positively Kat five!

“Cyberpunk vixen”, Kat Five is fused into so many mixes of science and nature! She is Feral Five’s lead vocalist, a musician, a solo artist in her own right and a key audio tech consultant/events speaker. Just a few of the many hats “K5” wears.

Despite modern life, across alternative music’s independence, there’s an organic swelling, with firmer foundations, of eclectic career potential coming to wider attention in no one set way.

TheZineUK’s story spins a web from their artistry. Musical activism is bringing pleasure, hope and solidarity during times that can be stressful and perilous for grassroots venues and talent, alike.

In short, POSITIVITY is still a thing!

Music is one of life’s treasures which can give us hope. What about the musicians, though?

We asked Kat Five what gives her hope?

“Community, creativity and activism. People are really coming together right now to fight for change.”

Humanity, assembling, around the world is increasingly noticeable. This brings balance to the mainstream media’s mostly negative energy. Artists are so important for representing the escapist side of life. Eccentricity is an energy.

Feral Five have just appeared live at the giant installation-as-music-festival: Electromagnetic Field, performing an electro spectacle with algorithm visuals, dance, tech, style and interaction.

In April, Kat Five’s debut solo show was wonderfully received at Cro Cro Land Festival.

Both are music stories that are going places, especially since the influential debut album from Feral Five: ‘Truth Is The New Gold’ (2023).

Everybody starts somewhere. We asked K5 “where?”

“At school! School choir, some group guitar lessons, playing that old favourite (not) 'She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain'. Music education is so important. Early influences were amazing artists I saw on TV. The standout was Chrissie Hynde as she played guitar and made anything seem possible.”

It turns out that almost anything IS possible, hence our alternative art movements in sound and vision. Fast forward from school days to having made a genuine mark on the music and tech scenes as well as media acclaim. Read TheZineUK’s Spring’24 Kat Five article for further details.

There’s news for the near future, too. What’s happening, K5?

“Unleashing new music! Planning the next Kat Five single, one of the songs I premiered live at Cro Cro Land Festival, such an amazing place to play. More shows.”

Kat Five (@katfive_) • Instagram

It’s all kicking off!

666 Words

Uniqulture’s Arts Hearts: Rising

Inspired by grassroots music venues (GMV) champion, Jean Genie’s Panda Power Parties. Live music socials - introducing LA Salami, Gabi Garbutt, Granfalloon, annual Glastonbury fave, Lekiddo Lord Of The Lobsters and more - to new friends.

10th May 2024, The Ferret, Preston, saved. Love ya, Music Venue Trust! BBC TV North clip with CEO Mark Davyd (and a clip of Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs soundchecking)

Fusing performers, creators, dreamers, supporters. A kindly house party, with cake. Events Dept. memory from a music tourism tip, The Social in Fitzrovia.

TheZineUK arrived, founded in Uniqulture, March 2014 with punk and poetry.

Documenting seeds of stardust fuel a fertile environment. A decayed of punky situationist whimsy alongside other interdependent allies.

Totally Unofficial Free Festival Fun (TUFFF - gong!) sponsored by love, appreciation, friends, fans (LAFF)

Magick plays a huge part…

We’ve the Genie and a (Dizzy) Spell alongside every woodland folk of yore in this golden DIY Bayeaux tapestry of top history.

Music Women: Yes. Of course there’s our tech savvy musician as Space Vixen, Kat Five (interview - 2024 essential) - and our green friend, Moonpuss of Music Tourist Board.

Time Travel with DR WTF

Dr WTF’s pink LIVE LOVE TARDIS, parked in SE London by the River Thames

2024 proceeds at the rate of a week every day?

Parallel dimensions of psycho-trolls -v- poetic souls is measured (by TheZineUK anyway) in gigs, events and festival dates. These need finance to happen. Some sponsors are problematic for the moral conscience.

Nobody is perfect but it’s a Braver New World and the Resistance ®Evolution is developing. Children of all ages are an educated and empathetic new unity in a genocidal, eco criminal eruption of corruption.

