Once Upon Another Time

March 15, 2024 by Caffy St Luce

#ZeenagersExpo 01 Spring 2024

“Well done for keeping the spirit of rebellion alive” (Patrick Jones)

Swear to Mushrooms that this really happened. Follow the green cat.

7th March, Amersham Arms, New Cross (i.e. London’s Sarf x Sarf East!) rock n roll music, poetry, visuals, photography, technology (including audio recordings), Stage Style, creativity and DIY skillz all rolled into a live music social. We are blown away by the all-positive feedback for the evening!

Expo 01 Artists and Allies - links directory:

From Italian TV to a New Cross stage: Flesh Tetris

Find/support each other! Flesh Tetris, Thebigbadsad., Patrick Jones, Petra Palkovacsova of the Femmesocial Press community, Dizzy Spell, Ruby Blue, Ame Kali, Kat Five x Feral Five, SetMixer and TheZineUK, Kick Out The Jams (+ more!) Warm Welcome Blur Fairy, Sonja Amoretti! + #MusicTourism Team - Backstage Bar of Amersham Arms where TheZineUK was conceived! (Venue manager, Andy Palmer, is a star turn musician in his own right - as per The Britpop Show 12th March podcast) all mixing with The Outers, Lisa Knight of Knight PR (great film clips!), 122 Music Management and myself, Caffy St Luce of TheZineUK’s Events Department; Rocklands (Magic Hat by Toast The Goblin Laird). Photographers included Olly Bromidge (thank you to Jean Genie Hayes & Jonny Haze at ASBO magazine for connecting us) and James Lewis: “Excellent poetry performance from Petra Palkovacsova” (images of Flesh Tetris and Thebigbadsad. on FB) + The evening was soundtracked by a Newer Wave Rock n Roll spotify playlist EXPO NO.1 by Dizzy Spell. TikTok blip of TheBigBadSad and more from Zeenagers Expo to come…

We need to take our road show… on the ROAD! Where to, next?

“In amongst the joys of catching up with @artbeat.bsky.social amongst others, 2 quality acts played down The Amersham Arms last night TheBigBadSad, ‘gloom rock goth cowboys’ brought the noise, & then some, pushing their sonic mantra to the end Different, ear-catching, eye-catching.” (122MM - link)

Thank you to everyone who performed, bought a ticket and came out to play in person or spirit. We’re all ingredients of an exposition of the interdependent music sector - and whatever happens next.

#24ourPartyPeople

Whoever is WITH/for TheZineUK - YOU are all what the #ZeenagersExpo is about!

Further reading - origins

One of our Wizards knows. Yes, we have more than one in this tale…

14th March 2014 - Upload Chapter 1 of TheZineUK multi media tapestry. Situationist whimsy weaves waves that we could not make up.

14th March 2023 - Begin a year’s research into Music Tourism For The People at the British Music Embassy in Austin, Texas (the final real SXSW). End of year, TheZineUK returned to USA, this time L.A. Stage Style stories off the hook.

14th March 2024 - Despite the hostile environment dystopian decayed decade TheZineUK can prove that the alternative arts have created a newer wave of music industrious through uniqulture. Their actions and good souls have resulted in a Fertile Environment worthy of an exposition.

Click OUR STORY page for more but, basically, an Alternative Arts documentary living the skint life of the grassroots venue circuit community. It’s not been dull.

2014 to 2015:

An ideas factory-cum-DIY studio/rave warehouse etc., pop-up HQ ("The Ministry of Fluff and Dreams" run by Menace & McNaughty) rounded off with #No3Expo (42 stalls including a live music stage - The Homosexuals, Nova Twins, seeds of Birthmarks, Cat Bear, Lufe Tempo - and a bar!). It set the tone. #Zeenagers prologue 'Expo Beats' 2014/2015 (YouTube)

Punk scared Darwin! Photographer, **Rupert Hitchcox**, (now with our allies, **Joyzine)** had fiften minutes in dodgy light to capture early **RTN Makes Music** magnificence at the Natural History Museum. Impromptu ad libbing has continued ever since and this show became the front page of Picture Book chapter 001. In capitalist style, Issuu changed the visibility of our documents, as we’re skint, but we’ve managed to salvage much of the reporting. Enough for Expo slideshows!

Alongside the magick powered situationism and woodland folk heroes in this emerging tapestry, the likes of Cro Cro Land, CUP Soccer Six, Decolonise Fest, This Feeling, Music Venue Trust and LOUD WOMEN are only half a dozen of many prevailing threads.

