Mix-Up and get down!
CRUEL HEARTS CLUB, CAT SFX, KIN & BLAB
rock New Cross on 12th August
There’s been a mix up or two on this planet since Kick Out The Jams launched their travelling circus of regular music socials in September 2018. By 2021, summer solstice was the Xmas Party and like a timelord, Roger Kent of Kent has got Volume 4 of The Deptford Mix-Up in Amersham Arms to realisation.
TheZineUK documentary has the receipts for much of the influential rock and roll fun that exudes from the #kotjmixup wavelength.
Life in the new world of Pandemica is consistent shape shifting, so before doors, check timings etc at Kick Out The Jams fakebot page https://facebook.com/KickOutTheJamz
If you can’t be at the world’s time zone (Sarf East London) that night then, in an age when some (so called) festival bookers can’t believe it’s the 21st century, check out the artists.
We caught electro-grunge-punx, Cruel Hearts Club, at Modern Age’s Soma Festival in 2019, This Feeling’s Big In 2020 and they keep raising their game which, in turn, spreads their reputation.
Like Kick Out The Jams, both those promoters are part of the newer wave (r)evolution of media/industry support circuit which includes the labels and management repping this evening.
Cruel Hearts Club will release their EP, ‘Trash Love’, on August 20th. It was recorded at the Albion Rooms and the video is anticipated with cameos from members of The Pearl Harts and Black Honey. It all feels like three degrees of celebration to our story. No ordinary family day out for the hooky rock out of ‘Suck It Up’
Via last Autumn’s everypeople anthem, ‘Dirty Rotten Scum’ last Autumn, Cruel Hearts Club, were in the national newspapers this month. Right now it’s time to…. Kick Out The Jams, mother rockers!
#ReviveLive
Since Mid May 2021, All Artists Are New - emerging from lockdown, blinking into stage lights.
We’re still Uprising On The New Cross Road, borough of Lewisham
From socially distanced seated shows, to now, Amersham Arms has gifted live music entertainment to our souls. Credible line ups in a key music world location. (“backstage bar” of the TARDIS boozer opposite New Cross Station.
In relative news, this is where Carl Barat auditioned, then premiered his band, The Jackals.
Home to DJ sets from Don Letts, Peaches, Bloc Party and more.
For Music industry, grass roots and otherwise, around the corner from Goldsmiths is an easy transport/access, arts and community hub. All Age gigs, Jeremy Ciorbyn, exhibitions, comedy, installations, family raves, theatres, launches, festival warm up things happen here. TheZineUK’s creation being one of them.
Talking of Creation, another rising name is Cat SFX. The punked up protest of ‘Reunite’ (via Alan McGee’s Creation 23 label) is early Manics fury vibed and sets the scene for a set that’s more in your face than your cheekbones.
Radio, TV and mainstream news media are, again on the case of this dark and decibelled pop.
Kick Out The Jams has a swelling amount of MOMENTS and star shaped alumni in it’s DNA. Members of Berries, Tiger Mimic and Bugeye are Mix-Up family. Tonight they’re over the river or they’d probably be here too. Latest single, ‘All The Money In The World’ soundtracks Summer 2021 when the climate emergency stricken world is not enough for billionaire villians (villianaires). Oh yeah, baby, there’s (e)motion in the new rock and roll that’s rising under the radar.
It’s All Happening. Here.
This Spring, courtesy of music scoutings and outings afficionados, End Of The Trail Creative (who also promote at this venue), TheZineUK was behind the scenes at the filming of GET ON! The weekly new music online TV that was made through lockdown since the end of 2020 and launched at the end of April 2021.
Kin played an impressive and poptastic set which was one of the (female presented) show’s first broadcasts via https://roobi.tv/
They’re another of the multi-talent-tasking aces that fire up the scenes and anti-scenes with music, podcasts and even the concept of Kinfest in this perfect slice of pop video ‘L.O.V.E.’ - it’s not surprising that there’s also a buzz pulsing around them.
Over the past five years, Amersham Arms has become a focal point for the emerging newer wave of interdependent music industry and media. Biased for the place? Yes. Andy Palmer helped get TheZineUK started at ArtBeat nights, fast forward via This Feeling to festival warm ups and a plethora of high profile names stepping on that increasingly iconic wide stage. It’s now the new TV studio location for Roobi TV to make new episodes of GET ON!
The crew had been in the crowd at the mid May Mix-Up when we witnessed the wonderwoman rocker, BLAB, live on stage!
Before heading back to Essex after her set, BLAB had made a lot of new friends. An affectionately engaging and tune blessed blast for a fresh and formidable femme fronted festivity of rocking out. Digital Age DIY punk which, through a series of mighty single releases on Cool Thing Records (yup, they are part of this world) has been picked up - like this entire bill - by star spotting, mainstream and independent radio and playlists.
You should just come to a Kick Out The Jams event.
With an artist alumni of Who's Who New since launching in 2017, Roger Kent of Kent’s travelling circus has supplied many receipts to our situationist reality. The now and next of popular guitar music is all happening on the grass roots venue circuit that Music Venue Trust works so hard to save.
New Cross is nice this time of year! Whether the weather, whatever! Since Summer 2019's launch of The Deptford Mix-Up - an unforgettable all dayer of good madmadness - Kick Out The Jams , sponsored by Rotor Videos, has become one of the key creative gatherings of live guitar music.
So make the most of getting up close, affordably to catch artists that would not ony be at home on bigger stages but also really put the ENTER in entertainment.
Oh yeah, the artpunked Newer Wave Music Industrious are diverse and driven. We Want Fucking FUN and we’re HAVING it. Bring it again, Jammers!
(Caffy, a local love pirate and jammin’ regular - pic #KOTJmixup Amersham Arms)
