Alternative music documenting inspirations

#Zeenagers EXPO is go

As a documentary, #TheZineUK doesn’t function on the chart/competition December/January Listmas format of music sites any more than running regular reviews etc. The following names are from on line conversations, What’s App and gig chats. Nowt from December’s version of Twitter.

As usual, doing our own situationist thing outside “how it’s supposed to be done” and social media trends, the story evolves organically outside of major hype but noticeably. From this tapestry, there are Weekend Recovery, Cold Water Swimmers, Feral Five and Cross Wires amidst albums coming in 2023. Bands who are creating notable legacies for their names.

If you’ve ever been aware of our Picture Story Diary Doc (first uploaded Spring 2014), you’ll notice the Fertile Environment seeding in a variety of real time. Some developing into unimaginable moments that, when they happen, make total and deserved sense. Bands come, go, evolve, get on, sod off as things go right or wrong. When wider attention hits, ya love to see it, right?

Decolonise Fest stars Big Joanie, Nova Twins and Bob Vylan playing this year’s Glastonbury Festival and being half of the inaugural MOBO altnernative music group nominations this year, is a strong case in point.

There are so many more of our cast and crew from TheZineUK pages and socials! We couldn’t make it up. We don’t have to. Bang Bang Romeo toured with Pink, False Heads in the charts, Benefits all over the place. Here’s 42 Seconds of The Mysterines by Monefa Walker for her interview with them for TheZineUK, early 2020. They’re on tour with Arctic Monkeys in 2023.

2017: Monefa Walker (astrologer, writer, witch and, most recently recorded and released and acclaimed classical musician) and Katie Owen (DJ host of TheZineUK + friends #MusicPeopleParty No.1, presenter and since this pic BBC Radio 1, Leeds Festival host, World Cup 2022 reporter and so much more). That’s just in short. Big up all our cast and crew. Image by Caffy at Minx Media HQ, cheers Heather Minx!

Working Class women powered (with Tory-unfriendly-heritages and political views) TheZineUK’s 2023 adores the diversity of backgrounds and foregrounds of generation tremorists (i.e. all ages, it’s the 21st century!) in the vanguard of newer wave music industrious movement.

Big up the grassroots venue circuit, the likes of Music Venue Trust and Independent Venue Community and please play respect to all the technicians, promoters, producers, presenters, DJ and expanded fun-fam of media/industry and audiences support that makes this a genuine game changing era. The documenting by photographers, writers and film makers is incredible. The illustrations and graphics are part of the exhibiton. We need each other.

This music site x events creator may be only a small “Rocking Pebble” or “New Whimsical Express”, but our inclusion ain’t delusion. Everybody’s invited, watch all their/our spaces.

2018. That time the legendary promoter and connector, Kick Out The Jams (rock n roll circus) hosted a night of good mixing that has become one of music’s “I Swear I Was There” moments. Roger Kent of Kent and his extended fam of fun signed off with a final event in December 2022 but is a space worth watching for future hopes. The line ups helped to fuel what is happening. It’s All Happening!

Uniqulture’s tapestry weaves through the interaction, co-promotion and collaboeration of friends, strangers or otherwise. We’ll document 2023 with a view to creating the Zeenagers Expo from the reality of soundtracking escapism from dystopia’s now and next…

Gen and the Degenerates wowing This Feeling’s Leeds/London festival ReWired in August. Spotting members of JW Paris in the crowd, this is one of the live music clubs where musicians and their followers make friends with like minded souls. Another reason for the fertile environment starting to really take seed.

Some 2022-flavouring artists to look out for in 2023

Anna Wolf
Arxx
Bugeye
Cobain Jones
Coco and the Lost
Colossus
Dictator
Eternum Joy
Fitzroy Holt
Gen and the Degenerates
gglum
Glytsch
Hotwax
JW Paris
Kill The Icon
Lime Garden
Lufe Tempo
Mango In Euphoria
Megan Wyn
Nadia Sheikh
Noah and the Loners
Ramona Marx
Ruby J
Small Miracles
Something In The Lake
Spangled
Teenage Sequence
The Dead Freights
The Kairos
The Molotovs
The Now
The Outers
The Velvet Hands
Venus Grrrls
Weekend Recovery
Wharves

February 2022, caught Arxx at The House Of Vans Next Generation shows and later in the year at Croydon’s As The Cro Cro Flies. Exceptional bands that rock with credible composition and performance abilities. There’s a lot of DIY development since the new world began in 2020 vision. As we adapted together we have created brighter possibilities for balance.