**We ARE doing something new, Bruno Wizard!** Amidst the old boys networks, the privileges, the nepotism and cliques we are an open armed collective for all backgrounds to unite as Playing Class Friends. On this evening (12th February 2016, David Bowie homage charity show by Dizzy Spell at Amersham Arms HQ) **The Homosexuals** were supported by Little Death Machine (seeds of the incredible **Birthmarks**) and Featherz while upstairs, photographer **Duncan Stafford** held his first photography exhibition (Fat White Family, Sleaford Mods etc) in the Take Courage Gallery. When it came downstairs to the venue, Don Letts, Tim Burgess and various members of The Libertines would have the images as a back drop while upstairs became a **Laurie Vincent** (Soft Play) art exhibition - all this fun before fckn Brexit was illegally “won”.

TheZineUK. Officially repping (and therefore reporting) at festivals with either a stage, a logo or a co-promotion every single year from 2014 onwards (lockdown was Balcony On Line Festival) and promoting live music socials fuels the story, courtesy of kind artists/promoters access. In 2024 we are chuffed to be a media partner with #ItsAVanFest - the Austin Texas music festival (Teenage Sequence, The Hollows, more) where the super-sponser is Rock n Roll (We met behind the painted word, “magic”, in 2023)

**Birthmarks** band powered evening ‘Pulse 1’ - art gallery with live music (including **Deux Furieuses**). Like Birthmarks, artist, **Eugene Ankomah**, is a golden tapestry thread of big heart, pure talent and inspiring soul. Photographer, **Stefon Grant** has been exhibited, publicly… It’s ALL happening. Circles of (key scouting) life; ‘***One Pulse’*** video by Birthmarks. A cinematic happening of a band.

By 2017

there was a visible and voluble newer wave of music industrious. Audience powered arts, industry and media learning/exchanging biz, tech, journalism whatever skills as their interdependent collective rise in staggered unison, rather than all “pulling up the ladder" behind them. This is how we do it. YouTube Slideshow of our 2021 cast and crew - 2014 to 2017 snapshots: The #MusicPeopleParty begins

2018 - "where do you see yourself in five years?"

The question that no human could have answered. Then between the cast, cats and crew of TheZineUK and an unbelieving world if we are here today then we are all changed. WHAT a soundtrack we got in the Music People Party years.

That time (September 2018) when interdependent altrock promoter, **Kick Out The Jams** launched monthly events co promoted with TheZineUK, at The Good Mixer in Camden with **The Velvet Hands, Bugeye** and **Smiley & The Underclass**. Reportage: This image was *before* the first band’s set!

2019

The **#MusicPeopleParty** had, by now, become the welcomig end of year not-got-an-office party for artists, DJs, bloggers, creators and all the rock n rollers. This was December 2019, with This Feeling star, Nineties Mike on the decks and **Louise Schofield** as host. Feels innocent - we had no idea of six months time… (Camden Monarch, another live music venue lost…)

2020

Mirrored… **RTN Makes Music** x rock music movie, **Velvet Goldmine** x Genesis Cinema - our story suits cinemas! Weeks later, we were in lockdown, but boy did we dress up first!

2021

Breaking outta lockdown and back into gigs - the newer wave of music industrious are shaping new futures! **Anaiah M. Davis, Robyn Skinner, Jean Genie, Kat Five, Caffy St Luce** and **Sonja Amoretti** at **Kick Out The Jams,** Amersham Arms.

2022

This blur (I’m gonna call it “art”) is Benji from **Lock-In** at The Social in Fitzrovia for **This Feeling’**s Test Transmission 01. We all walked miles due to the rail strikes, war had just broken in Ukraine and there was impending doom in the nationwide air. For balance, we kept our doses of escapism coming. Lock-In would headline a sold out show at The Garage with This Feeling’s “Zone Airport” artist development runway campaigns in Spring 2023. This year, they step up to their biggest headline so far: Lafayette in Kings Cross.

2023

Key blogged conversations and events on PoC in guitar music and AI, rounded off with an Artful Party that included star turn multi-media artivist mavericks Bugeye (who were on tour as special guest of The Bluetones, and will play their biggest show to date, headlining Oslo Hackney on 4th May (tickets) after presenting 2024 with the incredible Cro Cro Land Festival mid April), Colossus (Fckn suPERB debut EP and get a load of the live presence in this #ArtfulFest video blip!), Joyzine, God Is In The TV and and and… these artivists are ALL connected and those conversations are ongoing.

2024

We’ve created. During the most historic era in human history (i..e. largely a binfire of bigoted bollocks)! We promote a punky rock n roll music world angle with diy glam chic, recorded from the reality of post brexit Britain Ireland.

Escapism not extremism. Love is NOT hate! We wanna have a good time, all the time!

Creator and Stage Style icon, **Adora,** at the sold out **ASBO Magazine x Bilk** EVENT, Rough Trade East

Today, Friday 15th March - the music festival conversations are TV’s Glastonbury and Austin’s SXSW. With the latter, ironically, the mainstream media have covered the bands that have dropped out more than the usual attention they give to the line up.