United, We’ll Keep Improving.

Meet Generation A

One flag on the world stage is the most flown and displayed. Every chapter TheZineUK’s reported (perfectly imperfectly), feels like the deliciously diverse newer wave of under the radar rock n roll music industrious are SuperNature’s intent.

Hence the Fertile Environment HAPPENING despite the hisstablishment’s hostile one.

Not The Great Escape, Not The Alt Escape but an alt-alt-escapism of Total Interdependence Festivity - getting by with a little help from our friends.

Expo/Music Tourism

March is annually SXSW, Austin, Texas

2023 TheZineUK repping (down the front for Brooke Combe) at the British Music Embassy to begin the People’s Music Tourist Board then, at Vancerts, where the first word spotted is “Magic

2024. Supersponsors? RIP SXSW especially the tone deaf response from local government to the music world. “Es Ex Es Double U” (as a recent profiled music industry event called it) is planning to plonk SXSWLondon into the June 2025 ecosystem of the UK festival calender and grassroots music venue circuit. Sigh…

It feels like that was the last real SouthBySouthWest. Because…

2024’s main talking point was artist boycotts where, ironically, they probably got their names mentioned more than usual in UK/Ireland press. We’re proud to have been a media partner of Vancerts. Teenage Sequence thanked them.

Totally unofficial independent stages for the WIN. This was Vancerts ATX 2024 being loved during the SXSW boycotts…

March was also Expo 01 though.

LOVE power.

Not a bad representation of how the evening of live rock n roll music, poetry, audiovisuals and socialising went, in the end!

April 2024

CroCroLand (our doc blog) was the sold out weekend of uniqulture, artists/allies everywhere. Friends hugging under the moon. Such escapism, that leaving to discover WW3 was being attempted was surreal. Oi, war wankers, when Ms Mohammed sings ‘Never Again’, we’re with her!

Believe it - CroCroLand "An uprising of (40!) bands and music fans" - Expo 02 was, indeed, pretty much like this!

May 2024

The Great Escape is over shadowed by peaceful protest. Events take a couple of years advance programming so festivals and sponsors have time to consider/fix 2025 onwards.

Eurovision/Euronazivision, whatever, it’s an absolute catastrophuck in a week of BOOs (and bees!). (Mass Murder: still bad)

Ironically for this “once a song contest” bollox, It’s the week of Hind’s Hall by Macklemore (click link for the video - all proceeds to https://www.unrwa.org/ - the majority of us actually ARE united by music. Just not this genocidal apologist art-washing. 10% of the Malmo population protested this event. Generation A baby.

Mindless thugs beat students for being educated/moral.

We’re in some Dr Who reality warpfusion of 42 dystopian movies.

Simultaneously.

With a Shitting Image remix by The Muppets retold as a fairy tale. Wicked greedy “royals” included.

Retarted (as in having an extra jam tart) eh? Ha ha… BLOCKED!

Example - UK (Unprincipled Kleptocracy)

In Westminster/Pestmonster, a tory prime sinister was beaten by a lettuce, but they themselves beat the current (unelected) “leader” whose candidate for London Mayor was some mad bigot. The local fascists, Britain First, wereas beaten by Count Binface . BritainLast, then. Sadiq Khan, Mayor Of London acknowledged Count Binface who did the journalists job for them and asked zionaziradioLBC where their disappeared journalist, Sangita Myska, was. Dafuq?

This is what happens when the oh-so-superior-to-us-daft “wokeratti” adults are in charge. The professionals, experts, institutionalised, establishment are in charge…They and their toadies are so IN “the box”.

Leading the charge (of change)

The DIY Sector are some of the most professional in the rising global Arts and Entertainment movements.

Interdependent Culture Gift: Music Venue Trust. THANK YOU. MusicVenueTrust | Linktree

A sixth sense moral compass is changing the world with audiovisual representations for and against this Planet Nutzy age. With global genocide raging, the ingreeding slaughter-glee masks are off for Team Apartheid. Weaponised botbrains have lost their minds.

