pebble than Rolling Stone but welcome to our documentary of extraordinary artists! From the following, Vanity Fairy joined our magick folk faves. Thanks MASH! https://www.mashzine.com/

#ArtfulFest 2021 Day 19

ANNA WOLF

If you haven’t yet, do please listen to the EP, ‘Romance Was Born’, it’s an aural spectacle. Currently working on exciting new music with producer, Rex Roulette, Anna Wolf and her band performed a treat of a main stage live show for the launch of key interdependent promoter, KICK OUT THE JAMS, in a brand new grand new location at the world famous Hackney Empire! Two Palms was too good! It launches properly soon. #KOTJmusic already invited back for October, November AND December events!

On Thursday night, I was just gonna leave this there for Friday’s proof read, but … I woke up this morning (da da dada!) and there’s a new single on the horizon for October 19th!

This date holds deep significance to me, and I couldn't wait any longer to share this song with you.
"MOTHER" touches on the painful experience of losing someone dear and the journey to rediscover hope amidst the darkness. It's a raw, honest portrayal of the vulnerability we all face when dealing with loss. Unlike songs that merely say, "everything will be fine, just hold on," I wanted to create something that acknowledges the difficulty of death and the acceptance that it's okay not to be okay.
I hope "MOTHER" provides solace to those who listen, letting you know that you're not alone in your grief. Be sure to pre-save the track using the link below, and mark your calendars for October 19th

Anna Wolf
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/annawolf/mother

#ArtfulFest 2023 Day 19 recommendation

COLOSSUS

‘The Gods Hate Colossus’ has literally just appeared on Earth. It’s a debut rock music EP that is as sparked in variety as their line ups and as passionately energised as what I’ve seen of their live shows (on line). An audio-textured mix of whipcracking rhythms, Classically hard rocking threads that call to mind Scrap Iron Scientists with a twist of Fat White Family - and art punk psyche harmonies. It just sounds like it’s own genres though. As debut EPs go, this is an inventive incentive to turn up the volume!

What a tapestry! Rob Homewood is the artbeat visual of the EP based on a band photograph by Andras Paul.

John Clay is part of the three way conversation with Nishant Joshi of previously mentioned KILL, THE ICON! and Chardine Taylor-Stone of BIG JOANIE (both bands woven into this doc).

If you haven’t read this, please do. Bring love. You won’t be uncomfortable unless yer a toryhearted bot, but I doubt you’d be reading the wibblings of TheZineUK (which is headed by working class women from Cruella-oppressed backgrounds) if you were! Maybe you’re on side, if so, bonus!

Well done #20YearsOfJoy. Now bring on 26th October. The Artful Party. Fonda 500 playing their finale London show and three new-release bands - Bugeye, Feral Five, Colossus - soundtracking the future with new releases. GOD IS IN THE TV and JOYZINE celebrate twenty years of existence while raising £ for Hope Not Hate anti racism charity!

The latest Moon Faeries to visit #SELondon are Nova Twins fans, Luna Tick Tock and Moona Lisa. They’ll be at the show. You can be too, for a fiver (in total!) from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/589723

God Is In The TV and Joyzine are both blessed with teams of quality writing and photography. New and alternative music reporting, reviewing, interviewing, thought piece articles, releasing hugely acclaimed compilation albums, musical downloads and staging live events! Happy Birthday, both. Again, it’s an interdependent thing.

Incidentally, Joyzine’s Rupert Hitchcox designed and photographed the entire Chapter 1 of TheZineUK. Late 2013, we went to meet a trendy publication in Shoreditch for tips. Showed them the mock up and they sneered that it was nothing special. Originally, the words off and fuck sprang to my mind, in no particular order, but I got over myself and we enjoyed a beer together with them. There’s no competition, they’re huge and doing it right.

We’re definitely different to the on-brand design concept that we may achieve one day. For now, TheZineUK is perfectly imperfect while creating in the wild.

That time TheZineUK were based at The Ministry Of Fluff n Dreama… Gordon Raphael is on the bus chatting all sorts with Ragged Cult Magazine. He also reviewed The Strokes at Hyde Park from side of stage. It was viralled across The Guardian, NME etc Heck I think somebody even remembered to credit TheZineUK - nah, y’aint seen it all before. Listen to all these artists. You may like a song and wahey!

Our first front page (uploaded mid March 2014 - some of our faves still in school) was taken with 15 minutes to capture Rhiannon The Nightmare stunning the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery (fast forward to now, she’s an award winning film maker) and the last page is of teen band, Floodliners, on the bar of Amersham Arms in a scene out of the TryLife TV drama. The bass player is now one half of Elton John faves, Nova Twins (currently on tour with Muse) and the drama is an international, top tier interactive youth powered tech sensation of international acclaim with (goes to check) 6.9 million followers on fakebook. We’re not all bad.

