Seaside best new band scouting heaven at a three ring circus from Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th May:

The Brighton Rock n Roll Circus

A Free Entry, All Acclaimed Acts, Guitar Band Music Festival.

The interdependent, inclusive newer wave of music industrious will convene at a foodie pub and garden - between Brighton town centre and seaside - catching an (all recommended) bill of fresh excitements in a dynamic multitude of audio textures from pop loveliness via political prose to punk rowdiness.

A top quality select selection of new music to KNOW about.

A year after the #ReviveLive events continued to #SaveOurVenues all bands are brand new, off line, and purveyors of grand compositions living the stream on line.

Starting at mid day, these events go up to 11! (pm!)

The Black Lion, 14 Black Lion Street, BN1 1ND

All the above bands have big stories and engaging presence. If any attendees can donate, there’s an ongoing GO FUND ME for this event at https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-brighton-rocknroll-circus

Investigate KILL, THE ICON!

They formed as a response to the UK (United Kleptocracy) and it’s systemic corruption (which the continuing #2020Vision has exposed with awoken awareness through this pandemic).

Dance to their club-tastic beat as crapitalism’s multiverse of madness matrix unravels.

“ANTI-FASCIST, ANTI-WORK, PROTEST PUNK.

DISMANTLE YOUR IDEOLOGY, OR WE'LL DO IT FOR YOU.”

Rock n Roll rebel music weekend, anybody?

Each of the live sets at the Brighton Rock n Roll Circus is a gatekeepers-free gateway into an exciting music movement that TheZineUK is documenting. Positive attitudes and action create new futures as we bear witness. Under the radar but over the rainbow, mate. Get IN.

Happy Science are another great example:

”Unshackled, well rattled, we'll beat yer nan at scrabble.

Float like a butterfly, sting like an STD, our plans concrete. Its out of our hands, we're invading your towns, parading our sounds, retreat.

Press play/repeat”

So… if you’re able to…

Come to Brighton.

This kinda fun is free entry (18+)

Follow these bands/promoters to the escapist dimension of situationist uniqulture.

Both Kick Out The Jams and End Of The Trail are headed by seasoned music industry professionals with a wealth of scouting, promoting and connecting achievements between them.

Ongoing.

For Mid May 2022’s EVENT they’re partnered with global distribution and artist resource giant, CD Baby, the huge and ever supportive, Blackstar Amps, Gig Club: A community of music lovers supporting independent music - and us, your friendly neighbourhood Zine!

Over the last five years, the many names on this page and it’s poster have helped to create the genuine scenes-free, organically diverse music MOVEment that is making our social media time lines look like airport runways.

Watch and believe. Despite the hostile environment, rock n roll art’s fertile environment is effective. The Black Lion has become an unofficial meeting place for sussed scouts with delegate passes for TGE, you don’t need one to attend this music and networking weekend. Just be 18 or over. It’s friendly for solo adventurers of all kinds, too.

Try before you fly, 1:

The Brighton Rock n Roll Circus Teaser ad is under a minute at https://www.tiktok.com/@kickoutthejamz That’s a mix of previous “Kick Out The Jams & Friends” mid May seaside stages over the last few years, sound-tracked by KOTJ alumni, The Institutes, whose stone-rose-tinted debut, ‘Colloseums’, is widely acknowledged an album of 2021.

There’s gonna be much high calibre billing on show. This is a circus without clown acts but WITH genre fluid guitar joy. Alternative faves to be discovered. For instance…

Feral Five are on the move in 2022 with new electro-punk anthems and exciting album news ahead.

Smashing together dirty guitars, tech-fused hooks and driving energy, here at TheZineUK, we’ve called them ferocious and daring, with sexy as hell tunes that are the soundtrack of our dystopian 21st century lives.

Supported by John Kennedy at Radio X, and by BBC 6 Music, they’ve plenty to say and newly-recruited AI helping them say it.

Also appearing are fellow upcomers, Office For Personal Development.

Recently in session for John Kennedy of Radio X, I love how pix from that evening look like he’s joined the band!

So then, to recap:

12 to 14 May 2022 at The Black Lion.

This is a series of concerts. Yes. This is a community of welcome. Yes.

Some of these bands are regular Jammers and Trailers (played or attend the regular Kick Out The Jams and End Of The Trail clubs/gigs) so it’ll be a bit emotional as alongside this stage being a popular meeting place for industry and media at all levels over the weekend, there is much affection for these musicians, (possibly even more, after what we Earthlings have collectively experienced).

End Of The Trail are key to this tale.

