The venue is a lung. A carnal architecture of subversion where the noise grows thick and wild. Today we launch the Music Tourist Board. A radical cartography to map the sanctuaries and name the exploiters. For the Zeenagers reclaiming the circuit. Find the saints. Avoid the fever. Follow the stickers. The revolution has coordinates.
Read MoreI worshipped David Bowie because his wonky teeth made me feel better about my own. But the real wound came later. A forensic analysis of the nausea of celebrity worship, abnormal sexual psychology, and the girls we traded for guitar solos. We want them pure, and we want them dirty. This is the cost of the myth.
Read MoreThe TikTokification of music has birthed a new witch-hunt: the industry plant. This article dissects how this gendered label erases the years of labour female artists put into the grassroots circuit while distracting from the systemic collapse of the UK’s cultural infrastructure. We explore the erasure of history, the reality of label investment, and why the "plant" narrative is a weapon of gatekeeping.
Read MoreBecause the state aims to exhaust, the artists have built a counter-siege. The demo track Ocras is the engine and the lead for the OCRAS Hunger Striker Support Fund.
Read MoreOn Sunday 11th January, Tim Burgess brought his Merch Market to The Troxy, George Tavern, The Old Ship and The Clem in East London for a day and night of musical community on the side of artists. Musicians at all stages of their story and fans from everywhere were part of 5,000 people gathering to buy, perform, DJ, sing, dance and - especially - meet people. Pulsing positivity into 2026.
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