#Zeenagers are Generation Tremorists - All Ages And Backgrounds who are not falling for the whole Earth x Earthlings hating bullshit of the 1% - they don’t even know we exist so as the tides rise seize their yachts for your luxury squats

Maybe it’s because we live and love music world life, that in mid-March 2024, it’s TheZineUK’s tenth anniversary. Zeenagers Expo will let anybody (who is interested) decide if our new whimsical express is on point or not. Now do please go and re-read this page another day, if you likebbecause it will shape October (Artful month) which aims to create a physical event within a year.

Q: Will we succeed? A: We will try to. It’s a situationist kismet cosmic magical mystery tour, just come with… Are friends Electric? Now is the age of

ELECTRIC ENEMY

A pulsing blast of a hip-swinging rhythm that arrives into this tale via new single, ‘Fear’. BombPop Beats (bombastic, poptastic electro rock with alien invasion choir harmonies)! “I wrote, performed, recorded, produced and mixed this song about a panic attack i had” says Electric Jim. Dive in, hear him out as there’s a collection of massive tunes! Get IN! https://linktr.ee/electricenemy

MIMOSA

‘All The Time’ an Autumn single from a band who are a shade of 1970s Americana alternative rock outfit from Chesterfield with a driving rhythm paced, “sing it with me”, guitar-wigged-out shiner. Click here for the freshly unveiled video.

Mimosa are another name among a myriad of music industry who are part of Soccer Six Fest 2023 (which is part of our story) and graced the stage with a confident rock show swagger for which fans and friends had travelled miles to cut crazy, indie-disco shapes on the dance floor. The UK tour rolls on with this cumulative energy, via BBC Radio Sessions, festivals and tour dates to even greater heights as the year unfolds. A gig at Blackpool Tower?!!!

MOSES

“I’m very close to quit”… (2020) A Rock Opera In Real Time. Musicians from Eastern Europe, Ireland, South Korea form rock band. Build the seeds of a massive reputation. Brexit then Pandemica then ailments and finances hit hard. So glad that they don’t quit. Special kudos to The Wizard of Wolverhampton, producer Gavin Monaghan. A spiritual guide to many in the magical Magic Garden Studio. Fast forward to 2023 where new songs for 2024 were premiered on USA dates and the latest of their releases to hit a landmark, ‘Who Needs The Money' has passed half a million Spotify streams with no playlists in support. #ThatBandMOSES - mostly unknown but blessed with anthems for grand occasions and amazing followers who are a cross between a street team of recommendation and a gig-choir.

Look out, level playing fields, at all the names I’m blubbyblabbing here.
The Fertile Environment is a reality.

RUBY J

After hearing a world exclusive play of the energised Northern Soul tingled single ‘Home’, on John Kennedy’s X-posure Daily radio shows, I was lucky enough to experience the close range live performance at This Feeling’s Test Transmission 003 event that same evening.

With a soulful vocal distinction that I feel Ami Winehouse would enjoy, Ruby is an artist I’d like to hear sing ‘Goldfinger’ or ‘Hey Big Spender’ by Shirley Bassey. Another special artist on the runway of This Feeling’s “Zone Airport”. Yeah, the No.1 Live Music Club in the land staged something special. (cont./…)

Billie tinted Blues: https://linktr.ee/rubyjofficial

Pay attention to Music Venue Trust - if you don’t already - or you’ll no longer see a bill of live sets that you will later pay at least ten to twenty pounds EACH to witness at a later date. For instance…

Test Transmission 003 - Fitzrovia (Central London)

On 26th September you could have enjoyed Spangled, Beverly Kills, Billy Otto, Harri Larkin (introduced to our story by the above mentioned Gavin Monaghan!) AND Ruby J all on one bill for a tenner. Intimately in an inclusive welcome from This Feeling, their team and expanding community - while rubbing shoulders with banger-spinning, star heat-seeker, DJ and Host, John Kennedy, alongside more music industry influencers.

Four of the photographers in attendance - Jon Mo, Rhona Murphy, Keira Anee and Alan Wells - are also appreciated contributors to TheZineUK’s tale/heritage - look out for their highly rated work! Talking of involved interdependent media, Mike from Travellers Tunes is a prolific writer and scout.

Uniqulture. Interdependence. It works.

Yet again, an unforgettable, fun and enthralling evening. First time catching Harri Larkin, Beverly Kills and Billy Otto in the flesh. Superb. Quick taster clips of random adventures https://www.tiktok.com/@thezine.uk and https://www.instagram.com/thezine.uk/

Billy Otto and Harri Larkin, 2023 - This Feeling/TheZineUK

People travelled from all over the country and continent for This Feeling. Music Tourism.