2024, a few days after International Women’s Day shows how the establishment treat Britain’s first Black Woman Politician. Imagine how far down the “food chain” we, The Outsiders Family, are. We’ll keep fighting the nutsies by sharing audiovisual hope. It’s the least we can do.

Sixth sense supernature powers the chapters of TheZineUK. The feedback is always appreciated.

Are you with us, Zeenagers?

https://linktr.ee/thezineuk

Alternative music documenting inspirations

December 23, 2022 by Caffy St Luce

#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.

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)

https://linktr.ee/thezineuk

JPGs of above mentioned artists:

PERSONAL MUSIC Festivals For The People

August 05, 2022 by Caffy St Luce

Alongside the major events (some which have to be paid by instalment) and the cost of getting (and eating/drinking!) there, are some phenomental newer wave festivals affordable for more people and just as much of an experience - but at close range.

#TheZineUK documentary: **Andy Winters** (There’s A Riot Going On), **Robyn Skinner** (Bugeye), **John Kennedy** (Radio X) and **Kelly Munro** (End Of The Trail) at The #**BrightonRocknRollCircus**

Brighton Rock n Roll Circus

May’s punky fun was a case in point.

40+ live sets over three days.

A chance to catch the word of mouth up n comers over the same weekend as The Great Escape.

This meant that the shows at The Black Lion were attended by music industry and press for nearly every set.

As per all of the events in this article, both Kick Out The Jams and End Of The Trail (rocknroll circus ringmasters) are respected scouts, promoters and industry contacts of the up comer scenes.

Between seaside shenanigans, there are superb events every month at https://www.facebook.com/KickOutTheJamz

Disclaimer: TheZineUK is a documentary about what is ALL HAPPENING by The Music People Party across the grassroots venue circuit of Britain Ireland on all kinda size stages, so yes, we DO know quite a lot of them and are appreciative of the access which allows the story to bloom.

If you would like to be involved in the new rock n roll as an artist or an ally then coming to small venue shows is your friendliest finishing school and networking club.

REWIRED

Next up is This Feeling’s brilliant weekend.

That ticket is the most value to catch some of the most valued rising stars at Leeds Brudenell and London Garage on the 13th and 14th August!

See the poster? Whoa!

If you know, you know. If you don’t you will, so you might as well find your new favourites - secure a ticket to the party ZONE!

AWEfumn update - BEEN. It was even better than could be hoped for!

August 2021 Instagram clip (The Clause): “thezineuk doc (and guitarband fans!) report that REWIRED is an interdependent music festival SUCCESS!”

Some of these artist/band names on the posters, you may already know as threads woven into our social media tips and tales of the new rock n roll. Again, these are ALL tiptop scouts, promotions (and more)! Each year their alumni sparkle in all kinds of ways that musicians can only dream of.

All of these more personal music festival mentions are packing ones-to-watch dynamite!

In Autumn, get set for the return of three more interdependent favourites who welcome everybody to their events. Grab a ticket and some escapist musical JOY!

September

2nd-3rd Loud Women Fest

Event No.6 at Amersham Arms in New Cross. Two days of the best women-powered DIY bands Tickets: https://bit.ly/LWFest22

16th-18th Decolonise Fest

Signature Brew, Haggerston - the exceptional DIY punk fest featuring music, art and workshops by punx of colour. Income aware ticket prices

October

Cro Cro Land is cancelled for 2022.

Keep an eye on their socials for next news.

The multi-stage music festival presented by the Croydonist is a love in.

More uniqulture: their signature mash-up of queer, non-binary, and straight bands with gender equality at the heart

Info, updates: https://www.crocroland.co.uk/

All of these line ups are loaded with musical desire and entertainment fire.

14th-16th Till The Fest

See also the #NXD (New Cross and Deptford in the rebel republic of #SELondon) multi venue rock-out by Till The Wheels

Till The Fest’s secoind event celebrates twenty one years of DIY Punk!

https://www.tillthewheels.com/till-the-fest

For TheZineUK doc it kinda feels like guitar blessed scenes and anti-scenes are evolving in plain site.

Consider that for most of the artists concerned, their main media is social media.

Thanks to sussed allies in radio, on music sites and on playlists alongside audiences on side, they get a boost. Fans are definitely a key to artist and event survival in the dystopian age and the Cost Of Greed Crisis.

In the backdrop of real life an outstanding soundtrack that is under the radar! But when you’re THERE, it’s definitely over the rainbow.#

These events? BE THERE if you can, friends. Trust.

Nottingham in the house! Making friends at REWIRED 2021

There are interdependent promoters and grassroots music venues across Britain Ireland making exciting new things happen with people’s biggest power, passion.

In these dark and frankly cruel times, come and hang with some kind people. You may find new friends or new fave talents.

TheZineUK has attended all of the above mentioned events.

Can recommend as feelgood fun and friendly. Music is soul food AND spirit medicine.

Yeah, this is how we roll. Be seeing you…