Isle Of Wight! Feeling alright: Far out! Sold Out!

It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year! (Music Festival Season, that is). It felt like 2020 lasted for three years. Right? It’s a good excuse to party harder for escapism. 15th to 18th of June, Isle Of Wight, will emit rays of positivity into 2023.

Festivals are the greater outdoors: Giant song and dance parties. The best representation of tiny eccentric isles with a global entertainment reputation. #IOW23 includes loads of favourite names for all generations - across eclectic stages. Some invited back, some making their debut, all gonna be ACE!

TheZineUK documentary and new music scenes in general just wouldn’t be the same without one particular festival stage.

This Feeling

Some of their artists are threads in our situationist tapestry. The landscape of the main festivals has changed because the under privileged are getting a pipeline via TF. Yet again, Britain’s top rock n roll gig club have surpassed themselves with this line up: 'This Feeling are way ahead of the curve for new band bookings' (Clash Magazine)

When TheZineUK started in 2014, guitar bands were being written off. This Feeling writes them back in. Bringing a LOAD of artists to take off from “Zone Airport”, talent runway style. We asked Mikey, founder of the “Influential rock'n'roll club” (Music Week) about Isle Of Wight Festival 2023…

Mikey Jonns

“We're bringing Forty One brilliant new acts to the Isle of Wight festival this year...I still have to pinch myself we've got a stage at one of the biggest/best/famous festivals in the world!

We've had The Amazons, Yonaka, Red Rum Club, The K's and so many more progress from our small tent to the big stages. It's a dream come true (thank you John Giddings). 

So, if you're heading to The Island next week come to the This Feeling tent in-between The Big Top and the main stage, it's where stars are born....”

Facts though. There are now so many names involved in the story of This Feeling that it should be a Netflix series, at least. We know, because we’re documenting how music tales weave. A case in point are

The Clause

Very recently, these long time zone rangers announced: “ISLE OF WIGHT MAIN STAGE! Lost for words... This is the kind of stuff we dreamt of as kids and it's all down to you lot for championing this band from the start… We'll be opening the main stage on the Friday. See you all down the front!”. Describing it as “the maddest gig offer we’ve ever had”, @theclauseuk tweeted

“From @This_Feeling stage to the main stage. Thanks to their platform, the best new bands get to see opportunities like this”

We’ve witnessed such opportunities at Big In This Feeling events also supporting our beloved grassroots venues, annually touring ones to watch. It was packed before the first set in January…

Alice SK

A genuine captivator with a lush vocal and cinematic sound. Now #IOW23 bound, courtesy of This Feeling stage (Saturday afternoon).

On that same January night’s line up as Alice SK, we got our first glimpse of more fresh intrigues including…

Colour TV

This quartet met at college in Cornwall and decided to start a band rather than finish their A Levels. Angular and frenetic onstage, they’re gathering momentum and already playing sold out shows. They refuse to stay indoors for fear of bursting through the ceiling.

Definitely Big In 2023 and beyond, TheZineUK were impressed by their showy presence giving off iconic reflections The band are excited about their festival appearance, to say the least. In their own words:

“Colour TV are ecstatic and overwhelmed to be appearing at the Isle of Wight Festival on the This Feeling stage.

Not in our wild and hopeless dreams did we imagine we’d don the fêted Artist wristband at a major UK festival. This is possible thanks to the heroic championing of up-and-coming artists by This Feeling. All we can hope is that the ferries will handle the weight of anticipation.”

Travellers Tunes describes their new single, ‘Vanilla’ as . “a courageous self-loathing piece of brilliance.” Check out a video, also. There are interactive sonic layers in the band’s recent single, ‘Christopher’s Halo’ .

Colour TV are not the only ones feeling the thrill of the build up.

This Feeling DJ, Louise Schofield, filmed some awesome interviews at Isle Of Wight Festival a couple of years ago, with TheZineUK, and won some fans of her own, getting even busier, since. With admiration for her (music loving, hard working) growth as an entertainment presenter and journalist alongside the bands, it’s ace that she’s back DJing at Isle Of Wight Festival 2023.

"Isle Of Wight Festival is always one of my favourite weekends of the year and I am so excited to be back DJing for This Feeling across the weekend! The buzz in this tent during the weekend is a very special one and this is where future headliners are born.  Make sure you come and check out the brilliant lineup across the weekend. See you in the fields!"

(Louise Schofield)

Boom!

This Feeling scouting and presenting is recommended by a swathe of high profile names as well as being a virtual fest-within-a-fest for some music fans. 'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first.' (Carl Barat)