Kick Out The Jams Mix-Up up road show is 3!
September 2021. The third anniversary of Kick Out The Jams travelling circus of Mix-Up!
Alternative Rock Club celebrates it’s third year of interdependent music socials and “guitar rebel explosions everywhere”
Come to Amersham Arms on Thursday 16th if you like the idea of having a noisy good time with Alice Is Sleeping, Kontrol Freaks, Snayx and Blabbermouth very live on stage.
Advance tickets https://skiddle.com/e/34497822
(more/cash on the door)
For all Kick Out The Jams updates / tickets see https://facebook.com/KickOutTheJamz/events
Following on from #TheZineUK doc article, last month, on this vanguard of the interdependent music industry, we’re beyond punk in Pandemica - more reasons to celebrate…
Since Autumn 2017, industry professional, Roger Kent of Kent has scouted a vibrant genre fusion of guitar sounds to build a key alumni of Ones To Watch.
Angela Martin of Bugeye, September 2018, Mix-Up launches!
Autumn 2018, KICKing off a regular club at the (suitably named) Good MIXer in September 2018 with the Camden Mix-Up.
The mighty line up of The Velvet Hands, Bugeye, Smiley & The Underclass (live) with Katie Owen on the decks, was a one-out-one-in crowd outside before the first note was played!
In the sprawl of grassroots music venues the size of the Cavern, 100 Club, Eric’s, CBGBs something beyond punk is sparking as music lovers refuse to put the guitars down.
By 2018, it was especially starting to show, fuelled by friendship as finance, sharing and exchanging talents, contacts and services.
When you have such a crowd of welcoming people (made some new friends that night) and many of them know each other, something’s going on. Social media plays a part in recognition. Sponsored by Rotor Videos, #KOTJmixup events buzz with a hive of music sociables.
Before the first live music note was played, it was busy and buzzy for The Camden Mix-Up launch…
With ethics in both the charity and affordability camps (i.e. reality) it's a lot like an expanding dysfunctional family. With guitars.
Free Entry - bucket passed round raised £ for Musicians Against Homelessness
Ha ha, that The Good Mixer had to put up a sign asking that performers please don’t stand on the piano (having hosted Couples and Fontaines D.C. gracing Mix-Ups)
Both the club and this venue are somewhere to be seen and heard (rather than scene and herd).
The spirit of the early events has sustained even through the trauma of 2020 and 2021, via the rescheduling of last year’s shows to the seated gigs, then last month’s feisty femme fronted frolics at the first old school gig in this new world, Pandemica.
The Gulps, Carl Barat, Alan McGee and more were in the crowd. Various faces of the newer wave like photographers Rhona Murphy and Chris Patmore, Ade of Creative Sounds Management - and - what’s that, Lisa of Knight PR, you got home after 4am? Ha ha, Roger knows how to throw a party!
Hawxx play The Deptford Mix-Up launch, July 2019
For a couple of years, now.
By Summer 2019 there was The Brighton Mix-Up a Mid-May, free entry three day sea-side festival with 45 bands partying at The Black Lion.
It was packed from start to finish with a diversity of artists, allies, media and industry - grassroots and otherwise.
The spectrum of (friendly) humanity are welcome to come and mix up for good times/tunes.
Then there was an all dayer at Amersham Arms that July sparked the Deptford Mix-Up. I’m just gonna say “anecdotes galore” and leave it at that! Bloody FUN-tastic. Cool cliques are ten a penny but a warm welcome makes all the difference. Even more so, post lockdown.
Fast forward to 16th September 2021’s line up: ‘Not Cool’ - Alice Is Sleeping
The star turns are still selected ‘cause they have something. Having made a distinct impression on Hastings, Blabbermouth are playing their first London show this very evening! Hope they have the best fun joining in.
Amersham Arms is a statement gig for a multitude of entertainment and engagement on and off the backroom bar stage.
Since summer 2021, it’s a music TV studio also - where I got a first glimpse of Kontrol Freaks being filmed for GET ON! - and very much enjoyed their set.
Keep an eye out for them at https://roobi.tv/ - new music’s weekly on line show.
On this line up, we also get to catch Snayx again, on the road to November’s inaugural Ghost Road Fest. They were in TheZineUK doc’s start to 2020 as a recommendation. What a journey in between to get to the cracking new release, ‘False Friends’
The Deptford Mix Up is only one of a variety of events which Kick Out The Jams runs.
#Safety1stGigs adapted to 2021 escapism with respect and noisy joys with big songs.
#MusicTourism: Amersham Arms. 388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY https://theamershamarms.net/
1 minute walk from Goldsmiths S.U.
Opposite New Cross Station / 5-10 mins walk New Cross Gate and Deptford Bridge DLR. 10 mins walk Deptford High Street Rail.
24 hour buses every 10-15 mins.
Access: One level venue with disabled toilet.
Live music ends in time for late trains.
Kick Out The Jams: https://www.instagram.com/kickoutthe_jams/ + https://twitter.com/KikOutTheJams
Aftershow bar until early hours. Gonna let the first band of the Mix-Up road shows have the last word:
"So fuckin excited after last night's gig at The Good Mixer. There's a real scene cooking. Real vibes. New bands. No cunts. Guitar rebel explosions everywhere...." Smiley & The Underclass. September 2018.
18/9/18: …and The Underclass and Wonderclass unite at Kick Out The Jams Mix-Up music sociables! BOOM!