WHELMED

(Overwhelmed and Underwhelmed)

Documenting a newer wave of alternative rock and pop talent, it's music industrious allies against the surreal backdrop of “Normal Island” and it's off-continent neighbours: 

Documentary diary study of one week noted by Events Department on Monday 29th January 2024. This is just a fraction of (@thezineuk) / X (twitter.com)

024 01 23 Choose Day

Tuesday 23rd January included Occultist beginnings with Music Tourism in the mix as some of TheZineUK friends socialise at a favourite bar/grassroots music venue, The Social in Fitzrovia (Central London). A thread of our tales. Uniqulture's Moonage Daydream continues.

024 01 24 Wednesday

Day 24 of 2024 = #24ourPartyPeople - it's ON 

+ Chuck D of Public Enemy posts about the loss of revered music journalist, Neil Kulkarni 

+ Big In 2024 Vinyl Compilation announced by This Feeling

+ Jim Salveson, XS Manchester radio's pic of Ones To Watch of the day is Colour TV (muchly enjoyed by TheZineUK, BigInThisFeeling TikTok clip)

024 01 25 Thursday

The Full Wolf Moon rises, as does a new #ZeenageDaydreams playlist, here: The Zine UK

+ An "Important thread" (Simon Price) -  'The Music Industry's Big Lie' (KILL, THE ICON!) 

+ DJ Paulette 'Welcome To The Club' book launch, Manchester (via Rowetta). 

+ This Feeling's "Zone Airport" runway for artists to take off* proves the DIY sector is music's next KEY" (TheZineUK) + Ambassadors for Pirate.com x This Feeling announced. 

“Bigger venues that benefit from the productive pipeline that grassroots venues provide need to support these smaller venues, as do the artists that have come up through them…”
(Enter Shikari) x Music Venue Trust

+ Jelly J the artist, one of TheZineUK picture mag cover stars, with video clips of her painting live at JAM FOR GAZA

HBD John Cooper Clarke
"Punk gave all us working class surrealists somewhere to go"

+  "Why are festivals in the UK so scared to diversify their line-ups?" (God Is In The TV article) 

+ A #MusicForTheMany show in Glasgow

+ #MarzipanDildo was trending (without a John Peel meme!)

024 01 26 Friday

On a historic Friday 26th January 2024, was setting off at dawn for Moonset Facing Adventures, filming in The Angel, feeling like a lucky devil.

+ Plausible genocide? "Guilty". (International Court of Justice) - Team Naziworld, fuming.

+ Kneecap movie reviewed by Variety + their eponymous Irish-language movie wins the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival (RTE News)

+ The Clockworks stormed Norwich

+ The Outers play their first full band (five piece) next level show and leave the audience shouting "Outers, Outers, Outers!". Yup. Played for TheZineUK’s Pop Of The Top event last year and stormed it.

+ This Feeling buzzy Big In 2024 kicked off it's support of emerging artists in grassroots music venues at EBGBs, Liverpool/Loverpool

024 01 27 Saturday

Caturday cat fight: NaziNationsNastiness multiplied by 666 on "Holocaust Memorial Day" - Never Again means EVERYBODY, every time. Surely?

+ 30th anniversary of Oasis playing The Water Rats (which was reviewed at the time by Simon Fierce Panda for NME)

024 01 28 Sunday

Bloody Sunday - Seriously. Never Again means EVERYBODY "If I Must Die, Let It Bring Hope" (Refaat Alareer) commemorative public art, Derry

+another sold out show (Manchester) for Laurie Wright + The Molotovs double bands headline tour. 

+ Musicians view: Alannagh of Cherym on point. Not "a simple drummer". Percussionists never are.

Bloodier Sunday - "We could be witnessing the collapse of international law" (Council Estate Media)

024 01 29 Monday

Music Tourism: Independent Venue Week begins. The nationwide annual celebration goes up to 11 years old! Need/Read all about it Home - Independent Venue Week UK

+ Upcoming artists, Apply from today to play Glastonbury by deadline Monday 5th February!

+ Night & Day Cafe, Manchester. What's the story...? 

+ Hotwax are on KEXP, the station that inspired their band to form 

WWWW working women's working world (interdependent sector)

"1984, hold our beer" (2024, Team #CeasefireNow) - but "Something Must Grow" (Patrick Jones), TheZineUK documenting our collective situationism, proves it.

Tuesday, choose day, 30th January. includes the Misogyny in Music Report, by the Women And Equalities Committee - sorta like the wishful rise of WWWW - but reads the truthful mainstream and otherwise brutal reality of the current situation.

Onwards, then. It’s not even the end of a month that already feels like a year. Here's to all the good hearts and souls that make the word Humanity still mean something. You’ll find many of them at TheZineUK’s brand new gig guide!