The creative multi tasking starmaking force have just enjoyed another hugely triumphant SXSW excursion to USA with some of the aces on this weekend’s line up and Fierce Panda Records.

With official (international) stages at many music festivals and conferences (also including Liverpool Sound City and Focus Wales) EOTT head, Kelly Munro, gotta be one of the busiest men in popular music. Home to a happening rosta of game changers, End Of The Trail Creative are a musical force for good.

These “21st Century CBGBs” back stories will converge, soon.

In December 2019, Cross Wires (and members of Happy Science) were on The Blinders tour which called into a KOTJ East East End(!) show. TheZineUK doc have caught them, developing, impressing, since then. By Spring 2022?

“There has been big changes to our sound this year. Especially since Matt Lazard (our new bass player) joined the band. Somebody new coming in always shakes things up a bit.

We’ve been busy in the studio with Rory Attwell (ex Test Icicles) working on our second album.

The new songs have been influenced by many different sounds.

There’s dark epic tracks (Interpol, The Cure, Killing Joke, Protomartyr, The National, The Walkmen) and weird pop stuff (Blur, Bowie, Spoon, Teenage Fanclub, XTC) plus some heavy punkish songs (Idles, Buzzcocks, The Stranglers)” says Jonathan of the band whose debut album ‘A Life Extinct’ is extolled across national radio and media.

He continues: “We’ve played a few Kick Out The Jams shows now. They are always great nights full of passionate music fans. Roger puts on great line ups and really looks after all the bands involved. We can’t wait to play in Brighton.” 

The Trail to seaside emotional motion: We’re Jammin’

At the end of 2017, Kick Out The Jams appeared and became another interdependent live music inspiration for the #MusicPeopleParty.

Via a Mid May 2018 drama in a Brighton theatre (Fontaines D.C. played their first KOTJ show that day), in Autumn 2018 KOTJ monthly events began at the iconic 90s Britpop HQ, The Good Mixer in London NW1 (“Newer Wave won”).

It ushered in a tsunami of guitar twanged excitements including the surreal Fontaines D.C. return to KOTJ for the end of year show/euphoric mayhem.

2019’s Black Lion three dayer, The Brighton Mix-Up was another who’s who of wahoo followed by the music mytholgy making New Cross all dayer (Kelly Munro will tell ya about it when you’re older, absolute LOVE, tho!).

January 2020: "What a great crowd. This is obviously people here to listen to music. Which is very rare...” (The Institutes).

From our old world, via 2021’s seated/rescheduled gigs to starting this year with The Camden Rotter’s club, increasingly starting to bulge out of the venue.

If ya know, ya know. If ya don’t, you’re invited, but come early. Each time, it gets busier and buzzier. “The Good Mixer was a pure, unadulterated riot for the ages. Long live KOTJ” (Happy Science, 2022)

Kick Out The Jams, April 2022

Out in support of KIN, Kopper and The Imaginary Friends - a taster of the opener set (while raising charity £ for Rock n Roll Rescue, Camden) were members of Bugeye, Flesh Tetris, Kill The Icon, Dodgy, BERRIES, J. W. Paris, Junodef, The Palpitations, Play It Loud, Oliver Shaw and quite a few band managers, record labels and fellow promoters.

TheZineUK reported

“like a wedding reception house party at decibels”

“Somewhere, I heard somebody explain that he was Jesus Britney Spears”. Fair play.

"You're watching a grown man dressed as a school girl" (Kopper)

"What an absolutely wild one! We didn't know that many people could fit in a room! (KIN)

Trust. This is already a circus before it even gets to Brighton!

May 2022

Sociable socialising events are a collaborative alumni of artists and audience dream festival in their own right. There’s music world dance floor/bar presence (including media/industry, grassroots and otherwise) but none of that boring clique cliche. Instead, despite everything, without hype, talent takes off.

Try before you fly, 2: Compiled by KOTJ creator, Roger Kent of Kent!

Actually that playlist sounds like BBC Introducing x Radio X x 6Music and the amazing world of indendent radio who grow these sound seeds, jumping out of your speakers into a personal, intimate experience.

Like the days of blues and jazz cellar small venues in the 20th century, it is the grassroots circuit where the biggest back stories flavour the fringes of mainstream to maintain freshness. By the way, grunge fanatics…

Do not avoid A VOID!

If you’re still reading. Cheers. Can you tell I enjoy how we are three degrees of celebration? In short, a mix of cool cats will make The Black Lion roar in the year of the tiger.

Further reading: “guitar rebel explosions everywhere” (Smiley & The Underclass) Kick Out The Jams Mix Up, 3 years old, September 2021. https://thezineuk.co.uk/articles/kotjmixup3