Albums

Adwaith 'Bato Mato'
Arctic Monkeys 'The Car'
Asylums 'Signs Of Life'
A Void 'Call Of The Void'
Bait 'Sea Change'
Beabadoobee ' Beatopia'
Berries 'How We Function'
Big Joanie 'Back Home'
Black Country, New Road 'Ants From Up There'
Bob Vylan 'The Price Of Life'
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard 'Backhand Deals'
Deux Furieuses 'Songs From Planet Earth'
Dry Cleaning 'Stump Work'
Enjoyable Listens 'The Enjoyable Listen'
Fontaines D. C. 'Skinty Fia'
Ghum 'Bitter'
Gwenno 'Tresor'
Johnny Marr 'Fever Dreams'
Kid Kapichi - 'Here’s What You Could Have Won'
Louis Tomlinson 'Faith In The Future'
MOSES 'I Still Believe! Do You?'
Nova Twins 'Supernova'
Peaness 'World Full Of Worry'
Pillow Queens 'Leave The Light On'
Rina Sawayama 'Hold The Girl'
Sinead O Brien 'Time Bend And Break The Bower'
Soccer Mommy 'Sometimes Forever'
The Assist 'Council Pop' 
The Linda Lindas 'Growing Up'
The Shop Window 'A 4 Letter Word'
The Snuts 'Burn The Empire'
The Smile 'A Light For Attracting Attention'
Wet Leg 'Wet Leg'
Witch Fever 'Congregation'
Wynona Bleach 'Moonsoake'

We doff our documenting cap to Simon Williams of Fierce Panda. In the newer wave are a wealth of 1990s shapers involved with guiding, while learning from, up and comers of the scenes. The beauty of generation tremorists is ideas and experience exchanging excitedlly. A revision of the widespread zoomer-v-boomer division. Instead, the tunes go zoom, results go boom. Woven into our tapestry, respect to you all!

Thanks for reading/creating/performing/supporting this genuine arts movement.

Dizzy Spell (Editor)/Caffy St Luce (Events)

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#GoldStrike is everybody’s strike

Goldsmiths must remain an excellent educational mecca.

The uni's Warden and Senior Management Team (SMT) have planned mass staff redundancies over two years. In 2021 alone; twenty academics in History and in English & Creative Writing, thirty two Professional Services staff - all sacrificed to commercial exploitation.

#ZineAndHeard Gold Strike Day 15

After threats and refusal to negotiate, Goldsmiths University and College Union (GUCU) took action to prevent the fire-and-rehire travesty which risks chaos and student harm. “Fifteen days of free education for students learning what disputes are about”, remarked Jeremy Corbyn during his speech on the picket line.

"Management"? Puh! As a documentary (largely working class women), TheZineUK also says #NoJobCuts - Watch two minutes of direction information from Nevenka Martin of the History Department. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=229307505816967

#GoldStrike is a human rights landmark. To donate to the GUCU fund for low paid members: https://goldsmithsucu.org/donations/strikefund

There is a surplus of finance in the world to fund education, environment, easily affordable housing, health, sustenance, employment and the arts - but millionaire and billionaire villains (villianaires) steal from the hard working and the poor. Tax dodging is fraud but these are lawless times with only our moral compass to guide us. If we have one.

TheZineUK documents a fraction of the 21st century’s newer wave music movements. Being alive is political. This is all connected. “Education is a way out of discrimination” (Jeremy Corbyn at #Goldstrike)

I started Monday 13th December in raging sadness.

Those poor Amazon labourers forced to work in the tornado while panto-baddie, Jeff Bezos, bragged banality from his vulgar shallow throne of finance-fame celebrity. @BeezyManzell tweeted “The extent that human labor is treated as a fleshy machine is an idea that must be stamped out."

I spoke to one of my best friends (a musician working sixteen hours a day on a beck-and-call, zero hours framed "contract" to fund their immense talent) finding themselves on a sudden day off from earning rent. We, the people, create the wealth the bosses take most of, but our lives are viewed as disposable.