A research of how it works was furthered by the back room that TheZineUK was born in (Amersham Arms) staging an event by 122MM in July. It was filmed by the above mentioned John Clay of Colossus. One of the bands performing was…

STILL TRAFFICO

This morning, this band released a giant bird that flies. Up. There’s something beautifully “SHACK in the Strawberry Fields Forever’ shadowing the single, ‘Seagulls’, which introduces this North/South Uniting band to a wider public. A sultans of swinged urgency within beseeching vocals, chord play rhythms and guitar chimes.

Turns out that the above mentioned 122MM (122 Music Management) are based in SELondon and we are on a wavelength, tune wise, so when up’n’comers, The Outers, were invited back to Amersham Arms, we all went together, had a brill night out and a proper social with the band (ha ha, I left them all in the beer garden until the early hours!). The Outers next show was launching a single in Hackney, supporting headliners, Still Traffico. A totally quality evening under a big big moon. Both bands. Both barrels.

My impression of Still Traffico was that their psychedelic structured layers sounded like a fresh feeling familiar for a few bars before a tango of textured tangents. No drugs required, a bit like a scene from 1980s cult TV, Twin Peaks, where the guitar band call in to the strange place, having got lost on tour and we freaks dance odd moves. Still Traffico describe themselves as ‘railway pop’ and they are, indeed, a little off the rails. Credibly.

I enjoyed myself too much, stayed late after instead of shooting for the last train and found myself on my own magical mystery night bus tour, occasionally loudly stating “I Am Moon”. Proudly weird, this is how September 2023 began. How it ends. All day long…

THE KAIROS

I want my Mummy! There’s a monster in my ear! It’s ‘Suspend’ the new single from The Kairos!

As all these random paragraphs are actually connected (uniqulture WEAVES), this is a band that were thriller killer at Test Transmission 001 on March 1st 2022. My first sighting. Dived straight in. That was a night not to forget: A new European war just declared, a rail strike thronged the doomy hearted streets with sponsored walks to get anywhere - and still a beautiful evening of noisy joys at close range - TheZine.UK insta: A “few secs of 'Money Mind' “A punky blues tint of Hamburg era Beatles”. (cont/…)

Now it’s Autumn 2023. Our mate, Louise Schofield’s increasingly busy schedule includes an (entertaining, of course!) session and interview on Spill The Sound - the bath balls reveal music TV show made in Manchester. The opening track played is ‘Suspend’!

Music journalists who go to gigs, DJ, present radio/TV shows, live events/Festivals, interview musicians they’ve put at ease - and just LOVE it. Yeah, they make our world go round. Go Lou, a perfect #NoKairoNoParty match! The UK tour is about to rock off for this band on a roll, get in The Thick Of It!

https://www.thekairosband.com/

THE OUTERS

At the end of last year, The Outers danced into TheZineUK’s ears with an insistently hooky pop TUNE ‘Danger Signs’. They were playing the launch of Bad Apple Club (no, not a policeforce disco) in Shoreditch’s Old Blue Last, supporting previously mentioned MOSES - and the song just stuck.

Their set was an instant winner, thrillingly festive and the perfect special guests for such lively headliners. The Outers are an uplifting band who are determined that you enjoy their gigs as much as they love playing them. Works for me. It’s early doors but their potential is seeding.

Yup, grabbed them to play Pop Of The Tops 2023 in Spring. They made a video for ‘Danger Signs’ in Summer and along the way, each show won fantastic feedback. Not just me, then. For Autumn, there’s a lyric video to the new single, ‘First Sight’, mentioned in the shout about Still Traffico, above… and to a noticeably bigger crowd.

https://linktr.ee/theouters2

Entwined, I tell ya!

Untwining, here is a bucket list band to tick off with a live show some day soon, hopefully.

All hail VENUS GRRRLS - Their new single, ‘Liar Liar’, is a skyward facing gongbanger of a pop strut. Huge if true. Guess what? It’s true! Leeds leads! Watch/Hear (YouTube)

https://orcd.co/liarliar-venusgrrrls by Misha Warren

ZEENAGERS EXPO - mid March 2024.

Wish us luck putting events together during the creative copromotions of the situationist virtual festival, Artful (Oct 1st-31st). What are your visual artists, film makers, illustrators, VJs of choice to soundtrack? Who or what is your #ArtfulFest 2023?

September 2023, Anna Wolf at the Bob Vylan social

newer wave of art punx having cheap fun on the outside looking outwards. Over and out.