Earthlings peacefully marching towards a better future. It won’t be easy but it will always be worth it.

Team ®Evolution are using their he(ARTS) / heads.

KRIME shares his art for free - you can buy him a coffee at @Krime_1 | Linktree

Alternative ways of life are gifting some of the best of times during some of these worst of times.

The kids really ARE alright (not alt-right).

Cro Cro Land Forever (please)

The sold out Cro Cro Land Festival of 2024 is so much more than a MOMENT of the year.

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'Truth Is The New Gold' say Feral Five

“Free your mind and the rest will follow" (En Vogue).

Intergalactic time travelling artists from the 22nd century, launch an album of art beat future into the atmosphere of 2023

 ‘Truth Is The New Gold’

Digital, Vinyl, CD album, ;available 10th February 2023
Composed, performed and produced by Feral Five.
Mastered by Katie Tavini.
Sleeve design by Glastonbury exhibited Malcolm Garrett (Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Magazine).
Synthetic AI voice instrument designed by Birds on Mars.

Released via buzz independent label, Reckless Yes Records (Bugeye, LIINES, Fightmilk, more). Alongside general release, available to the membership who support the label.

Feral Five’s dazzling debut album ‘Truth Is The New Gold’, is an evocative voyage through a Feraltropolis style future city, and an offering of sonic elixir for heart, feet and mind. Leading us through secret spaces, changing skies, personal truths and revelations, the Ferals glide seamlessly between bold alt pop, experimental electronica, and cinematic landscapes.

With acclaimed singles, EPs, and radio play including BBC 6Music and RadioX X-Posure under their belt, the Ferals have now signed with independent label Reckless Yes to take us on a deeper emotional journey in ‘Truth Is The New Gold’. (Reckless Yes Records)

Feral Five - Kat (she/her) Vocals, Synthetic AI voice, Guitar, Synths, Live coding, Percussion and Drew (he/him) Bass, Beats, Synths, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals - emit cosmic angel-disco melody.

Songs are tinted with Cocteau-twinned Duranish Portishead tangents, tech-tok trip-hop beats tackle lyrical home truths about Planet Earth. With ever inventive ways to create and present music and widescreen cinematic tones, these are are just a few facets of this Craft Punk duo.  “Enid Blyton's worst nightmare" Steve Lamacq

Feral Five explore sonic frontiers of technology.

They’ve worked with sonified algorithms, 3D printing, predicting #3dprintinghumans, sampling and creating 3D printed artwork, and using a 3D printer as an instrument when they played Music Tech Fest. Recognition is growing.

As a founding member of both the Human League and Heaven 17, electo legend, Martyn Ware gets it and invited them to create and perform music for his Picasso Portraits night at the National Portrait Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square as the great Women’s March of 2017 grew outside, ready for the next day.

By 2022, our Space Vixen, Kat Five is no stranger to repping at international technology events and industry/creative community conventions. She’s also been invited to join the Voting Academy for The Brit Awards 2023, thanks to the Music Producers Guild.

Additionally, TheZineUK can attest to her supporting fellow musicians at grassroots venues. Our situationist documentary gets mind expansion help from the kind souled vision of Feral Five.

They’re a golden thread through the zeitgeist tapestry of interdependence exciting dystopia with hope of better days. Over the last few years, especially we’re seeing the cast and crew of this tale gift new possibilities to whatever happens next.

In the multiverse, Feral Five are from a bright and colourful city of peaceful green spaces and artfully astounding places. ‘Truth Is The New Gold’ plays across Golden Rule Plaza sometimes and children of all ages throw shapes and style, blissfully.

This dimension is impressed with them, too:
“Glitchy throbbing beats, whirring electro-fused hooks, and a fierce driving energy”
Get In Her Ears

“Think The Knife with the soundscapes of Sigur Ros”
The Girls Are

"Etherealpop supreme.” Rocklands

Truth Is The New Gold. SOON.

https://www.feralfive.com/