Blessed to be low income but self employed, I go for a walk and fresh air. Past the vaccination booster queues snaking around the Waldron Health Centre, past New Cross Station (where I last saw musician and gold heart, Joe Wilkes - he would have been here today, the Palestine flag at the picket line put him in mind), then ArtBeat HQ the Amersham Arms towards a growing communty of solidarity: Socially distanced (and mostly masked when not publicly speaking or singing).

The sky was grey but my heart was, no longer. Outside the grand Goldsmiths building it's obvious decent don't view any human life as inferior. Banks and other crime rings are out of touch, but rule nearly everything. "Developers" are destroyers. Their choice of "management" often don't understand what they are parachuted in to run and profit from.

Of outstanding global and unique repute, Goldsmiths stars a culture of twinkling alumni.

Only mismanagement could come up with such damaging cuts (as well as specifically targeting the uniqulture that is entrenched in this heritage. I hope the SMT reconsider swiftly. With so many fine minds to hand, why not find a better narrative?

People power -v- Establishment's Empire.

From a (26% of the voting population) "win" in 2010, we are years into selfservatives misrule (a fascist coup heist rebranded as "austerity").

On 13th December 2019 I was so down from the suspicious General Election result that I just lay down, depressed and drained. The above mentioned and zero-houred friend texted to assure that it was going to be alright. My eternal gratitude for that kindness.

Fast forward two years and things are simultaneously alt right and alright. In the midst of death eaters we are all in loving life. Despite their effort and our eco anxiety. hope is not destroyed.

2020 vision +

More a grave than brave new world, time to shape new futures. For "low skilled", SEE the truth - "essential but low paid". Over the last two years especially, propaganda has fuelled hate for teachers, medical staff, firefighters, the poor, travellers, non aryan/hetrosexual, the aged, youth and even the national lifeboat institute! This insane white mirror to reality is damaging to our health.

Fire And Rehire is another disgusting spite that pervades like a virus.

Released 13th August 2021 in commemoration. Photography with kind permission of Syd Sheldon

Understand that #GoldStrike is as ground-breaking as “The Battle Of Lewisham’ (which drove away national front nazicowards in 1977).

In March 2016, TheZineUK blagged into a Jeremy Corbyn rally, having been re-invigorated by a genuine Labour Party leader. "Music For All. Theatre For All" still resonates with us.

I’m a a vintage Black Rock Chick and events department of TheZineUK’s punky DIY music socials. (Our next one is 27th January at Amp Studios. These kinda vibes).

As a huge fan of DecoloniseFest values increasingly flavouring positivity, I’m in awe of this institution's musical and tech accomplishments and connections, let alone it's other academic and political honours. Quite a few of our cast and crew are part of Goldsmiths or woven into today's tapestry. Our editor, Dizzy Spell's union is also on strike. Six degrees of separation but three degrees of celebration.

Theatre professional, Dizzy is also one half of new, 101% DIY band Weather Underground, whose austerity-pop singles 'Sister Palestine' (video) and ‘The S*n Shines Lies’ have flavoured 2021. We are a natural ally of #GoldStrike and join staff, students, locals, visitors - on land/on-line - in solidarity. The Musical.

"The People, United Won't Be Defeated"

From the single 'Battle Of Lewisham 1977’ by local musicians, Ceri James and Mark Sampson). A lyric and a fact. DIY video made locally with profits to Love Music Hate Racism - this event is a part of Jeremy Corbyn’s legend, also.

TheZineUK doc (born in the back bar of Amersham Arms) is a kismet and karma powered situationist performance theatre. Of course I felt better for attending this picket.

Much respect to decent politician, Jeremy Corbyn of the Peace And Justice project.

In ten minutes, this gentle man (a Generation Tremorist of Young Labour) sums up how essential #GoldStrike is and takes in all the above, articulately. Democratic socialism may be mocked out of fear by the privileged, but it is definitely and defiantly articulate: click for the full speech.

After his speech, Mr Corbyn politely and professionally took his time to hold conversations, take selfies with members of the public who approached him. Fair play, geez.

Lewisham is London Borough Of Culture 2022.

In our Republic of Rocklands (SELondon postcodes where Lovers Rock meets Rockers Love), Gold Strike and Little Amal In Fun City began it for Uniqulture’s dream of a caring free society with equality. Thank you for the uplift, GUCU and everybody involved. Congratulations. Purrfect.