SXSW, ATX. WTF?
Snapshots of SXSW2023
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Read MoreAs 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.
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…
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
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'
Thanks for reading/creating/performing/supporting this genuine arts movement.
Dizzy Spell (Editor)/Caffy St Luce (Events)
JPGs of above mentioned artists:
AWEtumn22 catch up weaving Coco and the Lost, Enjoyable Listens, The Skinner Brothers, This Feeling, End Of The Trail Creative, John Kennedy and Fierce Panda into the tapestry of Fertile Environment’s documenting.
Read MoreGET ON! is the Friday music TV show online that is made in Chelsea’s 606 Club by Roobi Live in association with End Of The Trail and presented by entertainment’s Louise Schofield
Read MoreAn Official Showcase Live Stream from South by Southwest (“South By”) - the globe’s annual music, film and interactive media festival and conference. It’s digital facet can shine in these pandemic days at SXSW Online 16th-18th March). Every year, Britain Ireland represents an array of musical gems (and TheZineUK doc has noticed more names from our fertile environment’s tale, every year).
When the heritage independent record label which gave you Coldplay, Keane, Placebo and twenty-seven years of such scouting calibre, teams up with the newer independent that Britain's national radio are also tuned into, you know you best pay attention to who they recommend. Fierce Panda and End Of The Trail take Britain’s emerging interdependent scene to SXSW 2021 with an official stage of genre fusion goodness.
All of these artists - Caiine, Jeckyll, Family Jools, Enjoyable Listens and Scrounge - come highly recommended, critically acclaimed and have won audience admiration on their own terms. They are not to be missed #LivingTheStream on Wednesday 17th March - Teaser - click through for individual artist link (produced/directed by Roobi Live):
Ringleaders of the sprawling newer wave of music industrious energy taking DIY power to next level while influencing the mainstream, especially in the last few years, both labels are key. Often they grace the grassroots circuit of Music Venue Trust either staging their own event or in support/scout mode at others because our biggest new music stories are in our smallest venues. Sometimes the Panda Trail showcase stages at some of the highest profile festivals. Heads of both labels, Simon Williams (Fierce Panda) and our own Kelly Munro (End Of The Trail) are multi-tasking key figures of the UK music industry.